04/13/2012 @ 07:00PM
Clear your schedule: you won’t want to stop reading this one once you start! Rosamund Lupton has done it again; if you loved her first novel, Sister, then you’ll truly appreciate the style of storytelling perfected here.
03/16/2012 @ 07:00PM
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China (Penguin, Apr. 24), Paul French’s compelling true crime/world history work, centers on the murder of Englishwoman Pamela Werner in a Peking on the verge of falling to the Japanese in WWII.
03/05/2012 @ 12:00AM
In The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac (Algonquin, Mar.), Kris D’Agostino has written a dysfunctional family classic that removes the melodrama found too often in the genre.
02/17/2012 @ 07:00PM
Crime novels are so much more interesting when the main character is flawed. I whipped through Blue Monday (Viking/Pamela Dorman, Mar.) with its alternating fast-paced action and thoughtful conversations.
02/10/2012 @ 07:00PM
I hate when life interferes with my reading, but I was finally able to read Chris Pavone’s The Expats (Crown, Mar.). In my early days as a mystery junkie, I read a lot of spy novels—Ludlum, le Carré, etc.—so I feel qualified to say I loved this debut.
01/13/2012 @ 07:00PM
Deborah Coonts’s Lucky O’Toole is a quick-witted, hardworking gal in a Vegas club with a knack for finding dead bodies. In her third caper, So Damn Lucky (Forge, Feb.), the first chapter ends with a magician dying as he attempts an old Harry Houdini trick.
01/06/2012 @ 07:00PM
The last line of Liz Moore’s novel is still rounding through my head weeks after I finished it, and I think it will be for a long time. Heft (Norton, Jan.) is a gorgeous book that will completely break your heart and then stitch it back together.
12/09/2011 @ 07:00PM
Jeffrey Zaslow has a remarkable ability to select a familiar topic—female friendship, for example, as in The Girls from Ames—and pursue that topic until he mines the diamonds, the stories, hidden beneath the surface.
12/02/2011 @ 07:00PM
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant (Viking, Jan.) is a bold novel—bold in its style, its thesis, and its story. While Alex Gilvarry’s narrative and characters are big and playful, the underlying premises are deadly serious.
11/25/2011 @ 07:00PM
Jean Patrick Nkuba, a young Rwandan 800-meter phenom, trains for the Olympics under the watch of his Hutu coach as Hutu-Tutsi violence escalates, in Running the Rift (Algonquin, Jan.).
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