THREE A. M., by Steven John
POST-APOCALYPTIC DETECTIVE NOIR morphs cleverly into a suspenseful thriller with lots of action, complex plot.
Grade: SOLID B
THREE A. M.
Tor
2012
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Thriller
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POST-APOCALYPTIC DETECTIVE NOIR morphs cleverly into a suspenseful thriller with lots of action, complex plot.
Grade: SOLID B
THREE A. M.
Tor
2012
Tags: Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews, Thriller
ENTHRALLING NOVEL TELLS the story of a 1950s Jane Eyre type, a brave and intellectually curious Scots orphan.
Grade: A MINUS
THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY
Harper
2012
Tags: A Minus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Scotland
COMPULSIVELY READABLE, STYLISH novel traces fifty years of friendship among well-heeled Manhattan women.
Grade: B PLUS
GOSSIP
William Morrow
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, New York City, Novels, Women's Fiction
TWISTED 21ST-CENTURY TAKE on the “humans made giant by radiation” horror/science fiction motif is a trip.
Grade: SOLID B
ENORMITY
Night Shade Books
2012
Tags: Horror, Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews
WARM-HEARTED, THOUGHTFUL NOVEL follows an introspective man through his first year of widowerhood into new love.
Grade: B PLUS
AN AVAILABLE MAN
Ballantine
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
A GROUP OF LONDONERS’ lives are changed by a chance event in this delightfully complex comedy of manners.
Grade: B PLUS
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
Viking
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels
NUCLEAR, EXISTENTIAL, PARANORMAL horror combine in this evocative novel set in Los Alamos and the NM wilds.
Grade: SOLID B
CURSE THE NAMES
Akashic Books
2011
Tags: Horror, Novels, Science Fiction, Solid B Reviews
TAUT DANISH THRILLER follows an abducted toddler and his Red Cross nurse rescuer on the run. Chilling!
Grade: SOLID B
THE BOY IN THE SUITCASE
Soho Crime
2011
Tags: Novels, Solid B Reviews, Suspense, Thriller
LITERARY MEETS NOIR in Percival Everett’s latest novel, a complex and playful twist on police procedurals.
Grade: B PLUS
ASSUMPTION
Graywolf Press
2011
Tags: African American Writers, B Plus Reviews, Black Writers, Experimental Fiction, Mystery, Novels
FOLK-POP ICON Suzzy Roche’s debut novel has all the charm, heart, and wild surrealist humor of her music.
Grade: B PLUS
WAYWARD SAINTS
Hyperion
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Novels