FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"An impressive debut that will remind some of the work of Patricia Highsmith. A nasty, but tough-to-put-down portrait of a sociopath."
A self-absorbed young woman cannot outrun her troubled past when she tries for a new start in a British suburb.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2010
"Bauer displays remarkable talent in pacing, plotting and, most important of all, getting beneath the skin of even her most repellent characters."
In Bauer's spare, haunting debut, a 12-year-old boy corresponds with a serial killer to learn the location of his uncle's grave.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"Unfussy, understated and richly varied stories--a promising debut."
Boggs's sure-footed debut collection, winner of the Bakeless Prize for Fiction, is set on and around the Mattaponi Indian reservation in Virginia.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"Clevidence's worldview may be dark, but her future is rosy. "
FICTION
Released: Dec. 9, 2010
"An undeniably audacious, if self-consciously Southwest Gothic debut that fans of Cormac McCarthy should adore."
In Froderberg's highly stylized, uniquely voiced first novel, a young bride's growing disillusionment about her marriage coincides with the drought plaguing her Arizona community.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 15, 2010
"Pitch-perfect voices tell a story loaded with lyric suffering and redemption--bound to be a huge hit. "
Greene's debut shows three generations of an eastern Tennessee family struggling against abusive men and narrow middle-class values that try to destroy their unusually active spirits.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2010
"A solid thriller set amid riveting historical events in the seedy underbelly of a city--and a world--slowly going mad."
In Grossman's debut novel, a Jewish cop in 1932 Berlin hunts the perpetrators of a grotesque crime, against a backdrop of political turmoil.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 9, 2009
"Hebert doesn't have Elmore Leonard's lazy humor, or his effortless way of making every clipped sentence snap and sing. But he's already got something of Leonard's talent for kicking lowlifes into a breakneck pace, and he doesn't mind killing off minor characters to make a point. An author to watch."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"Evocative, original exploration of grief--more of a journey than a destination, with plot almost beside the point."
In this debut novel from Japanese writer Kawakami, a Tokyo woman coping with the mysterious loss of her husband finds herself suddenly drawn to a small fishing village.
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FICTION
Released: April 6, 2010
"Whether open or suppressed, passion rules events, but this is not a murder mystery; instead LeCraw reveals the complex moral and psychological mystery within all relationships."
LeCraw's remarkably confident first novel begins seven years after an unsolved murder and explores the ripple effect both of decisions that may have caused the murder and its aftermath.
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FICTION
Released: March 2, 2010
"A novel of ideas that holds together like a dream. "
An intoxicatingly ambitious debut novel that somehow seems to encapsulate everything the author believes about everything.
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2010
"With dialogue that sings and action that sizzles, this is a prime candidate for the big screen. "
Character is key in this deliciously edgy thriller, screenwriter Pyne's (
The Manchurian Candidate) first novel.
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FICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2010
"At its best, this strikingly visual novel shrugs off self-consciousness and a sense of strain to become captivatingly ethereal."
Emotional entanglements on a faraway frozen island are shaped by romance and tragedy in a melancholic yet whimsical British debut.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2010
"Moving and memorable."
FICTION
Released: Aug. 10, 2010
"A promising beginning to what will undoubtedly be a successful writing career."
Australian author Tranter makes her splendid debut with this novel about friendship, love, abuse and deceit.
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