Booklist articles from May 2008

Booklist archives from May 2008

Always by My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey unlike Any Other.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Always by My Side: A Father's Grace and a Sports Journey unlike Any Other. By Jim Nantz and Eli Spielman. May 2008. 320p. illus. Gotham, $28.95 (9781592403615). 070.4. CBS sportscaster Nantz, who has broadcast every major...

Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Railway Bazaar. By Paul Theroux. Aug. 2008. 496p. Houghton, $28 (9780618418879). 915.04. Realizing that many travel writers never retrace their steps, Theroux...

America America.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... America America. By Ethan Canin. July 2008. 458p. Random, $27 (9780679456803). General Fiction. Canin received much acclaim for his short story collections, Emperor of the Air (1988) and The Palace Thief (1994), and, despite...

Clinton in Exile: A President out of the White House.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Clinton in Exile: A President out of the White House. By Carol Felsenthal. May 2008.368p. illus. Morrow, $25.95 (9780061231599). 923. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Postpresidency, Bill Clinton is as intriguing as ever. Having left...

Brida.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Brida. By Paulo Coelho. July 2008. 224p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780061578939). General Fiction. Coelho's loyal fan base will welcome the U.S. publication of Brida, another mystical pilgrimage from the master of the genre. Readers...

The Face of Fear.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Face of Fear. By John Saul. Aug. 2008. 368p. Ballantine, $26 (9780345487056). Horror Fiction. Alison Shaw, 16, is OK with herself as she is; that is, physically fit and not obsessive about her plain face and flat chest. But a...

Fine Just the Way It Was: Wyoming Stories 3.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Fine Just the Way It Was: Wyoming Stories 3. By Annie Proulx. Sept. 2008. 240p. Scribner, $25 (9781416571667). General Fiction. The third volume of the author's celebrated and eagerly anticipated Wyoming stories (the first volume...

Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Living on the Black: Two Pitchers, Two Teams, One Season to Remember. By John Feinstein. May 2008. 544p. Little, Brown, $26.99 (9780316113915). 796.357. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have been among...

War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq. By Richard Engel. June 2008. 377p. Simon & Schuster, $28 (9781416563044). 956.7044. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Anyone who has followed television coverage of the Iraq War knows NBC's Engel....

Indignation.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Indignation. By Philip Ruth. Sept. 2008. 256p. Houghton, $26 (9780547054841 ). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Ruth's provocative new novel (his twenty-ninth book)--which, in a quieter, more personal fashion, is...

Goldengrove.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Goldengrove. By Francine Prose. Sept. 2008. 288p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780066214115). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On a bewitched Sunday, Nico is looking forward to spending the summer with her college-bound...

Odd Hours.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Odd Hours. By Dean Koontz. May 2008. 368p. Bantam, $27 (9780553807059). General Fiction. The fourth adventure of Odd Thomas, the young man haunted by the deceased who can also foresee potential murderous disaster, may not be the...

Where the River Ends.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Where the River Ends. By Charles Martin. July 2008. 321p. Broadway, $19.95 (9780767926980). Romance. There's sweet and sensitive, then there's downright saccharine. Martin's vapid tale of a young husband who will go to the ends of...

The year's best crime novels.(Mystery Showcase)(Recommended readings)
May 1, 2008... In addition to being the title of one of this year's 10 best crime novels, Down into Darkness also captures the mood of much of our list. Before all you cozy fans start writing letters of protest, let's face this issue squarely. As crime...

A Hard-Boiled Gazzetteer to San Francisco.(Mystery Showcase)(Buyers guide)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Our Hard-Boiled Gazetteer series has avoided San Francisco for the last 11 years, mainly out of timidity. There is just too much going on in the City by the Bay to fit it into this kind of overview. But we couldn't...

Mystery travel.(Mystery Showcase)(Buyers guide)
May 1, 2008... San Francisco's appeal is multilevel. It's one of the culinary capitals of the U.S., a highly visible gay destination drawing from all across the country, a film and coffee lover's delight, and a city of such sheer beauty that it attracts...

Reading is my business: there are 10,000 galleys in the naked city, and all our hung-over reviewer has to do is find one of them--in the first ever short fiction to be published in Booklist.(Mystery Showcase)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I woke up somewhere under the Loop. I was lying across two handicapped seats in a southbound Red Line train. I got off at the next station, crossed the platform, and got on a train going north. The people in my car...

Another look at ... The Maltese Falcon.(Mystery Showcase)(Movie review)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many people believe they've read The Maltese Falcon (1930) when, in fact, they've only seen the movie. Small wonder: the images of the 1941 film--Humphrey Bogart as a chain-smoking Sam Spade, Sydney Greenstreet as...

42.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... 42. By M. Thomas Cooper. July 2008. 288p. Ooligan, paper, $16.95 (9781932010244). The first thing that will probably come to mind when readers see the title of this book is Douglas Adams and his tongue-in-cheek answer to the...

The Actress.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Actress. By Elizabeth Sims. June 2008.400p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $24.95 (9780312377274). Rita Farmer is a down-on-her-luck single mother trying to make it as an actress despite endless frustrations and rejections. She is...

Anatomy of a Killer / A Shroud for Jesso.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Anatomy of a Killer / A Shroud for Jesso. By Peter Rabe. May 2008. 308p. Stark House, paper, $14.95 (9781933586229). Stark House's fifth reprint of a midcentury paperback master pairs two gripping thrillers from opposite ends...

The Assassin.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Assassin. By Stephen Coonts. Aug. 2008. 352p. St. Martin's, $26.95 (9780312323578). CIA agents Tommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton return in this follow-up to The Traitor (2006). A ruthless terrorist, Abu Qasim, escaped...

Assassins' Rage.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Assassins' Rage. By Charles O'Brien. July 2008.224p. Severn, $27.95 (9780727866073). Another sparkling historical mystery in this popular series set in eighteenth-century France and featuring husband-and-wife duo Colonel Paul de...

The Bad News Bible.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * The Bad News Bible. By Anna Blundy. May 2008. 324p. Felony & Mayhem, paper, $14.95 (9781933397979). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's odd that there aren't more foreign-correspondent series leads in crime fiction. The job requires...

The Big Both Ways.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * The Big Both Ways. By John Straley. May 2008. 352p.Alaska Northwest, $25.95 (9780882407395); paper, $16.95 (9780882407326). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Straley, author of the Cecil Younger series, starring a contemporary...

Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption. By Robert Fate. May 2008. 287p. Capital Crime, paper, $14.95 (9780979996023). Set in the 1950s, this hard-boiled private-eye yarn cranks right up with guns blazing and fists flying. All the...

Bambino Secret.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Bambino Secret. By J. Anderson Cross. 2008. 384p. Elkhorn, $24.95 (0-9795176-0-5). Leroy Griffin is an ancient veteran of baseball's Negro Leagues. When he and his niece, Camille, show up as the first clients of newly minted...

The Black Hand.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Black Hand. By Will Thomas. July 2008. 304p. Touchstone, paper, $14 (9781416558958). In this fifth adventure for Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn, the Victorian detecting duo pulls out all the stops to squelch an Italian...

Black Magic Woman.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Black Magic Woman. By Justin Gustainis. May 2008. 256p. Solaris, paper, $15 (9781844165414). Already tagged with major kudos from writer Jim Butcher (creator of the Dresden Files series), Gustainis' first book featuring...

Blackman's Coffin.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Blackman's Coffin. By Mark de Castrique. June 2008. 264p. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (9781590585177). While recuperating in an Asheville, North Carolina, veterans' hospital after losing a leg in Iraq, Sam Blackman meets fellow vet...

It's a mystery to me ...(HE READS ... Mystery)(women's book preferences)
May 1, 2008... There's a lot about women that we guys just don't get, such as the intense pleasure you take in clothes shopping, or why you buy little micropurses that are too small to hold anything. Why are you always freezing cold, and what's the deal with...

The Blood Detective.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Blood Detective. By Dan Waddell. June 2008. 304p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $24.95 (9780312378905). In a London cemetery, a man's body is found. During the autopsy, the police discover the body has been marked with a string...

Blood Harvest.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Blood Harvest. By Brant Randall. Play 2008. 286p. Capital Crime, $19.95 (9780979996016). In rural western Massachusetts in 1929, 13-year-old Jackie Sue MacKay and Angus DeCosta, a boy from the next county over, are caught in...

The Book Stops Here.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Book Stops Here. By Ian Sansom. Aug. 2008. 336p. Harper, paper, $13.95 (9780061452000). After more than six months as the mobile librarian of Tumdrum, Northern Ireland, Israel Armstrong yearns to return to London and...

Breaking Cover.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Breaking Cover. By J. D. Rhoades. Aug. 2008. 352p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $24.95 (9780312371555). Rhoades takes a break from his Keller series, featuring the Gulf War-haunted bounty hunter (Safe and Sound, 2007), with a...

What makes Sammy read?(SHE READS ... Mystery)(men's book preferences)
May 1, 2008... I'm mystified. I still can't figure out why, what, when, and how men choose to read. Their methods and selections are inscrutable and as bewildering as what makes them laugh. I decided to conduct my own investigation by asking the men I work...

Booklist online: chat room.(Recommended readings)
May 1, 2008... BOOKLIST EDITORS RECOMMEND MYSTERIES In addition to getting reviews ready for this year's Mystery Showcase, Booklist editors have been hard at work selecting titles for Booklist Editors Recommend, Booklist Online's exclusive read-alike...

Breaking Point.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Breaking Point. By Frank Smith. June 2008. 224p. Severn, $28.95 (9780727866219). The latest entry in Smith's excellent Neil Paget series injects the British police procedural with a real jolt of energy. This time Paget and his...

The Broken Window.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Broken Window. By Jeffrey Deaver. June 2008. 432p. Simon & Schuster, $26.95 (9781416549970). As the Lincoln Rhyme series rolls along, the quadriplegic criminalist's cases keep getting more and more elaborate. The Cold...

By Reason of Insanity.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... By Reason of Insanity. By Randy Singer. May 2008. 400p. Tyndale, $22.99 (9781414316338). How did crime reporter Catherine "Cat" O'Rourke wind up in prison? It starts with "visions" involving victims of a high-profile kidnapping,...

Callous.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Callous. By T. K. Kenyon. 2008. 384p. Kunati, $24.95 (9781601640222). Kenyon revisits themes from her first novel, Rabid (2007)--small-town intrigue, salacious carryings-on, scientific research, religious fervor. Ester, the grown...

Cezanne's Quarry.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Cezanne's Quarry. By Barbara Corrado Pope June 2008. 384p. Pegasus, $25 (9781933648835). In fewer than 400 pages, first-time novelist Pope skillfully explores the subjugation and abuse of women in the nineteenth century; the...

Collision.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Collision. By Jeff Abbott July 2008.320p. Dutton, $24.95 (9780525950288). Action junkies be warned: Abbott's latest iteration of the novel-as-extended-chase-scene empties its whole clip straight into the gut. The players: Ben...

A Common Ordinary Murder.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... A Common Ordinary Murder. By Donald Pfarrer. Aug. 2008. 320p. Random, $24 (9781400066902). Decorated Vietnam War veteran and longtime journalist Pfarrer has more in mind than his tide suggests. Ostensibly a police procedural, his...

The Crystal Skull Murders.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Crystal Skull Murders. By Colin Coterill June 2008. 256p.Avalon, $23.95 (9780803498983). The premier hip-hop club in Austin, Texas, has been reduced to a pile of ashes. The body of a homeless wino is found nearby. The cops,...

Curse of the Pogo Stick.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Curse of the Pogo Stick. By Colin Cotterill Aug. 2008. 256p. Soho, $24 (9781569474853). In his fourth outing, Dr. Siri Paiboun, the aged and antic national coroner of mid-1970s Laos, begins facing up to some tough consequences of...

Damnation Falls.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Damnation Falls. By Edward Wright. Aug. 2008. 288p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $24.95 (9780312380014). Wright, author of the atmospheric John Ray Horn series (While I Disappear, 2004), set in 1940s Hollywood, now launches a...

Dead Heat.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Dead Heat. By Joel C. Rosenberg. 2008.416p.Tyndale, $24.99 (9781414311616). In the latest Jon Bennett and Erin McCoy thriller--billed as the finale of the series--terrorists attack the U.S., vaporizing a large chunk of Washington,...

The Dirty Secrets Club.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * The Dirty Secrets Club. By Meg Gardiner June 2008. 304p. Dutton. $24.95 (9780525950660). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] San Francisco forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett doesn't cut open victims' bodies. She dissects their lives. It's...

Don't Tell a Soul.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Don't Tell a Soul. By David Rosenfelt. July 2008. 320p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $24.95 (9780312373955). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tim Wallace, the thirtysomething co-owner of a small construction company, is targeted for...

Dying Fall.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * A Dying Fall. By sally Spencer. June 2008. 224p. Severn, $27.95 (9780727866097). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SPencer offers up another intriguing and thoroughly enjoyable puzzler in her popular DCI Charlie Woodend series. When a...

Final Theory.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Final Theory. By Mark Alpert June 2008. 384p. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, $24 (9781416572879). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Although David Swift wanted to become a scientist like his beloved professor, Dr. Hans Kleinman, he...

Dead Silver.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Dead Silver. By Neil McMahon July 2008. 288p. Harper, $24.95 (9780061340765). Hugh Davoren (rhymes with tavern), the Montana handyman who debuted in last year's terrific Lone Creek (2007), is usually above shoveling shit, but he...

Deadly Verdict.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Deadly Verdict. By Andrew Neiderman June 2008. 240p. Severn, $27.95 (9780727866226). In the near future, the U.S. justice system employs a select group of highly trained professionals to act as trial juries. These men and women,...

Death Is Disposable.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Death Is Disposable. By Evan Marshall June 2008. 224p. Severn, $27.95 (9780727866059). Anna Winthrop, daughter of a millionaire businessman, works for the New York City Sanitation Department. Her family is appalled by her career...

Folly du Jour.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Folly du Jour. By Barbara Cleverly. Aug. 2008. 288p. Soho, $24.95 (9781569475133). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The first act of this new episode in Cleverly's Jazz Age series starring Scotland Yard's Joe Sandilands begins with a...

Death's Half Acre.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Death's Half Acre. By Margaret Maron Aug. 2008. 320p. Grand Central, $24.99 (9780446196109). In the fourteenth installment of her Judge Deborah Knott series, Maron highlights the tensions of new real-estate development as...

The Deceived.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Deceived. By Brett Battles. June 2008. 368p. Delacorte, $24 (9780385341578). Jonathan Quinn is a "cleaner"; he tidies up after lethal events so that the locals don't suspect that anything unusual has happened. When this one...

A Different Kind of Justice.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... A Different Kind of Justice. By Linda Sole June 2008. 240p. Severn, $27.95 (9780727866080). In Sole's newest Sarah Beaufort mystery set in the 1920s, Sarah, her good friend Larch, and former detective Ben all find themselves on...

Story behind the story: Bill Pronzini's Fever.(Interview)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Two longtime mystery writers, a husband and wife, scour the streets of San Francisco, scoping out changes in things like out-of-the-way shops and cafes, and signs of prosperity or decay. They study the high-and...

Empire of Lies.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Empire of Lies. By Andrew Klavan July 2008. 400p. Harcourt/Otto Penzler, $25 (9780151012237). Jason Harrow is a prosperous midwesterner living a picture-book life. A single phone call, though, recalls him to New York City, to...

The Evil That Men Do.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Evil That Men Do. By Dave White. June 2008. 288p.Three Rivers, paper, $13.95 (9780307382795). Estranged from his family, Jackson Donne is surprised and angered when his sister demands that he help her as their mother slips...

Fever.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Fever. By Bill Pronzini. June 2008. 304p. Forge, $24.95 (9780765318183). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pronzini's Nameless Detective and his San Francisco investigative agency have survived for more than three decades because of a...

Frames.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * Frames. By Loren D. Estleman. May 2008. 272p. Forge, $23.95 (9780765315755). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Genre veteran Estleman debuts a new and wonderfully entertaining series starring a UCLA film archivist. Departing...

Executive Privilege.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Executive Privilege. By Phillip Margolin. June 2008. 368p. Harper, $25.95 (9780061236211). Private detective Dana Cutler receives a seemingly routine assignment to follow a young girl working on a challenger's campaign against the...

An Expert in Murder.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... An Expert in Murder. By Nicola Upson. May 2008. 304p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780061451539). Josephine Tey moves from classic real-life crime writer and playwright to unwilling tictional sleuth in this atmosphere-laden cozy....

A Fatal Waltz.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... A Fatal Waltz. By Tasha Alexander. June 2008. 304p. Morrow, $23.95 (9780061174223). Lady Emily Ashton is back in her third episode of romantic suspense set in the Victorian world of mannerly gentlemen, conniving mothers, and...

The Genius.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * The Genius. By Jesse Kellerman. May 2008. 320p. Putnam, $24.95 (9780399154591). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ethan Muller owns an art gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea; in his world, he s successful and connected. He acquires a...

Findings.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Findings. By Mary Anna Evans. July 2008. 272p. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (9781590584835). Faye Longchamp is not only a professional archaeologist but she also owns Joyeuse, a house that has been tied to her African American family...

Fixation.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Fixation. By Mark Schorr. June 2008. 272p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (9780312359164). If Hitchcock didn't invent the psychological thriller, he surely perfected it. Author Schorr, a real-life psychologist, doesn't...

Head Wounds.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Head Wounds. By Chris Knopf. May 2008. 309p. Permanent Press, $28 (9781579621650). Sam Acquillo--ex-boxer, ex-husband, and now an Absolut-drinking construction worker on the east end of the Hamptons--shouldn't be mixing it up...

Hell Hole.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Hell Hole. By Chris Grabenstein. July 2008. 304p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $24.95 (9780312382308). The streets of Grabenstein's New Jersey beach town get quite a bit meaner in the fourth installment in this entertaining series....

I Kill.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... I Kill. By Giorgio Faletti. Tr. by Muriel Jorgensen, June 2008. 595p. IPG/Baldini Castoldi Dalai, $24.95 (9788860732958). A best-seller across Europe, Italian author Faletti's first novel is a top-notch thriller. Monte Carlo,...

Illegal Action.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Illegal Action. By Stella Rimingtan. July 2008. 304p. Knopf, $23.95 (9780307268853). This is the third entry in the British spy series by Rimington, herself a former director general of MI5, featuring the smart and daring...

In the Dismal Swamp.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... In the Dismal Swamp. By Patrict Balester. June 2008. 272p. Avalon, $23.95 (9780803498990). Greg Parnell imagined that his new assignment as a field agent for the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife would be laid-back, even...

In the Heat.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... In the Heat. By Ian Vasquez. June 2008. 256p. St. Martin's/Minotaur' $23.95 (9780312378097). Aging boxers turned sleuths just could be a crime-fiction trend. First we had welterweight Eddie Caro in David Fulmer's The Blue...

L'Assassin.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... L'Assassin. By Peter Steiner. July 2008. 288p. St. Martin's/Minotaur/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (9780312373429). American expat Louis Morgon has lived quietly for three decades in a small town in the Loire River valley, painting and...

Read On ... Crime Fiction: Reading Lists for Every Taste.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Read On... Crime Fiction: Reading Lists for Every Taste. By Barry Trott. 2008.146p. Libraries Unlimited, paper, $30.00 (9781591583738). 016.83. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The latest entry in the Read On... series, written by...

I Shall Not Want.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... * I Shall Not Want. By Julia Spencer-Fleming. June 2008. 336p. St. Martin's/Minotaur/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (9780312334871). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A suspected serial killer in the town of Millers Kill in Upstate New York...

The Last Embrace.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Last Embrace. By Denise Hamilton. July 2008. 400p. Scribner, paper, $14 (9780743296731). It's 1949, and Lily Kessler, former OSS spy, is home from Europe and visiting her hometown of Los Angeles to look for the sister of...

Lie Down with the Devil.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Lie Down with the Devil. By Linda Barnes. Aug. 2008. 304p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $24.95 (9780312332891). Things get moving quickly in Bostonian Carlotta Carlyle's twelfth mystery, picking up right where Heart of the World...

The Mark of the Pasha.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Mark of the Pasha. By Michael Pearce. May 2008. 206p. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (9781590584446). Pearce continues to chronicle murder and mayhem in early-twentieth-century Egypt with the sixteenth installment in the superbly...

The Mercy Oak.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Mercy Oak. By Kathryn R. Wall. May 2008. 320p. St. Martin's/Minotaur, $24.95 (9780312375348). In her eighth adventure, Hilton Head, South Carolina, private investigator Bay Tanner receives a cryptic call from teenager...

Monday Night Jihad.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Monday Night Jihad. By Jason Elam and Steve Yohn. 2008. 350p. Tyndale, $19.99 (9781414320076). Denver Broncos kicker Elam and his pastor, Yohn, have collaborated to produce a high-voltage yet thought-provoking first novel. Riley...