Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Nick Harkaway, Karla’s Choice
(Viking)
“Karla’s Choice is a note-perfect tribute to le Carré. Nick Harkaway has pulled off the remarkable trick of providing the long-term reader with something which is satisfyingly fresh and new, and yet fits seamlessly into the world of Smiley’s Circus in its heyday.”
–Mick Herron
Delilah S. Dawson, It Will Only Hurt for a Moment
(Del Rey)
“Steadily mounting mysteries and disturbing revelations at an art commune in this story about a woman’s liberation from an abusive relationship make this another must-read in Dawson’s growing canon of work.”
–Chuck Wendig
Sydney Graves, The Arizona Triangle
(Harper Paperbacks)
“This desert noir features complex characters trapped in an ugly, emotional past. The vivid details and beauty of the Arizona landscape are in sharp contrast to the repellent secrets of a killer.”
–Library Journal
Richard Chizmar, Memorials
(Gallery)
“Scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night.”
–Stephen King
Hesse Phillips, Lightborne
(Pegasus)
“Hesse Phillips’ dazzling Lightborne returns us to a world of more moral certainty but considerably more physical danger, telling the story of Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe, the Elizabethan dramatist and spy, with a thrillingly intense sense of period.”
–The Financial Times
Robert Dugoni, Beyond Reasonable Doubt
(Thomas and Mercer)
“A cunning master class in why you should always trust your lawyer, and what it’ll cost you if you do.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Ian Ferguson and Will Ferguson, Mystery in the Title
(MIRA)
“This small-town cozy combines quirky characters, over-the-top situations, and fading Hollywood glamour in a winning combination.”
—Booklist
Mark Aldridge, Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness
(HarperCollins)
“This quirky, trivia-filled look at a touchstone of detective fiction will have Christie fans young and old in heaven.”
–Publishers Weekly
Eliot Pattison, Freedom’s Ghost
(Counterpoint)
“Pattison adeptly portrays the panorama of late–1700s Massachusetts, sprinkling in historical characters (e.g., John Hancock, John Adams), British spies, impressment, and more. Multiple plot threads run simultaneously, maintaining suspense as McCallum tracks a sadistic killer .”
–Booklist
David List, What Are the Odds
(Blackstone)
“[List’s] energetic depiction of every episode, full of sharp character portraits and droll details, engages interest and keeps the story moving…An outlandish and entertaining comic thriller.”
–Kirkus Reviews
