New books by good authors (May 2004)
Discover the best new books from May 2004, featuring top authors like Stephen King, Peter Straub, and Jeffery Deaver. Explore thrilling fiction, from *The Dark Tower VI* and *Wolves of the Calla* to *Lost Boy Lost Girl* and *The Vanished Man*—a curated list of must-read 2004 releases.
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Red Thunder
by John Varley
Seven suburban misfits are constructing a spaceship out of old tanker cars. The plan is to beat the Chinese to Mars--in under four days at three million miles an hour. It would be history in the making if it didn't sound so insane.
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Wolves of the Calla
by Stephen King
Here is the fifth installment, "one of the strongest entries yet in what will surely be a master storyteller's magnum opus" (Locus).
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Lost Boy Lost Girl
by Peter Straub
A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son– fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill–vanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mother’s suicide, Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain.
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Fever 42
by Christopher Fahy
Ted, an English teacher, has found that life has become dull until Joy comes along. Joy takes him on a soul-shattering trip that makes his spirit soar. Alive for the first time in years, he revels in his wild trysts with Joy--a student at his high school. "Wildly funny and surprisingly sad. . . made me think of the early J.D. Salinger period. Christopher is a wonderful writer."--Stephen King.
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The Vanished Man
by Jeffery Deaver
The "New York Times" bestseller by the "master of ticking-bomb suspense" ("People")--a brilliant thriller that pits forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs against an unstoppable killer with one final, horrific trick up his sleeve.
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The Dark Tower VI
by Stephen King
While Jake, Father Callahan, and Oy struggle to free Susannah Dean, whose body is possessed by a demon-mother named Mia, Roland and Eddie find themselves swept by magic to East Stoneham, Maine, in the summer of 1977, where they encounter a terrifying and dangerous world.
