"Past Tense: a Jack Reacher Novel" (Delacorte Press), by Lee Child While Jack Reacher is exploring the United States, he stumbles on a rural area in New Hampshire and spots a sign with a name...

Il-Pirati: It-Teżor ta' Morgan il-Pirata Il-Pirati: Is-Serqa tad-Djamant by Juliette Parachini-Deny and Oliver Dupin Illustrated by Jérôme...

"In Malta there's no poverty." We love to repeat this statement over and over, maybe because it assuages our conscience or maybe because it makes us feel like we're living in a bed of roses. We...

'The Malta Letters' by Robert Attard tackles Maltese history in an innovative way by telling the history of Malta through inscriptions, notes and letters in private collections. Most of...

"Dark Sacred Night" (Little, Brown and Co.), by Michael Connelly Los Angeles Police Department detective Renee Ballard was introduced in Michael Connelly's popular "The Late Show." She was given...

"Nine Perfect Strangers" (Flatiron Books), by Liane Moriarty Life is good for Liane Moriarty. The "Big Little Lies" novelist who partnered with actress Nicole Kidman to turn that book into a hit...

"Elevation" (Scribner), by Stephen King After more than four decades of banging out best- sellers, Stephen King still has the power to surprise his beloved "constant readers." Consider...

"Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism" (PublicAffairs), by Timothy Denevi The common image of the late journalist Hunter S. Thompson is one of a...

The publishing world made headlines in 2018, and not always by design. A wave of best-sellers offered damaging accounts of Donald Trump's White House, a million-selling memoir by Michelle Obama had...

"Evening in Paradise: More Stories" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Lucia Berlin: In 2015, the posthumous publication of the short story collection "A Manual for Cleaning Women" made its author...