Stormy Weather
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. While their father was alive, the Stoddard family followed him to the booming oil towns of Texas. Then came the dust and drought of the 1930s, and the family crawled home to its abandoned farm in central Texas. To survive, Elizabeth Stoddard and her three daughters concoct two schemes that […]
The Woods
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Paul Copeland is a county prosecutor working on a difficult case when two policemen arrive and take him to the morgue to identify a body. The case sets up echoes from Paul's past, forcing him to relive 20-year-old events and the day that destroyed his innocence. When he was a […]
Blood Lies
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Fans of intelligent contemporary whodunits who enjoyed Scott Turow's debut, Presumed Innocent, will find welcome echoes of that modern classic in the fourth novel from Canadian author Kalla (Rage Therapy), who's also an ER physician. When drug addict Emily Kenmore is found with her neck slashed in her Seattle condo, […]
Double Take
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. Coulter (Point Blank) will delight her fans with her latest FBI thriller, which begins with Special Agent Cheney Stone saving wealthy widow Julia Ransom from being drowned in San Francisco Bay. As their relationship develops, Julia continues to be the target of a murderer, and Cheney serves as her protector. […]
Stalin's Ghost : an Arkady Renko Novel
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Moscow-based Senior Investigator Arkady Renko, in his outstanding sixth outing (after Wolves Eat Dogs), investigates a murder-for-hire scheme that leads him to suspect two fellow police detectives, Nikolai Isakov and Marat Urman, both former members of Russia's elite Black Berets, who served in Chechnya. Isakov, a war hero, is now […]
The Maytrees
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Lou Bigelow meets her husband-to-be, Toby Maytree, when Toby returns to Provincetown following WWII. In the house Lou inherits from her mother, they read, cook soup, play games with friends, vote and raise a child. Toby writes poetry and does odd jobs; Lou paints. Their unaffected bohemianism fits right in […]
The Wish
The Saboteurs
Walking Shadows
Hothouse Orchid
Publishers Weekly Bestseller Woods piles on the coincidences in his modestly entertaining fifth thriller to feature CIA agent Holly Barker (after Iron Orchid). When Holly returns home to Orchid Beach, Fla., where she was once chief of police, she's reunited with both welcome and unwelcome figures from her past. Renegade ex-CIA agent Teddy Fay, sporting […]