Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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John Lawton, Moscow Exile
(Atlantic)
“Lawton infuses the entire troupe with sparkling life, using crackling dialogue and rapier wit to bring a Technicolor sheen to the moral ambiguity of the Cold War.”
–Booklist
Don Winslow, City of Dreams
(William Morrow)
“The second volume in Winslow’s Danny Ryan trilogy delivers on all the promise of its predecessor. . . the Danny Ryan saga draws great power from its consummate portrait of a man whose unshakable humanity imperils him just as it offers the possibility of salvation.”
–Booklist
V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra
(Del Rey)
“Utterly terrifying and wholly immersive, this novel will wow readers with its confident and unflinching tale of a woman reclaiming her power.”
–Library Journal
David Grann, The Wager
(Doubleday)
“A tour de force of narrative nonfiction.”
–The Wall Street Journal
Samantha Jayne Allen, Hard Rain
(Minotaur)
“Taut, [with] pitch-perfect imagery…Mystery fans will hope to soon return.”
–Publishers Weekly
Nick Medina, Sisters of a Lost Nation
(Berkley)
“Medina resolves the plot well and gracefully weaves real-life concerns about disappearing Native people into the whodunit plot. This author is off to a strong start.”
–Publishers Weekly
Gabrielle Paluch, The Opium Queen
(Rowman and Littlefield)
“Journalist Paluch debuts with a detailed and compassionate portrait of Olive Yang (1927–2017), a ‘gender-queer opium kingpin of noble descent’ in Kokang, ‘a strip of land nestled in mountainous gorges’ along the Myanmar-China border.”
–Publishers Weekly
Vanessa Cuti, The Tip Line
(Crooked Lane)
“Exceptional debut . . . sharply honed prose . . . [For] fans of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley novels.”
–Publishers Weekly
David Baldacci, Simply Lies
(Grand Central)
“Baldacci is at his best in this standalone thriller. [He] keeps the twists coming fast and furious in this tense page-turner, never losing credibility even as it takes bigger and bigger swings. Readers will fall in love with Mickey and hold their breath for her through to the very end.”
–Publishers Weekly
C. S. Harris, Who Cries for the Lost
(Berkley)
“Harris does her usual superior job of combining a page-turning fair-play plot with plausible period detail. Both series fans and newcomers will be captivated.”
–Publishers Weekly
