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The House of Thunder - Dean Koontz
From Publishers WeeklyKoontz ( Watchers , The Servants of Twilight ) has come up with an intriguing premise: Susan Thornton wakes up in a hospital after a serious car accident with... -
The History of History - Ida Hattemer-Higgins
From Publishers WeeklyA promising premise flatlines in Hattermer-Higgins's overwrought debut. Margaret Taub, a young American woman awakens in a forest outside Berlin in September ... -
The Feng Shui Detective - Nury Vittachi
SUMMARY: Mr. Wong is a feng shui consultant, but his cases tend to involve a lot more than just interior decoration. You see, Wong specializes in a certain type of problem premises... -
The Accident Man - Tom Cain
From Publishers Weekly The pseudonymous Cain, a British journalist, has come up with a clever premise for his first novel. One summer night in 1997, Samuel Carver, an extremely cap... -
Sucker bet - James Swain
FromIn the mystery genre, there's always room for a new premise, and Swain has come up with a doozy: his hero, Tony Valentine, is an ex-cop who specializes in catching casino cheat... -
San Francisco Noir - Peter Maravelis
From Publishers WeeklyA roster of Bay Area authors lends solid street cred to 15 original stories, but few deliver on the elusive noir premise of this new series. Following the suc... -
A Heartbeat Away - Michael Palmer
From Publishers WeeklyPalmer (The Last Surgeon) offers a nifty plot premise in this high-concept medical thriller, but a plethora of subplots distracts from the more interesting pr...