Jeffery Deaver, Contribution by, Lisa Scottoline, Author, Lee Child, Author and others, read by Alfred Molina. Brilliance Audio $29.95 (
, unabridged, six CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4233-7702-3
, unabridged, six CDs, 6 hrs., $29.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-4233-7702-3
With a concept and characters created by Jeffery Deaver, 15 writers were assigned one chapter apiece to produce a unified novel. The result is a suspenseful, action-packed international thriller filled with plenty of unexpected twists and turns....
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Edited by Sandra Brown. Mira, $24.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1344-1
If a person is known by the company she keeps, then the company of the 30 romance and suspense writers in this stellar all-original anthology speaks volumes about bestseller Brown. From Lori Armstrong’s sexy “Holding Mercy” to Vicki Hinze’s sweet “We
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Lee Child, Author Putnam Adult $18.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-14623-7
Jack Reacher, the wandering folk hero of Child's superb line of thrillers (Tripwire, etc.), faces a baffling puzzle in his latest adventure: who is the exceptionally crafty villain murdering women across the country, leaving the naked bodies in...
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Lee Child, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-33666-6
The promo copy on the ARC of Child's new thriller proclaims, ""We dare to make this claim: Lee Child is the best thriller writer you're probably not reading-yet."" Hopefully the ""six-figure"" marketing campaign promised by Child's new publisher
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Lee Child, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (359p) ISBN 978-0-399-14253-6
Although the tale is built around a coincidence as big as the author's talent, beautifully detailed action scenes and fascinating arcana about currency and counterfeiting enliven this taut and tough-minded first novel by British TV writer Child. Out
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Lee Child, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-399-14467-7
Jack Reacher, the hulking ex-soldier readers will remember from Child's first two thrillers, Die Trying and Killing Floor, can kill with his bare hands, and sports chest muscles thick enough to stop bullets. He's actually a dynamo of a character,...
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Lee Child, Author . Putnam $23.95 (354p) ISBN 978-0-399-14726-5
Jack Reacher, the vagabond freelance lawman who never hesitates to stick his nose into private business, takes his lively act to Texas, embroiling himself in what starts as a messy domestic dispute before turning far more ominous. The rugged former...
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Lee Child. Delacorte, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8041-7874-7
A sniper threatens the forthcoming G8 conference, to be held at a stately manor outside London, in Thriller Award–finalist Childs's clever, deceptively straightforward 19th Jack Reacher novel (after 2013's Never Go Back). Protected by a glass shield,
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Lee Child. Delacorte, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-59348-2
Bestseller Child’s superlative 22nd Jack Reacher novel picks up where 2015’s Make Me left off. While riding a bus in Wisconsin to the next “end-of-the-line place,” Reacher gets off at a rest stop “on the sad side of a small town.” In a pawn shop...
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Lee Child, read by Dick Hill. Random House Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-1-5247-7427-1
In Child’s above-average 22nd Jack Reacher novel, the peripatetic soldier of fortune spies a woman’s West Point ring in a pawn shop in Wisconsin and decides to return it to its original owner. His mission is interrupted by confrontations with a smug
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Lee Child. Delacorte, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-59351-2
Early in bestseller Child’s superb 23rd Jack Reacher novel (after 2017’s The Midnight Line), the peripatetic Reacher reaches a fork in a road in rural New Hampshire; he chooses the path heading to Laconia, “his late father’s place of birth.” At the...
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Lee Child, Author . Putnam $24.95 (374p) ISBN 978-0-399-14861-3
The sixth time's a charm for thriller meister Child, whose latest escapade starring ex-military cop Jack Reacher is handily his most accomplished and most compelling to date. The suspense-laden plot kicks off with U.S. Secret Service agent M.E....
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Lee Child, Author . Delacorte $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-33667-3
The latest entry in what is arguably today's finest thriller series (Persuader
, etc.) flashes back to series hero Jack Reacher's days in the military police. It's New Year's Eve 1990, the Soviet Union is about to collapse and the...
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Lee Child, Author . Delacorte $25 (376p) ISBN 978-0-385-33668-0
The final sentence of Child's ninth suspenser (after The Enemy
)—"Then he could buy a pair of shoes and be just about anywhere before the sun went down"—is quintessential Jack Reacher, the rugged ex-army cop who practically...
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Lee Child, Author . Delacorte $25 (371p) ISBN 978-0-385-33669-7
In bestseller Child's 10th novel to feature ex-army MP Jack Reacher (after 2005's One Shot
), a sidewalk cafe encounter in New York City plunges Reacher into one of his most challenging—and thoroughly engrossing—adventures to...
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Lee Child, Author . Delacorte $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-34055-7
At the start of bestseller Child's winning 11th Jack Reacher adventure (after The Hard Way
), the bad guys unceremoniously dump Calvin Franz, a former MP, from a Bell 222 helicopter "[t]hree thousand feet above the [California] desert floor.&
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Lee Child, Author . Delacorte $27 (407p) ISBN 978-0-385-34056-4
At the start of bestseller Child’s solid 12th Jack Reacher novel (after Bad Luck and Trouble
), the ex-military policeman hitchhikes into Colorado, where he finds himself crossing the metaphorical and physical line that divides the small towns
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Lee Child, Author . Delacorte $27 (421p) ISBN 978-0-385-34057-1
All good thriller writers know how to build suspense and keep the pages turning, but only better ones deliver tight plots as well, and only the best allow the reader to match wits with both the hero and the author. Bestseller Child does all of that...
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Lee Child, Author . Delacorte $28 (383p) ISBN 978-0-385-34058-8
After a brief stop in New York City (Gone Tomorrow
), Jack Reacher is back in his element—Smalltown, U.S.A.—in bestseller Child's fine 14th thriller to feature the roving ex-military cop. When a tour bus on which he bummed a ride...
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Lee Child, Delacorte, $28 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-34431-9
In Child's exciting 15th thriller featuring one-man army Jack Reacher (after 61 Hours), Reacher happens into a situation tailor-made for his blend of morality and against-the-odds heroics. While passing through an isolated Nebraska town, the ex-milit
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Lee Child, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Brilliance Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59355-394-4
Child (The Persuader
, etc.) brings back his intrepid hero, Jack Reacher, for another excellent mystery, which steps back in time to the eventful first few weeks of 1990. The Berlin Wall has just come crashing down, marking an end to the Cold War,...
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Lee Child, read by Dick Hill, Random Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hours, $45 ISBN 978-0-7393-6593-9
Narrator Dick Hill has been perfecting Reacher's hard-boiled verbal swagger for years. In this installment, Reacher is stranded in a snow-bound South Dakota town where a biker gang has turned an abandoned facility into a meth lab. A member of the...
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Lee Child, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Brilliance Audio $38.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59355-519-1
While reader Hill has proven himself to be an all-purpose narrator with a 200-plus audiography, his specialty is interpreting suspense and crime fiction like this bullet-paced thriller. Written lean enough to make Hemingway seem chatty, the ninth...
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Lee Child, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Brilliance Audio $36.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59600-328-6
Ex-army MP Jack Reacher is contracted by Edward Lane, the leader of a mercenary company, to track and recover Lane's kidnapped wife and daughter. But while Reacher is adept at finding people, this time he's got his work cut out for him, for...
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Lee Child, Author, Dick Hill, Read by , read by Dick Hill. Random House Audio $44.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5726-2
Child’s 11th Jack Reacher novel finds the ultraresourceful, live-by-his-wits loner out for revenge against an unknown foe who, for some reason, is bumping off the members of his old military police squad. As if this weren’t already the...
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Lee Child, read by Dick Hill. Random House Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 15 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-307-74949-9
As usual, veteran narrator Dick Hill does a masterful job of evoking world-weary investigator Jack Reacher, this time in the prequel to Child’s bestselling series. In this installment, the author finally spells out the circumstances surrounding...
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Linda Barnes, Author, Brett Battles, Author, Lee Child, Author et al. Perseus/Vanguard $25.95 (404p) ISBN 978-1-59315-559-9
Fans of the TV series 24
will best appreciate this two-part serial thriller written by 22 members of International Thriller Writers. Based on an idea by Deaver (The Broken Window
), who provides the opening and closing chapters of each segment, the
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Lee Child. Delacorte, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-34433-3
Bestseller Child’s surprise-filled 17th Jack Reacher novel (after 2011’s The Affair) takes the ex-military policeman on a wild road ride that builds to a terrific slam-bang climax. While hitchhiking one winter night in Nebraska with a broken nose...
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Lee Child. Delacorte, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-34434-0
Since talking to Maj. Susan Turner on the telephone from South Dakota in 2010’s 61 Hours (bestseller Childs’s 14th Jack Reacher novel), the former military cop has been heading to the Virginia headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP, in hopes of...
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Lee Child, read by Dick Hill. Random House Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-307-74960-4
In Child’s latest Reacher novel, his ex-army hero is hitchhiking to Virginia, battered but unbowed, when he’s picked up by a car carrying three men and a woman. Much of the book takes place in that car, with the always-suspicious Reacher doing a lot
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Lee Child, read by Dick Hill. Random House Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13.75 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-307-74966-6
Back in Child’s 14th book about Jack Reacher (61 Hours), the amazingly self-sufficient, peripatetic ex-MP began thumbing his way from South Dakota to Virginia to meet Maj. Susan Turner, the CO of his old unit. It’s taken him three more adventures,...
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Edited by Jonathan Santlofer. Touchstone, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8475-9
Despite the usual serial-novel pitfalls, C.J. Box, Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Charlaine Harris, Val McDermid, and the 15 other distinguished crime authors who each contribute a chapter to this team project succeed in fashioning an engaging...
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Edited by David Baldacci. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6206-7
A clever concept distinguishes this anthology sponsored by the International Thriller Writers. Each of the 11 stories pairs well-known series characters created by different authors, sometimes in adversarial but more often in collegial ways, and...
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Lee Child. Delacorte, $28.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-8041-7877-8
Bestseller Child’s superb 20th Jack Reacher novel (after 2014’s Personal) begins with the disposal of the body of someone named Keever, with a backhoe in a hog pen near an almost-forgotten town in the Midwest called Mother’s Rest, which Reacher...
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Lee Child, read by Dick Hill. Random House Audio, , unabridged, 12 CDs, 14 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-8041-9285-9
Jack Reacher number 20 (after last year’s Personal) begins with the disposal of the body of someone named Keever, with a backhoe in a hog pen near a town in the Midwest called Mother’s Rest, which Reacher decides to visit (as he points out, he has “n
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Lee Child. Delacorte, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8041-7880-8
Set in 1996, bestseller Child’s splendid 21st Jack Reacher novel (after 2015’s Make Me) delves into his hero’s U.S. Army past. Right after Reacher is commended for a mission in the Balkans, he’s immediately sent “back to school.” It turns out that...
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Lee Child. Delacorte, $27 (414p) ISBN 978-0-399-59357-4
Bestseller Child’s captivating collection includes 12 stories, some of novella length, which cover a lot of Jack Reacher’s life, before, during, and after his military career. In “Too Much Time,” the one tale not previously published, Reacher...
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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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Lee Child. Delacorte, $28.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-59354-3
At the start of bestseller Child’s riveting 24th Jack Reacher novel (after 2018’s Past Tense), peripatetic vigilante Reacher rescues an elderly man carrying an envelope full of cash, Aaron Shevick, from a would-be mugger in an unnamed American city.
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Lee Child. Mysterious Press, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-61316-566-9
Child (the Jack Reacher series) compiles 20 previously published short stories in this brooding collection. Featuring mobsters, con men, assassins, and corrupt cops, Child’s self-described “very, very, very short novels” mostly focus on the worst of
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Lee Child and Andrew Child. Delacorte, $28.99 (268p) ISBN 978-1-9848-1846-1
Ironically, it took an English author to realize the dramatic possibilities of modernizing the wandering gunfighter of American frontier stories. Starting in 1997 with Killing Floor, Lee Child introduced Jack Reacher, a former military policeman...
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Lee Child and Andrew Child. Delacorte, $28.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-9848-1850-8
The Child brothers’ superb second collaboration (after 2020’s The Sentinel) opens one night at a remote spot on the U.S.-Mexico border, where “the stranger,” a large, tall man many will assume is Jack Reacher, has arrived for a meeting. A car drives
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Lee Child and Andrew Child. Delacorte, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9848-1854-6
At the start of the relentlessly paced 27th Jack Reacher novel—the third collaboration between the Child brothers (after 2021’s Better Off Dead)—six men meet at Minerva, a Mississippi prison, to decide if someone who witnessed the murder of Minerva...
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Edited by Maxim Jakubowski. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-789091-32-8
Though billed as a crime compendium, this wildly uneven anthology includes tales of love in a Paris bookshop (R.J. Ellory’s “Borrowed Time”) and revenge for breaching dating etiquette (Jason Starr’s “The Ghost of Williamsburg”). On the major crime...
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Lee and Andrew Child. Delacorte, $30 (336p) ISBN 978-0-593-72580-1
Lee Child hands the Jack Reacher franchise over to his brother, Andrew, with this solid series entry (following The Secret). Former military policeman Reacher wakes up shackled to a steel table with a broken right arm and no memory of where he is or
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