Andrew Klavan, Author . Forge $25.95 (317p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0785-9
What a shrewd manipulator Klavan is. The author of True Crime
and Don't Say a Word
again pushes our buttons with unerring finesse. In San Francisco, there's a detective agency, Weiss Investigations, run by Scott Weiss, an ex-cop whose "
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Andrew Klavan. Thomas Nelson, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7180-1734-7
In this compelling account of religious conversion, Klavan tells his story of growing up Jewish in New York’s affluent Great Neck village, ongoing conflicts with his strong-minded parents, and his eventual transition to Christianity. This embrace of
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Andrew Klavan. Pegasus Crime (Norton, dist.), $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-60598-698-2
In this oddly effective supernatural thriller from Klavan (The Identity Man), Det. Zachary Adams, a top investigator on a federal task force, must track down criminal mastermind Dominic Abend, the leader of an international crime syndicate that has...
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Andrew Klavan. Thomas Nelson, $15.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4016-8892-9
Klavan (the Homelanders series) kicks off a trilogy with this fast-paced cyberthriller involving a teenager tapped by a secret agency to fight evil inside a form of virtual reality. Former football star Rick Dial has been living in a funk ever since
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Andrew Klavan. Thomas Nelson, $14.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59554-797-2
Suspense writer Klavan (If We Survive) switches to horror in a fast-paced and eerie tale that shows an awareness of the genre’s conventions and a willingness to play with readers’ expectations. High school journalist Tom Harding wakes up to find his
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Andrew Klavan. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2067-0
This taut, frightening psychological thriller from Edgar-winner Klavan (The Identity Man) charts the efforts of Dan Champion, a deputy in Tyler, N.Y., to find a criminal who may not exist. Three years earlier, as an NYPD detective, Dan infiltrated a
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Andrew Klavan. Thomas Nelson, $14.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59554-795-8
Two-time Edgar Award–winner Klavan (True Crime) works the YA category with a gripping story narrated by Will Peterson, a teen on a youth mission trip. Will has a jaded view of the group, until building a wall for an orphanage turns into a rush for...
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Andrew Klavan, Author Crown Publishers $24 (343p) ISBN 978-0-609-60112-9
Thriller fans who expect the unexpected from Klavan (True Crime) won't find that anticipation dashed with his new novel, a series of clever riffs on the classic ghost story. The main plot follows the adventures of Richard Storm, 40, a producer of...
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Andrew Klavan, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (332p) ISBN 978-0-688-11816-7
Barbed prose and characters as pungent as the smell of ozone during a lightning storm spark a timeworn plot in Klavan's ( The Animal Hour) latest crime thriller. In upstate New York, local boss Sheriff Cyrus Dolittle has been under steady attack for
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Andrew Klavan, Author Pocket Books $19.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-671-74008-5
New York City psychiatrist Nathan Conrad possesses everything required for a good, normal life--a successful practice on Central Park West, an adoring wife and a lovely daughter. He also has a reputation for dealing with the hard cases that most of...
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Andrew Klavan, Author William Morrow & Company $25 (369p) ISBN 978-0-688-16895-7
1999 may be Klavan's breakout year: the film version of his novel True Crime, starring Clint Eastwood, was a hit, and Morrow is backing his immensely exciting new novel with a major promo campaign. Any breakout will be past due. Admirers of Klavan...
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Andrew Klavan, Author Permanent Press (NY) $18.95 (187p) ISBN 978-0-932966-86-5
Klavan's imaginative reconstruction of the life and death of Jesus is a sporadically interesting failure. His Jesus is born naturally and promptly circumcised; he dislikes his bullying older brother, gets bored with the family workshop and discovers
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Andrew Klavan, Author Permanent Press (NY) $24 (160p) ISBN 978-0-932966-81-0
In this short, ironically humorous novel told in the first person, Klavan (Face of the Earth) skillfully depicts poet Samantha Bradford, who must grapple with her troubled past before looking ahead to the future. Superficially, Samantha has an...
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Andrew Klavan, Author Dell Publishing Company $6.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-440-22403-7
A reporter has 18 hours to save a death-row convict. (Sept.)
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Andrew Klavan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Penzler, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-24328-3
Edgar-winner Klavan's compelling thriller focuses on smalltime criminal John Shannon, who commits petty crimes, usually burglary, out of boredom as much as any need for financial gain. When a job spins out of control and a man gets killed, Shannon...
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Andrew Klavan, Author . Thomas Nelson $14.99 (346p) ISBN 978-1-59554-607-4
The first young adult novel from Edgar-winner Klavan, which kicks off the Homelanders series, offers fast-paced action sequences, but disappoints with a weak plot. Charlie West is a good student, a black belt at karate and has finally asked out his...
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Andrew Klavan, Author . Harcourt/Penzler $25 (383p) ISBN 978-0-15-101223-7
Edgar-winner Klavan (True Crime
) delivers a wickedly satiric thriller with political overtones. Jason Harrow was cynically immoral before he found God and became a conservative Midwestern family man. Now his former lover summons him back to New...
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Andrew Klavan, Author . Forge $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0786-6
Scott Weiss is a middle-aged PI based in San Francisco, an ex-cop with a basset hound's face, a romantic's soul and an empath's ability to read others. Jim Bishop is a young, handsome live wire with a taste for violence, drugs and loose...
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Andrew Klavan, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0215-1
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of paramount importance to our readers but hasn't received a starred or boxed review.MAN AND WIFEAndrew Klavan. Forge, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 0-765-30215-2The two Edgars Klavan owns...
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Andrew Klavan, Author, Andrew Kalavan, Author Crown Publishers $21 (308p) ISBN 978-0-517-70213-0
Though this is only Klavan's fourth novel under his own name (he received two Edgar Awards for pseudonymous mysteries), his stylistic range and thoroughly compelling plots have earned him a loyal readership--an audience that should be broadened with
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Andrew Klavan, Author, Otto Penzler, Editor . Harcourt/Penzler $24 (310p) ISBN 978-0-15-101217-6
Two-time Edgar winner Klavan again puts his own quirky spin on classic noir in his slam-bang third contemporary crime thriller to feature PIs Scott Weiss and Jim Bishop (after 2004's Shotgun Alley
). Paunchy, moralistic Weiss, head of the Weiss...
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Andrew Klavan, Author, Jane Rosenman, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-74009-2
Klavan, an Edgar winner who also writes as Keith Peterson, expertly interweaves the disparate worlds of a psychiatrist who takes on the hard cases: catatonics, schizophrenics and the criminally insane. (Sept.)
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Andrew Klavan, Author, Jane Rosenman, Editor Pocket Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-74010-8
Maneuvering the plot of his latest urban thriller with the irresistible skill of a three-card monte expert, Klavan leaves his mesmerized readers the winners. In New York City on Halloween morning, recent college graduate Nancy Kincaid arrives at the
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Andrew Klavan, Author, Keith Peterson, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-385-26614-7
Journalist Michael North terrifies a young student with a ghost story that soon frightens them both in this fast-paced but tame thriller. Invited to spend Christmas at the home of his boss, Carl McGill, Michael meets and falls for Carl's daughter...
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Andrew Klavan. Mysterious, $21.95 (308p) ISBN 978-1-61316-240-8
As the holiday season descends on the lakeside town of Sweet Haven, public defender Victoria Grossburger recruits her old friend English professor Cameron Winter, the protagonist of this spare, heartfelt crime novel from Edgar winner Klavan (Werewolf
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Andrew Klavan. Mysterious, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61316-351-1
Edgar winner Klavan’s subpar sequel to 2021’s When Christmas Comes finds Cameron Winter, who once worked for a covert government entity called the Division, now a literature professor at a Midwestern university after blackmailing the dean about “thin
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Andrew Klavan. Mysterious Press, $26.99 (312p) ISBN 978-1-61316-446-4
Klavan’s blistering third whodunit featuring hit man-turned-poetry professor Cameron Winter (after 2022’s A Strange Habit of Mind) is the best yet. In a gated community in the Chicago suburbs, firefighters respond to a blaze at the home of...
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