Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks.
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Anthony Horowitz, A Line to Kill
(Harper)
“Bestseller Horowitz’s superior third mystery features former detective inspector Daniel Hawthorne and a fictionalized Horowitz (after 2019’s The Sentence Is Death)in an effortless blend of humor and fair play.”
Publishers Weekly
Otto Penzler (ed), The Big Book Victorian Mysteries
(Vintage / Black Lizard)
“This doorstop volume will provide hours of pleasure reading for fans of traditional mystery fiction.”
Publishers Weekly
Vannessa Veselka, Zazen
(Vintage)
“Veselka’s prose is chiseled and laced with arsenic observations. . . . Veselka makes a case for hope and meaning amid sheer madness.”
Publishers Weekly
Mark Seal, Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli
(Gallery Books)
“As gloriously Homeric and entertaining as The Godfather itself. I learned something new on almost every page.”
Graydon Carter, Air Mail
John Grisham, The Judge’s List
(Doubleday)
“Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect—a sitting judge.”
Jess Lourey, Litani
(Thomas and Mercer)
“Curious, perceptive Francesca, with her concern for others, makes an irresistible heroine. Psychological thriller fans will be satisfied.”
Publishers Weekly
Franck Bouysse (transl. Lara Vergnaud), Born of No Woman
(Other Press)
“Here, everything is epiphanic, essential, surprising, whether it be the revelation of a secret or the painting of a detail…At once classic and phantasmagoric, Born of No Woman proves that fiction…can still amaze.”
Le Monde des livres
Yeo-sun Kwon, (transl. Janet Hong), Lemon
(Other Press)
“A haunting literary crime story…Razor-sharp observations of class, gender, and privilege in contemporary Korea…[a] page-turner.”
Cosmopolitan
Gregory Galloway, Just Thieves
(Melville House)
”Just Thieves happens in a wonderful space where digression and story-telling ride out together. There’s room here for much of the world and for reminders that life itself is a digression. I enjoyed and admired this novel.”
James Sallis
Clea Simon, Hold Me Down
(Polis Books)
“Lyrical, layered, and full of surprises. Simon has penned a raw and emotional thriller with a heartbeat, about lost dreams and missing friends, regrets and buried memories, the final note reminding us that it’s never too late to start again. Provocative, moving, and suspenseful.” –Lisa Unger
