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623 honest reviews across fiction, non-fiction, mystery, sci-fi, romance, and more.
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Senator Love
by Warren Adler
A Warren Adler Fiona Fitzgerald novel. DC homicide investigation involving a senator with discretionary problems. Adler in full DC-social-fiction mode.
Hide and Seek
by Cherry Adair
A T-FLAC romantic suspense from Cherry Adair. Mid-period, well-paced, the formula in full bloom.
Edge of Darkness
by Cherry Adair
A Cherry Adair Black Rose Chronicles entry. Romantic suspense with extra teleportation. Honest fun that never apologizes for itself.
The Nether Scroll
by Lynn Abbey
A late Lynn Abbey Forgotten Realms novel, working with a particularly chewy chunk of FR cosmology. For Realms completists.
The Guardians
by Lynn Abbey
A Forgotten Realms novel by Lynn Abbey. Bloodstone Lands, ranger protagonist, and the kind of competent shared-world fantasy the era produced in volume.
The Freeman
by Jerry Ahern
A standalone Ahern thriller. Survivalist pulp in a non-Rourke key. Exactly what its fans want.
The Golden Shield of IBF
by Jerry Ahern
Jerry and Sharon Ahern doing one of their late thrillers. Brigade-level military action wrapped around a recovered Nazi gold premise. Pulp in the warmest sense.
Murder on the Salsette
by Conrad Allen
The sixth Dillman and Masefield. Bombay-to-London on the Salsette. Conrad Allen at his most relaxed and his most period-comfortable.
Spanish Dagger
by Susan Wittig Albert
The 15th China Bayles. China's sister returns to Pecan Springs and the family history thread Susan Wittig Albert has been quietly setting up for years pays off.
Stable Cat
by Garrison Allen
The third Penelope Warren cat cozy. Garrison Allen takes Penelope and Mycroft to a horse-racing track. Reliable cozy comfort.
Of Beginnings and Endings
by Robert Adams
The sixth Castaways in Time novel. Robert Adams closing out his alternate-Tudor sequence with appropriate pulp enthusiasm.
Emma Watson : The Watsons Completed
by Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken completing the unfinished Austen fragment of The Watsons. Respectful, technically sound, slightly more sentimental than Austen was setting up.
Mourning Gloria
by Susan Wittig Albert
The 19th China Bayles. A car fire on a country road, a body that should not be there, and Susan Wittig Albert at her most quietly devastating.
An Experiment in Treason
by Bruce Alexander
The ninth Sir John Fielding mystery. Benjamin Franklin makes a cameo. Bruce Alexander writing 1770s espionage at the official level.
Wanderlust
by Ann Aguirre
The second Sirantha Jax novel. Ann Aguirre raising the political stakes and giving Jax a job that she should not be doing.
Tell Me What You Like
by Kate Allen
The first Alison Kaine novel. Kate Allen writing a lesbian Denver cop investigating an SM-community murder. A small underread series that is exactly as honest as it needs to be.
Quaker Witness
by Irene Allen
The second Elizabeth Elliot mystery. Irene Allen deepening the Friends-meeting world with a Harvard biology lab murder and a Quaker graduate student who fits no one's narrative.
Psychopath
by Keith Ablow
The fourth Frank Clevenger novel. Keith Ablow at his most genre and his most thematically blunt. Solid forensic thriller without the polish of Projection.
Touch of Madness
by C. T. Adams
The second Kate Reilly novel. C. T. Adams deepening the Thrall world with serial-killer plot, vampire-court politics, and a heroine running short of good days.
Cast the First Stone
by Jane Adams
The second Mike Croft novel. Jane Adams writing a child-protection investigation with the kind of moral seriousness that the form rarely allows.
Panic
by Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott writing a propulsive standalone thriller. Texas filmmaker discovers his real parents were not the people he thought they were.
Distant Blood
by Jeff Abbott
The fourth and final Jordan Poteet mystery. Jeff Abbott closing out the small-town Texas librarian series with appropriate weight.
Summer in Tuscany
by Elizabeth Adler
Elizabeth Adler doing what Elizabeth Adler does. Three generations of women, an Italian villa, and the kind of soft romance the form demands.
Death at Daisy's Folly
by Bill Albert
A Robin Paige Edwardian mystery set at Daisy Brooke's country house. Edward VII makes an appearance and Bill and Susan Albert keep the seams from showing.