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THE GOOD FATHER
By Noah Hawley
Doubleday $25.95
Doctor Paul Allen answers his front door to find two Secret Service agents who inform him that his son has shot and killed a leading Democratic presidential candidate. Allen refuses to believe it even after seeing TV news clips showing Daniel, his son from his first marriage, with the gun struggling with an unidentified man.
Ostracized by friends and associates and plagued by reporters, Allen, his second wife and twin boys, move to Arizona to start anew and be nearer to the federal prison where Daniel is held, even though his son refuses to see him.
This is a gut-wrenching novel of love, anger and guilt and virtually impossible to put down.
NEVER TELL
By Alafair Burke
Harper $24.99
Julia Whitmire, the 16-year-old daughter of famed punk rock producer, Bill Whitmire, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, a bottle of wine nearby and a handwritten suicide note on her bed. Detectives Ellie Hatcher and her partner J.J. Rogan write it off as a suicide, but Julia’s influential parents won’t accept that conclusion and call in favors from police superiors who order the case investigated as murder.
Now pressured to pursue the case as a homicide, Ellie finds herself pulled into a world of privileged teens as well as street kids and a blogger who invites bullying responses.
The plot’s twists and turns will have you guessing until the final pages.
BLOODLINE
By James Rollins
William Morrow $27.99
The President’s pregnant daughter is missing, kidnapped by Somali pirates, but no ransom request is made. The kidnappers don’t want the daughter, but her baby, for fertility experiments in developing a breed of human immortals. SIGMA Commander Gray Pierce is immediately enlisted to rescue daughter and baby and he calls on former Army Ranger Captain Tucker Wayne and his amazing military dog Kane (the real hero here).
Rollins mixes fiction with facts in this exciting thriller. And he documents those facts in an afterword that may be more incredible than the story itself.
KILLING LINCOLN
By Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard
Henry Holt $28
Although the assassination of President Lincoln is an event known even to grade-school kids, the authors have added enough material to add suspense to that horrendous event.
Lincoln had just been re-elected, and with the Civil War ended, the president finally felt entitled to enjoy a night out with his wife, Mary. Lincoln chose the popular play “My American Cousin” at Ford’s Theatre, a fortuitous choice for assassin John Wilkes Booth, a popular actor who knew the logistics of the theater well. He failed to make his escape and was killed by soldiers shortly after.
COOKBOOKS GALORE…
Hey, What’s for Dinner? Want Italian? Try the HAZAN FAMILY FAVORITES (Stewart, Tabori & Chang) and their 85 “Beloved Italian Recipes” collected by Giuliano Hazan from a 56-year old notebook. Forty sumptuous color photos illustrate dishes from soup to desserts. E ‘buono! For Vegetarians, Sally Butcher, chef-proprietor of Persepolis in London, fills THE NEW MIDDLE EASTERN VEGETARIAN with recipes that might have you passing up steak for eggplant, tomatoes stuffed with olives or Artichoke Hearts with Pistachio Sauce, to name just a few. And, if you’ve always wished for a book of authentic Cajun dishes, your wish is granted with John Gravois’ A CAJUN FAMILY COOKBOOK. Gravois, a former newspaperman from Houma, reveals recipes his mother taught him for cooking all the essential Cajun dishes. It’s all in this little spiral-bound, easy to lay flat as you cook, manual. C’EST Bon!
Noah Hawley’s fourth book, “The Good Father,” is a gut-wrenching novel of love, anger and guilt,” writes reviewer Ray Saadi. Hawley is also known for writing and producing the television series “Bones.”
“The Good Father”
“Never Tell”
“Bloodline”
“Killing Lincoln”
