by Amy Lillard ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 24, 2025
Fans of Linda Castillo will love this look at the Amish community, filled with mystery and forbidden love.
Twelve years after Nathan Fisher left his Amish roots behind, his father’s death takes him back to Mississippi, where he grapples with confusion and self-reflection.
Driven by a desire to help his sister, who was born with a heart defect, Nate left home and pursued a career in professional baseball, hoping to earn enough money to get her a heart transplant. His dreams didn’t come true, and in his job as a deputy sheriff in Oklahoma, he’s been involved in a deadly shooting. Despite being cleared of wrongdoing, Nate can’t shake the guilt that haunts him. He returns home for his father's funeral knowing he’s not welcome, and even his mother refuses to speak to him since he’s under the Bann, a strict Amish law applied to those who leave. The one person who does want to talk to him is Rachel Hostetler, the love of his life, who married after waiting four years for his return. Rachel has two children, but her husband vanished three years ago, and she lives with her father. Rachel’s brother, Albie, supposedly hanged himself. Her father burned Albie's clothes and the rope and buried him in secret. Rachel, who can’t believe Albie would die by suicide, seeks Nate’s help. Albie was being bullied by a group of well-connected "Englisch"—non-Amish—boys Rachel thinks beat and murdered him. A deputy who’s willing to listen helps get the body exhumed, raising new riddles only Nate can solve. Though they seem to have no future, Nate can’t leave Rachel until the truth is revealed.
Fans of Linda Castillo will love this look at the Amish community, filled with mystery and forbidden love.Pub Date: June 24, 2025
ISBN: 9798892421249
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Crooked Lane
Review Posted Online: April 4, 2025
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 2025
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by J.D. Robb ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 2, 2025
High art meets low life in a tale a lot more sympathetic to the latter.
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Someone is stalking the streets of Lt. Eve Dallas’s New York, intent on bringing new life to sex workers by snuffing out their old ones.
In 2061, prostitutes are called licensed companions, and that’s Leesa Culver’s job description when she’s accosted by a plausible-looking artist who wants to hire her as a model for the night. Before the night is over, she’s been drugged, strangled, costumed, and posed as an uncanny replica of Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring. The shock of the crime is deepened by the murder the following night of licensed companion Bobby Ren, whose body is discovered at an art gallery entrance costumed and posed as Gainsborough’s Blue Boy. The killer clearly has an obsessive agenda, a rapid-fire timetable, and access to unlimited financial resources that have allowed him to commission expensive custom-made outfits for the victims. This last detail both marks his power and points to the way Dallas, her gazillionaire husband, Roarke, and her sidekick, Det. Delia Peabody, will track him down by methodically narrowing the field of consumers who’ve purchased the costly costumes. After identifying the guilty party two-thirds of the way through the story, they’ll still face an uphill battle convicting a killer with no conscience, no respect for the law, and a budget that would easily cover the means to jump bail, remove his ankle tracker, and hire a private jet to escape to a foreign land with no extradition treaty. Robb keeps it all consistently absorbing by sweating every procedural detail along with her heroine. Only Dallas’ climactic interrogation of her prisoner is a letdown, because it’s perfectly obvious how she’s going to wangle a confession out of him.
High art meets low life in a tale a lot more sympathetic to the latter.Pub Date: Sept. 2, 2025
ISBN: 9781250370822
Page Count: 368
Publisher: St. Martin's
Review Posted Online: May 16, 2025
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 2025
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by C.S. Lewis ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, 1942
These letters from some important executive Down Below, to one of the junior devils here on earth, whose job is to corrupt mortals, are witty and written in a breezy style seldom found in religious literature. The author quotes Luther, who said: "The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to texts of Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." This the author does most successfully, for by presenting some of our modern and not-so-modern beliefs as emanating from the devil's headquarters, he succeeds in making his reader feel like an ass for ever having believed in such ideas. This kind of presentation gives the author a tremendous advantage over the reader, however, for the more timid reader may feel a sense of guilt after putting down this book. It is a clever book, and for the clever reader, rather than the too-earnest soul.
Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1942
ISBN: 0060652934
Page Count: 53
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 17, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1943
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