FICTION
Released: Aug. 17, 2010
"Ex-journalist Lippman (Life Sentence, 2009, etc.) never forgets as she moves from past to present and from perspective to perspective that nothing is more important--or more elusive--than the truth."
A suburban wife and mother confronts her past when she receives a letter from the man who kidnapped her as a teenager.
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FICTION
Released: July 13, 2010
"Though French (The Likeness, 2009, etc.) plies readers with dark and stormy clichés, the charming narrative will leave readers begging for a sequel."
CHILDREN'S
Released: July 13, 2010
"Devoted urban fantasy fans might stick with it, but the near 400-page length won't make this easy. (Supernatural fantasy. 14 & up)"
This supernatural thriller crackles to life with an eerie tension right from the start, but it gradually loses its urgency and devolves into silliness.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2010
"An unsatisfying split-personality novel redeemed by some terrific dialogue."
For a mob enforcer and a teenage whore on the run, there's no escaping the violent past; this first novel follows a story collection (
Between Here and the Yellow Sea, 2006).
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NONFICTION
Released: May 11, 2010
"A well-reported, well-written chronicle of a botched criminal investigation and its disturbing aftermath."
Two Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists for the
Washington Post document what went wrong during the investigation of the high-profile Chandra Levy case.
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CHILDREN'S
Released: April 29, 2010
"Still, this is a fast-paced read characterized by knowing, kid-friendly humor, and middle-grade readers will enjoy getting to know Hallway Patrolman Carver. (Mystery. 10-12)"
Junior Philip Marlowes or Sam Spades—or readers fed up with schoolyard miscreants—will welcome the exploits of this hard-boiled, seen-it-all seventh-grade "hall cop."
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