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 […]
Sooley
The Miracle : a Novel
Spare Change
Publisher Weekly Review: At the start of Parker's engaging sixth Sunny Randall novel (after Blue Screen), the cop-turned-PI helps her father track down a Boston serial killer whose depredations begin again after a 20-year hiatus. The "spare change" killer executes victims with a single shot to the head, leaving three coins near the body. Sunny's […]
On Chesil Beach
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. It is 1962, and college graduates Florence and Edward, very much children of late 1950s London, are ready to launch themselves as a couple. Musical Florence is hoping for a concert career and looking forward to the wedding she believes will truly define her adulthood. Edward, a budding historian from […]
The Navigator : a Novel From the NUMA Files
Library Journal: The NUMA team is back, trying to figure out why anyone would kill for a little statue stolen years ago from the Baghdad Museum. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
The Shadow Catcher
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Wiggins (Evidence of Things Unseen, etc.) takes a magnificently Sebald-like approach to fictionalizing the life of photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868?1952)?along with that of a woman named "Marianne Wiggins." The book opens as Wiggins presents her newly completed Curtis novel to a Hollywood agent. Curtis photographed American Indians in the […]