Spies of the Balkans : a Novel
The New York Times – Janet Maslin:In 1939 Greece's prime minister, Gen. Ioannis Metaxas, said that "the old Europe would end when the swastika flew over the Acropolis." The Nazi flag did not rise over the Acropolis until April 1941. Spies of the Balkans is about the time in between, when people like Zannis were […]
Sizzling Sixteen
Publishers Weekly: In this tepid Stephanie Plum adventure from Evanovich (Finger Lickin' Fifteen, etc.), a personal case distracts the Trenton, N.J., bondswoman from tracking the usual group of eccentric skips–the kidnapping of her cousin, Vinnie, who's being held for ransom in the high six figures. As Stephanie, sidekick Lula, and office manager Connie soon realize, […]
The Liar's Lullaby
Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Gardiner has created a tough, intelligent heroine who is as comfortable kicking butt and bad guys in the alleys of San Francisco as she is in a medical lab examining carbon nanotechnology and its effects on the brain.
Family Ties : a Novel
Kirkus Reviews An aunt steps up to mother her orphaned nieces and nephew, in Steel's predictable latest (A Good Woman, 2008, etc.). Annie, 26, is on the verge of embarking on an exciting career, and marrying well, when her sister Jane and her husband are killed in a plane crash. With some trepidation, Annie becomes […]
The Icing On the Cupcake
Library Journal Texas Southern belle Ansley is on the brink of getting engaged when her boyfriend reveals that he just doesn't like her very much. Her general cattiness and downright meanness have gotten the best of her, and she finds herself fianc?-less as well as friendless. When she runs off to New York City to […]
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke
Library Journal As a young woman in Colonial Massachusetts, Jane Clarke rebels against her domineering father; she feels he is pushing her into a marriage she is unsure about. Jane is then sent from her small seaside village on Cape Cod to live in Boston with an elderly aunt. There, in 1769 and 1770, Jane […]
Island Beneath the Sea : a Novel
Library Journal: Zariet?, known as T?t?, is born a slave in Haiti, then called Saint-Domingue, in 1700. She is bought by Toulouse Valmorain, a young Frenchman whose ideals quickly disappear in the brutality of life on a sugar plantation. T?t? tenderly cares for Valmorain's son and, since she is her master's property, bears two of […]
The Red Thread : a Novel
The Washington Post – Reeve Lindbergh: This is a subtle and unusual adoption story, many-layered, exquisitely told.
So Cold the River
The New York Times – Marilyn Stasio: ?a super?natural mystery that intensifies the suspense by thickening the atmosphere. So Cold the River?is a superior specimen, with its eerie tale of a lovely valley in Indiana where at one time an elixir known as Pluto Water bubbled up from the underground springs?Koryta sets a beautiful scene?
The House On Oyster Creek
Library Journal An only child with physical limitations, Henry Tradescome has always disliked his family summer home in Wellfleet, MA. But Henry's wife, Charlotte, is thrilled to raise their four-year-old daughter in the house he's just inherited. Founder/editor of an alternative New York newspaper, Henry is 20 years Charlotte's senior. She's never felt she was […]