The Daily DoseSmattering of Romance, Paranormal, and General Observations Watching the last hurrah for David Tennant’s Doctor last night in the two parts The End of the Time. The film epic detailed the complex relationship between the Doctor and the Master. They need each other — direct and opposing forces. The Batman had the Joker and many more in his gallery of villains. Novel Heroes In Julie Garwood‘s Heartbreaker, Nick Buchanan is an FBI agent who specializes in missing children, murder and more. His villain is a serial who targets Nick’s oldest friend Father Tom and Father Tom’s sister. Nick doesn’t realize at first that the villain going after them is someone with an axe to grind with him. For Eve Dallas in J.D. Robb‘s In Death series, her villain is the father who raped and abused her as a child. She gives him the finger every day she has a moment of happiness and since she met Roarke, she has a lot more of those. Surprisingly, I don’t think of the criminals she puts away as the villains for Eve because they are the job, they are the villains in other lives that she stands up for – her…

Trash ‘n’ Treasures Mystery October 2008On Sale: October 1, 2008Featuring: Brandy Borne; Vivian232 pages ISBN: 0758211953EAN: 9780758211958Hardcover$22.00 Mystery Buy at Amazon.com Antiques Flee Market by Barbara Allan Brandy Borne’s new life in the small Mississippi River town of Serenity is anything but serene. Moving back in with her bipolar Mum, Vivian – an antique herself who treats Brandy like a perpetual five-year old – is challenging enough, but stocking and running their antiques holiday booth at the shopping mall is positively daunting. And as the big Christmas season gets into full swing, they find themselves in the midst of small-town mayhem when an old flame of Vivan’s turns up mysteriously deceased. ‘Tis the season – to be murdered? Brandy and her diva Mum last saw the recently departed dealer, Walter Yeager, at a flea market where Vivian made her usual theatrical scene while saving Walter from under-pricing a valuable first edition of Tarzan and the Apes. The prospective first buyer was furious, and when Walter ends up dead the next day – ‘officially’ of a heart attack – and the book goes missing, Vivian senses a Yuletide homicide. As the season’s first flakes of snow drift lazily down over Serenity,…