North Wood
Change of Heart : a Novel
Publishers Weekly: Picoult bangs out another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner, this time examining a condemned inmate's desire to be an organ donor. Freelance carpenter Shay Bourne was sentenced to death for killing a little girl, Elizabeth Nealon, and her cop stepfather. Eleven years after the murders, Elizabeth's sister, Claire, needs a heart transplant, and Shay volunteers, which […]
A Prisoner of Birth
Publishers Weekly: Bestseller Archer (Kane and Abel) pays homage to Dumas's The Count of Monte Cristoin this delicious updating of the adventure classic. Four upper-crust friends from Cambridge University known as the Musketeers conspire to frame Danny Cartwright, an illiterate London East Ender, for the murder of Danny's oldest friend and brother-in-law to be, Bernie […]
Martyr!
The Cemetery of Untold Stories
The Hidden City
Lady Killer
Publishers Weekly: Philadelphia attorney Mary DiNunzio, last seen in Killer Smile(2004), agrees to help her high school nemesis, Trish Gambone, at the start of this less than convincing thriller from bestseller Scottoline. Trish, whom Mary used to regard as "the quintessential Mean Girl," has turned in desperation to the lawyer, "the all-around Most Likely to […]
The Black Dove
Ken St. Andre – Library Journal: After Gus ("Old Red") and Otto ("Big Red") Amlingmeyer solved the crime but lost the client in their last case (On the Wrong Track), they found themselves down and out in San Francisco. Here, the death of their acquaintance Dr. Chan inspires Gus to deduce what happened, but no […]
Black Water
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library by Pansy Parker. Publishers Weekly: Fans of the Twilight Zone should relish MacGregor's newest offering (after Out of Sight); reading this spine-tingling suspense novel is like spiraling headfirst into the most disturbing episode ever aired. As Mira Morales and her teenage daughter, Annie, prepare to return via motorboat to […]
The Poacher's Son
Publishers Weekly: Down East editor-in-chief Doiron takes a provocative look at the ties between fathers and sons, unconditional love, and Maine?s changing landscape in his outstanding debut. Game warden Mike Bowditch, who hasn?t heard from his dad, Jack Bowditch, in two years, wonders what the man wants from him after he comes home late one […]