Shane Skully #9 October 2010 On Sale: September 28, 2010 Featuring: Shane Skully 384 pages ISBN: 0312532458 EAN: 9780312532451 Paperback (reprint) $9.99 Add to Wish List Suspense Buy at Amazon.com We miss Stephen! The Pallbearers by Stephen J. Cannell Some secrets go to the grave. Others can\’t be buried. To find the truth about one man’s death LAPD Detective Shane Scully was raised in an orphanage called Huntington House. There, he and a small group of kids were devoted to the home’s director Walter “Pop” Dix. An avid surfer with a larger-than-life spirit, Pop was the father Shane never had. And now, thirty years later, he is gone… The pallbearers will put their lives on the line… Pop is found dead, the victim of an apparent self-inflicted shotgun blast. He left a note naming six Huntington grads as his pallbearers. Shane is one of the chosen—but he doesn’t believe Pop’s death was a suicide. Now, along with the others, Shane embarks on a dangerous mission to unearth Pop’s real killer. But the group discovers an unexpected adversary whose power and influence far exceed anything they could have imagined—violent, dangerous men who are determined to keep the truth about Pop’s death…

March 2010 On Sale: March 16, 2010 Featuring: Radar Hoverlander; Allie Quinn; Vic Mirplo 272 pages ISBN: 0307463176 EAN: 9780307463173 Hardcover $23.00 Add to Wish List Fiction, Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Even a warm con in CA is better than…hilarious peek into the world of the grift The California Roll by John Vorhaus Meet Radar Hoverlander, a witty, gifted con artist with the mind of David Mamet, the voice of Tom Robbins, and the morals of a sailor on shore leave. What do the Merlin Game, the Penny Skim, the Doolally Snadoodle, and the Afterparty Snuke have in common? They’re all the work of world-class con artist and master bafflegabber Radar Hoverlander. Radar’s been “on the snuke” since childhood, but he’s still looking for his California Roll, the one big scam that’ll set him up in sushi for life. Trouble arrives in the stunning, sassy package of Allie Quinn—either the last true innocent or a con artist so slick she makes Radar look like a Quaker. Radar’s hapless sidekick, Vic Mirplo, a lovable loser who couldn’t con a kid out of a candy cane, thinks Radar’s being played. But if love is blind, it’s also deaf, dumb and stupid, and…

Harry Bosch #15 October 2009 On Sale: October 13, 2009 Featuring: Harry Bosch 384 pages ISBN: 0316166316 EAN: 9780316166317 Hardcover $27.99 Add to Wish List Mystery, Thriller, Suspense Buy at Amazon.com Another good series to go back and read from the beginning! Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store’s owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li’s family that he’ll find the killer. The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation—not just of languages but also of the cultural norms and expectations that guided Li’s life. He uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad, a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S. And instantly his world explodes. The one good thing in Bosch’s life, the person he holds most dear, is taken from him and Bosch travels to Hong Kong in an all-or-nothing…

Joe Pike #3 January 2011 On Sale: January 11, 2011 Featuring: Joe Pike; Elvis Cole 320 pages ISBN: 0399157077 EAN: 9780399157073 Hardcover $26.95 Add to Wish List Thriller P.I. Buy at Amazon.com The Sentry by Robert Crais The extraordinary new crime novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru’s uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it-and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them. As the level of violence escalates, and Pike himself becomes a target, he and Elvis Cole learn that Dru and her uncle are not who they seem- and that everything he thought he knew about them has been a lie. A vengeful and murderous force from their past is now catching up to them . . . and only Pike and Cole stand in the way. Previous Picks

Jane Yellowrock #3 January 2011 On Sale: January 4, 2011 Featuring: Jane Yellowrock; Girrard 310 pages ISBN: 0451463722 EAN: 9780451463722 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com Great Dark UF series, get caught reading! Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter It’s not a mercy killing if they fight back. Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker – and a vampire killer for hire. But lately she’s found herself taking blood money from the very vampires she used to hunt… Things are heating up in the Big Easy. Weres have announced their existence to the world, and revived the bitter tensions that run between them and their old enemies: vampires. As a trusted employee of Leo Pellissier, Blood Master of the City, Jane finds herself caught in the cross fire. When Jane is attacked by a pack of marauding werewolves, she is thankful for the help of a mysterious stranger named Girrard. He explains that he used to be Leo’s “Mercy Blade,” a sacred position charged with killing vampires who have gone insane. What Jane doesn’t know is why this powerful assassin left New Orleans – or, more troubling, why he’s now returned. It’s definitely not to…

Dirk & Steele December 2010 On Sale: November 30, 2010 Featuring: Perrin; Jenny 384 pages ISBN: 0062020161 EAN: 9780062020161 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Dark Fantasy week continues… In the Dark of Dreams by Marjorie M. Liu She could never forget the boy with the ice blue eyes… She was only twelve when she saw the silver boy on the beach, but Jenny has never stopped dreaming about him. Now she is grown, a marine biologist charting her own course in the family business – a corporation that covertly crosses the boundaries of science into realms of the unknown…and the incredible. And now he has found her again, her boy grown into a man: Perrin, powerful and masculine, and so much more than human, leaving Jenny weak with desire and aching for his touch. But with their reunion comes danger. For Perrin and Jenny – and all living creatures – their only hope for preventing the unthinkable lies in a mysterious empire far beneath the sea…and in the pwoer of their dreams. Another dark, lyrical, magical and dreamlike story to add to this dynamic paranormal series. When girl meets fish (or how…

Sentinel Wars #4 November 2010 On Sale: November 2, 2010 Featuring: Nika; Madoc 368 pages ISBN: 0451232372 EAN: 9780451232373 Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Fantasy Urban, Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Dark but a true romance… Living Nightmare by Shannon K. Butcher Blood is not all that binds… They are the Sentinels. Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn. Now one Sentinel’s burning loyalty and love may prove to be her greatest weapons. For nine years Nika has had one goal: to save her younger sister from the Synestryn, who hold her captive. Now the psychic bond Nika forged with her sibling is fading, and time is running out. But the one man who can unlock the power insider her left and never returned, leaving Nika alone to rescue a sister everyone else believes is dead. Madoc swore to himself that he would never enter Dabyyr again. For his soul is nearly dead, and he fears what he might do to those he’s sworn to protect–especially Nika. If he accompanies her into the Synestryn realm, his forbidden desire for her may unleash…

January 2011 On Sale: January 1, 2011 Featuring: Nicole Whitcomb; Michael Tyler 288 pages ISBN: 1593156286 EAN: 9781593156282 Hardcover $19.95 Add to Wish List Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Nocturne by Syrie James A Haunting Story of Forbidden Love When Nicole Whitcomb’s car runs off a Colorado mountain road during a blinding snowstorm, she is saved from death by a handsome, fascinating, and enigmatic stranger. Snowbound with him for days in his beautiful home high in the Rockies, she finds herself powerfully attracted to him. But there are things about him that mystify her, filling her with apprehension. Who is Michael Tyler? Why does he live in such a secluded spot and guard his private life so carefully? What secret— or secrets—is he hiding? Nicole has secrets of her own and a past she is running from—but Michael understands her better than anyone she has ever known. Soon, she is falling as deeply in love with him as he is with her— a profoundly meaningful experience that is destined to change their lives forever. As the sexual tension between them builds, however, the clues mount up. When Nicole learns her host’s terrifying secret, there is nowhere for her to run…

Kate Daniels #1 April 2007 On Sale: March 27, 2007 Featuring: Kate Daniels 272 pages ISBN: 0441014895 EAN: 9780441014897 Paperback $6.99 Add to Wish List Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com It’s a new year, make a resolution to read a well established series from the beginning Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews Atlanta would be a nice place to live, if it weren’t for magic… One moment magic dominates, and cars stall and guns fail. The next, technology takes over and the defensive spells no longer protect your house from monsters. Here skyscrapers topple under onslaught of magic; werebears and werehyenas prowl through the ruined streets; and the Masters of the Dead, necromancers driven by their thirst of knowledge and wealth, pilot blood-crazed vampires with their minds. In this world lives Kate Daniels. Kate likes her sword a little too much and has a hard time controlling her mouth. The magic in her blood makes her a target, and she spent most of her life hiding in plain sight. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, she must choose to do nothing and remain safe or to pursue his preternatural killer. Hiding is easy, but the right choice is rarely easy… Kick-ass…

Fever #5 January 2011 On Sale: January 18, 2011 Featuring: MacKayla Lane 608 pages ISBN: 0385341679 EAN: 9780385341677 Hardcover $26.00 Add to Wish List Paranormal – Supernatural, Romance Paranormal Buy at Amazon.com Dark Haunting Fantasy ShadowFever by Karen Marie Moning “Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals that have lived concealed among us for thousands of years. What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief, while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh–a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King that contains the power to create and destroy worlds. In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar…