FICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"By turns lyrical and flirtatious, Brockmole's debut charms with its wistful evocation of a time when handwritten, eagerly awaited letters could bespell besotted lovers."
In 1912, a chance letter from a young student to a reclusive poet sparks a trans-Atlantic romance spanning two wars.
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FICTION
Released: July 9, 2013
"At a time when America's exceptionalism is hotly contested, this is a fine example of an exceptional American hero story."
Special Forces operative Dewey Andreas is out for vengeance after a botched assassination attempt kills the woman he loves in the latest from Coes (
The Last Refuge, 2012, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: July 11, 2013
"An expertly rendered tale of lingering hostilities rooted in the former Yugoslavia."
Twenty years after the slaughter of 100,000 people in Bosnia, Serbian war criminal and arms dealer Viktor Dusic is intent on re-igniting the campaign against Muslims through acts of terrorism and coldblooded murder.
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FICTION
Released: July 15, 2013
"A ride on a local that's more fun than some others on an express."
An ambling thriller about a suspicious murder-suicide that never meets a diversion it doesn't like.
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FICTION
Released: July 15, 2013
"A quick-flowing crime drama that will have fans eager for Willie Black to right another injustice."
Owen's (
Oregon Hill, 2012, etc.) hard-drinking Richmond reporter Willie Black has an inside track on a blockbuster crime story that's "red meat for the on-the-airheads."
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FICTION
Released: July 15, 2013
"Whimsy and pathos, artfully melded."
This soulful debut unpacks a family enigma involving a wandering daughter, a homeless father and their tenuous family ties.
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FICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"Not quite a love story and not quite a feminist bouquet, but a well-seasoned hybrid."
The hoodlum and the whore: Those labels are accurate but inadequate for the title characters of Young's debut Pao (2011) and this lively companion piece; both are set in mid-20th-century Jamaica.
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FICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"Toperoff locates the private passions in an intense, public and ultimately tragic love story without indulging in glitz or melodrama."
A canny exploration of the long affair between writers Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) and Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), which endured alcoholism, war and McCarthyism.
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FICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"Dunant's biggest and best work to date, this intelligently readable account of formative events and monster players has Hilary Mantel–era quality best-seller stamped all over it."
The big, bad Borgia dynasty undergoes modern reconsideration in the best-selling British author's epic new biofiction.
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FICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"Don your hazmat suit, prop up your feet, and enjoy a good yarn."
FICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"Zan's first novel is a haunting depiction of the emotional scars left on women held in captivity."
Ten years ago, Sarah Farber escaped a madman's cellar in Portland, Ore., where, for three years, she and her best friend, Jennifer, and two other girls were raped, tortured and starved.
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FICTION
Released: July 16, 2013
"The prose--when the author bothers to simply write prose--is very good. But too much of the book looks like a Ph.D. thesis in creative writing, where extra credit goes to the candidate who tries techniques others know better than to try."
