FICTION
Released: Dec. 27, 2011
"A mesmerizing psychological drama on loss, guilt, frustration and implacable, unexplainable evil."
In Hoag's (
Secrets to the Grave, 2010, etc.) latest literary suspense novel, Lauren Lawton, "ragged and torn and shredded," has retreated to bucolic Oak Knoll to heal.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 27, 2011
"This novel might have something to say about gender roles, the relationship between literature and life or other standard themes, but mainly it's just a hoot."
A subversive and often funny exercise in style, voice in particular, with a narrator who pushes unreliability to an extreme.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 6, 2011
"A deft exploration of the limits people place on themselves by trying to cling to the past."
The three protagonists in this trio of novellas struggle with fulfilling their desires while life in modern India speeds past them.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 6, 2011
Edinburgh philosopher Isabel Dalhousie's cases often register low on the crime meter, but this one--the search for a new acquaintance's father--is 100 percent felony-free.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 6, 2011
"Cornwell at her worst, Cornwell at her best, but mainly Cornwell at her most."
Yet another demonstration that the murderous enemies of forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta aren't neutralized by life imprisonment or death.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Holt (What Is Mine, 2006, etc.) makes curmudgeonly Hanna the perfectly astringent guide to this nightmare whodunit out of Ellery Queen's The Siamese Twin Mystery and Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None."
A train accident strands retired Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen in the middle of a fierce snowstorm with 268 other passengers, one of whom begins to murder the others in this brainy page-turner.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Justice of sorts is done in this absorbing finale of a distinguished career."
For his last novel, the Argentinian writer (1934–2010) constructed a maze, at the heart of which is a woman who refuses to give her husband up for dead.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Well plotted and smartly paced. Scully goes out a winner."
In his valedictory case, LAPD Detective Shane Scully (
The Prostitutes' Ball, 2010, etc.) finds real danger in the dubious world of reality TV.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Good for a nightmare or three--a taut, fast-paced thriller with wrenching twists and turns."
Another spooky gothic by Norwegian gloomster Nesbø (
The Snowman, 2011, etc.), the poet laureate of boreal psychopathy.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Passionate, intelligently written, thoroughly entertaining historical fiction."
Wheeler (
The Deliverance, 2003
, etc.) brings to life robber barons, Irish immigrant miners and lost souls among the trash heaps and bawdy houses, headframes and smelters of 1890s Butte, Mont.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"Another fine outing for Kirsten and Dugan, who set the standard for plotting, pace and hard-boiled humor."
A night on the town lands the Wild Onion, Ltd. partners in the middle of another case with oh- so-many moving parts.
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FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 2011
"A noir farce that's just as wickedly funny as most of the 27 other Harpur and Iles escapades--compelling evidence that James is long overdue for a major award."
