FICTION
Released: May 5, 2011
"Beneath the sky-high body count, the twisty plot is powered by Perry's relentless focus on the question of where the next threat is coming from and how to survive it."
Twenty years after a trio of lowlifes forced him out of retirement (
Sleeping Dogs, 1992, etc.), the Butcher's Boy is back.
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FICTION
Released: May 3, 2011
"An exotic locale and lyrical language make for a dazzling debut."
Words as musical notes, a book as symphony—so it is with this debut novel, occasionally rippling with pidgin English and yet always sparkling with literary insights, all set within the landscape of a forgotten corner of South America.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
"A masterful wide-angle portrait of an Iowa family over three decades."
In Thompson's unforgettable, offbeat novel, an extended Iowa family struggles for emotional and economic stability over three decades, beginning with a modest Lutheran wedding in 1983 and ending with a bittersweet homecoming.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
"The smart, suspenseful cat-and-mouse game will remind some readers of Erik Skjoldbjærg's 1997 film Insomnia--and that's high praise indeed."
Erica Jong meets Stephen King meets, yes, Stieg Larsson in this superb thriller, the eighth by Norwegian mystery writer Nesbø.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
"A long time in coming, with an ending that's one of the most memorable in recent literature. A superb novel, as grand in its vision as one of President McKinley's dreams--but not for a moment, as Sayles writes of that figure, "empty of thought, of emotion.""
Noted novelist/director Sayles (
Union Dues, 2005, etc.) turns in an epic of Manifest Destiny--and crossed destinies--so sweeping and vast that even he would have trouble filming it.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
"A quirky, imaginative, dazzling black comedy."
Vada Prickett is dying, pinned under a stupendous stuffed bear, thinking about his short life and a fond-of-puns God enjoying the "Moon over My Hammy" breakfast at the local Denny's.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2011
"Spectacularly and convincingly inventive, assured and wholly spellbinding: one of the most impressive debuts in years."
A sort of paranoid-conspiracy, hard sci-fi whodunit: the Scotland resident, Finnish author's jaw-dropping debut.
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FICTION
Released: April 20, 2011
"That the novel is marked by authenticity is no surprise given Clark's credentials—she was, after all, lead prosecutor in the headline-grabbing O.J. Simpson trial—but what may surprise some readers is the quality of the writing, plus the considerable charm of Rachel and her buddies."
A corker of a debut novel in which a brainy, plucky female prosecutor refuses to rush to judgment.
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FICTION
Released: April 19, 2011
"A literary lark, at times too labored, that offers an amusing gloss on the publishing industry's recent problems with fakes."
Novelist Phillips (
The Song is You, 2009, etc.) introduces a long-lost Shakespeare play, the titular
Tragedy. This extraordinary find…
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FICTION
Released: April 5, 2011
"Berg's masterful portraits and keen insight makes for a memorable read."
The prolific Berg delivers the goods in this perceptive novel about a divorced couple reunited when their daughter goes missing.
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FICTION
Released: April 5, 2011
"A first novel sure to make the bestseller lists."
Nick Meehan is the job, the quintessential New York City PD detective, also one who's ironic and self-contained, intelligent and driven.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2011
"Witty, thoughtful, briskly paced and entertaining—a terrific novel about excess, hubris, class and the age-old (usually one-sided) tussle between art and commerce."
From South African/British novelist Cartwright (To Heaven by Water, 2009, etc.), a winner of the Whitbread Award and Hawthornden Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, a tale half comic and half cautionary—and all compelling—about the financial crisis.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2011
"Shifting seamlessly between past and present versions of the case, Spencer produces a tour de force readers won't quickly forget."
A convicted murderer's dying declaration prompts an unexpected investigation for DCI Monika Paniatowski (
The Ring of Death, 2010, etc.) and a world of trouble for her beloved Charlie Woodend.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2011
"As languid in its movement as a gondola ride. Yet none of Brunetti's earlier cases (About Face, 2009, etc.) is as remorselessly clear in connecting the delicately comic anti-authoritarian gestures Brunetti winks at to the miasma of corruption that hangs over his beloved Venice."
Perhaps the quietest of all Commissario Guido Brunetti's cases concerns a murder that may not even be a murder.
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FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
"Though shivering in the winter of his discontent, Wallander will grip the reader hard. Flawed and occasionally exasperating, he is that rare thing: a true original."
Swedish detective Chief Inspector Kurt Wallander (
The Pyramid, 2008, etc.) makes a riveting 10th appearance in the strange case of the spy who was and wasn't.
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FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
"A delight from start to finish, and a note-perfect evocation of the gray 1950s."
An entertaining Jewish picaresque novel, following on Jacobson's Man Booker Prize–winning
The Finkler Question (2010).
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FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
"A lively, eccentric, mythmaking novel inspired by 200 years of Canadian history."
Ghosts, gangsters, mermen and a Christ-like healer who emerges from the belly of a beached whale are among the attractions in a boisterous, one-of-a-kind folk epic about feuding intermarried clans in Newfoundland.
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FICTION
Released: March 17, 2011
"Nazi collaboration, government cover-ups, kinky sex, a baby daughter waiting impatiently to be born and a vigilante-minded hero who talks back to his boss more irreverently than Dirty Harry. What more could you want?"
Inspector Kari Vaara's success in cracking the Sufia Elmi murder (
Snow Angels, 2010) wins him a transfer from the sticks to Helsinki, below the Arctic Circle but just as hospitable to cold-blooded murder.
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FICTION
Released: March 15, 2011
"A thick web of family tensions and psychological dysfunction with a whodunit chaser, Tolkien's third novel (The Inheritance, 2010, etc.) is elegantly written, with Masterpiece Theatre pacing and embellishments. "
A prisoner escapes on the very night that his ex-girlfriend is murdered. Could it possibly be a coincidence?
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FICTION
Released: March 15, 2011
"An unusual and unusually involving first novel with strong characters and nifty supernatural effects."
The kidnapping of an American businessman in the Philippines sets in motion an odd series of events involving his estranged son, a hard-boiled cop who inspired a hugely popular film series and a ragtag strike force with special powers.
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