Fiction
Eruption. By Michael Crichton and James Patterson. Little, Brown.
Crichton plus Patterson. Need we say more? Okay, we will: Patterson wrote the novel based on the late Crichton’s notes, resulting in a breakneck thriller about a catastrophic volcanic eruption on the big island of Hawai’i.
Farewell, Amethystine. By Walter Mosley. Mulholland.
Evoking classic noir and 1970s Los Angeles, Mosley’s latest Easy Rawlins novel has the private investigator looking into two different missing-persons