In the Name of the Family
Library Journal 01/01/2017 In 1502, the fortunes of the Borgia family are riding high. Pope Alexander VI, born Roderic Borgia, is secure in the papacy; his son, Cesare, is seemingly unstoppable in his thirst for conquest up and down Italy. Alexander's dazzling and witty daughter Lucrezia is set to marry (for the third time) into […]
The Lost Book of the Grail
Publishers Weekly š 01/02/2017 Diffident Arthur Prescott, the endearing hero of this thoroughly enjoyable novel from bestseller Lovett (The Bookmanfs Tale), has chosen to teach at the University of Barchester, a backwater institution, because he grew up in Barchester (yes, Anthony Trollopefs cathedral city, as Lovett admits in an authorfs note). A junior lecturer whofs […]
Say Nothing
Publishers Weekly ¡ï 01/09/2017 Shamus Award¨Cwinner Parks¡¯s excellent domestic thriller credibly portrays a family under severe stress. Federal judge Scott Sampson¡¯s tranquil and fulfilling personal life in rural tidewater Virginia with his wife, Alison, and twin six-year-olds, Sam and Emma, is shattered when someone impersonating Alison abducts Sam and Emma from their school. The kidnappers […]
Wait For Dark
Publishers Weekly 01/23/2017 In bestseller Hooper’s bustling 17th Bishop/Special Crimes Unit novel (after 2015’s Fear the Dark), four residents of Clarity, N.C., suffer fatal “accidents” in a month. Unit chief Noah Bishop, a “tall, wide-shouldered and athletic man with an almost-too-handsome face,” sends a team of four agents headed by Hollis Templeton and including Templeton’s […]
Bone Box
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2016 In bestseller Kellerman’s so-so 24th novel featuring Peter Decker, a retired LAPD homicide detective who now works for the Greenbury, N.Y., police, and his wife, Rina Lazarus (after 2015’s The Theory of Death), a routine morning hike for Rina becomes the catalyst for the search for a serial killer after she accidentally […]
Celine
Library Journal ¡ï 02/01/2017 Celine is a paradox, a Sarah Lawrence blue blood who is also a licensed PI, living near the Brooklyn Bridge. She and her partner/husband, Pete, specialize in finding missing persons, with a success rate higher than that of the FBI. The main plot centers on a daughter's quest for her father, […]
The Mother's Promise
“Sure to appeal to fans of Jojo Moyes, Jodi Picoult, and Lisa Genova; book clubs will be lining up.” ¯Library Journal (starred review)
My Not So Perfect Life
“And something else separates this comic novel from the usual fare . . . the soul of this book concerns female friendship and its dynamics . . . a touch of real wisdom in its slapstick hand that will satisfy Kinsella die-hards as well as new readers.”—The Washington Post
Norse Mythology
“Who else but Neil Gaiman could become an accomplice of the gods, using the sorcery of words to make their stories new? The author of American Gods transforms Norse myths into addictive reading for young and old, with high-wattage retellings that preserve the monumental grandeur of the Nordic universe but also turn it into a […]
The Orphan's Tale
"Readers who enjoyed Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants will embrace this novel." -Library Journal