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Category Archives: Review
Review: The Fever by Megan Abbott
Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (June 17, 2014) ISBN: 9780316231053 Source: Publisher Deenie Nash comes from a closely-knit family; her father Thomas is a popular teacher at the school and her brother, Eli, is a hockey star … Continue reading
Posted in Little, Brown & Company, Mystery/Suspense, Review, Thriller
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Review: A Long Time Gone by Karen White
Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: NAL Hardcover (June 3, 2014) ISBN: 978-0451240460 Source: Publisher Nine years ago, Vivian Walker left her home in Mississippi, swearing never to return, following the lead of so many Walker women before. When her life takes … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Fiction, Mystery/Suspense, NAL, Review
Tagged family issues, Mississippi, prohibition, racism
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Review: The Death of Lucy Kyte by Nicola Upson
Series: Josephine Tey Mysteries Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Bourbon Street Books (June 10, 2014) ISBN-13: 978-0062195456 Source: Publisher Josephine Tey, a well known British mystery author, learns she has inherited a cottage from a godmother she knew very little about. … Continue reading
Review: The Ways of the Dead by Neely Tucker
Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Viking Adult (June 12, 2014) ISBN-10: 0670016586 Source: Publisher Washington D.C. reporter Sully Carter has seen his share of brutality. A stint in war-torn Bosnia left him wounded, his body full of shrapnel, leaving him an … Continue reading
Posted in Crime Fiction, Review
Tagged murder, political corruption, Washington D.C.
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Review: Robogenesis by Daniel H. Wilson
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Doubleday (June 10, 2014) ISBN-10: 0385537093 Source: Publisher In Robopocalypse, humankind was at war with robots. The world as we know it is destroyed, a pathetic wreckage of what once existed. Once Archos, a “super” robot is destroyed, … Continue reading
Review: A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman
Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Harper (June 3, 2014) ISBN-10: 0062287877 Source: Publisher Slava Gelman is a lapsed Jew working for Century, an esteemed magazine in Manhattan. He’s exiled himself from his family in an attempt to shed the history and … Continue reading
Review: Suspicion by Joseph Finder
Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Dutton Adult; First Edition edition (May 27, 2014) ISBN-10: 0525954600 Source: Publisher Danny Goodman is a struggling writer and single father, working to raise his daughter alone after his ex-wife dies of cancer. His daughter, Abby, … Continue reading
Posted in Dutton, Mystery/Suspense, Review, Thriller
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Review: The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams
Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Putnam Adult (May 27, 2014) ISBN-10: 0399162178 Source: Publisher Vivian Schuyler is a young, vivacious and determined young woman living in 1960s Manhattan. She’s gone against what is expected of her as a budding socialite and has not only graduated … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Fiction, Mystery/Suspense, Putnam, Review
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Review: Closed Doors by Lisa O’Donnell
Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Harper (May 20, 2014) ISBN-10: 006227189X Source: Publisher Eleven-year-old Michael Murray lives on a small Scottish island, a community so small that there are no secrets. His mother and grandmother are often found sitting at the … Continue reading
Posted in General Fiction, Harper Books, Review
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Review: Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Permuted Press/Gallery Books (May 20, 2014) ISBN-10: 1476739633 Source: Publisher One day, suddenly, children die. Not just some children, all children, across the globe. The only warning is a headache and comments of strange smells. Then darkness. … Continue reading
Posted in Gallery Books, Horror, Review, Thriller
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