Few know the city of Los
Angeles the way #1 bestselling author and acclaimed suspense master
Jonathan Kellerman does. His thrilling novels of psychological drama and
criminal detection make the capital of dreams a living, breathing
character in all its glamour and infamy. That storied history of fame,
seduction, scandal, and murder looms large in Mystery, as Alex Delaware finds himself drawn into a twisting, shadowy whodunit that’s pure L.A. noir—and vintage Kellerman. The
closing of their favorite romantic rendezvous, the Fauborg Hotel in
Beverly Hills, is a sad occasion for longtime patrons Alex Delaware and
Robin Castagna. And gathering one last time with their fellow faithful
habitués for cocktails in the gracious old venue makes for a bittersweet
evening. But even more poignant is a striking young woman—alone and
enigmatic among the revelers—waiting in vain in elegant attire and dark
glasses that do nothing to conceal her melancholy. Alex can’t help
wondering what her story is, and whether she’s connected to the silent,
black-suited bodyguard lingering outside the hotel.Two days
later, Alex has even more to contemplate when police detective Milo
Sturgis comes seeking his psychologist comrade’s insights about a grisly
homicide. To Alex’s shock, the brutalized victim is the same beautiful
woman whose lonely hours sipping champagne at the Fauborg may have been
her last.But with a mutilated body and no DNA match, she remains
as mysterious in death as she seemed in life. And even when a tipster’s
sordid revelation finally cracks the case open, the dark secrets that
spill out could make Alex and Milo’s best efforts to close this horrific
crime not just impossible but fatal. Views: 51
From the author of USA Today bestseller The Girl With All the Gifts, a terrifying new novel set in the same post-apocalyptic world.Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived. Views: 51
Life is fury. Fury—sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal—drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise—the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untrammeled lord of creation. We raise each other to the heights of joy. We tear each other limb from bloody limb. Views: 51
As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays*, Tuff* shows off all of the amazing skill that Paul Beatty showed off in his first novel, The White Boy Shuffle.Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of millions from his idea Cap’n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito. His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and his wife, Yolanda, he married from jail over the phone. Shrewdly comical as this dazzling novel is, it turns acerbically sublime when the frustrated Tuffy agrees to run for City Council. Smartly irreverent and edgily fierce, Tuff is a bona fide original. Views: 50
Review“Strange and wonderful. Magical and smart. FÉlix J. Palma has done more than written a wonderful novel, he’s concocted a supernatural tour de force. Time travel, tragic love, murder and mystery all combine in what is nothing short of a surprising, satisfying and mesmerizing read.” – M.J. Rose, International Bestseller "_The Map of Time_ recalls the science fiction of Wells and Verne, and then turns the early masters on their heads. A brilliant and breathtaking trip through metafictional time." --Scott Westerfeld, New York Times bestselling author of Leviathan "Palma makes his U.S. debut with the brilliant first in a trilogy, an intriguing thriller that explores the ramifications of time travel in three intersecting narratives." -- starred Publishers Weekly review "Readers who embark on the journey...will be richly rewarded. --starred Booklist review "Lyrical storytelling and a rich attention to detail make this prize-winning novel an enthralling read." --starred Library Journal Review “_The Map of Time _is a singularly inventive, luscious story with a core of pure, unsettling weirdness. With unnerving grace and disturbing fantasy, it effortlessly straddles that impossible line between being decidedly familiar, and yet absolutely new.” --Cherie Priest, author of Boneshaker "The Map of Time is a singularly inventive, luscious story with a core of pure, unsettling weirdness. With unnerving grace and disturbing fantasy, it effortlessly straddles that impossible line between being decidedly familiar, and yet absolutely new." --Cherie Priest, author of BoneshakerProduct DescriptionTHE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSet in Victorian London with char-acters real and imagined, The Map of Time is a page-turner that boasts a triple play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H. G. Wells is called upon to investigate purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence. What happens if we change history? Félix J. Palma explores this question in The Map of Time, weaving a historical fantasy as imaginative as it is exciting—a story full of love and adventure that transports readers to a haunting setting in Victorian London for their own taste of time travel. Views: 50
