FICTION
Released: June 12, 2013
"Not as funny as Hiaasen's best (Star Island, 2010, etc.), with a title character more vicious than amusing, but still the gold standard for South Florida criminal farce."
A severed arm that a visiting angler hooks off Key West kicks off Hiaasen's 13th criminal comedy.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Middling for the endless recent crop of Scandinavian procedurals apparently designed to inhibit tourism and make you glad you're staying in the temperate zone."
Something new is rotten in the state of Denmark in this debut from a sister-and-brother team: five middle-aged men drugged, stripped, mutilated and hanged in a geometrically precise formation.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
A second-generation Roman sleuth who lives by her wits needs all of them to solve a string of killings that strike too close to home.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A spare, fast-moving parable whose lure, even more than that of The Thief (2012), is more philosophical and abstract than visceral."
FICTION
Released: June 8, 2013
"The creator of Dandy Gilver (Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder, 2012, etc.) has produced a stand-alone that is worlds apart, a fascinating, mysterious ramble you can't put down."
A mystery a young woman finds in her childhood home leads her to revelations about her clouded past.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Carlisle's eighth Bibliophile mystery provides interesting suspects, a historical puzzle and the usual appended recipes."
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"The third action-packed case for Manny (Death Where the Bad Rocks Live, 2012, etc.) teems with historical interest, even if you're not a re-enactor."
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Bolton, who specializes in over-the-top psychological mayhem, ratchets up the tension with OCD diagnoses, past furies unresolved and a reworking of the Peter Pan story."
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Politically savvy, but overstuffed with plots and bios of Greek deities. And Dinah (Bonereapers, 2012, etc.) could do with a verve implant."
FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Like Malin's debut (Midwinter Blood, 2012), this second of four seasonal procedurals is evocative, atmospheric, ingenious and overlong."
A Swedish summer is no kinder than winter to Malin Fors, her colleagues in the Linköping police department or the young girls who've become the targets of a murderous stalker.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"The tale sags as it lumbers toward its foreordained conclusion, but it's all worth it to hear Judge Flinch tell a witness who's taking the Fifth: "You're plenty incriminated already.""
Back from a 10-year sabbatical, ebullient St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold (
Trophy Widow, 2002, etc.) is faced with a Frankenstein civil suit that just won't be settled.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2013
"The sixth in this highly enjoyable series (Keeping Bad Company, 2012, etc.) adds social commentary to a rich broth of historical tidbits and an excellent mystery."
