Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Michael Connelly, Desert Star
(Little Brown)
“Thrilling… Both cases require deep dives into the past; both lead to great action scenes; and, as always, Connelly displays his encyclopedic knowledge of the latest forensics… Bosch, however, takes a low-tech approach and follows leads in the field with his trademark intensity, driven by his desire to restore order in a violent world… [Desert Star] ranks up there with Connelly’s best.”
–Publishers Weekly
Lauren Nossett, The Resemblance
(Flatiron)
“A timely, expertly plotted mystery about power and privilege, The Resemblance will grab you from the first page and keep you guessing until the final twist. A captivating debut.”
–Alafair Burke
Felix Francis, Hands Down
(Crooked Lane)
“Excellent . . . Francis nicely balances his lead’s personal challenges with his sleuthing.”
–Publishers Weekly
Lisa Unger, Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
(Park Row)
“Embedded in a riveting novel of suspense is a revealing examination of the dangers inherent in public DNA sharing…[Lisa Unger] is in good form here, in her twentieth outing, and her fans will be eager to dive right in.”
–Booklist
C. J. Tudor, A Sliver of Darkness
(Ballantine)
“Tudor . . . provides plenty of subtle chills in this superior collection of eleven stories. . . . Twilight Zone fans will hope for another collection from this gifted writer.”
–Publishers Weekly
Phillip Margolin, Murder at Black Oaks
(Minotaur)
Margolin steeps this impossible murder in a nostalgic brew of family curses, ancient grudges, escaped convicts, improbable masquerades, supplementary homicides, and other contrivances.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Clare Mackintosh, The Last Party
(Sourcebooks Landmark)
“A superb blend of psychological thriller and police procedural…A gripping portrait of two fractured people merges with believable plot twists, and the author perfectly captures the ennui of a small town where gossip can destroy lives. Mackintosh consistently entertains.”
–Publishers Weekly
Lynne Reeves, Dark Rivers to Cross
(Crooked Lane)
“Riveting, propulsive, and haunting, with bonus points for its wilderness setting, I loved Dark Rivers to Cross!”
–Karen Dionne
Roseanne Montillo, Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire’s Wife, and the Murder of the Century
(Atria)
“[A] sharp sliver of true crime…a vertiginous spiral of social death.”
–The New York Times
Tariq Goddard, High John the Conqueror
(Repeater)
“A wyrd & eerie tale for wyrd & eerie times, High John the Conqueror is, like High John de Conqueror itself, ‘a genuine hybrid and a one-off,’ crafting & grafting police noir, folk horror and occult parapolitics into an altered States of the Nation novel of monsters past and present. PD James meets MR James!”
–David Peace
