Book Review – Faithless (Karin Slaughter)

Book 136 of 2006 was Faithless by Karin Slaughter. Book #5 from the Grant County Series.

The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods — then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty, impeccably dressed young woman. [...]

Book Review – Killing Her Softly (Beverly Barton)

Book 135 of 2006 was Killing Her Softly by Beverly Barton.

The woman waits impatiently on her satin sheets. Her lover knows exactly how to satisfy her. But this time, he has something else planned…something that will really take her breath away.
In the courtroom, defense lawyer Quinn Cortez has a reputation as a ruthless predator who [...]

Book Review – Falling Awake (Jayne Ann Krentz)

Book 134 of 2006 was Falling Awake by Jayne Ann Krentz.
Two highly trained loners — Isabel Wright, a dream analyst, and Ellis Cutler, a top government agent, meet professionally and anonymously. Isabel has a talent for analyzing even the most obscure symbols in dreams, though it seems to turn her social life into a wasteland. [...]

Book Review – Lifeguard (James Patterson)

Book 133 of 2006 was Lifeguard by James Patterson.
Working as a lifeguard at a Florida resort, Ned Kelly meets a woman he is wild about, the woman of his dreams. It feels perfect in every way–except that she is used to caviar and Manolo Blahniks, and he is used to burgers and flip-flops. She is [...]

Book Review – Ricochet (Sandra Brown)

Book 132 of 2006 was Ricochet by Sandra Brown.
When Detective Sergeant Duncan Hatcher is summoned to the home of Judge Cato Laird in the middle of the night to investigate a fatal shooting, he knows that discretion and kid-glove treatment are the keys to staying in the judge’s good graces and keeping his job.
At first [...]

Book Review – Prior Bad Acts (Tami Hoag)

Book 131 of 2006 was Prior Bad Acts by Tami Hoag.
It was a crime so brutal, it changed the lives of even the most hardened homicide cops. The Haas family murders left a scar on the community nothing can erase, but everyone agrees that convicting the killer, Karl Dahl, is a start. Only Judge Carey [...]

Book Review – Copycat (Erica Spindler)

Book 130 of 2006 was Copycat by Erica Spindler.
Five years ago, three young victims were found dead, posed like little angels. There were no witnesses. Strangely clean scenes. The Sleeping Angel Killer called his despicable acts “the perfect crimes.” The case immobilized the close-knit community of Rockford, Illinois, and nearly destroyed homicide detective Kitt Lundgren’s [...]

Book Review – Darker Than Midnight (Maggie Shayne)

Book 129 of 2006 was Darker Than Midnight by Maggie Shayne.
Michael “River” Corbett — Confined in the state mental hospital and heavily drugged since the death of his wife, River cannot remember what truly happened the night he was arrested for her murder. But now someone is trying to kill him, and he is forced [...]

Book Review – Angels Fall (Nora Roberts)

Book 128 of 2006 was Angels Fall by Nora Roberts.
Reece Gilmore has come a long way to see the stunning view below her. As the sole survivor of a brutal crime back East, she has been on the run, desperately fighting the nightmares and panic attacks that haunt her. Reece settles in Angel’s Fist, Wyoming-temporarily, [...]

Book Review – Chill Factor (Sandra Brown)

Book 127 of 2006 was Chill Factor by Sandra Brown. WARNING: This review contains plot spoilers.
Cleary, North Carolina, is a sleepy mountain town — the kind of place where criminal activity is usually limited to parking violations. Not so, lately. Four women have disappeared from Cleary over the past two years. And there’s always a [...]