FICTION
Released: June 15, 2012
"To the series' usual attractive locations seasoned with a dash of history, Hudgins adds a mystery with an intriguing group of suspects. "
A wedding party gathers on a remote Swiss mountaintop, where the uninvited guest is murder.
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FICTION
Released: June 15, 2012
"Gibson creates a mystery as laid-back and mellow as her heroine. "
FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"First-time novelist Cotto's shaggy, dreamlike saga begins with a curse and ends with a redemption of sorts. What's in between is a lot less clear. "
A highly unlikely detective pursues the even more unlikely trail of a missing man during Holy Week in Brooklyn.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"Nobody but Lovesey could thump out a gritty procedural yet instill Bath with so much charm and history that readers will have to put it on their bucket lists."
How many mistakes can Detective Superintendent Diamond make and still catch the Somerset Sniper?
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FICTION
Released: June 8, 2012
"Fans of Chandler (Bingo Barge Murder, 2011) will appreciate the character development and sense of humor, though newbies may wonder why anyone would help hapless Baz."
FICTION
Released: June 6, 2012
"In a departure from her Leigh Girard mysteries (Death's Door, 2009, etc.), Lukasik has crafted a highly intriguing tale loaded with suspense and historic interest."
FICTION
Released: June 6, 2012
"The latest from Lamanda (Running Homeless, 2011, etc.) is an exciting thriller filled with tough but sympathetic characters who drag you breathlessly along to the final scene."
A former police officer sunk in the depths of despair is rescued by the mob boss he thinks had his wife killed.
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FICTION
Released: June 6, 2012
"The information on the ill-fated Jamestown colony is the best feature of this follow-up to Clay's first Jamestown novel (Deceptions, 2010), which is otherwise a run-of-the-mill historical romance with very little mystery."
A group of young women are sent from England to the Jamestown colony in 1620 to become wives of the settlers.
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FICTION
Released: June 6, 2012
"A cozy with a fun and flirty edge, the latest from Ebisch (When the Last Dance is Over, 2012, etc.) is a deft balance of mystery and romantic comedy."
An advice columnist learns the hard way that sometimes it's easier to mind your own business.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Fans of Henning Mankell's majestically lumbering police procedurals will relish every twist in the long road to resolution. Less patient readers should look to Hanne's later adventures."
Politics and drugs make uneasy bedfellows in this first case for Hanne Wilhelmsen, the Oslo police inspector most recently seen on these shores in
1222 (2011).
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"So sadistically measured in its pace that readers will have plenty of time to ask themselves how different they really are from the perverts tuned in to Number 4's sufferings. "
Katzenbach (
The Madman's Tale, 2004, etc.) sets an amateur sleuth living on borrowed time to hunt a kidnapped teenager whose time is even shorter in this pulp-ish re-imagining of "The Pit and the Pendulum" for the digital age.
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FICTION
Released: June 5, 2012
"Consigning most of the violence to the past allows Piccirilli (The Fever Kill, 2007, etc.) to dial down the gore while imparting a soulful, shivery edge to this tale of an unhappy family that's assuredly unhappy in its own special way."
Summoned home by an urgent plea from his kid sister, a runaway brother finds his family of thieves just as dysfunctional and even more criminal.
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