Plum Lovin'
Kirkus Reviews: Just what Trenton's favorite bounty-hunter needed: a stint playing Cupid's helper as the hours tick down to Valentine's Day. The bail-bond business is quiet in Trenton after the holidays. The streets are too cold for hookers and pushers, and the serious crackheads celebrated Christmas by overdosing. In fact, the only real draw on […]
Last Rights : Rescuing the End of Life From the Medical System
Library Journal Review: Most people find it difficult to face their own mortality and that of their loved ones. This book compassionately and skillfully addresses this difficult, emotional issue. Kiernan, a journalist with the Burlington Free Press (VT), discusses the disconnect between how people want to spend their last days and how they actually end […]
The Ravenscar Dynasty
Publishers Weekly: The doyenne of popular women's fiction (Just Rewards) returns with the first installment of a projected trilogy centering on internecine power struggles within the early 20th century incarnation of the centuries-old Deravenel clan and their London-based family business. A suspicious hotel fire causes the death of patriarch Richard Deravenel along with that of […]
Twelve Sharp
Publisher Weekly Review: The mixture of slapstick and gunplay that has put Evanovich's series about a sassy, less than competent New Jersey bounty hunter at the top of bestseller lists once again works its magic in Stephanie Plum's latest caper (after 2005's Eleven on Top). Stephanie, who freely admits her failings as a hunter of […]
Bright Lights, Big Christmas
Just Rewards
Publisher Weekly Review: Can this be, as advertised, the final episode in the Harte family saga? A Woman of Substance (1979), the story of Emma Harte's triumph over poverty and illegitimacy to found England's greatest department store, and its four sequels were huge bestsellers. Now Emma's great-granddaughter, Linnet O'Neill, must defend the empire and family […]
The Nostradamus Encyclopedia
Ten Hours Until Dawn : the True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do
FROM THE PUBLISHER “In the midst of the blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately dispatched a patrol boat. Within an hour, the Coast Guard boat was in as much trouble as the tanker, having […]
Cold hit
Library Journal: When a string of homeless men in Los Angeles meet gruesome deaths, Shane Scully and partner are on the case. When one of the murders is linked to the ten-year-old killing of an L.A. cop, Scully and partner are suddenly off the case. Seems that a government cover-up is afoot.
eleven on top
Stephanie Plum has decided to quit her job as a bounty hunter. She wants something safe. She wants something normal. She’s tired of creeps, weirdos, and stalkers. Then just when she thinks she’s out, they pull her back in.