In sultry summer of 1975 on the Kansas plains, a rowdy bunch known locally as “the boys” skirt the fine line of felonious law by harvesting wild hemp to sell on the illegal market. Better known as marijuana, the hemp grows thick across three counties and tempts the adventurous spirit…
Peggy KurkowskiMay 31, 2022
“Li invites readers along for a ride in the crew’s roving getaway car, promising breathtaking vistas and, more importantly, a reckoning with colonial legacies that have long lingered in the shadows.” —Boston Globe “A cinematic heist thriller with a social conscience … vivid and precisely crafted.” —BookPage “Portrait of a…
Jennifer BlankfeinJune 2, 2022
"A compelling, atmospheric series debut. Schellman expertly creates a strong sense of pace, introducing a nightclub as a world where people of different races, classes, and sexual orientations can come together." —Library Journal "Excellent ... Vivian proves to be a most imaginative sleuth. Readers will eagerly await her return." ―Publishers…
Claudia KeenanJune 6, 2022
"Very few post-apocalyptic novels have the literary qualities of this one. ... Like all the best authors in the genre, David Yoon is willing to ask what ‘the End of the World’ really means — and provide the reader with a thoughtful, heartfelt answer." —San Francisco Chronicle —∞— Imagine waking…
Guy BergstromJune 7, 2022
“Do you know what it’s like to hear laughter all around you when you’re bleeding inside?” In Murder at the Olympiad (Atmosphere Press), New York Times notable author James Gilbert peels back the veneer of a tourist destination on the Mexican Riviera to follow the inner workings of an ongoing…
Michael FerryMay 12, 2022
“A brisk, enjoyable supernatural tale of black magic and powerful spells.” —Kirkus Reviews “A suspenseful urban horror sequel with magic, devilry, and inspired surprises.” —Booklife —∞— Get ready for a suspenseful ride into a dark, sometimes gruesome tale in Ron Gabriel’s The Pawns (Gramercy Fiction), one that will keep readers…
Monique SnymanMay 13, 2022
India is a country of juxtapositions: abject poverty neighboring the well-to-do, garbage spoiling on city streets and fragrant foods on restaurant tables, harsh sunlight burning the air outside dusky rooms with thick embroidered curtains. Sanjeeta Behera brings all this to her readers in Mrs. Varman, offering a complicated backdrop to…
Sherri DaleyMay 19, 2022
Jack Carr, once again, puts his years as a Navy SEAL to splendid use in In the Blood (Atria), his fifth book to feature his literary doppelgänger James Reece, which reads like a hybrid combination of Trevanian’s Shibumi and the best of Robert Ludlum. The classic opening features a plane…
Jon LandMay 20, 2022
Junior Fish and Wildlife Project Manager Becca Olsen is desperate to save her wolves, her relationship and her job in the desolate New Mexico desert, but something is horribly wrong in the quiet wilderness. When the perky voice of the dimpled desk jockey fails to assure ranchers that their cattle…
Wyatt SemenukMay 5, 2022
Books don’t come with a “sell by” date, yet it sometimes seems that once the initial flurry of publicity heralding a debut passes, it is easy to overlook even a rare find. The temptation to grab a current bestseller may be too easy to resist, and you might miss some…
Linda HitchcockMay 11, 2022
The speaker in Isabel Cañas’ remarkable blend of suspense, horror, romance and supernatural gothic, The Hacienda (Berkley), is Beatriz, 20, the new bride of a rich Mexican landowner named Don Rodolfo. The year is 1823, shortly after the bloody Mexican War of Independence, and Beatriz’s family had the misfortune of…
Neil NyrenApril 29, 2022
“I think we’ve found the new Vince Flynn. His name is Don Bentley.” I wrote that about two years ago for BookTrib after reading Bentley’s debut novel, Without Sanction. I’m now on my fourth Bentley book. Allow me to renew my assessment that Bentley belongs in the top tiers of today’s…
Dennis HetzelMay 3, 2022
In David Baldacci’s third Archer adventure, Dream Town (Grand Central), the Pacific Coast Highway leads PI Aloysius Archer and his spiffy 1939 blood-red Delahaye convertible from Bay Town, CA, to Hollywood. As if transported by a time machine, Baldacci immerses readers into the 1950s, an era of flashy films and…
Jodé MillmanApril 20, 2022
Deep in the bowels of the jungle in Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), an ancient virus, dormant for millennia, erupts and spreads at an alarming rate. In bestselling author James Rollins’ newest jaw-clenching thriller, Kingdom of Bones (William Morrow), Book 16 of his Sigma Force series, the “scientific warriors”…
K.L. RomoApril 21, 2022