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Edie Walker, 35, hates both dating apps and being single, so when her longtime pal and crush, Peter Masterson, splits up with his girlfriend, Edie decides to confess her feelings and hope he reciprocates. Before Edie summons the courage, however, Peter starts dating Anaya Thomas, a stunning, self-assured feminist studies professor with whom Edie feels an immediate kinship. After reading all of Anaya’s publications in an effort to “inhabit” the mind of the woman she believes to be a better version of herself, Edie is blindsided when Anaya fatally overdoses. Peter admits to Edie that he did drugs with Anaya the night she died, but swears she was fine when he left her. If that’s the case, Edie wonders, then why do the police suspect foul play? The close third-person narration follows Edie’s increasingly reckless quest for the truth. While her dogged obsession propels the plot forward, it’s Smith’s exploration of themes like feminine insecurity, self-erasure, and dating double standards that sets this apart from similar fare. Readers will be thinking about this long after they’ve turned the final page. <em>Agent: Aurora Fernandez, Trident Media Group. (Feb.)</em> <p> <review-date>Reviewed on 12/13/2024 | </review-date> <a href="/9780063385832">Details & Permalink</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="more-less full-width-heading" data-jsclass="responsiveWrapper" data-responsive-scales="small" data-follow="#wrapper" data-constrain="width" data-row="275415" onclick="revealReview(this);"><ml>show more</ml></div> <div class="full-width-heading-placeholder"> </div> </div> <div class="cateogry-reviews-separator"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-item"> <cite> The Medici Return </cite> <h4> Steve Berry. Grand Central, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-538770-56-6 </h4> <div id="review-275414" class="category-reviews-table"> <div class="category-reviews-row"> <div class="category-reviews-graphic"> <img src="https://www.publishersweekly.com/cover/9781538770566?w=124"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-body"> Berry’s scorching latest thriller featuring Cotton Malone (after <em>The Atlas Maneuver</em>) finds the retired U.S. Justice Department operative once again battling violent men over events in the distant past. After a dozen years with the government, Malone has started a new life as a bookstore owner. But he’s drawn back into the fray by his former handler, Stephanie Nelle, after the Vatican is roiled by a scandal: a church official on trial for embezzlement and theft has implicated Cardinal Jason Richter—a close friend of the current pope, who will help select his successor—in his schemes. Malone breaks into Richter’s home and verifies that he’s in possession of stolen items, but suspects the cardinal has been framed. The plot thickens when right-wing Italian politician Eric Casaburi claims the Vatican owes him hundreds of billions of euros as a descendant of the Medici family, whose members, centuries earlier, bailed out the church with a sizeable loan guaranteed by the Pledge of Christ. Malone joins church officials on a dangerous search for that rarely issued promissory note. The plot offers few surprises, but series fans are likely to stick it out for the fast-paced, well-oiled action. This may not be top-shelf Berry, but it gets the job done. <em>Agent: Simon Lipskar, Writers House. (Feb.)</em> <p> <review-date>Reviewed on 12/13/2024 | </review-date> <a href="/9781538770566">Details & Permalink</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="more-less full-width-heading" data-jsclass="responsiveWrapper" data-responsive-scales="small" data-follow="#wrapper" data-constrain="width" data-row="275414" onclick="revealReview(this);"><ml>show more</ml></div> <div class="full-width-heading-placeholder"> </div> </div> <div class="cateogry-reviews-separator"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-item"> <cite> One Minute More </cite> <h4> Robert Rotenberg. Simon & Schuster, $17.99 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-668-07877-8 </h4> <div id="review-275413" class="category-reviews-table"> <div class="category-reviews-row"> <div class="category-reviews-graphic"> <img src="https://www.publishersweekly.com/cover/9781668078778?w=124"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-body"> Exciting action sequences can’t make up for the weaknesses of criminal defense attorney Rotenberg’s eighth Detective Greene novel (after <em>What We Buried</em>), which covers an early case in the officer’s career. In July 1988, Toronto Police Chief Charles Keon receives an anonymous tip that an assassin targeting the leaders of the Ontario G7 Summit—which include Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Gorbachev—will attempt to enter Canada. Keon sends promising young officer Ari Greene to a small town straddling the Quebec-Vermont border to investigate. There, Greene learns that several people have been killed, but fails to apprehend the culprit: Marina, a young woman trained as an assassin since age four by Afghan terrorist Alisander. Alisander’s coconspirator is Angus Whitecastle, former prime minister of Great Britain, who intends to use Thatcher’s death as pretext for a return to power. Marina leads Greene on a tense, bloody chase by car, train, and boat to stop her before she reaches Toronto. While Rotenberg gives most of his cast intriguing backstories, Alisander, the ostensible main antagonist, is a wisp of a character, and readers will be frustrated that Greene is scarcely involved in bringing him to justice. This is a letdown. <em>Agent: Michael Levine, Westwood Creative Artists. (Feb.)</em> <p> <review-date>Reviewed on 12/13/2024 | </review-date> <a href="/9781668078778">Details & Permalink</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="more-less full-width-heading" data-jsclass="responsiveWrapper" data-responsive-scales="small" data-follow="#wrapper" data-constrain="width" data-row="275413" onclick="revealReview(this);"><ml>show more</ml></div> <div class="full-width-heading-placeholder"> </div> </div> <div class="cateogry-reviews-separator"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-item"> <cite> Within the Circle </cite> <h4> Arne Dahl. Crooked Lane, $29.99 (320p) ISBN 979-8-89242-070-9 </h4> <div id="review-275395" class="category-reviews-table"> <div class="category-reviews-row"> <div class="category-reviews-graphic"> <img src="https://www.publishersweekly.com/cover/9798892420709?w=124"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-body"> Swedish novelist Dahl (the Detective Sam Berger series) impresses in this taut procedural about a frantic search for a bomber who selects victims based on their complicity in global warming. Insp. Eva Nyman of Stockholm’s National Operations Department is assigned to probe the potential connection between two recent deaths: the first victim, steel executive Alf Stiernström, died in a car explosion that was initially deemed an accident; the second, ad executive Jesper Sahlgren, was killed by a package bomb sent to his office, where he was drawing up ads for an oil company. Early in her investigation, Nyman receives an anonymous letter that alludes to the two crimes (“It has begun. The clock no longer ticks of its own volition; it has to be wound with violence”) and threatens a third. Her team scrambles to identify the potential target, and Nyman becomes increasingly suspicious that the perpetrator may be her former mentor on the force, whose idiosyncratic vocabulary matches the killer’s manifestos. Dahl’s crackerjack plotting is enhanced by nuanced characterizations of Nyman and her colleagues, whose inner lives are given equal weight with the story’s procedural elements. This deserves a sequel. <em>Agent: Tor Jonasson, Salomonsson Agency. (Feb.)</em> <p> <review-date>Reviewed on 12/13/2024 | </review-date> <a href="/9798892420709">Details & Permalink</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="more-less full-width-heading" data-jsclass="responsiveWrapper" data-responsive-scales="small" data-follow="#wrapper" data-constrain="width" data-row="275395" onclick="revealReview(this);"><ml>show more</ml></div> <div class="full-width-heading-placeholder"> </div> </div> <div class="cateogry-reviews-separator"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-item"> <cite> An Excellent Thing in a Woman: A Sparks and Bainbridge Mystery </cite> <h4> Allison Montclair. Severn House, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4483-1237-5 </h4> <div id="review-275394" class="category-reviews-table"> <div class="category-reviews-row"> <div class="category-reviews-graphic"> <img src="https://www.publishersweekly.com/cover/9781448312375?w=124"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-body"> Montclair seamlessly blends fair-play detection, immersive period detail, and dashes of humor in her latest historical featuring matchmakers Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge (after <em>Murder at the White Palace</em>). In 1947 England, Sparks is mourning her lover, gangster Archie Spelling, who died in a shoot-out soon after he proposed to her. Bainbridge hopes that getting back to work at the duo’s matchmaking firm, the Right Sort Marriage Bureau, will help lift Sparks’s spirits. The partners get a diverting challenge when Jeanne-Marie Duplessis, a dancer who trained with the Paris Opéra Ballet but has been reduced to performing in nightclubs, seeks their help finding a husband in the next nine days so she can remain in England. Sparks and Bainbridge spring into action, but their initial objective becomes moot when Duplessis is found strangled to death in a BBC TV studio. BBC site manager Sally Danielli, who is both Bainbridge’s boyfriend and Sparks’s best friend, comes under suspicion for the killing, and the matchmakers must once again turn to sleuthing to clear his name. Montclair’s light, comic touch and gift for well-placed clues are on full display. It’s another solid entry in a dependable series. <em>Agent: Mitchell Waters, Mitchell Waters Literary. (Feb.)</em> <p> <review-date>Reviewed on 12/13/2024 | </review-date> <a href="/9781448312375">Details & Permalink</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="more-less full-width-heading" data-jsclass="responsiveWrapper" data-responsive-scales="small" data-follow="#wrapper" data-constrain="width" data-row="275394" onclick="revealReview(this);"><ml>show more</ml></div> <div class="full-width-heading-placeholder"> </div> </div> <div class="cateogry-reviews-separator"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-item"> <cite> An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery </cite> <h4> Jean-Luc Bannalec. Minotaur, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-89311-6 </h4> <div id="review-275372" class="category-reviews-table"> <div class="category-reviews-row"> <div class="category-reviews-graphic"> <img src="https://www.publishersweekly.com/cover/9781250893116?w=124"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-body"> The sturdy 10th installment in Bannalec’s series featuring food-obsessed French detective Georges Dupin (after <em>Death of a Master Chef</em>) sets a locked-room mystery on an island off the Brittany coast. A body found on a navigation buoy is quickly identified as that of Patric Prevost, the wealthiest and most disagreeable resident of Belle-Île, famed for its needlelike rock formations that inspired Claude Monet. Dupin’s initial questioning reveals Prevost to have been deeply unloved and alienated from others by his fortune. As Dupin digs further, the responses by Prevost’s neighbors, tenants, and the island’s mayor frustrate him. When Prevost’s estate is totaled at $20 million, and it emerges that much of it is willed to the island’s improvement, there’s plenty of motive, but no obvious suspect. Then an islander is kidnapped, and Prevost’s ex-wife is found strangled to death after making a frantic phone call for help. The mystery’s satisfying solution ties neatly into the series’s focus on food. While the pacing sometimes drags, with sidebars about Breton culture slowing the action, fans will enjoy Dupin’s characteristically wry observations. It’s a satisfying enough series entry. <em>(Feb.)</em> <p> <review-date>Reviewed on 12/06/2024 | </review-date> <a href="/9781250893116">Details & Permalink</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="more-less full-width-heading" data-jsclass="responsiveWrapper" data-responsive-scales="small" data-follow="#wrapper" data-constrain="width" data-row="275372" onclick="revealReview(this);"><ml>show more</ml></div> <div class="full-width-heading-placeholder"> </div> </div> <div class="cateogry-reviews-separator"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-item"> <cite> Seems Perfect </cite> <h4> Rebecca Hanover. Lake Union, $28.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-6625-2050-1 </h4> <div id="review-275371" class="category-reviews-table"> <div class="category-reviews-row"> <div class="category-reviews-graphic"> <img src="https://www.publishersweekly.com/cover/9781662520501?w=124"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-body"> Hanover (<em>The Last Applicant</em>) delivers a limp tale of psychological manipulation set in San Francisco’s sleepy Noe Valley neighborhood. A knee injury has halted sidelined yoga teacher Emily Hawthorne. To pay her mounting bills, she advertises for a roommate to share her one-bedroom house. Charmed by a cursory online chat with a woman named Pip Stone, Emily accepts her application, but when Pip arrives, she unexpectedly has her 12-year-old daughter, Sophie, in tow. Within days, the new tenants have taken over Emily’s bedroom, rearranged the contents of her cabinets, and raided her closet; they have not, however, paid a dime in rent. 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(Feb.)</em> <p> <review-date>Reviewed on 11/22/2024 | </review-date> <a href="/9798892422246">Details & Permalink</a> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="more-less full-width-heading" data-jsclass="responsiveWrapper" data-responsive-scales="small" data-follow="#wrapper" data-constrain="width" data-row="275354" onclick="revealReview(this);"><ml>show more</ml></div> <div class="full-width-heading-placeholder"> </div> </div> <div class="cateogry-reviews-separator"> </div> <div class="category-reviews-item"> <cite> <img src="/images/star3.gif" width=16 height=20 border=0 style="vertical-align:top;"> Saint of the Narrows Street </cite> <h4> William Boyle. 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