Hangman
Publishers Weekly: Kellerman once again mixes mystery and soap opera in her 19th novel featuring Lt. Peter Decker of the LAPD and his wife, Rina Lazarus (after Blindman's Bluff). Terry McLaughlin, a doctor and battered wife, asks Decker, who's an old friend, to help mediate a meeting with her abusive husband. When McLaughlin disappears soon […]
In Harm's Way
From Booklist: it?s clear from the beginning that Idaho sheriff Walt Fleming loves Fiona Kenshaw, caretaker of a local estate and part-time sheriff?s photographer. It?s also clear that Kenshaw loves him back, but she has a secret she won?t share. Her heroic rescue of a small child pushes her face on the front pages of […]
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 […]
Star Island
The New York Times Book Review – Marilyn Stasio: Whenever it seems as if he might be running out of oxen to gore, Carl Hiaasen comes up with fresh victims for his killing wit?Trying to follow the plot, which involves a supporting cast of crooked politicians and predatory developers, is a little like walking a […]