Pochada has written a novel alive with
empathy for the dispossessed and detailed
descriptions of the California landscape,
with a little of the film Crash thrown in.
But as sympathetic as the characters are,
their stories fail to come together as a dramatic whole. (Nov.)
The World Beyond
Deanna Madden. Flying Dutchman Press,
$10.99 (260p) ISBN 978-0-692-89773-7
Madden sets her transportive coming-
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Who would steal a body from its grave,
and why? A night of hard partying leads
to a mysterious death for a beautiful
coed. Cried For No One is a high-stakes
drama where truth is elusive and
justice is hard to find.
Trial lawyer and author Hubert Crouch’s
winning protagonist Jace Forman is
back and better than ever in The Word,
a ripped-from-the-headlines legal
thriller full of mystery, intrigue and
courtroom suspense.
Lawyers, Lies, Corruption, Money
and Murder! A father-daughter
legal team scheme to keep their
fortunes and law licenses, while a
local magazine and one of its
young journalists frantically fight
for their survival battling a
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“A topical, lively legal thriller.”
-Kirkus Reviews
“Be ready for a wild ride! The
writing is high caliber and the
story is engaging and realistic,
with memorable characters.
Top notch.”
-Readers’ Choice
5 Stars Readers’ Favorite
“Readers interested in courtroom
drama and fast-moving thrillers
will find much to like here.”
- Publishers Weekly
“If your preference in fiction leans
toward courtroom drama and
mystery, you will love Hubert
Crouch’s Cried For No One.”
Hubert Crouch practiced
trial law for over 40 years.
A native Tennessean, he and
his wife split their time
between Nashville and
Monteagle.
- John Seigenthaler,
Founding Editorial Director of USA Today, the First
Amendment Center
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★ Mrs. Osmond
John Banville. Knopf, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-451-49342-2
Banville’s sequel to Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady is a delightful tour de force that channels James with ease. The rich and measured prose style is quintessentially Jamesian: the long interior monologues perfectly capture the hum of human consciousness,
and the characters are alive with psychological nuance.
Readers join James’s heroine where his classic left her;
Banville’s Isabel Archer Osmond is now a sedate, proper
matron, who bitterly rues her marriage to deceitful Gilbert
Osmond. She retains her high-minded principles, however,
and has determined to live with her guilt at having ignored
the advice she had received against marrying him. Gilbert is
a cruel, arrogant man who condescends to Isabel in cutting
language, lives off her fortune, and demands her complete
loyalty. Having defied Gilbert when he forbade her to leave
their home in Rome to hurry to her dying cousin’s bedside in
England, Isabel feels the first stirrings of
freedom. Almost capriciously, she withdraws
a large amount of money from the bank in
the hopes of having it free to spend as she
sees fit without the interference of her
husband and his malign mistress, Madame
Merle. After Isabel’s redoubtable lady’s
maid, Staines, discloses some astonishing
news, the narrative takes a suspenseful turn.
Some of the other characters from The
Portrait of a Lady—including Isabel’s aunt,
Mrs. Touchett; Pansy Osmond, Gilbert’s daughter; and American
journalist Henrietta Stackpole—appear again. It is clear the
freedom and social clout that money bestows in the 19th-century
settings of London, Paris, Florence, and Rome, all described
in lush detail. As in James’s novel, Banville incorporates a
wonderful sense of irony; the result is a novel that succeeds
both as an unofficial sequel and as a bold, thoroughly satisfying standalone. 50,000-copy announced first printing. (Nov.)
