Mystery : an Alex Delaware Novel
Library Journal New Hollywood meets old when Kellerman pairs his most popular investigative duo (True Detectives) again in this fast and fun crime drama. Psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis search for the killer of a Jane Doe who just happened to be seen by Delaware and his wife the night of […]
The Emperor's Tomb
Publishers Weekly Cotton Malone teams with old heartthrob Cassiopeia Vitt on a dangerous mission to retrieve a priceless Chinese lamp from the third century B.C.E. in Berry's rousing fifth thriller to feature the ex-federal agent (after The Paris Vendetta). Two high-ranking Chinese government ministers, hard-liner Karl Tang and more liberal Ni Yong, both of whom […]
Juliet : a Novel
Donated to the Lisbon Public Library. Library Journal: Most readers are familiar with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but not everyone knows that the Bard based his play on an old Italian tale in which the doomed lovers meet and die in the medieval city of Siena. Drawing on this tale, Fortier's historical debut features a […]
A Christmas Odyssey : a Novel
From the Publisher In her beloved Christmas novels, Anne Perry brings readers both the authentic Victorian charm and the nail-biting suspense that have made her Thomas Pitt and William Monk tales bestsellers for a generation. Though rife with intrigue, these special seasonal stories beam with the blessed light of the holiday. Ten days before Christmas, […]
A Nose for Justice
The Passage : a Novel
Library Journal A human-created virus has infected humankind, mutating most into superstrong, near-immortal vampiric creatures. The "virals"?also called "jumpers" and "dracs" (after Dracula, of course)?can leap 20 feet through the air at a bound and split a human (or a horse, or a cow) in half with their bare hands. A small band of men […]
The Icing On the Cupcake
Library Journal Texas Southern belle Ansley is on the brink of getting engaged when her boyfriend reveals that he just doesn't like her very much. Her general cattiness and downright meanness have gotten the best of her, and she finds herself fianc?-less as well as friendless. When she runs off to New York City to […]
The Scent of Rain and Lightning : a Novel
Publishers Weekly With exquisite sensitivity, Edgar-finalist Pickard (The Virgin of Small Plains) probes a smoldering cold case involving the Linders, a cattle ranching family that's ruled the small, tight-knit community of Rose, Kans., for generations. One stormy night in 1986, someone shoots Hugh-Jay Linder dead, and Laurie, his discontented young wife, disappears. The authorities arrest […]
Deception : an Alex Delaware Novel
Publishers Weekly Deputy Chief Weinberg assigns LAPD Lt. Milo Sturgis a particularly sensitive murder case at the outset of bestseller Kellerman?s smooth if routine 25th Alex Delaware novel (after Evidence). Elise Freeman, a teacher and tutor at exclusive Windsor Preparatory Academy in Brentwood, is found dead in her Studio City apartment in a bathtub full […]