The overlook.(crime)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Harry Bosch returns.
At the end of Echo Park (EXCELLENT Jan/Feb 2007), Hieronymus
"Harry" Bosch left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit and
joined its Homicide Special Unit. In this 13th . . .
Love kills.(crime)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
The high price of love.
Having retired to a lonely Caribbean island after the death of her
fiance, pregnant Miami crime reporter Britt Montero finds a disposable
camera washed up on . . .
Origin.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Trouble in the nursery.
When Syracuse fingerprint analyst Lena Dawson is accosted in her
lab by a grieving mother, she initially discounts the woman's wild
claims. After all, the . . .
Christopher's Ghosts.(crime)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Catching up with the past.
In 1939 Berlin, teenaged Paul Christopher and his parents are
caught sneaking Jews out of the country and are branded enemies of the
state by the sadistic, . . .
The Water's Lovely.(crime)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
A whirlpool of secrets.
When Ismay Sealand's stepfather drowns in the bathtub, Ismay
and her mother, Beatrix, suspect he was done in by Ismay's younger
sister, Heather. Years later, a . . .
Ghostwalk.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Connecting the centuries.
After nearly completing an untraditional biography of Isaac Newton
focused on his interest in alchemy, Cambridge scholar Elizabeth
Vogelsang is found drowned . . .
Bangkok Haunts.(BOOKMARKS SELECTION)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Delving deeper into the Bangkok underworld.
John Burdett introduced readers to Thai Buddhist police detective
Sonchai Jitpleecheep and Bangkok's seedy red light district in
Bangkok 8 . . .
The Broken Shore.(crime)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Murder and mayhem Down Under.
Recuperating from the terrible accident that claimed the life of a
young rookie, Melbourne homicide detective Joe Cashin returns to his
sleepy, childhood . . .
Divisadero.(literary)(Book review)
GOOD
Hiding from the past.
Teenage sisters Anna and Claire help their widowed father on an
isolated farm in northern California and secretly vie for the attentions
of Coop, the farmhand. . . .
The Shadow Catcher.(FICTION)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
The boundaries of fiction.
The Shadow Catcher combines elements of postmodern and historical
fiction, memoir, and travelogue to explore two stories. The first
depicts the relationship . . .
Luncheon of the Boating Party.(literary)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
The origins of a masterpiece.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, father of Impressionism, falls from a
motorbike in the French countryside. Burned by critics favoring the
ascendant Realist style . . .
The Sea Lady.(FICTION)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Fishing in troubled waters.
As two former lovers travel separately to the seaside village of
Ornemouth to accept honorary degrees at the local university, they also
travel back in . . .
The Religion.(literary)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
The 16th-century Holy War.
Mattias Tannhauser, a young Saxon abducted by soldiers of the
Ottoman Empire, spends years as a Janissary in the Turkish army and then
moves to Sicily, . . .
Peony in Love.(literary)(Peony in Love: A Novel)(Book
review)
EXCELLENT
Operatic emotions in dynastic China.
In 17th-century China, the opera The Peony Pavilion, in which the
heroine follows her heart and, as a result, dies, was as powerful a
cultural . . .
The New Yorkers.(literary)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Or, the dog next door.
You may know the pup, but chances are you don't know the
owner. In The New Yorkers, Cathleen Schine introduces the characters,
both human and canine, who cross . . .
Michael Tolliver Lives.(literary)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Before Sex and the City, Maupin wove Tales of the City.
Armistead Maupin's six-volume Tales of the City series went on
hiatus after Sure of You (1989). In Michael Tolliver . . .
The Maytrees.(literary)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Marriage, interrupted.
Aspiring poet Toby Maytree returns from World War II to
Provincetown, where he meets statuesque Lou Bigelow, a painter and avid
reader. It's love at first sight . . .
On Chesil Beach.(literary)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Wedding night jitters.
Ian McEwan depicts a single day in the lives of Edward and Florence
Mayhew--their wedding day. It is July 1962, and the couple, both virgins
in their early 20s, . . .
Because a Fire Was in My Head.(literary)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Portrait of a selfish, lusty lady.
It's 1970 and Kate Riley, a 39-year-old firecracker, is about
to undergo brain surgery for a tumor she knows doesn't exist. Lying
in her hospital . . .
The Lizard Cage.(literary)(Book review)
EXCELLENT
Burmese prison life, mid-1990s.
Welcome to hell. Teza, a political prisoner, is serving a 20-year
sentence in solitary confinement in a squalid Burmese jail. Imprisoned
for performing . . .
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