New Books (February-March)

March 27, 2018August 23, 2018 Civilian Reader New Books Aimee Agresti, Barbara Kingsolver, Charlton Pettus, Christopher Fowler, David Ricciardi, E.M. Brown, J Todd Scott, Jack Carr, Jason Fry, Josh Reynolds, Julie Schumacher, JY Yang, K.M. McKinley, Karl Schroeder, Ken Jennings, Laura Lippman, Louisa Hall, Mark Lawrence, Martha Wells, Michael Farris Smith, Michael Harvey, Nancy Kress, Raymond A Villareal, Raymond E Feist, Richard Kadrey, Ricki Schultz, Roger Levy, Ruthanna Emrys, Sean Parnell, Sebastien de Castell, Stuart Turton, Wallace Stroby

Featuring: Aimee Agresti, E.M. Brown, Jack Carr, Sebastien de Castell, Ruthanna Emmys, Raymond E. Feist, Christopher Fowler, Jason Fry, Louisa Hall, Michael Harvey, Ken Jennings, Richard Kadrey, Barbara Kingsolver, Nancy Kress, Mark Lawrence, Roger Levy, Laura Lippman, K.M. McKinley, Sean Parnell, Charlton Pettus, Josh Reynolds, David Ricciardi, Karl Schroeder, Ricki Schultz, Julie Schumacher, J. Todd Scott, Michael Farris Smith, Wallace Stroby, Stuart Turton, Raymond A. Villareal, Martha Wells, JY Yang

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Books Received (April)

April 30, 2016August 23, 2018 Civilian Reader New Books A.A. Dhand, Adam Rakunas, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Andrew Bannister, Ann Patchett, Barney Norris, Ben Peek, Brian Staveley, Chris Roberson, Christie Golden, D.L. Hughley, David Swinson, Emma Kavanagh, Gae Polisner, Guy Haley, Helen Sedgwick, J Todd Scott, J.P. Smythe, James Swallow, Jay McInerney, Jessica Grose, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Ken MacLeod, Kij Johnson, Laura Lam, Laurence MacNaughton, Lee Child, Leif G.W. Persson, Matt Wallace, Myke Cole, N.S. Dolkart, Owen Laukkanen, Paula Guran, Peter Hanington, Robin Yocum, Samantha Hayes, Sebastien de Castell, Stephanie Burgis, Stephen Graham Jones, Steven Erikson

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Featuring: Andrew Bannister, Stephanie Burgis, Lee Child, Myke Cole, Sebastien de Castell, A.A. Dhand, N.S. Dolkart, Steven Erikson, Christie Golden, Stephen Graham Jones, Jessica Grose, Guy Haley, Peter Hanington, Samantha Hayes, Kaui Hart Hemmings, D.L. Hughley, Kij Johnson, Emma Kavanagh, Laura Lam, Owen Laukkanen, Ken MacLeod, Laurence MacNaughton, Jay McInerney, Barney Norris, Daniel O’Malley, Ann Patchett, Ben Peek, Leif G.W. Perrson, Gae Polisner, Adam Rakunas, Chris Roberson, J. Todd Scott, Helen Sedgwick, J.P. Smythe, Brian Staveley, James Swallow, Michael Swanwick, David Swinson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Matt Wallace, Robin Yocum

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Upcoming: THE FAR EMPTY by J. Todd Scott (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

March 30, 2016 Civilian Reader Upcoming Crime, Debut 2016, Far Empty, GP Putnam's Sons, J Todd Scott, Texas, Thriller

ScottJT-FarEmptyUS I’m always on the look out for new crime/thriller authors, and J. Todd Scott‘s debut, The Far Empty, looks really interesting. It’s due to be published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, on June 7th, 2016. Here’s what it’s about:

In this gritty crime debut set in the stark Texas borderlands, an unearthed skeleton will throw a small town into violent turmoil.

Seventeen-year-old Caleb Ross is adrift in the wake of the sudden disappearance of his mother more than a year ago, and is struggling to find his way out of the small Texas border town of Murfee. Chris Cherry is a newly minted sheriff’s deputy, a high school football hero who has reluctantly returned to his hometown.

When skeletal remains are discovered in the surrounding badlands, the two are inexorably drawn together as their efforts to uncover Murfee’s darkest secrets lead them to the same terrifying suspect: Caleb’s father and Chris’s boss, the charismatic and feared Sheriff Standford “Judge” Ross.

Dark, elegiac, and violent, The Far Empty is a modern Western, a story of loss and escape set along the sharp edge of the Texas border. Told by a longtime federal agent who knows the region, it’s a debut novel you won’t soon forget.