The Spellshop
An Inside Job
Royal Gambit
Djibouti
Publishers Weekly Leonard (Road Dogs) goes exotic with this eventually killer story of contemporary piracy set on the horn of Africa. Dara Barr, a documentary filmmaker newly arrived in Djibouti to make a film about pirates as a follow-up to her Oscar-winning Katrina documentary, and Dara’s savvy friend and fixer, Xavier, stumble into a thicket […]
Don’t Blink
Publishers Weekly: “Patterson’s novels are sleek entertainment machines, the Porsches of commercial fiction, expertly engineered and lightning fast.”
How to Read the Air
he New York Times – Miguel Syjuco: …deeply thought out, deliberate in its craftsmanship and in many parts beautifully written…In How to Read the Air, [Mengestu] has forged something meaningful from his cultural perspective. The book lingers in the mind as personal—not in the characters’ specifics, but in their frustrated dislocation in the world.
The Reversal
The New York Times – Janet Maslin: However venerable and well-loved Harry may be, it’s become clear that Mickey’s brazenness brings these books a new brio…[Connelly] has dreamed up a criminal case in which both can be involved. And then, once the story’s larger framework is in place, he executes the subtle sleight of hand […]
Busy Body
Publishers Weekly In bestseller Beaton’s terrific 21st Agatha Raisin mystery (after 2009’s There Goes the Bride), the fiercely formidable private detective and her perky young protégé, Toni Gilmour, look into the stabbing murder of John “Grudge” Sunday, a Mircester health and safety board officer, outside a joint meeting of two Cotswolds ladies’ societies. The unpopular […]