FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
"Though this sequel doesn't pack the punch of the earlier novel, which never seemed in need of a sequel, it's an undoubted tour de force likely to offer enjoyment both to readers with long memories and to those approaching it as a stand-alone."
Ex–Chief Inspector Wexford returns from retirement to solve a most unlikely case: the mystery of who killed the three people whose corpses were last seen at the bottom of a coal hole in
A Sight for Sore Eyes (1999).
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
"Fictional drama blends seamlessly, if painfully, with factual history in this historical fiction of the highest order."
In her sequel to
The Siege (2002, etc.), Dunmore returns to Leningrad in 1952, compressing the anxiety and terror of the postwar Stalinist years into the intimate details of one family's crisis.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
"What's next, Lamplighter?"
In the final installment of a trilogy (Prospero in Hell, 2010, etc.), the centuries-old children of The Tempest magician Prospero undergo a literally harrowing voyage across Hell.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 2, 2011
"Upon finishing, readers might be tempted to start again, not wanting to let it go."
FICTION
Released: Sept. 6, 2011
"An intelligent, plausible thriller, both harrowing and memorable."
Connolly's latest Charlie Parker thriller offers a powerful story line that weaves together suspense, mystery and a small touch of the supernatural.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2011
"Likely to be a big book—and, soon, a big movie, with all the franchise trimmings."
Self-assured, entertaining debut novel that blends genres and crosses continents in quest of magic.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2011
"A flat thriller that succeeds in draining the drama from its endangered nuclear plant plot."
Famed consumer advocate and environmental activist AJ Palladino goes over to the other side by taking big money to promote a nuclear power plant in South Carolina. Meanwhile, back home in West Virginia, the evil father of her deceased lover Cole conducts a murderous campaign to gain custody of her disabled 9-year-old son David.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2011
"Unapologetic thrills with oodles of flash."
All plotlines lead to Vegas in this latest installment of Collins' saga of the irrepressible and seemingly immortal Lucky Santangelo.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2011
"Roarke and his attendant computer wizards make so many vague, conveniently timed discoveries that the detection is never convincing. But the cat-and-mouse suspense when Eve and McQueen go up against each other is intense."
Lt. Eve Dallas (
Treachery in Death, 2011, etc.) returns to her troubled roots when she goes up against a sex killer with a taste for tweens and a personal interest in her.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 20, 2011
"Who'll prevail? We don't know till the very end, thanks to Stephenson's knife-sharp skills as a storyteller. An intriguing yarn--most geeky, and full of satisfying mayhem."
Who lives by the joystick dies by the joystick: Noir futurist Stephenson (
Anathem, 2008, etc.) returns to cyberia with this fast-moving though sprawling techno-thriller.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 27, 2011
"The best thing we discover here is the explanation for why Reacher left the Army. By the end of this adventure, he certainly has his reasons."
Ever wonder why Jack Reacher left the Military Police and became a one-man freelance vigilante squad? Child goes back 14 years to show how it all happened.
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FICTION
Released: Sept. 27, 2011
Hackberry Holland's third appearance, and Burke's 30th, brings back sociopathic killer Preacher Jack Collins (
Rain Gods, 2009, etc.), but this time surrounds him with so many seriously bad guys that he can scarcely get the sheriff to take his phone calls.
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