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Vanished
by Karen Robards
"Captivating Romantic Suspense Thriller"
Posted April 25, 2006
Robards delivers yet another top notch romantic
suspense novel with her latest, a tale of intrigue and
unbridled suspense. Sarah Mason, a prosecutor in
Beaufort,
South Carolina, has the misfortune of shopping at a local
convenience store when it is being robbed. Though Sarah
manages to save herself Read more...
Chill Factor
by Sandra Brown
"Chilling Romantic Suspense"
Posted August 22, 2005
Brown delivers an eerie tale of a serial killer in
this, her latest suspense thriller. The setting is the
wintry mountains of North Carolina, near the small town of
Cleary, where five women have disappeared without a trace
over the past two years. With her divorce from local Read more...
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
"Enthralling Vampire Tale"
Posted July 3, 2005
Kostova's lengthy debut novel involves a thoroughly
intense modern-day search for Dracula amidst the
underpinnings of the history behind his legend. In 1972, a
sixteen-year-old student is living in Amsterdam with her
professor father Paul when she discovers in his library a
letter addressed to "My Dear and Unfortunate Successor". Read more...
Superstition
by Karen Robards
"Explosive Romantic Suspense"
Posted August 22, 2005
Robards' latest romantic suspense novel ripples with
chills as suspense as a serial killer re-emerges after a
long absence. Reporter Nicky Sullivan returns to her
native Pawley's Island, South Carolina, to film a segment
for her Chicago news show. She visits an abandoned
mansion, the site of the Read more...
With No One as Witness
by Elizabeth George
"Stand Out Thriller"
Posted May 23, 2005
Elizabeth George returns, with another installment
featuring New Scotland Yard's Acting Superintendent Thomas
Lynley and his partner, Constable Barbara Havers. A
serial
killer is on the loose in London, targeting adolescent
boys. While Lynley and Havers seeks to ferret out clues
to
the killer's identity, they are forced Read more...
Hot Target
by Suzanne Brockmann
"Gripping Romantic Suspense"
Posted January 21, 2005
Brockmann continues her ever popular Navy Seal series
in a new vein. While on leave, Chief Cosmo Richter is
working for Troubleshooters, a security firm founded by a
fellow Seal. Cosmo is assigned to protect Jane Mercedes
Chadwick, the producer of AMERICAN HERO, a WWII era movie
whose Read more...
Metro Girl
by Janet Evanovich
"Entertaining Romantic Suspense"
Posted November 28, 2004
After ten successful Stephanie Plum novels, Evanovich
switches gears slightly as she introduces readers to a new
heroine, Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby. Barney, a Baltimore
girl, has a mundane job working for an insurance company,
though she spent her high school years and college summers
working in her dad's garage. Read more...
White Hot
by Sandra Brown
"Sultry Romantic Suspense"
Posted August 22, 2004
Prolific author Brown returns again with this mix of
romance and mystery set in the sultry bayous of
Louisiana. After the apparent suicide of her brother
Danny, Sayre Lynch travels from her home in San Francisco
to Destiny, Louisiana, her childhood home. Sayre has not
had contact Read more...
Murder List
by Julie Garwood
"Entertaining Romantic Suspense"
Posted September 24, 2004
Julie Garwood has consistently wooed readers with her
captivating romantic suspense. Her latest effort focuses
on Chicago hotel heiress, Regan Hamilton Madison, who
agrees to help her journalist friend, Sophie, expose Dr.
Lawrence Shields, a self-help guru who has bilked lonely
women out of their fortunes. Regan and Sophie Read more...
Kiss Me While I Sleep
by Linda Howard
"Enthralling Romantic Suspense"
Posted August 14, 2004
Howard's latest romantic suspense thriller hinges on an
Alias type theme when Lily Mansfield, a twenty year
veteran
CIA assassin, turns rogue and kills a man without the
CIA's
approval. Because Salvatore Nervi orchestrated the murder
of Lily's closest friends, Averill and Tina, and their
daughter Zia, Lily exacts Read more...
Bait
by Karen Robards
"Captivating Romantic Suspense"
Posted August 13, 2004
Robards returns once again with a pulse pounding novel
of romantic suspense. Maddie Fitzgerald has just taken
over her own advertising agency. Traveling from St. Louis
to New Orleans, she hopes to land the biggest account of
her career. But in New Orleans, she is attacked in Read more...
Secret Smile
by Nicci French
"Chilling Psychological Thriller"
Posted August 14, 2004
Author French (LAND OF THE LIVING) chills readers with
her latest psychological thriller when a love affair goes
bad with alarming repercussions. Miranda is a house
painter living in London and enjoying a new relationship
with boyfriend Nick when she learns that her ex-lover,
Brendan Block, and her sister Read more...
The Color of Death
by Elizabeth Lowell
"Captivating Romantic Suspense"
Posted July 1, 2004
Lowell's romantic suspense novels are always
consistently spectacular, and her latest is no exception to
this rule. Jewel cutter Kate Chandler is determined to
discover why her half-brother, Lee Mandel, disappeared
while acting as a courier transporting some very expensive
sapphires. Though the FBI believes that Lee just Read more...
The Promise of a Lie
by Howard Roughan
"Terrific Suspenseful Novel"
Posted April 21, 2004
Therapist and author Dr. David Remler has a successful
Manhattan practice but feels a void since the untimely
death of his pregnant wife several years ago. New patient
Samantha Kent confides to David that her husband is an
abusive rich and powerful man who will stop at nothing to Read more...
Wedded Bliss
by Barbara Metzger
"Superb Regency-era Romance"
Posted April 19, 2004
Humorous and romantic, Ms. Metzger's latest Regency-era
romance features strong-willed heroine, Alissa Henning,
widowed wife of a duke's disinherited younger son. Alissa
cares for her two young sons, her teenaged sister, Amy, and
William, the young son of her absent neighbor, Robert
Rothmore, Earl of Rockford after Rockford's estate Read more...
3rd Degree
by James Patterson
"Pulse-Pounding Suspense"
Posted March 27, 2004
Third in the Women's Murder Club series, (1ST TO DIE
and 2ND CHANCE), Patterson's latest finds Detective Lindsay
Boxer of the San Francisco P.D. witnessing a horrific
bombing of a residence after her morning jog. The
residence belonged to Morton Lightower, a CEO of X/L
Systems, who made money Read more...
Ain't She Sweet?
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
"Captivating and Witty Romance"
Posted February 20, 2004
Sugar Beth Carey is back in town. After a fifteen-year
absence and three husbands later, Sugar Beth returns to the
small town of Parrish, Mississippi, to claim her
inheritance from Aunt Tallulah, the carriage house
belonging to Sugar Beth's childhood home, Frenchman's
Bride. Desperately seeking funds to help Read more...
On The Edge of the Woods
by Diane Tyrrel
"Crafty Novel of Gothic Suspense"
Posted May 27, 2004
Ms. Tyrrel's debut novel is filled with sensual romance
set against the backdrop of an old home replete with a
haunting history. When San Francisco architect Stacy
Addison decides to buy a mountain home away from the bustle
of the city, she finds the perfect property in the Sierra Read more...
The Zero Game
by Brad Meltzer
"Satisfying Political Thriller"
Posted February 20, 2004
What if staff members of U.S. Congressmen placed bets on
whether certain portions of bills before Congress would be
passed? And just what happens when the stakes become too
high, resulting in murder? That is precisely what author
Meltzer explores in his latest novel of political thrills
and Read more...
The Kills
by Linda Fairstein
"Well-constructed Suspenseful Read"
Posted January 22, 2004
Fairstein's heroine, Alex Cooper, prosecutor in charge
of Manhattan's Sex Crimes Unit, returns once again with
sidekicks Detective Mike Chapman and Detective Mercer
Wallace. With a rape prosecution against defendant Andrew
Tripping on her plate, Alex becomes concerned when she
feels that the victim, Paige Vallis, a thirty-six-year-old
investment Read more...
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