FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Resolutely keeping potential action sequences just offstage, le Carré (Our Kind of Traitor, 2010, etc.) focuses instead on the moral rot and creeping terror barely concealed by the affable old-boy blather that marks the pillars of the intelligence community."
The distinguished chronicler of Cold War espionage and its costs casts his cold eye on the fog of war and its legacy when the war sets terrorists against the mercenaries and independent contractors to whom international security has been farmed out.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A deliciously addictive, cinematically influenced page-turner, both comic and provocative, about the nature of guilt and innocence within the context of social class in a rapidly changing culture."
Take a dollop of Alfred Hitchcock, a dollop of Patricia Highsmith, throw in some
Great Gatsby flourishes, and the result is Rindell's debut, a pitch-black comedy about a police stenographer accused of murder in 1920s Manhattan.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Sandford keeps every stage of the investigation clear, compelling and suspenseful while peeling back layer after layer of a world in which "everybody was hot, everybody was rich.""
FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"A collection of white-hot short stories."
The baddest noir stylist of them all (
That's How I Roll, 2012, etc.) digs into his archives from the past 15 years and comes up with 20 visits to hell.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Not quite in the class as Michael Shaara or Shelby Steele, but a solid work of historical fiction all the same."
Swift-moving fictional reconstruction of the terrible Overland Campaign of 1864, which must have seemed to its participants to be never ending.
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FICTION
Released: May 2, 2013
"Spargo writes with animation and fervor, a style conducive to the heat generated by his subjects."
Yet another addition to the spate of novels about Scott and Zelda, this one concentrating less on the toxic and more on the loving side of their relationship.
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FICTION
Released: May 2, 2013
"Colfer's work is entertaining and expertly judged. His terse, muscular prose makes even a car chase seem like a new idea, and his McEvoy is a durable raconteur."
This comic thriller sends a hard-luck New Jersey club owner tumbling through a mad, mad world of assorted nuts.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"Lyrical, haunting literary fiction."
It is 1924. Up in West Virginia's coal country, in a town called War, young Emma awakens one morning to find her house buried in the debris of an overturned rail car.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"A winner for any reader who loves historical, action-packed novels."
FICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"Mansell is like a Michelin-rated chef: She may use the same common ingredients, but under her sure hand the results are deliciously superior."
In British Mansell's 11th novel a lovable ditz approaches an empty nest, a new job and a pathological roommate with comic charm and a dash of courage.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2013
"A welcome return for the author."
FICTION
Released: April 30, 2013
"Brilliant and terrifying."
A self-described "good girl" lifts her mask in Messud's scarifying new novel (
The Emperor's Children, 2006, etc.).
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