Three Stations : an Arkady Renko Novel
Library Journal: Arkady Renko's reward for his investigative prowess described in five previous novels (from Gorky Park to Stalin's Ghost) is pathetic?he's about to be cashiered from his job as a cop in Moscow. He and his alcoholic detective buddy Viktor find a lovely young woman dead in a filthy trailer in Three Stations, a […]
Spider Bones
Synopsis: Kathy Reichs?#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones?returns with the thirteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan. John Lowery was declared dead in 1968?the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is […]
I'd Know You Anywhere
The Washington Post – Patrick Anderson: I've read hundreds of thrillers in the past 10 years, and some have been excellent, but only a handful?thanks to their insights, their characterizations and the quality of their writing?could equal the best of today's literary fiction. Those few certainly include What the Dead Know and I'd Know You […]
Nose Down, Eyes Up : a Novel
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Pansy Parker. Publishers Weekly: Jimmy, the canine star of Merrill's second fun-loving doggie novel (after Walking in Circles Before Lying Down), is the Tony Robbins of the dog world and holds informal seminars with the neighborhood dogs to instruct them in the art of manipulating their human masters […]
The Gendarme
Lost Empire
The Widower’s Tale
Burn : an Anna Pigeon Novel
Synopsis: As a National Park Service Ranger, Anna Pigeon feels emotionally prepared for strange wildlife sounds and things that go bump in the wilderness, but post-Katrina New Orleans exposes her to new kinds of surprises and sudden danger. Within days, it brings her plans for a quiet administrative leave from her job to a jolting […]
I Curse the River of Time
Library Journal At 37, Arvid Jansen sees his world falling apart. His divorce is imminent, the Cold War is over, and the life choices he made to burnish his credibility with the Communist Party now seem sadly irrelevant. Eschewing the college education his parents toiled so hard to provide him, Arvid chose shift work in […]
Cure
From the Publisher: The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with another heart-pounding story of medical intrigue. With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work, only to face the case of her career. The investigation into the death […]