Fabulous Fiction Ive Read Recently
Discover fabulous fiction books I've recently read and loved! Explore captivating stories, must-read novels, and top recommendations for your next great read.
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Tenderwire
by Claire Kilroy
Joining the New Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra only to collapse after her solo debut, Eva Tyne embarks on a chaotic and dangerous pursuit of a rare violin and a mysterious man, an obsessive and paranoid venture during which she is haunted by the ghost of her father. A first American publication by the author of All Summer. Original. 30,000 first printing.
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The Virgin of Small Plains
by Nancy Pickard
Some of the leading citizens of Small Plains, Kansas, are determined to keep the truth buried when a long-ago murder resurfaces with devastating and deadly consequences.
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Shadow Man
by Cody McFadyen
Once the FBI's hottest serial killer hunter, Smoky Barrett is left scarred in body and mind following a brutal encounter with a psychotic killer, and is on the verge of suicide when she is confronted by an all new evil called the Shadow Man.
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Isolation Ward
by Joshua Spanogle
Debut novelist Spanogle draws on his own experiences as a medical student in this startling, scalpel-sharp medical thriller drawn straight from tomorrow's headlines.
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Back to Wando Passo
by David Payne
David Payne has been hailed as "the most gifted American novelist of his generation" (Boston Globe) and has been likened to "Pat Conroy or perhaps a Southern John Irving" (Winston-Salem Journal). Now, in his new novel, Payne introduces us to Ransom Hill, lead singer of a legendary-but-now-defunct indie rock group who has come to South Carolina to turn over a new leaf. A bighearted artist and a bit of a wild man, Ran knows that his wife Claire's patience with him hangs by a frayed thread. After a five-month separation, he's come south from New York City to rejoin her and their two young children at Wando Passo, Claire's inherited family estate, determined to save his marriage, his family, and himself. Back at Wando Passo, though, things don't proceed according to plan. Claire has taken a job teaching at the local music conservatory, where the dean of the faculty, Marcel Jones, is one of Claire's oldest friends. It's unclear -- to Ran, at least -- whether Claire and Marcel's relationship remains platonic or has evolved, in his absence, in a disturbing new direction. Matters are complicated further when Ran discovers a mysterious black pot of apparent slave manufacture buried on the grounds of Wando Passo. The unearthing of this relic transports Ransom -- and the reader -- back one hundred fifty years into the story of another love triangle at Wando Passo at the height of the Civil War . . . . . . May 1861. Claire's great-great-great grand-mother, Adelaide DeLay, a beautiful thirty-three-year-old "spinster" from a top-drawer Charleston family, arrives at Wando Passo by boat, having made a marriage of convenience to the plantation's future master, Harlan DeLay. As Addie comes down the gangway, she catches the eye of the plantation's steward, Jarry, Harlan's black half brother. Trans-fixed, she sees something in Jarry's eyes "like a question that, once posed, you cannot rest until you have the answer to." In the present, when two eroded skeletons turn up buried in shallow graves, Ransom becomes obsessed with the identities of the bodies and what happened to them. Did the past triangle -- involving Addie, Harlan, and Jarry -- culminate in murder? As his marriage to Claire continues to unravel, Ran begins to wonder whether disturbing echoes of the past are leading him, Marcel, and Claire toward a similar, tragic outcome in the present. A fast-paced adventure story filled with lyrical writing, wicked humor, and unforgettable characters, Back to Wando Passo propels the two love stories, linked by place through time, to a simultaneous crescendo of betrayal, revenge, and redemption, and asks whether the present is doomed to ceaselessly repeat the past -- or if it can sometimes change and redeem it.
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The Priest's Madonna
by Amy Hassinger
"In 1884 in southern France, sixteen-year-old Marie Denarnaud's family is forced to move when their house burns to the ground. They find a new home in nearby Rennes-le-Chateau, a beautiful village set among hills steeped in history - from stories of a Visigothic presence in the Dark Ages, to tales of Cathar heretics who may have fled crusaders through rumors of gold buried in the caves that perforate the hillsides." "Marie and her family face a chilly welcome in Rennes until the day a new parish priest is assigned to the village. By coincidence, the charismatic young priest is a friend of Marie's mother, and because his presbytery is in ruins, Berenger Sauniere takes up temporary residence with the Denarnauds. Young Marie is enthralled by the passionate Berenger, and she revels in his priestly attention, though heavily conflicted by her own growing attraction to him." "Meanwhile, Berenger has attracted the patronage of a wealthy aristocrat who is willing to fund reconstruction of the church. His only condition is the Berenger keep an eye out for anything unusual he might find. Marie begins to suspect that the request has to do with the local legend of a woman who claimed to be descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ from Mary Magdalene. Berenger grows secretive, even as their affection deepens, and Marie must seek the truth without his help." "The Priest's Madonna blends fact and fiction. Interweaving scenes of ancient Judea with the spiritual journey of a vibrant and intense heroine, it tells a tale of faith, doubt, forbidden love."--BOOK JACKET.
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Revenge of the Rose
by Nicole Galland
Summoned to the court of Konrad, the Holy Roman Emperor, Willem, a poor young nobleman, negotiates the intrigues of the court with the help of Jouglet, an enigmatic minstrel, only to discover that he has become an unwitting pawn in an elaborate scheme.
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The Ghost Writer
by John Harwood
Plagued with unpleasant memories of his mother's death, shy Gerard Freeman is obsessed with the manuscript of a century-old ghost story written by his great-grandmother and entrusted to his care.
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The Empire of the Wolves
by Jean-Christophe Grange
Grange's riveting international bestseller rivals literate thrillers such as Martin Cruz Smith's "Gorky Park" and Peter Hoeg's "Smilla's Sense of Snow."
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The Finishing School
by Michele Martinez
When two beautiful teenagers from a posh East Side girls' school suddenly turn up dead under suspicious circumstances, it falls to Melanie Vargas, a savvy federal prosecutor, to do anything possible to get to the truth.