Featured Titles 2010

New titles - selected on the basis of good reviews. Nonfiction, fiction and mystery titles are included on these lists. Books for kids and teens (fiction and nonfiction) are also sometimes listed.

December 2010

Nonfiction

Fiction

Crime Fiction

  • Palace of Justice: Aristide Ravel
    Author: Alleyn, Susanne
    $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780312379896 Date: 2010
    starPW
    In the pre-Revolutionary atmosphere of distrust and anxiety, police agent Aristide Ravel must stop a ruthless killer who is terrorizing the city.
    Updated 10.13.10
  • City of Dreadful Night
    Author: Gutteridge, Peter
    $ 29 ISBN: 9780727869432 Date: 2010
    starKirkus
    First gripping mystery in the Brighton Trilogy - July 1934. A woman's torso is found in a trunk at Brighton railway station's left luggage office. Her identity is never established, her killer never caught. But someone is keeping a diary . . . July 2009. Ambitious radio journalist Kate Simpson hopes to solve the notorious Brighton Trunk Murder, and she enlists the help of ex-Chief Constable Robert Watts, whose role in the recent botched armed-police operation in Milldean, Brighton's notorious no-go area, cost him his job. But it's only a matter of time before past and present collide . . .
    Updated 9.27.10
  • The Four Stages of Cruelty
    Author: Hollihan, Keith
    $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780312592479 Date: 2010
    starPW starKirkus
    Intense and arresting, this powerful debut follows a female corrections officer who works with a young male inmate to uncover a criminal organization that has taken control of a maximum security prison.
    Suggested Reading: Debuts
    Updated 10.13.10