The Hunters
Library Journal: This third entry in Griffin's exciting and timely "Presidential Agent" series begins literally minutes after the end of the previous novel, The Hostage, and again features the irreverent but highly capable Charley Castillo and all the other ensemble characters. The plot here focuses on the UN "oil for food" scandal and the murderers […]
A Safe Place For Dying
Publisher Weekly Review: Starred Review. In an impressive debut, Fredrickson introduces Vlodek "Dek" Elstrom, an intrepid investigator of Norwegian extraction who has neared bottom with his failed marriage and battered reputation. When a $3-million home explodes at Crystal Waters, the gated Chicago community where Elstrom's ex-wife still lives and from which he was expelled, powerful […]
True Evil
Patrick Anderson – The Washington Post: The novel leads, inevitably, to a showdown between the FBI agent who is fueled by love and the scientist who burns with malice. It's a wham-bam ending that features snakes, SWAT teams, helicopters, speedboats, government assassins and heroic sacrifice, all with a child's life in the balance. True Evil […]
Temperatures Rising
From the blockbuster New York Times bestselling author of Texas Sage! and A Whole New Light comes a sizzling tale of a love that bridges two different worlds. Out-of-print for over four years, Temperature's Rising tells a story of love and passion set in the contemporary South Pacific. More than 5 million Sandra Brown books […]
The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers
Publishers Weekly: Diehard fans will best appreciate Lilian Jackson Braun's meandering 29th "Cat Who…" mystery, The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers, which mostly chronicles series hero Joe Qwilleran's social activities in Pickax City, Mich. (Jan.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Unquiet Spirit
Publishers Weekly: The fluent, suspenseful second in the Nathaniel Gye series (after 2005's The Nature of Rare Things) by prolific British author Wilson finds the Cambridge University ghostbuster trying to uncover the truth behind the rumors surrounding a fatal late night mishap in an undergraduate dormitory. Sir Joseph Zuylestein, newly installed as Master of financially […]
Skylight Confessions
Kirkus Reviews: A Yale senior loses his way on Long Island, and three generations suffer the consequences in this haunting latest from Hoffman (The Ice Queen, 2005, etc.). Convinced that he's the true love she promised herself as her father lay dying, orphaned 17-year-old Arlie Singer seduces John Moody moments after he stops to ask […]
Treasure of Khan
Library Journal Review: Dirk Pitt Sr. and his partner, Al Giordino, take center stage in this latest National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) adventure. The two are on Lake Baikal in Siberia when a massive earthquake disrupts their research. The rescue of a scientific survey vessel and its passengers reveals a sinister agenda somehow tied […]
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 […]
Always Say Goodbye : a Lew Fonesca Mystery
Publishers Weekly In MWA Grand Master Kaminsky's psychologically layered fifth Lew Fonesca mystery (after 2005's Denial), the Sarasota, Fla., process server and occasional PI emerges from his clinical depression to start tracking down the hit-and-run driver who killed his wife, Catherine, in Chicago four years earlier. But moments after his tow-truck-driver brother-in-law, Franco, picks him […]