Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Lev Rosen, Lavender House
(Forge)
“Lev AC Rosen’s lushly rendered mystery, Lavender House, sets the detective novel on its head. There’s the dishonored policeman sitting on a barstool in 1950’s San Francisco and the elegant woman who slides in next to him with a job. But this femme’s wife has been murdered, and the day-drinking cop has been brutally ousted from his job for being gay. Rosen’s smart, bittersweet tale plays with the oldest truth of all: the price we pay for our identity in America.”
–Walter Mosley
Joanna Margaret, The Bequest
(Scarlet)
“Interlocking mysteries lie at the heart of Joanna Margaret’s richly atmospheric and irresistibly readable debut novel, the harrowing saga of a young American woman historian who finds herself embroiled in a Machiavellian plot reaching back to 16th century Italy. Whether evoking present-day Scotland in a windswept region overlooking the North Sea, or Renaissance Genoa in a time of vertiginous political plotting, The Bequest is filled with unexpected turns and revelations for the reader as well as the historian-heroine.”
–Joyce Carol Oates
John Grisham, The Boys From Biloxi
(Doubleday)
“Grisham’s work — always superior entertainment — is evolving into something more serious, more powerful, more worthy of his exceptional talent.”
–The Washington Post
Ian Rankin, A Heart Full of Headstones
(Little, Brown and Co.)
“As the pas de deux between now-retired Edinburgh copper John Rebus and his longtime nemesis, gangster Big Ger Cafferty, inches closer to its final act, the stakes continue to grow… The aging of maverick detectives has become a poignant theme in today’s crime fiction, with Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch joining Rebus in an effort to keep solving one more case as a way of “stirring dull roots with spring rain,” as Eliot puts it in “The Waste Land.” Rankin captures both the heroism and the pathos of that ultimately doomed quest in this cleverly constructed and deeply moving novel.”
–Booklist
Robert Louis Stevenson, Leslie S. Klinger (ed.), The New Annotated Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(Mysterious Press)
“Klinger makes reading, or rereading, this masterpiece an immersive experience. Richly illustrated with scenes from Victorian London, playbills, and film images, this will instantly become the definitive edition of this complex and influential piece of literature.”
Publishers Weekly
Nicci French, The Favor
(William Morrow)
“Fantastic – a breathless drumbeat of dread and suspense . . . no one does it better than Nicci French.”
–Lee Child
Katherine Corcoran, In the Mouth of the Wolf
(Bloomsbury)
“A disturbing look at violence against journalists in Mexico through the lens of the murder of a veteran crime reporter … Readers will be transfixed by this alarming narrative, all the more timely as free speech, even in the U.S., is under attack yet again. A tenaciously researched work of investigative journalism.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Jonathan Freedland, The Escape Artist
(Harper)
“Freedland tells — with the verve of the best-selling novelist that he is — the story of Rudolf Vrba, the first Jew to successfully escape from Auschwitz. The narrative is extraordinary. In great and heart-stopping detail it tells of Vrba’s plan and how he executed it. It also explains why.”
–The Jewish Chronicle
Catherine Steadman, The Family Game
(Ballantine)
“[A] tricky psychological puzzle . . . It’s a joy to encounter a suspenseful book whose turns lurk, rather than lumber, around the corner.”
–The New York Times Book Review
Dr. Cristina LePort, Dissection
(Bancroft Press)
“With a terrifying premise and riveting medical details, Dissection moves at a frantic pace.”
–Tess Gerritsen
