Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Santiago Gamboa (transl. Andrea Rosenberg), The Night Will Be Long
(Europa)
“Each novel by Santiago Gamboa is at the forefront of the best Latin American novels. Gamboa dismantles the legacy of Chandler and Hammett, adapting it to the craggy environs of Colombia, and adds to it a tireless sense of ethics. His novels revitalize a genre that we thought could do no more.”
Martín Solares
Shelley Noble, A Secret Never Told
(Forge)
“Fascinating history about Coney Island …those with a taste for the madcap will be entertained.”
Publishers Weekly
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, City of Mist: Stories
(Harper Perennial)
“Ruiz Zafón’s visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself.”
USA Today
Hervé Le Tellier (transl. Adriana Hunter, The Anomaly
(Other Press)
“On a flight to New York, passengers who live double lives experience turbulence and find themselves in a familiar but strange new reality.”
New York Times Book Review
Casey Michel, American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History
(St. Martin’s Press)
“An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the black aquifer.”
The Los Angeles Review of Books
Tom Rosenstiel, The Days to Come
(Ecco)
“Rosenstiel, a veteran journalist and former member of the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, is a terrific storyteller. Readers get the sense that he knows whereof he writes, that the details about politics and human behavior in his books come not merely from imagination but also from long experience. A perfect novel for fans of political intrigue.”
Booklist
Adam Selzer, Murder Maps USA: Crime Scenes Revisited; Bloodstains to Ballistics, 1865 -1939
(Thames and Hudson)
“Engrossing… Readers interested in true crime and forensics will appreciate Selzer’s singular volume.
Library Journal
Kjell Eriksson, The Deathwatch Beetle
(Minotaur)
“Excellent…Eriksson effectively portrays Sweden in the throes of change, being eroded from the inside out like the destructive insect of the title, while exploring social class, family, and, above all else, how men treat women. The plot slowly and steadily builds to a genuinely shocking denouement. Fans of literary fiction will be equally rewarded.”
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
M Steven S, Ill Behavior
(Clash Books)
“The book blends ancient mythology with social commentary and a dash of noir, taking place in a Los Angeles populated by not only human beings but also Greek and Roman gods.”
Alta
Catriona McPherson, The Mirror Dance
(Mobius)
“In this novel, the 15th in the series but – like the rest – a standalone story, the search takes us behind the scenes of both the publishing industry and the theatre, both struggling in their own way, as they are now.”
The Scotsman
