Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
Andrews, Mary Kay. Christmas Bliss. St. Martin’s. Oct. 2013. 224p. ISBN 9781250019721. $16.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250019738. CD: Macmillan Audio. CHRISTMAS FICTION New York Times best-selling author Andrews draws characters from her three popular Savannah novels—Savannah Blues, Savannah Breeze, and Blue Christmas—to craft a blissful Christmas novella. As the holidays loom, so does antiques dealer Weezie [...]
Adler, Elizabeth. Please Don’t Tell. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. Jul. 2013. 384p. ISBN 9781250019899. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9781250019905. WOMEN’S FICTION One stormy night on the California coast, elegant 58-year-old Fenny Dexter opens her door to a blood-soaked man claiming to have been in an accident. He departs after a cozy night (they feel a spark), and [...]
Back in History Winner of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Crime Writers Association of Australia, Kerry Greenwood crafts a story billed as mystery but seemingly more suspenseful historical in Out of the Black Land (Poisoned Pen. Feb. 2013. 250p. ISBN 9781464200380. $24.95; pap. ISBN 9781464200403. $14.95), about a reluctant new Great Royal Scribe in [...]
Barbara’s Picks, November 2012, Pt. 3: Moning, T√≥ib√≠n, Cahalan, Grass
Nonfiction Previews, November 2012, Pt. 3: From Kirstie Alley to Kurt Vonnegut
Fiction Previews, September 2012, Pt. 2: Thrilled to Death with Gerritsen, Child, and Woods
Fiction Previews, July 2012, Pt. 1: Gardiner, Grazer, Mathews, Suarez, Walters
Fiction Previews, Jun. 2012, Pt. 2: Glen Duncan and the Robopocalypse Guy Return
Fiction Previews: May 2012, Pt. 1: Balogh, Berry, Buckley, and the Rest
Fiction Previews, February 2012, Pt. 1: Thrills from Gardner, Hayder, and Robb and Promising First Novelists
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