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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Surrender: A Section 8 Novel (A Section Eight Novel) [Mass Market Paperback]
I've finished "Surrender" the 1st book in her Section 8 series by Stephanie Tyler.
Product Description
Desperate, fearless, and hunted
For former Navy SEAL Dare O’Rourke, Section 8 was legendary. The son of one of its missing members, he grew up in the shadow of its secrets. All he knew was that it was a cabal of operatives discharged from branches of the military and reassigned to extremely dangerous, off-the-books international missions. And that their handler was as shrouded in mystery as the missions themselves.
Nothing can stop them. Nothing can break them
Now the handler of Section 8 has given extreme orders to kill any remaining members, along with their families. Dare must save his long-lost half sister, Avery, whom he was never meant to meet. Determined to fight for their lives and find their missing father, Dare and Avery bring together those who are in danger because of their relationship to Section 8 for one last mission — to avenge their families and to survive.
About the Author
Stephanie Tyler is the New York Times extended bestselling author of two previous military romantic suspense series, as well as the Eternal Wolf Clan series. Surrender is the first novel in the Section 8 series. Stephanie lives in New York with her husband, kids, and a crazy Weimaraner named Gus.
Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Signet (April 2, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451413490
ISBN-13: 978-0451413499
My Review:
Twenty years ago there was a off the grid black ops unit Section 8 which consisted of the very best men in military but they were mentally unstable. Twenty years later most of the original members are dead and the ones still alive are being hunted.
Darius O’Rourke one of the original members had two children Dare and Avery but they had different mothers. Dare didn't know about his half-sister and he has been in hiding after the last attempt on his life. But another original member tells him his half-sister is in danger and needs him to get her to safety. He does the right thing and goes after her.
Avery was raised by her bounty hunter mom who taught her how to take care of herself. Then her mother is brutally murdered and when she takes vengeance on the men responsible for her mother's death she is in even more trouble.
Dare takes her to Gunner a tattooed artist with tons of secrets. While at Gunner's she meets Jem a ex-CIA black ops who is a bit crazy in the head and his brother Key an ex-Ranger who saved Dare during the attempt on his life in the jungle.
Dare kidnaps Grace the step-daughter of the man who is trying to kill them all to use as leverage against him. He finds out she also lived a life of hell and he's extremely attracted to her.
I really loved the romance between Dare and Grace because it was quite steamy, emotional, tender and you can feel how much they really care for each other.
I also like the love triangle between Avery, Key and Gunner (though I found out the second book is about Gunner and Avery). In this book it looked like Avery was really interested in Key and I'm curious to find out how this is going to be resolved.
4/5
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Surrender
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
12th of Never (Women's Murder Club) [Hardcover]
I've finished "12th of Never" the 12th book in his Women's Murder Club series by James Patterson.
Product Description
It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor -- while two killers are on the loose.
Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career.
A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted with the strangest story she's ever heard: An eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and he's convinced is real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a shooting is called in-and it fits the professor's description to the last detail.
Lindsay doesn't have much time to stop a terrifying future from unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when Lindsay is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life.
About the Author
James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson's books have sold more than 280 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women's Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.
Product Details
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (April 29, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031621082X
ISBN-13: 978-0316210829
My Review:
During a dark and stormy night Lindsay gives birth to her baby girl. Then a week later her boss calls her back to work to help solve a couple of cases.
A rising football star for the San Francisco 49ers is suspected of killing his girlfriend Faye Farmer. Then her body is stolen from the morgue and Lindsay has to track down the body and also the body of a morgue guard to help her friend Claire. Then they get a call regarding two bodies burned in a car in Nevada and could they be Faye and the morgue guard.
There is a weird professor who dreams about murders and they happen a few days later. Is he a killer or is he some nut case?
There is Randy Fish a psycho sexual murderer who is playing games with Lindsay
Also there is Yuki Castello a SF lawayer who is trying to prosecute Keith Herman for the murder of his wife and the disappearance of his daughter.
3/5
New Releases 2013 (May 7)
Silken Prey [Hardcover]
Product Description
The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Murder, scandal, political espionage, and an extremely dangerous woman. Lucas Davenport’s going to be lucky to get out of this one alive.
Very early one morning, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he’s waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, “Hey, I think he’s breathing,” and another voice says, “Yeah? Give me the bat.” And that’s the last thing he knows.
Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man’s disappearance, then — very troublingly — to the Minneapolis police department, then — most troublingly of all — to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work, and the money, ruthlessness, and sheer will to make it happen.
No matter who gets in the way.
Robert B. Parker's Wonderland (Spenser) [Hardcover]
Product Description
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. Bitter rivals emerge, alliances turn, and the uglier pieces of the Boston political machine look to put an end to Spenser's investigation.
Aspiration, greed, and twisted dreams all focus on the old Wonderland dog track where the famous amusement park once fronted the ocean. For Spenser and Z, this simple favor to Henry will become the fight of their lives.
Killer in Crinolines (A Consignment Shop Mystery) [Mass Market Paperback]
Product Description
It’s August in Savannah, Georgia — hardly the season for a traditional Southern wedding with hoopskirts and crinolines. One could die from the heat — or from a cake knife in the back.
Reagan Summerside should be devoting all her energy to her consignment shop the Prissy Fox. But when her dear friend Chantilly Parker is arrested for murder, Reagan vows to clear her name. The victim is Simon Ambrose, who’s found lying in his own wedding cake with a knife in his back.
Chantilly has motive (Simon broke her heart to marry wealthy Waynetta Waverly) and opportunity (crashing the wedding in her UPS delivery truck). And she has cake on her face, and the stolen bridesmaid dress the killer wore is in her truck. But Chantilly would never wear crinoline to kill a man!
With the help of her flamboyant auntie, KiKi, and vexing but attractive attorney Walker Boone, Reagan is determined to save her friend — before she’s forced to turn in her brown uniform for an orange jumpsuit.
Hex on the Ex (A Mind for Murder Mystery) [Mass Market Paperback]
Product Description
From the author of Bruja Brouhaha and Who Do, Voodoo? the new Mind for Murder Mystery!
When her ex-husband encounters a mysterious death omen, psychologist Liz Cooper turns to occult professor Nick Garfield for help in solving an all-too-real murder.
At a Dodgers game to celebrate her father’s birthday, Liz is forced to watch her ex-star player, Jarret — on the pitcher’s mound. To make matters worse, her former best friend, Laycee, is in the stands as well. Having betrayed her trust by having an affair with Jarret, Laycee is the last person Liz wants to see.
But when the appearance of a white pigeon — an omen of death — sets the superstitious Jarret off balance, it’s a game changer both on and off the field. Because the next morning, Laycee is found dead in Jarret’s home — and Liz is on deck as the prime suspect.
When her ex-husband encounters a mysterious death omen, psychologist Liz Cooper turns to occult professor Nick Garfield for help in solving an all-too-real murder.
At a Dodgers game to celebrate her father’s birthday, Liz is forced to watch her ex-star player, Jarret — on the pitcher’s mound. To make matters worse, her former best friend, Laycee, is in the stands as well. Having betrayed her trust by having an affair with Jarret, Laycee is the last person Liz wants to see.
But when the appearance of a white pigeon — an omen of death — sets the superstitious Jarret off balance, it’s a game changer both on and off the field. Because the next morning, Laycee is found dead in Jarret’s home — and Liz is on deck as the prime suspect.
Glutton for Punishment (Culinary Mysteries (Warner)) [Mass Market Paperback]
Product Description
Sleuth/master chef Charly Poisson is back in this followup to "Appetite for Murder". The winter holidays are over, and Charly and the staff of La Fermette are settling down for a quiet season when a ring of antique thieves terrorize their wealthy, weekend patrons. Things get worse when Charly finds the corpse of a local antiques dealer in the freezer. Despite warnings from the police chief, Charly can't help investigating on his own. This title includes recipes.
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New Releases 2013 (May 7)
Monday, May 6, 2013
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (May 6)
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. Rage: Faces of Evil - Debra Webb
2. Follow Her Home - Steph Cha
I’m currently reading:
1. 12th of Never - James Patterson
2. Surrender - Stephanie Tyler
Here's the link:
http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-187
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
Follow Her Home [Hardcover]
I've finished "Follow Her Home" by Steph Cha.
Product Description
A stunning, edgy debut introducing Juniper Song, an amateur sleuth taking on the darkness in the veins of L.A. with razor-sharp wit and a breaking heart.Juniper Song knows secrets – how to keep them and how to search them out. As a girl, noir fiction was her favorite escape, and Philip Marlowe has always been her literary idol. So when her friend Luke asks her to investigate a possible affair between his father and a young employee, Juniper (or "Song" as her friends call her) finds an opportunity to play detective. Driving through L.A.'s side streets, following leads, tailing suspects - it all appeals to Song's romantic ideal of the noir hero. But when she's knocked out while investigating a mysterious car and finds a body in her own trunk, Song lurches back to the real L.A., becoming embroiled in a crime that goes far beyond role play. What's more, this isn't the first time Song has stuck her nose in other people's business. As she fights to discover the truth about her friend's family, Song reveals one of her own deeply hidden secrets, something dark and damaging, urging her to see the current mystery through, to rectify the mistakes of her past life.
About the Author
STEPH CHA is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. She lives in her native city of Los Angeles, California. This is her first novel.
Product Details
Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Minotaur Books (April 16, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1250009626
ISBN-13: 978-1250009623
My Review:
Juniper Song is an amateur detective and her idols are Raymond Chandler and Philip Marlowe. When a friend Lucas Cook asks her to investigate his father because he believes he is having an affair with a very young Korean girl Lori. As she starts investigating she is knocked out, finds a corpse in the trunk of her car and starts receiving death threats.
Then she meets a real detective who was hired by his sister to suspects her husband is having an affair with Lori. She also learns the dead man in her trunk had a thing with Lori too.
Also there is a subplot that involves Juniper's younger sister Iris who has become involved with her teacher with an obsession with young Asian girls.
This was an interesting read with a protagonist that went into her investigation with enthusiasm, fearlessness and quite confident that she can handle any situation.
3/5
In the Mail Saturday 2013 (May 4)
In the Mail Saturday is hosted every Saturday at Mystery Thrillers and Romantic Suspense Reviews.
I received these in the mail this week.
For Review:
12th of Never (Women's Murder Club) [Hardcover]
Product Description
It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor while two killers are on the loose.
Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career.
A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted with the strangest story she's ever heard: An eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and he's convinced is real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a shooting is called in - and it fits the professor's description to the last detail.
Lindsay doesn't have much time to stop a terrifying future from unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when Lindsay is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life.
Product Details
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (April 29, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031621082X
ISBN-13: 978-0316210829
Scream for Me [Mass Market Paperback]
Product Description
For her exciting debut in hardcover, New York Times bestselling author Karen Rose delivers a heart-stopping suspense novel that picks up where DIE FOR ME left off, with a detective determined to track down a brutal murderer.
Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find the perpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13-year-old murder linked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his brother, Simon, the ruthless serial killer who met his demise in DIE FOR ME. Daniel is certain that someone even more depraved than his brother committed these crimes, and he's determined to bring the current murderer to justice and solve the mysterious crime from years ago.
With only a handful of images as a lead, Daniel's search will lead him back through the dark past of his own family, and into the realm of a mind more sinister than he could ever imagine. But his quest will also draw him to Alex Fallon, a beautiful nurse whose troubled past reflects his own. As Daniel becomes attached to Alex, he discovers that she is also the object of the obsessed murderer. Soon, he will not only be racing to discover the identity of this macabre criminal, but also to save the life of the woman he has begun to love.
Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Vision; Reprint edition (January 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446616923
ISBN-13: 978-0446616928
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Waiting on Wednesday
Silken Prey [Hardcover]
Product Description
The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Murder, scandal, political espionage, and an extremely dangerous woman. Lucas Davenport’s going to be lucky to get out of this one alive.
Very early one morning, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he’s waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, “Hey, I think he’s breathing,” and another voice says, “Yeah? Give me the bat.” And that’s the last thing he knows.
Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man’s disappearance, then — very troublingly — to the Minneapolis police department, then — most troublingly of all — to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work, and the money, ruthlessness, and sheer will to make it happen.
No matter who gets in the way.
Robert B. Parker's Wonderland (Spenser) [Hardcover]
Product Description
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. Bitter rivals emerge, alliances turn, and the uglier pieces of the Boston political machine look to put an end to Spenser's investigation.
Aspiration, greed, and twisted dreams all focus on the old Wonderland dog track where the famous amusement park once fronted the ocean. For Spenser and Z, this simple favor to Henry will become the fight of their lives.
Killer in Crinolines (A Consignment Shop Mystery) [Mass Market Paperback]
Product Description
It’s August in Savannah, Georgia — hardly the season for a traditional Southern wedding with hoopskirts and crinolines. One could die from the heat — or from a cake knife in the back.
Reagan Summerside should be devoting all her energy to her consignment shop the Prissy Fox. But when her dear friend Chantilly Parker is arrested for murder, Reagan vows to clear her name. The victim is Simon Ambrose, who’s found lying in his own wedding cake with a knife in his back.
Chantilly has motive (Simon broke her heart to marry wealthy Waynetta Waverly) and opportunity (crashing the wedding in her UPS delivery truck). And she has cake on her face, and the stolen bridesmaid dress the killer wore is in her truck. But Chantilly would never wear crinoline to kill a man!
With the help of her flamboyant auntie, KiKi, and vexing but attractive attorney Walker Boone, Reagan is determined to save her friend — before she’s forced to turn in her brown uniform for an orange jumpsuit.
Hex on the Ex (A Mind for Murder Mystery) [Mass Market Paperback]
Product Description
From the author of Bruja Brouhaha and Who Do, Voodoo? the new Mind for Murder Mystery!
When her ex-husband encounters a mysterious death omen, psychologist Liz Cooper turns to occult professor Nick Garfield for help in solving an all-too-real murder.
At a Dodgers game to celebrate her father’s birthday, Liz is forced to watch her ex-star player, Jarret — on the pitcher’s mound. To make matters worse, her former best friend, Laycee, is in the stands as well. Having betrayed her trust by having an affair with Jarret, Laycee is the last person Liz wants to see.
But when the appearance of a white pigeon — an omen of death — sets the superstitious Jarret off balance, it’s a game changer both on and off the field. Because the next morning, Laycee is found dead in Jarret’s home — and Liz is on deck as the prime suspect.
When her ex-husband encounters a mysterious death omen, psychologist Liz Cooper turns to occult professor Nick Garfield for help in solving an all-too-real murder.
At a Dodgers game to celebrate her father’s birthday, Liz is forced to watch her ex-star player, Jarret — on the pitcher’s mound. To make matters worse, her former best friend, Laycee, is in the stands as well. Having betrayed her trust by having an affair with Jarret, Laycee is the last person Liz wants to see.
But when the appearance of a white pigeon — an omen of death — sets the superstitious Jarret off balance, it’s a game changer both on and off the field. Because the next morning, Laycee is found dead in Jarret’s home — and Liz is on deck as the prime suspect.
Product Description
Sleuth/master chef Charly Poisson is back in this followup to "Appetite for Murder". The winter holidays are over, and Charly and the staff of La Fermette are settling down for a quiet season when a ring of antique thieves terrorize their wealthy, weekend patrons. Things get worse when Charly finds the corpse of a local antiques dealer in the freezer. Despite warnings from the police chief, Charly can't help investigating on his own. This title includes recipes.
Sleuth/master chef Charly Poisson is back in this followup to "Appetite for Murder". The winter holidays are over, and Charly and the staff of La Fermette are settling down for a quiet season when a ring of antique thieves terrorize their wealthy, weekend patrons. Things get worse when Charly finds the corpse of a local antiques dealer in the freezer. Despite warnings from the police chief, Charly can't help investigating on his own. This title includes recipes.
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May Releases 2013
7th
Silken Prey - John Sandford
Wonderland - Robert B. Parker
Killer in Crinolines - Duffy Brown
Hex on the Ex - Rochelle Staab
Glutton for Punishment - Nancy J. Parra
28th
The Night is Watching - Heather Graham
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