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Review Date: 12/5/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Ghost-written, from the Estate of Robert Ludlum.
Review Date: 10/23/2006
Neil Gaiman writes an imaginative book sparked by the Anansi tales. Fat Charlie learns that his father -- who dropped dead on a karaoke stage surrounded by blonde tourists -- was actually a God. He finds out he has a brother he never knew about who inherited all the God gifts. Charlie tells a spider to send a message to his brother to drop by sometime. What will happen when Charlie's fiancee Rosie meets Spider? Why is Rosie's mom suddenly in favor of the marriage? And where does Daisy fit into all this? Why (and who) sent his brother away in the first place?
Review Date: 12/4/2006
Standard Cornwell and Kay Scarpetta: The doctor has left the medical examiner's office, but the past hasn't left her behind. A former case - that of the French wolfman - is resurrected when Jean Baptiste Chaconne asks to see Scarpetta as he awaits his death sentence. What's his plan and does it relate to her current case?
Review Date: 12/4/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Wow! Great mystery Gerritsen-style. Dr. Maura Isles, a continuing character in Gerritsen's later mysteries, finds out that she shares the DNA of a "stranger" ... a dead stranger. Bizarre and evil characters, dark secrets, and twisted truths.
Review Date: 10/23/2006
This is the third book with sheriff Brandon Walker. He's retired now, and working with an exclusive organization that investigates cold murder cases. It leads him to a shocking realization about a couple acquainted with his wife and there's more about the relationship between adopted daughter Lani and Fat Crack the medicine man. I like the character development, the sense of unease throughout the book. The bad guys are reaaaally bad. There's more violence than in other Jance books.
Review Date: 1/8/2007
This is an exciting art and murder thriller. I couldn't put the book down.
Review Date: 12/4/2006
For Johansen fans: a marine researcher knows secrets that a savage killer is after. Can she and her beloved dolphins survive the threat?
Review Date: 12/4/2006
Classic Delinsky. Casey Ellis didn't know her father, but inherits his home, maid, and mysterious gardener. While clearing out boxes, she discovers a file. Is it a journal, a case study, or manuscript? While trying to find out more about "Jenny," she discovers more about herself and the dad she didn't know.
Review Date: 11/15/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Odd Thomas needs to rescue his friend Danny -- he of the brittle bones -- from one of the most horrifyingly evil antagonists Koontz has ever created. Odd Thomas also figures out why Elvis's ghost is sticking so close to him.
Review Date: 12/4/2006
This was the first Heather Graham book I read...I liked the spooky, supernatural aspect to it. Protagonist Nikky DuMonde runs a New Orleans tour company that visits haunted sites. No one realizes she actually sees ghosts until she encounters an paranormal investigator who communicates with the dead!
Review Date: 3/23/2007
A continuation of Pierce Quincy, FBI profiler. Quincy is retired from the FBI and working independently with his wife Rainey when she is kidnapped. Daughter Kimberly and her fiance Mac fly to Oregon to help her father find Rainey while she's still alive. Family dynamics, family emotional situations, alcoholism, victims of abuse, wanting a child, and the race against time with a crazy kidnapper -- all knotted together.
Review Date: 1/6/2007
An interesting twist to the romance mysteries that Linda Howard writes. Very entertaining.
Review Date: 12/4/2006
A great Grisham novel - reporter Willie Traynor moves to Clanton MI and within a year becomes the owner of the only county newspaper. Fast forward a couple decades, and Traynor learns that the jurors who served in a local murder trial nine years ago are suddenly dying one by one...and now there's just one left.
Review Date: 11/18/2006
Helpful Score: 1
Michael Crichton's thriller is based on abusing techology...our creation is taking on a life of its own and attacking us! A great thriller for fans of Michael Crichton who enjoy his creativity and using the elements of his story to advise and admonish mankind.
Review Date: 9/1/2007
Everyone's back from Relic to investigate the horrendous murders taking place. Police diver Snow brings up to headless skeletons and sets the course of forensic investigation with D'Agosto, Pendergast, Dr. Margo Green and journalist Bill Smithback. With side forays into city crime, citizen action committees, sensational journalism, and sociological discussions of the homeless living beneath the streets of Manhattan.
Review Date: 5/28/2007
Helpful Score: 1
A historical mystery, what if Anastasia survived the massacre of the Romanov family? in the style of John Grisham (attorney's solving mysteries and facing hit men) and Dan Brown (alternative history)
Review Date: 7/27/2007
This is a great book for independent readers and pre-teens. William adopts his wonderful dog from the shelter, but his joy is shortlived. Soon his dog is under a death sentence for his prankish behavior and William turns to the townspeople to help him in the fight to save his dog. But not everyone agrees with him, certainly not Ellis Porter who lost his cat to a rogue dog. "A life for a life. A dog for his cat. It didn't matter to him which do. Riley would do fine."
My daughter loved this book but was surprised by the ending..."Mom! I thought all books were supposed to end happily ever after!"
My daughter loved this book but was surprised by the ending..."Mom! I thought all books were supposed to end happily ever after!"
Review Date: 12/4/2006
Helpful Score: 2
A Petra Connor novel. A whiz kid grad student discovers the pattern to a series of unconnected murders. Petra's got a lot on her plate, a personal life in shambles, and no time for the kid...but the date that connects all the murders is rapidly approaching and Petra has to decide if it's worth pursuing the bizarre clues that no one else has noticed to stop an elusive, cunning killer.
Review Date: 12/4/2006
If you like DeMille, you'll love this visit to Viet Nam by former army homicide investigator Paul Brenner. He visits the country and ends up plunged into a world of corruption and danger, while investigating a thirty year old murder.
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