Inside the desperate world of TV ratings, an investigative reporter discovers that a serial killer is targeting women named Susan and killing one on the same day each year. Television reporter Riley Spartz is recovering from a heart-breaking, headline-making catastrophe of her own when a longtime police source drops two old homicide files in her [...]
Check out the thriller Rules of Deception by Christoper Reich Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse.Twenty-four hours [...]
We have the new thriller by bestselling author Brad Thor, Last Patriot signed first edition. Publishers Weekly:In bestseller’s Thor’s intriguing seventh Scot Horvath novel, Scot, a former navy SEAL who’s recently quit working for Homeland Security, pursues a mystery involving a recently discovered ancient Koran. Differing from the original, this Koran suggests a secret exists [...]
This afternoon Rhys Bowen was at The Poisoned Pen for a lovely event where she signed Royal Pain her new mystery featuring penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie. A character Jacqueline Winspear calls “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers”Rhys recommended a debut by G.M. Malliet Death of a Cozy Writer. She said [...]
New York Times best-selling author and creator of Rambo David Morrell has written the stand-alone comic series that follows Captain America’s involvement with a war-tired U.S. marine unit in Afghanistan. “As the creator of Rambo, Morrell is known for heroes who’ve been trained to handle action and danger. He is a master of weaving action [...]
Dame Stella Rimington was formerly Director General of the Security Service (MI5), the first woman to take the post and the first person to be publicly named while in office. “When Dame Judi Dench plays super-cool spy chief “M” in the James Bond movies, she’s tough as nails and has a woman’s intuition. When Dame [...]
Award-winning author Bowen returns with the second in her funny series of books about a minor royal in 1930s England, A Royal Pain. Part zany comedy, part social commentary on the British class system, and part bloody good mystery!Another hilarious mystery featuring penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie, “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of [...]
Raven Rise (Pendragon Series #9) by D. J. MacHaleThis is where it begins. The showdown for Halla. At stake is nothing less than all that ever was and all that will be.There’s only one thing missing–Bobby Pendragon.While Bobby remains trapped on Ibara, the battle moves to his home territory: Second Earth. Mark Dimond and Courtney [...]
Cotterell, Arthur. Imperial Capitals of China (Overlook $28). As early as the 3rd Century, Chinese emperors tried to engage the Immortals with cosmologically pleasing urban planning, their capitals displaying religious preoccupations (ley lines) and building designs. The British scholar’s resulting dynastic history of the Celestial Empire, “the oldest continuous civilization in existence today,” is filled [...]
Gardner, Laurien. Plain Jane ($14 reissue). A novel of Lady Jane Seymour, third wife to Henry VIII, mother of his son, sister to ambitious brothers, and died too young. Kyle, Barbara. Queen’s Lady ($15). In 1527, Honor Larke, choosing to serve Catherine of Aragon rather than to marry, agrees to carry letters to the queen’s [...]