Only Time Will Tell: A Novel

Only Time Will Tell: A Novel

Jeffrey Archer St. Martin’s Press, $27.99, 386 pages An appealing narrative about a young boy in Bristol, England, Harry Clifton was raised by his mother after his father was killed in World War I. As a precocious boy he skipped school, preferring to go to the...
Pao: A Novel

Pao: A Novel

By Kerry Young Bloomsbury Press, $15.00, 278 pages Pao is a Chinese immigrant in Jamaica and the mob boss of Chinatown. His father was killed by imperial forces in China in the late 1930s, Pao and his family immigrated to Jamaica to live with Zhang, his father’s best...