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    Review: Kill For Me



    Author:  Karen Rose

    ISBN: 9780446510301

    Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (Hachette Book Group)

    Author Karen Rose is a New York Times best-selling author and award-winner. Other titles include: Nothing to Fear, Count to Ten, You Can’t Hide, Die For Me, Scream For Me, Don’t Tell, I’m Watching you, Have You Seen Her, and I Can See You- coming out in August 2009. When she’s not writing, she’s practicing for her next karate belt test. Karen resides in Florida with her husband, (an avid fisherman), and her two daughters, (who also like to write).





    Author: Margot Justes

    ISBN: 978-1-59080-534-3

    Publisher: Echelon Press

     

    In A Hotel in Paris, Minola Grey has gone to Paris to immerse herself in art in an effort to refocus her life after a painful breakup with a man she had loved. She teaches art at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts, fulfills consignments for portraits, sketches scenes around the city, and soaks up inspiration from the breathtaking view of Notre Dame, picturesque Luxembourg Gardens, and the Rodin Museum. Just as she thinks she is regaining her equilibrium, her world is upended by the murder of Lord Yardleigh in the hotel suite near hers, and the subsequent arrival of Interpol Chief Inspector Peter Riley. Minola is irresistibly drawn to the mystery surrounding Yardleigh’s death, and equally captivated by Peter Riley.



    Review: Seeing Red



    Author: Susan Crandall

    ISBN: 0446178578

    Publisher: Forever (Hachette Book Group)

    Author Susan Crandall lived in Chicago and worked as a dental hygienist before pursuing her writing career. This title, Seeing Red, follows other titles: Pitch Black, A Kiss in Winter, On Blue Falls Pond, Promises to Keep, Magnolia Sky, The Road Home, and Back Roads. She resides in Indiana with her husband and two children.





    Author:  Mark Porto

    ISBN-10: 1411662318

    ISBN-13: 978-1411662315

    Johnny Bellow, the protagonist, is a take it or leave it type person who is an unlikely hero.  A Naval reservist who, defending his parents and their property, kills four “teenaged punks” who had formed a gang and were terrorizing Bellow’s hometown of Black Water, New York.  Johnny killed the gang members while they were in the process of robbing his parents’ store and unlucky customers who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.



    Author: Julia Harper

    ISBN: 0446619183

    Publisher: Forever (Hachette Book Group)

    Author, Julia Harper grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, then went to college at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she majored in anthropology and took Shakespeare classes for fun. Julia now resides in central Illinois. This title, For the Love of Pete, follows her other title, Hot.



    Review: Turnabout





    Author: Bruce Kaler, M.D.

    ISBN: 978-1-4392-0556-3

    Dr. Fred Pomeroy, the Seattle Washington surgeon at the center of Dr. Bruce Kaler's debut medical thriller, Turnabout finds himself in quite a jam. His former lover, Joyce Downey and her father Bill are suing him for malpractice.







    Author: Jennifer Chase

    ISBN: 978-1-4327-3416-9

    Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.

    Jennifer Chase’s Compulsion is an all-time great fiction suspense thriller.  Jennifer takes her knowledge of forensic science and criminology to new levels of understanding and entertainment.







    Author: Glen E. Page M.D.

    Publisher: Synergy Books

    ISBN: 978-1-933538-96-9

    Glen E. Page is a physician and surgeon who found it very difficult getting to sleep. As a result and as he had more time alone with his thoughts, he was motivated to write The Last Plague. Page lives in southern Idaho with his wife Jane and nine children and he is currently working on his next book in the series.





    Author: Reg McKay

    Publisher: Black and White publishing

    ISBN: 978-1-84502-145-0

    This book features page after page of murder accounts written by author Reg McKay so if you like your novels grizzly this is the one for you.

    Scotland has been home to a number of murderers, including the world’s first serial killer, Peter Manuel, who was hanged for the murder of seven people.



    Review: The Money Belt



    Author: Alan Robertston
    ISBN: 8781432727352
    Publisher: OutskirtsPress

    If you are looking for an off beat hilarious excursion into thriller land, then pick up a copy of Alan Robertsons debut novel, The Money Belt. You wont be disappointed. This one is a pretty good romp into the world of crime with its playful turns of plot and where characters accidentally become entwined into a mind-boggling plot in Marquette, Michigan, a tourist town on the shores of Lake Superior.



    Author: David Baldacci

    ISBN: 10:0-446-19550-2: 13:978-0-446-19550-8

    Publisher: Grand Central Publishing


    One of the nice things about reviewing another David Baldacci thriller is that you know in advance you will be enjoying another roller coaster of a ride that we come to expect from this best-selling author. One that is never dull or formulaic.


    Review: Brother




    Author: James Fredericks

    ISBN: 978-0-9802455-6-1

    Publisher: Bascom Hill Publishing Group

    Just when you think you have this one all figured out, the story takes another disconcerting twist.  James Fredericks neatly takes you on a white-knuckle roller coaster ride of suspense and thrills.  His first novel, Brother, shows all the earmarks of a ground breaking best seller.  





    Author: Clare Langley-Hawthorne
    Title: Penguin Books
    ISBN: 978-0-14-311293-8

    In this historical mystery, the heroine is an unlikely Edwardian character: Ursula (“Sully” to her intimate friends) Marlow is an aspiring journalist, an heiress living in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, and an Oxford graduate. Clearly, she is a young woman with her own mind. One indication of that is her role as a suffragette, something frowned upon by many in her social circle, who wonder how she will ever gain a husband when she is so very willful?



    Author: J. C. Hager

    ISBN: 978-0-9797546-5-4


    In his debut novel, Hunter’s Choice: A Matt Hunter Adventure, J.C. Hager has employed his expertise as a hunter to offer us quite a yarn that could probably easily make a great movie.




    Author: S. J. Robinson

    Publisher: Bridgeway Books

    ISBN: 978-1-934454-30-5



    S. J. Robinson has woven a hypnotic tale of suspense and intrigue worthy of the most renowned writers in the field of mystery. A mystery that you surely won’t want to miss.




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