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Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 2)
Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 2)
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 327
Review Date: 6/18/2006


A reclusive author, Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls - or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is found slain in her own home, Kay Scarpetta pieces together the intricate forensic evidence - while unwittingly edging closer to a killer waiting in the shadows.


Bound by a promise
Bound by a promise
Author: Diana Palmer
Book Type: Unknown Binding
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 5
Review Date: 6/18/2006


Garet Cambridge was the most compelling man Kathryn Summers had ever known. Tall, dark, commanding...and now blinded, by a twist of fate. Kathryn knew that if he discovered the truth behind the accident that had robbed him of his sight, she would lose him forever. But despite Garet's vows of vengeance on the person who'd destroyed his life, Kathryn fell head over heels for the wealthy businessman. While she realized that she could never completely atone for the past, she was determined to heal Garet's heart, body and soul by lavishing all her tenderness on him. For no matter what the future held, she was bound by a promise.


A Cold Heart  (Alex Delaware, Bk 17)
A Cold Heart (Alex Delaware, Bk 17)
Author: Jonathan Kellerman
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 304
Review Date: 6/18/2006


LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis summons his friend, pscyhologist-sleuth Alex Delaware, to a trendy gallery where a promising young artist has been brutually garroted on the night of her first major showing. The details of the murder scene immediately suggest to Alex not an impulsive crime of passion but the meticulous and taunting modus operandi of a serial killer. Delaware's suspicions are borne out when he and Milo find there's a link between the artist's death and the murder of a noed blues guitarist. The twisting trail leads from halfway houses to palatial mansions, and from a college campus to the last place Alex ever expected: the doorstep of his ex-lover Robin Castagna. As more killings are discovered, unraveling the maddening puzzle assumes a chilling new importance - stopping a vicious psychopath who's made cold-blood murder his chosen art form.


The Daughters of Cain (Inspector Morse, Bk 11)
The Daughters of Cain (Inspector Morse, Bk 11)
Author: Colin Dexter
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 33
Review Date: 6/18/2006


It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murer enquiry after the preliminary -invariably dramatic- discovery and sweep of the crime scene. Secretly pleased to have missed the blood and gore, Morse and faithful Lewis go about finding the killer who stabbed Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College. In another part of Oxford, three women -a housecleaner, a schoolteacher, and a prostitute- are playing out a drama that has long been unfolding. It will take much brainwork, many pints, and not a little anguish before Morse sees the startling connections between McClure's death and the daughters of Cain....


Drowned Night (Abbadon Inn, Bk 3)
Drowned Night (Abbadon Inn, Bk 3)
Author: Chris Blaine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 12
Review Date: 9/7/2006


Ted McShane a burned-out New York City cop- and his wife Liz have retreated to the peaceful shore town of Victorian Cape May as the new proprietors of the Abbadon Inn. But the surface calm of their summer is about to be roiled by a series of disturbing occurrences.

First, two teenagers disappear. Then an all-day fishing charter vanishes, lost in the murky depths of the Atlantic. Locals link the chilling events to a century-old legend of a creature said to prowl the coast in an insatiable feeding frenzy. But as Ted and Liz are about to discover, land offers no escape.

Something has been roused in Cape May, something somehow connected to the Abbadon Inn. And after on hundred years in hiding, its very, very hungry


Furnace
Furnace
Author: Muriel Gray
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 25
Review Date: 9/25/2006


When truck driver Josh Spiller pulls his eighteen-wheeler into the affluent mountain town of Furnace, Virginia, expects nothing more than a hot meal and a place to rest. But Furnace is no ordinary town, and Josh will soon find out that hes become a pawn in a centuries-old game one with consequences more terrifying than his darkest nightmare. A mysterious strip of parchment has been left in Joshs rig bearing the words FIVE DAYS ALIVE PERMITTED. Now Josh is racing against time to return the cursed runes that could condemn him to an unspeakably painful and grisly death. And the fiery beast that stalks his every move the one which threatens both his sanity and his life is nothing compared to the human evil of Furnace, Virginia.


Ghost Walk (Harrison Investigations, Bk 2)
Ghost Walk (Harrison Investigations, Bk 2)
Author: Heather Graham
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 482
Review Date: 6/24/2006


Mindys rating: 4 out of 5

Nikki DuMonde's newest employee is standing at the end of her bed at four o'clock in the morning begging for help. It's a joke, right? Besides, as manager of a successful New Orleans haunted-tour company, Nikki doesn't scare easily. But in the light of day, harsh reality sets in as a police officer informs her that Andy was brutually murdered - at the exact time Nikki swears the distraught woman was in her room.

No one believes her except Brent Blackahawk, a paranormal investigator desperately trying to forget his tragic past. Half Irish, half Lakota - and able to communicate with the dead - Brent is used to living in two worlds. But when he realizes the ghost of a slain government agent is also trying to reach out to Nikki, he knows that she, too, must listen to the dead...if she wants to keep living.


The Girl with the Golden Spurs (Golden Spurs, Bk 1)
The Girl with the Golden Spurs (Golden Spurs, Bk 1)
Author: Ann Major
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 40
Review Date: 6/18/2006


From the cradle, Lizzy Kemble had the powerful sense that she didn't belong in her family's notorious Texas empire. Her desire for land-grabbing Cole Knight, embittered son of the neighboring rancher, proved her right. Her daddy had done everything possible to turn her into a proper Kemble - all the way to leaving his vast Golden Spurs Ranch in her hands after he fell victim to a stroke.

But when her father's death turns out to be murder, Lizzy knows someone is willing to kill to claim the Kemble wealth...and she's next on the hit list. With the Golden Spurs at risk, she's fighting back...but who is the enemy? The enigmatic Cole? Her cutthroat family? Caught in a high-stakes game of in, lose or die, Lizzy is forced to gamble her ranch, her heart, her very life for the truth behind the Golden Spurs.


Haunted (Harrison Investigation, Bk 1)
Haunted (Harrison Investigation, Bk 1)
Author: Heather Graham
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 393
Review Date: 6/24/2006


Mindy's Rating: 4 of 5

Matt Stone doesn't believe in ghosts. But there are those who are convinced his home, a historic virginia estate that dates back to the Revolutionary War, is haunted. Pressured to get at the truth about some strange happenings at Melody House, he agrees to let Harrison Investigations explore the house. But he isn't ready for beautiful, intriguing Darcy Tremayne.

As a paranormal investigator, Darcy has learned to believe in the unbelievable. And she's given matt fair warning: sometimes people don't like the skeletons she finds. She never dreamed that warning would apply to herself. For she's about to discover that melody house holds much more than a simple mystery from the distant past. What it holds is a very real and lethal danger, one that will cast her into a struggle against the worlds of both the living and the dead.


Hideaway
Hideaway
Author: Dean Koontz
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 195
Review Date: 7/10/2006
Helpful Score: 1


He was clinically dead after the accident - but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife, Lindsey, approach each day with a new appreciation of life...shadowed by a his glimpse of death.

Something has come back from the other side. A terrible presence that links Hatch's mind to a dangerous psychotic. A dark force of murderous rage that hides within us all.....


Invasion of Privacy (Nina Reilly, Bk 2)
Invasion of Privacy (Nina Reilly, Bk 2)
Author: Perri O'Shaughnessy
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 130
Review Date: 6/18/2006


The bloodstains on the courtroom floor belong to attorney Nina Reilly. Months earlier she'd been shot during a heated murder trial. She should have died that day. Instead, Nina has returned to the same Lake Tahoe court. Her onl concessing to her lingering fear is to give up criminal law. She figures an invasion of privacy lawsuit is a nice, safe civil action that will help her support her young son and pay the bills for her one-woman law office. She figures wrong....

Nina's client is Terry London, a filmmaker whose documentary about a missing girl is raising disturbing questions. The girl's distraught parents believe the film invades their privacy. But Terry's brutual murder changes everything. Breaking her promise to herself, Nina decides to defend Terry's accused murderer, a man she'd known years before and hoped to never see again. Suddenly the secrets of Nina's past are beginning to surface in a murder case that gets more dangerous every day. The evidence against her client is shocking and ironclad - a video of Terry's dying words. The only chance Nina has to save the man may be illegal. And if it fails, Nina may lose the case, her practice...even her life.


The Keeper (Keeper, Bk 1)
The Keeper (Keeper, Bk 1)
Author: Sarah Langan
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 113
Review Date: 9/25/2006


Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedfords unemployed residents soon find themselves with far too much time to dwell on thoughts of Susan Marley. Once the local beauty, shes now the local whore. Silently prowling the muddy streets, she watches eerily from the shadows, waiting for something. And haunting the sleep of everyone in town with monstrous visions of violence and horror.

Those who are able will leave Bedford before the darkness full ascends. But those who are trapped here from Susan Marleys long-suffering mother and younger sister to he guilt-ridden, alcoholic ex-lover to the destitute and faithless with nowhere else to go will soon know the fullest and most terrible meaning of nightmare.


A Kiss Before Dying
A Kiss Before Dying
Author: Ira Levin
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 5
Review Date: 6/18/2006


He was an honor student, class president, war hero - and killer of his pregnant lover. Now he's ready to destroy anyone, man or woman, who comes close to his horrifying secret. From master novelist Ira Levin, A KISS BEFORE DYING is the classic, chiling portrait of a brillian young psychopath who gets away with murder after murder - blind to the one fatal weakness that threatens to expose him.


Last Man Standing
Last Man Standing
Author: David Baldacci
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 353
Review Date: 6/18/2006


Web London was trained to penetrate hostile ground and come out alive. Then ten seconds in a dark alley cost him everything: his friends, his fellow agents, his reputation. Among his super-elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team, Web was the sole survivor of a high-tech, devastating ambush.

Now Web is trying to put his life back together and understand what really happened. To get answers, he'll need the help of psychiatrist Claire Daniels and the one other human being who lived through the attack - a ten-year-old boy. But when his search leads him back to that bloodstained alley. Web suddenly realize he is about to face his assassin again. And this time, one of them will become the LAST MAN STANDING.


The Manhattan Hunt Club : A Novel
The Manhattan Hunt Club : A Novel
Author: John Saul
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 35
Review Date: 7/10/2006


Falsely convicted of a brutual crime, college student Jeff Converse sees his future vanishing before his eyes. But someone has other plans for Jeff, in a place far deadlier than any penitentary. Soon Jeff finds himself beneath the teeming streets of Manhattan, in a hidden landscape of twisting tunnels and forgotten subterranean chambers. Here, an invisible population of the homeless, the desperate, and the mad has carved out its own shadow society. But they are not alone. For someone has made this forsaken civilization a private killing ground. Now, with no weapon but his wits, and an unimaginable threat lurking around every dark corner, Jeff must somehow move heaven and earth to escape from a living hell.


The Morning After (Savannah, Bk 2)
The Morning After (Savannah, Bk 2)
Author: Lisa Jackson
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 324
Review Date: 6/18/2006


A woman is frantic as she awakens in a dark, closed space. From above her comes the muffled sound of cruel laughter, followed by the hard splatter of dirt. Pure terror takes over as she realizes she's being buried alive, and her last breath is a scream that no one but a sadistic killer will hear....

To journalist Nikki Gillette, this disturbing story is a ticket out of small-town Savannah and on to the big time. She's already given the killer a nickname - The Grave Robber - and she's spending every minute dogging tough cop Pierc Reed's investigation, trailing him through Savannah's deep thickets and crumbling cemetaries...even though she's starting to wonder about the secrets he's keeping...

Another body is found. And another. Each gruesome discovery unnerves Nikki a little more...there's something familiar about it, something she should know. Now, as a serial killer pulls her ever deeper into his sick game, she has no idea how close she's getting to the truth - or how deadly it will be....


Morrigan's Cross (Circle, Bk 1)
Morrigan's Cross (Circle, Bk 1)
Author: Nora Roberts
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 1308
Review Date: 10/3/2006


As a storm rages, the tale begins...of a powerful vampire's lust for destruction--and of the circle of six charged by the goddess Morrigan to stop her.


Night Sins (Deer Lake, Bk 1)
Night Sins (Deer Lake, Bk 1)
Author: Tami Hoag
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 399
Review Date: 6/18/2006


A peaceful Minnesota town, where crime is something that just doesn't happen, is about to face its worst nightmare. A young boy disappears. There are no witnesses, no clues - only a note, cleverly taunting, casually cruel. Has a cold-blooded kidnapper struck? Or is this the reawakening of a long-quiet serial killer?

A tough-minded investigator on her first, make-or-break case.... A local cop who fears the big city evils have come to stalk his small-town home...Together they are hunting for a mdman who knows no bounds, to protect a town that may never feel safe again.


Perfect Nightmare
Perfect Nightmare
Author: John Saul
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 195
Review Date: 7/10/2006


When Lindsay Marshall mysteriously vanishes from her bedroom during the night, her mother, Kara, fears the worst. Their neighbor Patrick Shields can easily relate to Kara's grief-he is still dealing with the pain of losing his wife and two children in a devastating fire. But heartache isn't all that draws Patrick and Kara together. He, too, senses the hand of a malevolent stranger in this tragedy. And as more people go missing, Patrick's suspcion, like Kara's, blooms into horrified certainty. Someone is trolling this peaceful community--undetected and undeterred--harvesting victims for a purpose no sane mind can fathom. Kara and Patrick, alone and desperate, are determined to unmask the monster who even now is watching, plotting, keeping a demented diary of unspeakable deeds...and waiting until the time is ripe to make another fateful move.


The Presence (Harrison Investigation, Bk 2)
The Presence (Harrison Investigation, Bk 2)
Author: Heather Graham
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 263
Review Date: 6/24/2006


Mindy's Rating: 4 of 5

Toni Fraser and her friends think they've hit on the ultimate moneymaking plan. Buy an ancient run-down Scottish castle. Turn it into a tourist destination. Sweep visitors into a reenactment that combines fact and fiction, complete with local history, murder and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall.

But when the castle's actual owner - a tall, dark and formidable Scot who share the fictional laird's name - comes charing in, Toni is shocked. How is it possible he even exists? Toni invented Bruce MacNiall for the performance...yet every particle of his being is eerily familiar.

Soon the group is drawn into a real-life murder mystery; young women are being killed, their bodies dumped nearby. And Toni is having sinister lifelike dreams in which she sees through the eyes of the killer - dreams that suggest a connection to Laird MacNiall. Bruce claims he wants to help catch the murderer. But can Toni trust him...especially when his ghostly double wanders the forest in the black of night?


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