March 2009
Coben, Harlan. Long Lost
Myron Bolitar wings his way to Paris when he gets a call from an old
flame that she's in trouble.
Cussler, CLive and Jack Du Brul. Corsair: a novel of the Oregon
Files
The U.S. secretary of state has vanished en route to a summit meeting
in Libya, and it's up to Juan Cabrillo to find her.
Kellerman, Janathan. True Detectives
PI Aaron Fox is eager to take on a case involving a woman missing for
two years - until he discovers that his hated half-brother cop is also
on the case, but they both agree on colsulting Alex Delaware.
Perry, Anne. Execution DOck
Monk goes after a child pornographer, especially when he starts killing
off children who have outgrown their use.
Robards, Karen. Pursuit
Lawyer Jessica Monaghan is threlled to serve as escort to First Lady
Annette Cooper - until a car crash leaves Cooper dead and Jess wondering
if the whole thing was really an accident.
February 2009
Binchy, Maeve. Heart and Soul
Dr. Clara Casey establishes a heart chinic that saves lives - and heals
her soul.
Eisler, Barry. Fault Line
Lawyer Alex Treven's client is murdered and his estranged brother,
Ben, an undercover agent, reluctantly agrees to help him.
Fairstein, Linda. Lethal Legacy
A woman is found murdered in an apartment belonging to the Hunts, benefactors
of the New York Public Library, and Assistant DA Alex Cooper is on the
case.
Higgins, Jack. A Darker Place
Famed Russian writer and former paratrooper Alexander Kurbsky arranges
to "disappear" into the West, claiming that he fears Putin's nasty security
forces - for whom he's still secretly working.
Palmer, Michael. The Second Opinion
Dr. Thea Sperelakis may have Asperger's, but only she realizes that
the hit-and-run that has left her father near death was no accident.
Parker, Robert B. Night and Day
What do an aggressive Peeping Tom and a female high school principal
accused of impropriety have in common?
Patterson, James & Michael Ledwidge. Run for Your Life
The Teacher is a serial killer who gives deadly lessons to new York's
rich and arrogant, and only Det. Mike Bennett can stop him.
Phillips, Susan Elizabeth. What I Did for Love
With her career in ruins and her husband off with a young beauty, why
shouldn't movie star Georgie York head for Vegas with an old flame.
Robb, J.D. Promises in Death
A cop is killed with her own weapon, which is later returned to Lt.
Eve Dallas with a note saying maybe Eve's weapon will be forwarded to a
colleague next.
Steel, Danielle. One Day at a Time
A less light in an in-the-news family, Coco Barrington agrees to house
sit for his sister and finds an unexpected houseguest.
Wiesel, Elie. A Mad Desire to Dance
The orphaned son of a World War II resistance leader cannot contain
his grief and eventually comes to believe that he is possessed by a dybbuk.
Winspear, Jacqueline. Among the Mad: a Maisie Dobbs novel
Maisie is drawn in when a letter to the prime minister promises a massive
loss of life if demands are not met.
January 2009
Cannell, Stephen. On the Grind
Shane Scully is bounced from the LAPD for obstruction of justice and
for sleeping with the high-profile target of an investigation. His
wife files for divorce, his son won't speak to him, his pension and job
are gone so he goes to work as a police officer for a notoriously corrupt
town. How is he going to get out of this mess?
Cornwell, Bernard. Agincourt
Cornwell recreates an outnumbered English army's stirring victory against
superior French forces in 1415 at Agincourt..
Griffin, W.E.B. Black Ops
Griffin adds another title to his Presidential Agent series.
This was is centered on the mysterious deaths of CIA agents stationed around
the world.
Iles, Greg. The Devil's Punchbowl
Penn Cage returns with a trip to the Devil's Punchbowl, a seemingly
bottomless pit near Natchez that's loaded with snakes, murder victims,
and maybe Jean Lafitte's treasure.
Krentz, Jayne Ann. Running Hot
A former cop and member of the hush-hush Arcan Society for paranormals,
is shepherding newbie Grace Renquist, a librarian, who's been assigned
an aura-reading task regarding a murder suspect.
O'Connell, Carol. Bone by Bone
Two teenaged brother enter a California woods and one disappears.
Years later, he starts arriving home in pieces, and his older brother must
dig up some ugly secrets.
Patterson, Richard North. Eclipse
Patterson veers away from American politics in his latest and takes
readers to the fictional African country of Luandia where California lawyer
Damon Pierce agrees to defend an activist.
Perry, Thomas. Runner
Perry returns to his Jane Whitefield series in this first-class thriller.
Phillips, Jayne Anne. Lark and Termite
In 1950s West Virginia, Lark worries about her sweet but disabled brother
and her father off fighting in Korea.
Woods, Stuart. Mounting Fears
Bad news: The vice president has died, his proposed replacement
has dark secrets, and someone is gunning for the CIA director who is also
the President's wife.
December 2008
Auchincloss, Louis. The Last of the Old Guard
In his latest novel, the esteemed chronicler of New York City society
peers into the world of New York law firms.
Berry, Steve. The Charlemagne Pursuit
Cotton Malone always thought his father died when his sub sank in the
North Atlantic, but now he's tracking down clues from a manuscript found
in Charlemagne's tomb that show a secret mission under Antarctica.
Cornwell, Patricia. Scarpetta
The NYPD asks Kay Scarpetta to examine a handcuffed man who claimes
to have been injured during the course of a murder, but what murder?
Grippando, James. Born to Run
In this eighth Jack Swyteck novel, politics turn deadly when the Vice
President, out hunting crocodiles in the Everglades, ends up dead.
Johansen, The Treasure
After ten years, Johansen jumps back into historical romance with a
story set in 12th century Scotland.
McCullough, Colleen. The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet
Mary Bennet, nerdy sister of Elizabeth, is off on ad adventure involving
lost treasure that takes her to early 19th century England's dark side.
O'Shaughnessy, Perri. Show No Fear
There's a lot going on in the new Nina Reilly thriller which takes
us back to 1990 and the beginning of her career.
Vachss, Andrew. Another Life: a Burke Novel
To save his surrogate father, deep in a coma, Burke agrees to find
the kidnapped son of a Saudi prince.
November 2008
Baldacci, David. Divine Justice
Having offed two guys who knew too much about his past, Oliver Stone
is hiding.
Deaver, Jeffery. The Bodies Left Behind
Deaver delivers a whole new cast of characters - and a ticking bomb.
Dickey, Eric Jerome. Dying for Revenge
Dickey wraps up the story he began last year with Sleeping with
Strangers and Walking with Enemies.
Hamilton, Laurell. Swalowing Darkness
Merry can keep the throne of faerie only if she produces an heir -
and now she's about to produce two.
Harris, Robert. Conspirata
The second novel in a proposed trilogy about Cicero and ancient Rome.
Iles, Greg. The Devil's Punch
Penn Cage is back in a new gothic thriller centering on murder in Natchez,
Mississippi.
James, P.D. The Private Patient
If there's murder in a nursing home, call in Adam Dalgliesh.
Kellerman, Jonathan. Bones: an Alex Delaware Novel
A pile of corpses missing right hands. A storage box full of
right hands and Alex Delaware has both hands full.
King, Stephen. Just After Sunset: Stories
King's first collection in six years.
Koontz, Dean. Your Heart Belongs to Me
The shadowy woman stalkingheart transplant survivor Ryan Perry has
one demand - she wants her heart back.
Lamb, Wally. The Hour I First Believed
Lamb explores issues of faith and the consequences of war.
Landvik, Lorna. "Tis the Season!
Bad-Gril heiress Caroline Dixon straightens herself out in time for
Christmas.
Lawton, John. Second Violin
The latest in the author's popular Inspector Troy series takes place
in England in the late 1930s and deals with the round up of "enemy aliens"
who might be a threat to England's security.
McCall Smith, Alexander. The World According to Bertie
Six-year-old saxophonist Bertie Pollock steals the show in this fourth
installment in McCall SMith's witty and wise 44 Scotland Street sereis.
Morrison, TOni. A Mercy
In the 1680's, as payment for a bad debt, Ango-Dutch trader Jacob accepts
a slave girl named Florens, whose anguised mother hopes she'll have a better
life.
O'Nan, Stewart. SOngs for the Missing
What happens after popular high school student Kim Larsen diappears.
Patterson, James. Cross Country
Alex Cross takes on the Nigerian underworld in Washington, DC.
Perry, Anne. A Christmas Grace
Tending to her dying aunt of Ireland's west coast, Emily Radley finds
a town wrung out over a terrible secret.
Plain, Belva. Crossroads
Marriage woes in small-town New England.
Steel, Danielle. A Good Woman.
When the sinking of the Titanic also sinks her family, Annabelle Worthington
marries badly, then finds purpose by volunteering in a World War I field
hospital.
October 2008
Connelly, Michael. The Brass Verdict
L.A. Lawyer Mickey Haller is caught in the middle defending a studio
executive accused of murder and concealing facts that could solve his friend's
murder. And Harry Bosch is the investigating officer.
DeMille, Nelson. The Gate House
20 years later DeMille has published a sequel to The Gold Coast which
picks up 10 years after John Sutter's wife, Susan, killed her lover.
Gerritsen, Tess. The Keepsake.
Boston medical examiner Maura Isles gets a bit of a shock when a mumy,
assumed to be more than a thousand years old, turns out to be a recently
murdered woman.
Hunter, Stephen. Night of Thunder
Bob Lee Swagger, a Marine Corps master sniper, digs deep into the inner
workings of the weeklong NASCAR event.
Le Carre, John. A Most Wanted Man
A young Russian, smuggled into Hamburg and claiming he's Muslim is
about to be deported, and everyone is after him and his lawyer.
Muller, Maric. Burn Out
Sharon McCone narrowly escaped death on her last case and traumatized,
retreats to the ranch to decide what to do with the rest of her life.
Parker, Robert B. Rough Weather: a Spenser novel
Spenser is acting as bodyguard for the rich and recently separated
Heidi on her private island and bad things start to happen.
Sandford, John. Heat Lightning
Two bodies turn up at the Vietnam War Memorial in Minneapolis with
lemons inserted in their mouths. What's it all about?
Shreve, Anita. Testimony
Shreve's latest novel is a mesmerizing read about a sex scandal at
a prestigious Vermont prep school.
Steel, Danielle. A Good Woman
Annabelle Worthington suffers lots of trauma - much of her family goes
down with the Titanic, she married an older man with a scandalous secret,
but once again Steel creates the story of a woman who, tossed by the whims
of fate, still manages to survive on her own terms.
Updike, John. The Widows of Eastwick
Once the Witches of Eastwick, Alexandra, Jane and Sukie, are now widows
intent on visiting their old haunt for the summer.