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April 17, 2010

Book cover of Never Look Away: A Thriller by Linwood Barclay

Never Look Away: A Thriller
by Linwood Barclay

Linwood Barclay is back with more unexpected twists and superb characters in a spine-tingling, mesmerizing thriller about a husband whose wife disappears, along with everything he thought he knew about their life together. The husband finds himself desperately searching for any clue that could lead him to his wife, even if it means unraveling a tangle of lies and deception that become more complicated at every turn.

Bookcover for Little Bee by Chris Cleave

Little Bee
by Chris Cleave

This is a haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two strangers, one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London. This is a psychologically charged story of grief, globalization and an unlikely friendship.

Bookcover of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
by Seth Grahame-Smith

Following the success of his bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with another mix of historical fiction and horror, Grahame-Smith inserts a struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln's life. Lincoln learns at an early age that a supernatural predator killed his mother. This provokes his bloody but curiously undocumented lifelong vendetta against vampires and their slave-owning allies.