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A Young Woman Pursues Her Lifelong Dream of Conquering Wall Street

Alex has always dreamed of working on Wall Street, but now she must fight her way into the elitist boys’ club of bond sales at Cromwell Pierce.

A Wealthy Industrialist’s Son and His Secret Girlfriend Are Taken by Border Kidnappers

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are hired to investigate a border kidnapping case, but when Cole disappears, it’s up to Pike to find all the missing victims.

An Orphaned Young Woman Gets an Au Pair Job with a Charming London Businessman

When Gemma Hardy moves to the Orkney Islands and begins working for Hugh Sinclair, the two begin a complex relationship.

Leonid McGill Investigates When a Woman is Charged with Murder and an $80,000 Heist

As his life unravels, Leonid McGill investigates Zella Grisham, who claims to have no memory of shooting her man and denies stealing $80,000.

A Middle-Aged Couple Goes to a Niagara Falls Casino in an Attempt to Save Their Marriage

Art and Marion Fowler’s finances, and their marriage, are on the brink of collapse --- but a second honeymoon to a casino may save them.

Bond Girl by Erin Duffy
Taken by Robert Crais
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey
All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley
The Odds by Stewart O'Nan

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Bookreporter.com's Seventh Annual Valentine's Day Contest

The countdown to Valentine's Day is on! Stuck on what to buy your Valentine? We have the bookish answer. From now through February 9th, readers will have the chance to win one of our five Bookreporter.com Valentine's Day prize packages.


Women's Fiction Author Spotlight: FAR FROM HERE by Nicole Baart

We have 20 copies of FAR FROM HERE, which will be in stores February 7th, to give away to readers who would like to preview the book and comment on it. The deadline for entries is Thursday, February 2nd at noon ET.


Women's Fiction Author Spotlight: HOME FRONT by Kristin Hannah

From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all. But after 12 years together, the couple has lost their way. Then the Iraq war starts, and an unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart.


Suspense/Thriller Author Spotlight: DEFENDING JACOB by William Landay

Assistant District Attorney Andy Barber is happy with his wife and 14-year-old son, Jacob. But when a crime shatters their New England town, Andy is shocked to learn that Jacob is charged with the murder of a fellow student.


One to Watch Author Spotlight: THE LEGACY OF EDEN by Nelle Davy

For the past 17 years, Meredith Pincetti has tried to forget everything about her family and her past. But with the receipt of a pleading letter, Meredith is again thrust into conflict with the legacy that destroyed her family's once-great name.

Latest Reviews

Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When Chicago tweens hold an initiation ritual in an abandoned cemetery, they stumble on an actual corpse, a man stabbed through the heart in a vampire-style slaying.

RoseMarie Terenzio was John F. Kennedy Jr.’s personal assistant, his publicist, and one of his closest confidantes during the last five years of his life. Here, she recounts the unlikely friendship between a blue-collar girl from the Bronx and Kennedy.

Gloriously unrepentant Florida serial killer Serge Storms is back --- and he’s finagled his way into becoming a secret agent in Miami. The incomparable Serge takes up spying for the president of a Banana Republic, and now Homeland Security wants to bring him down.

The CIA, FBI and Department of Defense systems have spiked, but traditional intel is going nowhere. It falls to the Taskforce --- a top-secret team that exists outside the bounds of U.S. law and is charged with finding and destroying asymmetric threats --- to stop the unknown conspirators.

Writer and social critic Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) was perhaps the most famous American woman of her generation. But she was also plagued by self-doubt. John Matteson captures Fuller’s longing to become ever better, reflected by the changing lives she led.

Heft by Liz Moore - Fiction

Former academic Arthur Opp hasn't left his Brooklyn home in a decade. In Yonkers, 17-year-old Kel navigates life as a poor kid in a rich school. Kel’s mother, Charlene, is a former student of Arthur’s, and calls him with a plea for help after two decades of silence.

Tracing the full arc of the Venetian imperial saga for the first time, CITY OF FORTUNE is framed around two of the great collisions of world history: the ill-fated Fourth Crusade in 1202 and the Ottoman-Venetian War of 1499–1503.

Stephen Davis, an acclaimed music journalist who has known Carly Simon for decades, delivers Simon’s first full-length biography and captures her extraordinary journey from shy teenager to superstar. 

Pete Earley tells the strange but true story of how a young man’s devastating brain injury gave him the unique ability to connect with the world’s most terrifying criminals.

The Darkening Field by William Ryan - Historical Mystery

It is 1937, and Captain Alexei Korolev of Criminal Investigation Division of the Moscow Militia is bound for Odessa after the suspicious suicide of a loyal young party member who supposedly had an illicit intimate relationship with the party director. 

Chelsea Enright never expected to inherit her grandmother's cottage in the Adirondacks. But when she finds her grandmother's WWII diaries, she's stunned to discover that they hold secrets she never suspected --- and they have the power to upend her own life. 

Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens discovers a startling connection between two cases --- a brutal murder in the United States and an aggravated assault in Sweden six years later.