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Titles noted in RED are new since last update on May 1, 2008

May 2008

Bohjalian, Christopher A. - Skeletons At the Feast.  Inspired by the diary of a Prussian woman who fled west in 1945, this novel tells the story of German refugees fleeing ahead of the advancing Russian army during the fall of the Third Reich.

Cornwell, Patricia - Front:  A Winn Garano Novel.  Massachusetts state investigator, Winn Garano is ordered to find trouble in Watertown.

Deveraux, Jude - Secrets.  Cassandra works as a nanny for Jeff, who she has secretly worshipped since childhood.

Erdrich, Louise - The Plague of Doves.  One hundred years after a terrible crime ripped a community apart, the descendents of the victims and the accused have learned to live in peace.  Now the past is stirred up again, and the truth of what happened is finally revealed.

Frank, Dorothea Benton - Bulls Island.  When Betts Barrett becomes engaged to a boy much richer than herself, neither family is pleased.  The engagement ends in tragedy and Betts' estrangement from both families.  Twenty years later, Betts comes home again with a secret of her own.

George, Elizabeth - Careless in Red.  Can Thomas Lynley crack an airtight case?

Giffin, Emily - Love the One You're With.  Ellen must choose between "Mr. Right," who seems perfect for her in every way, and "The One Who Got Away" who she can't forget.

Gingrich, Newt and William Forstchen - Days of Infamy.  An alternative history look at the days following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Koontz, Dean - Odd Hours.  The fourth adventure of Odd Thomas.  Set on the California coast.

Macomber, Debbie - Twenty Wishes.  In the newest Blossom Street novel, a widow tries to find happiness again.  When she makes a list of twenty wishes for her life, she finds that wishes can come true, but with a few surprises along the way.

Michaels, Fern - Collateral Damage.  The seven women known as the Sisterhood are fighters for justice who have been living as fugitives.  Their next case could earn them a pardon, but it could also endanger their lives.

Patterson, James - Sundays at Tiffany's.  Jane reunites with the handsome imaginary friend of her childhood.  This time he's real.

Perry, Thomas - Fidelity.  When Emily's husband is killed under mysterious circumstances, she finds that she has been left penniless.  As she begins to ask questions, she realizes that there was much about her husband's life that she did not know.

Proulx, Annie - Fine the Way It Is.

Robinson, Patrick - To the Death.  The thrilling conclusion to Robinson's series featuring Admiral Arnold Morgan and his team of Navy Seals.

Sandford, John - Phantom Prey.  Lucas Davenport is called upon to investigate the murders of a group of Goths.

Tanenbaum, Robert - Escape.  In this riveting new legal thriller, Manhattan D.A. Roger "Butch" Karp is back and must race against the clock to stop a malicious terrorist plot.

Thayer, Nancy - Moon Shell Beach.  Childhood friends work on reconciling their friendship, but their loyalty is put to the test when Lexi develops feelings for Clare's fiance.

June 2008

Brown, Dale - Shadow Command.  General Patrick McLanahan must outmaneuver his own countrymen, defeat the Russians, and expose the truth or die trying.

Buchanan, Edna - Legally Dead.

Child, Lee - Nothing to Lose.  The twelfth Jack Reacher novel.  Why are the citizens of the town of Despair trying to run Reacher out of town?

Collins, Jackie - Married Lovers.  When lust and desire collide with marriage and power, the result is murder.

Coulter, Catherine - TailSpin.  Who is trying to kill renowned Washington psychiatrist, Timothy McLean?

Connolly, John - The Reapers.  Private detective Charlie Parker returns in this thriller.

Evanovich, Janet - Fearless Fourteen.  The newest in the Stephanie Plum series.

Frey, James - Bright Shiny Morning.  Follows the lives of people who move to L.A. to follow their dreams.

Goudge, Eileen - Domestic Affairs.  A twist of fate changes the lives of three women.

Green, Jane - The Beach House.  Nan decides to make drastic changes when her money starts to run out.

Griffin, W. E. B. - Death and Honor.  Book four of the Honor Bound series.

Guterson, David - The Other.  The story of two boyhood friends, one who becomes a teacher and family man and one who chooses a life of isolation in the woods.

Hamilton, Laurell K. - Blood Noir:  An Anita Blake Novel.  Anita Blake becomes a pawn in an ancient vampire queen's new rise to power.

Howard, Linda - Death Angel.  Drea Rousseau joins forces with the FBI to escape a cold blooded assassin.

Kenyon, Sherrilyn - Phantom in the Night.  B.A.D.:  Bureau of American Defense, Book six.

Lindsey, Johanna - No Choice But Seduction.  Katey Tyler finds adventure and passion after she rescues the kidnapped daughter of the aristocratic Malory family.

Lowell, Elizabeth - Blue Smoke and Murder.  A new romantic suspense from the best selling author of Innocent as Sin.

Margolin, Phillip - Executive Privilege.  Private detective Dana Cutler must run for her life after the woman she was hired to watch turns up dead.

Monroe, Mary Alice - Time Is a River.  Mia Landan, a cancer survivor, stumbles upon a mystery when she flees to a mountain cabin after discovering her husband is having an affair.

Palmer, Diana - Fearless.  Rodgrigo's story.

Parker, Robert B. - Resolution.  A tale of the Old West.  In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own.

Patterson, James - Sail.  In an attempt to bring her family together Anne Dunne plans an elaborate sailing vacation, but only an hour out of port everything is going wrong.  Can Anne pull everyone together and save her family?

Rendell, Ruth - Not In the Flesh:  A Wexford Novel.

Siddons, Anne Rivers - Off Season.  Things are going well for D. J. Schwenk, star of Dairy Queen, until her brother is seriously injured.

Steel, Danielle - Rogue.  Maxine must choose between her charming but self-centered ex-husband who says he's changed and her new fiance, Dr. Charles West.

July 2008

Adler, Elizabeth - One of Those Malibu Nights.

Block, Lawrence - Hit and Run.  Keller's back for one last job before his retirement, but there's another assassin in town who is setting him up.

Burke, James Lee - Swan Peak:  A Dave Robicheaux Novel.  Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux is back again, this time in the brand new setting of the rugged Montana Mountains. 

Cabot, Meg - Queen of Babble Gets Hitched.  Lizzie has to decide between marrying her rich finace or being with the man she's crazy about.

Crombie, Deborah - Where Memories Lie.  A friend's plea for help and a missing gem have Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James delving into the past of an apparent suicide.

Davidson, MaryJanice - Undead and Unworthy.  Seventh in the hilarious New York Times bestselling series featuring Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor.

Gardner, Lisa - Say Goodbye.  Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, gets too close to a psychopath who makes women's nightmares come alive.

Hilderbrand, Elin - A Summer Affair.  Hearts break and emotions are pushed to the limit when one women attempts to deal with loves past and present, family, business, and high-powered social pressures.

Johansen, Iris - Silent Thunder.  Hannah Bryson's brother is killed in a explosion aboard a decommissioned Russian sub being prepared for a nautical museum exhibit.  She must decipher cryptic symbols her brother discovered etched on the plates of the sub and eal with feuding Russian operatives in order to learn the true cause of her brother's death.

Oates, Joyce Carol - My Sister My Love:  The Intimate Story of Skyler Rampike.  A promising 6-year-old figure skating prodigy is murdered in the basement of her New Jersey suburban home.  This story, narrated by her brother Skylar, involves parents who are status seekers, media fixation, and neglected children.

Pearson, Ridley - Killer View.  Sun Valley Sheriff Walt Fleming  has a problem - one member of his search-and-rescue team has been shot and another has vanished.

Patterson, James - The Dangerous Days of Daniel X.  Lee's not just an average 15-year-old, he's really an alien hunter who is hunting alien outlaws who are living and lurking on Earth in disguise.

Phillips, Carly - Hot Property.

Roberts, Nora - Tribute.  Cilla McGowan ends up in danger when she begins to suspect her grandmother's death 30 years ago wasn't an accident.

Silva, Daniel - Moscow Rules.  Gabriel Allon has to learn how to play by Moscow rules when he goes to Russia after the death of a journalist.

August 2008   

Bradford, Barbara Taylor - Being Elizabeth.

Brockmann, Suzanne - Into the Fire.  Vinh Murphy discovers that the FBI wants to question a guy named Murphy about the murder of a neo-Nazi whose Freedom Network may be linked to his wife's death.

Brown, Rita Mae - Hounded to Death.  Sister goes to Kentucky for the Mid-South Hound How, where a precious hound goes missing and a universally detested master is murdered.

Brown, Sandra - Smoke Screen.  A tale of corruption and betrayal, revenge and reversal - where friends become foes, and criminals become heroes in the ultimate abuse of power.

Cannell, Stephen J. - Love at First Sight.  Chick Best is a miserable dot.com millionaire, but when his trophy wife and drug addicted daughter go on vacation, he becomes obsessed with another woman.

Castle, Jayne - Dark Light.

Clark, Mary Jane - It Only Takes a Moment.  TV morning show host Eliza Blake usually reports the news, but she becomes the news when her daughter is abducted.

Cook, Robin - Foreign Body.  A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends an idealistic UCLA medical student on a desperate search for answers.

Daheim, Mary - Vi Agra Falls:  A Bed-and-Breakfast mystery.  Judith's husband's first wife, Vivian, moves into the neighborhood, and trouble brews when Vivian's new brother-in-law comes looking for his share of an inheritance.

Francis, Dick - Silks.

Frey, Stephen - The Cutoff Man.

Gerritsen, Tess - The Collection.

Higgins, Jack - Rough Justice.

Jance, J. A. - Damage Control.  Sheriff Joanna Brady has her hands full when a woman shoots a man who is not her stalker.

Kellerman, Faye - The Mercedes Coffin.  LAPD Lt. Peter Decker investigates a Hollywood murder that copies a 15-year-old murder.

Lustbader, Eric - The Bourne Sanction.  A new Jason Bourne novel.

Pelecanos, George - The Turnaround.  A drive for three teenagers in 1972 changes six lives forever.

Preston, Douglas - Revenant.

Reichs, Kathy - Devil Bones.  Temperance Brennan must solve a new case when the head of a teenage girl is found in a cellar along with headless chickens.

Rice, Luanne - Last Kiss.  After the inexplicable murder of her 18-year-old son, a singer/songwriter can no longer work and his girlfriend is inconsolable.  The mom's old flame appears to look into the mystery.

Saul, John - The Face of Fear.

Slaughter, Karin - Fractured.

Stella, Cameron - Cypress Nights.

September 2008    

Atkinson, Kate - When Will There Be Good News?  The lives of three strangers come together through a shocking series of events that none of them could have anticipated.

Bushnell, Candace - One Fifth Avenue.  Bushnell delivers another witty, insightful portrait of sophisticated New York life as she tells the stories of five women living in a Fifth Avenue apartment building.

Childs, Laura - Death Swatch.  The fifth entry in the Scrapbooking Mystery series.

Feehan, Christine - Dark Curse.  Lara Calladine returns to the Carpathian Mountains to search for the cave where she was imprisoned as a child.  There she encounters Nicolas who has returned home to do one last favor for his people.  The adventure begins.

Gregory, Philippa - The Other Queen.

Gruen, Sara - Ape House.

Keillor, Garrison - Untitled Lake Wobegon Novel.

Kleypas, Lisa - Seduce Me At Sunrise.

Laurens, Stephanie - The Edge of Desire.

Macomber, Debbie - 8 Sandpiper Way.

Maron, Margaret - Death's Half Acre.

Meltzer, Brad - The Book of Lies.

Rankin, Ian - Exit Music.

Ross, JoAnn - Crossfire.

Sandford, John - Heat Lightning.

Woods, Stuart - Hot Mahogany.

October 2008   

Albert, Susan Wittig - The Tale of Briar Bank.

Beaton, M. C. - A Spoonful of Poison:  An Agatha Raisin Mystery

Chiaverini, Jennifer - Untitled Elm Creek Quilts Novel with Recipes.

Connelly, Michael - Brass Verdict.  A Henry Bosc novel.

Cornwall, Patricia - Scarpetta.

DeMille, Nelson - Gate House.

Doig, Ivan - The Eleventh Man.

Evans, Richard Paul - Untitled.

Flynn, Vince - Untitled.

Glass, Julia - I See You Everywhere.

Hunter, Stephen - Night of Thunder.

Johansen, Iris - Dark Summer.

Kava, Alex - Exposed.

Kleypas, Lisa - A Wallflower Christmas.

La Plante, Lynda - Clean Cut.

Le Carre, John - A Most Wanted Man.

Macomber, Debbie - A Cedar Cove Christmas.

Muller, Marcia - Burn Out.

Parker, Robert B. - Rough Weather.

Quinn, Julia - Mr. Cavendish I Presume.

Rice, Luanne - Letters.

Shreve, Anita - Testimony.

Snelling, Lauraine - One Perfect Day.

Sparks, Nicholas - Lucky One.

Updike, John - The Widows of Eastwick.

November 2008    

Adair, Cherry - Night Shadows

Brown, Rita Mae - Santa Clawed.

Card, Orson Scott - Ender in Exile.

Cussler, Clive - Arctic Drift:  A Dirk Pitt Novel.

Davidson, MaryJanice - Fish Out of Water.

Dickey, Eric Jerome - Dying for Revenge.

Garlock, Dorothy - Leaving Whiskey Bend.

Harris, Robert - Conspirata

James, P. D. - The Private Patient.

King, Stephen - Just Past Sunset.

Koontz, Dean R. - Your Heart  Belongs to Me.

McCall Smith, Alexander - The World According to Bertie:  A 44 Scotland Street Novel.

Miller, Linda Lael - A McKettrick Christmas.

Morrison, Toni - A Mercy.

O'Nan, Stewart - Songs for the Missing.

Poyer, David - The Weapon.

December 2008

Berry, Steve - The Charlemagne Pursuit.

Iles, Greg - The Devil's Punchbowl.

Jance, J. A. - Cruel Intent:  A Novel of Suspense.

Johansen, Iris - The Treasure.

O'Shaughnessy, Perri - Show No Fear:  A Nina Reilly Novel

January 2009   

Griffin, W. E. B. - Black Ops.

Hoag, Tami - Deeper Than the Dead.

Krentz, Jayne Ann - Running Hot.

O'Connell, Carol - Bone By Bone.

February 2009

Beaton, M. C. - Death of a Witch.

Green, Tim - Above the Law.

Patterson, James - Run for Your Life.  A Michael Bennett novel.

NOTE:  Annotations are taken from professional review sources, book lists, RCLS Bestsellers lists and written by staff. 
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