Revival, by Stephen King. Over a half century ago, a charismatic preacher arrives in a small New England town. With the help of his wife, Reverend Jacobs transforms the local church. Then tragedy strikes, and in its wake the Reverend denounces his faith and is banished from the shocked town. Years later, one of the town's inhabitants, a man now sober after years struggling with addiction, meets the Reverend again and now the many terrifying meanings of Revival are revealed. This is being touted as a masterwork from King, "in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe." I'm a fan of King's work anyway, so I'm beyond intrigued about this latest novel.
Blue Labyrinth, by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child. One of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies has arrived on his
doorstep as a corpse. His death bears all the hallmarks of the perfect
murder, save for one enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the
dead man's stomach. That single piece of evidence will lead Pendergast
from an abandoned mine, to a desolate sea, and then deep into his own
family's sinister past. As ancient secrets begin to resurface,
Pendergast must escape a subtle killer bent on revenge...
Flesh and Blood, by Patricia Cornwell. In this 22nd Scarpetta novel, the master forensic sleuth finds herself
in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating
evidence except fragments of copper. The shots seem impossible, yet
they are so perfect they cause instant death. The victims appear to have
had nothing in common, and there is no pattern to indicate where the
killer will strike next. First New Jersey, then Massachusetts, and then
the murky depths off the coast of South Florida, where Scarpetta
investigates a shipwreck, looking for answers that only she can discover
and analyze. And it is there that she comes face to face with shocking
evidence that implicates her techno genius niece, Lucy, Scarpetta’s own
flesh and blood.
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