Sunday, April 19, 2009

Favorites Carolyn Hart and Jim Butcher Have New Novels on the Shelves


David A. Rollins.
A knife edge
Pulled off of a top secret research program for the US Department of Defense, Major Vin Cooper is asked to look into the death of a military buddy killed while making a routine parachute jump, but when the two cases collide, he finds himself on a new mission with the highest of stakes.


Philip Kerr.
A quiet flame : a Bernie Gunther novel
A fifth installment in a series featuring Bernie Gunther finds the detective fleeing to Per=n-era Argentina in the wake of wrongful accusations about his war criminal activities and reluctantly investigating the double case of a murdered girl and a missing banker's daughter; a situation with suspicious ties to an unsolved twenty-year-old case.


Rich Lowry & Keith Korman.
Banquo's ghosts
CIA agent Stewart Banquo recruits journalist Peter Johnson to assassinate an Iranian scientist, but when the plot fails, Banquo and Johnson turn their attentions to saving New York City from a nuclear terrorist attack and Johnson's daughter from kidnappers.

Martin Walker.
Bruno, chief of police
When the murdered body of an elderly French army soldier is found with a swastika carved into his chest, Benoit Courreges, the chief of police in a small French village in the South of France and affectionately nicknamed Bruno, turns his suspicions toward a tortured period of French history when the government turned on its own citizens to help the Germans wage war.


Carolyn G. Hart.
Dare to die : a death on demand mystery
When the arrival of a mysterious former Broward's Rock resident sparks a town-wide feud that pits neighbor against neighbor, Annie and Max Darling find their own circumstances affected by a murder that takes place at a pavilion party that the newcomer attends.


Spencer Quinn.
Dog on it : a Chet and Bernie mystery
Intrepid canine detective Chet accompanies his human police officer partner, Bernie, on a first assignment involving the disappearance of a teenage girl who ran with the wrong crowd, a case that is complicated by Bernie's dysfunctional personal life.


Conn Iggulden.
Genghis : bones of the hills
Brings the legendary warrior and conqueror a new challenge, this time from the west, as his viciously effective armies push deep into what is now Afghanistan and the Balkan states, and as his time grows short, he must seal his legacy and name the leader for the new generation.

Paul Levine.
Illegal
Fingered for a crime he didn't commit, brash lawyer Jimmy Payne goes on the most terrifying run of his life, from bloody Mexicali to the bullet-riddled San Joaquin Valley, and when he meets a foul-mouthed Mexican teenager in search of his missing mother, the unlikely duo attempt to find the woman against startlingly violent odds

Kyle Mills.
Lords of corruption
Josh Hagarty takes a position at a charity organization in Africa, but soon discovers it has ties to the country's genocidal dictator and he has become entangled in a billion-dollar worldwide conspiracy.

Jim Butcher.
Turn coat : a novel of the Dresden files
Accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council, Warden Morgan goes in search of Harry Dresden in a desperate attempt to clear his name and stop the deadly punishment from taking place in this latest thrilling addition to the Dresden Files series.

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