Worst Case : a Novel
From the Publisher Best case: survival The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he quizzes his prisoner on the price others pay for his life of luxury. In this exam, wrong answers are […]
Brava, Valentine : a Novel
Publishers Weekly Trigiani's sequel to Very Valentine is a sweet second act for shoemaker and designer Valentine Roncalli. Val takes over the New York family-run shoe business with feet-of-clay older brother, Alfred; falls for the dashing, older Gianluca in Italy; and takes a business risk in South America, where she unearths a dusty chapter of […]
Holmes is Missing
The Note
The Wolf At the Door
Publishers Weekly In bestseller Higgins's exciting 17th Sean Dillon thriller (after A Darker Place), Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin is behind a plot to kill Dillon and other members of the British prime minister's private intelligence army as payback for their being such a thorn in his side over the years. In London, Gen. Charles […]
Shadow Tag
Library Journal: Irene America is a smart, beautiful Minneapolis Ojibwe. Too distracted to finish her doctoral degree, she musters the emotional resources needed to keep two journals. The "Red Diary" is bait, filled with adulterous scenes that Irene uses to push volatile artist husband Gil close enough to the brink that he'll leave her. She […]
Kisser
Publishers Weekly: At the start of bestseller Woods's entertaining 17th Stone Barrington novel (after Loitering with Intent), the handsome New York lawyer smoothly picks up Carrie Cox, an aspiring actress who's recently moved from Georgia to New York City, at Elaine's, his favorite Manhattan restaurant. As usual, every beautiful woman Barrington encounters pursues him, including […]
Winter Garden
Publishers Weekly Female bonding is always good for a good cry, as Hannah (True Colors ) proves in her latest. Pacific Northwest apple country provides a beautiful, chilly setting for this family drama ignited by the death of a loving father whose two daughters have grown apart from each other and from their acid-tongued, Russian-born […]
Secrets of Eden : a Novel
Publishers Weekly: Bohjalian (Law of Similars) has built a reputation on his rich characters and immersing readers in diverse subjects?homeopathy, animal rights activism, midwifery?and his latest surely won?t disappoint. The morning after her baptism into the Rev. Stephen Drew?s Vermont Baptist church, Alice Hayward and her abusive husband are found dead in their home, an […]
Blood Ties
Publishers Weekly: Too many interchangeable doll-like victims and a by-the-numbers plot mar bestseller Hooper?s conclusion to her paranormal thriller trilogy that began with Blood Dreams and Blood Sins. When a serial killer tortures, dismembers, and dumps eight women in eight weeks in Tennessee and adjacent states, Noah Bishop, head of the FBI?s Special Crimes Unit, […]