Booklist articles from May 2007

Booklist archives from May 2007

Books for youth.(Booklist Online)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... If you're one of the Booklist readers who regularly turn to Books for Youth, Booklist Online offers a variety of ways to access and mine the same--and more--content. For starters, you can bookmark the Books for Youth landing page as your port...

More options for children's books.(Booklist Online)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Those of you who regularly use Booklist for selecting new materials may prefer to use the Browse Current Print Issue option, which lets you see the latest reviews in the arrangement found in the print magazine. If you're interested in...

Dershowitz, Alan. Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Dershowitz, Alan. Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence. June 2007. 185p. Wiley, $22.95 (9780470084557). 342 This author, if it needs explaining, is a renowned lawyer and Harvard law professor,...

Novak, Robert D. The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Novak, Robert D. The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington. July 2007.672p. illus. Crown, $29.95 (9781400051991). 070.92, Novak immediately cuts to the chase, beginning this memoir with his first in-person encounter with...

Politkovskaya, Anna. A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Politkovskaya, Anna. A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia. May 2007. 400p. Random, $45.95 (1-8465-5102-1). 947.086. Politkovskaya was murdered in her apartment shortly after...

Green, Jane. Second Chance.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Green, Jane. Second Chance. June 2007. 343p. Viking, $23.95 (9780670038572). General Fiction. Green, author of chick-lit favorites Swapping Lives (2006) and The Other Woman (2005), explores the way one man's death affects the lives of his...

Pilcher, Robin. Starburst.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Pilcher, Robin. Starburst. Aug. 2007. 352p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-35434-7). General Fiction. Since 1947, Edinburgh, Scotland, has hosted an annual three-week international festival featuring music, dance, and comedy....

Shirley, Paul. Can I Keep My Jersey? 11 Teams, 6 Years, 5 Countries, and My So-Called Career as a Professional Basketball Player.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Shirley, Paul. Can I Keep My Jersey? 11 Teams, 6 Years, 5 Countries, and My So-Called Career as a Professional Basketball Player. May 2007. 336p. Villard, $23.95 (0-345-49136-X). 796.323 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Paul Shirley is 6 feet...

Castillo, Ana. The Guardians.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Castillo, Ana. The Guardians. July 2007. 224p. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6500-3). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I don't think they could come up with a horror movie worse than the situation we got going on en la frontera,"...

The year's best crime novels.(MYSTERY SHOWCASE)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Inflation has hit this year's top 10 list: it's become the top 11. Like an airline coping with an overbooked flight, we asked for volunteers to step down, but when no one was forthcoming, we did what airlines never...

A hard-boiled gazetteer to Scandinavia.(MYSTERY SHOWCASE)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the pages of Booklist over the last 10 years, there have been numerous mentions of the "Scandinavian invasion"--a, bit melodramatic, perhaps, but the term does capture the sudden arrival in the U.S. of a wave of...

Mystery travel.(MYSTERY SHOWCASE)(Scandinavian travel guides)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Remote? Hardly. Scandinavia is sophisticated and cosmopolitan, and travelers there have plenty to choose from--not only in places to go and crime novels to read but also in travel guides to take along. Bjorgen, Anne Marit. The Norway Bed &...

Writers and readers: stalking Charles Willeford's elusive Grimhaven.(MYSTERY SHOWCASE)
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You won't find Charles Willeford's lost Hoke Moseley novel, Grimhaven, through the corner bookshop, Amazon, Alibris, or even eBay But you might be able to read it at your local library--so long as you live in...

Core Collection: historical mystery timeline.(MYSTERY SHOWCASE)
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For readers who like to combine their mystery with a bit of history, here is a historical mystery series chronology ranging from ancient times to the early twentieth century. From the many available series, we...

Randy Wayne White.(The Booklist Interview)(Interview)
May 1, 2007... Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford crime novels, starring the Sanibel Island marine biologist and reluctant operative for an under-the-radar offshoot of the CIA, have grown steadily in popularity and critical acclaim since Sanibel Flats, the first in...

Abbott, Megan. Queenpin.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Abbott, Megan. Queenpin. June 2007. 192p. Simon & Schuster, paper, $13 (1-4165-3428-8). Working from her story in the anthology Damn Near Dead (2006), noir's reigning crown princess delivers a royally entertaining rumination on toxic...

Albert, Susan Wittig. Spanish Dagger.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Albert, Susan Wittig. Spanish Dagger. May 2007. 320p. Berkley, $23.95 (0-425-21394-3). China Bayles and her business partner, Ruby, have their hands full in the latest installment in Albert's long-running series. The herb shop, tearoom,...

Atkinson, Deborah Turrell. Fire Prayer.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Atkinson, Deborah Turrell. Fire Prayer. Aug. 2007. 296p. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (1-59058-402-3). In her third adventure, attorney Storm Kayama and her lover, Ian Hamlin, travel to unspoiled Molokai, in the Hawaiian Islands, where they meet...

Axelrod, George. Blackmailer.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Axelrod, George. Blackmailer. May 2007. 256p. Hard Case Crime, paper, $6.99 (0-8439-5772-7). Dick Sherman, a principal in a small publishing firm, is startled by the arrival of a beautiful woman who offers to sell him a heretofore unknown...

Billingham, Mark. Buried.(Tom Thorne series )(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Billingham, Mark. Buried. Aug. 2007. 405p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-125569-6). The sixth entry in the Tom Thorne series finds the London homicide detective assigned to a kidnap detail seeking out the teenage son of a retired police...

Abu-Jaber, Diana. Origin.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Abu-Jaber, Diana. Origin. June 2007. 384p. Norton, $23.95 (9780393064551). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Admirers of Abu-Jaber's previous exquisite and witty novels will be surprised that she has written a mystery, albeit one poetic in tone...

Baldacci, David. Simple Genius.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Baldacci, David. Simple Genius. May 2007. 432p.Warner, $26.99 (0-446-58034-1). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This follow-up to 2004's Hour Game begins with Michelle Maxwell, the former Secret Service agent turned private investigator,...

Borg, Todd. Tahoe Silence.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Borg, Todd. Tahoe Silence. Aug. 2007. 352p. Thriller, paper, $16.95 (9781931296151). When Charlie and his sister SalAnne "Silence" Ramirez disappear from their front lawn, their mother, Marlette, cries "kidnap" to the local police, and...

Buchanan, Edna. Love Kills.(Britt Montero mystery series)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Buchanan, Edna. Love Kills. June 2007. 320p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-74329476-9). Miami crime reporter Britt Montero, on the mend emotionally after losing her fiance in a shootout (The Ice Maiden, 2002), decides work is the best medicine....

Burke, Alafair. Dead Connection.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Burke, Alafair. Dead Connection. July 2007. 336p. Holt, $19.95 (0-8050-7785-5). New York City is worlds away from Ellie Hatcher's childhood home of Wichita, Kansas. While the rookie detective has come to feel at home in Manhattan, memories...

Camilleri, Andrea. The Patience of the Spider.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Camilleri, Andrea. The Patience of the Spider. Tr. by Stephen Sartarelli. May 2007. 256p. Penguin, paper, $13 (9780143112037). On the mend from the gunshot wound he sustained at the conclusion of Rounding the Mark (2006), police inspector...

Barnard, Robert. A Fall from Grace.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Barnard, Robert. A Fall from Grace. May 2007. 272p. Scribner, $24 (0-7432-7220-X). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Barnard, who has won just about every mystery award there is, including the Malice Domestic Lifetime Achievement Award and the...

Cleeves, Ann. Raven Black.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Cleeves, Ann. Raven Black. June 2007. 384p. St. Martin's/Minotaur/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-35966-7). On the remote island of Shetland, teacher Fran Hunter is walking home when she spots a splash of red in the deep, white snowdrifts, with...

Connolly, John. The Unquiet.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Connolly, John. The Unquiet. May 2007. 432p. Atria, $25.99 (0-7432-9893-4). Daniel Clay, a psychiatrist alleged to have worked with a child-abuse ring, is missing and presumed dead. His grown daughter, Rebecca, is being stalked by an...

Cook, Marshall. Twin Killing.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Cook, Marshall. Twin Killing. May 2007. 221p. Bleak House, $24.95 (9781932557381); paper, $14.95 (9781932557329). When her twin sister's son, Aidan, is arrested for marijuana possession, small-town newspaper editor Monona "Mo" Quinn rushes...

Cotterill, Colin. Anarchy and Old Dogs.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Cotterill, Colin. Anarchy and Old Dogs. Aug. 2007. 288p. Soho, $23 (9781569474631). Two years after the Pathet Lao takeover, there is already a plot afoot to overthrow the Communist government of Laos. Or at least that's what the death of...

Bowen, Rhys. Her Royal Spyness.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Bowen, Rhys. Her Royal Spyness. July 2007. 336p. Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95 (0-425-21567-9). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bowen, the Agatha winner responsible for the popular Molly Murphy series, has come up with another winner in her new...

Cut to the chase.(HE READS ... MYSTERY)(thriller books)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... These may be the last words you'll ever read. Naw--Im Just messing with you. I've just always wanted to start something with a bang, like those great Richard Stark thrillers: "When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man." How...

Craig, Philip R. Vineyard Stalker.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Craig, Philip R. Vineyard Stalker. June 2007. 256p. Scribner, $24 (0-7432-7045-2). With his wife, Zee, and the children gone to "America"--what those who live full-time on Martha's Vineyard call the mainland--J. W. Jackson is enough at...

Davis, Lindsey. Saturnalia.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Davis, Lindsey. Saturnalia. May 2007. 320p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $23.95 (0-31236129-7). A rebellious German priestess and a murdered nobleman keep informer-investigator Marcus Didius Falco busy in Davis' eighteenth historical whodunit...

Dufosse, Christophe. School's Out.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Dufosse, Christophe. School's Out. Tr. by Shaun Whiteside. June 2007. 326p. Penguin, paper, $14 (9780143038115). In this stylish update of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, debut novelist Dufosse substitutes French middle-school...

Eglin, Anthony. The Water Lily Cross.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Eglin, Anthony. The Water Lily Cross. May 2007. 304p. St. Martin's/Minotaur/Thomas Dunne, $23.95 (0-312-36546-2). In this third in the series, after The Blue Rose (2004) and The Lost Gardens (2006), retired botany professor Lawrence...

Eisler, Barry. Requiem for an Assassin.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Eisler, Barry. Requiem for an Assassin. July 2007. 368p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-39915426-4). Pity John Rain. All the Japanese American contract killer wants to do is retire and live happily with his girlfriend, a beautiful Mossad agent. But little...

Elkins, Aaron. Little Tiny Teeth.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Elkins, Aaron. Little Tiny Teeth. June 2007. 304p. Berkley Prime Crime, $23.95 (9780425215302). Elkins, who has won the Edgar Award for his Gideon Oliver series, trots out Forensic anthropology professor Oliver For another adventure, this...

Girls' guide to Gothic.(SHE READS ... MYSTERY)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Like most young readers of the female persuasion, I cut my mystery teeth on Nancy Drew, Judy Bolton, and Trixie Belden. When I edged into my tweens, I couldn't let go of the excitement that comes with finding a clue that solves the mystery, but...

Burdett, John. Bangkok Haunts.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Burdett, John. Bangkok Haunts. June 2007. 320p. Knopf, $24.95 (0-307-26318-5). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Burdett's first two Sonchai Jitplecheep novels, starring the Bangkok police detective and co-owner, with his mother, of a brothel...

Finder, Joseph. Power Play.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Finder, Joseph. Power Play. Aug. 2007. 384p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-34748-0). The best-selling author known for his business thrillers (Paranoia, 2004; Company Man, 2005) here focuses on the aviation industry, as the management team...

Flacco, Anthony. The Last Nightingale.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Flacco, Anthony. The Last Nightingale. June 2007. 272p. Ballantine, paper, $12.95 (0-8129-7757-2). Few literary' depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first...

Fowler, Earlene. Tumbling Blocks.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Fowler, Earlene. Tumbling Blocks. May 2007. 320p. Berkley/Prime Crime, $24.95 (0-425-21519-9). Benni Harper Ortiz, curator of the Josiah Sinclair Folk Art Museum, watches her stress level rise as she prepares For a major new exhibition of...

Burke, James Lee. The Tin Roof Blowdown.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Burke, James Lee. The Tin Roof Blowdown. July 2007. 352p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (1-4165-4848-3). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] "I wanted to wake to the great, gold-green, sun-spangled promise of the South Louisiana in which I had grown up....

Disher, Garry. Chain of Evidence.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Disher, Garry. Chain of Evidence. July 2007. 360p. Soho, $23 (9781569474617). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Australian crime fiction flies below the radar of most American fans, but Disher and compatriot Peter Temple are making the case...

Gorman, Ed. Fools Rush in.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Gorman, Ed. Fools Rush in. May 2007. 240p. Pegasus, $24 (9781933648323). Black River Falls, Iowa, 1963: the violence of the civil-rights era lurks behind the double murder of a Peeping Tom photographer and a handsome black lothario, David...

Grabenstein, Chris. Whack a Mole.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Grabenstein, Chris. Whack a Mole. June 2007. 320p. Carroll & Graf, $24.95 (9780786718184). Midway through a quiet summer in Sea Haven, New Jersey, the big news is the upcoming sand-sculpture competition. But when human ears in glass jars...

Granger, Ann. The Companion.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Granger, Ann. The Companion. June 2007. 288p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $23.95 (0-312-36337-0). Seasoned mystery-author Granger introduces an atmospheric new series set in Victorian London. When Lizzie Martin accepts a position as a paid...

Greene, Thomas Christopher. Envious Moon.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Greene, Thomas Christopher. Envious Moon. May 2007. 288p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-115387-7). Anthony didn't mean to kill the man. The 17-year-old didn't even know the house was occupied when he broke in to steal the money his friend Victor...

Estleman, Loren D. American Detective.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Estleman, Loren D. American Detective. May 2007. 256p. Forge, $24.95 (0-765-31224-7). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Retired Tiger pitcher Darius Fuller was once the toast of Detroit. Three divorces and a couple of bad investments have left...

Fowler, Christopher. White Corridor.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Fowler, Christopher. White Corridor. June 2007. 352p. Bantam, $24 (9780553804508). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Senior-citizen sleuths Arthur Bryant and John May have never been ones to play by the rules. As the most distinguished (read...

Greenwood, Kerry. Blood and Circuses.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Greenwood, Kerry. Blood and Circuses. July 2007. 220p. Poisoned Pen, $29.95 (1-59058-235-7). Phryne Fisher, the Australian flapper-era bon vivant and amateur sleuth, is in a bit of a rut. Everything in her life, if(m: her house to her man,...

Grippando, James. Lying with Strangers.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Grippando, James. Lying with Strangers. June 2007. 400p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-113838-X). Taking a break from the Jack Swyteck legal-thriller series, Grippando offers up a stand-alone thriller that is as tautly constructed as his...

Hansen, Jim Michael. Fatal Laws.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Hansen, Jim Michael. Fatal Laws. June 2007. 4011p. Dark Sky, paper, $13.95 (9780976924364). Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry senses something different about his current case, involving the murders of four young women. Part of the...

Havill, Steven F. Final Payment.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Havill, Steven F. Final Payment. June 2007. 304p. St. Martin's/Minotaur/Thomas Dunne, $23.95 (0-312-35415-0). Since Havill's Posadas County series changed its focus from now-retired Sheriff Bill Gastner to Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman...

Hollywood and Crime.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Hollywood and Crime. Ed. by Robert J. Randisi. June 2007. 336p. Pegasus, $25 (9781933648286). As veteran crime writer Randisi notes in his introduction, when some people think of Hollywood, they think fame, glamour, and Disneyland. Others...

Hosp, David. Innocence.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Hosp, David. Innocence. July 2007. 432p. Warner, $24.99 (9780446580144). In 1992, a Boston policewoman is attacked and left for dead. But she survives and fingers Vincente Salazar, an El Salvadoran immigrant, as the perp. He is quickly...

Houston, Victoria. Dead Madonna.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Houston, Victoria. Dead Madonna. May 2007. 236p. Bleak House/Loon Lake, $24.95 (9781932557398); paper, $14.95 (9781932557336). Loon Lake is a typically sleepy Wisconsin resort town--except for its per-capita homicide rate, which rivals that...

French, Tana. In the Woods.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * French, Tana. In the Woods. May 2007. 429p. Viking, $24.95 (9780670038602). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Rob Ryan and his partner, Cassie Maddox, land the first big murder case of their police careers: a 12-year-old girl has been murdered...

Hurwitz, Gregg. The Crime Writer.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Hurwitz, Gregg. The Crime Writer. July 2007. 320p. Viking, $24.95 (9780670063215). Successful crime-novelist Drew Danner has gained true tabloid fame--as the murderer of his ex-fiance. Found by the police in the midst of a...

Focus: the dark world of David Goodis.(MYSTERY SHOWCASE)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Goodis, David. Nightfall. 2007 (1947). Millipede, paper, S14 (1-933618-17-5). Street of No Return. 2007 (1954). Millipede, paper, $14 (1-933618-22-1). The Wounded and the Slain. 2007 (1955). Hard Case Crime,...

Johnston, Paul. The Death List.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Johnston, Paul. The Death List. July 2007. 400p. MIRA, $24.95 (0-7783-2481-8). Matt Wells, once a best-selling novelist, is suffering from such a bad case of writer's block that he seizes on the smallest opportunity, such as checking his...

Kalla, Daniel. Blood Lies.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Kalla, Daniel. Blood Lies. June 2007. 320p. Forge, $24.95 (0-765-31832-6). Kalla, an emergency-room physician who started writing novels only recently, has quickly matured into a force to be reckoned with. His latest effort is his best...

Frost, Mark. The Second Objective.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Frost, Mark. The Second Objective. May 2007. 336p. Hyperion, $24.95 (1-4013-0222-X). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The idea of Nazi spies behind the lines during World War II classic Eye of the Needle (1978), the Germans are at least...

Koontz, Dean. The Good Guy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Koontz, Dean. The Good Guy. May 2007. 400p. Bantam, $24 (9780553804812). Big Tim Carrier maintains the lowest possible profile, but that tactic crumbles after he is mistaken for a hit man, and when the hit man arrives, poses as the client...

Koryta, Michael. A Welcome Grave.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Koryta, Michael. A Welcome Grave. June 2007. 304p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunoe, $23.95 (0-312-34011-7). Twenty-three-year-old Koryta was nominated for a 2005 Edgar for his first Lincoln Perry novel, Tonight I Said Goodbye (2004). Though...

Kozak, Harley Jane. Dead Ex.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Kozak, Harley Jane. Dead Ex. Aug. 2007. 335p. Doubleday, $21.95 (0-385-51802-1). Kozak's third mystery starring greeting-card designer and muralist Wollie Shelley delivers an enjoyable mix of melodrama and mirth. This time around, Wollie...

Larson, Pete. Thirst.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Larson, Pete. Thirst. July 2007. 214p. Bleak House, $24.95 (9781932557404). Although some of Stu Carlson's colleagues consider his career transition strange, the ex-minister and current bartender at the Longhorn Lounge doesn't think it's...

Gagliano, Anthony. Straits of Fortune.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Gagliano, Anthony. Straits of Fortune. June 2007. 256p. Morrow, $23.95 (0-06-087809-6). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Miami personal trainer Jack Vaughn's work has brought him into contact with the city's glitterati--fabulously wealthy...

Ledbetter, Suzann. Halfway to Half Way.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Ledbetter, Suzann. Halfway to HalfWay. May 2007. 400p. MIRA, paper, $6.99 (0-7783-2450-8). Valhalla Springs retirement community's resident manager, Hannah, and Kinderhook County, Missouri, sheriff David are engaged. But before they can...

Lehane, Con. Death at the Old Hotel.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Lehane, Con. Death at the Old Hotel. June 2007. 256p. St. Martin's/Minotaur/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-32300-X). New York City bartender Brian McNulty returns for a third round of amateur sleuthing. It's the Christmas season, and the bar...

Lucarelli, Carlo. The Damned Season.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Lucarelli, Carlo. The Damned Season. Tr. by Michael Reynolds. May 2007. 128p. Europa, paper, $14.95 (1-933372-27-3). The second in the De Luca Trilogy to appear in the U.S. is set in 1946 and finds the former Commisario De Luca dodging...

Marraffino, Frank and Rausch, Drew. The Dark Goodbye, v.1. 2007.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Marraffino, Frank and Rausch, Drew. The Dark Goodbye, v.1. 2007. 192p. illus. Tokyopop, paper, $9.99 (9781598169720). 741.5. The first flame shows a buoy in a big-city harbor; the next, some tall buildings; the next, a shorter commercial...

Goodman, Carol. The Sonnet Lover.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Goodman, Carol. The Sonnet Lover. June 2007. 368p. Ballantine, $24.95 (9780345479570). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Poetry approaches life aslant, offering hints of hidden truths. Hammett Prize winner Goodman makes brilliant use of the...

McFadyen, Cody. The Face of Death.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... McFadyen, Cody. The Face of Death. May 2007. 464p. Bantam, $24 (9780553804669). McFadyen builds on the strengths of his debut novel, Shadow Man (2006), which introduced the scarred FBI agent Smoky Barrett, who is still recovering from the...

Great Women Mystery Writers.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Great Women Mystery Writers. 2d ed. By Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay. 2006. 335p. indexes. Greenwood, $65 (9780313334283). 823. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Although the first (1994) edition of this work included important women mystery...

Hand, Elizabeth. Generation Loss.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Hand, Elizabeth. Generation Loss. 2007. 296p. Small Beer, $24.95 ( 1-931520-21-6). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Hand, mainly known for sf/fantasy stories, veers off in a new and exciting direction, drawing on but going well beyond the...

Mitchard, Jacquelyn. Still Summer.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Mitchard, Jacquelyn. Still Summer. Aug. 2007. 307p. Warner, $24.99 (9780446578769). Family tragedies are Mitchard's stock-in-trade, and here she adds a suspenseful twist. Friends since childhood, Tracy, Holly, and Olivia charter a private...

Myers, Amy. Murder and the Golden Goblet.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Myers, Amy. Murder and the Golden Goblet. July 2007. 224p. Severn, $27.95 (9780727864734). True-crime writers Peter Marsh and his daughter, Georgia, are at a wedding when Georgia steps into the church's graveyard, sees a headstone marked...

Noort, Saskia. The Dinner Club.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Noort, Saskia. The Dinner Club. Tr. by Paul Vincent. 2007. 275p. Bitter Lemon, paper, $14.95 (1-904738-20-6). Noort is a journalist who took the Netherlands by storm in 2004 with this delicious tale of deception and death. It's from one of...

Oates, Joyce Carol. The Museum of Dr. Moses.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Oates, Joyce Carol. The Museum of Dr. Moses. Aug. 2007. 256p. Harcourt/Otto Penzler, $24 (9780151015313). All crime stories implicate the reader in some way--if you weren't thrilled by criminal acts, you wouldn't be reading about them,...

Henderson, Jack. Circumference of Darkness.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... * Henderson, Jack. Circumference of Darkness. June 2007. 528p. Bantam, $23 (0-553-80515-0). [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] The publishers are touting this near-future (as in just around the corner) thriller as a debut novel, but it's so...

Packer, Vin. Scott Free.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Packer, Vin. Scott Free. May 2007. 304p. Carroll & Graf, $24.95 (0-7867-1867-6). Long before Marijane Meeker became the groundbreaking young-adult author M. E. Kerr, she wrote as the groundbreaking paperback novelist Vin Packer, whose...