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New Fiction for August 2008

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Abbott, Jeff.
Collision. [Suspense].
The story of two men living very different lives. One, a successful corporate consultant who is mourning the murder of his new bride; the other, a former CIA agent known only as “Pilgrim,” whose current assignment for a fringe espionage agency is so treacherous he doesn’t trust even his own boss. When they are thrown together in a violent, unexpected event, the two men realize that they’ve been framed in an elaborate setup.

Adams, Poppy.
The sister.
Originally published in Great Britain as The behaviour of moths.

Anthony, Tom.
Rebels of Mindanao. [Suspense]
Espionage in the Phillipines

Barbeau, Adrienne.
Vampyres of Hollywood. [Fantasy]
Glamorous vampires

Battles, Brett.
The deceived. [Suspense]
Organized crime follows The Cleaner.

Baxter, Stephen.
Weaver. [Fantasy]
Time’s tapestry; bk. 4. During World War II, Germany launches a successful invasion of England. But in secret they are waging a war on an even larger scale. Trapped in the middle of it is Mary Wooler, an American historian caught in the Blitz and tangled up in strands of history; her son Gary, fighting a ruthless invader at civilization’s frontier; and Ben Kaman, a Jewish refugee whose very dreams place him at the heart of a conspiracy that threatens the very fabric of the tapestry of time.

Black, Benjamin. (aka John Banville)
The lemur. [Mystery]
John Glass’s life in New York should be plenty comfortable having given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agent Big Bill Mulholland. When a shifty young researcher whom he calls ‘The Lemur,” turns up some unflattering information about the family, Glass’s whole easy existence is threatened.

Blundy, Anna.
The bad news bible: a Faith Zanetti mystery.
Follows Vodka Neat.

Bonasia, Lynn.
Some assembly required. [Smart Funny Women]
Cape Cod Romance

Braver, Gary.
Skin deep. [Mystery]
Boston detecting.

Brockmann, Suzanne.
Into the fire. [Suspense]
Troubleshooters series. Vinh Murphy–ex-Marine and onetime operative for the elite security firm Troubleshooters Incorporated–has been MIA ever since his wife was caught in a crossfire and killed during what should have been a routine bodyguard assignment. Overcome with grief, Murphy blames the neo-Nazi group known as the Freedom Network for her death. Then he learns of the murder of a Freedom Network leader and comes to believe that the militant group has targeted him–and former police officer Hannah Whitfield–to avenge their leader’s death to violence. Now Murphy must face the terrifying prospect of losing another woman he loves.

Brundage, Elizabeth.
Somebody else’s daughter.
Adoption in the Berkshires.

Burke, James Lee.
Swan Peak: a Dave Robicheaux novel. [Mystery]
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns in another adventure–only this time, he travels from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana to solve the mysterious murder of a University of Montana coed and her boyfriend.

Cabot, Meg.
Queen of babble gets hitched. [Smart Funny Women]
Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has finally proposed. Life’s become a dizzying whirl of wedding gown fittings–not necessarily her own–as Lizzie prepares for her dream wedding at her fiance’s chateau in the south of France. But is Lizzie really ready to embrace her new role as wife and mistress of Chateau Mirac? Or is she destined to fall into another man’s arms . . . and into the trap of becoming a Bad Girl instead?

Canin, Ethan.
America America.

Cannell, Stephen J.
At first sight: a novel of obsession. [Suspense]
A dot.com millionaire’s obsession with a young married woman spirals homicidally out of control, leading to the destruction of everything he holds dear.

Carey, Mike.
Vicious circle. [Fantasy]
Follows superb The Devil You Know in the series. In this supernatural thriller, freelance exorcist Felix Castor gets a seemingly insignificant “missing ghost” case that inexorably drags himself and his loved ones into the middle of a horrific plot to raise one of Hell’s fiercest demons. When Satanists, sacrifice farms, stolen spirits and possessed churches all appear on the same police report, the name of Felix Castor can’t be too far behind.

Carter, Stephen L.
Palace council.
In the summer of 1952, twenty prominent men gather at a secret meeting on Martha’s Vineyard and devise a plot to manipulate the President of the United States. Soon after, the body of one of these men is found by Eddie Wesley, Harlem’s rising literary star. When Eddie’s younger sister mysteriously disappears, Eddie and the woman he loves, Aurelia Treene, are pulled into what becomes a twenty-year search for the truth. As Eddie and Aurelia uncover layer upon layer of intrigue, their odyssey takes them from the wealthy drawing rooms of New York through the shady corners of radical politics, all the way to the Oval Office.

Cash, Dixie.
Don’t make me choose between you and my shoes. [Smart Funny Women]
New York City is miles from Salt Lick, Texas, in more ways than one, but Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin are rarin’ to go. The best friends/beauty shop owners/private-eye partners have been offered an all-expense -paid trip to the National Association of Private Investigators convention in the Big Apple. While at the convention they help a shy small-town librarian hook up with a hunky young police detective and bumble their way into a murder investigation that could end up leaving Debbie Sue deceased and Edwina stone-cold in her new Jimmy Choos!

Cassella, Carol Wiley.
Oxygen.

Chamberlain, Diane.
Before the storm.
Laural Lockwood’s 15-year-old son Andy is “special”. She lost him once through neglect, but is determined to make up for her mistakes. When she allows Andy to attend a local church social she is terrified when the church is consumed by fire. Andy survives and saves other children as well. Initially Andy basks in the role of unlikely hero but when the suspicion of arson is cast upon Andy, Laurel must ask herself how well she really knows her son, and how far she’ll go to keep her promise to protect him forever.

Clark, Martin.
The legal limit. [Mystery]

Clark, Mary Jane Behrends.
It only takes a moment. [Suspense]
Eliza Blake, host of the top-rated KEY News morning show, has witnessed tragedy and danger in her career. But nothing the accomplished professional has experienced has prepared her for when her seven-year-old daughter, Janie, is snatched from summer camp. She and the rest of the Sunrise Suspense Society–brilliant producer Annabelle Murphy, cameraman extraordinaire B.J. D’Elia, and psychiatrist Dr. Margo Gonzalez–will band together to outwit a cunning criminal whose shocking motives threaten to snuff out a terrified little girl’s life.

Cole, Martina.
Close. [Suspense]
When Lily Diamond escapes her life of poverty and parental neglect by marrying London gangster Patrick Brodie, she become acquainted with his world of crime, violence, and betrayal as she tries to raise her children with love.

Colpitts, Jason.
Room of mirrors. [Science Fiction]
To mess with time is to play with fire. In the near future, man begins experimenting on ways to open a hole in space, an experiment which goes horribly awry. A lone survivor of the excruciating explosion discovers that he possesses a unique gift. He can manipulate time. Mourning the death of his family caught in the disaster, he, with the best of intentions, reaches back to change the event. Time, as he discovers far too late, is more delicate than a house made of cards. The slightest mistake causes everything to crumble. What he seeks to correct, he threatens with destruction. And so, a race begins to both fix the lines of time and in turn save the lives of all.

Crais, Robert.
Chasing darkness: an Elvis Cole novel. [Mystery]
It’s fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. As the residents of Laurel Canyon are being evacuated from their homes, Police and Fire Department personnel find the corpse of a recluse who apparently committed suicide. Clutched in his lap is a photo album containing photographs of seven young women who have been murdered. LAPD homicide detectives had never connected the seven murders before and only one suspect has been charged in any of the murders – the suicide now discovered in the fire, Elliot Martin. Three years earlier, Martin had been brought to trial, but his defense attorney hired Elvis Cole to investigate. Cole found an exculpatory videotape that prompted the judge to dismiss the charges, but now Cole doesn’t know what to believe and he digs hard to uncover the truth and escape his terrible guilt.

Dorst, Doug.
Alive in Necropolis.
California ghost story

Doyle, Gerry.
From the depths. [Suspense]
Navy SEALs

Dufresne, John.
Requiem, Mass.
MA family

Elkins, Aaron J.
Uneasy relations. [Mystery]
Buried ceremoniously, high in a cave, lies the skeleton of a human woman, clutching the skeleton of a part-human, part-Neanderthal child. Fascinated, Professor Oliver jumps at the chance to attend a conference near there. But two deaths, possibly murders, have rocked Gibraltar. As Oliver tries to piece things together, he’s about to fall for some deadly tricks. After all, unlike the Gibraltar Boy, he’s only human.

Enger, L. L.
Undiscovered country.
While hunting in the cold Minnesota woods, 17-year-old Jesse Matson’s life is forever changed when he discovers his father, dead by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But would easygoing Harold Matson really kill himself? If so, why? And just where was Jesse’s uncle Clay–always jealous of Harold, and a bit too friendly with Jesse’s mother–that cold afternoon?

Erickson, Carolly.
The last wife of Henry VIII. [Historical]

Ewen, Pamela Binnings.
The moon in the mango tree. [Historical]
Inspirational

Faulks, Sebastian.
Devil may care. [Suspense]
Imagining James Bond

French, Tana.
The likeness. [Mystery]
Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She’s transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O’Neill, but she’s too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl’s ID says her name is Lexie Madison–the identity Cassie used years ago as an undercover detective–and she looks exactly like Cassie.

Furnivall, Kate.
The red scarf. [Historical Suspense]
Once, Russia was a place split between breathtaking wealth and desperate poverty. Now, as the country conforms under Stalin’s violent rule, a young woman becomes a fugitive, and a storied hero turns into a living, breathing man.

Galchen, Rivka.
Atmospheric disturbances.
Imposters

Gardner, Laurien.
Plain Jane. [Historical]
Jane Seymour, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England

Goldstein, Paul.
A patent lie. [Suspense]
Legal mystery

Gulland, Sandra.
Mistress of the sun. [Historical]
Mistress of Louis XIV–Duchesse de,La Vallière

Gunning, Sally.
Bound. [Historical]
Alice Cole spent her first seven years living in two smoky, crowded rooms in London with her family. But a new home and a better life waited in the colonies, or so her father promised–a bright dream that turned to ashes when her brothers and mother took ill and died during the arduous voyage. Arriving in colonial New England unable to meet the added expenses incurred by their misfortunes at sea, her father bound Alice into servitude to pay his debts.

Gutteridge, Rene.
Skid.
The occupational hazards series. Atlantica Flight 1945 is flying from Atlanta to Amsterdam as First Officer Danny McSweeney focuses his energies on navigating the turbulent personalities of an eccentric female captain, a co-pilot with a talent for tactless comments and conspiracy theories, and a lead flight attendant with an outsized attitude that definitely exceeds the limits for carry-on baggage. On the other side of the cockpit door, the unscheduled in-flight entertainment includes a potbellied pig, a jittery diamond courier, and the recently jilted Lucy Meredith. Then there’s Hank Hazard, whose unusually polite but constant requests–prompted by his covert role as a spy for the airline–test the limits of the crew’s customer service.

Haigh, Jennifer.
The condition.
Unaware of the long-standing grievances harbored by their divorced parents, three adult siblings embark on a tumultuous summer when the oldest, a successful Manhattan doctor, investigates his sister’s chromosomal disorder against his mother’s wishes.

Hannan, Chris.
Missy.
Coming-of-age

Hatcher, John.
The Black Death: a personal history. [Historical]
In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, world-renowned scholar John Hatcher re-creates everyday life in a mid-fourteenth century rural English village. By focusing on the experiences of ordinary villagers as they lived-and died-during the Black Death (1345-50), Hatcher vividly places the reader directly inside those tumultuous times and describes in fascinating detail the day-to-day existence of people struggling with the tragic effects of the plague. Dramatic scenes portray how contemporaries must have felt and thought about these momentous events: what they knew and didn’t know about the horrors of the disease, what they believed about death and Gods vengeance, and how they tried to make sense of it all despite frantic rumors, frightening tales, and fearful sermons.

Henry, Patti Callahan.
The art of keeping secrets.

Hilderbrand, Elin.
A summer affair.
Nantucket summer

Howard, Linda.
Death angel. [Suspense]
Meeting a dire end after double-crossing her lover, a ruthless crime lord, the cynical, amoral, and manipulative Drea returns to life a changed woman and joins forces with the FBI to become a guardian of the defenseless and the lover of an enigmatic stranger.

Jance, Judith A.
Damage control. [Suspense]
Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady investigates the death of handicapped woman who had wandered away from a care facility with a suspicious track record and the deaths of an elderly couple who were presumably consenting partners in a suicide pact.

Johansen, Iris & Roy Johansen.
Silent thunder. [Suspense]
When her brother is killed, brilliant marine architect Hannah Bryson must discover the volatile mystery behind a decommissioned Soviet submarine, Silent Thunder, that was recently purchased by the U.S. government for use as a maritime museum. Though the U.S. government tries to warn Hannah away, she’ll stop at nothing to find the ruthless mastermind behind her brother’s death. Even if it means joining forces with a mysterious man who may be even more dangerous than the enemy she has sworn to bring down.

Judson, D. Daniel.
The water’s edge. [Mystery]
Organized crime

Kenner, Julie.
Deja demon: The days and nights of a demon-hunting soccer mom. [Smart Funny Women] [Fantasy/Mystery]
The High Demon Goramesh has returned to San Diablo: this time with a full -blown army of the undead and a powerful demonic ally. Once again, it’s up to Kate Connor, mother and demon hunter, to save the world. Good thing she can multi-task.

Kramer, Julie.
Stalking Susan. [Suspense]
Inside the desperate world of TV ratings, an investigative reporter discovers that a serial killer is targeting women named Susan and killing one on the same day each year.

Kuehnert, Stephanie.
I wanna be your Joey Ramone.
Mothers & daughters & rock musicians

Kushner, Rachel.
Telex from Cuba.

Lawson, Michael.
House rules: a Joe DeMarco thriller.
In the wake of a narrowly avoided terrorist bombing of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, a Virginia senator proposes to deport all non-citizen Muslims, unless Speaker of the House John Mahoney can have investigator Joe DeMarco uncover the truth about the attacks.

Leary, Ann.
Outtakes from a marriage.
New York adultery

Lecard, Marc.
Tiny little troubles. [Mystery]

Letts, Billie.
Made in the U.S.A.
“Billie Letts takes readers on an unforgettable journey through the best and worst of America’s heartland as she tells a story of two abandoned children desperately searching for people to call family and a place to call home.”

Lin, Francie.
The Foreigner.
Crime in Taiwan

Lott, Bret.
Ancient highway.
A haunting novel about a family whose lives are shaded by a dream of stardom.

Luongo, Julie.
The hard way. [Smart Funny Women]

Markham, Wendy.
Slightly suburban. [Smart Funny Women]
Tracey Spadolini series. A New York copywriter takes the plunge and moves to suburbia with her husband–only to find that being “slightly suburban” may not be what she really wants.

Mars, Julie.
Anybody any minute. [Smart Funny Women]

Martin, Charles.
Where the river ends.
He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina’s most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they’d found their true soul mate. Ten years into their marriage, when Abbie faces a life-threatening illness, Doss battles it with her every step of the way. And when she makes a list of ten things she hopes to accomplish before she loses the fight for good, Doss is there, too, supporting her and making everything possible. Together they steal away in the middle of the night to embark upon a 130-mile trip down the St. Mary’s River–a voyage Doss promised
Abbie in the early days of their courtship.

Massey, Misty.
Mad Kestrel. [Fantasy]
Sea story

McFarland, Dennis.
Letter from Point Clear.
Alabama family

McLarty, Ron.
Art in America. [Suspense]
Colorado

McMahon, Jennifer.
Island of lost girls. [Suspense]
Kidnapping

Miles, Jonathan.
Dear American Airlines.
Humorous take on flying

Monroe, Mary Alice.
Time is a river.
While recovering from breast cancer in a remote cabin in North Carolina, Mia Landan finds the journal of Kate Watkins, a 1920s fly fisher, and, inspired by Kate’s example, learns to fish and uncovers many secrets around her.

Newton, Charlie.
Calumet City. [Mystery]
Chicago

Niederhoffer, Galt.
The romantics. [Literary Smart Funny Women]
Maine best friends

O’Neill, Joseph.
Netherland.
New York City immigrants

Parrish, Robin.
Merciless. [Suspense]
The dominion trilogy; #3. Grant Borrows has supposedly fallen to his doom, but when something crawls out of the pit–something dark and merciless with unrestrained power–it proclaims itself “Oblivion” and begins molding the planet into a twisted, barren,dangerous world. Is it Grant Borrows returned from the dead or something more sinister?

Patterson, James & Michael Ledwidge
The dangerous days of Daniel X. [YA Suspense]
Fifteen-year-old Daniel has followed in his parents’ footsteps as the Alien Hunter, exterminating beings on The List of Alien Outlaws on Terra Firma, but when he faces his first of the top ten outlaws, the very existence Earth and another planet are at stake.

Pearson, Ridley.
Killer view. [Suspense]
A dead search-and-rescue team member, a missing friend, an unexplained illness at a local water-bottling plant that sends workers to the hospital and sets off biohazard warnings may have something in common as Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming follows threads of questionable evidence through the glitter of Sun Valley to expose a masterfully planned domestic terrorist attack.

Pelecanos, George P.
The turnaround. [Mystery]
Washington, D.C.

Peterson, Tracie.
A lady of secret devotion.
Cassandra Stover can’t believe her luck when she becomes the companion to Mrs. Jameston, a wealthy society woman. Not only can she help her widowed mother and sister, but Cassie genuinely comes to care for the elderly woman who treats her like family. Enter Mark Langford, an insurance investigator, and everything changes for her. When Mark reveals that he is investigating Sebastian Jameston, the son of Cassandra’s employer, she agrees to pretend they are courting so he can stay in close proximity to the family. Motivated by her devotion to Mrs. Jameston and her own suspicion regarding Sebastian, will the game of pretense that Cassie and Mark embark upon allow a tentative love to grow…especially when unexpected danger puts them both at risk?

Reich, Christopher.
Rules of deception. [Suspense]
Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse. Twnety-four hours later, he is the subject of an international manhunt and the target of a master assassin. His only chance at survival lies in uncovering the devastating truth behind the secret his wife kept from him and in stopping the terrifying conspiracy that threatens to bring the world to the brink of annihilation.

Rice, Luanne.
Last kiss.
Hubbard’s Point, Connecticut. Nearly a year after the death of eighteen- year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn’t played a note of the music that was once her life’s passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie’s heartbroken girlfriend, Nell Kilvert, whom she regards as a daughter. Nell won’t rest until she finds out what really happened to the boy she loved. Out of the past she summons a man she believes cares enough, and is tough enough, to uncover the truth–Sheridan’s long-ago soul mate, Gavin Dawson.

Richards, Emilie.
Sister’s choice.
Childless Kendra and husband Isaac accept an offer from Kendra’s younger sister- single mom Jamie- to conceive and carry a child for them. But when a medical crisis threatens Jamie’s health she learns that the most difficult choice in her life is yet to come.

Richmond, Michelle.
No one you know.
Sisters

Rifkin, Sherri.
LoveHampton. [Smart Funny Women]

Rimington, Stella.
Illegal action. [Suspense]
Liz Carlyle, MI5–Espionage series

Roberts, Nora.
Tribute.
Cilla, a former child star who has found more satisfying work as a restorer of old houses, has come to her grandmother’s Shenandoah Valley farmhouse, tools at her side, to rescue it from ruin. In the attic, she finds a cache of unsigned letters suggesting that her grandmother was pregnant when she died and that the father was a local married man. When Cilla becomes the target of a series of intimidating acts and a frightening, violent assault, her neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer, steps in to help her sort out who is targeting her and why.

Rosen, Elisabeth Payne.
Hallam’s war. [Inspirational]
Civil War

Rosenfelt, David.
Don’t tell a soul. [Mystery]
Tim Wallace’s wife died in a boating accident several months ago. Tim was the only eye witness, and one New Jersey cop is sure he killed her.

Rushdie, Salman.
The enchantress of Florence.
A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself “Mogor dell’Amore,” the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar, with a tale to tell that begins to obsess the whole imperial capital. The stranger claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbar’s grandfather Babar: Qara Koz, ‘Lady Black Eyes’, a great beauty believed to possess powers of enchantment and sorcery, who is taken captive first by an Uzbeg warlord, then by the Shah of Persia, and finally soldier of fortune, commander of the armies of the Ottoman Sultan. When Argalia returns home with his Mughal mistress the city is mesmerized by her presence, and much trouble ensues. But is Mogor’s story true? And if so, then what happened to the lost princess? And if he’s a liar, must he die?

Salem, Jon.
Tan lines. [Smart Funny Women]

Schwarz, Christina.
So long at the fair. [Romance]

Senate, Melissa.
Questions to ask before marrying. [Smart Funny Women]

Seymour, Gerald.
The walking dead. [Mystery]
Follows the parallel stories of an armed protection officer in London and a would-be suicide bomber, who begin to question their identities as they incrementally view themselves from one another’s perspectives.

Shaffer, Mary Ann.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. [Historical]
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey–a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.

Shearn, Amy.
How far is the ocean from here.
Days before her delivery date, Susannah panics and flees from Chicago to the Southwest. When the parents of her baby discover her whereabouts, she can no longer ignore the profound power she holds over their lives.

Sheehan, Judy.
Women in hats.
Mothers & daughters

Silva, Daniel.
Moscow rules. [Suspense]
The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He’s playing by Moscow rules now. Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is an arms dealer and he is about to deliver Russia’s most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11and the clock is ticking fast.

Sisman, Robyn.
A Hollywood ending. [Smart Funny Women]

Strohmeyer, Sarah.
Sweet love.
Julie Mueller, once a brilliant local television reporter, has been fired for the sin of being forty. Broke, divorced, unemployed, and struggling to raise a teenage daughter alone, she had given up on happiness until she receives for Mother’s Day four dessert classes that spark not only a new burst of culinary creativity but a burning passion for one of her fellow students, Michael Slayton, a true love she let slip away.

Thor, Brad.
The last patriot: a thriller.
Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks.

Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa.
Dirty girls on top. [Smart Funny Women]

Warren, Susan,
Finding Stefanie.
Everyone around Stefanie Noble is content, but it seems that her happily ever after has passed her by. Then two troubled girls and their older brother, Gideon, show up in town and clearly need help. Could they bring the fulfillment that Stefanie has been searching for? Hollywood hotshot Lincoln Cash has made a life playing the role of an action hero, basking in the laurels of his fame, fortune, and adoring fans. But when he’s diagnosed with a debilitating disease, he knows that life will soon be over. He only has a small window of time to start a new career, one that will earn him legitimate filmmaker kudos. He soon heads to Phillips, Montana, to put his plan into action. Not everyone is pleased with the movie star’s arrival, especially not Stefanie Noble. She’s even less
enamored when he accuses Gideon of arson and tries to run him out of town. But what Lincoln and Stefanie don’t know is that neither the fire nor the other strange things that have happened around town are really accidents. Someone is out to get them…but who? And who is the real target?

Wellington, David.
Monster nation: a zombie novel. #2
Monster planet: a zombie novel. #3 [Horror]
Follows Monster Island, #1 in trilogy of zombies overrunning NYC.

Wickham, Madeleine.
Sleeping arrangements.
Thanks to a mutual friend’s invitation, two families meet in a luxury villa in Spain and discover their room is overbooked, igniting old passions and tensions.

Wroblewski, David.
The story of Edgar Sawtelle.
A tale reminiscent of “Hamlet” that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father’s death.

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