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.

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