Saving the World : a Novel
Library Journal Review: Starred Review. A successful Latina novelist, 50-year-old Alma lives in rural Vermont with husband Richard, a manager for development projects in Third World countries. Alma is deeply, passionately in love with Richard, but she is also suffering from writer's block and severe depression; she simply can't get started on the Latino family […]
The Best Revenge : Short Stories
Library Journal Review: A prolific short story writer twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Rule writes about what she knows. Her stories focus on life in her native New Hampshire, illuminating the good and the bad aspects of life in small communities and life in general. From Lindy up at bat to Judy at the […]
Dark Assassin
Publisher Weekly Review: William Monk faces special challenges in bestseller Perry's absorbing 15th novel to feature the Victorian policeman (after 2005's The Shifting Tide), as he must convince skeptical fellow officers of his competence to lead the corruption-ridden Thames River Police during a rampant crime wave. In a fogbound setting evocative of Conan Doyle, newly […]
Gone : an Alex Delaware Novel
Publisher Weekly Review: In bestseller Kellerman's pulse-pounding 20th Alex Delaware novel (after 2005's Rage), the Los Angeles psychologist looks into the murder of attractive 23-year-old Michaela Brand, an aspiring actress. Soon after Michaela and a fellow acting student, 24-year-old Dylan Meserve, achieve their 15 minutes of fame by staging their abduction, their hoax is exposed […]
Tomb of the Golden Bird
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. The absorbing 18th entry in MWA Grand Master Peters's bestselling Amelia Peabody series (after 2005's The Serpent on the Crown) centers on one of the great real-life discoveries in Egyptology?the opening of Tutankhamon's tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1922. Amelia's husband, Radcliffe Emerson (aka "the Father of […]
In the Company of the Courtesan
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. Renaissance Italy enchants in Dunant's delicious second historical (after The Birth of Venus), as a wily dwarf Bucino Teodoldo recounts fantastic escapades with his mistress, celebrated courtesan Fiammetta Bianchini. Escaping the 1527 sacking of Rome with just the clothes on their backs (and a few swallowed jewels in their bellies), […]
Queen of the Underworld
Publisher Weekly Review: In the summer of 1959, plucky North Carolinian Emma Gant escapes overbearing parents to begin her career as a reporter at the Miami Star. Lodged at the colorful Julia Tuttle Hotel (a fictional Florida property named after Miami's real-life founder), Emma meets a group of Cuban families who've recently fled Fidel Castro. […]
Wild Animus
Library Journal Review: In 1969, a questing student named Sam and his lover Lindy leave Berkeley, CA, for the wilds of Alaska, where Sam is transformed first into Ransom and then into an actual ram. Pursuing his quest ever higher into the Mount Rangel wilderness, he dons a sheep suit, takes LSD, lacerates his chest, […]
Death Dance
Publisher Weekly Review: Reunited with fellow Manhattan crime scene investigators Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace, brazen, outspoken Alexandra Cooper, assistant DA for the sex crimes prosecution unit, tackles the case of a murdered dancer with the Royal Ballet. While it was no secret that "world-renowned" Russian ballerina Natalya Galinova had a bad attitude and a […]
Cell
Publisher Weekly Review: What if a pulse sent out through cell phones turned every person using one of them into a zombie-like killing machine? That's what happens on page six of King's latest, a glib, technophobic but compelling look at the end of civilization?or at what may turn into a new, extreme, telepathically enforced fascism. […]