Live to Tell : a Detective D.D. Warren Novel
From the Publisher: He knows everything about you?including the first place you?ll hide. On a warm summer night in one of Boston?s working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father?and possible suspect?now lies clinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran […]
Faithful Place
Booklist: French's writing remains brilliant, and her dialogue is sharp, often lacerating, and sometimes mordantly funny. Faithful Place is her best book yet.
The Cookbook Collector : a Novel
Library Journal: Crisp, accomplished Emily Markowitz is CEO of a data-storage startup in late 1990s California. Her sister, Jessica, is a messy, passionate graduate student in philosophy who's involved with the charismatic leader of Tree Savers and works in a rare-books store owned by the older, slightly grumpy George. George got rich off of Microsoft […]
A Brush With Death : a Penny Brannigan Mystery
Publishers Weekly: Drugs, sex, and murder fuel Peffer's fervid fifth Cape Islands mystery (after 2009's Bangkok Dragons, Cape Cod Tears). When Bird Island harbormaster Corby Church stumbles on human bones on the island, rookie police detective Yemanj? Col?n, based in the mainland town of Slocums Harbor, Mass., winds up on a terrifying journey. Eager to […]
The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree
Publishers Weekly: A small Southern town blooms into life in Albert's nostalgic first in a new Depression-era mystery series. Darling, Ala., is in the midst of financial upheaval surrounding the Darling Savings and Trust, though the ladies of the Darling Dahlias Garden Club are still excited about their clubhouse, an old estate recently inherited from […]
Mr. Rosenblum Dreams In English
Publishers Weekly: Screenwriter Solomons's debut novel is the pleasant, ripped-from-the-family-archives story of German exile Jack Rosenblum and his unlikely postwar quest to build a golf course in the Dorset countryside. Fresh off the boat and with a ?Helpful Information and Friendly Guidance for Every Refugee? pamphlet in hand, Jack dives passionately into assimilation, starting a […]