Night Myst
by Yasmine Galenorn
"entertaining urban fantasy"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 25, 2010

With the murder of Marta the witch whose throat was ripped apart and the death two years ago of her mother Krystal, Cicily Walters can come home as her reawakening wolf wants to. She inherits Marta's magic business. This would mean finally returning to her hometown New Forest, Read more...

The Burning Wire
by Jeffrey Deaver
"Lincoln at his most complete best"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 25, 2010

Police consultant and criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is a quadriplegic who uses his partner in life and work Amelia Sachs as his field eyes and ears. As a team they have solved more cases than healthy cops. His biggest issue is boredom, which is the state he is in Read more...

Welcome to Harmony
by Jodi Thomas
"fine small-town portrayal"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 25, 2010

Although they named the town they established Harmony, the three Texas families who founded the place should have named it acrimony as the McAllen, Matheson, and Truman brood detest one another. They compete with one another over who should run Harmony while Sheriff Alexandra McAllen goes on drinking binges Read more...

Grace Under Pressure
by Julie Hyzy
"fun amateur sleuth"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 25, 2010

After years in the big city, Grace Wheaton came home to take care of her dying mother Olivia. After her mother died, Grace remains in the house willed to her while taking in two borders who have become close friends. Grace works as the assistant curator at Marshfield Read more...

Mrs. Jeffries Speaks Her Mind
by Emily Brightwell
"wonderful Victorian mystery"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 25, 2010

In Victorian London, wealthy spinster Olive Kettering hears footsteps and tries to flee to safety, but knows someone is following her. She gets out of her mansion and runs to a person she is happy to see only that individual shoots her in the head. Inspector Witherspoon, who has a Read more...

Chimera
by Rob Thurman
"strong, faster than a speeding Flash thriller"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 23, 2010

A decade ago someone kidnapped young Lukas Korsak. The lad just disappeared from sight with no ransom or any demand. His family grieved their loss as the assumption was he was murdered. Lukas's older brother Stefan has never forgotten his sibling. Working for the Russian Mafia, he still Read more...

The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare
by Arliss Ryan
"terrific biographical fiction"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 23, 2010

In the year of our Lord 1623, the sexagenarian is dying. Her caring teenage granddaughter LizBeth is excited over the package that arrives for her beloved Gran. Inside is the published works of her husband who Ben Jonson insisted will be remembered forever. However, Gran remembers her Read more...

The Starlet
by Mary McNamara
"frantic fun frolic"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 23, 2010

In Los Angeles at the posh Pinnacle Hotel, Juliette Greyson heads public relations. However to get away from the coddled rich and famous, she is on vacation in her maternal family's country Italy. In Florence, Juliette is stunned to watch druggie Mercy Talbot, an actress missing from a Read more...

Insatiable
by Lauren Dane
"widens the Dane realm"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 23, 2010

Her father Ciro Fardelle, the Verses Imperial Supreme Commander arranges for his daughter Carina to marry one of his evil monsters. Her mother Esta is willing to die to see her beloved daughter not pawned to any of these malevolent thugs as she had been when she was fourteen. Read more...

Dark Embers
by Tessa Adams
"wonderful romantic fantasy"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted August 23, 2010

The Dragonstar clan of dragon shapeshifters is dying. Their last hope before extinction wipes them out is their King Dylan MacLeod, but he has searched for his soul mate unsuccessfully for five centuries; she is the only one who can truly mate and sire a child with. His Read more...

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