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Jayne Ann Krentz.
Fired up
After nightmares and blackouts signal the presence of a family curse, Jack Winters seeks the Burning Lamp in hopes of preventing his transformation into a monster, enlisting the help of Chloe Harper, an alluring private investigator with special powers.
Richard Doetsch
13th Hour
A tale told in reverse finds an innocent man sitting in jail after being accused of his wife's murder and given an opportunity by a stranger to go back in time to discover what happened, an opportunity that poses a painful dilemma.
Jude Deveraux
Days of Gold
After a failed attempt to reclaim Edilean Talbot's family gold, Angus McTern is accused of kidnapping and theft and must flee 1766 Scotland with Edilean and find refuge in the growing American colonies.
Tami Hoag.
Deeper than the dead
A California town is rocked to its core when two boys and a girl stumble upon a murder victim, drawing Special Agent Tony Mendez into a search for a psychopathic serial killer called "The See No Evil Killer," but as his probe continues, he realizes that the killer may be the father of one of the boys and enlists the aid of their teacher, Anne Navarre, to uncover the truth.
Orson Scott Card
Hidden Empire
Captain Cole becomes increasingly concerned about new U.S. President Averell Torrent's tough-handed foreign policy stance, a perspective that causes him to be targeted and prompts his investigation into the president's role in an assassination plot.
Stephen Hunter
I, Sniper
Bob Lee Swagger fights to clear the name of a fellow soldier-in-arms and faces off against one of his most ruthless adversaries yet, a sniper whose keen intellect and pinpoint accuracy rivals his own.
Jasper Fforde
Shades of Grey
Color Control Agency employee and House of Red member Eddie Russet experiences discontent with his limited vision when he meets Gray Nightseer Jane, who suggests that their color-blind world was brought about by a disaster that nobody is allowed to acknowledge.
Mike Resnick.
Starship-- flagship
Wilson Cole, the crew of the starship Theodore Roosevelt and their ragtag armada must find a way past the Republic's Navy if they are to infiltrate the planet Deluros VIII and overthrow the government, a conundrum compounded by the fact that a new threat looms on the horizon.
Dominick Dunne.
Too much money
A sequel to People Like Us finds writer Gus Bailey witnessing the disappearance of the old-money society that once occupied him and investigating the murder of one of the world's wealthiest men, an effort that is sabotaged by the man's calculating wife and schemers within Gus's own set.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Relax after Christmas with the new J.A. Jance or Ed Gorman mystery.
J.A. Jance.
Trial by fire
Taking a media relations position with the Yavapai County Police Department, former television journalist Ali Reynolds investigates a subdivision fire and the identity of an injured amnesiac woman, a case that unleashes a family drama and a remorseless killer.
Ed Gorman
Ticket to ride
Struggling with his father's illness and the end of a relationship, small-town Iowa lawyer Sam McCain witnesses the return of his community's first Vietnam casualty while reuniting with old friends at a Labor Day party that is shattered by a double murder.
Drew Karpyshyn.
Darth Bane : dynasty of evil : a novel of the Old Republic
A latest entry in the best-selling series that began with Path of Destruction and Rule of Two finds Darth Bane suffering the effects of using the dark side, doubting his apprentice for her apparent lack of ambition and pursuing an artifact with the power of granting immortality.
India Edghill
Delilah
Raised to be a priestess to the Five Cities ruling Canaan, a rebellion-wary Delilah sets out to capture reluctant Israelite warrior Samson, who falls in love with Delilah and forces the young priestess to question her heart and loyalties
Laurell K. Hamilton.
Divine misdemeanors
Refusing the throne of faerie in order to protect her unborn twins, Merry withdraws with her bodyguards to Los Angeles before encountering unexpected dangers from the factions of the faerie courts and her own worshipers.
Alexander McCall Smith.
La's orchestra saves the world
A stand-alone work by the author of the Isabel Dalhousie series finds divorcee Lavender fleeing World War II London and organizing an amateur orchestra that includes a talented Polish refugee who rekindles long-buried feelings
Angela Hunt.
Let darkness come
Working on a case that could make or break her career, attorney Briley Lester, defending a society wife accused of killing her abusive husband--the scion of one of the city's wealthiest and most influential families--stumbles upon a tragic, shocking secret that could prove her client's innocence.
Colleen McCullough, Sydney Miner.
Too many murders :a Carmine Delmonico novel
In 1967, the town of Holloman, Connecticut, the home of armaments giant Cornucopia, chief of detectives Carmine Delmonico investigates a dozen murders that may be connected to a spy passing Cornucopia's secrets to the Russians.
Trial by fire
Taking a media relations position with the Yavapai County Police Department, former television journalist Ali Reynolds investigates a subdivision fire and the identity of an injured amnesiac woman, a case that unleashes a family drama and a remorseless killer.
Ed Gorman
Ticket to ride
Struggling with his father's illness and the end of a relationship, small-town Iowa lawyer Sam McCain witnesses the return of his community's first Vietnam casualty while reuniting with old friends at a Labor Day party that is shattered by a double murder.
Drew Karpyshyn.
Darth Bane : dynasty of evil : a novel of the Old Republic
A latest entry in the best-selling series that began with Path of Destruction and Rule of Two finds Darth Bane suffering the effects of using the dark side, doubting his apprentice for her apparent lack of ambition and pursuing an artifact with the power of granting immortality.
India Edghill
Delilah
Raised to be a priestess to the Five Cities ruling Canaan, a rebellion-wary Delilah sets out to capture reluctant Israelite warrior Samson, who falls in love with Delilah and forces the young priestess to question her heart and loyalties
Laurell K. Hamilton.
Divine misdemeanors
Refusing the throne of faerie in order to protect her unborn twins, Merry withdraws with her bodyguards to Los Angeles before encountering unexpected dangers from the factions of the faerie courts and her own worshipers.
Alexander McCall Smith.
La's orchestra saves the world
A stand-alone work by the author of the Isabel Dalhousie series finds divorcee Lavender fleeing World War II London and organizing an amateur orchestra that includes a talented Polish refugee who rekindles long-buried feelings
Angela Hunt.
Let darkness come
Working on a case that could make or break her career, attorney Briley Lester, defending a society wife accused of killing her abusive husband--the scion of one of the city's wealthiest and most influential families--stumbles upon a tragic, shocking secret that could prove her client's innocence.
Colleen McCullough, Sydney Miner.
Too many murders :a Carmine Delmonico novel
In 1967, the town of Holloman, Connecticut, the home of armaments giant Cornucopia, chief of detectives Carmine Delmonico investigates a dozen murders that may be connected to a spy passing Cornucopia's secrets to the Russians.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Berry, Zahn, & Crichton add some adventure to the new book shelves.
Steve Berry.
The Paris vendetta
Awakened by a housebreaking stranger who is revealed to be a friend of Henrik Thorvaldsen and the father of a young man he once tried to save, Cotton Malone flees with the intruder when they are pursued by a shadowy organization that is hiding a dangerous Napoleon-era secret.
Laura Lippman.
In big trouble
Tess Monaghan has learned to survive the streets of Baltimore, first as a reporter and most recently as a private detective, but when she investigates the disappearance of a musician she once loved and lost, she will confront painful truths from her past, and evidence of a new and deadly killer stalking the city
Dean Koontz.
Breathless
Isolating himself in the Colorado Rockies, craftsman Grady Adams encounters a pair of beautiful furred animals that challenge everything he and a local veterinarian understand about the natural world, a discovery for which they are targeted by government forces.
Timothy Zahn.
Cobra alliance
Just as most people are thinking that the Cobra warriors--a guerilla force whose weapons are surgically implanted--are not worth their high cost, from the shadows of the universe comes a new menace, one that even the formidable Cobra warriors may not be able to defeat.
James Patterson.
I, Alex Cross
Determined to capture the psychopath responsible for murdering his niece, Alex Cross discovers that the young woman was among a dangerous group of people and was not the only one to have disappeared.
Harry Turtledove.
Liberating Atlantis
Frederick, a descendent of the family that founded the first settlement in Atlantis, must work as a slave when he is unable to prove his lineage, and becomes the leader of a revolutionary army of freedom fighters.
Lee Goldberg.
Mr. Monk in trouble
America's favorite obsessive-compulsive detective is back in a new original tale in the series based on the popular TV show.
Michael Crichton.
Pirate latitudes
English Captain Charles Hunter and his crew of ruffians sail from colonial Jamaica to infiltrate a Spanish-controlled island, commandeering the galleon El Trinidad and its fortune in gold after a bloody battle, but Hunter and his crew have plenty of danger and adventure ahead of them, in this 17th-century swashbuckling tale found among the late author's files after his passing.
The Paris vendetta
Awakened by a housebreaking stranger who is revealed to be a friend of Henrik Thorvaldsen and the father of a young man he once tried to save, Cotton Malone flees with the intruder when they are pursued by a shadowy organization that is hiding a dangerous Napoleon-era secret.
Laura Lippman.
In big trouble
Tess Monaghan has learned to survive the streets of Baltimore, first as a reporter and most recently as a private detective, but when she investigates the disappearance of a musician she once loved and lost, she will confront painful truths from her past, and evidence of a new and deadly killer stalking the city
Dean Koontz.
Breathless
Isolating himself in the Colorado Rockies, craftsman Grady Adams encounters a pair of beautiful furred animals that challenge everything he and a local veterinarian understand about the natural world, a discovery for which they are targeted by government forces.
Timothy Zahn.
Cobra alliance
Just as most people are thinking that the Cobra warriors--a guerilla force whose weapons are surgically implanted--are not worth their high cost, from the shadows of the universe comes a new menace, one that even the formidable Cobra warriors may not be able to defeat.
James Patterson.
I, Alex Cross
Determined to capture the psychopath responsible for murdering his niece, Alex Cross discovers that the young woman was among a dangerous group of people and was not the only one to have disappeared.
Harry Turtledove.
Liberating Atlantis
Frederick, a descendent of the family that founded the first settlement in Atlantis, must work as a slave when he is unable to prove his lineage, and becomes the leader of a revolutionary army of freedom fighters.
Lee Goldberg.
Mr. Monk in trouble
America's favorite obsessive-compulsive detective is back in a new original tale in the series based on the popular TV show.
Michael Crichton.
Pirate latitudes
English Captain Charles Hunter and his crew of ruffians sail from colonial Jamaica to infiltrate a Spanish-controlled island, commandeering the galleon El Trinidad and its fortune in gold after a bloody battle, but Hunter and his crew have plenty of danger and adventure ahead of them, in this 17th-century swashbuckling tale found among the late author's files after his passing.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Grafton's Kinsey Millhone is back. Get comfortable and settle in to enjoy another great mystery.
Sue Grafton.
U is for undertow
Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
David Poyer.
The crisis : a Dan Lenson novel
Assigned to improve an undisciplined patrol craft squadron in the Red Sea, Naval Commander Dan Lenson and his Tactical Analysis Group find themselves at the head of a humanitarian mission in famine-stricken northern Africa, where a young jihadist coordinates a violent insurgency.
Fern Michaels.
Deadly deals
After spending Thanksgiving with their loved ones on Big Pine Mountain, the ladies of the Sisterhood prepare to assist attorney Lizzie Fox in breaking up an illegal baby selling ring.
Jim Butcher.
First lord's fury
Legendary man of war and the rightful First Lord of Alera, Gaius Octavian must save his world from eternal darkness, and stand against the savage Vord in the Calderon Valley.
Joseph Wambaugh.
Hollywood moon
In the wake of reports about a young man who has been attacking women, LAPD cops Flotsam and Jetsam encounter a suspicious pair of individuals with ties to a deadly, high-tech organization that pits its own con artists against one another.
Cassandra Clark.
The red velvet turnshoe
A tale set against a backdrop of the Black Death and Hundred Years' War finds brave nun Abbess Hildegard searching for the sacred Cross of Constantine in order to safeguard the English crown.
Mick Herron.
Smoke & whispers
When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads North for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoe Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoe kill herself, or did one of her old cases come looking for her? Why was she wearing a jacket a murderer had stolen years before?
Alice Munro.
Too much happiness : stories
Nine new short works include the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, a woman's response to a humiliating seduction, and a nineteenth-century Russian GemigrGe's winter journey to the Riviera.
David Weber & Eric Flint.
Torch of freedom
As the slave masters of Mesa plot against the Star Empire of Manticore and the newly liberated slave planet of Torch, secret agent Anton Zilwicki investigates a wave of mysterious assassinations, and a young security officer hired by Torch official and suspect.
James Hime.
Where armadillos go to die
Retired Texas Ranger Jeremiah Spur becomes the only investigator interested in determining the fate of a missing restaurant owner whose promising invention has been targeted by venture capitalists and an NFL star.
U is for undertow
Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
David Poyer.
The crisis : a Dan Lenson novel
Assigned to improve an undisciplined patrol craft squadron in the Red Sea, Naval Commander Dan Lenson and his Tactical Analysis Group find themselves at the head of a humanitarian mission in famine-stricken northern Africa, where a young jihadist coordinates a violent insurgency.
Fern Michaels.
Deadly deals
After spending Thanksgiving with their loved ones on Big Pine Mountain, the ladies of the Sisterhood prepare to assist attorney Lizzie Fox in breaking up an illegal baby selling ring.
Jim Butcher.
First lord's fury
Legendary man of war and the rightful First Lord of Alera, Gaius Octavian must save his world from eternal darkness, and stand against the savage Vord in the Calderon Valley.
Joseph Wambaugh.
Hollywood moon
In the wake of reports about a young man who has been attacking women, LAPD cops Flotsam and Jetsam encounter a suspicious pair of individuals with ties to a deadly, high-tech organization that pits its own con artists against one another.
Cassandra Clark.
The red velvet turnshoe
A tale set against a backdrop of the Black Death and Hundred Years' War finds brave nun Abbess Hildegard searching for the sacred Cross of Constantine in order to safeguard the English crown.
Mick Herron.
Smoke & whispers
When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads North for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoe Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoe kill herself, or did one of her old cases come looking for her? Why was she wearing a jacket a murderer had stolen years before?
Alice Munro.
Too much happiness : stories
Nine new short works include the stories of a grieving mother who is aided by a surprising source, a woman's response to a humiliating seduction, and a nineteenth-century Russian GemigrGe's winter journey to the Riviera.
David Weber & Eric Flint.
Torch of freedom
As the slave masters of Mesa plot against the Star Empire of Manticore and the newly liberated slave planet of Torch, secret agent Anton Zilwicki investigates a wave of mysterious assassinations, and a young security officer hired by Torch official and suspect.
James Hime.
Where armadillos go to die
Retired Texas Ranger Jeremiah Spur becomes the only investigator interested in determining the fate of a missing restaurant owner whose promising invention has been targeted by venture capitalists and an NFL star.
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