THIS WEEK TOP 10 1. THE BOOK OF LIFE, by Deborah Harkness. (Viking.) In the conclusion to the All Souls trilogy, the Oxford scholar/witch Diana Bishop and the vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont return from Elizabethan London to the present. 2. THE HEIST, by Daniel Silva. (Harper.) Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service, must track down a famous missing painting by Caravaggio. 3. CUT AND THRUST, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam.) Complications abound as the New York lawyer Stone Barrington attends a political convention in Los Angeles. 4. GONE GIRL, by Gillian Flynn. (Crown.) A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer? 86 5. INVISIBLE, by James Patterson and David Ellis. (Little, Brown.) Searching for her sister’s killer, a former F.B.I. researcher finds a link between scores of unsolved cases. 6. ACT OF WAR, by Brad Thor. (Emily Bestler/Atria.) The counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath undertakes two dangerous missions as America faces an imminent attack. 7. THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt. (Little, Brown.) A painting smuggled out of the Metropolitan Museum of Art after a bombing becomes a boy’s prize, guilt and burden. 8. TOP SECRET TWENTY-ONE, by Janet Evanovich. (Bantam.) The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum pursues a dealer who sells more than used cars. 9. ORPHAN TRAIN, by Christina Baker Kline. (Morrow/HarperCollins.) A historical novel about orphans swept off the streets of New York and sent to the Midwest in the 1920s. 10. THE SILKWORM, by Robert Galbraith. (Mulholland/Little, Brown.) The private detective Cormoran Strike steps in when the author of a roman à clef set in literary London is murdered; by J.K. Rowling, writing pseudonymously.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:00:49 +0000
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