Leslie Budewitz
Content by Leslie Budewitz
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Myla Goldberg's debut novel, Bee Season (2000), was a word-of-mouth hit that garnered the kind of critical praise not usually bestowed on first-time novelists.
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Set aside your spring chores and cancel the rest of your plans when you pick up The Winter Vault.
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Erin Hart’s fourth novel in her acclaimed Nora Gavin series blends Irish legend and archaeology with present-day murder in a sad tale tinged with sweetness.
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In Erin Hart’s much-welcome third mystery, False Mermaid, pathologist Nora Gavin feels compelled to return to the States to investigate the five-year-old murder of her you
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Sicily, 1149 A.D. The Second Crusade has just ended in the Christians' defeat. The balance of power between the Western empires and the Arab world is unsettled.
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Katrina's floodwaters have receded, and Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcel have gone to western Montana for an extended fishing trip.
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1909, north central Montana. In the year since their mother died, 13-year-old Paul Milliron and his younger brothers have all found ways to cope.
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What if you were the teenage golden boy of a small town, and you saw something you shouldn't have seen? What if the only way to stay safe is to keep silent, and disappear?
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Sarah Dunant, whose The Birth of Venus was my favorite book of 2004, returns to Italy with In the Company of the Courtesan. This time, the action begins in Rome in 1527.
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In a Baltimore suburb built on dreams of success, three girls play out a variation of Benjamin Franklin's adage, an epigraph to this engaging psychological thriller: three can keep a secret, if two a
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“We aren’t us anymore,” one of the focal characters of Laura Lippman’s newest stand-alone thriller, The Most Dangerous Thing, thinks of her childho
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Memory is fragile and flexible. Even its failures serve us at times.
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Unleash with Category 5 fury a modern master of mood and metaphor. Turn him loose on a city in turmoil.
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Journalist Stewart Dubinsky, a character who's appeared in several of Scott Turow's legal thrillers, wants to write a book. Instead, he finds a story he'd never imagined.
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There is nothing a writer craves more than to be told she is on the right path, that her creative processes and habits will inevitably produce a head-turning work of fiction—and nothing a wri
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