Archive for the 'Mystery & Thrillers' Category

Inherent Vice (Hardcover)

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Amazon.com Review
“Pynchon flashes the Sixties rock references faster than a Ten Years After guitar solo: His characters walk around wearing T-shirts from Pearls Before Swine, name-drop the Electric Prunes, turn up the Stones’ ‘Something Happened to Me Yesterday’ on the radio. (I had never heard of [...]

Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 9) (Hardcover)

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

From Publishers Weekly
Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse braces herself for trouble when another group of supernatural beings goes public in her disjointed eighth adventure (after 2008’s From Dead to Worse). Following the vampires’ lead, the shape-shifters decide to step out of the woodwork and announce their existence to [...]

Rain Gods: A Novel (Kindle Edition)

Monday, October 19th, 2009

From Publishers Weekly
MWA Grandmaster Burke spins a tale replete with colorful prose and epic confrontations in his second novel to feature smalltown Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland (after Lay Down My Sword and Shield). An anonymous phone call leads Holland, a Korean vet who survived a POW camp, [...]

Hide in Plain Sight (Kindle Edition)

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

“Please God, if you’re listening, keep Rachel safe.” She couldn’t turn her back on her family in their time of need. So when her sister was injured, financial expert Andrea Hampton traded the big city for Amish country to help turn her grandmother’s house into an inn. But life [...]

Rules of Vengeance (Kindle Edition)

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Amazon.com ReviewVince Flynn Reviews Rules of Vengeance Vince Flynn is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nine previous thrillers, including Consent to Kill, Act of Treason, and Protect and Defend. He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children. Read [...]

Alex Cross’s TRIAL (Hardcover)

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Separated by timeFrom his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he’s written–a novel called Trial.Connected by [...]

The Shack (Paperback)

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

Review
“The Shack” is a one of a kind invitation to journey to the very heart of God. Through my tears and cheers, I have been indeed transformed by the tender mercy with which William Paul Young opened the veil that too often separated me from [...]