Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 22
"One of America's finest writers."—San Francisco Chronicle "Concentrated bursts of perfection."—The Times (London) "Shimmering stories that possess the power and charm to move us." —The New York Times "Exhilarating."—Harper's Magazine "Outstanding."—Christian Science Monitor "Eisenberg simply writes like no one else."—Elle "Eisenberg's stories possess all the steely beauty of a knife wrapped in velvet."—The Boston Globe "Dazzling."—Time Out New York "Magic."—Newsweek "Comic, elegant and pitch perfect."—Vanity Fair "One of the great fiction writers living in America today."—The Dallas Morning News "There aren't many contemporary novels as shudderingly intimate and mordantly funny as Eisenberg's best stories."—The New York Times Book ReviewSince 1986 with the publication of her first story collection, Deborah... Views: 22
The eerie thing about Paige Adolpha wasn't how she turned up right when I was reading about her in the paper. It wasn't her fame as the star witness in the local werewolf trial. What brought on the gooseflesh, first time I saw her, was she's the spitting image of her murdered identical twin. Views: 22
'Returning to Dublin from narcotics work in Spain and Portugal, Detective Inspector Mike Mulcahy is instantly called to the hospital where the victim of a nasty sexual assault is being tended to – and she happens to be the daughter of a high-ranking politician. Jesica didn’t see much of her attacker, and is hardly able to speak of it, but she remembers that he made the sign of the cross over her before he left her, bloody and violated. Mulcahy discovers similarities in other attacks involving a gold cross of some kind, taken from the victims of the attacks. What strange religious fascination does the attacker have? The story is leaked by ambitious journalist Siobhan Fallon, who Mulcahy had been starting to see romantically. When a body is found and the case turns into murder – and the media start calling the killer The Priest – Siobhan starts looking into the attacks by herself…From Publishers WeeklyA sadist targets young women in O'Donovan's derivative second novel, a step down from his debut, White Lion, shortlisted for the CWA's Debut Dagger. When Insp. Mike Mulcahy returns to Ireland after a prestigious antinarcotics posting in Madrid, the contacts he made in Spain make him valuable to the police detectives assigned to identify the brute that assaulted Jesica Mellado Salazar, the Spanish interior minister's 16-year-old daughter, who was found in a Dublin road early one morning with severe burns on her genitals. Before the inquiry can make much progress, Jesica's father has her spirited away to recover at home. When the object used to burn her is identified as a gold crucifix, the target of the probe becomes known as "the Priest." As the fiend claims more victims, Mulcahy's love interest, reporter Siobhan Fallon, hypes the Priest as a national menace. The police follow all too familiar procedural lines, while Mulcahy needs to be a more distinctive lead if he's to sustain a series. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. From BooklistThe familiar plot'serial killer pursued by policeman with problems of his own'is given a Dublin setting coinciding with the ending of the Catholic Church's steel grip on Ireland. Indeed, O'Donovan suggests, a bit creepily, that stopping a psycho who mutilates his victims with a crucifix is symbolic of the end of Catholicism's reign in Ireland. But that, like the hunt for the killer, doesn't command O'Donovan's full attention. We have yards of prose about our hero's conflicts with coworkers, whose woes are detailed, too. Same with the woman reporter covering the story, who becomes the hero's sexual partner. She doesn't always get along with her editor. The latter third of the novel, when the clues come together, the red herrings are discarded, and the chase is finally on, finally catches fire. For many, that will be too late. The novel is recommended for readers who like to 'live in' a book and soak up the crisply rendered atmosphere. The problem here is that Ireland without the church has become, as one character says, 'just another country.' --Don Crinklaw Views: 22
My name is Cally Louise Fisher and I haven't spoken for thirty-one days. Talking doesn't always make things happen, however much you want them to.Cally Fisher saw her mum bright and real and alive. But no one believes her, so Cally's stopped talking.A mysterious wolfhound always seems to be there when her mum appears and now he's started following her everywhere. But how can Cally convince anyone that Mum is still with them, or persuade Dad that the huge silver-grey dog is their last link with her?An outstandingly assured debut novel from a sparkling new talent. Views: 22
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Destiny Called - They Answered In the dark recesses of Tyria, elder dragons have awoken from millennial slumbers. First came Primordus, which stirred in the Depths forcing the asura to flee to the surface. Half a century later, Jormag awoke and drove the norn from the frozen climes of the Northern Shiverpeaks, corrupting sons and brothers along the way. A generation later, Zhaitan arose in a cataclysmic event that reshaped a continent and flooded the capital of the human nation of Kryta. The races of Tyria stand on the edge of destiny. Heroes have battled against dragon minions, only to be corrupted into service of the enemy. Armies have marched on the dragons and been swep aside. The dwarves sacrificed their entire race to defeat a single dragon champion. The age of mortals may soon be over. This is a time for heroes. While the races of Tyria stand apart, six heroic individuals will come together to fight for their people: Eir, the norn huntress with the soul of an artist; Snaff, the asuran genius, and his ambitious assistant Zojja; Rytlock, the ferocious charr warrior in exile; Caithe, a deadly sylvari with deep secrets; and Logan, the valiant human guardian dealing with divided loyalties. Together they become Destiny’s Edge. Together they answer the call. But will it be enough? Views: 22
After Archangels materialise over the bloodbaths of WWII, they take up residence in most of the world’s major cities. But what would happen if, more than quarter of a century later, something somehow managed to kill these supreme beings? Killarney knows and, as an agent working for the Bureau, a British agency that’s so secret it doesn’t officially exist, she finds herself embroiled in the consequences as, one by one, the Archangels die. Assigned to trace a missing cryptographer thought to have information on the murders, she travels from England, through France, heading for the frozen wastes of the USSR. But there’s an unknown third party intent on stopping her, and there’s God, who also has an agenda. Not knowing who is friend and who is foe, and with only a brief glimpse of a swastika on angel wings as solid information, Killarney struggles to remain alive long enough to glean sufficient information to put together the pieces of the puzzle and complete what is, without them, an impossible mission. Blurb: “Sharp, brutal, cool–yet also stunningly imaginative and perfectly realised.” –Michael Marshall, bestselling author of The Straw Men trilogy Cover art by Vitaly S. Alexius Views: 22
Kerine White and Joshua Somers parted ways over a year ago on less than pleasant terms. The former couple decided that staying as far away from one another as possible was the best option for both. Kerine had finally recovered from the break-up and settled on never having to lay eyes on the handsome Joshua ever again. Joshua had resolved not to return to his hometown to face the beautiful woman who still held his heart. Now, the impending wedding day of two mutual friends has forced the lovers back into one another’s lives and in to each other’s arms. Will the pair be able to get it right this time around or are they destined to be apart for good? Views: 22
Now best known for her New York Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels, Charlaine Harris hit "a home run the first time out" (Birmingham News) with the story of a murder that embroils a small-town reporter in mystery that hits close to home… Catherine Linton has returned to her hometown of Lowfield, Mississippi, unconvinced that the death of her parents in a car crash six months earlier was an accident. And her suspicions are confirmed when she stumbles upon the dead and beaten body of her doctor-father's longtime nurse. There are secrets being kept in Lowfield. And the town where Catherine grew up may be the same place where she is sent to her grave… Views: 22
