Thursday, December 31, 2009

Start the New Year with a new Jayne Ann Krentz or Richard Doetsch novel.

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.

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