Vision In White
Publishers Weekly The frighteningly prolific Roberts (see also Black Hills, reviewed on page 42) kicks off a frothy series about four friends who form an all-inclusive wedding service called Vows. Mackensie "Mac" Elliot loves capturing happy and playful moments with her camera, but her own life is all about work-until she meets English teacher Carter […]
The Cold Light of Mourning
Jo Ann Vicarel – Library Journal: On her wedding day, Meg Wynne Thompson disappears between having a manicure and getting her hair done. The quiet Welsh town of Llanelen is stunned by a full police investigation, the arrest of Meg's fianc?, and the death of his father. But manicurist Penny Brannigan, an expatriate Canadian, realizes […]
First Family
Publishers Weekly Plenty of intense action drives bestseller Baldacci's stellar fourth novel to feature former Secret Service agents Michelle Maxwell and Sean King (after Simple Genius). Maxwell and King, D.C. PIs, step on the toes of everyone, including the FBI and the Secret Service. They even manage to bruise the ego of First Lady Jane […]
Woodsburner : a Nove
The Washington Post – Ron Charles: The fire that "flows like brilliant liquid" through Concord Woods is a natural engine for a terrifically exciting story, and Pipkin conveys such a visceral impression of the "clever flames crouching in the branches" that you can feel the heat radiating off these pages?Pipkin has invented?men and women consumed […]
Brooklyn : a Novel
The New York Times – Liesl Schillinger: Colm Toibin?is an expert, patient fisherman of submerged emotions?In tracking the experience, at the remove of half a century, of a girl as unsophisticated and simple as Eilis?a girl who permits herself no extremes of temperament, who accords herself no right to self-assertion?Toibin exercises sustained subtlety and touching […]