FICTION
Released: Jan. 5, 2010
"The fun here is the sexual tension between the protagonists; the rest is psychic-babble. "
A lost lamp is the MacGuffin in this dim, talky paranormal suspenser from Krentz (
White Lies, 2007, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 5, 2010
Armed only with her vampire powers, 192-year-old Jane Austen hits the publicity trail to promote what fond readers think is her first novel.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2010
"Nice work once again from one of the most dependable pros in the murder business. "
Violated corpses and many other nasty things keep surfacing at smartly timed intervals in this high-octane thriller from Hayder (
Ritual, 2008, etc.)
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2010
"Henderson delivers an entertaining Indiana Jones–style adventure with snappy dialogue and intriguing characters. As a bonus, he throws in a number of real-life historical tidbits about New York, a city the author clearly loves. "
A museum curator and his intern battle supernatural thieves in this fast-paced urban-fantasy mystery.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2009
"A satisfying story that delivers everything it promises."
FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2009
"Despite moments of lyricism, more sensational than subtle."
Earthly paradise turns a British marriage hellish in this self-conscious, psychologically insecure novel from Benedict (
The Opposite of Love, 2007, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 13, 2009
"Flies and spiders, master! Big, messy, lots of fun--and not Stephenie Meyer."
Bram's great-grandnephew teams up with Dracula buff Holt to reclaim vampire lit from the unholy, unlettered legions churning out today's fang-and-cloak stuff.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 6, 2009
"We're on the edge of our seats."
"Rubbish, Watson, rubbish! What have we to do with walking corpses who can only be held in their grave by stakes driven through their hearts?
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2009
"Workmanlike and agreeably absorbing, though lacking genuine thrills or chills."
More New England horror and madness tied to sadistic events in the past from Schreiber (
Chasing the Dead, 2006, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2009
"Lowbrow, absurdist horror/comedy that works--a difficult trick to pull off."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2009
"Harsh and unrelenting crime fiction, masterfully done."
The IRA may have made peace with England, but decades of violence still haunt a former terrorist.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2009
"The Swedish landscape Theorin (Echoes from the Dead, 2008) presents as if in an endless single breath is as bleak as Henning Mankell's, but a lot more eventful. "
One-hundred-and-fifty years of dark doings come to a head in a Christmas Eve whiteout on the Swedish island of Öland.
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