Follow My Blog #10

If you are new to the FF fun, Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. Feature & Follow Friday is now hosted by TWO hosts, myself of course and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. If you are interested in becoming a Feature click on the drop down link above FEATURES > Feature & Follow Friday and get on the waiting list!  It is also required, that if you participate you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) and the two Feature blogs.

This Meme is hosted by Rachel from Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read on Fridays.

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host {Parajunkee.com} and (Alisoncanread.com}and any one else you want to follow on the list.

2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - The Bookaholic and Starcrossed.

3. Put your Blog name and URL in the Linky thing.

4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments

5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can.

6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love ... and the followers

7. If your new to the Follow Friday Hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

The Friday Follow Features are ...

The Bookaholic

Hello!

I'm Pixie and it's a pleasure to be here.

My insane love for books began as just a kid. Instead of collecting dolls or rocks or seashells or something "normal" kids would, I was seeking books.
Now over a decade later, I still have the crazy love for them, and I like to share my love with discussions and reviews on my blog. Blogging has become the greatest outlet for me, someone who doesn't have very many people to talk about books with in person.

I am an aspiring author struggling to get published. I reside in Texas and I have a cat who bullies me. She's the boss around here.

"The Bookaholic" is a blog dedicated to my obsession. Books. Of course, isn't that why we're all here? Sometimes I post my own writing there to share with readers, but it's only small excerpts and not often.
I read a little bit of everything, but I enjoy mostly YA, Paranormal, Fantasy, Dystopian and Historical Fiction. I am also a huge fan of Shakespeare, with upcoming plans of getting my favorite Shakespearean quote tattooed on me for my birthday.

Thank you for taking the time to learn a little about me.

Starcrossed

I started blogging years ago, but just for personal use. My days as a book blogger started just last month. I've always been a huge reader (and writer). I started getting into book blogs mainly because of all the giveaways.

Then I started thinking about all the books I read. I read them, then put them back on the shelf. If the book effected me strongly, all I could do was tell a couple friends or coworkers about it and recommend it to them.

But it seemed like such a waste for the books. I felt like...if a book was THAT good, then why not share with as many people as possible and help it get a following?

Q. What book that hasn't been turned into a movie (yet) would you most like to see make it to the big screen, and who would you like cast as your favorite character?

I would love to see the Eve Dallas series turned into a movie but I'm not really sure who I would like to be cast as the main characters.

18 and Over Book Blogger #8

18 & Over Book Blogger Follow is a weekly feature that begins on Fridays and runs through the weekend hosted by Crystal from Reading Between the Wines and Kelly at Secrets of a Book Lover.

The 18 & Over Book Blogger Follow is a Friday blog hop with the objective to find and visit other book blogs that share the same interest as you, namely books geared towards the 18 and over crowd, and make new friends!

How to join in:

You should run a book blog that features and reviews mostly adult reads, some Y.A.’s are okay but 18 &  Over adult reads should be your majority.

Make a separate post for the 18 & Over Book Blogger Follow on your blog.

Copy the html for the button above and place it at the top of your post.

List and answer the ‘Question of the Week.’

Place your name and blog title in the linky below and the url for a direct link to your post

Visit the other blogs on the list. If you like what you see make sure to leave a comment and follow so the blog owner knows you stopped by and can return the favor. Following each blog is not mandatory but I know it is always appreciated, and if someone comments saying they’re a new follower it’s polite to follow back. It’s always nice to spread the 18 & Over Book Blog love!

Question of the Week:

Which paranormal creature would you like to see more of in paranormal romances? 

Sorry, I don't read paranormal books so there isn't a creature that I would like to see. 

Pleating for Mercy (Magical Dressmaking Mystery, Book 1) [Paperback]

I've finished "Pleating for Mercy" the 1st book in her Magical Dressmaker Mystery series by Melissa Bourbon.

Product Description

All the Cassidy women possess special gifts. Harlow Jane Cassidy's is creating beautiful dresses. But she's about to discover secrets in her own family and another gift-one that can reach beyond the grave ....

When her great-grandmother passes away, Harlow leaves her job as a Manhattan fashion designer and moves back to Bliss, Texas. But soon after she opens Buttons & Bows, a custom dressmaking boutique in the old farmhouse she inherited, Harlow begins to feel an inexplicable presence ....

One of her first clients is her old friend Josie, who needs a gown for her upcoming wedding. But when Josie's boss turns up dead, it starts to look as if the bride-to-be may be wearing handcuffs instead of a veil.

Suddenly, Josie needs a lot more from Harlow than the perfect dress. Can Harlow find the real killer - with a little help from beyond?

Product Details
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Signet; Original edition (August 2, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451234367
ISBN-13: 978-0451234360

My Review:


I really enjoyed this cozy and can't wait till the next book comes out.

Harlow's grandmother Mee-Maw has just passed away so she moves back to Texas after quitting her fashion designer job in New York City.  She has inherited Mee-Maw's house and opens up her own shop Buttons and Bows in the house.  She's related to Butch Cassidy yes that Butch Cassidy!

Her childhood friend Josie commissions her to design her wedding dress and also her bridesmaids.  She is marrying Nate Kincaid the influential family who made a fortune in oil.  Harlow overhears a conversation between two people that night right before one of Josie's bridesmaids Nell is murdered outside her shop.

Now Harlow must investigate who would kill Nell and why to clear her friend Josie's reputation with a little help from beyond.

I really enjoyed how the legend of Butch Cassidy was incorporated into the storyline.  Each of the Cassidy women have special talents:  Grandma is known as the Goat Lady since she has the ability to deal with goats, her mother can make plants grow just by looking at them but no one knows Cassidy's ablity.

Also enjoyed the scenes with Will Flores and his daughter Gracie a budding designer.  I hope that Will and Harlow get together because you can see the sparks between them and he's good for her.

It was funny how Mee-Maw made her presence be known!

4/5

ARC Review: Lethal [Hardcover]

I've finished "Lethal" by Sandra Brown.


Product Description

When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.

But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can't be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it -- at any cost. From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society

Product Details
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1455501476
ISBN-13: 978-1455501472

My Review:

This was a really thrilling, exciting and fast paced mystery thriller with characters not who they are.

Storyline: Lee Coburn is accused of killing 7 people in a warehouse so he is on the run.  He ends up in the backyard of Honor Gillette.  Her four year old daughter Emily announces their is a sick man in our backyard.  Honor goes to check out the sick man while asking her daughter to get her phone from the bedroom.  As she nears the man he's so quick she doesn't have time to react before he's behind her with a arm around her neck and gun pointing right at her heart.

He says he's there to retrieve a package her husband is in possession of and he attempts to terrorize her.  He then proceeds to tear up the house but promises her he would not harm her or Emily if she does exactly what he says.  He hints that Eddie her husband's death wasn't an accident but murder and was killed for what he knows.  He also says the the item he is looking for is of great value and that Honor and Emily are in danger.

She eventually believes him and they are forced to go on the run when the police are called in.  They must find out what Eddie knew and what he had in his possession, who the killers are and the identity of "The Bookkeeper".

Characters: I loved how honor would do anything to keep her daughter Emily alive so she would endear the treatment that Lee forced her.  I also really loved how she believed her husband Eddie was clean and a good cop and wasn't on the sly.

Romance: There wasn't really a build up of romance but you can feel the tension and attraction between Honor and Lee.  Honor was exactly what Lee needed in his life.

Killer(s):  The killers were very deadly and really enjoyed the killings.  They took their order from "The Book Keeper" who is a mystery and never been identified.  This person who was the Book Keeper wasn't someone I expected it to be until I had some clues to make me suspicious of them.  They really got off on killing people they thought was in the way or to make a statement to employees. 

4/5

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection are:

Shock Wave (A Virgil Flowers Novel) [Hardcover]

Product Description

The thrilling new Virgil Flowers novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands.

The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site itself. The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage - and they do. Who's behind the bombs, and how far will they go? It's Virgil Flowers's job to find out . . . before more people get killed.

Product Details
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399157697
ISBN-13: 978-0399157691

Night Moves: A Shadow Force Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Anything can happen under the cover of darkness.

Kell Roberts has walked the thin line between life and death for so long that it now feels like home. He is a soldier, a survivor, and a loner. Still, Kell cannot turn his back on the beautiful woman caught in his firefight against the drug lords of Mexico. She says her name is Teddie, but Kell senses there’s much more to her story — and it’s about to pull him into a mission he didn’t sign on for: keeping her alive.

Teddie knows this lean, mean rescuer just saved her life, but the steel glint behind those soft gray eyes seem to be hiding something deep. The men after Teddie are deadly, but the man who holds her life in his hands and tempts her with his wicked touch is even more dangerous. He could make her dream about living and loving again. And if they can survive, maybe, just maybe, they can stop fighting the world and each other — and simply surrender.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Dell (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440423058
ISBN-13: 978-0440423058

 Night After Night [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

USA Today bestselling author Janelle Denison turns up the heat in her latest novel about the men of The Reliance Group, who mix business and pleasure with reckless abandon . . .

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS . . .

The son of a con-artist, Sean O'Brien learned the hard way that living by your own rules comes with a price.  After a brief time behind bars, Sean is now ready to live an honest life, and pay for his past mistakes.  But even his gorgeous face and seductive charms can't make up for his prison record . . .until a member of The Reliance Group sees Sean's potential for good and gives him a job at the Onyx Casino.

WILL KEEP THEM COMING BACK FOR MORE . . .

Zoe Russo has met all types of men on the Vegas strip.  But when Sean pays a visit to her casino boutique, she knows she's in luck.  They share an immediate, irresistible attraction, and for the first time in her life she's found a man she thinks she can trust.  But when Zoe stumbles onto the truth about Sean and his reasons for persuing her, she can't help but question his feelings for her.  Is he for real, or has she been a fool for love?  Until now, nothing has prepared her for the thrill, and risk, of gambling on love.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312372280
ISBN-13: 978-0312372286

Stay Hungry [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

One of the best manhunters in the business, Jake King usually chases fugitives on the run. But now he’s been hired to protect a beautiful private eye who’s flirting with danger. Her name is Angela, and the last thing she wants is hired muscle getting in the way of her investigation. But this time she’s so deep undercover, she could use all the muscle she can get her hands on …

Jake agrees to play by Angela’s rules — and lay low while she gets close to one of the deadliest crime lords to have entered the States. But the closer Angela gets to her target, the closer she feels to Jake. As her bodyguard, he has more than just a professional interest in her body — and he’ll do anything to keep her safe.

But Angela is playing a dangerous game with a criminal mastermind who can make any woman his slave. And she could be next …

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312372183
ISBN-13: 978-0312372187

Sweet Revenge: A Last Chance Rescue Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Jamie Kendrick went on a trip to hell at the hands of Stanford Reddington, a monster protected by money and power. Now, asking for Last Chance Rescue’s help, Jamie makes plans for her revenge. And Dylan Savage, one of LCR’s most skilled operatives, is given an assignment he despises but can’t refuse — to train the lovely Jamie but thwart her revenge plot at all costs. With tender ruthlessness, he pries open her most intimate secrets, and the attraction they’ve both tried to deny explodes into a scorching love affair — an affair that Dylan has to end. Months after Jamie stormed away from Dylan and LCR, the two meet again — at the home of Stanford Reddington. In the grips of hurt, anger, desire, and undercover danger, Jamie and Dylan will risk more than broken hearts: they’re risking everything to stop an evil fiend from destroying more lives, including their own. 

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1st edition (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345524055
ISBN-13: 978-0345524058

New Releases 2011 (Sept 27)

The Unquiet [Paperback]

Product Description Five New York Times bestselling authors-five superlative stories.

From J.D. Robb: Eve and Rourke return to investigate a series of murders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in Chaos in Death.

From Mary Blayney: A shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word...wish.

From Patricia Gaffney: A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turn their astonishing connection to the other side into an unexpected romance.

From Ruth Ryan Langan: The shattered soul of an angry spirit imprisoned in a Scottish manor house could be a young widow's only salvation.

From Mary Kay McComas: A young ghost eases his brother's pain and guilt by inviting him into the dreams of an imaginative author of children's books.

Product Details
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Jove (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0515149985
ISBN-13: 978-0515149982

Hell to Pay [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

And so it begins . . . again. 

Survivors of a serial killer who invaded their childhood, Lucy Walsh and Jeremy Cavalon are married now, replacing nightmares of their terrifying past with joyful dreams of the upcoming birth of their first child. Fiercely determined to protect the fragile balance of their lives, Lucy doesn’t know that her new husband guards a deadly secret  . . . or that an Act of God is about to unleash a vengeful fury.

For shell-shocked Lucy and Jeremy, the horrible death of a loved one is a tragic accident. But for a shadowy predator, it’s the first step toward completing a deadly mission that was interrupted so long ago. Now, at last, the members of the Walsh and Cavalon families will pay for their sins, one by one . . .


Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061895083
ISBN-13: 978-0061895081

 Reckoning for the Dead: A Sweet Justice Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

The official story is that Garrett Wheeler, the Sentinels' chief, is dead -- killed in a covert op gone horribly wrong.

But Alexa Marlowe -- his ex-lover and most trusted agent -- isn't buying it.

Overnight, a new leader has mysteriously assumed control of the elite vigilante organization, a man Alexa Marlowe can't afford to trust. In search of Garrett and the truth, she goes rogue and off the grid, following a deadly trail that leads into Mexico, behind the fortress walls of a murderous drug cartel boss. Alone, Alexa has no one to watch her back, not even her new partner, Jessie.

Ex-bounty hunter, Jessie Beckett, has troubles of her own. Her world is turned upside down when her DNA turns up as evidence in a gruesome murder committed when Jessie was only a child, before her life was shattered by an infamous killer. Solving a very cold case may hold the key to who she really is or kill the only memory she has of a woman she believes is her mother.

For Alexa and Jessie, the dead must have a reckoning.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Harper (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061969699
ISBN-13: 978-0061969690

The Affair: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher) [Hardcover]
 
Product Description

Everything starts somewhere. . . .For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup.

A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.

Reacher is ordered undercover — to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming, and the investigation spins out of control.

Local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux has a thirst for justice — and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust one another, Reacher and Deveraux reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission, and turn him into a man to be feared.

A novel of unrelenting suspense that could only come from the pen of #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, The Affair is the start of the Reacher saga, a thriller that takes Reacher — and his readers — right to the edge . . . and beyond.

Product Details
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385344325
ISBN-13: 978-0385344326

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (Sept 26)

What Are You Reading is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Sheila from One Persons Journey: http://bookjourney.wordpress.com

Post the books you read last week, book currently being read and books you plan on finishing this week.

Last week I read:

1. Lethal - Sandra Brown
2. New York to Dallas - J.D. Robb

I’m currently reading:

1. Pleating for Mercy - Melissa Bourbon

Books I’m planning on reading this week:

1. Kill Me If You Can - James Patterson

Here's the link:

http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-105

Riptide (Cutter Cay) [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Riptide" the 2nd book in her Cutter Bay series by Cherry Adair.

Product Description

Princess Bria Visconti demands the return of the money her brother rashly invested in Cutter Salvage. Treasure hunter Nick Cutter is too reckless, too arrogant — and far too handsome — for his own good. But he can’t charm his way out of this one. Bria plans to make Nick pay up even if she has to board his boat, don a wet suit, and dive for the treasure herself … 

 

Nick sees Bria as a beautiful but spoiled princess who’s never done a day’s work in her pampered life. But once they set sail for the dive site, and the legendary fortune in gold the wreck carries, Nick begins to see Bria in a new light. This princess may be out of her depth, but she’s ready to take on the hidden danger and excitement a treasure hunt stirs to the surface. Together they must fight unexpected enemies — and reveal their darkest secrets — before they’re pulled into a rip current of danger.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (August 30, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312371985
ISBN-13: 978-0312371982

 

My Review:

Storyline:  We open the book as Nick goes undercover as Asim Nabi El Malahmah to uncover diamond thieves since he's very proficient in speaking languages.  The deal is interrupted when Princess Gabriella Visconti demands he take her to the Scorpion but he would only take her if she barters something in return.  He's suspicious she is working with the smugglers.

Her foolish brother Draven invested five million dollars into Cutter Salvage which she wants returned.  Both their parents were assassinated in Marrezo when they were young children.  They were separated and Gabriella was taken by her bodyguard Max to in America as his own.  Her taught her how to protect herself and to prepare her to go back and take back was is rightfully her own.  She wants to go back home to Marrezo to restore it to it's former glory and to prosper.  Gabriella has always thought her older brother was dead until a couple of years ago.  She was not welcomed when she attended his coronation either by Draven or his wife Dafne.

Gabriella is attacked on Nick's ship so he takes it on himself to be her protector and to find out why they would want to kill her and who?

Characters:  Gabriella is a fiery tempered princess but she doesn't flaunt her heritage, has a education and works in the public relations field.  She has dangerous and lethal protective skills and lives life to the fullest.  

 

Nick doesn't let anyone get near him and he's very independent.  He suppresses his deep feeling for Gabriella as their relationship deepens.

Romance:  I really enjoyed the romance between Gabriella and Nick because they are fine examples of opposites attract.  Oil and water!  It was really fun to read when they are arguing and denying they are attracted to each other.  When they finally get together wow was it hot or what?  They are both very passionate people!

Killer: The killer is very deadly and cunning.  Wow never expected the killers to be who they were at first but then later on I believed it!

4/5

In the Mail Saturday 2011 (Sept 24)

In the Mail Saturday is hosted every Saturday at Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

I received this in the mail this week.

Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues (A Jesse Stone Novel) [Hardcover]

Product Description

Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone returns in a brilliant new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series. 

Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourist season when a string of car thefts disturbs what is usually a quiet time in town. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Pressure from the town politicians only increases when another crime wave puts residents on edge. Jesse confronts a personal dilemma as well: a burgeoning relationship with a young PR executive, whose plans to turn Paradise into a summertime concert destination may have her running afoul of the law.

When a mysterious figure from Jesse's past arrives in town, memories of his last troubled days as a cop in L.A. threaten his ability to keep order in Paradise-especially when it appears that the stranger is out for revenge.

Product Details
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult (September 13, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399157840
ISBN-13: 978-0399157844

Revenge at Bella Terra: A Scarlet Deception Novel [Paperback]

I've finished "Revenge at Bella Terra" the 2nd book in her Scarlet Deception series by Christina Dodd.

Product Description

Ruthless Eli Di Luca hides the torment of his past beneath a façade of iron control. No one suspects the anguish he suffers, or the reasons why he has sworn never to marry. Only blackmail could change his mind ...

Beautiful young author Chloë Conte's first book zoomed to the top of the bestseller lists. Now, struggling to write her second mystery, she retreats to an isolated cottage in a private vineyard. But with his magnetic appeal and his fascinating tales of Bella Terra's violent past, Eli Di Luca proves an irresistible distraction, and Chloë finds herself falling in love with a man she hardly knows. Soon she discovers that Eli has been keeping secrets from her, and the truth will bring more than heartbreak ... it will put them both in mortal danger.

When murder and peril threaten, the only way Chloe can survive is to trust the man who has betrayed her ... and that's a price her stubborn heart may not be willing to pay.

Product Details
Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Signet Select (September 6, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451413105
ISBN-13: 978-0451413109

My Review:

Storyline: Eli Du Luca is in debt because his good friend and accountant skipped town with all the profits.  A very wealthy man has proposed a way out by asking Eli to seduce and marry his daughter Chloe Robinson.

Chloe comes to Eli's cottage to help her write her next seller since she has writer's block.  Eli takes her to the water tower where they discover the body of Massimo who was introduced in the first book.  They conclude he was killed over pink diamonds which we don't find out about until Eli discovers it.

Characters:  Eli Du Luca is a tortured and tormented young man.  He was a pawn between his parents who didn't want him. His mom was a very violent woman, his dad just threw him away and his family on his mom's side treated him harshly and beat him up.  He only cares for his grandmother, two younger brothers and his winery.  But as Eli spends more time with Chloe he realizes she heals wounds and is the woman for him.  It was so funny when he thinks she would be meek and mild and would cater to all his needs.

Chloe Robinson is a young mystery suspense writer who has written a best selling book.  She comes to Eli's cottage because she thinks she is there for a visit to help her write her next book.  At first she believes her dad has thrown Eli at her as a suitor but then she concludes no.  She's a very smart and feisty woman just what Eli needs!  As Chloe spends more time with Eli she falls in love with him and marries him.  When she finds out about his betrayal she is hurt and angry but she needs his help to save her.

Romance:  I really enjoyed the romance between Eli and Chloe because it was very sweet and hot and they need each other.  From the moment they met you can feel the heat between them.

Killer:  The killer is very deadly, cunning and smart by setting up someone else to take the fall.

4/5

Follow My Blog #9

If you are new to the FF fun, Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. Feature & Follow Friday is now hosted by TWO hosts, myself of course and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. If you are interested in becoming a Feature click on the drop down link above FEATURES > Feature & Follow Friday and get on the waiting list!  It is also required, that if you participate you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) and the two Feature blogs.

This Meme is hosted by Rachel from Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read on Fridays.

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host {Parajunkee.com} and (Alisoncanread.com}and any one else you want to follow on the list.

2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - obsession with book and The World of the Spork Master.

3. Put your Blog name and URL in the Linky thing.

4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments

5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can.

6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love ... and the followers

7. If your new to the Follow Friday Hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

The Friday Follow Features are ...

obsession with books

I'm a Spanish girl living in Switzerland that loves to read almost any kind of book. I write down the ideas and thoughts I have and I care for people. Need a friend? Need someone to talk to? Try with me :D

I like having people around, reading and having fun. I also like to travel a lot and my biggest dream is to go back to Brasil and live there again. It's such a wonderful country!

The World of the Spork Master

My name is Liz, and I blog over at The World of the Spork Master. I’m a high school Senior, and a huge nerd. I LOVE books, movies, and art. I share a little bit of everything on my blog, but it seems it all ties back to books!

I have two dogs - Blaze and Jasper - and a lot of cats. They consume a lot of my time. Other than reading, I love writing, photography, tea, Italian food, music (both playing and listening), biking, and creating adventures with friends.

I started blogging at the beginning of 2011 as part of my New Years Resolutions. I wanted to create a blog and update it consistently. I had no idea what it would turn into, I just went with it. I've never had success before, but no matter what happens, I'm determined to have a blog. Book wise, I mainly read YA books with themes of Fantasy, Paranormal, Sci-fi, and what have you. Mainly whatever I can get my hands on. I want to someday have my own library in my home, consisting of books beyond YA. I'm just absolutely crazy about books!

Q. Do you have a favorite series that you read over and over again? Tell us a bit about it and why you keep on revisiting it?

I do have favorite series but I don't read it over and over again!

18 and Over Book Blogger Hop #7

18 & Over Book Blogger Follow is a weekly feature that begins on Fridays and runs through the weekend hosted by Crystal from Reading Between the Wines and Kelly at Secrets of a Book Lover.


The 18 & Over Book Blogger Follow is a Friday blog hop with the objective to find and visit other book blogs that share the same interest as you, namely books geared towards the 18 and over crowd, and make new friends!

How to join in:

You should run a book blog that features and reviews mostly adult reads, some Y.A.’s are okay but 18 &  Over adult reads should be your majority.

Make a separate post for the 18 & Over Book Blogger Follow on your blog.

Copy the html for the button above and place it at the top of your post.

List and answer the ‘Question of the Week.’

Place your name and blog title in the linky below and the url for a direct link to your post

Visit the other blogs on the list. If you like what you see make sure to leave a comment and follow so the blog owner knows you stopped by and can return the favor. Following each blog is not mandatory but I know it is always appreciated, and if someone comments saying they’re a new follower it’s polite to follow back. It’s always nice to spread the 18 & Over Book Blog love!

Question of the week:

We all love our hunky heroes, but what heroine do you have a girl-crush on?

Sorry I don't have any girl crushes since I don't look at girls that way!

I admire Eve Dallas though because she's a great cop, fair to her co-workers, dedicated and she can take care of herself.  Besides she has a extremely rich, hot and hunky husband Roarke. 

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection are:

The Unquiet [Paperback]

Product Description Five New York Times bestselling authors-five superlative stories.

From J.D. Robb: Eve and Rourke return to investigate a series of murders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in Chaos in Death.

From Mary Blayney: A shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word...wish.

From Patricia Gaffney: A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turn their astonishing connection to the other side into an unexpected romance.

From Ruth Ryan Langan: The shattered soul of an angry spirit imprisoned in a Scottish manor house could be a young widow's only salvation.

From Mary Kay McComas: A young ghost eases his brother's pain and guilt by inviting him into the dreams of an imaginative author of children's books.

Product Details
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Jove (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0515149985
ISBN-13: 978-0515149982

Hell to Pay [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

And so it begins . . . again. 

Survivors of a serial killer who invaded their childhood, Lucy Walsh and Jeremy Cavalon are married now, replacing nightmares of their terrifying past with joyful dreams of the upcoming birth of their first child. Fiercely determined to protect the fragile balance of their lives, Lucy doesn’t know that her new husband guards a deadly secret  . . . or that an Act of God is about to unleash a vengeful fury.

For shell-shocked Lucy and Jeremy, the horrible death of a loved one is a tragic accident. But for a shadowy predator, it’s the first step toward completing a deadly mission that was interrupted so long ago. Now, at last, the members of the Walsh and Cavalon families will pay for their sins, one by one . . .


Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061895083
ISBN-13: 978-0061895081

 Reckoning for the Dead: A Sweet Justice Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

The official story is that Garrett Wheeler, the Sentinels' chief, is dead -- killed in a covert op gone horribly wrong.

But Alexa Marlowe -- his ex-lover and most trusted agent -- isn't buying it.

Overnight, a new leader has mysteriously assumed control of the elite vigilante organization, a man Alexa Marlowe can't afford to trust. In search of Garrett and the truth, she goes rogue and off the grid, following a deadly trail that leads into Mexico, behind the fortress walls of a murderous drug cartel boss. Alone, Alexa has no one to watch her back, not even her new partner, Jessie.

Ex-bounty hunter, Jessie Beckett, has troubles of her own. Her world is turned upside down when her DNA turns up as evidence in a gruesome murder committed when Jessie was only a child, before her life was shattered by an infamous killer. Solving a very cold case may hold the key to who she really is or kill the only memory she has of a woman she believes is her mother.

For Alexa and Jessie, the dead must have a reckoning.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Harper (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061969699
ISBN-13: 978-0061969690

New Releases 2011 (Sept 20)

Lethal [Hardcover]

Product Description

When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.

But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can't be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it -- at any cost. From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society

Product Details
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1455501476
ISBN-13: 978-1455501472

Blood Trails (Searchers) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Her "father's" deathbed confession reveals that Holly's real father was almost certainly the notorious serial killer known as "The Hunter," and that her mother gave Holly up Holly Slade to save her life. But The Hunter was never caught — and Holly's mother has just simply vanished.

discovered In search of her past, Holly leaves her secret both her home and Bud Tate, the identity handsome ranch foreman she's afraid to love, horrified by the knowledge that the blood of a depraved killer might run through her veins. Haunted, driven, she searches for The Hunter and hopes her mother was wrong.

But her search leads to a terrible truth no one could have imagined, and even Bud's determination to follow and protect the woman he loves may not be enough to save Holly from the terrors of a past become present.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Mira (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0778312410
ISBN-13: 978-0778312413

Eve [Mass Market Paperback]

From the Back Cover

Years ago, Eve Duncan’s beloved daughter Bonnie went missing. Now, she’s closer than ever to finding the answers she’s been searching for.

First in a breathtaking new trilogy.


Eve Duncan’s mission in life is to bring closure to the families who have experienced the agony of a missing child. As a forensic sculptor, she is able to piece together bones, create a face, and bring an identity to a child who would have otherwise gone unidentified. Eve is brilliant, driven, and tormented—because her own daughter, Bonnie, was taken from her years ago. But now, with the help of a CIA agent, Eve has uncovered some startling new evidence: A man with a connection to Bonnie that had been all but buried. His name is John Gallo. He’s from Eve’s own past. His whereabouts are unknown. And he might just be the missing piece to the puzzle that has haunted Eve for years…

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312651260
ISBN-13: 978-0312651268

Deep Disclosure [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Deep Disclosure" the

Product Description

After spending years in prison under deep cover, black ops agent Tucker Flynn joins A-Tac, an elite CIA unit masquerading as faculty at an Ivy League college. Nothing can shake him - except a vulnerable young woman marked for death.

DUAL DECEPTION

When Tucker is assigned to protect - and secretly investigate - Alexis Markham, he expects a routine mission. But this mysterious beauty has a past even darker than his: her father created a horrifying new biochemical weapon - and was murdered to keep it secret.

Alexis has spent the last decade racing to stay one step ahead of the shadowy operatives who will stop at nothing to possess her father's formula. She can trust no one, not even her handsome new bodyguard. But the heat that flares between them is impossible to resist. Will giving in to passion bring her the safety she's always craved, or will her love for Tucker draw him into a killer's sights?

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Forever; 1 edition (September 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446582921
ISBN-13: 978-0446582926

My Review:

Storyline: After being rescued Tucker Flynn a Black - Ops undercover agent by T-FLAC an high established CIA unit is assigned to protect and investigate Alexis Markham.  Her father created a deadly biochemical weapon and her whole family was killed for it!

Alexis aka Lexie has been running since she was a teenager with her father's best friend for thirteen years.

We open the book with Tucker at a roadside coffee shop where he notices a old man waiting for someone.  Then Alexis arrives and then he notices the old man and her talking and then it gets heated and she leaves.  He notices a suitcase under the table but doesn't believe it's Alexis's.  He figures out it's a bomb and tells everyone to run for cover.  Then the bomb explodes and he knows the old man is dead and picks up the bracelet that the old man was wearing. 

He goes to Alexis's home and saves her from being attacked and introduces himself as a friend of Henry.

Romance:  I really did like the romance between Tucker and Alexis because it was very hot and scorching.  You can feel the heat between the two especially when they are butting heads.  The only thing I didn't really like he was lying to her!

Killer: The killer was a very cruel person and didn't care who they killed if they believed the person was in their way.

4/5

Thanks Hachette Book Group for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (Sept 19)

What Are You Reading is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Sheila from One Persons Journey: http://bookjourney.wordpress.com

Post the books you read last week, book currently being read and books you plan on finishing this week.

Last week I read:

1. Deep Disclosure - Dee Davis
2. Revenge at Bella Terra - Christina Dodd

I’m currently reading:

1. Lethal - Sandra Brown

Books I’m planning on reading this week:

1. New York to Dallas - J.D. Robb

Here's the link:

http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-104

Library Haul 2011 (Sept 18 - 24)

Here's the book list I picked up from the library this week:

Softcover:

1.  Heart of Evil - Heather Graham
2.  Hard to Hold - Stephanie Tyler

What books did you pick up from the library this week?

In the Mail Saturday 2011 (Sept 17)

In the Mail Saturday is hosted every Saturday at Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

I received these in the mail this week.

New York to Dallas (In Death) [Hardcover]

Product Description

The new novel from the #1 New York Times - bestselling author, which takes readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before.

The number-one New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name-and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood.

When a monster named Isaac McQueen - taken down by Eve back in her uniform days - escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.

Product Details
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult (September 13, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399157786
ISBN-13: 978-0399157783

Lethal [Hardcover]

Product Description

When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.

But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can't be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it -- at any cost. From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society

Product Details
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1455501476
ISBN-13: 978-1455501472

Follow My Blog #8

If you are new to the FF fun, Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. Feature & Follow Friday is now hosted by TWO hosts, myself of course and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. If you are interested in becoming a Feature click on the drop down link above FEATURES > Feature & Follow Friday and get on the waiting list!  It is also required, that if you participate you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) and the two Feature blogs.

This Meme is hosted by Rachel from Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read on Fridays.

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host {Parajunkee.com} and (Alisoncanread.com}and any one else you want to follow on the list.

2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - Librarian Mouse and Alaskan Book Cafe.

3. Put your Blog name and URL in the Linky thing.

4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments

5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can.

6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love ... and the followers

7. If your new to the Follow Friday Hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

The Friday Follow Features are ...

Librarian Mouse

I'm a Spanish girl living in Switzerland that loves to read almost any kind of book. I write down the ideas and thoughts I have and I care for people. Need a friend? Need someone to talk to? Try with me :D

I like having people around, reading and having fun. I also like to travel a lot and my biggest dream is to go back to Brasil and live there again. It's such a wonderful country!

Alaskan Book Cafe

I am living in Alaska with my grandson who is 4 and on the autism spectrum. We both love reading and taking hikes. I also enjoy cooking, ( I collect cook books), crafts, collecting faeries and meeting new people. My favorite books change all the time. There are so many I would be listing forever. I am still trying to get caught up on GR and Shelfari. I will read just about anything, even t-shirts, (especially on hot guys).

I'm kind of snarky but in a fun way. I'm on FB where somehow I got married and then a 10 year old kid showed up. I guess that 's ok since he can work. I'm trying to learn Twitter so I guess that makes me a twit. My sister set my hair on fire during a double date but I still allow her to be my best friend. Loyal like Lassie.

Q. It's that pesky magic book fairy again! She has another wish: What imaginary book world would you like to make a reality?

Hmm I would like the imaginary book world of J.D. Robb's In Death Series a reality because the way she describes the world it seems very cool and interesting to live in that world.

18 and Over Book Blogger Hop #6

18 & Over Book Blogger Follow is a weekly feature that begins on Fridays and runs through the weekend hosted by Crystal from Reading Between the Wines and Kelly at Secrets of a Book Lover.


The 18 & Over Book Blogger Follow is a Friday blog hop with the objective to find and visit other book blogs that share the same interest as you, namely books geared towards the 18 and over crowd, and make new friends!

How to join in:

You should run a book blog that features and reviews mostly adult reads, some Y.A.’s are okay but 18 &  Over adult reads should be your majority.

Make a separate post for the 18 & Over Book Blogger Follow on your blog.

Copy the html for the button above and place it at the top of your post.

List and answer the ‘Question of the Week.’

Place your name and blog title in the linky below and the url for a direct link to your post

Visit the other blogs on the list. If you like what you see make sure to leave a comment and follow so the blog owner knows you stopped by and can return the favor. Following each blog is not mandatory but I know it is always appreciated, and if someone comments saying they’re a new follower it’s polite to follow back. It’s always nice to spread the 18 & Over Book Blog love!

Question of the Week: Easy question this week:

What are you currently reading?

I'm currently reading "Revenge at Bella Terra" by Christina Dodd.

In the Air Tonight: A Shadow Force Novel (Shadow Force Novels) [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "In the Air Tonight" the 4th book in her Shadow Force series by Stephanie Tyler.


Product Description

With danger closing in, all they have is each other.

Haunted by a mission he barely survived, Delta Force operative Mace Stevens still carries a soldier’s burden. Running a small bar in upstate New York, he remains a stone-cold warrior who guards dangerous secrets and stays ready for anything. Anything except beautiful, vulnerable Paige Grayson, who shows up at his door, demanding answers about her heroic stepbrother’s death under his command.

Paige bears burdens, too. She’s plagued by demons unleashed by an older brother who committed mass murder before her eyes. But here in this snowy haven with Mace, she almost feels safe from the menacing promises of her insane sibling. As a nurse whose hands can read the deepest thoughts of anyone she touches, Paige knows that Mace needs her as desperately as she needs Mace. And when a faceless killer begins unleashing fresh terror, Mace proves just how far he will go to save the woman who means everything to him.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Dell; Original edition (August 2, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440423031
ISBN-13: 978-0440423034

My Review:

This book opens up with Cael dealing with memory loss or amnesia when the mission he and his team goes very wrong with the death of a teamate. Mace Stevens who was the commanding officer of the mission is assigned to take care of Cael until he regains his memory.  He also owns a bar outside of New York.

Paige Grayson suddenly appears in the bar when she is chased away from the hospital she works at after being attacked.  She doesn't have anyone to turn to and she wants answers what happened during that mission and how he brother died.  So she seeks answers from Mace since he was best friends with her stepbrother.

Paige has a horrible childhood because she has a evil older brother who killed all her friends in front of her during high school.  He's currently in a psychiatric prison and Paige has a condition called psychometric if she touches a person or certain objects she can read their history.


Vivi the girl that Cael loves has found out he has returned so she heads up to New York to help him remember.  Kell and Reid pop in as they also deal with the aftermath of the mission.  We also see Dylan and Zane, Cam, Noah and the bartender Keagan with the motorcycle gang past.

Everyone also has to deal with mysterious deaths, rogue motorcycle gangs and maintaining a bar in New York.

This is a very fast paced military read with well written characters and a great storyline.  All the subplots blend very well with the main storyline.


4/5

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection are:

 

Lethal [Hardcover]

Product Description

When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.

But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can't be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it -- at any cost. From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society

Product Details
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1455501476
ISBN-13: 978-1455501472

Blood Trails (The Searchers) [Mass Market Paperback]


Product Description

Her "father's" deathbed confession reveals that Holly's real father was almost certainly the notorious serial killer known as "The Hunter," and that her mother gave Holly up Holly Slade to save her life. But The Hunter was never caught — and Holly's mother has just simply vanished.

In search of her past, Holly leaves her secret both her home and Bud Tate, the identity handsome ranch foreman she's afraid to love, horrified by the knowledge that the blood of a depraved killer might run through her veins. Haunted, driven, she searches for The Hunter and hopes her mother was wrong.

But her search leads to a terrible truth no one could have imagined, and even Bud's determination to follow and protect the woman he loves may not be enough to save Holly from the terrors of a past become present.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Mira (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0778312410
ISBN-13: 978-0778312413

Eve [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Eve Duncan’s mission in life is to bring closure to the families who have experienced the agony of a missing child. As a forensic sculptor, she is able to piece together bones, create a face, and bring an identity to a child who would have otherwise gone unidentified. Eve is brilliant, driven, and tormented — because her own daughter, Bonnie, was taken from her years ago. But now, with the help of a CIA agent, Eve has uncovered some startling new evidence: A man with a connection to Bonnie that had been all but buried. His name is John Gallo. He’s from Eve’s own past. His whereabouts are unknown. And he might just be the missing piece to the puzzle that has haunted Eve for years …
Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; Reprint edition (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312651260
ISBN-13: 978-0312651268

New Releases 2011 (Sept 13)

New York to Dallas (In Death) [Hardcover]

Product Description

The new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, which takes readers deeper into the mind of Eve Dallas than ever before. 

The number-one New York Times-bestselling author J. D. Robb presents an intense and terrifying new case for New York homicide cop Eve Dallas, one that will take her all the way to the city that gave her her name - and plunge her into the nightmares of her childhood.

When a monster named Isaac McQueen-taken down by Eve back in her uniform days - escapes from Rikers, he has two things in mind. One is to pick up where he left off, abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. The other is to get revenge on the woman who stopped him all those years ago.

Product Details
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult (September 13, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399157786
ISBN-13: 978-0399157783

Robert B. Parker's Killing the Blues (A Jesse Stone Novel) [Hardcover]

Product Description

Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone returns in a brilliant new addition to the New York Times-bestselling series. 

Paradise, Massachusetts, is preparing for the summer tourist season when a string of car thefts disturbs what is usually a quiet time in town. In a sudden escalation of violence, the thefts become murder, and chief of police Jesse Stone finds himself facing one of the toughest cases of his career. Pressure from the town politicians only increases when another crime wave puts residents on edge. Jesse confronts a personal dilemma as well: a burgeoning relationship with a young PR executive, whose plans to turn Paradise into a summertime concert destination may have her running afoul of the law.

When a mysterious figure from Jesse's past arrives in town, memories of his last troubled days as a cop in L.A. threaten his ability to keep order in Paradise-especially when it appears that the stranger is out for revenge.

Product Details
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult (September 13, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399157840
ISBN-13: 978-0399157844

Watch Me Die [Hardcover]

I've finished "Watch Me Die" by Erica Spindler.

Product Description

In Spindler's thrilling new psychological drama, one woman's journey to recovery becomes her worst nightmare ...

Before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, stained-glass restoration artist Mira Gallier had it all: a thriving business doing work she loved and an idyllic marriage to the perfect man. But the devastating storm stole her beloved husband - his body swept away by floodwaters, never to be found.

Now, after years of pain and turmoil, it looks as if Mira is finally on the verge of peace and emotional stability. But her life, like the magnificent windows blown to bits by Hurricane Katrina, is about to be shattered once again. And this time, it's not a killer storm she faces, but a psychopath who will stop at nothing until he possesses her, body and soul ...

First, church windows that she restored are vandalized, and the priest who looked over them brutally murdered. Spray-painted across the glass are the words: He Will Come to Judge the Living and the Dead.

Then, New Orleans is rocked by a terrifying chain of murders that all seem to be linked to Mira. The police, led by homicide detective Spencer Malone, are following a string of clues left by the killer on each victim - and beginning to wonder if the murderer isn't Mira Gallier herself.

As Mira begins to unravel under pressure from all sides - and fear for her life - it's unclear whom she can trust. And when a man from her past appears out of nowhere, sparking something long forgotten in her heart, he quickly becomes the police's new prime suspect. One by one, the people in Mira's life are targeted, until it's clear that the killer has been saving her for last . . . and that there's nowhere left to run.

Product Details
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (June 21, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031236394X
ISBN-13: 978-0312363949

My Review:

Storyline: We open the book with a grandson who kills his grandma.  He believes God is speaking to him and that he is the second coming or the one who paves the way.  He does this by murdering people who he believes are evil.

Mira Gallier is a stain-glass restoration artist living in New Orleans who lost her husband during Katrina.  She and her husband decided to stay to enjoy the storm but the next day her husband was swept away from a water break.

His filthy rich father believes she murdered his son and has made it a life long decision to ruin her life as long as he lives.  He brings up murder charges against her and when that doesn't go his way he charges her with a wrongful death suit.  She is acquitted and then he gives an interview with a local new station which makes Mira look bad and to accuse her of murdering his son once again.

Connor an old friend comes back during this time while being in the Army and serving a term in Afghanistan.  Mira learns he left because he was in love with her and couldn't stand to watch their relationship.  She also finds out her husband knew why Connor had left and where he was and that he wasn't a good man as she thought.

Then suddenly people that Mira knows or just acquaintances start dying by brutal means.  First a parish preacher is murdered with biblical sayings drawn all over the stain glass windows.  Then a homeless man is killed after stealing her necklace and breaking into her home.  Then her father-in-law is murdered.

Characters:  Mira is devastated by the death of her husband and the after effects of Katrina.  She feels guilty and in pain and unwilling to move forward in life.  I didn't like she didn't want to listen or believe what Connor revealed to her about her husband.  She actually kicked him out of her house and told him never to come back.

Connor is an honorable and dedicated man who has loved Mira since the first time he saw her.  He has been feeling guilty because he knows that Mira's husband wasn't who she thought he was and he didn't want any part of it so he took off.  I didn't like that he wouldn't talk to Mira but would run away when ever the conversation got serious.

Romance:  Hmm not sure about the romance between Mira and Connor at first.  I definately could feel it on Connor's part but I didn't really feel it on Mira's part until near the end!

Killer:  The killer was very screwed up in the head but managed to function properly in society.