The End of the Road
by Sue Henry
"colorful amateur sleuth"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 20, 2009

She usually takes her RV and her mini dachshund Stretch to the lower Forty-eight during her get away from Alaska's cold. However, this Maxie McNabb decides to stay home in Homer. All the snowbirds have fled south so when Maxie and Stretch walk on the beach she is Read more...

Cape Storm
by Rachel Caine
"exhilarating weather warden thriller"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 10, 2009

The hurricane heading towards Southern Florida may make Katrina look like a sun shower; Chief Weather Warden Lewis Orwell knows what that storm did to New Orleans and the rest of the delta so he fears something even worse for Miami. He hijacks the cruise ship Grand Paradise and Read more...

When Alex Was Bad
by Jo Davis
"profound BDSM romance"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 10, 2009

Fifteen years of marriage has led to Olivia and Alex Quinn drifting. Since she still loves her husband she offers him a deal to save their marriage. He is to have seven trysts; after each he must describe in vivid detail the sex; after his account, she will Read more...

Casting Off
by Nicole R. Dickson
"second chances"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 10, 2009

As she waits along with her six year old daughter Rowan for the transport to the island off Ireland's west coast, textile archeologist Rebecca Moray thinks back sixteen years to Berkley and her BFF Sharon who told her tales of the sweaters and taught her to knit them. Now, Read more...

The Virgin's Daughters
by Jeane Westin
"fascinating look at the court of Queen Elizabeth over time"
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted October 10, 2009

The younger sister of the late Lady Jane Grey, Lady Katherine Grey admires Queen Elizabeth and vows to be loyal and faithful especially to the monarch's decree that her female retinue must remain virtuous. Lady Katherine has no problem remaining pure as no man attracts her enough to give Read more...

Winter Haven
by Athol Dickson
"A Search Beyond Mythic Truth!"
Reviewed by Viviane Crystal
Courtesy Crystal Reviews
Posted October 10, 2009

Siggy Gamble is an autistic, savant teen who disappears, leaving behind an awful wound in his sister, Vera, one that is about to be reopened thirteen years later as she learns his body has been found washed up, dead and forlorn on a Maine island. Apparently, there is much to Read more...

City at the End of Time
by Greg Bear
"A dark,sinister tomorrow awaits...."
Reviewed by Bob Walch
Posted October 10, 2009

Three young people have dreams of a doomed, distant future. In the case of Ginny and Jack, they are transported to Kalpa without warning, leaving their bodies behind while carrying their consciousness forward, into the minds of two Kalpa residents. Ginny and Jack take up "residence" in a wannabe Read more...

Thorn Queen
by Richelle Mead
"The latest Dark Swan episode...."
Reviewed by Bob Walch
Posted October 10, 2009

Half human, half fairy shaman, Eugenie Markham is paid to bind and banish creatures from the Otherworld. But after her last battle, she's become the queen of the Thorn Land. Now with young girls disappearing from the Otherworld , Eugenie has her work cut out for her trying to figure Read more...

Dead and Alive
by Dean Koontz
"Book three a disappointment"
Reviewed by Bob Walch
Posted October 10, 2009

The third and final book of his Frankenstein series, "Dead and Alive" has received mostly negative or lukewarm reviews from those who read and enjoyed the first two novels ("Prodigal Son" and "City of Night"). The average rating the novel received on goodreads.com from 108 readers was a 3.6 out Read more...

The Secret Speech
by Tom Rob Smith
"Soviet intrigue...."
Reviewed by Bob Walch
Posted October 10, 2009

In this follow-up to "Child 44", which appeared last year, Leo Demidov has moved on from his career as a member of the stare security force where he was involved in numerous arrests and interrogations which he'd like to forget about. While striving to see justice done on behalf of murder Read more...

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