Blinded
Her Fearful Symmetry
The New York Times – Susann Cokal: ?bewitching?Lovers of Niffenegger's past work should rejoice. This outing may not be as blindly romantic as The Time Traveler?s Wife, but it is mature, complex and convincing?a dreamy yet visceral tale of loves both familial and erotic, a search for Self in the midst of obsession with an […]
Half Broke Horses : a True-life Novel
Library Journal No one familiar with Walls's affecting memoir, The Glass Castle, will be surprised by her subtitle here: Walls is a careful observer who can give true-life stories the rush and immediacy of the best fiction. Here she novelizes the life of her grandmother, giving herself just the latitude she needs to create a […]
The Professional
Kirkus Reviews: Not even Spenser's formidable gifts are equal to the problems posed by a charming blackmailer who kisses and threatens to tell. At least four women-Abigail Larson, Beth Jackson, Regina Hartley and Nancy Sinclair-have been photographed and tape-recorded trysting with Gary Eisenhower. Their only regret is that if he doesn't get $25,000 a month […]
Evidence : an Alex Delaware Novel
Publishers Weekly: L.A. police lieutenant Milo Sturgis investigates a double homicide at the site of an unfinished, obscenely large mansion in bestseller Kellerman's nerve-tingling 24th Alex Delaware novel (after Bones). Construction halted on the house two years earlier, and ownership can be traced only to a defunct holding company in Washington, D.C. The male victim […]
Under This Unbroken Sky : a Novel
Library Journal: Mitchell, an award-winning Canadian filmmaker, offers a deeply affecting account of immigrant struggles, reaching back into her own family history for the basis of her debut novel. After Theo and Maria Mykolayenko escape Stalin's purge in the Ukraine with their children, they start a new life on the sweeping plains of Canada in […]
The Christmas List
Library Journal: It's possible that Santa just won't come if there isn't a new Evans (A Christmas Box) holiday tale in his bag. This year, it's the story of real-estate mogul James Kier, who gets the chance to read his obituary?before he dies. What he discovers unnerves him as the death notice portrays a ruthless, […]