Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Chelsea G. Summers, A Certain Hunger
(Unnamed Press)
“Fiendishly entertaining… Summers’s shocking and darkly funny novel reads like a feminist-horror version of ‘American Psycho’.”
–Publishers Weekly
Harriet Tyce, The Lies You Told
(Grand Central)
“I read The Lies You Told in two days, barely able to turn the pages fast enough. It’s spare and taut, the sense of wrongness building in chilling, skillfully written layers, with a jaw dropping last-line twist.”
–Lisa Jewel
Jasmine Aimaq, The Opium Prince
(Soho)
“A young American diplomat comes face to face with the turmoil of Afghan society and the anguish of its people . . . What begins as a thriller evolves into a detailed history of the region’s traumas.”
–Kirkus Review
S.J. Parris, The Dead of Winter
(Pegasus)
“Fans of Parris’s superior mysteries featuring cleric-turned-sleuth Giordano Bruno, seen most recently in Conspiracy, will be delighted by this stellar collection of three novellas from his early years… This is an accessible entry point for newcomers.”
–Publishers Weekly
Paige Shelton, Cold Wind
(Minotaur)
“[With] rich character development and an inside look at an untamed environment where community determines survival. Fans of the first book will do well to follow up with this one.”
–Booklist
Todd Downing, Vultures in the Sky
(American Mystery Classics)
“Downing doles out Mexican local color in small but expertly teasing doses, gets excellent mileage out of a cheap stickpin and several other physical clues, and produces a surprisingly varied chain of incidents in the course of whittling down the passenger list. A limited but highly proficient exercise in deduction by a forgotten author: a welcome rediscovery.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Jeff Lindsay, Fool Me Twice
(Dutton)
“A rousing caper novel.”
–Booklist
S.J. Rozan, The Art of Violence
(Pegasus)
“In addition to her formidable writing skills, Rozan’s own endeavors as an architect of 20 years undoubtedly contribute to the novel’s excellent structure”
–Booklist
Nana-Ama Danquah (ed.), Accra Noir
(Akashic Books)
“Thirteen tales of the trouble people find in the capital city of Ghana when they’re trying to make a buck . . . There’s plenty of noir to go around in this all-too-sad volume about people struggling to get by.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Weston Ochse, Bone Chase
(Gallery/Saga Press)
“Weston Ochse’s latest thriller, Bone Chase, is one gigantic thrill ride—from its intriguing mystery at the start to its monstrous finish. Unpredictable, shocking, and as fast as runaway train on greased rails, here is a novel not to be missed.”
–James Rollins
