Tami Hoag, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-553-56160-9
As in her last romantic mystery, Still Waters , Hoag creates a pair of lovers who are so awful that they deserve each other. But this time she factors in an offensive theme: bad boys are to be tolerated, but bad girls are to be raped, mutilated and...
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Tami Hoag, Author . Bantam $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-553-80192-7
The professional horse world, as seen through Hoag's eyes, is full of intrigue, glitter and skullduggery. Elena Estes is a former cop whose bravado on the force resulted in a colleague's death; it also cost her her job and her self-esteem,...
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Tami Hoag, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (576p) ISBN 978-0-553-56451-8
Set in a pastoral Minnesota small town, Hoag's thriller has an ill-matched pair of detectives trying to trace a sadistic kidnapper. (Jan.)
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Tami Hoag, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (640p) ISBN 978-0-553-56452-5
In this follow-up to the Night Sins, a prosecutor tries to convict a respected college professor of kidnapping. (Jan.)
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Tami Hoag, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-553-56161-6
A killer disturbs a woman's dream vacation. (Sept.)
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Tami Hoag, Author Doubleday Books $15 (263p) ISBN 978-0-385-42289-5
This steamy romance by a master of the genre sandwiches sex, implicit and explicit, between thin layers of plot. Psychologist Serena Sheridan returns to her family's plantation in South Louisiana after her ailing but feisty grandfather has gone...
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Tami Hoag, Author Bantam Books $19.95 (483p) ISBN 978-0-553-09961-4
Touted as the author's hardcover breakout novel (Hoag was the erstwhile bestselling star of Bantam's Loveswept romance series), this thriller, despite a compelling premise and several intriguing characters, ultimately disappoints. The Norman...
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Tami Hoag. Dutton, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95239-8
Bestseller Hoag’s so-so third thriller set in the small California community of Oak Knoll (after 2010’s Secrets to the Grave) focuses on 42-year-old Lauren Lawton, who arrives in Oak Knoll in 1990 with her nearly 16-year-old daughter, Leah. Four...
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Tami Hoag, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-553-29272-5
After a messy and very public divorce from her magnate husband, Elizabeth Stuart is persuaded by her old college chum to move from Atlanta to Still Creek, Minn. When car trouble strikes, Elizabeth hoofs it to a construction site--and finds the...
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Tami Hoag. Dutton, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-525-95297-8
In bestseller Hoag’s gripping fourth outing for Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska, the two Minneapolis homicide cops (last seen in 2006’s Prior Bad Acts) have a difficult time identifying the horribly mutilated body of an adolescent girl that popped from...
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Tami Hoag. Dutton, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95454-5
Dana Nolan, the heroine of this chilling psychological thriller from bestseller Hoag (The 9th Girl), used to be a Minneapolis TV reporter, until she was captured by the serial killer known as Doc Holiday, who tortured and raped her. Dana managed to...
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Tami Hoag. Dutton, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-95455-2
Bestseller Hoag’s riveting fifth novel featuring Minneapolis detectives Nikki Liska and Sam Kovac (after 2013’s The 9th Girl) finds Nikki transferred to the newly funded cold case unit, where she hopes more regular hours will allow her to spend...
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Tami Hoag. Dutton, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-101-98539-7
Early in bestseller Hoag’s thoughtful, character-driven sequel to 1997’s A Thin Dark Line, Nick Fourcade, a detective with the Bayou Breaux, La., police department, arrives at “a small, sad rectangle of cheap siding and asphalt shingles squatting on
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Tami Hoag, Author Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-10634-3
Though she began as a romance writer, Hoag (A Thin Dark Line; Guilty As Sin; etc.) has found commercial success in several crime subgenres. Here she tries her hand at the police procedural, and though her story and characters are mostly the stock-in-
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Tami Hoag, Author . Bantam $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-80195-8
Hoag's success (Dark Horse
; Guilty as Sin
), evidenced once again in this engaging new thriller, is the triumph of substance over style. In a genre overrun with self-conscious jargon, brooding descriptions and fragments masquerading as...
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Tami Hoag, Author . Bantam $26 (375p) ISBN 978-0-553-80198-9
A simple court hearing explodes into a multifaceted case at the start of this stunning meld of thriller and police procedural from bestseller Hoag. Shortly after Minneapolis judge Carey Moore decides that the many "prior bad acts" of accused
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Tami Hoag, Author . Bantam $26 (351p) ISBN 978-0-553-80201-6
Last seen in bestseller Hoag's Dark Horse
, Elena Estes, a former undercover cop turned PI, is devastated at the start of this captivating thriller when she realizes a body she finds in a south Florida canal is that of her friend Irina Markova,...
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Tami Hoag, Author . Dutton $26.95 (421p) ISBN 978-0-525-95130-8
Bestseller Hoag (Kill the Messenger
) ventures into serial killer territory with results sure to please her many fans, though unresolved plot threads, both intentional and inadvertent, may put off veteran readers of the genre. One fall day in 1985...
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Tami Hoag, Author Bantam Books $20.7 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09959-1
In Night Sins (1994), Hoag's first thriller after a successful run of paperback romances, Minnesota state cop Megan O'Malley tried to solve the kidnapping of eight-year-old Josh Kirkwood in the Minneapolis exurb of Deer Lake. With Megan now in the...
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Tami Hoag, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-553-09960-7
Having begun her career as a romance author for Bantam's Loveswept line, Hoag has evolved into a fine thriller writer. Night Sins, set in rural Minnesota, was her entry into romantic suspense, and her palette became a lot darker when the...
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Tami Hoag, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-553-10633-6
Hoag (A Thin Dark Line) has a way of sneaking up on the reader in superior thriller tradition, taking her time in revealing monstrous images lurking in the dark corners. The Cremator, a Minneapolis serial killer, has been torturing prostitutes...
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Tami Hoag, Dutton, $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-525-95192-6
A horrific murder rocks the town of Oak Knoll, Calif., in the chilling sequel to Hoag's Deeper than the Dead), set in 1986. The victim is 28-year-old artist Marissa Fordham, the single mother of Haley, a four-year-old found partially strangled and...
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Tami Hoag, read by Julia Whelan. Brilliance Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4805-9884-3
Dana Nolan, Hoag’s newest protagonist (after 2013’s The 9th Girl), may qualify as the ultimate woman in jeopardy. In just the prologue, the former television reporter manages to subdue a sadistic serial rapist and murderer who has put her through a...
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Tami Hoag. Dutton, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-101-98543-4
Det. Annie Broussard and Lt. Nick Fourcade return in Hoag’s gripping third case for the Partout Parish, La., investigative duo (after The Boy). At the outset, Nick responds to a call about the discovery of a body in a rural, marshy area, with a face
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