THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE Lou Berney 2015 William Morrow The summer of 1986 was a violent one in Oklahoma City. Armed robbers killed six employees at a movie theatre, leaving one young man inexplicably alive. A few months later a 17-year-old girl went missing from the...

YOUNG GOD Katherine Far Morris 2014 Farrar, Straus and Giroux The dividing line between groundbreaking and gimmicky is very thin. When an author decides to take a risky approach, the results are usually either fantastic or awful. In the case of Katherine Faw Morris’...

THE GOOD LIFE Frank Wheeler Jr. 2014 New Pulp Press The tradition of naming is taken less seriously now than in previous generations, but the responsibility of sharing a namesake has never lost the blessings and curses that come with it. At the heart of Frank Wheeler...

A HIGH-END FINISH Kate Carlisle 2014 Obsidian Mystery A charming seaside setting in Northern California is the town of Lighthouse Cove. The town’s contractor is Shannon Hammer. Her business is renovating Victorian homes. The business left to her by her father. Shannon...

BLOOD INFERNAL: Order of the Sanguines Series, #3 James Rollins & Rebecca Cantrell Feb. 10th, 2015 William Morrow BLOOD INFERNAL, the third installment, by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell, is an amazing finale to the Sanguines series. It combines what Rollins...

THE DEVIL IN MONTMARTRE Gary Inbinder 2014 Pegasus Books I love historicals. THE DEVIL IN MONTMARTRE, set in 1889, takes place in a period in time in which the world was changing quickly. Morals were seemingly staid, but places like the Moulin Rouge thrived and Paris,...