FICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Top-notch effort in the first of a promising trilogy."
Ahmad debuts with a fast-paced literary thriller, shifting action from the desolate ice-clad Siachen glacier separating India and Pakistan to the posh environs of Martha's Vineyard.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"Tapani's search, which will lead him through an appalling series of cityscapes to some shattering discoveries about the wife he thought he knew so well, is the stuff of authentic nightmares."
In Tuomainen's first appearance in English translation, a long-unpublished poet takes to the streets of a grimly dystopian Helsinki in search of his vanished wife.
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FICTION
Released: May 14, 2013
"Law and Order-like twist-and-turn, moral-quandary suspense needing only the echoing cell door sound effect."
"[W]hen you help a rapist get acquitted and your wife and daughter are killed the next day, it's awfully hard to convince yourself that karma doesn't exist," muses Dan Sorenson in Mitzner's (
A Conflict of Interest, 2011) second legal thriller.
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FICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"Some thrillers are beach reads. Palumbo's are strictly for late at night and for readers who have no pressing engagements early the next day."
Pittsburgh clinical psychologist Daniel Rinaldi (
Fever Dream, 2011, etc.) finds to his sorrow that even serial killers have fans.
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FICTION
Released: May 2, 2013
"Colfer's work is entertaining and expertly judged. His terse, muscular prose makes even a car chase seem like a new idea, and his McEvoy is a durable raconteur."
This comic thriller sends a hard-luck New Jersey club owner tumbling through a mad, mad world of assorted nuts.
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FICTION
Released: April 30, 2013
"Swierczynski's writing crackles with fresh attitude. But his plot may have jumped the shark this time, and readers unfamiliar with previous episodes could feel lost in the maelstrom."
Can the unkillable man make the epic journey from outer space to home in time to save his loved ones?
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FICTION
Released: April 8, 2013
"A fiercely intelligent, multilayered thriller, this book casts its narrative net wider than Blue Monday, making welcome demands on its readers."
Still haunted by the bizarre events in
Blue Monday (2012), London psychotherapist turned police consultant Frieda Klein investigates the murder of an enigmatic con man whose naked, decomposing body is found in the home of a mentally ill young woman.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"A high-velocity zombie-thriller that's as smart, daring and propulsive as the disparate stories it's mashing up."
A rogue band of mercenaries discover more resistance than they imagined during a coordinated assault on Saddam Hussein's treasure trove.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Together, they face a series of deadly chases--first with Johansson's henchmen, then with crossbred ape/human monsters. But these events do little to advance a plot whose coherence has long since vanished into the ether."
This archaeological thriller from Kosmatka (
The Games, 2012) has a promising opening that winds up as a dead end.
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FICTION
Released: April 2, 2013
"Poyer spent a great deal of his life on the ocean, and it shows. This is a fine thriller."
Poyer's thriller takes fans on a frightening ride that will have them reaching for their Dramamine.
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FICTION
Released: March 26, 2013
"Though some readers may be bothered by the novel's anti-Americanisms and others will find Dhar too sympathetically drawn, such strokes are part of Stock's deft contemporization of the spy genre."
In the third installment of a superb series, renegade MI6 operative Daniel Marchant and his half brother, most-wanted terrorist Salim Dhar, again prove the most dangerous of odd couples.
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FICTION
Released: March 26, 2013
"One of the more sophisticated writers in his field, Wilson leaves us looking forward to Charles Boxer's next assignment."
In the first installment of a new series by Wilson (
A Small Death in Lisbon, 2000, etc.), the estranged daughter of an Indian tycoon is abducted in London for reasons that don't seem to involve ransom money--and then re-abducted.
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