Boston police strike 1919

Library Journal Reviews Shamus Award winner Lehane's first historical novel is a clear winner, displaying all the virtues the author (Mystic River ) has shown in his exceptional series of crime novels: narrative verve, sensitivity to setting, the interweaving of complicated story lines, an apt and emotionally satisfying denouement—and, above all, the author's abiding love for his characters and the human condition

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As sure as the sun

Terror

Booklist: The leads are witty, and the prose is elegant. But readers should prepare to wallow in the book and take it slowly.

Kirkus:  Adding political and financial corruption to uncover, manipulators to expose and a war with Mexico to prevent might make the plot seem too complex, but no loose end is left untied, and only one or two insignificant anachronisms should trouble the most sophisticated reader. An intriguing literary mystery mixing fact and fiction.

Go figure.

De Verdronkene

The storm. Margriet de Moor ; translated by Carol Brown Janeway. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

Everlasting love

Davidson, Andrew. (2008). The gargoyle. New York: Doubleday.

Kirkus Reviews: A romance spanning centuries and continents finds a grotesque narrator redeemed by the love of a woman who claims they first met seven centuries earlier, in this deliriously ambitious debut novel.It's a credit to the craftsmanship of the Canadian writer that this spellbinding narrative seems considerably less ludicrous when reading it than when summarizing it

Lowboy

Book of the day on Book-a-Day calendar.

Possessing paranoid schizophrenic beliefs that he can save the planet from climate change by cooling down his own overheated body, sixteen-year-old New York youth Will Heller pursues a terrifying and delusional odyssey through the city's tunnels and backalleys.