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Liss, David. The Twelfth Enchantment. Random. Aug. 2011. c.444p. ISBN 9781400068968. $26. F In many ways, Liss's seventh novel (after The Devil's Company) represents a significant departure for the best-selling [...]

* Grossman, Paul. The Sleepwalkers. St. Martin's. Oct. 2010. c.320p. ISBN 978-0-312-60190-4. $24.99. F Simultaneously a work of historical fiction, a medical mystery, a thriller, and a work of crime [...]

Peffer, Randall. Southern Seahawk: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea. Bleak House: Big Earth. Jan. 2009. c.320p. ISBN 978-1-60648-012-0. $24.95; pap. ISBN 978-1-60648-0137. $14.95. F This first entry [...]

Liss, David. The Whiskey Rebels. Random. Sept. 2008. c.519p. ISBN 978-1-4000-64205. $26. F Known for suspenseful novels set in the world of 18th-century finance, e.g., the Edgar Award-winning A Conspiracy [...]

Lehane, Dennis. Live by Night. Morrow. Oct. 2012. c.416p. ISBN 9780060004873. $27.99. F Lehane (Mystic River; Shutter Island) is known for gritty, occasionally gruesome mystery novels, frequently set in the [...]

* Abbott, David. The Upright Piano Player. Nan A. Talese: Doubleday. Jun. 2011. c.272p. ISBN 9780385534420. $21.95. F This debut novel by a founding partner of Britain's largest ad agency [...]

Mountford, Peter. A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism. Mariner: Houghton Harcourt. Apr. 2011. c.320p. ISBN 9780547473352. pap. $15.95. F This first novel follows the struggles of a man trying [...]

Cornwell, Bernard. The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War. Harper: HarperCollins. Sept. 2010. c.471p. ISBN 978-0-06-196963-8. $25.99. F This novel represents something of a departure for Cornwell (Agincourt), set [...]

Zimmerman, David. The Sandbox. Soho, dist. by Consortium. Apr. 2010. c.368p. ISBN 9781-56947-628-4. $25. F Set at a remote military base in the Iraqi desert, this debut novel unsparingly portrays [...]

Manfredi, Valerio Massimo. The Ides of March. Europa, dist. by Consortium. Mar. 2010. c.288p, tr. from Italian by Christine Fedderson. ISBN 978-1-933372-99-0. pap. $16. F Manfredi's (The Last Legion) ninth [...]

Estrin, Marc. The Good Doctor Guillotin: An Anatomy of Five. Unbridled. Sept. 2009. c.336p. ISBN 978-1-932961-85-0. pap. $14.95. F Delivering a polemic against capital punishment, Estrin (Insect Dreams) follows five […]

Fante, Dan. 86'd. Perennial: HarperCollins. Oct. 2009. c.304p. ISBN 978-0-08-177922-0. pap. $13.99. F This fourth novel in the Dante series follows the life of Bruno Dante (based not so loosely […]

Carhart, Thad. Across the Endless River. Doubleday. Sept. 2009. c.384p, maps. ISBN 978-0-385-52977-8. $26.95. F Carhart, author of the best-selling nonfiction Piano Shop on the Left Bank, revisits the coming […]

Liss, David. The Devil's Company. Random. Jul. 2009. c.384p. ISBN 978-1-4000-6419-9. $25. F Liss's sixth novel marks the return of Benjamin Weaver, last seen in A Spectacle of Corruption. Weaver [...]

Baruth, Philip. The Brothers Boswell. Soho, dist. by Consortium. May 2009. c.336p. ISBN 978-1-56947-559-1. $24. F In this literary thriller, Baruth (English, Univ. of Vermont; The X President) uses the [...]

Olmstead, Robert. Far Bright Star. Algonquin. May 2009. c.224p. ISBN 978-1-56512-5926. $23.95. F Olmstead's seventh novel (after the award-winning Coal Black Horse) employs a sparse, poetic style that is appropriate [...]

Cornwell, Bernard. Agincourt. Harper: HarperCollins. Jan. 2009. c.464p. ISBN 978-0-06-157891-5. $27.95. F Cornwell, best known for historical series like the Sharpe novels and the 'Saxon Tales,' has written a stand-alone [...]

Campbell, Broos. Peter Wicked. McBooks Pr. Sept. 2008. c.320p. ISBN 978-1-59013-1527. $23.95. F The third novel in the Matty Graves series (after The War of Knives and No Quarter) takes [...]

Sheers, Owen. Resistance. Nan A. Talese: Doubleday. Feb. 2008. c.304p. ISBN 978-0-385-52210-6. $23.95. F By all appearances, this debut novel by an award-winning Welsh poet can be readily classified as [...]

Drew, Alan. Gardens of Water. Random. Feb. 2008. c.352p. ISBN 978-1-4000-6687-2. $24.95. F This first novel explores the interactions between two families, one Muslim and the other Christian, in an [...]

Edwards, Geoffrey S. Fire Bell in the Night. Touchstone: S. & S. Sept. 2007. ISBN 978-1--4165-6424-9. pap. $14. F This debut novel, which took second place in Gather.com's inaugural First […]

Russell, S. Thomas. Under Enemy Colors. Putnam. Sept. 2007. c.368p. ISBN 978-0-399-15443-0. $24.95. F Fans of Patrick O'Brian's works and other novels in the naval adventure genre will enjoy Russell's […]

Morris, R.N. The Gentle Axe. Penguin Pr: Penguin Group (USA). Mar. 2007. c.320p. ISBN 1-59420-112-9 [ISBN 978-1-59420-112-7]. $24.95. F This historical crime novel adopts the setting and explores many of [...]

McCaig, Donald. Canaan. Norton. Mar. 2007. c.480p. ISBN 0-393-06246-5 [ISBN 978-0-393-06246-5]. $24.95. F This historical novel continues the action of Jacob's Ladder, McCaig's 1999 novel about Civil War--era Virginia, but [...]