A Gambling Man
Desire of the Everlasting Hills: the World Before and After Jesus
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The Washington Post – Patrick Anderson: Only now, with the publication of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the third novel in the late Stieg Larsson's immensely popular Millennium trilogy, can we fully appreciate the Swedish writer's achievement. The trilogy ranks among those novels that expand the horizons of popular fiction?the novel fully lives […]
The Camel Bookmobile
Publisher Weekly Review: Hamilton's captivating third novel (after 2004's The Distance Between Us) follows Fiona Sweeney, a 36-year-old librarian, from New York to Garissa, Kenya, on her sincere but na?ve quest to make a difference in the world. Fi enlists to run the titular mobile library overseen by Mr. Abasi, and in her travels through […]
Glass Houses
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. The Plate Glass Killer is terrorizing Philadelphia, and the alcoholic, homeless scion of the wealthy Tyder family is arrested after being found, covered in blood, at the latest murder scene. Gregor Demarkian (Hardscrabble Road), retired head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, is asked to investigate Tyder's bizarre behavior and […]
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Publisher Weekly Review: Imagining the banks of the Seine in the thick of la vie moderne, Vreeland (Girl in Hyacinth Blue) tracks Auguste Renoir as he conceives, plans and paints the 1880 masterpiece that gives her vivid fourth novel its title. Renoir, then 39, pays the rent on his Montmartre garret by painting "overbred society […]
The Ministry of Special Cases
Library Journal Review: tarred Review. This debut novel by the author of the award-winning story collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges describes in painful detail the disappearance of dissidents during Argentina's Dirty War (1976?83), focusing on the tribulations of one innocent Jewish family in Buenos Aires. Kaddish Poznan, who charges families to deface old […]
Warlock : a Novel of Ancient Egypt
Laced : a Regan Reilly Mystery
Publisher Weekly Review: At the start of Clark's light-hearted 10th Regan Reilly mystery (after 2006's Hitched), newlyweds Regan, a PI, and Jack Reilly, head of the Major Case Squad in New York City, are anticipating an idyllic honeymoon in western Ireland. But their hopes of tranquility are soon dashed. Early the first morning at their […]
Tale of the Children of Hurin
Publisher Weekly Review: Tolkien fans are sure to treasure this tale of Middle-earth's First Age, which appeared in incomplete forms in the posthumously published The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. Those earlier books, also edited by Tolkien's son, Christopher, only hinted at the depth and power of the tragic story of Túrin and Niënor, the children […]