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: April 19, 2011
"Authentic scenario, mystery piled on misdirection and more double-crosses than a tic-tac-toe tournament."
To keep al-Qaeda zealots, megalomaniac North Koreans with nukes and other bad guys at bay, gigabytes of real-time intelligence stream to the Wall, there to be collated and conceptualized by one man, the Analyst.
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FICTION
Released: April 14, 2011
"A certain light charm pervades the novel--a Spring Break kind of book."
Can love survive in the information age? It can when a newspaper's IT guy begins reading the e-mails of the film critic.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2011
"Popular, prolific Roberts (The Search, 2010, etc.) delivers hair-raising smoke-jumping sequences along with the obligatory thrills, sex and a mystery even the greenest armchair sleuths will be able to solve."
A smoke jumper who puts her life on the line every fire season has more to fear this year than fire.
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FICTION
Released: March 29, 2011
"We'll hope to see more, magic mushrooms or no."
Auel, of Clan of the Cave Bear fame, adds a sixth volume to her Earth's Children series, just over 30 years after the first appeared.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2011
"Nothing very mysterious here, of course, but the solution to the problem of those dead cattle is wonderfully inconclusive, and you'll never get through the wedding with dry eyes."
Four last-minute complications for the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency to sort out before associate detective Grace Makutsi can tie the knot with furniture salesman Phuti Radiphuti.
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