A memoirist searches for the truth about a fatal shooting in 1960s Phoenix
By Laura Miller Nov 8, 2009
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Mystery and conspiracy plague a dig at the site of ancient Sparta in "The Hidden"
By Laura Miller
November 1, 2009
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A new biography of the most beautiful woman in the world says her greatest talent lay in being famous
By Laura Miller
October 19, 2009
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A reformed alcoholic learns she's innocent of the crime that changed her life in "Blame"
By Laura Miller
October 5, 2009
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A lovelorn schoolteacher uses the Internet to exact his romantic revenge in Nick Laird's chilling tale
By Laura Miller
July 23, 2009
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Aleksandar Hemon's fictional alter ego drinks and writes his way through exile in these superb coming-of-age tales.
By Allen Barra
June 4, 2009
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Diamonds are a boy's best friend in this crackling novel of scams, sex and druggy escapades in the jewel trade.
By Laura Miller
May 26, 2009
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Colson Whitehead's autobiographical summer-nostalgia novel mixes nerdy teen boys and barbecues gone awry in this affectionate portrait of an African-American seasonal community.
By Andrew O'Hehir
May 11, 2009
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This astonishing novel by the author of "Tipping the Velvet" gives the traditional ghost story a creepy twist -- and a dose of class resentment.
By Laura Miller
May 5, 2009
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Love among the iPods: A divorced TV director is content to be left alone with his old songs -- until he meets a new singer.
By Laura Miller
April 14, 2009
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The cursed and the dead haunt this elegantly gothic tale, tracing the line between the scientific and the paranormal.
By Laura Miller
March 16, 2009
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The members of a radical leftist family lose their patriarch and are forced to cope with disillusionment and secrets in Zoe Heller's sharply etched new novel.
By Laura Miller
March 12, 2009
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This dark literary thriller -- written under Ruth Rendell's pen name -- masterfully folds adultery, kidnapping and lies into a tale of psychological suspense.
By Laura Miller
March 6, 2009
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War, suicide and quasi-incestuous desire swirl through "Lark and Termite," Jayne Anne Phillips' evocative novel of Southern revelations.
By Laura Miller
January 28, 2009
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A '60s activist-turned-vigilante is tortured by a handsome interrogator in Glen Duncan's gripping new novel. So which one is the villain?
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 17, 2008
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A lumber baron, a ruthless sexpot and a one-handed henchman star in this wildly entertaining tale of passion, murder and deforestation set in Depression-era North Carolina.
By Laura Miller
December 16, 2008
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What if Hitler had a love child? A.N. Wilson's "Winnie and Wolf" is a chilling fictional tale of a clandestine affair.
By James Hannaham
November 25, 2008
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When the grim reaper takes time off, morticians reel and chaos ensues in Jose Saramago's funny, ravishing "Death With Interruptions."
By Laura Miller
October 30, 2008
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The masterful and ambitious "Fault Lines" reveals how history gets erased and reinvented, and hints at how it might repeat itself.
By James Hannaham
October 21, 2008
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"Sea of Poppies," set in Calcutta, is a swashbuckling saga full of sadists, weaklings and tyrants -- and, thankfully, there are two more volumes to come.
By Laura Miller
October 14, 2008
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Bootlegging brothers, get-rich-quick schemes and a sensational murder trial make "The Wettest County in the World" a riveting read.
By Louis Bayard
October 8, 2008
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A messed-up Midwestern family grapples with buried secrets in Sandra's Kring's gripping saga "Thank You for All Things."
By James Hannaham
September 30, 2008
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Kidnapping, romance, comedy -- Kate Atkinson's delightfully inventive "When Will There Be Good News?" is much more than just another crime novel.
By Laura Miller
September 23, 2008
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"The Song Is You"
"The Seance"
"The Believers"
"The Birthday Present"
"Lark and Termite"
All-American terrorist
"Serena"
"Winnie and Wolf"
"Death With Interruptions"
"Fault Lines"
"Sea of Poppies"
"The Wettest County in the World"
"Thank You for All Things"
"When Will There Be Good News?"
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