Lucid Intervals : a Stone Barrington Novel
Publishers Weekly Stone Barrington continues to enjoy good food, good drink, and good sex provided by an eager succession of beautiful women in bestseller Woods's smooth 18th novel to feature the New York City attorney (after Kisser). Unstable ex-wife Dolce Bianci once again menaces Stone; ?walking catastrophe? Herbie Fisher pays Stone a $1 million retainer […]
Beatrice and Virgil : a Novel
Kirkus Reviews Whimsy takes a deadly serious turn in a novel that will enchant some readers and exasperate others. The Canadian author's previous novel (Life of Pi, 2001) won the Man Booker Prize, became a critically lauded bestseller and made legions of fans eager for a follow-up. Here it is, a meta-fictional shell game about […]
This Body of Death : a Nove
Kirkus Reviews Tragedy blights lives in a dozen different ways. Grieving widower Thomas Lynley (Careless in Red, 2008, etc.) returns to New Scotland Yard to assist temporary Acting Superintendent Isabelle Ardery, who is acerbic, volatile and an alcoholic in denial. This potent cocktail hardly helps her relationship with her ex, her sons and Lynley's old […]
The Lonely Polygamist : a Novel
Library Journal Udall's long-awaited novel (after The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint) depicts a lively, humorous, and sometimes tragic picture of Golden Richards, his four demanding wives, and his 28 children. They are an unruly Mormon clan, scattered among three separate houses in rural Utah. Richards, a hapless graying contractor with a limp and a […]
The 9th Judgment
From the Publisher Detective Lindsay Boxer chases a Jewel thief, a murderous movie star, and a killer with a vendetta against women and children. A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one […]
Savor the Moment
Library Journal For as long as she can remember, Laurel McBane has adored Delaney Brown, her best friend Parker's older brother. But to Del, she's always been just one of his kid sister's friends, or so she thinks. Her fiery temper results in a kiss that just might change their relationship for good. There's plenty […]
The Dead Republic
Library Journal Doyle's latest concludes the saga of Henry Smart, the Irish revolutionary first introduced in A Star Called Henry (1999) and revisited in Oh, Play That Thing (2004). Here, the Irish rebel is older, perhaps wiser, and alive after having once again cheated a certain death. Opening in the 1940s and concluding in 2010, […]
A Death in Cornwall
A Farewell to Arfs
Deception : an Alex Delaware Novel
Publishers Weekly Deputy Chief Weinberg assigns LAPD Lt. Milo Sturgis a particularly sensitive murder case at the outset of bestseller Kellerman?s smooth if routine 25th Alex Delaware novel (after Evidence). Elise Freeman, a teacher and tutor at exclusive Windsor Preparatory Academy in Brentwood, is found dead in her Studio City apartment in a bathtub full […]