Howard Roughan, Author . Warner $23.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-446-52943-3
Roughan (The Up and Comer
) delivers a classic frame-up story, cleverly embellished and stocked with well-drawn albeit familiar genre characters (the sharply observant narrator, the black widow seductress, the bad cop and the less-bad cop) in his...
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Howard Roughan, Author . Warner $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-446-52666-1
The strain of living an excessive, brazen, lavishly upper-tier Manhattan life in an "incredibly self-centered, every-man-for-himself world" takes a disastrous toll on the narrator of Roughan's supremely hip, brazen debut. Right from the...
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James Patterson, Author, Howard Roughan, Author . Little, Brown $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-71062-6
To be published on Valentine's Day, this solid and enjoyable but not exceptional thriller about a Black Widow killer has been selected by Bookspan as the "2005 International Thriller of the Year." That's obviously jumping the gun,...
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James Patterson, Author, Howard Roughan, Author . Little, Brown $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-316-01450-2
The Patterson bestseller factory has turned out another high-drama thriller, this time in collaboration with Honeymoon
coauthor Roughan. Kristin Burns, a New York City nanny and aspiring photographer, is devoted to the two children under her care,...
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James Patterson, Author, Howard Roughan, Author Little, Brown $27.99 (388p) ISBN 978-0-316-01870-8
Readers with a high tolerance for coincidence and implausible plot twists will best appreciate this stand-alone thriller from bestseller Patterson (Double Cross) and collaborator Roughan (You've Been Warned). Katherine Dunne, a 45-year-old New York...
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James Patterson, Author, Howard Roughan, Author, Dylan Baker, Read by , read by Dylan Baker and Jennifer Van Dyck. Hachette Audio $39.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-206-9
Patterson's epic tale of the Dunne family, who find themselves trapped in paradise, fighting for their lives, is a strong commercial novel that demands even stronger performances. Luckily, Dylan Baker and Jennifer Van Dyck are up to the...
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James Patterson, Author, Howard Roughan, Author, Ilyana Kadushin, Read by , read by Ilyana Kadushin. Hachette Audio $34.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60024-029-4
You’ve Been Warned
is aptly titled. Patterson has produced dozens of bestselling thrillers, on his own and more recently with a stable of co-writers. But his latest seriously lacks excitement, and Kadushin doesn’t do much to bring the...
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