Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Jacquie Pham, Those Opulent Days
(Atlantic Monthly Press)
“Pham debuts with a memorable and disturbing historical set in French-occupied Vietnam…Pham’s prose is lyrical, and her evocation of the period immersive…this is a tense and unique dispatch from a key period in Vietnamese history.”
–Publishers Weekly
Mia P. Manansala, Guilt and Ginataan
(Berkley)
“The plot has satisfying twists to go along with the mouth-watering food.”
–Booklist
Marie Tierney, Deadly Animals
(Henry Holt)
“A fast-paced, brilliantly plotted mystery … As the book progresses, the stakes become higher and danger creeps closer to Ava and John, leading to a dramatic conclusion. With Deadly Animals, Tierney has created an exceptional heroine.”
–BookPage
Celeste Connally, All’s Fair in Love and Treachery
(Minotaur)
“Although its haute ton setting nods at Bridgerton, Lady Petra’s story owes more to Sex and the City… A light and lively romp.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Austin Duffy, Cross
(Melville House)
“A tremendous novel, powerful and compelling, written with great gritty authenticity.”
–William Boyd
Graham Brown, Clive Cussler’s Desolation Code
(Putnam)
“Kurt Austin and the NUMA crew face swarms of deadly bio-hacked sea locusts, a runaway AI system, and a sinister cult in the latest novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series created by the ‘grand master of adventure,’ Clive Cussler.”
–Bookreporter.com
John Straley, Big Breath In
(Soho Crime)
“[An] elegiac standalone. . . Straley seamlessly interweaves heart-pumping action, fascinating insights on whales’ social behavior, and poignant flashbacks to Delphine’s life before she got sick . . . It’s potent stuff.”
–Publishers Weekly
Carin Gerhardsen, The Saint
(Mysterious Press)
“This gripping procedural . . . offers smart investigation and a disturbing mystery, but the absorbing shifts in the VCU detectives’ relationships are Gerhardsen’s most impressive feat.”
–Booklist
Paul French, Her Lotus Year
(St. Martin’s)
“Lush and spicy… [French] strikingly renders an oft-fetishized time and place, countering the familiar mythologizing of both the Roaring Twenties, with its Eurocentric literary obsessions, and the path of China from dynastic to communist rule.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Timothy Silver, Death in Briar Bottom
(UNC Press)
“Thoroughly researched . . . . An intriguing perspective on a lesser-known case. This book proves that history can repeat itself in unexpected ways, and not everyone is eager to revisit the past.”
–Library Journal
