FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Contemporary crime noir at its best, mined from the dark pit of the human psyche."
Thriller author Cleave (
The Laughter House, 2012, etc.) opens the door on the haunted history of his disgraced detective Theo Tate.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"The story moves forward, but the journey is uninspired."
Samantha Collins is shocked when her grandfather leaves her his auto turbocharger empire; even worse, he expects her to get Collins Industries back on track with Dillon Montgomery, the man she's secretly loved since she was 13.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Exciting, dizzying, heartbreaking."
The long-awaited fourth and penultimate installment of the sci-fi/fantasy saga The Psalms of Isaak (
Antiphon, 2010, etc.) takes off running and doesn't stop.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"A by-the-numbers spy thriller. The tale isn't terribly original but perfect for plane rides, vacations and to read while sitting in waiting rooms."
Kelly, a former NPR reporter, presents Boston-based newspaper reporter Alexandra James, who stumbles upon a complicated terrorist plot while chasing a trans-Atlantic story.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"In this touching summer read, forgiveness benefits both the person bestowing it and the recipient."
NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"A sympathetic, entertaining portrayal of two presidential opponents and ultimate colleagues--a nice complement to Lynne Olson's more comprehensive, sweeping Those Angry Days (2013)."
A warmly characterized study of Franklin Roosevelt and Wendell Willkie as they battled for the presidency of 1940 within a yawning national chasm over the war.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"As the male character's path to redemption leaves his body increasingly ravaged, Bell's book becomes an unflinching portrait of the struggle to keep a family intact."
A folkloric, allegorical tale of modern marriage, complete with shape-shifting, secret passageways and trials by fire.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"A relaxed yet disturbing look at an alternative lifestyle, its heady profits and its hidden costs. "
Straightforward overview of Northern California's "Emerald Triangle," the rural region renowned for producing America's best cannabis.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Self-important pretensions don't deepen the shallow emotional waters in which these predictable characters swim. Brown is no Louise Erdrich."
In Brown's first novel, an impressionable young woman drifts into animal rights terrorism, goes on the lam and reinvents herself with the help of noble Native Americans and true love.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Outsized, low-minded, mannered (at least in English translation) and often downright tedious. But there's no doubt that Lapidus creates a dark world that feels, while you're immersed in it, like the whole world."
Amazing. The cleansing violence that swept through Stockholm in
Easy Money (2012) has left the city no safer for three misfits who seem incapable of heeding this sequel's title.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: June 18, 2013
"No one will read these books for the mystery, which is so glacially developed it's easy to forget, what with all the sex, drugs and misery. (Chick-lit/mystery. 14 & up)"
One and a half volumes into her series, Peloquin's central mystery plot finally begins to come together.
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NONFICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"A riveting, highly readable tale of terror in the skies."
