The Fall, John Lescroart, Atria Books — Anlya Paulson, seventeen years of age and African-American, takes a fatal plunge from an overpass late one evening. With possible racial overtones to her death, the police and the DA’s office are under intense political pressure to find and convict her killer.
Charlie’s Pride, Dee Hubbard, Fithian Press — Charlie the Hawk can’t help but identify with the Klamath River, his father’s tribe’s ancestral home. It springs forth from the distant mountains and fights its way to the ocean. So like the river, Charlie’s life is one long struggle from its inception to its end, flooded with his tears and littered with his fears.
The Darkest Heart, Dan Smith, Pegasus Crime — Zico is just another young hoodlum living in small-town Brazil. He acts as a hit-man for Costa, the local criminal big shot. Zico is good at the job, but trouble comes when he decides the life is no longer for him.
Challenger Deep, Neil Shusterman, (Harper Teen)–Challenger Deep plunges boldly into the depths of mental illness without the protection of a diving bell, giving the reader a visceral sense of how the mind tries to cope from the intimate perspective of the sufferer.
Death in Florence, Paul Strathern, (Pegasus Books)–Italy in the late fifteenth century comprised a number of city-states engaged in often vicious competition for trade and resources. Alliances between them were made and broken and remade with astonishing frequency.
The Monet Murders, by Terry Mort (Pegasus Crime)| Hollywood is a place for aliases. Nobody’s who they claim to be which suits Bruno Feldspar, PI to the stars, just fine. He has his own reasons for working under a pseudonym.
Spring Remains Mons Kallentoft Emily Bestler Books (Washington Square Press) Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . will please all readers of gritty Scandinavian crime fiction." Spring in the Swedish city of Linköping, Detective Malin Fors is at her...
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush Geoff Dyer Vintage Books Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . a great read for fans of naval vessels and Navy life." Geoff Dyer, who grew up enjoying WW II movies and building model planes,...
Robogenesis Daniel H. Wilson Vintage Books Buy This Book www.amazon.com "Entertainment and warning all in one . . ." In the not-too-distant future a vicious no-holds-barred war between humans and machines rages for three long years, engulfing the world...
The Thickety: The Whispering Trees by J. A. White Katherine Tegen Books Buy This Book www.amazon.com ". . . a taut, dark and gripping tale . . ." When Kara Westfall’s magical talents are uncovered by her fellow villagers, she and her younger brother...
