Christopher Rice, Author . Talk Miramax $23.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6813-1
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers, but that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.THE SNOW GARDENChristopher Rice. Talk Miramax, $23.95 (416p) ISBN 0-7868-6813-9Life...
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Christopher Rice, Author . Miramax $23.95 (325p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0039-5
A 20-something magazine reporter becomes embroiled in a Hollywood murder mystery in Rice's (The Snow Garden
) third, richly developed thriller. It's a blessing in disguise when Adam Murphy is fired from racy fluff rag Glitz,
since he'd...
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Christopher Rice, Author . Scribner $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9399-0
Rice's fourth thriller (after 2005's Light Before Day
) clumsily mixes the plight of gays in the military with an unlikely murder investigation. John Houck, a former marine sergeant, returns to the States from Iraq, determined to make...
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Christopher Rice, Author . Scribner $25 (362p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9407-2
At the start of this compelling cat-and-mouse thriller from bestseller Rice (Blind Fall
), 30-year-old Megan Reynolds has returned to her mother’s house in posh Cathedral Beach near San Diego after being fired as head of a Northern California...
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Christopher Rice, Author Hyperion Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6646-5
Chronicling the lives of four tormented youths, 21-year-old author Rice's earnestly overwritten debut novel flails wildly and suffers from an identity crisis as awkward and vivid as that of his soul-seared characters. Yet the book offers an...
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Christopher Rice. S&S/Gallery, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4767-1608-4
Although Rice (A Density of Souls) refers to his story as a “chronicle of monsters and magic,” it would be more accurate to describe it as a masterful coming-of-age novel. Set in a present-day New Orleans beset by natural disaster and human...
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Christopher Rice. Amazon/47North, $14.95 (226p) ISBN 978-1-4778-2663-8
Revisiting the rich, supernaturally mysterious Louisiana of 2013's The Heavens Rise, Rice stumbles with this resoundingly inferior effort. Leadenly steadfast Blake Henderson is still grieving the loss of his lover, John, killed years earlier by gay-b
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Edited by Lee Child. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4159-1
Each of the 11 collaborative tales in this stellar sequel to the International Thriller Writers’ anthology FaceOff (2014) pairs a top-rank female thriller writer with a male counterpart. Sandra Brown’s Lee Coburn and C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett send...
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Anne and Christopher Rice. Anchor, $16 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-101-97032-4
In this slick sequel to The Mummy, or Ramses the Damned (1989), immortals gifted with virtual indestructibility scheme as nastily against one another as the similarly endowed characters in Anne Rice’s celebrated Vampire Chronicles. Having imbibed a...
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Christopher Rice. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5420-4830-9
Charlotte Rowe, the harried heroine of this ambitious paranormal thriller and series launch from Rice (The Heavens Rise), used to be Trina Pierce. When she was nine months old, she was abducted by serial killers Daniel and Abigail Banning, who...
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Christopher Rice. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-5039-0435-4
In bestseller Rice’s strong sequel to 2018’s Bone Music, Charlotte “Charley” Rowe, who was tricked in the first book into taking a chemical that gave her superhuman strength, is now using her powers to combat evil in partnership with Cole Graydon,...
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Christopher Rice. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (370p) ISBN 978-1-5420-1472-4
In bestseller Rice’s exciting third Burning Girl thriller (after 2019’s Blood Echo), Charlotte “Charley” Rowe, who was tricked into taking a drug that gave her superhuman strength in her first outing, continues to work with members of the Consortium,
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Christopher Rice. Thomas & Mercer, $24.95 (462p) ISBN 978-1-5420-3274-2
At the start of this gripping if uneven supernatural thriller from bestseller Rice (A Density of Souls), two children, 12-year-old Claire Huntley and her 10-year-old brother, Poe, are hiking in the wilds of Montana when they’re struck by a...
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Anne Rice and Christopher Rice. Anchor, $16.95 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-101-97033-1
The Rices, mother and son, pick up the thread of their last collaboration, Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra, with this rousing blend of adventure, romance, and the supernatural featuring pharaoh Ramses II, resurrected as an immortal in...
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