Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Tom Ryan, The Treasure Hunters Club
(Atlantic Monthly Press)
“Ryan’s masterful interweaving of multiple storylines, surprising plot twists, and often eccentric characters makes for a novel that is as enjoyable as it is suspenseful. An edge-of-your seat, page-turning delight.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Michael Connelly, The Waiting
(Little Brown)
“Unputdownable . . . White-hot suspense guaranteed to please his fans. This ranks with Connelly’s best.”
–Publishers Weekly
Elly Griffiths, The Man in Black
(Mariner)
“Griffiths offers up a gripping assortment of pieces, generously peppered with the ethereal air and folklore that permeate her novels.”
–Booklist
Yvonne Battle-Felton, Curdle Creek
(Henry Holt)
“Battle-Felton imagines this world exceedingly well. And she never loses sight of the novel’s central theme: how the need for communities to protect themselves unleashes its own anxieties and traumas.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Alexander McCall Smith, The Great Hippopotamus Hotel
(Pantheon)
“Smith’s breezy latest outing for Botswanan sleuths Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi finds the pair digging into the operations of a struggling hotel. . . . [featuring] Mma Ramotswe and company’s dryly funny musings and Smith’s evocative descriptions of life in Gaborone.”
Evan Rail, The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit
(Melville House)
“The cultural history of absinthe, via an audacious contemporary fraud. . . . An entertaining survey of spirits culture past and present.”
–Kirkus
Hannah Martian, Long Time Gone
(Crooked Lane)
“Suspense and romance build in a story about the shattering pressures of hiding the truth.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Ian Rankin, Midnight and Blue
(Mulholland Books)
“An ingenious double locked-room mystery . . . There’s maximum suspense as Rebus tries to solve a murder that might be followed by his own. A terrific addition to the Rebus series.”
–Booklist
Anthony Bourdain, Typhoid Mary
(Bloomsbury) (reissue)
On page after page, Bourdain offers nothing but compassion … He was determined to tell the familiar Typhoid Mary story from the point of view of a cook, a profession they had in common.
–Washington Post
John Grisham and Jim McCloskey, Framed: Astonishing True Stories and Wrongful Convictions
(Doubleday)
“The truth eventually came out in these cases, but that does little to lessen the impact of this sobering look at what happens when we turn a blind eye to injustice. A powerful and infuriating must-read about ineptitude and injustice in America’s legal system.”
–Kirkus Reviews
