FICTION
Released: Oct. 16, 2012
"An ingenious murder method, more hours in the mortuary and forensics lab than usual, an uncharacteristically muffled killer, and all the trademark battles among the regulars and every potential ally who gets in their way."
Having survived brushes with ruthless killers, human monsters and treacherous colleagues of every stripe (
Red Mist, 2011, etc.), forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta limps into her 20th case to encounter more of the same.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 9, 2012
"More icky than scary."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
"Veteran Hart (Death Comes Silently, 2012, etc.) launches a new series with a combination of red herrings, romance and what some readers will consider the bonus of a psychic cat."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 25, 2012
"A devious intimation of homegrown terrors likely to keep readers awake long after closing time has come and gone."
Infidelity, bullying, savage beatings, sororicide, curses, murder and the devil himself all come into play in this quietly savage meditation on evil.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2012
"Levine's latest finds her at her witty and wacky best."
If good fences made good neighbors, ad writer Jaine Austen (
Pampered to Death, 2011, etc.) would need the Berlin Wall to cope with the nutty crew that surrounds her South Beverly Hills rental.
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FICTION
Released: Aug. 7, 2012
"A flawlessly assembled thriller."
In the strange, devastating aftermath of Gray Wednesday, when the Earth's poles suddenly switched, the world is in even greater chaos, climatic distress and financial ruin than it is now.
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2012
"An overlong but potent story, balancing supernatural gloom and marital conflict. "
A man grows increasingly convinced the ghost of his son haunts his previous home in this fast-paced suburban gothic tale.
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2012
"Munger's third Dead Detective case (Angel Interrupted, 2010, etc.) is a police procedural with a twist. Kevin's latest attempt at redemption is filled with anger and anguish right up to the exciting climax."
FICTION
Released: May 22, 2012
"A slim novel with a taut narrative line and a sense of impending disaster. "
A tale of identity and tense personal relationships, one that as a film property would have appealed to Hitchcock or de Palma.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
"Shepherd offers an intricate plot and a thousand details of the least-admirable side of Victorian life. A must-read."
Shepherd's latest detective story (
Murder at Mansfield Park, 2010) is a Victorian tour de force that borrows characters from Charles Dickens'
Bleak House and Wilkie Collins'
The Woman in White.
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FICTION
Released: March 6, 2012
"A chilling start gives way to a more predictable ending, but fans of the modern Gothic novel will enjoy filling up a few creepy hours."
Sarah Piper, a self-proclaimed modern woman living in London, finds herself living a ghost story in this post–World War I tale.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
"An outlandish but superfluous zombie yarn that is gruesome, imaginative and grateful to its inspirations."
A rogue scientist's experiment in revenge wreaks havoc on a rural township in Pennsylvania.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 18, 2011
"The latest from a generation of literary novelists who are erasing the distinction between art and pulp."
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2011
"Perhaps not a book to read by the seashore, if you're literal-minded. A spooky pleasure, expertly told."
Scandinavian writers dominate the police-procedural genre. Are they now bent on taking over horror? Swedish creepmeister Lindqvist is hot on the case.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 6, 2011
"Clever and often impressive work that succeeds, mostly, in being more than a mere exercise in nostalgia."
Seventeen all-new tales emulating, or re-creating, the ambience of classic Victorian supernatural suspense.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 2007
"Worth taking a bite."
Part revenge fantasy, part horror story and part police investigation gone wrong, this debut vampire novel translated from the Swedish sinks its fangs into fresh territory.
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