Malla Nunn
A brief but revealing Q&A with Malla Nunn, author of A Beautiful Place to Die, the first in a new series set in 1950s South Africa starring Detective Emmanuel Cooper.
Kate DiCamillo
Kate DiCamillo and Yoko Tanaka, the illustrator of The Magician's Elephant, discuss the writing and illustrating of the book. In a separate Q&A, Kate discusses The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.
Brigid Pasulka
Brigid Pasulka explains why she wrote her first novel, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True, which is set in Poland during World War II, and in Kraków 50 years later.
Things are going well for 24 year-old Evan Casher: his career as a
documentary filmmaker is booming and his relationship with his new
girlfriend, Carrie, couldn't be better. After an urgent phone call
from his mother, he makes an unexpected trip home to Austin. Then the
unthinkable happens. He arrives to find his mother brutally murdered,
and narrowly escapes an attempt on his own life. Spirited away
from the scene by an enigmatic mercenary with an agenda of his own,
Evan is confronted with a shocking fact: his entire life has been
little more than a carefully constructed lie.
Pursued by a powerful, ruthless organization of killers who will
stop at nothing to keep old secrets buried, Evan's only hope for
survival is to uncover the truth about his family...and his own past.
With his mother's attackers fast on his heels and with no one to
trust—not the authorities, his father, nor the woman he loves—his
perilous search takes him from the Texas Hill Country to New Orleans,
to London, and to Miami. Full of unforgettable characters and jolting
plot twists, Panic is an emotionally charged,
heart-stopping thriller about one man's determination to take back
his stolen life.
Book Reviews
Library Journal - Jeff Ayers
Abbott's writing style evokes unease from the start, which makes for a tense and intriguing read. Readers should indeed panic. Recommended for all fiction collections.
Publishers Weekly
Abbott has fashioned another burst of white-knuckled suspense that's extremely hard to put down.
Booklist - David Wright
Starred Review. Those who disparage page-turners seldom appreciate what it takes to pull off a really good one, such as Abbott's engrossing hardcover debut, which follows a string of hardboiled paperback originals.
Harlan Coben
A sleek, smart thriller that combines a family tragedy, international intrigue, and the redemptive power of love into one of this year's best books. There is no question: Jeff Abbott is the new name in suspense.
Jan Burke
Jeff Abbott has all the ingredients of high suspense in Panic:
an ordinary man whose everyday life changes within minutes into an
unrecognizable landscape, a place where he is in constant danger and can
find no easy way out. Be prepared to stay up all night.
Lee Child Panic is Jeff Abbott's best novel yet... an
instant classic immediately full of questions--who, what, why, how--that
have answers you won't see coming.
Michael Connelly Panic is a ride down the roaring rapids. Jeff
Abbott has put together a hell of a page turner.
Laura Lippman
A superb story, a sterling example of why we love stories about ordinary men thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Don't even try to anticipate the twists and turns in this intelligent thriller -- just hold on tight and remember to breathe.
Tony Hillerman Panic is what a reader enjoys when a really talented writer like Jeff Abbott comes up with a fresh and gripping plot. It's even better than his Cut and Run.
A spellbinding novel that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.
A novel on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war, and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.
Jeannette Walls's memoir The Glass Castle was "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly). Now, in Half Broke Horses, she brings us the story of her grandmother, told in a first-person voice that is authentic, irresistible, and triumphant.
A gripping and fascinating adventure of one young girl's obsession with knowing who her parents really were/are. The delving into the idea of ...
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I borrowed Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell from the library, hoping it would be a lively story of two feuding wizards. Instead, the author spends ...
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Borders to close 200 Waldenbooks outlets(Nov 06 2009) As Barnes & Noble prepares to close all but two of their B. Dalton mall stores by January 2010, Borders announced that they will close about 200 of the...
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NPR & ABA Partner to Share Book Coverage(Nov 05 2009) In a joining of like minds, NPR and ABA have partnered to provide thoughtful bestsellers and unique book coverage to readers, both on NPR.org and...
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