ReviewPraise for The Last of the Live Nude Girls"[McClear] finds new ground not only in the specificity of her subject matter, but in the strength of her account of j...
From Publishers WeeklyThis astute if not entirely cohesive debut account from investigative journalist and former banker Cohan chronicles the long metamorphosis of Lazard Frères. C...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The city of Isca is set like a dark jewel in the crown of the Duchy of Stonehold. In this sprawling landscape, the monsters one sees are nothing compared to what’...
SUMMARY: In recent novels, which have been called “hypnotic,” “stunning,” and “exhilarating,” David Markson has created his own personal genre. In this new work, The Last Novel, an...
From Publishers WeeklyIn his enthusiastic introduction, John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, writes: "Authentic Southern food is not about pretension." ...
SUMMARY:The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues...
Amazon.com ReviewThe Kill Clause's opening pages will knot the stomach of even the most seasoned crime reader. U.S. Marshall Tim Rackley is expecting his daughter home for he...
Review"Far from being just another morose Nordic crime writer, Adler-Olsen creates a detective whose curiosity is as active as his soul is tortured. The villain is a monster and th...
Amazon.com ReviewThe Jade Peony, Wayson Choy's first novel and a RUSA Notable Book, is a genre-bending, memoirlike collection of stories about a family in Vancouver's Chinatown be....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The *New York Times* bestselling authors present a new series set on an island a stone's skip away from Cape Light... Welcome to Angel Island, not far from the sh...