The stories Bloom chooses share a strong sense of place, detailing the quirks that make every corner of New Haven...
In an Ivy League town, Bloom (Lucky Us, 2014, etc.) turns Yale’s motto—Lux et Veritas—on its head, finding darkness and deceit in every corner of New Haven.
The university features prominently in these 15 new stories. Hirsh Sawhney’s “A Woe for Every Season” highlights the dark side of being a faculty spouse. Jonathan Stone’s “The Gauntlet” describes the challenges of five undergraduates living in a marginal neighborhood. Editor Bloom’s “I’ve Never Been to Paris” chronicles the woes of a junior faculty member who can’t seem to get out of her own way. John Crowley takes Yale into cyberspace in “Spring Break.” And Roxana Robinson’s “The Secret Societies” shows that even the solemn hush of the Beinecke Library can be the backdrop to dark doings. But danger lurks off campus as well. An actress finds trouble at Long Wharf in David Rich’s “Sure Thing.” A commercial artist tangles with sister lingerie models and his own complicated past in Wooster Square in Chandra Prasad’s “Silhouettes.” A plumber finds peril in a three-story Audubon Court brownstone in Susan Pemberton Strong’s “Callback.” Karen Olson’s “The Boy” chronicles the changes across the Q Bridge in Fair Haven. And Alice Mattison’s “Innovative Methods” tells the chilling tale of what a teenage runaway faces in Lighthouse Point Park.
The stories Bloom chooses share a strong sense of place, detailing the quirks that make every corner of New Haven distinctive. But it’s the lucid writing and clear, compelling storylines that make her dark tales shine. Maybe she offers a noir version of Light and Truth after all.Pub Date: Aug. 1, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-61775-541-5
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Akashic
Review Posted Online: June 19, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 2017
A murder is committed in a stalled transcontinental train in the Balkans, and every passenger has a watertight alibi. But Hercule Poirot finds a way.
**Note: This classic Agatha Christie mystery was originally published in England as Murder on the Orient Express, but in the United States as Murder in the Calais Coach. Kirkus reviewed the book in 1934 under the original US title, but we changed the title in our database to the now recognizable title Murder on the Orient Express. This is the only name now known for the book. The reason the US publisher, Dodd Mead, did not use the UK title in 1934 was to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel, Orient Express.
Pub Date: Feb. 28, 1934
ISBN: 978-0062073495
Page Count: -
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1934
A terrifying page-turner with the complexities of fatherhood at its core.
The serial killer who terrorized a small British town by kidnapping and murdering five little boys has been locked up for over a decade. So who could have taken 6-year-old Neil Spencer?
"The first forty-eight hours following a disappearance are the most crucial." And yet one of those hours has gone by the time Neil's separated parents realize he never made it from his father's house to his mother's, a short walk he took alone. One of the main investigators of the crime is DI Pete Willis, who cracked a similar case years back and has never quite recovered from it, especially since one of the missing boys was never found. Is there an accomplice still on the loose? As Willis and his colleagues comb the town for clues about the disappearance, a recently widowed novelist and his young son move into what they don't yet know is called "the scary house." Jake is a bright but isolated child who has relied heavily on an imaginary friend and a Packet of Special Things for comfort since he came home from school one day to find his mother's lifeless body at the foot of the stairs. This move is meant to be a much-needed fresh start for the grieving and bewildered father and son, but from the start nothing goes right. On Jake's first day at his new school, the other children draw him into discussion about the missing boy and the Whisper Man who took him. Soon enough, Jake hears whispering too. North's novel pits nasty men submerged in evil against decent men struggling to do good; several father-son pairs reflect the challenges and darker possibilities of this relationship, though plotlines involving female characters are a bit undeveloped.
A terrifying page-turner with the complexities of fatherhood at its core.Pub Date: Aug. 20, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-250-31799-5
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Celadon Books
Review Posted Online: May 26, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2019
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