INDIE
Released: May 4, 2013
"A solid, often engaging thriller that will likely appeal to fans of conspiracy theories and high adventure."
Ruppert (
The Seven Watchmen, 2009) delivers a fast-paced, intelligent thriller about a police detective's journey into an intricate underworld of religion and politics.
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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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INDIE
Released: May 2, 2013
"An imaginative, if sometimes linguistically distracting, look at the consequences of extrasensory powers."
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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INDIE
Released: March 23, 2013
"An intriguing ride through the bumpy landscape of U.S. politics, with a healthy dose of deception and corruption."
An action-packed political thriller that rotates between multiple characters and their dark, dangerous worlds.
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FICTION
Released: March 21, 2013
"Fans of crime thrillers shouldn't miss this one or anything else with Laukkanen's name on the cover. The writing is so crisp, the pages almost want to turn themselves. He's a terrific storyteller."
With this second thriller in a series, Laukkanen's latest provides an entertaining worst-case scenario of an accountant gone bad.
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