FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"An up-all-night thriller for freaks and geeks who want to see their wizards all grown up in the real world and armed to the teeth in a bloody story."
Modern-day sorcerers fight a war of words in this intensely analytical yet bombastic thriller.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Contemporary crime noir at its best, mined from the dark pit of the human psyche."
Thriller author Cleave (
The Laughter House, 2012, etc.) opens the door on the haunted history of his disgraced detective Theo Tate.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Pearson plots resourcefully, and the complications are intelligently varied. The action is so nonstop, however, that long before the end, many readers will feel as exhausted, if nowhere near as battered, as Grace and Knox."
Now that they've established their credentials in Shanghai (
The Risk Agent, 2012, etc.), John Knox and Grace Chu, of Rutherford Risk, go up against a coldblooded sweatshop owner in Amsterdam.
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"This first installment in a planned trilogy is great in the setup and not so great in the home stretch, which may not bode well for Books 2 and 3."
In Irish-born Patrick's tantalizing debut sci-fi thriller, criminal investigations feature a new breed of specialists with the ability to briefly resuscitate murder and accident victims and ask them whodunit (or what-dunit).
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FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"The third from Stevens, a specialist in high-toned psychological thrills (Never Knowing, 2011, etc.), delivers the goods once more."
FICTION
Released: June 18, 2013
"Amiable international intrigue that's less James Bond than Matt Helm."
The chronicler of Stephanie Plum (
Notorious Nineteen, 2012, etc.) teams up with screenwriter Goldberg (
Mr. Monk Goes to Germany, 2008, etc.) to kick off a lighthearted new series pairing an FBI agent with the con artist who's been her chronic prey.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2013
"For those who discovered the Belgian city depicted here in the 2008 film In Bruges, this book will be a welcome return--with plenty more to come via translations of more Van In books, one hopes."
Belgian crime-fiction veteran Aspe's English-language debut thriller, originally published in Europe in 1995, introduces readers to chain-smoking, perpetually out-of-sorts DI Pieter Van In.
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FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"A fine read for lovers of escapist fiction."
FICTION
Released: June 11, 2013
"Overlong, repetitive and more testosterone-charged than it needs to be. But Vachss' followers will devour it and will keep watch for Dell and Dolly's return."
The creator of Burke, all-purpose noir stylist Vachss (
Mortal Lock, 2013, etc.) launches a new series featuring a freelance investigator who could give Dirty Harry a run for his money.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"In Stevens' powerfully contained follow-up to The Innocent (2011), there is no release for the tormented heroine, only license to live another day."
In Stevens' third lean and mean thriller featuring Vanessa Michael Munroe, an "informationist" with a scary dark streak who specializes in recovering kidnapping victims, she is forced by an Eastern European sex trafficker to deliver an American teen to a European buyer.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Kernick is a first-rate storyteller. Readers will have no trouble hating this book's bad guys, who lack even a glimmer of humanity."
The latest from the best-selling British author (
The Business of Dying, 2003, etc.); this thriller was partially inspired by a 2008 terror attack in Mumbai.
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FICTION
Released: June 4, 2013
"Meticulous plotting, literate prose and mordant wit make this a thriller for connoisseurs of the genre. "
Nuanced, devilishly intricate thriller sends an enigmatic hero to China and far-flung ports to scope out agents, double agents and enticing women.
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