Sunday, August 2, 2009

Konrath’s Jack Daniels Matches Wits With Her Nemesis, a Serial Killer Out to Get Her

J.A. Konrath.
Cherry bomb
A follow-up to Fuzzy Navel's cliff-hanger ending finds Lieutenant Jacqueline Daniels attending the funeral of the loved one who was killed at the end of the previous work and receiving a phone call from homicidal escapee Alex Kork, who reinitiates their deadly game of cat and mouse.

Anna Blundy.
Breaking faith
Preferring large-scale assignments to her investigation of a small plane bombing over a tiny Scottish village, dysfunctional war correspondent Faith Zanetti is haunted by realizations about the tragedy and begins to suspect that the truth is closer than she realized.

Zoë Klein.
Drawing in the dustScorned for agreeing to help an Arab couple excavate allegedly haunted grounds under their house, archaeologist Page Brookstone finds what may be the tomb of the prophet Jeremiah, as well as the remains of a woman, and intriguing scrolls documenting their relationship.

Gaynor Arnold.
Girl in a blue dress : a novel inspired by the life and marriage of Charles Dickens
Recently widowed Dorothea Gibson examines her difficult life with a late, beloved, celebrity author during Queen Victoria's reign in this novel based on the real-life troubled marriage of Charles Dickens.

F.G. Cottam.
The house of lost souls
In an effort to save his student sister from the madness that is threatening the lives of guests at derelict Fischer House, Nick Mason teams up with Paul Seaton, a troubled man who escaped the house a decade earlier, and learns of an unspeakable crime that occurred at the house in the 1920s

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez.
The husband habit
Repeatedly falling for men who hide the truth about their marital status, New Mexico chef Vanessa Chavez takes a vow of celibacy after a run-in with an irate wife and resists the efforts of her friends to set her up before meeting a man who seems wrong for her in every way.

Heather Barbieri.
The lace makers of Glenmara
Fleeing for Ireland in the wake of a failed relationship, fashion designer Kate Robinson finds herself in a coastal Gaelic village and bonds with the members of a lace-making society, through whom she finds healing by listening to their stories of loss and suffering.

Sarah Dunant.
Sacred hearts
Condemned by sixteenth-century demands for lucrative dowries in order to marry, young Serafina is ripped from an illicit love affair and confined in an Italian convent, a situation against which she passionately rebels and reminds the convent's doctor ofher own unhappy early years.

Pat McIntosh.
The stolen voice : a Gil Cunningham murder mystery
In Sir William's remote part of Scotland it seems almost possible that a young boy could have been stolen away by the fairies and returned forty years later, no older - and if he isn't Davie Drummond, who is he? Gil and his wife Alys have been sent into Perthshire to investigate.

James Scott Bell.
Try fear
When a suspected drunk driver he was defending is murdered in a set-up that was staged to look like a suicide, L.A. lawyer Ty Buchanan takes the case of the chief suspect, the man's brother, and begins to uncover a corrupt network with ties to the highest levels of city power.

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