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Review: Line of Vision by David Ellis
2007-08-17 16:37:00
Marty Kalish is a young man suffocating in the heat of an affair with a married woman named Rachel. When Rachel’s husband disappears one night, Marty is one of the first to be questioned. With few likely suspects, the police arrest him for murder. We know Marty was outside their home that night. We know ...
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Review: Play Dirty by Sandra Brown
2007-08-16 03:43:00
After five long years in federal prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to life as he knew it before he was caught cheating. In a place where football is practically a religion, Griff committed a cardinal sin, and no one is forgiving.   Foster Speakman, owner and CEO ...
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Review: Next To Die by Marliss Melton
2007-08-15 17:07:00
Navy SEAL Lt. Commander Joe Montgomery did not die for his country but he almost wishes he had after returning home the sole survivor of one of the worst disasters in SEAL history. As he embarks on the long road to forgiving himself, as well as recovering from a severe fall, he has the help of his neighbor, Penny Price, who also serves in the Navy as a physical therapist. It is with Penny’s support, confidence and healing hands that Joe is pulled from the darkest period of his life. And it is his turn to repay the favor when Penny finds herself embroiled in a mystery centered around the “accidental” death of her father in a car accident five years earlier.   Armed with her father’s private diary, Penny, and her younger sister Ophelia, seek to have the man whom they believe murdered their father put behind bars. But when that man turns up murdered himself, the race is on to catch a killer before the two Price sisters become the Next To Die. (more…
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Review: Burning Time by Leslie Glass
2007-08-15 01:19:00
A serial killer leaves a college coed to die in the California desert, his signature of fire seared into her flesh. A beautiful Chinese-American detective, recently transferred from Chinatown to the Upper West Side, is assigned a routine missing-persons case. A famous doctor returns home from a lecture to discover that his actress wife has been living a secret life. Now, the paths of the cop, the killer, and the psychiatrist are about to converge. A savage killer is on the loose in New York City. His calling card is a tattoo of flames; his trail of victims leads from the scorched sands of California to the blistering heart of Manhattan. Only Detective April Woo can block this vicious madman’s next move. And with the help of psychiatrist Jason Frank, this NYPD policewoman will prove that the predator she’s hunting is no ordinary killer, but then, April Woo is no ordinary cop.   (more…
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Book Watch: Jinx
2007-08-14 18:54:00
Jinx by Meg Cabot   Format: hardcover, 272 pages Publisher: HarperTeen Pub Date: July 31, 2007 ISBN: #0060837640   The only thing Jean Honeychurch hates more than her boring name (not Jean Marie, or Jeanette, just… Jean) is her all-too-appropriate nickname, Jinx. Misfor-tune seems to follow her everywhere she goes; which is why she’s thrilled to be moving in with her aunt and uncle in New York City. Maybe when she’s halfway across the country, Jinx can finally outrun her bad luck. Or at least escape the havoc she’s caused back in her small hometown.   But trouble has definitely followed Jinx to New York. And it’s causing big problems for her cousin Tory, who is not happy to have the family black sheep around. Beautiful, glamorous Tory is hiding a dangerous secret, one that she’s sure Jinx is going to reveal.   Jinx is beginning to realize it isn’t just bad luck she’s been running from. It’s something far more...
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Review: A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish
2007-08-13 17:34:00
The only female detective on Miami PD’s homicide division, Joe Frye has memories that haunt her and a past not even her lover, Louis Kincaid, truly knows.   It began when Joe was an ambitious rookie cop in a small Michigan town called Echo Bay. The bones found in the woods were the first clue in a ...
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Review: Lake of Sorrows by Erin Hart
2007-08-11 15:00:00
Death hangs heavy in the disturbed air of Ireland?s lonely Loughnabrone peat bog, an ancient holy place, steeped in legend, drowned in sorrow, and long since abandoned by man. Pathologist Nora Gavin has been called to an archaeological site in the bleak midlands west of Dublin?a place known as the Lake of Sorrows?to assist at ...
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Series Saturday: Cedar Cove Series by Debbie Macomber
2007-08-11 14:01:00
Cedar Cove Serie s by Debbie Macomber   “Cedar Cove is loosely based on my own hometown of Port Orchard, Washington, situated on the Kitsap Peninsula. The majority of landmarks in Cedar Cove are fictional, including the homes that appear in the books (and on the covers).”  Debbie Macomber   The Books   16 LIGHTHOUSE ROAD (September 2001) 204 ROSEWOOD LANE (September ...
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Silent Treatment by Michael Palmer
2007-08-10 01:15:00
With his wife, Evie, scheduled for surgery the next day, Dr. Harry Corbett goes to the hospital for what he hopes will be a quiet evening of reconciliation. In recent weeks Evie, never quick to share her feelings, has been more closed and distant than ever. But when Harry reaches Evie’s room, it is ...
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It Increases by 3?
2007-08-08 22:03:00
My library, that is. Yes, I thought it was time to purchases a few books. After all it’s been a whole two weeks. I was getting pretty antsy. So, What did I buy? Sandra Brown is one of my favorite authors. Her new book Play Dirty is scheduled to be released August 12th. So ...
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A Cold Day For Murder by Dana Stabenow
2007-08-07 18:02:00
It?s December in the Park, and a ranger is missing. It?s no great loss to the rest of the Park rats, they figure he?s stumbled into a snowbank and will re-emerge come breakup, just in time for the ground to thaw and them to bury him. But when the man sent to look for him ...
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Pretty Woman by Fern Michaels
2007-08-06 15:15:00
Rosie Gardener and Vickie Winters were best friends, closer than sisters. Partners in a successful mail-order company, both women lived comfortably in lush Savannah, Georgia. Svelte and single Vickie only wanted the best for her friend, and she couldn’t stay quiet when Rosie, overweight and unable to see her own worth, fell under the spell ...
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Cause For Alarm by Erica Spindler
2007-08-04 02:55:00
Kate and Richard Ryan have the perfect marriage, marred only by their inability to have a child. The adoption agency’s call fulfills that dream, and opens the door to a nightmare.   Julianna Starr has chosen Kate and Richard to be more than the parents of her child. For Richard is the man of her fantasies, the ...
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Shelter Mountain by Robyn Carr
2007-08-02 02:11:00
John ?Preacher? Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three-year-old son come in out of a wet October night. A marine who has seen his share of pain, Preacher knows a crisis when he sees one ? the woman is covered in bruises. He wants to protect them, and ...
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The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner
2007-07-31 17:40:00
What would you do if the man of your dreams hides the soul of a killer?   Jim Beckett was everything she’d ever dreamed of…But two years after Tess married the decorated cop and bore his child, she helped put him behind bars for savagely murdering ten women. Even locked up in a maximum security prison, he ...
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Up Close And Dangerous by Linda Howard
2007-07-30 21:05:00
Bailey Wingate?s scheming adult stepchildren are surprised when their father?s will leaves Bailey in control of their fortune, and war ensues. A year later, while flying from Seattle to Denver in a small plane, Bailey nearly dies herself when the engine sputters?and then fails. Cam Justice, her sexy Texan pilot, manages to crash-land the aircraft. Stranded ...
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Trouble In High Heels by Christina Dodd
2007-07-30 15:43:00
Brandi Michaels moved to Chicago to be with her fiancé?only to discover he?d hopped a flight to Vegas to marry his new girlfriend. So she pawns her engagement ring, buys herself a ridiculously expensive pair of shoes, and spends one sultry night in the arms of a gorgeous Italian stranger named Roberto Bartolini, convinced she?s ...
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Code Name: Bikini by Christina Skye
2007-07-28 16:42:00
Ex-cop Gina Ryan traded in her Smith andamp; Wesson to follow a dream. Now she’s creating decadent desserts aboard a luxury cruise ship in the Caribbean. But a gorgeous passenger is about to send her perfect world up in smoke. Trace O’Halloran is a hard-edged navy SEAL, under strict orders to take some high seas R ...
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Home Before Dark by Susan Wiggs
2007-07-27 01:28:00
In her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie Ryder has seen the world through her camera lens. But she’s never traveled far enough to escape a painful moment that has haunted her for the past sixteen years: the day she gave her baby daughter away. Now, facing a life-altering crisis, she’s decided to fix the ...
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Virgin River by Robyn Carr
2007-07-25 19:34:00
Wanted: Midwife/nurse practitioner in Virgin River , population six hundred. Make a difference against the backdrop of towering California redwoods and crystal-clear rivers. Rent-free cabin included. When the recently widowed Melinda Monroe sees this ad she quickly decides that the remote mountain town of Virgin River might be the perfect place to escape her heartache, and to ...
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Beyond Reach by Karin Slaughter
2007-07-24 18:02:00
In a stifling jail cell in a hardscrabble Georgia town, Detective Lena Adams sits in stubborn silence: bruised, angry, and the only suspect in a horrific murder that left a woman incinerated beyond recognition. A hundred miles away, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver has gotten the call that his young detective has been arrested. Jeffrey? s ...
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Authors I Really Want To Like?.But!
2007-07-22 18:30:00
Don’t you hate it when a author is so popular. Their books are getting great reviews, but you just can’t understand why. You have tried over-and-over again to read his/her books but are disappointed so often. Perhaps the plot is weak. The writing terrible. The characters lack development. Or the author takes pages and pages ...
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Wish You Well by David Baldacci
2007-07-22 16:55:00
The year is 1953 ? and the worst of tragedies has struck the Cardinal family. A devestating car accident takes the life of Jack Cardinal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and leaves his young wife a bedridden invalid who has completely withdrawn. Lou and her younger brother Oz travel by train with their mother to the ...
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Series Lovers Book Challenge
2007-07-20 18:38:00
I have noticed over the summer that reading challenges are becoming more popular. So I thought I would set up my own. I don’t know about anyone else, but more then half of the books I read are from a series or triliogy. So I figured hosting a challenge based on series books would be a good idea.   The Guidelines Pick 5 fiction books for this challenge. 3 of the books you pick can overlap from other challenges. Book s must be part of a series or trilogy. They must be from a series that has more than 3 books in it. To sign-up. Leave a comment, and a link to your book list. Deadline to sign-up is August 31st. The challenge runs from September 1st to November 30th. (more…
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High Noon by Nora Roberts
2007-07-20 01:36:00
Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara found her calling at an early age when an unstable man broke into her family’s home, trapping and terrorizing them for hours. Now she’s Savannah’s top hostage negotiator, defusing powderkeg situations with a talent for knowing when to give in-andwhen to jump in and take action. It’s satisfying work-and sometimes those skills come in handy at home dealing with her agoraphobic mother, still traumatized by the break-in after all these years, and her precocious seven-year-old, Carly. It’s exactly that heady combination of steely courage and sensitivity that first attracts Duncan Swift to Phoebe. After observing her coax one of his employees down from a roof ledge, he is committed to keeping this intriguing, take-charge woman in his life. She’s used to working solo, but Phoebe’s discovering that no amount of negotiation can keep Duncan at arm’s length. And when she’s grabbed by a man who throws a hoo...
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Beachcomber by Karen Robards
2007-07-19 21:58:00
Christy Petrino hadn’t planned on a vacation on Ocracoke Island, but when she learns her fiancéé and boss, suave Michael DePalma, is a “made man” and the Philadelphia law firm where she works is a front for the mob, she breaks her engagement and quits her job. But no one walks away from the DePalma family business so easily….Only if she delivers a locked briefcase to a motel on Ocracoke Island will she-and her mother and sisters-be free.   But after clandestinely making her drop-off late at night, Christy suspects she is being followed on the moonlit beach-and unwittingly runs into a new kind of terror. Now a witness at the center of a homicide investigation, Christy learns the police are hunting a serial killer they refer to as the “Beachcomber” because beautiful young women-women who in fact resemble her-have disappeared recently while vacationing at nearby beach communities. Christy doesn’t know whom to fear more-a serial killer ...
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Kiss Me While I Sleep by Linda Howard
2007-07-19 01:20:00
It’s a job that makes a killing. Efficient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can’t be touched by the law.   Now, after nineteen years of service, Lily has been drawn into a dangerous game that hasn’t been sanctioned, seeking vengeance for her own reasons. Each move bolder than the next, she is compromising her superiors, drawing unwanted attention, and endangering her very life. Though stress and shock have made her feel somewhat invincible and a little cocky, Lily knows that she too can be taken out in an instant. And if it’s her time, so be it. She intends to go down fighting.   A CIA agent himself, Lucas Swain recognizes the signs of trauma in the line of fire. His orders: either bring her in or bring her down. Yet he too is drawn into the game with Lily Mansfield, dancing on a tightrope as he tries to avoid a major...
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Two Little Girls In Blue by Mary Higgins Clark
2007-07-18 00:56:00
After three-year old twin sisters Kathy and Kelly Frawley are kidnapped from their Connecticut home and held for ransom, Kelly is returned safely but Kathy is believed to be dead, until Kelly incredibly begins imparting information about her sister’s whereabouts and the identity of her ruthless abductors.   Although three minor criminals were involved in the actual ...
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Homeport by Nora Roberts
2007-07-17 00:45:00
The Maine air is bitterly cold when Dr. Miranda Jones arrives at the family home after a busy lecture tour. But her blood turns to ice when she suddenly feels the knife against her throat. The unseen assailant steals her bags, slashes her tires, and disappears. Deeply shaken, Miranda is determined to put the experience ...
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The Hunt Club by John Lescroart
2007-07-15 17:55:00
At first, The Hunt Club had a membership of one: private investigator Wyatt Hunt. Since then, others have joined with a common interest in obtaining justice. One member, inspector Devin Juhle, has just caught a major case: the shooting of a sixty-three-year old federal judge and his twentysomething mistress… While Juhle works, Hunt plays, ...
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