Friday, April 3, 2009

Lisa Lutz is Back With the Zany Spellman Clan in Another Fun Mystery

Lisa Lutz.
Revenge of the Spellmans
A third installment in a series that began with The Spellman Files and Curse of the Spellmans finds Isabel pursuing therapy while trailing her newest client's errant wife, Rae facing skyrocketing expectations in light of her high SAT score, and Henry disrupting the family with a new love interest.

A.J. Hartley.
Act of Will
Fleeing his homeland after being accused of sedition, medieval actor and playwright Will Hawthorne finds himself in a distant land with a band of adventurers who are charged with investigating and defeating a ruthless army of mystical horsemen, a mission that tests Will's pragmatic beliefs.

Keith Donohue.
Angels of destruction
Margaret Quinn has never gotten over the loss of Erica, her runaway child, and when Norah, a nine-year-old girl who seems to materialize out of thin air, arrives one bitterly cold night on Margaret's doorstep, she is finally forced to confront her own past to explain this strange child's connection to her missing daughter.

Jack Coughlin, with Donald A. Davis.
Dead shot : a sniper novel
A follow-up to Kill Zone finds former marine sniper Kyle Swanson confronting a defected enemy sniper, Juba, who is working with a fringe terrorist organization that has created a devastating new weapon of mass destruction recently used by Juba to kill hundreds at a British royal wedding.

Earlene Fowler.
Love mercy
Living a solitary life as a writer for a regional magazine and pondering past events that ripped her family apart, Love Mercy Johnson gets a chance at redemption when her granddaughter unexpectedly arrives at her door and gives her the opportunity to heal old wounds.

Mary Robison.
One D.O.A., one on the way
When Jay's husband is diagnosed with a grave illness and returns home to the care of his parents in Louisiana, Jay--a location scout for a movie production company--struggles to stay on the good side of her husband's extended family. By the author of Why Did I Ever.

Bryan Gruley.
Starvation Lake : a mystery
When pieces from a fatal snowmobile accident that ended the life of a legendary youth hockey coach are discovered a decade later five miles from the scene, local paper editor and disgraced former hockey goalie Gus Carpenter hopes to salvage his reputation by attempting to solve the case.

William Dietrich.
The Dakota cipher : an Ethan Gage adventure
Hoping to return home after an unwise affair that ended with a bounty on his head, adventurer Ethan Gage teams up with grizzled Norwegian Magus Bloodhammer on a quest to find a legendary artifact that some believe possesses the power to control the weather; an endeavor for which he must locate a tribe of fair-haired Native Americans.

Todd Johnson.
The sweet by and by
Brought together by circumstance, five North Carolina women protect and provoke each other while they struggle with limited prospects, career ambitions, and vulnerable hearts. A first novel.

Sandi Ault.
Wild sorrow
After taking refuge during a storm in an abandoned Indian School where children were "Americanized" after being taken from their homes, BLM agent Jamaica Wild discovers the desecrated body of an elderly Anglo woman.

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