Posts tagged with ‘Novels’
May 22, 2013
SLEUTH EASY RAWLINS’S near death in a brutal crash adds a metaphysical perspective to this intricate LA noir.
Grade: B PLUS
LITTLE GREEN: AN EASY RAWLINS MYSTERY
Doubleday
2013
Tags: African American Writers, B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
May 21, 2013
A SUBURBAN FAMILY SHATTERS in a time of crisis, but builds new futures in this sly comedy of manners.
Grade: B PLUS
A THOUSAND PARDONS
Random House
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
May 19, 2013
A CHILD’S DISAPPEARANCE plays out against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia in this complex, deft historical.
Grade: A MINUS
IS THIS TOMORROW
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
2013
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels
May 18, 2013
MARVELOUS COMIC NOIR stars a sleuthing burglar embroiled with mobsters and old-school rock ‘n’ roll.
Grade: A MINUS
LITTLE ELVISES: A JUNIOR BENDER MYSTERY
Soho Crime
2013
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
May 16, 2013
GLORIOUS, DREAMLIKE SPANISH novel riffs on the life and death of poet García Lorca. Luminous new translation!
Grade: B PLUS
THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN AND POET FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ASCENDS TO HELL
Yale University Press
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, LGBTQ Interest, Literary History, Novels, Spain
May 15, 2013
GAMES, THEATER, MAGIC, and the tangled relationships of young Manhattan academics. Absorbing, complex novel.
Grade: A MINUS
THE MAGIC CIRCLE
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Tags: A Minus Reviews, New York City, Novels
May 11, 2013
WRYLY FUNNY AUSTRIAN private-eye yarn mixes hardboiled detective tropes with a healthy shot of satire.
Grade: B PLUS
THE BONE MAN
Melville House
2013
Tags: Austria, B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels
May 10, 2013
A TINY MEXICAN VILLAGE is transformed by a US quack doctor’s pirate radio station. Lovely 1930s historical.
Grade: SOLID B
DR. BRINKLEY'S TOWER
Steerforth Press
2013
Tags: Historical Fiction, Mexico, Novels, Solid B Reviews
May 9, 2013
DELICATE AND EVOCATIVE NOVEL tells a modern fairy tale of a professor and his elusive, beautiful young wife.
Grade: B PLUS
ORKNEY
Counterpoint
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Scotland
May 7, 2013
HIGHLAND SLEUTH EXTRAORDINAIRE Hamish Macbeth solves his most complex crime yet. Wonderful Scottish detail!
Grade: B PLUS
DEATH OF YESTERDAY: A HAMISH MACBETH MYSTERY
Grand Central
2013
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels, Scotland, United Kingdom