The Gold Coast197 reviews Nelson DeMille Grand Central Publishing, 1997 Worth your gold! + The Gold Coast + DeMille tackles a new subject Nelson DeMille's The Gold Coast is my favorite DeMille book. John Sutter is a local lawyer with a somewhat kooky wife from old money. In walks a mobster who buys the mansion next door even as Sutter's wife's family can't afford the upkeep on their old pile of stone. The narrative pits Sutter ...             Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)59 reviews Robertson Davies Penguin Classics, 2001 What took me so long? + An excellent read! + I really really really liked this book. + Alone on a Desert Island + Canadian literature at its finest             The Poet264 reviews Michael Connelly Grand Central Publishing, 2002 Adrenaline-soaked thrill-ride + Another chillingly enjoyable read by Connelly + Standard suspense fare Jack McEvoy is a reporter who works the crime beat. His twin brother, Sean, is a homicide cop. When Sean is found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gun-shot wound, with an Edgar Allen Poe quote written on the window where it was fogged up, Jack cannot accept that it was, indeed, suicide. He ...             Alias Grace: A Novel166 reviews Margaret Atwood Anchor, 1997 Amazing Grace: how sweet the read + brilliant and absorbing + Stunning + Subtle Genius             The Court Jesters1 review Avigdor Dagan Jewish Publication Society of America, 1989 A beautiful Holocoust story which goes beyond the others. The most powerful aspect of the tale is the viewpoint in which the characters share the inevitable guilt of the reader for watching the suffering without really experiencing it. The jesters are in the concentration camp for being gypsy, dwarfed and hunch-backed, but they are spared to entertain ...             In the Lake of the Woods188 reviews Tim O'Brien Mariner Books, 2006 A Psychological Study of the Layers that make up a Man + interesting... another hit from O'Brien + In the Mind of PTSD + Required reading             Gorky Park70 reviews Martin Cruz Smith Ballantine Books, 1982 Best Martin Cruz Smith Work Ever + Arkady Renko is a Born Investigator + Quite simply + A Splendid Russian Protagonist: Arkady Renko             The Main: A Novel10 reviews Trevanian Three Rivers Press, 2005 Mature antihero + It's the characters that bring you back + Great Writing + A fine, fun book + Story about a cop with a difference             The Secret History533 reviews Donna Tartt Knopf, 1992 Engrossing + Amazing Read + Good, weird, but a stretch of the imagination + A stunningly brilliant debut novel. + Remains one of my favorite books             Persuader (Jack Reacher Novels)111 reviews Lee Child Dell, 2004 Reacher undercover + Ok but not brilliant + Satisfying + One of Lee Child's Best Reacher Novel             The Waterworks: 528 reviews E. L. Doctorow Plume, 1997 Once Again Doctorow Delivers + mystorical fiction In this novel set in New York City early in the 1870's, the Civil War has left its scar on society, even in the north. The city is filled with limbless ex-soldiers, begging on the streets, shooting morphine into their veins to satisfy the dead-end addiction they picked up in hospitals. In this ...             Death in Summer26 reviews William Trevor Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 haunting With his simple style Mr. Trevor offers a haunting story of the entanglements of human relations. A superb novel, subtle in narrative, with characters that stay with the reader long after finishing the book.             The Summer of Katya: A Novel19 reviews Trevanian Three Rivers Press, 2005 serendipity + Brilliant + Meticulas story telling + extraordinary literature..             The Mosquito Coast: 570 reviews Paul Theroux Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996 Dark, disturbing and utterly enthralling + Good Character Study + An Important Character Study + The Mosquito Coast + A haunting, disturbing read             Fugitive Pieces: A Novel144 reviews Anne Michaels Vintage, 1998 Literary nourishment + Beautiful writing... + Beautiful + Great book! + A work of poetry             Ghostwritten76 reviews David Mitchell Vintage, 2001 So good I read it twice back-to-back + A Strange, Novel, 'Ghostly' Experience of a Book This is the first book that I ever read, finished, started over at the beginning, and read straight through again. That's not to say it is the best book I've ever read, but dang it is good. I didn't want it to be over, and I wanted to go back through and make all the connections. I'm sure I'm still ...             Plum Island333 reviews Nelson DeMille Grand Central Publishing, 1998 Part 1 of the LION'S GAME + Witty and Fun Mystery + Neat, twisty thriller + A Little Silly, but Highly Entertaining             The Salesman: A Novel9 reviews Joseph O'Connor Picador, 2000 Startling and Atmospheric + Brilliant look at loneliness + Irish story-telling at its best! Tautly written, with the kind of wry, dark humor that brings you just to edge of acceptance and never lets you go. This is a smashing work, and one of the best "Irish novels" I've read in awhile. Highly recommended. (By the way, does everyone know that the author, Joseph O'Connor, is none other ...             Vanishing Act (Jane Whitfield Novel)35 reviews Thomas Perry Fawcett, 1996 Thomas Perry does it again + You don't want Jane turning hunter on you . . . + Compelling, textured thriller in Adirondacks + A wonderful series!             The Mosquito Coast: 570 reviews Paul Theroux Penguin (Non-Classics), 1996 Dark, disturbing and utterly enthralling + Good Character Study + An Important Character Study + The Mosquito Coast + A haunting, disturbing read