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The last secret_ a novel - Mary McGarry Morris
From Publishers WeeklyKeeping secrets leads to calamitous consequences in Morris's disturbing domestic thriller. At age 17, Nora Trimble has a dangerous eight-day summer escapade w... -
The last coyote - Michael Connelly
From Publishers WeeklyIn his fourth outing, LAPD Homicide Detective Harry Bosch (The Concrete Blonde, et al.) confronts deep family, police and political secrets as he probes an un... -
The housekeeper and the profess - Yoko Ogawa
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Ogawa (_The Diving Pool_) weaves a poignant tale of beauty, heart and sorrow in her exquisite new novel. Narrated by the Housekeeper, the char... -
The diving pool_ three novellas - Yoko Ogawa; Stephen Snyder
From Publishers WeeklyIn this first book-length translation into English, Japanese author Ogawa's three polished tales demonstrate her knack for a crafty, suspenseful hook. Each is... -
The concrete blonde - Michael Connelly
From Publishers WeeklyIn this fiendishly plotted combination of courtroom drama and police procedural, Connelly's LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, introduced in the Edgar-... -
The charm school - Nelson DeMille
From Publishers WeeklyThis highly charged espionage thriller gets off to a stunning start. On the road from Smolensk to Moscow, an American tourist, Gregory Fisher, is confronted b... -
The chairman_ a novel - Stephen W. Frey
From Publishers WeeklyDiminished by dull prose, but distinguished by colorful, well-drawn characters and an arresting, labyrinthine plot, this 10th novel by Frey (after Silent Part... -
The calligrapher's daughter_ a - Eugenia Kim
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. This debut novel, inspired by the life of the author's Korean mother, is a beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning 30 years of Kor... -
The book of other people - Zadie Smith
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. "The instruction was simple: make somebody up," explains novelist Smith in her introduction to this marvelous compendium of 23 distinct, punge... -
The black echo - Michael Connelly
From Publishers WeeklyConnelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times , transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. ...