Books by Alice Blanchard and Complete Book Reviews
Alice Blanchard, Author . Warner $24.95 (391p) ISBN 978-0-446-53139-9
Blanchard's gripping second thriller follows a smalltown police chief's pursuit of a serial killer who strikes only during tornadoes, but the "Debris Killer" is only one of the highlights of this fast-moving shocker, which also...
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Alice Blanchard, Author . Warner $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-57672-7
Blanchard (The Breathtaker
) again proves how research enriches detective fiction in this engrossing novel about a Boston scientist on the trail of a psychopath. Neurogeneticist Daisy Hubbard has a personal interest in her research on gene therapy...
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Alice Blanchard, Author University of North Texas Press $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57441-009-9
It's easy to see why judge Rick De Marinis awarded this breathtaking collection of 11 stories the Katherine Anne Porter prize. The prose is confiding, the dialogue familiar, which gives Blanchard's stories an intimate everyday-ness that makes her...
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Alice Blanchard, Author Bantam Books $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-553-11153-8
Switching genres with ease, short story writer Blanchard, who won the 1996 Katherine Anne Porter Prize for her collection The Stuntman's Daughter, offers an accomplished suspense novel. Flowering Dogwood, Maine, is a picturesque New England town, a...
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Alice Blanchard. Titan, $14.95 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-7856-5641-5
Psychiatrist Kate Wolfe, the heroine of this riveting thriller from Blanchard (The Breathtaker), has a great job in Boston, a fantastic boyfriend, a new condo, and a troubled past. When Kate was 16 years old, Henry Blackwood was convicted of...
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Alice Blanchard. Minotaur, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-22703-4
Set in Upstate New York, this gripping series launch from Blanchard (The Breathtaker) examines how violent secrets from the past resurface in a rural community. Det. Natalie Lockhart, a rookie cop, still struggles with the beating death of her older
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Alice Blanchard. Minotaur, $26.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-20573-5
When the naked corpse of a struggling violinist, 24-year-old Morgan Chambers, turns up in a dumpster in Blanchard’s disappointing sequel to 2019’s Trace of Evil, Natalie Lockhart—a detective with the Burning Lake, N.Y., police—assumes the crime is a
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Alice Blanchard. Minotaur, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-250-78304-2
Set in Burning Lake, N.Y., Blanchard’s creepy third novel featuring police detective Natalie Lockhart (after 2020’s The Wicked Hour) infuses a procedural with an ambient horror vibe. When Veronica Manes, a white light Wiccan and the beloved leader...
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