FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"A retro puzzler that recalls Anthony Berkeley's classic The Poisoned Chocolates Case in its structure: a hyperextended short story whose complications keep unfolding and proliferating till it's grown to novel length."
A Tokyo CEO's determination to run his marriage as a business is ended by a dose of arsenous acid.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Kit is such an ingratiating narrator that you almost forget how unthrilling his larky debut is. Maybe the planned series can provide him with adventures more worthy of his steel."
Prolific Pulitzer Prize winner Butler (
A Small Hotel, 2011, etc.) casts his net in distinctly shallower waters when he follows the adventures of a brash American journalist in 1914 Mexico.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Giving Jane more spark than readers have seen in a while, Hart (The Lost Women of Lost Lake, 2011, etc.) brings new life to an aging series and hope for future installments."
Her partner's enforced stay in the hospital won't stop a newly minted private eye from investigating the murder of his nephew.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Rebecca's amusing third continues to flesh out its continuing characters while providing an eccentric bunch of murder suspects."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
Hide the good china: Sullivan (
Triple Cross, 2009, etc.) launches a new series with even more helter-skelter action than his stratospheric average.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Understated, occasionally very funny (see Kunkle) and very intelligent. In his 23rd appearance (Tag Man, 2011, etc.), the Sage of Brattleboro remains as appealing as ever."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"An enjoyable but run-of-the-mill military procedural."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"Marlowe (Silent Court, 2012, etc.) makes an agreeable guide to Elizabethan life, and it's fun reading quips between him and Shaxsper that will later appear in plays."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"Nobody demonstrates the similarity between criminal reasoning and cop reasoning better than James (Vacuum, 2011, etc.)."
The 29th appearance of Harpur and Iles, Britain's most irresistible duo since crumpets were first paired with tea.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2012
"Guttridge's third Brighton thriller is so well-written that it would be well worth your time even if it were not such a darkly brilliant mystery."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 19, 2012
"Like his Owen Allison series (Stonewall Jackson's Elbow, 2006, etc.), Billheimer's new franchise emphasizes local color in small-town America as its heroes prove to be their own worst enemies."
A sportswriter with a gambling problem tries to help a trainer escape indictment for steroid abuse.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 18, 2012
"Another deftly modulated murder puzzle from Indridason (Hypothermia, 2010, etc.), with terrific character portraits, many twists and a satisfying "aha!" moment. "
