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A debut novel that delves so deeply into the small-town heartland that readers will accept its flaws as part of its charm. Beth and Henry are the married couple who remained to farm in Little Wing and, despite their financial struggles, are in some ways the envy of the others. But he only feels at home in Little Wing, where he found his voice and wrote the songs on the album that catapulted him to fame and gives the novel its title.
Kip made millions for others and did well for himself as a broker in Chicago but has returned to Little Wing to restore its mill as a commercial center and to show off the beautiful woman who will be his wife. Ronny left town as a rodeo rider and an alcoholic and has returned to recover after a brain-damaging mishap. There are four weddings in the novel, a few separations, a bunch of drunken adventures and confessions, and a fairly preposterous ending.
Twenty-one-year-old Lady Lilith Montgomery has her hands full. Another symptom of cultural and personal breakdown can be seen in college students Chase and Jordan. Since prescription sleep aids become extraordinarily valuable in a world populated by insomniacs, Chase and Jordan develop a scheme to rip off the pharmaceutical industry by stealing pills from the containers in which sleep medicines are kept.
Another narrative thread involves high school student Lila, who, like Biggs, has retained her ability to sleep, but she finds she must leave her parents, whose insomnia is leading them toward madness. Calhoun writes beautifully, though the novel is occasionally slow-moving—and thus, ironically, becomes a cure for insomnia. What if, gradually, everyone lost the ability to sleep?
What would the world look like? How would contemporary culture shift on its axis? In this narrative, we follow a series of characters drastically affected by this shift, most of them pathological insomniacs, though a few retain their ability to sleep and thus become pariahs to the multitudes of the sleepless. Her case worker, Francesca, tirelessly works to place Lesley in safe homes, although the best she can offer is a hostel populated by skeevy men.
Essentially rejected by her mother for bringing shame upon the family, Lesley finds the courage to work at a diner and attend a posh school, where she is reminded daily of her status as a scholarship student. Her English teacher, Mrs. Lesley, though, has farther to fall, as she begins cutting herself to release her emotional pain.
Soon, Lesley is tossed out. When Lesley finds herself pregnant, she naively reveals her past troubles to her midwife, unwittingly unleashing her own hell. Costantini, Roberto Translated by Thompson, N. A long, complex crime novel that moves from savage murder to the political and social realities of contemporary Italy. The evil is broadly distributed. Police captain Michele Balistreri is a young man who has no trouble betraying the neofascists whose cell he has infiltrated, even if he harbors a few neofascist sympathies himself. He takes his job infinitely more seriously when, a quarter-century later, Italy again returns to the championship and the bodies start popping up once more.
His inquiry takes him into some unlikely corners, from the Vatican to gypsy encampments, though he keeps circling back to suspicions he has been nursing for years. None of those things are necessary in order to understand the essential nastiness of the bad guy and the moral ambiguities of the supposedly good ones. Cussler, Clive; Scott, Justin Putnam pp. Things turn critical quickly when Joseph Van Dorn himself is gravely wounded in a shootout at sea.
He charges his No. Cussler and company love historical factoids—across the Long Island landscape, bootleggers and others prowl in Pierce-Arrows, Packards and Rolls Royces. There are gangs—White Hands,. That is, until they take her newborn daughter away from her and she has to battle to win her back. After years of being dragged into the hall closet to be raped by her own father, Lesley runs away. From that moment, she is thrust into the world of child protective services, a world filled with tremendously helpful individuals but also riddled with the very bureaucracy that will rip 8.
Great fun from one of the better Cussler series. For this debut, journalist Davidson mines a real-life adventure that offers everything for an engaging thriller mother-son tensions, world politics, exotic locales, a rhapsodic affair but that emerges as uninvolving, however carefully executed. The lieutenant resists, partly since his hard. A lauded titan of French letters plumbs the intersection between character and despotism in a slender, tendentious imagining of a conversation between Napoleon and a trusted political ally.
The two men ponder the fate of the fledgling French republic, sapped by years of bloody revolution and foreign wars. What conflict-weary France needs is a modern Caesar, bursting with ambition, burning to rule his country by any means necessary. I am called to change the face of the world. A snobbish, claustrophobic work. Reluctantly, but obediently, he becomes the assassin. Davidson describes his locales vividly and paces the story briskly, eventually building to a poignant, tragic and ironic denouement.
A well-crafted story hampered by insufficient character growth. The prison is old. The row itself is below ground. The nameless narrator calls the place enchanted, for the inmates are under the spell of death. Executions in the lethal injection chamber are frequent. He found sanctuary in the prison library until, intolerably provoked, he beat another inmate to death and was transferred to solitary.
We know much more about his neighbor York, convicted of crimes against girls, again unspecified. His beautiful, mentally challenged mother had slept with half their small town; her visitors took advantage of York, too. He was born with syphilis. This detail is uncovered by the lady, as the death penalty investigator is known. The author has worked in this field. Her sleuthing could have made a powerful novella, but there are too many distractions. She is on much surer ground here than with her magic realist touches, such as the golden horses that live beneath the row and start running as an execution nears.
An over-the-top work with a number of preordained victims but no individuals. Author appearances in San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. De Sa, Anthony Algonquin pp. Confused by his own impulses and the behavior of those around him, year-old Antonio Rebelo is coming of age amid contradictions and perhaps danger. When a local underage girl falls pregnant after sex with her stepfather, James takes her in. Antonio and his friends, one of them serially abused by his father, hang out with James, sometimes stealing bicycles. Then Antonio sees the face of Jesus in a limpet shell and suddenly becomes the local miracle child, a healer and a source of income for his father.
A largely bleak vision, top-heavy with angst and tragedy. Oh yes, she also gets a shot at true love in this third novel from Dillen Fool, , etc. Bony and flat-chested, Carol MacLean would never be considered attractive. Yet she is a commanding presence and not just because of her 6-footinch. The irony is that instead of leading her own company, she has been a socalled undertaker, burying failing plants after buyouts by her private equity employers.
About time; Carol is Easy surely has to be Mr. Right, but business comes first. There are two plants. Carol sees her opening in the still-functional old plant. She will buy it from Baxter and transfer the all-female workforce once she has persuaded a Town Hall meeting of her sincerity. Carol has Anna Rose, redoubtable organizer of the Wives of the Sea, on her side; the town is thrilled; Carol is a hero. Kudos to Dillen for his unusual premise.
The workplace drama that follows is rousing, if predictable. But their 3, acre commune is far from the utopia some devotees envisioned. Instead, members endure beatings and theatrical tests of faith, including ones that involve absolute trust while scorpions or tarantulas skitter up and down their arms. But not all who live within the commune remain complacent. When the preacher increasingly begins to single out Trina, Joyce and her daughter plan their escape from a community so enthralled with his promises they dutifully practice when he instructs them to rehearse the ultimate act.
Joyce insists that they limit their plan of escape to themselves, but Trina has a change of heart. Florio, Gwen Permanent Press pp. For someone used to covering the war in Afghanistan, Magpie, Mont. When she discovers that a number of young Native American girls from the area have disappeared, she talks her boss at the paper into letting her follow a story that will take her to the Patch, a thrown-together shanty town in North Dakota.
Men from all over the country have traveled to find jobs working in the oil fields that surround the makeshift settlement. Again, Florio chooses interesting settings for her action and infuses her story with plenty of atmosphere and character. A longtime reporter, she has a good eye for weaving Native American culture into her tales, and this one is no exception. She also imbues Lola with believability, although the character often fails to display the common sense that purportedly kept her alive when she was stationed in Kabul.
Some storytellers are realists, some fantasists. Better fasten your seat belt for this roller-coaster ride through family hell. Alternating as usual between third-person chapters following D. Blue Rider Press pp. The worst of the worst is a deputy named Mike Sokowski who, in terms of sheer evil, makes Charles Manson seem like a choirboy. Sokowski is at the front of that line, and one night, following a fight at a party that gets out of hand, he and a friend pay a visit to Mindy that results in her death, for which he frames Danny. What follows is a race to pin the crime on the innocent man by some of the most odious characters this side of the Evil Empire, including an extraneous drunken state police officer.
Gailey writes visually, rendering the characters and action both vivid and alive. But his townsfolk behave so shamefully toward Danny, and the villain is so despicable, that the book often reads more like a fairy tale than a novel. Recovering from a nasty fall down a flight of stairs, Detective D. Warren, of Boston Homicide, tangles with a pair of sisters who put her pain in a whole new perspective. Forty years ago, Harry Day, about to be arrested for killing eight prostitutes, got his wife to slit his wrists before the police closed in.
He left behind two young daughters: Can a genteel, white Southern woman of the 21st century truly comprehend the life of a young, black slave in the 19th century? Though Angelina was the younger, prettier and fierier of the two, it was single Sarah who pulled at Kidd. To even think about writing about American slavery was daunting to Kidd. Sue Monk Kidd, the genteel Southern novelist, stood in a Massachusetts cemetery, staring at a headstone—worn, pitted and discolored from nearly winters.
If you can hear this, Sarah, I want to do you justice. I want to do your life justice. I would love for people to know about you and your role and what you did. Sarah Grimke was the 19th-century daughter of Charleston, S. Handful, but her parents ignored the attempt. So, in an act that defied her mother, father, the law and her rector, in the novel, Sarah teaches Handful how to read. Therefore it has nothing to do with me.
And I finally just let Handful be who she needed and wanted to be and wrote it. She wants her novel to be thought of as a story about a year sweep of history that was formative and volatile as seen through. Suzy Spencer is the author of the memoir Secret Sex Lives: A Year on the Fringes of American Sexuality. The Invention of Wings received a starred review in the Oct. Another richly painted Willi Kraus thriller, in which a mundane assignment goes horribly wrong.
As a Jew, Will has just recently escaped his native country for the relative safety of Paris. His status in France is tenuous, though. Never mind that he was a German hero in the Great War; simply having a German accent sits poorly with many in France. Now, the widower must obtain a work permit to support himself and his two sons. Unable to get one, he still accepts an assignment to follow a young student, not knowing he will witness a murder. Then, Willi enmeshes himself in a labyrinth of intrigue that reaches into the highest echelons of power in France. Along the way, he meets the beautiful and seductive Vivi, with whom he carries on a passionate affair.
Willi is an honorable man readers will root for as he tries to unravel a murder mystery, avoid deportation and learn who Vivi really is. By nature, he is much more a thinker than a blood-and-guts guy, which is wise given his touchy status in France. Read it, then hope Grossman writes more about Willi in Paris. He has plenty of time before the Nazis arrive. In , Americus, Ga. Just 10 miles away, however, sat the notorious Andersonville Prison. All delicate bones and huge blue eyes, Violet Stiles is the lodestar for Dance Pickett, a gimlet-eyed young man stationed as an Andersonville sentry.
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He and Dance strive to keep the womenfolk—indeed, the entire community of Americus—blissfully ignorant of the unspeakable conditions at the prison. Looking for a package of seashells, Violet impetuously sets off to find her father at the prison hospital. Dance sees her in the distance and tries to stop her before she can witness any of the horrors. Violet has seen the broken Union soldiers. While escorting Lewis the lone survivor of the 12th Pennsylvania militia to the prison, Emery a witty Confederate from Alabama unexpectedly finds a friend.
Stiles found the Friends of Andersonville. When mercy is seen as treason, even the heroes are endangered. Christy—award winning novelist Groot Flame of Resistance, , etc. The devil is alive and well and living in British Columbia. Admittedly, there are some egregiously nasty types around, most notably the Nagle brothers, Markus and GF, who tool around in their orange Matador intimidating the local population.
Some have a full set. All of the friends are in late adolescence and trying to make sense of life in their remote logging town. And then a number of strangers appear, bringing mystery and allure to their lives: Through a complex narrative structure, Harun manages to invest all of her action—slow as it sometimes is— with an aura of myth and folk legend that raises it above the lurid and sensational. A highly literate thriller from medievalist Holsinger.
LaPlante Turn of Mind, , etc. Agnes leaves the scene with a hidden prize: Meanwhile, John Gower, the 14th-century equivalent of a grizzled detective, has gotten wind of a conspiracy against the reigning king, Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince and nephew of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. The plot may have been fomented by the followers of the recently executed heretic Wycliffe, who are using the prophecies of one Lollius, an ancient Roman, as a blueprint.
Lollius, it seems, predicted the manner of death of each English sovereign since William the Conqueror, and there is one prediction yet to be fulfilled: Gerald has overheard Grimes planning just the sort of butchery envisioned by the book. Although the burgeoning web of plots and plotlines is. Deborah, his wife of decades, presides over local society.
His bride of six months, Dr. The case is assigned to law school dropout—turned—police officer Samantha Adams, a young woman who finds her own long-term relationship perplexing. Deborah withdrew from her marriage to Taylor, but, unwilling to divorce, she acquiesced to his search for intimacy elsewhere, even managing logistics for all three marriages. And so on, and so on: The episodic, character-sketch arrangement undercuts the central drama of the novel, involving the murder of the Vietnamese wife of another war vet.
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Livers means to explore the ways that perception and reality often fail to overlap in smalltown life, and there are moments where the novel sings in that regard, particularly in one section where the supposed bad girl of the Ferguson clan finds a refuge in the home of an elderly resident.
But the overall tone is curiously muted. An earnest and sober portrait of the homefront, filled a bit past capacity. Minor, Kyle Sarabande pp. In sequence, the stories present a powerful reflective narrative, offering perspectives on friends, family and faith. Livers, Paulette Counterpoint pp. The arrival of the bodies of seven National Guardsmen who were killed in a firefight. For Maria Louise, a young journalist who skipped town for the city years before, it means a return home and sudden romance with a member of the low-class Ferguson clan.
Though the novel turns on an act of Interwoven in the tale of the doings of a girl gang of Resistance fighters in Vichy, France, code-named Citadel, are spectral events from another time, about which a curious fellow named Audric Baillard seems to know altogether too much. But can both outlast the SS thugs who are tearing around Carcassonne? The bad guys are bad, a local collaborationist particularly so; the ghouls are ghastly; the Nazis, determinedly Teutonic; and the filles de France, fetching.
Suspend disbelief and enjoy the time travel and genre-blending. A Kenyan expatriate, now a pampered New York soccer mom, becomes a super sleuth and sharpshooter in a matter of days as she investigates an international human trafficking operation that branches out into even more sinister enterprises.
This debut is original, if confusing. Mugure is married to wealthy attorney Zack, and they live comfortably with their adopted 5-year-old son, Kobi. Kobi to their door. Soon, Mugure lives in a constant state of paranoia, and almost everyone she comes into contact with is suspect— a mysterious caller, a frightening gunman, an ominous curio shop owner, a crazed year-old carjacker—not to mention some members of her social circle who also seem rather shady. She also decides her son will be safe if she leaves him there while she heads to Kenya to find the answers to all of her questions.
And she has a bunch. There, two more old friends come to her aid and help her meet more shady characters, visit witnesses, break into buildings, and engage in chases and gunfights with the bad guys. Before all issues are wrapped up, Mugure addresses a few subplots involving relatives and sorts through what seems like a cast of thousands to figure out who the bad guys really are. By the end, readers will be too befuddled to care. Novak creates a spectrum of work from the mediocre to the deliciously tongue-in-cheek. In Flax Hill, Boy makes actual friends, like beautiful, career-driven Mia, and begins a relationship with Arturo Whitman, a former history professor and widowed father.
Now a jewelry maker, Arturo lives with his little daughter, Snow, in close proximity to his mother, intimidating social matriarch Olivia. Not sure she loves him, Boy marries Arturo whose quiet goodness is increasingly endearing to the reader and Boy largely because she loves Snow, a fairhaired beauty who charms everyone she meets.
A debut collection of stories, ranging from two or three sentences to 18 or so pages, from Novak, best known for his work on The Office. Among the latter are a few sketches that read like standup material, occasionally witty but also occasionally falling flat. Audetat, Translator of Don But the price Evan must pay in order to make his plan work is high and requires a great sacrifice.
The question, Scofield poses, is how far will Evan go to succeed and get revenge on the people who have wronged him? This is a tale spun in staccato and somewhat lifeless prose. Scofield buries the plot under a mountain of name-dropping minutiae, to the point of regaling readers with the brand of shorts worn by a store clerk. An intriguing idea that could have been better executed but instead ends up top-heavy with dull technical detail, static writing and a hard-to-swallow conclusion. The primary locus of action is the Chameleon Club, a cabaret where entertainment edges toward the kinky.
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Evan, who works in finance, spends much of his free time. This accident changes the entire dynamic for the Mishra family. Meanwhile, Ajay begins to feel some pressure to be the academic star, something he succeeds in by graduating first in his high school class—he eventually attends Princeton, studies economics and becomes an investment banker. Along the way, he becomes enamored with Ernest Hemingway and begins to write short stories about his family life in the reportorial and flat style of the author he so admires—a style Sharma also adheres to in the writing of his novel.
A moving story of displacement and of the inevitable adjustments one must make when life circumstances change. In , Croatian villagers pooled together their worldly goods to buy weapons to use against advancing Serb forces, only to be left defenseless by a shadowy arms dealer who took the money and ran.
Nearly 20 years later, survivors of the brutal attack discover his identity and pay to have him killed to avenge the deaths. Harvey Gillot, the still-active, internationally successful arms dealer, regards this betrayal as the only blot on his record.
But it increasingly haunts him. When he learns his life is at risk, he goes underground, moving his family to a remote, southern part of England. In spite of his efforts to disappear, he is pursued not only by a young London hit man struggling to live up to crime family standards, but also a police detective, a customs agent, an NGO arms monitor and a retired intelligence officer.
Arms dealing, we learn, is not illegal under British law if certain conditions are met. The morality of moving weapons to various parts of the world is not so easily resolved. But it largely eschews action scenes in favor of a simmering, multilayered account of the past catching up to the present. Gillot is in a classic melancholic mode; readers who like more adrenalized thrillers might do better to look elsewhere. Those who are drawn to densely woven, slowly unfolding plots and thoughtful writing will rate this book a winner.
Given the chance to go back in time to catch a murderer, would you risk it? But three years have passed without a word. The unsolved case, however, has disgraced Lila, who soon finds herself dismissed not only from the police force, but also from her latest job as a security officer for a seamy hotel. Down and out, she has little to lose when Teddy Hawkins, tech mogul and billionaire, hires her to solve the mystery. First, she has to overcome her doubts about time travel. Teddy sets her up with a meticulously crafted alias as newly divorced socialite Camilla Dayton.
He also provides a thoroughly researched dossier on every victim and suspect. Quickly absorbed into the Miami Beach party scene, populated with shady art dealers, former reality show starlets and pushy real estate agents, Lila also finds what she never expected: The first in a series professionally packaged by the branding experts. Sharma, Akhil Norton pp. Tragically, just before Birju is about to begin at his new high school, he has an accident—he hits his head in a pool and stays unconscious With more drama than ratiocination, this is a breezy, light detective novel.
He now seems to be bringing those two identities together, recording most recently under his own name and turning his novelistic attention to his experiences in the music industry. Not that this is thinly disguised memoir, for it details a parallel history of rock through the career arc of the fictitious Wonderkids, formed by two brothers think Kinks, Oasis, Everlys who discover that they fill a previously unknown niche: Punk for kids whose parents like punk. Music for kids with cool parents.
The narrator, for reasons initially inexplicable, is a Dickensian urchin named Sweet who is adopted by the band specifically frontman Blake Lear to escape the tedium of his British boyhood. Stace, Wesley Overlook pp. Few would seem as qualified to write an incisive novel about the life of a touring musician as Stace. He initially attracted a cult following as a British singer-songwriter billed as John Wesley Harding and has. Yet the bigger problem with the novel, as with the touring rock life it depicts, is the tedium of repetition, the day-to-day-ness in which not much happens beyond stereotypes manager, record execs, etc.
The tale of Tripoli College is told piecemeal, in an accretion of memos, newspaper excerpts, diary entries, historical accounts, emails—and slave narratives, old and new. The college, an institution of higher learning that hardly dares call itself elite or Ivy League, manages, in spite of a recession-gutted endowment, to subsist thanks to its robust athletic department and innovative proxy college on St. Renard in the Caribbean. Renard, island habitat of the medicinal or poisonous? He quickly develops a crush on Maggie Bell, an African-American student from a privileged background, whose emails to her twin brother, Chris, reveal that she has a crush on charismatic history professor John Kabaka.
Renard to foment revolt. This forces it to resort to the only other large-scale sugar growing and refining mechanism possible: In arch language mirroring everything from annual report puffery to 17th-century castaway journals, Thier manages to lampoon corporate evil without ever underestimating or dismissing it. An improbable laugh riot. A trio of stubbornly relentless fictions on sex and death and infidelity and sex and death and infidelity.
Experimentalist Steiner Negative Space, , etc. The prose is marked by its gynecological and scatological candor and a repetitive style that might tire Gertrude Stein. Inviolate follows the musings of a woman whose husband lies comatose after a fall from a balcony; what she mainly ponders is the nature of consciousness and her affairs but more repetitively than with depth. This last story benefits from the intimacy of a first-person narrator and a sense of detail a beloved coat, cigarettes, Parisian streets that makes its pseudophilosophical intonations feel less wooly.
The book is orthographically punishing as well: Paragraph breaks are rare, making every page feel like a gray-prose tombstone. Pretentious, cold and exhausting. Grace Montoya, the student and lover who found his body, withdraws from campus life, emerging only long enough to seduce her adoring roommate, Imogen, before she dies by violence herself. Precious little post-postmodernism, or even pre-postpostmodernism, is on display; Naked Came the Outraged Feminist would have been a more accurate title. She becomes more than an onlooker, however, in her attempts to help prompter Hester Winstone, who makes a suicidal gesture because of a one-night stand with lead actor Neville Prideaux.
When Goode is found hanged on the prop gallows, Jude and Carole discreetly investigate the other members of the cast—the beleaguered director, the set carpenter who built the gallows, the supremely self-idolizing Elizaveta—to find out whether the hanging was accidental. Or did the pompous and womanizing Goode have more enemies than anyone realized? Although Brett A Decent Interval, , etc. The abrupt return to the comfort of levity is as unconvincing as the murder motive itself. Alber, Lisa Muskrat Press pp. Merrit McCallum grew up in the shadow of a photograph of the old Irish church in the village where her parents met.
He fathered two daughters by different women yet is still unmarried and lives only with his adopted son, Kevin. Kevin, one of his closest friends, fears being displaced by both Merrit and her half sister, who, like Merrit, has come to Lisfenora to find the answers about her mother and about Liam. Blackmail schemes, a second murder, and odd clues like a cake and a bloody afghan point to heartbreak, revenge, and past and present betrayal near the ruins of Our Lady of the Kilmoon.
In her moody debut, Alber skillfully uses many shades of gray to draw complex characters who discover how cruel love can be. Ursula Blanchard is doing her best to live quietly in Surrey with her young son Harry, the offspring of a liaison with the first husband she had thought dead but met on her last perilous mission on the Continent. Since Wyse works for Lord Burghley, Ursula heads for London, where she learns that Wyse is already off on another errand. In the meantime, a man who lived on the Cobbold estate is also found murdered while carrying a letter in cipher.
Putting up one of her estates as bail for Brockley, Ursula, along with Brockley and his wife, Dale, heads off hoping to find Wyse at the home of his man-eating mother. They discover that Wyse was half brother to the recently beheaded Duke of Norfolk. Desperate to save her servant, Ursula realizes that the mysterious cipher may hold the answer. An amateur dramatic production turns deadly in the latest Fethering cozy. Jude Nichol, a former model and actor, has settled comfortably into her life as a healer in the English village of Fethering.
When Storm Lavelle, one of her clients, asks Jude to bring a favorite prop for a production of the Smalting Amateur Drama and Operatic Society, Jude has her first chance to Now the Cackleberry Club has to discover what he knew. The plus female formula might work for longtime readers of Childs Postcards From the Dead, , etc.