Best Novel:

Mr. White's Confession
By Robert Clark.

    Tender, moving, and surprisingly lyrical, Clark's novel about the murder of two Minnesota taxi dancers turns into a rich meditation on memory and desire.

A Cold Day in Paradise
By Steve Hamilton

    Alex McKnight runs a hunting camp built by his late father. He drifts into private investigations only because of two friends, a persuasive lawyer and a local millionaire with a gambling problem who needs his help. When two bookmakers are murdered and the millionaire disappears, all the signs point to the psychopath who killed McKnight's partner and left a slug near Alex's heart 14 years before.

The Widower's Two-Step
By Rick Riordan

    Budding P.I. Tres Navarre returns in a detective novel with South Texas style. When the musician he's been paid to follow gets herself shot, Tres finds himself drawn into a deadly waltz of double-crossing and dirty deals. Sex, music, and murder--what more could a mystery-lover want?

To the Last Breath
By Carlton Stowers

    The story opens with somber drama: The body of a 2-year-old girl is removed from its grave and transported to a hospital for a second autopsy. In the small Gulf Coast town of Alvin, Texas, the bereaved mother, the child's grandmother, and the female detective who has risked so much to champion their cause await the opinion of a visiting pathologist.

Mystery and Suspense Writers
By Robin Winks and Maureen Corrigan

    Within the walls of this two-volume set are 1,300 pages, 82 original articles and essays, and dozens of informational appendices on mystery's most influential and popular writers. Spanning a huge range of genres and subgenres, this handsome set makes an essential addition to any mystery addict's library.

A Certain Justice
By P.D. James

    Her 1997 novel, "A Certain Justice," gained critical accolades for its intricate plot and superb characterizations of barristers, criminal lawyers, and a particularly nasty villain.

Fiction:

The Hours
By Michael Cunningham

    It is both an homage to Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" and very much its own creature, intertwining Woolf's story with those of two more contemporary women.  Like its literary inspiration, "The Hours" is a hymn to consciousness and the beauties and losses it perceives. It is also a reminder that, as Cunningham again and again makes us realize, art belongs to far more than just "the world of objects."

Gotham: A History of New York to 1898
By Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace

    Like the city it celebrates, "Gotham" is massive and endlessly fascinating. This narrative of well over 1,000 pages, written after more than two decades of collaborative research by history professors Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, copiously chronicles New York City from the primeval days of the Lenape Indians to the era when, with Teddy Roosevelt as mayor, the great American city became regarded as "Capital of the World."

Lindbergh
By A. Scott Berg

    Charles Lindbergh's solo flight from New York to Paris captured the imagination of a postwar generation hungry for heroes, and cemented an exalted spot for the 25-year-old pilot from Minnesota in the collective American imagination. A. Scott Berg's thorough biography of the aviator suggests that despite the public scrutiny that accompanied his every move until his death in 1974, Lindbergh remained an intensely private man.

Annals of the Former World
By John A. McPhee

    In 1978 New Yorker magazine staff writer John McPhee set out making notes for an ambitious project: a geological history of North America, centered, for the sake of convenience, on the 40th parallel, a history that encompasses billions of years. The result is a magisterial work of popular science for which geologists--and devotees of good writing--will be grateful.

Blizzard of One
By Mark Strand

    No poet has been able to make more out of a minimalist aesthetic than Mark Strand. He strives for elegance and masterful brevity, and whether he's working his ominous or light-fingered register, his formalism is never precious, always an agent of necessity.

Eloise in Paris
by Kay Thompson

    Illustrated by Hilary Knight, Back in print after 35 years!

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