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 […]
The Ice Princess
Library Journal Erica Falck, a local-girl-makes-good writer from the tiny resort town of Fjallbacka, Sweden, stumbles onto a crime scene involving a close childhood friend. Erica is struggling to meet her publisher's deadline on a biography she no longer finds stimulating when her writer's instinct is piqued by her friend's mysterious death. At various points […]