Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Michael Connelly, The Law of Innocence
(Little Brown)
“This is a supremely intelligent, well-paced courtroom thriller by a modern master.”
–Publisher’s Weekly
Liz Nugent, Little Cruelties
(Gallery/Scout)
“Artfully constructed… the author’s skillful telling of this multigenerational tragedy has the riveting power of an imminent car crash.”
–Publisher’s Weekly
Anthony Horowitz, Moonflower Murders
(Harper)
“Horowitz, who matches a baffling puzzle with a sympathetic, flawed lead, has never been better at surprising the reader and playing fair. This is a flawless update of classic golden age whodunits.”
–Publisher’s Weekly
Jeffrey Fleishman, Last Dance
(Blackstone)
”[An] impressive sequel … A hard-boiled, world-weary hero in the classic tradition of Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer, Carver will also appeal to fans of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch. Fleishman is on his way to becoming a master of contemporary LA noir.”
–Publisher’s Weekly
Robert Littell, Comrade Koba
(Overlook Press)
“In this short but compelling novel, Littell uses the interplay between a disarmingly discerning if naive boy and a tortured, self-justifying dictator to expose a tragic slice of muddled humanity behind the gray monolith of Stalinist Russia.”
–Booklist
Catriona McPherson, The Turning Tide
(Quercus)
“McPherson does a masterly job capturing the feel of rural Scotland and the mores of pre-WWII Britain. Readers will hope Dandy has a long career.”
–Publisher’s Weekly
Anthony Amore, The Woman Who Stole Vermeer
(Pegasus)
“A rollicking biography of a female art thief. In his lively third book about art and crime, Amore, the director of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, tells the story of a “fiery, bold, and brash” Englishwoman who stole for nationalistic reasons…A captivating, detail-rich biography of a ‘criminal legend.'”
–Kirkus Review
Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close
(Grand Central)
“Searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing, We Keep the Dead Close is a vivid account of a notorious murder at Harvard that had remained unsolved for fifty years, and a meditation on the stories that we tell ourselves about violence.”
–Patrick Radden Keefe
Emily Schultz, Little Threats
(Putnam)
“[A] gripping character study of an accused girl making sense of her reality.”
–Kirkus Reviews
E.A. Barres, They’re Gone
(Crooked Lane)
“Smartly plotted, violent, and utterly absorbing.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Mina Hardy, After All I’ve Done
(Crooked Lane)
“[An] expert nightmare…One of those rare thrillers whose answers are even more scarifying than its mysteries.”
–Kirkus
