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New and Notable Fiction for September (page 2)


Cover art for HOT WATER
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE BURNING SOUL
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for WE THE ANIMALS
FICTION
Released: Sept. 2, 2011

"Upon finishing, readers might be tempted to start again, not wanting to let it go."
An exquisitely crafted debut novel--subtle, shimmering and emotionally devastating. Read full book review >
Cover art for PROSPERO REGAINED
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. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE VAULT
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). Read full book review >
Cover art for THE BETRAYAL
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. Read full book review >