Fiction in December 2001...
Barbara Hoffert -- Library Journal, 08/15/2001
BERNHARDT, William & others.
Natural Suspect.
Ballantine. Dec. 2001. 192p.
ISBN 0-345-43768-3. $23.95.
A thriller with chapters by different authors, e.g., Philip Margolin, Brad Meltzer, and Lisa Scottoline.
BOËTIUS, Henning.
The Phoenix: A Novel About the Hindenburg.
Nan. A. Talese: Doubleday.
Dec. 2001. 320p.
ISBN 0-385-50183-8. $24.95.
German author Boëtius connects the airship’s conflagration to Nazi politics.
ECHENIQUE, Alfredo Bryce.
Tarzan’s Tonsillitis.
Random. Dec. 2001. 240p.
ISBN 0-375-42143-2. $23.
Find out why this politicized love story won the Cervantes Prize.
FOLLETT, Ken.
Jackdaws.
Dutton. Dec. 2001. 384p.
ISBN 0-525-94628-4. $26.95.
abridged. Penguin Audio.
ISBN 0-14-280001-5. $24.95.
unabridged. Penguin Audio.
ISBN 0-14-280003-1. $39.95.
abridged. Penguin Audio.
ISBN 0-14-280002-3. $29.95.
Charged with crippling communications in Europe before D-Day, Special Operations Executive "Flick" Clariet must pin her hopes on a group of nonprofessionals code-named the Jackdaws.
GRAVES, Sarah.
Wreck the Halls: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery.
Bantam. Dec. 2001. 304p.
ISBN 0-553-80228-3. $21.95.
No home repairs for Jacobia Tiptree at Christmas: it seems neighbor Faye Anne has chopped up her butcher husband.
HARRISON, Sue.
Call Down the Stars.
Morrow. Dec. 2001. 448p.
ISBN 0-380-97372-3. $25.
Concluding the "Storyteller Trilogy."
HURSTON, Zora Neale.
Every Tongue Got To Confess: Negro Folktales from the Gulf States.
HarperCollins. Dec. 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-06-018893-6. $25.
unabridged. HarperAudio.
ISBN 0-694-52645-2. $34.95.
A major publishing event, and that’s no cliché. This newly discovered book collects nearly 500 folktales first assembled in the 1920s.
KELLERMAN, Jonathan.
Flesh and Blood: An Alex Delaware Novel.
Random. Nov. 2001. 400p.
ISBN 0-679-45962-6. $26.95.
lrg. prnt. Random.
ISBN 0-375-43129-2. $26.95.
abridged. Random Audio.
ISBN 0-375-41940-3. $25.95.
E unabridged. Random Audio.
ISBN 0-375-41942-X. $39.95.
abridged. Random Audio.
ISBN 0-375-41941-4. $29.95.
Alex Delaware investigates when a teenaged patient he couldn’t help winds up dead. Publication was bumped from December to maximize Christmas sales.
LAURENS, Stephanie.
The Promise in a Kiss: A Cynster Christmas Novel.
Morrow. Dec. 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-06-018888-X. $18.
Continuing the story of the Cynsters, begun in several
paperback best sellers.
McCAFFREY, Anne & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough.
Acorna’s Search.
Eos: Morrow. Dec. 2001. 320p.
ISBN 0-380-97898-9. $25.
Problems, problems: their world has been nearly destroyed, and now Acorna’s people start disappearing.
NOVA, Craig.
Wetware.
Shaye Areheart Bks: Crown.
Dec. 2001. 288p.
ISBN 0-609-60595-X. $22.
A scientist starts messing with the Wetware used to produce humans in the laboratory—with catastrophic results.
