Fiction, June 2006
General Fiction |Mysteries |Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
General Fiction
- Ackroyd, Peter
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In this lighthearted follow-up to his biography of Shakespeare, Ackroyd weaves fact and fiction around the literary hoax that involved real-life essayist Charles Lamb, his sister Mary, and William Ireland, a bookseller who discovered a trove of the Bard's documents, including an unknown play.
- Arana, Marie
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Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this novel of miracles his dream has come true — until he discovers the recipe for cellophane and releases a hilarious plague of truth.
- Ball, Margaret
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From the mire of war-torn medieval France rises an unlikely heroine, a noblewoman as brilliant as she is young and beautiful. Inlaid with rich historical detail, this novel breathes youth into an ancient story, that of the girl-queen who would one day join France with England under the Plantagenet name.
- Bird, Sarah
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The passion and danger attached to flamenco flows through this new novel by the author of The Yokota Officers Club, — a story of two young American women caught up in the fevered excitement of the flamenco revival sweeping the Southwest.
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan
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In a novel that is at once a thrilling road trip across America and a moving tale about love, language and who we are, the author of The inner circle and Drop city offers a timely story about a woman in desperate pursuit of a man who has stolen her identity.
- Casey, Tom
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Pilot and adventurer Jason Walker follows his bliss — into the sensuous arms of sultry Charlotte Lansing. Unfortunately, Charlotte's husband, Alan, is a Wall Street raider, a drug-lord money-launderer and a particularly perverse pornographer who marks Jason and Charlotte for murder.
- Eisler, Barry
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Even for the average citizen, a love triangle is dangerous business. For assassin John Rain, it's going to be downright deadly.
- Estleman, Loren D.
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Johnny Vermillion's theater troupe brings masterpieces to the Wild West. The four actors bustle in and out of costumes while one of them robs the local bank. A Pinkerton man notices the news reports of stage performances one day and bank robberies the next, and he sets a clever trap.
- Goldstein, Judy
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Dr. Shelley Green, hired by the trendiest pediatrics practice in Manhattan, soon becomes an Upper East Side necessity to the fabulously rich-with-kids crowd. Now she's weekending in the Hamptons, baffling her schoolteacher fiance, and cheating with a blue-blood hunk.
- Hoffman, Wayne
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As Faggots explored the 1970s sexual universe of gay men in New York, Hard takes a serious look a generation later, taking readers into adult theaters, online chat rooms, bedrooms and into the minds of gay men.
- Judson, Daniel
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During a bone-chilling snap of record cold weather, a series of enigmatic drowning deaths play out in a small summer resort community on Long Island's Shinnecock Bay. From Shamus Award winner Judson comes a riveting, accomplished crime novel set in the seedy underside of the Hamptons.
- Johansen, Iris
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From The New York Times' bestselling author Johansen comes her most suspense-filled thriller to date — a pulse-pounding shocker that pits a mother and son against a killer who's the stuff of nightmares.
- Lashner, William
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A missing girl, a stolen painting and a mysterious tattoo lead attorney Victor Carl into his most challenging case yet.
- Lowell, Elizabeth
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Catherine Silva clawed her way out of poverty to become a highly respected judge. When she seeks out Joe Faroe — a former kidnap specialist for a global business — to help rescue her son from a violent killer, past and present collide.
- Malkani, Gautam
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Malkani's debut comic novel portrays the lives of young Muslim, Sikh and Hindu men in the ethnically challenged enclave of one of the biggest western cities, London.
- Montefiore, Santa
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Determined to learn the truth about her dead mother — a woman she barely knew — Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy to uncover a mysterious tale of decadence, deception and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants and counts, and discovers the gateway to her own happiness.
- Moore, Jane
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Turning the tables on the usual sympathy for first wives, Moore's dishy novel is a look at "second wives," who must contend with malicious gossip, scheming divorce lawyers and ex-wives intent on sabotaging their relationships.
- Spindler, Erica
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When the Sleeping Angel Killer takes the lives of three young children, homicide detective Kitt Lundgren's career is destroyed. Now the killer is back — or are the new crimes the work of a copycat?
- Stella, Charlie
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For three months now, ex-bookmaker Bobby G has been heading down the straight and narrow. Then his old boss flips and rats on his Mafioso associates. And before you can say the Mott Street Shadows, the wiseguys' shakedown is escalating into warfare with a Chinese gang in the heart of Little Italy. Bobby G has got trouble.
- Veitch, Rick
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A new 350-page graphic novel explores the post-9/11 American landscape.
- Weber, Katherine
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The last living survivor of the notorious 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire has told her stories countless times. Even so, her death at the age of 106 leaves unanswered many questions. Are the discrepancies in her various accounts over the years just ordinary human fallacy, or is there a hidden story in Esther's recollections of that terrible day?
- Yarbrough, Steve
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A PEN/Faulkner finalist for Prisoners of war, Yarbrough returns to the Mississippi Delta — seen through the historical lens of World War II in that novel, and of Jim Crow in his previous, Visible spirits — but now in the blinding light of contemporary life.
Mysteries
- Bayard, Louis
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In this ingenious tale of murder and revenge at West Point, a retired New York City detective recuits a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe to help him narrow down the suspects, even as they deal with their own personal demons.
- Campbell, David
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On the eve of Il Porto gallery's opening, Kate Fujimori leaps across Venice's rooftops — an easy routine for an expert cat burglar like herself. But her well-planned heist of the gallery's featured painting, a famed Mona Lisa forgery, goes uncharacteristically wrong. It's not long before Kate realizes her headaches are only just beginning.
- Delany, Vicki
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Elaine Benson comes to a "primitive, untamed northern forest" on Lake Muskoka to interview for a job — elderly Moira Madison wishes to write her memoirs, specifically her years with the Canadian Army Nursing Sisters of World War II. Somehow the project stirs someone to murder.
- Enright, Tracey
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Wealthy 30-something Claire Fontaine and messy PI Henry Bennett make an odd couple on the trail of a fiend who neatly cut the throat of Beth Valentine, a young party girl.
- Ferris, Monica
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While going through a murder victim's effects, her niece and friends discover an embroidered pillow with only 49 stars and a lining stitched with a map of Lake Minnetonka. The women intend to follow the threads which may lead to treasure or conceal a secret that someone would kill to keep. Three knitting patterns are included in this book.
- Gimenez-Bartlett, Alicia
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In this hardboiled fiction for dog lovers and lovers of dog mysteries, detective Petra Delicado and her sidekick, Garzon, investigate the murder of a tramp whose only friend is a mongrel dog named Fright. One murder leads to another and Delicado finds herself involved in the sordid, dangerous world of fight dogs.
- Hudgins, Maria
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Dotsy Lamb, history professor and recently divorced empty nester, and her friend Lettie, are on a group tour of Italy when a singularly obnoxious woman, traveling with her two younger sisters, is murdered in her Florence hotel room. Then, while visiting the Piazzale Michelangelo, a member of the tour group falls over a balustrade. It appears to be an accident, but Dotsy believes it's another murder, and she sets out to prove it.
- Kandel, Susan
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Amateur sleuth Cece Caruso is back in another vintage mystery. Cece is thrilled that her biography of Dashiell Hammett is headed for the big screen, and she's getting paid to tutor the gorgeous actor cast as the lead. Too bad he might also be a killer.
- King, Laurie
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When San Francisco detective Kate Martinelli arrives at a murder scene, she discovers a shocking tableau: the dead man may have been killed for the century-old manuscript he had recently acquired — a manuscript purportedly written by Sherlock Holmes.
- Knopf, Chris
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Ex-boxer, ex-corporate executive and accidental hero of The last refuge, Sam Aquillo is enjoying a drink with a lady friend at an East Hampton restaurant when a nearby car and its driver are firebombed out of existence. Sam and his buddy, retired cop Joe Sullivan, follow the trail of the victim, wealthy consultant Jonathan Eldridge, and find shady financial transfers, angry clients and estranged relatives.
- Levine, Laura
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Joining the PMS club — a women's support group that meets once a week over guacamole and margaritas to commiserate about love and life — proves to be a curse more than a blessing for Jaine. Though she is warned that the hostess makes a guacamole to die for, Jaine never takes the warning literally until another PMS member drops dead.
- Ramsay, Frederick
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As Frank Smith boards a plane headed for his 50th class reunion, he leaves behind him the highly suspicious disappearance of his wife four years before and the relentless quest of the investigator who thinks he had something to do with it.
- Scoppettone, Sandra
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It's July 1943, and it's hotter than hades in New York City. Sweltering in the heat, and awash in tears, Claire Turner arrives at the Times Square office of PI Faye Quick and begs Faye to find her missing boyfriend, army private Charlie Ladd, who has been AWOL for three days. The last thing Faye expects when she takes the case is to become embroiled in a kidnapping, a shooting and two murders.
Horror/Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Asher, Neal L.
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Mysterious aliens, ruthless terrorists, androids with attitude, genetic manipulation, punch-ups with lasers and giant spaceships — what more do you want?
- Duncan, Dave
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In the first volume in this series, the Doge of Celebre swore allegiance to the Bloodlord to spare his city from inevitable sack, and his four children were taken hostage. Now fifteen years later, the hostages have grown up. They must find one another, return to their homeland, claim their inheritance and gain revenge on their enemies.
- Stross, Charles
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"Bruce Sterling on speed? The imagination of Sterling squared? All of the glitz, glibly tossed-off newly invented, or hybrid tech-terms thrown at the reader like an info blizzard at hurricane force, but with more core storyline than in some of Sterling's Deep Eddy stories? ...if you like Sterling, you're gonna love Stross. In an ironic sense, Bruce Sterling was the buffer we needed to be able to handle Charles Stross." Tangent.