Jeff Shelby - Liquid Smoke, A Crime Thriller Fiction Novel

Jeff Shelby is an American crime thriller author, his latest book, Liquid Smoke (published in May, 2011) is a gloomy, well-written, and gripping crime fiction.



Private Investigator Noah Braddock has a tangled web of family affairs which he seems to straight out at last: He has a stable relationship with Detective Liz Santangelo and, finally, gets along with his alcohol addicted mother. When he is asked to meet a convicted man who was found guilty in murdering two persons, it turns out that the supposed murderer is his unknown father...

Louise Penny - A Trick of the Light, A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny is an award-winning Canadian journalist and the author of New York Times best-selling novels, Chief Inspector Gamache series.



Clara Morrow is a middle-aged artist who, at last, has her big chance: her solo show for Musée d'Art Contemporain, in Montreal. However, things soon turn awry when, right after her gala, a corpse turns up in her home. The dead woman turns out to be Lillian Dyson, once Clara's best friend who betrayed her during their art school years. Chief Inspector Gamache investigates the case, and there are several suspects...

Susanne Clarke, Neil Gaiman - Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell

Susanne Clarke is a British fantasy fiction author. Her debut novel, Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell, is a New York Times best-selling book and also earned a Huigo Award for Clarke. The introduction is written by the award-winning Neil Gaiman - whom I love much.



The setting of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is England in the early 1800's - Napoleon defeats the English army. Things seems worse and worse for Great Britain until a withdrawn, odd scholar, Gilbert Norrell, discovers his own skills in practical magic. Soon a young aristocrat, Jonathan Strange, also shows signs of magical talent, and becomes Norrell's first pupil...

Joe Abercrombie - The Heroes, An Awesome British Fantasy Fiction

Joe Abercrombie is a British fantasy author and film editor. His newest fantasy book, The Heroes, is full of action and graphic violence.



The setting of The Heroes is familiar for Abercrombie’s readers: It is the grim and gritty world of his First Law trilogy. The main character is Lord Marshal Kroy, with a crew of less than talented helpers. The story is a three-day long, blood-soaked battle: near the frontiers, Northern highlanders occupy an important territory named The Heroes; and Southern Union soldiers (led by Marshal Kroy) intend to take it back…

James Lee Burke - Feast Day of Fools, A Great Crime Thriller Novel

James Lee Burke is an American crime thriller author, the writer of thirty great crime stories. His newest thriller novel, Feast Day of Fools, is already a best-selling book and was selected Amazon Best Books of the Month in September; which is no wonder, since it is has a great plot and a fine protagonist.



The setting of Feast Day of Fools is a small town in Texas, near the Mexican border. The main character, Sheriff Hackberry Holland, a troubled North Korea veteran, has lost his wife years ago. He has feelings for his colleague, Pam, who is much younger than him. However, soon he meets a stern Chinese lady Anton Ling who reminds him of his dead wife. Ling is known for her habit of hiding illegals, and is now a suspect of an ugly crime: Danny Boy Lorca, once a boxer and recently an alcoholic, has witnessed that a psychopath named Krill tormented, dismembered, and killed a man somewhere in the desert, Lorca has reported the case - and some proof points at Ling herself; perhaps she has to do something with the gruesome murder...

Zachary Rawlins - The Academy, The Central Series Fantasy Novel

Zachary Rawlins, a new American fantasy author, has come up with a great debut novel, The Academy. It is the first part of The Central Series which will consist of five instalments.



The main protagonist of The Academy is Alex Warner, a young man. He has no memories - all that turns out about his past is that his family died in a fire which he supposedly lit. Soon he meets a peculiar lady, Mitsuru, to find out that both Mitsuru and himself are the students of the Academy, a special school in a city called Central. The Academy is a school for youngsters with supernatural skills. There are rival cartels out there in Central which are after Alex...
Let me tell you the beginning of the storyline reminds me of that of the Harry Potter series. However, characters and writing manners make it original and exciting.

Brandon Sanderson - The Alloy of Law, A Mistborn Series Fantasy Novel

Brandon Sanderson (the American fantasy author who finished Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series) is known for his Mistborn series.



The Alloy of Law is his big return to Scadrial. We see Sanderson's fictional realms three hundred years after the end of the Mistborn trilogy. Scadrial is a modern day world this time, industrial and futuristic. The protagonists of the Mistborn trilogy appear as legendary cultic figures of religions. People in this modern world have hard time to get along and force some order onto the society: life is not easy in the Roughs which inhabitants are mostly outcasts...