FICTION
Released: Aug. 3, 2010
"Gus's second has it all--suspense, mystery, romance, detection, clear-eyed hometown nostalgia, professional dangers along with the other kind--even if it seems that not a single citizen of Starvation Lake has ever outgrown being a goalie, wingman or hockey mom. "
Instead of emerging from the watery depths as they did in Gruley's notable first novel (
Starvation Lake, 2009), dark secrets from the past bloom on a storied tree in the upper-Michigan midwinter.
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FICTION
Released: July 15, 2010
"Beautiful writing is just one of the pleasures of this Chinese-box puzzler."
What looks like a prank lures a Canadian police chief into an investigation of a bone-chilling crime.
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FICTION
Released: July 13, 2010
"Burke, whose sonorous cadences and obsession with the past have often recalled Faulkner, has never resembled the sage of Yoknapatawpha more closely than in this magnificent attempt to get it all down between one cap and one period. "
A gruesome series of murders drags Dave Robicheaux, of the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department, out of his jurisdiction and onto the track of another harrowing cluster of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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FICTION
Released: July 1, 2010
"A grueling, gripping demonstration of melodrama's darker side. As Annie tells the cops who insist that everything's OK because she's safe: "I was never going to be okay, or safe.""
Stevens's blistering debut follows a kidnap victim from her abduction to her escape--and the even more horrifying nightmare that follows.
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FICTION
Released: April 6, 2010
"After an uncharacteristically weak outing (Below Zero, 2009), it's great to see the usual Box strengths--exhilarating landscapes, high adventure, thrilling suspense, surprising moral quandaries--done to a turn."
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's last patrol before he returns to his family and his old posting in Twelve Sleep County leads to another round of tense high-country adventure.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2010
"C.J. Box goes East. Like Box, Doiron will have his hands full trying to top his accomplished debut."
A Maine Game Warden fights to clear his no-account father of murder charges in this deeply felt actioner.
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