“A passionate, spell-casting story . . . I was unable to put this book down.” — Sandra Gulland, author of the Josephine Bonaparte trilogy About the Book Hannah and May Powers could not be more different. Hannah is the learned, though shy, dutiful daughter whom their widowed father treats more like a son, and [...]
Archive of posts tagged mystery
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris
Introduction When sixteen-year-old Nouf ash-Shrawi goes missing in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, her wealthy family suspects that she’s run away to the desert to escape her imminent marriage. Her brother Othman calls on his good friend Nayir to help find her. However, after ten futile days of searching, it is not Nayir but some anonymous [...]
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
• A New York Times Notable Book and a Book Sense 76 selection “This literary thriller reads like a dark enchantment, an unholy myth, a terrifyingly true fairy tale.” — Elle In the Forest returns to the countryside of western Ireland, the vivid backdrop of Edna O’Brien’s best-selling Wild Decembers. Here O’Brien unravels a [...]
The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom use “A beautiful book, a perfect little gem.” —BBC “Kaleidoscope” Penelope Fitzgerald’s second novel, her first to be short-listed for England’s prestigious Booker Prize, is set in the small East Anglian town of Hardborough in 1959. In this “island between sea and river,” Florence Green, a middle-aged [...]
Almost by Elizabeth Benedict
Introduction Almost, Elizabeth Benedict’s “emotionally profound and richly textured” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR) fourth novel, is “her most spirited to date” (New York Times Book Review). The hilarious opening does little to prepare either the reader or the narrator, Sophy Chase, for the drama of what is to come. Almost divorced, Sophy is in bed [...]
Fulmer, David — Lost River: A Valentin St. Cyr Mystery
“Valentin’s fourth case immediately draws the reader into its tapestry of the Big Easy in a memorable bygone era.” – Kirkus Reviews “Enjoyable . . . With his usual lucid prose, Fulmer details the grubby ‘crib’ life that exploited scores of women prostitutes while padding rich men’s wallets . . . those looking for some [...]
Burke, Declan — The Big O
CONTACT: Anna Crowe, Senior Publicist (212) 592-1147 or anna.crowe@hmhpub.com Advance Praise for THE BIG O: “This latest from Burke (Eight-ball Boogie, 2004, etc.) ends in a hail of bullets and a gnashing of half-wolf teeth…imagine Donald Westlake and his alter ego Richard Stark moving to Ireland and collaborating on a screwball noir, and you have [...]
Perry, Thomas — Runner: A Jane Whitefield Novel
“There are probably only half a dozen suspense writers now alive who can be depended upon to deliver high voltage shocks, vivid, sympathetic characters, and compelling narratives each time they publish. Thomas Perry is one of them.”—Stephen King “Thomas Perry is a true original.”—Jonathan Kellerman “Perry is a master at nail-biting suspense.”—Los Angeles Times “One [...]
Gardner, John — Moriarty: A Novel
The long-awaited third volume in the Professor Moriarty trilogy, from legendary, bestselling British thriller writer Gardner At the opening of John Gardner’s MORIARTY: A Novel [Harcourt; An Otto Penzler Book; November 10, 2008; ISBN 978-0-15-101252-7; $24], it is the turn of the century. Having survived a struggle with his nemesis Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach [...]
Spillane, Mickey with Collins, Max Allan — The Goliath Bone: A New Mike Hammer Novel
“A fitting capstone to Hammer’s career.”—Publishers Weekly “Spillane, who died in 2006, entrusted his incomplete manuscript to longtime friend Collins, who completed the work, which serves as a refreshing reminder of a writer who illustrates old-fashioned pride in his priceless body of work.”—Library Journal “Fans . . . can relax. They’re in good hands with [...]
