Sunday, April 26, 2009
Mary Higgins Clark Is Back With Another Heart-Rending Mystery
Mary Higgins Clark.
Just take my heart
Criminology professor Emily advocates on behalf of a dangerously ill friend from childhood whose life can be saved by a heart transplant from an injured mutual friend, a situation that turns deadly when Emily discovers that the injured friend was not hurt accidentally.
F. Paul Wilson.
Aftershock & others : 19 oddities
A third collection of short works by the best-selling author of the Repairman Jack series features the Bram Stoker Award-winning title novelette and additional stories including "Aryans and Absinthe," "When He Was Fab," and "The November Game."
Alexis Wright.
Carpentaria
A tale inspired by the plight of the Australian Aborigines follows a clash between a powerful family, tribe leaders, and mobsters in a sparsely populated northern Queensland town, a conflict marked by the machinations of a religious zealot, a murderous politician, and an activist.
Christian Moerk.
Darling Jim
A reclusive aunt and her two nieces turn up dead and a young postal worker finds a diary in the dead letter office which offers clues about Jim Quick, a mysterious Irish storyteller, who had become obsessed with the aunt.
Brian Freeman.
In the dark
Jonathan Stride, a widower, is haunted by the death of his sister-in-law, who was beaten to death thirty years earlier, and from the author who is writing about the murder he learns secrets about his late wife that lead him to question his past life.
Alys Clare.
The joys of my life
May 1199. Abbess Helewise has been summoned by Queen Eleanor to discuss the building of a chapel at Hawkenlye Abbey. Meanwhile, Sir Josse d'Acquin is on the trail of a group of mysterious knights rumored to be devil worshippers. As Helewise heads for home, Josse follows his quarry to Chartres, where he meets the last person he expects: Joanna. And she has grave problems of her own
Tony Hays.
The killing way
When Merlin is implicated in the brutal murder of a young woman, his charge, Arthur, a young warrior who is favored to become the next king of Britain, finds his reputation at stake; a situation for which he turns for help to a wise man who blames Arthur for the death of his wife.
Anne Argula.
Krapp's last cassette
Hollywood screenwriter Alex Krapp is adapting the memoir of a child who has suffered unspeakable abuse and whose health is so precarious that they've never met, but when a reported suggests that the story is a fraud, Krapp hires the feisty and tough-talking Quinn to prove that the boy is real.
Georgina Harding.
The spy game
Years after their German refugee mother disappears on the same day the media releases a story about a spy family, Anna and her brother, Peter, struggle to sort out facts and lies about their mother's identity and wonder if she had a secret life. By the author of The Solitude of Thomas Cave.
Walter Jon Williams.
This is not a game
In a near-future world that is dominated by an alternate-reality game without boundaries, players find their real lives increasingly and violently overshadowed by the game and its escalating demands.
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