Joe Hill and Owen King are Stephen King’s sons, but these two young writers have distinctive voices and highly developed talents and deserve to be considered solely on the basis of their merits.
Schlagwort-Archive: The Miami Herald
Rezension: Claire Messud: “The Woman Upstairs”
Every new Claire Messud novel is a reason to rejoice. “The Woman Upstairs” follows up her superb “The Emperor’s Children”,which which was set in New York City in late 2011 and was as close to an instant classic as American literature has produced in this century.
Rezension: Kate Atkinson: “Life After Life”
In Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life”, Ursula Todd is born in the British countryside in 1910 — and dies almost immediately, umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, “a helpless little heart beating wildly. Stopped suddenly like a bird dropped from the sky.”
Rezensionen: Randy Wayne White, P.J. Parrish
Oline H. Cogdill reviews Randy Wayne White’s new Doc Ford novel “Night Moves”, which deals with one of Florida’s most iconic historical mysteries — the 1945 disappearance of Flight 19 and P.J Parrish’s 10th novel in the Louis Kincaid series “Heart of Ice”.
Rezension: Deborah Crombie: “The Sound of Broken Glass”
Crombie never falters. Her novels are a delight, and with “The Sound of Broken Glass“, she keeps her impressive creative streak intact. Her novels often examine how the past influences the present, which dovetails with her depiction of London.
Rezension: Lisa Gardner: “Touch & Go”
Lisa Gardner, the master of the psychological thriller, has delivered another tour de force with “Touch & Go”, which exposes the raw nerves of a family imploding and an investigator trying to escape her past.
Rezension: Tim Dorsey: “The Riptide Ultra-Glide”
Dorsey’s novels will never be mistaken for works of art. Instead, he has taken essentially a gimmick – a serial killer so enamored with Florida that he attacks those who don’t share his passion and also anybody who’s just plain rude – and lathered it with broad, slapstick humor.
Rezension: Dick Wolf: “The Intercept”
They say the plots of Dick Wolf’s Law & Order TV shows are often ripped from the headlines. But for a few awful weeks in 2001, the headlines seemed to be ripped from one of his shows.
Artikel: Brad Meltzer talks about his new Book “The Fifth Assassin”
Brad Meltzer’s thrillers gravitate to bestseller lists. His contemporary novels, which include “The Inner Circle” and “The Book of Lies”, are steeped in historical facts. In his new thriller, “The Fifth Assassin”, a killer re-creates the crimes of presidential assassins.
Rezension: James Grippando: “Blood Money”
“Blood Money” offers an intriguing look at the media, vengeance-seeking crusaders and our perception of defendants and their attorneys.Grippando continues to more deeply examine the psyche of Jack, his go-to character since he first appeared in “The Pardon” in 1994.
Rezension: Ian McEwan: “Sweet Tooth”
Unless their protagonists are of the unflappable James Bond mold, novels of the spy genre often feature idealistic and empathic characters becoming cynical and emotionally jaded after one bout too many with a cruel and pitiless world.
Rezension: J.R. Moehringer: “Sutton”
Famed bank robber Willie Sutton takes a tour of the scenes of his escapades. Willie Sutton was a thug with a fan club. He robbed banks at gunpoint. If a manager refused to open the safe, he would threaten to kill the tellers.
Rezension: Linwood Barclay: “Trust your eyes”
Thomas Kilbride, the young man at the center of Linwood Barclay’s delightful new novel, spends up to 16 hours a day at his computer. Mostly, he’s at the Whirl360 website, where he can explore almost every street in most of the world’s cities.
Rezension: Chase Novak: “Breed”
Chase Novak’s diabolically entertaining new novel recalls “Rosemary’s Baby”. In it, a well-heeled Manhattan couple conceive a child in fraught circumstances. Result: horror. But instead of a baby gone monstrous, this time it’s the parents.
Rezensionen und Artikel zu Joanne K. Rowling: “A casual vacancy” (3)
Weitere Beiträge zu “A casual vacany” (bitte jeweils anklicken): National Post (1), National Post (2), The Globe and Mail, Time Magazine, The Miami Herald, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times
Rezension: Damian Echols: “Life After Death”
Damian Echols writes in the prologue of his new memoir that he doesn’t want his life to be a car wreck that people stop to gawk at. But it is that. As a writer and a thinker, Echols is a deeply interesting person.
Rezension: Julia Keller: “A Killing in the Hills”
In Julia Keller’s powerful “A Killing in the Hills”, Bell Elkins knows the problems, poverty and extreme drug use that plague Acker’s Gap, W. Va., where she suffered a traumatic childhood. Yet she has come back to this “shabby afterthought of a town”.
Rezension: Lee Child: “A Wanted Man”
The 17th novel in Child’s feverishly thrilling series reminds us that whatever happens on the screen can’t affect the pure giddy rush we get reading undiluted Reacher, straight from Child’s fertile imagination.
Rezension: Chelsea Cain: “Kill you twice”
Chelsea Cain’s fifth novel to feature Portland detective Archie Sheridan and his nemesis, Gretchen Lowell, delivers the shocks that one expects from this “The Silence of the Lambs” clone. “Kill You Twice” is the best book in the series since “Heartsick”.
Rezension: Stephen White: “Line of Fire”
After 20 years, Stephen White has decided to end his popular series featuring Boulder psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory. The penultimate book, “Line of Fire”, starts to bring the saga full circle.