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. 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. 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. 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. 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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