Stripper Lessons

“O’Brien handles [his] story with a masterly and subtle art, as her turns the unlikely into the possible without gush or affectation: Like Carroll himself, the change is slow, timid,…

Just What Kind of Mother Are You?

Your best friend’s child goes missing. . . .On your watch. A gut-wrenching thriller and a shrewd examination of family life—and the deception that can lie beneath….

The English Major

“Harrison spins the common chaff of a road trip into gold. . . . peppered with his characteristic insights and asides. . . . After a long and idiosyncratic literary…

Drawing Conclusions

The landmark twentieth novel in the celebrated Commissario Guido Brunetti series.

Man Gone Down

“Ambitious…The book is filled with some virtuoso passages that expose the subtle degrees of racism in the narrator’s world.” –Kirkus Reviews…

Book of the Little Axe

Ambitious and masterfully wrought, Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Book of the Little Axe is an incredible journey, spanning decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American West during the tumultuous days of…

Sherlock Holmes

“Rennison does a marvelous job of overlaying his own extensive research on clues from Doyle’s tales of Watson and Holmes, deciphering much for this complex, engaging portrait.” —Irene Wanner, The…

Nexus

“The Rosy Crucifixion may be Miller’s masterpiece. . . . The trilogy belongs in every American literature collection.” —Choice…

Had a Good Time

“All of these stories are told in the first person, but Butler rarely settles for impressing us with his range of vocal effects. He favors strong plots and strong twists….

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