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Doppelganger
by Laura Resnick
"amusing urban fantasy"
Posted February 3, 2010
New York actress Esther Diamond waits for her next gig,
but brings in needed cash while resting between roles as a
singing waitress at Bella Stella because the patrons, when
they are not killed, are mobsters that everyone knows are
the best tippers. As she shares Ben and Jerry Read more...
How to Host a Killer Party
by Penny Warner
"delightful whodunit"
Posted February 9, 2010
At San Francisco State University, all part-time
instructors were riffed due to budget cuts. Presley
Parker was one of the first downsized by the school, but
she rebounded quickly by opening up Killer Parties, an
event planning firm. She mostly sponsors children's
galas, but her big break comes when Read more...
Promise Me Tonight
by Sara Lindsey
"fine Georgian romance"
Posted February 9, 2010
In 1784, the oldest of five sisters six years old Isabella
Weston wrote a letter to her dear mama telling her she
will marry her older brother Henry's best friend, James
Sheffield. Years later, she still knew he was the one for
her. With her coming out in Read more...
A Stitch in Crime
by Betty Hechtman
"enjoyable amateur sleuth"
Posted February 9, 2010
Molly Pink works as an event coordinator at Shedd & Royal
Books and More. Her boss Mrs. Shedd hands over her
rhinestone clipboard placing Molly in charge of the "Get
Out of the Heat and Light Your Creative Fire" retreat
weekend on the Monterey Peninsula. Her employer's only Read more...
Butter Safe Than Sorry
by Tamar Myers
"superb Pennsylvania Dutch amateur sleuth"
Posted February 9, 2010
Magdalena Yoder Rosen is an original in her Amish town
where most of the people try to blend in. She is married
to a Jewish doctor, is a conservative Mennonite, and owns
the Penn-Dutch Inn where the rich and famous stay.
Besides being loudmouthed, her sister Susannah is Read more...
Ravishing in Red
by Madeline Hunter
"super historical romantic mystery"
Posted January 18, 2010
Her father died during a scandal in which he never had
time to prove his innocence. His faithful daughter
Audrianna Kelmsleigh rejects the belief that her dad
committed the heinous crime of sedition. She learns the
sad truth that a woman who is independent must learn to
protect Read more...
Who Killed the Pinup Queen?
by Toni L. P. Kelner
"fascinating amateur sleuth"
Posted January 25, 2010
Tilda is a freelance entertainment reporter whose biggest
client is the magazine Entertain Me! She is called into a
conference when the stars of Cowtown, a 1950s cowboy TV
show talk to her about the western resort they want to
build in Massachusetts. Brothers Tucker and Hoyt Ambrose Read more...
Dead Air
by Mary Kennedy
"delightful amateur sleuth"
Posted January 18, 2010
She is the host of On the Couch with Maggie Walsh on WYME
radio; Maggie actually tries to help people with their
problems. She left the big Apple because she could not
handle another cold winter and moved to Cypress Grove,
Florida where the temperatures are year round balmy Read more...
Lake Magic
by Kimberly Fisk
"entertaining contemporary romance"
Posted February 3, 2010
Jenny Beckinsale and her late fiancé Steven Harmon started
The Blue Sky Air seaplane charter business three years ago
but it has failed because she has no interest in anything
except grieving her loss. Feeling pity as she
compares her self to her siblings "Perfect Paul" and
Amazing Anna". Read more...
Smolder
by Melina Morel
"engaging contemporary paranormal thriller"
Posted January 20, 2010
In France, hunter Countess Catherine Marais and her
partner Paul DuJardin have killed many werewolves, but
near Rouen they wound one who escapes. Soon afterward
Lupus Magnus of France, Louis Chavenne calls a meeting of
his species to warn them if they fail to act now the well
financed Read more...
Coming Undone
by Lauren Dane
"heated contemporary romance"
Posted January 11, 2010
When she broke her leg, she broke her dream of becoming a
ballerina. However, she has no time to mope as she has a
daughter to raise. So needing a change of scenery, Elise
and her child leave New York for the Left Coast Seattle.
Her next door neighbor Read more...
Firespell
by Chloe Neill
"exciting teen urban fantasy"
Posted January 11, 2010
Lily Parker is unhappy that her parents are going to
Germany to conduct research while she is being dumped at
the elite Chicago boarding school, St. Sophie's Academy.
She has no choice in the matter, but becomes friendly with
one of her new roommates Scout, who has a tendency Read more...
The Taking
by Erin McCarthy
"entertaining paranormal romance"
Posted January 18, 2010
In New Orleans affluent Regan Henry decides to leave her
husband though she acknowledges to herself he is not a
nasty person; the problem as she sees it is that her
spouse is too perfect as perfect demands perfection;
something she is not. On that same evening when she Read more...
Magic In The Shadows
by Devon Monk
"fascinating urban fantasy"
Posted January 5, 2010
Magic has been a bane for Allison Beckstrom, a Hound who
tracks down abusers of the innocent, thanks mostly because
of her father Daniel. She has buried her sorcerer dad
twice and prays this is the end of him. Every time he
comes back her troubles exponentially multiply. Read more...
Chalice of Roses
by Jo Beverley, Karen Harbaugh, Mary Jo Putney, Barbara Samuel
"four strong romantic fantasy"
Posted January 11, 2010
"The Raven and the Rose" by Jo Beverly. In the twelfth
century the novice with an ancient bloodline and the monk
unite to bring forth the Holy Grail to end the seemingly
eternal war destroying England.
"The English Rose" by Karen Harbaugh. Although just a
debutant enjoying her season, Read more...
Wicked Enchantment
by Anya Bast
"superb romantic fantasy"
Posted January 25, 2010
The Seelie Summer Queen Caoilainn Muirgheal orders Aislinn
Finvarra to serve as guide to Unseelie visitor, half-
incubus Gabriel Mac Braire. The High Royal makes it clear
to the unhappy Aislinn that Gabriel is to get the royal
treatment as the Seelie queen mulls over granting him the
asylum he Read more...
Through Stone and Sea
by Barb & J. C. Hendee
"fascinating quest fantasy"
Posted February 3, 2010
Wynn Hygeorht returned to the Guild of Sagecraft in Calm
Seatt expecting a heroine's welcome due to the copies she
made of arcane texts written by vampires during the time
of the Forgotten History and the Great War, millennia
ago. Instead of being one of the translators, she is Read more...
Early Dawn
by Catherine Anderson
"exciting sequel"
Posted January 20, 2010
In 1887 the vicious Sebastian gang killed Matthew
Coulter's wife of five years, Olivia, after gang raping
her. For the next three years, Coulter has lived for one
thing only: vengeance.
In 1890 her engagement to John Parrish ends when his high
society parents rejected her lineage and Read more...
The Rook
by Steven James
"terrific FBI police procedural"
Posted December 4, 2009
In San Diego, FBI Special Agents Patrick Bowers and Lien-
hua Jiang investigate several suspicious fires in
conjunction with the San Diego metro Arson Strike Team
(MAST). The latest fire at a naval research center is a
change in M.O. but the agents believe the work is by the
same perpetrator Read more...
Code 15
by Gary Birken
"exciting medical thriller"
Posted December 4, 2009
At Dade Presbyterian Hospital in North Miami, Florida,
Chief of Emergency Medicine Dr. Morgan Connolly wonders if
her personal life issues are impacting her medical
judgment at work as a physician. There has been an
alarming sudden rise in Code 15 deaths that were caused by
unacceptable preventable mistakes.
Pregnant Read more...
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