Posts tagged with ‘Novels’
May 19, 2012
SUBTLE, MIND-BENDING THRILLER compellingly mixes time travel, espionage, and digital revolutionaries. Wild!
Grade: A MINUS
THE REVISIONISTS
Little, Brown and Company
2011
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction, Thriller
May 17, 2012
A VACATIONING WIDOW gets caught in the undertow of a Mexican drug war in this savvy noir-esque thriller.
Grade: B PLUS
GETAWAY
Soho Press
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels, Thriller
May 16, 2012
QUIETLY COMPELLING, EVOCATIVE novel about an accident investigator haunted by his brother’s early death.
Grade: B PLUS
THE RECONSTRUCTIONIST
Harper Perennial
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
May 13, 2012
MARVELOUSLY CRAFTED NOVEL of an expatriate returning to England and being caught up in a 60-year-old murder.
Grade: A MINUS
BEFORE THE POISON
William Morrow
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Novels
May 11, 2012
ENGROSSING ALTERNATE HISTORY thriller inverts the War on Terror in a parallel universe. Beautifully done!
Grade: B PLUS
THE MIRAGE
Harper
2012
Tags: Alternate History, B Plus Reviews, Novels, Science Fiction, Thriller
May 9, 2012
MULTIGENERATIONAL FAMILY SAGA takes on class, race, adoption, reproductive rights, but never quite comes alive.
Grade: SOLID B
THE POSSIBILITY OF YOU
Gallery Books
2012
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Solid B Reviews, Women's Fiction
May 6, 2012
MAGNIFICENTLY ENTERTAINING SOAP-OPERA tale of a woman finding a secret society/support group for spurned wives.
Grade: B PLUS
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER
Kensington/Dafina
2011
Tags: African American Writers, B Plus Reviews, Black Writers, Novels, Women's Fiction
May 2, 2012
CHARMING COZY MYSTERY set in small-town coastal Maine features a local newspaper reporter (and mom) as sleuth.
Grade: SOLID B
CHOCOLATE COVERED MURDER
Kensington
2011
Tags: Mystery, Novels, Solid B Reviews
May 1, 2012
INTRICATE VICTORIAN TALE of horror finds ghosts and vampires haunting London’s literati. Chilling and poetic!
Grade: A MINUS
HIDE ME AMONG THE GRAVES
HarperCollins
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Novels
April 26, 2012
KENTUCKY NOIR RIDES again in these latest adventures of Elmore Leonard’s US Marshal antihero, Raylan Givens.
Grade: B PLUS
RAYLAN
William Morrow
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Mystery, Novels