Book 30 of 2007 was Summer’s Child by Luanne Rice.
On the first day of summer, Mara Jameson went out to water her garden–and was never seen again. Years after her disappearance, no one could forget the expectant mother whose glowing smile had captured the heart of everyone who’d known her: Maeve Jameson, still mourning the loss [...]
February 28, 2007
Categories: 3 stars, Luanne Rice, general fiction . . Author: Crystal . Comments: Leave a Comment
Book 31 of 2007 was Riding Lessons by Sara Gruen.
As a world-class equestrienne and Olympic contender,Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flightatop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, atragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry,her beloved and distinctively marked horse. Now, twenty years later, Annemarie is coming home to her dying father’s New [...]
February 28, 2007
Categories: 5 stars, Sara Gruen, debut novels, general fiction, recommended titles . . Author: Crystal . Comments: Leave a Comment
Book 29 of 2007 was Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman.
Two little girls banished from a neighborhood birthday party take a wrong turn down an unfamiliar Baltimore street — and encounter an abandoned stroller with an infant inside. What happens next is shocking and terrible, and three families are irreparably destroyed.
Seven years later, Alice Manning and [...]
February 27, 2007
Categories: 2 stars, Laura Lippman, suspense, wait for the paperback . . Author: Crystal . Comments: Leave a Comment
Book 27 of 2007 was Hide by Lisa Gardner. Book #2 from the Bobby Dodge Series.
In an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome discovery of six mummified corpses resurrects his worst nightmare: the return of a killer he thought dead and buried. There’s no place to run….Bobby’s only [...]
February 23, 2007
Categories: 5 stars, Lisa Gardner, recommended titles, suspense . . Author: Crystal . Comments: Leave a Comment
Book 26 of 2007 was A Breath Away by Rita Herron.
Ever since Violet Baker’s childhood companion was brutally murdered, she’s been plagued with visions of the girl’s last hours. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of Darlene’s death, Violet’s father is found dead, a note beside him confessing to the murder. But something doesn’t feel right, [...]
February 18, 2007
Categories: 5 stars, Rita Herron, recommended titles, romantic suspense, suspense . . Author: Crystal . Comments: Leave a Comment
Book 25 of 2007 was The Body Box by Lynn Abercrombie. Book #1 from the Hank Gooch & Mechelle Deakes Series.
He calls it the Body Box. It’s a space too small for his victims to sit up or lie down. But it’s the perfect place to keep them for his games—the perfect place to watch them [...]
February 18, 2007
Categories: 5 stars, Lynn Abercrombie, police procedural, recommended titles . . Author: Crystal . Comments: Leave a Comment
Book 24 of 2007 was A Fountain Filled With Blood by Julia Spencer-Fleming. Book #2 from the Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Series.
Nestled in the heart of the Adirondacks, Miller’s Kill, New York is about as safe as it gets. That’s why Episcopal minister Clare Fergusson is shocked when the July Fourth weekend brings [...]
February 16, 2007
Categories: 4 stars, Julia Spencer-Fleming, women sleuths . . Author: Crystal . Comments: Leave a Comment
Book 23 of 2007 was The Perfect Lie by Dinah McCall.
There’s no place to hide from the truth. CIA agent Jonah Slade is back from deadly undercover work in the jungles of South America, battered, bloodied, but successful in putting a notorious drug czar behind bars. But, he discovers, the war has just begun. He [...]
February 15, 2007
Categories: 3 stars, Dinah McCall, romantic suspense, suspense . . Author: Crystal . Comments: Leave a Comment
Book 22 of 2007 was The Return by Dinah McCall.
When schoolteacher Catherine Fane travels to rural Kentucky to fulfill her guardian’s last wishes by burying the woman’s body near the cabin where she lived years before, she unwittingly stirs a sleepy town into an ugly fervor. Although Catherine wasn’t a blood relation, kindly Annie Fane [...]
February 9, 2007
Categories: 4 stars, Dinah McCall, adventure, romantic suspense . . Author: Crystal . Comments: Leave a Comment
Book 21 of 2007 was Taken by Barbara Freethy.
Kayla Sheridan has longed for love, marriage, and a family. Now, miraculously, after a whirlwind courtship with the man of her dreams, she is his wife. But on their wedding night he vanishes, leaving Kayla with the bitter realization that her desire has made her an easy mark [...]
February 8, 2007
Categories: 4 stars, Barbara Freethy, romantic suspense, suspense . . Author: Crystal . Comments: Leave a Comment