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New Fiction Releases
August 2010

These books are being published and released this month. They have been ordered by the Library and will be available soon.

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General Fiction . Mystery & Detective . Science Fiction & Fantasy

General Fiction

coverThe 2012 Codex
By Gary Jennings
A conclusion to Apocalypse 2012 finds Rita Critchlow and Cooper Jones racing against time to locate the 1,000-year-old codex of god-king Quetzacoatl, a quest that mirrors the search of Montezuma empire slave-scholar Pacal 500 years earlier.

coverThe Atlas of Love
By Laurie Frankel
After Jill becomes both pregnant and single in grad school, she moves in with her two closest friends, as the three of them attempt to share parenting Jill’s baby while juggling classes and adjusting to their chaotic living situation.

Babylon Nights (David Spandau)
By Daniel Depp
A follow-up to Loser’s Town finds the intrepid private investigator working to protect a suicidal A-list actress from a stalker who launches a deadly cat-and-mouse game that takes them from the streets of Hollywood to the chaos of the Cannes Film Festival.

coverThe Blasphemer
By Nigel Farndale
In the aftermath of a small plane crash that forced him to make a wrenching life-and-death choice, zoologist Daniel Kennedy confronts the fate of his great-grandfather during World War I and struggles to both prove himself and earn forgiveness.

coverBill Warrington’s Last Chance
By James King
Vowing to repair his relationships with his estranged adult children after learning he has Alzheimer’s, Bill Warrington takes a cross-country drive with his teenage granddaughter and leaves clues intended to force his children to overcome mutual distrust and work together.

coverBitter in the Mouth
By Monique Truong
The Lambda Literary Award finalist author of The Book of Salt follows the challenging life journey of 1970s small-town youth Linda, whose synesthesia causes her to “taste” words and compels her to pursue a sense of belonging as she enters adulthood.

coverBlind Man’s Alley
By Justin Peacock
Defending a real estate tycoon from lawsuits stemming from a building collapse and suspected mafia ties, lawyer Duncan Riley finds the task complicated by his client’s enamored daughter and a seemingly unrelated murder case.

coverBody Work
By Sara Paretsky
At Chicago’s Club Gouge, a mysterious performer known as the Body Artist lets her body be used as a canvas for the audience’s impromptu illustrations, and V. I. Warshawski watches the sometimes brazen, sometimes hesitant participants approach the stage.  One woman’s art, however, provokes a violent reaction from a man in the crowd, an Iraqi war vet.  When the woman is shot days later, she dies in V. I.’s arms, and the police quickly arrest the soldier.  Oddly, V. I. is hired by his family, and her attempts to clear his name will take her from Chicago’s affluent North Side to the Gulf War.

coverThe Capitol Game
By Brian Haig
After Jack Wiley rallies corporate giant Capitol Group in an attempt to takeover a small company that has developed an armor-reinforcing polymer that could change the course of modern warfare, he and the Capitol Group find themselves embroiled in the greatest scandal ever seen.

coverThe Caretaker of Lorne Field
By Dave Zeltserman
Longing to abandon their duties as the ninth generation of tenders who weed Lorne Field, Jack and Lydia Durkin wait for their son to grow up and assume their responsibilities, unaware that the field will spawn a cataclysmic monster if unattended.

coverThe Cobra
By Frederick Forsyth
Having once been forcibly retired from the CIA for being too ruthless, former director of Special Operations Paul Devereaux is called back into action, with the agency giving him free reign and unlimited resources to take down the top drug cartels.

coverCrossfire
By Dick Francis and Felix Francis
After he discovers that his mother, an esteemed horse trainer, is being blackmailed and forced to make her horses lose, disabled Afghanistan war veteran Captain Tom Forsyth must use his finely honed military skills to root out the shadowy figure who is responsible for his mother’s predicament.

coverCure
By Robin Cook
Returning to work when her son’s neuroblastoma goes into remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery faces the case of her career involving the suspected murder-by-poisoning of a CIA agent and possible links to a powerful pharmaceutical company and start-up stem-cell research labs.

Darius Jones
By Mary B. Morrison
After an accident with a drunk driver leaves his wife Fancy in a coma, pro-baseball player Darius Jones must fend off the mother of his son, who is fighting for primary custody, as well as a relentless groupie who is using Fancy’s absence to try to become part of Darius’ life.

coverDark Echo
By Francis Cottam
Obtaining a beautiful yacht in spite of its unlucky reputation, Martin prepares for an Atlantic voyage before learning that the vessel’s original owner was a sorcerer who committed suicide a century earlier and who put a curse on the boat linked to a terrible secret.

coverDeath Is Not an Option: Stories
By Suzanne Rivecca
This debut collection of stories features the tales of a potential home renter who is sucked into a strangely inappropriate correspondence with her landlord, and a teacher obsessed with a student who comes to school with scratches on his face.

coverDeath on the D-List
By Nancy Grace
After she moves to New York City and becomes a TV crime fighter, former felony prosecutor Hailey Dean learns that the television industry not only isn’t as glamorous as it seems, it is filled with treachery, deception, and murder.

Displaced Persons
By Ghita Schwarz
Forging a family together after surviving World War II concentration camp brutality, Pavel, Fela, and Chaim relocate to America, where throughout subsequent decades they raise families while struggling to find peace and adjust to a culture that unexpectedly embraces their tragedies.

coverFragile
By Lisa Unger
When her rebellious teenage son’s girlfriend goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Maggie becomes increasingly fearful about unsettling ties between the investigation and an unsolved missing-person case from twenty years earlier that involved her police-officer husband.

coverThe Garden of Betrayal
By Lee Vance
A tale set against a backdrop of the 2008 economic crisis follows the experiences of a family that was shattered seven years earlier by the abduction of their 12-year-old child, and who receive an important lead on the same day a natural gas pipeline in Russia is blown up by terrorists.

Healer
By Carol Wiley Cassella
Losing her privileged world when the abrupt failure of her husband’s business catapults them into heavy debt, Claire withdraws with her daughter to the family ranch, where she resurrects her medical skills and struggles to keep the family together.

coverHow to Be an American Housewife
By Margaret Dilloway
Entreated to visit her ancestral family in Japan in place of her ailing mother, Sue uncovers family secrets that influence her life in unforeseen ways, offer insight into her mother’s marriage to an American GI and reveal the role of tradition in shaping personal choice.

coverI Curse the River of Time
By Per Petterson
Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother’s diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance.  By the award-winning author of Out Stealing Horses.

coverIn Harm’s Way
By Ridley Pearson
His budding relationship with Fiona strained by her avoidance of media attention for her part in a river rescue, Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming begins a race against time when he learns of a possible link between his community and a recent Seattle murder.

cover The Last Lie (Alan Gregory)
By Stephen White
party guests indulges in too much wine, elects to sleep over and wakes up the next morning with no memory beyond getting ready for bed, Alan Gregory and his deputy district attorney wife, Lauren, join forces with detective Sam Purdy in an investigation that turns grim once one of the witnesses is murdered.

coverThe Lucifer Code
By Charles Brokaw
Abducted during a visit to Turkey, Thomas Lourds is ordered by his murderous captors to translate a lost scroll attributed to the Book of Revelations’ John that is being sought aggressively by dangerous, powerful groups for its potential capacity for triggering the Apocalypse.

Memory Wall
By Anthony Doerr
The O. Henry Prize-winning author of The Shell Collector presents a volume of short tales that includes the title work, a McSweeney’s-commissioned piece, as well as additional stories that span four continents and follow a theme of life’s subtle grandeur.

coverMy Hollywood
By Mona Simpson
Struggling with her television writer husband’s long hours and her own lack of childcare experience, composer Claire hires Lola, a Filipino mother of five who would finance her children’s educations and who becomes privately devoted to her employers.

coverOriginal Sins:  A Novel of Slavery and Freedom
By Peg Kingman
A runaway Virginia slave returns to America in 1840 after building a rewarding and successful life in the East Indies as a silk merchant, risking everything she has to undertake a perilous investigation.

coverPercival’s Planet
By Michael Byers
A tale inspired by the true story of Pluto’s discoverer finds a wealthy heir seeking dinosaurs in the 1920s West while a beautiful girl gradually succumbs to mental illness and a Kansas farm boy painstakingly grinds his own telescope lens.

coverThe Personal History of Rachel DuPree
By Ann Weisgarber
Agreeing to a marriage of convenience involving a share of land granted by the Homestead Act, an African-American boardinghouse owner’s son and a hired woman stake a claim and begin a pioneer life together in the forebodingly beautiful South Dakota Badlands.

coverThe Pirate Devlin
By Mark Keating
Patrick Devlin, a lowly servant, is captured by pirates and eventually becomes their captain, helming their swashbuckling search for a king’s fortune and trying to steer clear of those who wish him dead.

coverThe Postcard Killers
By James Patterson and Liza Marklund
NYPD detective Jack Kanon and Swedish reporter Dessie Larsson traverse Europe in hot pursuit of a serial killer, one who sends a postcard before each murder and was responsible for the slayings of Jack’s daughter and her boyfriend.

coverThe Recessionistas
By Alexandra Lebenthal
A group of rich and powerful New Yorkers suddenly discovers that not even they are recession-proof when their perfect Upper East Side lives get turned upside down by the economic collapse.

The Red Queen (The Cousin’s War)
By Philippa Gregory
Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster.

coverRed Star Rising
By Brian Freemantle
When the body of a brutally murdered Russian is dumped on the lawn of Moscow’s British Embassy, special agent Charlie Muffin returns to Russia, where his search for answers exposes him to dangers that threaten international foreign relations.

coverRich Boy
By Sharon Pomerantz
After he rises from a working-class New York Jewish neighborhood in the 1970s to the cloistered universities of New England to the highest circles of Manhattan society during the Reagan boom, Robert Vishniak sees his carefully crafted identity start to unravel after he bumps into a beautiful woman from the old neighborhood.

coverSlicker
By Lucy Jackson
Raised with the privileges of her Manhattan family, Yale student Desiree flees an unpromising relationship to start over in a tiny Kansas community, where her efforts to fit in are challenged by her wariness of its very different culture and her growing feelings for the son of two aging hippies.

coverThe Sonderberg Case
By Elie Wiesel
Ruminating on his past relationships with the men in his family, New York City theater critic Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate whose enigmatic plea triggers Yedidyah’s own revelations.

coverSpider Bones (Temperance Brennan)
By Kathy Reichs
Reichs’ intrepid forensic anthropologist investigates the death of a man who appears to have died while engaged in a bizarre sexual act and who was originally declared dead four decades earlier.

Stiltsville
By Susanna Daniel
The love story between Frances Ellerby and Dennis DuVal takes place against the backdrop of the Biscayne Bay, where they struggle with Florida’s weather, infidelity, parenthood, friendship, and debilitating illness over the span of thirty years.

coverA Stranger Like You
By Elizabeth Brundage
Inciting the wrath of an unstable aspiring screenwriter whose film she cancelled for its implausible violence, movie executive Hedda is abducted by the writer, who decides to prove his story’s worth by staging its plot with Hedda as the victim.

Strangers at the Feast
By Jennifer Vanderbes
Celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday of 2007, three generations of the Olson family struggle with old grudges, personality clashes and the impending economic crisis, and two African-American teens from a nearby housing project embark on a mysterious job that culminates in a violent encounter.

coverThe Stuff That Never Happened
By Maddie Dawson
Comparing her stable marriage to a passionate affair she had 26 years earlier, Annabelle feels neglected by her busy husband and cares for her pregnant daughter until an encounter with her past lover forces her to question her choices.

coverTempted by Trouble
By Eric Jerome Dickey
When his promising future is upended by the recession, former Detroit auto industry employee Dmytryk and his wife, Cora, make a morally ambiguous and ultimately violent deal with a ruthless crime boss that ends their marriage and forces Dmytryk to reassess his beliefs.

coverThe Thousand
By Kevin Guilfoile
Set in coastal Italy in 500 B.C., the arrival of Pythagoras triggers revolutionary changes in science and philosophy that influence the modern-world life of a murdered composer’s daughter.  By the author of the best-selling Cast of Shadows.

Three Stations (Arkady Renko)
By Martin Cruz Smith
In a novel set in modern-day Moscow, Arkady Renko must deal with the kidnapping of a mysterious teenage mother’s baby, a murdered prostitute, and police corruption.

coverTough Customer
By Sandra Brown
Entreated by his former lover, Dodge, to help protect her daughter from a depraved man who has been stalking her, staff investigator Derek Mitchell teams up with a small-town sheriff and enlists methods from his own shady past to find answers.

Turbulence
By Giles Foden
Directed to forecast the weather to assist the planned Allied D-Day invasion, a reclusive pacifist who has devised a sophisticated new system and a young prodigy confront an unstable weather system that proves more threatening than realized.

coverThe Vanishing of Katharina Linden
By Helen Grant
Reviled in her German village home where her only friends are a fellow outcast and an elderly storyteller, 11-year-old Pia investigates the disappearances of three local girls whom she believes are tied to unsolved missing persons cases from decades earlier.

Venom
By Joan Brady
In the aftermath of a man’s flight from a secret organization that wants him dead, a physicist discovers a colony of bees with unique venom and is alarmed by a series of murders targeting her colleagues as she gets closer to finding a cure for radiation poisoning.

coverVillain
By Yoshida Shuichi
A first English-language translation of a work by an award-winning author follows a southern Japanese community’s concerned observations of a young construction worker who is charged with murdering a female insurance salesperson.

coverWith Friends Like These
By Sally Koslow
Forging a deep friendship in spite of their differences, former roommates Quincy, Jules, Talia, and Chloe struggle with respective challenges based upon their illusion-based comparisons to one another’s circumstances.

coverYou Lost Me There
By Rosecrans Baldwin
Alzheimer’s researcher Dr. Victor Aaron cherishes memories of his idyllic marriage to his late wife and suffers doubts about his carefully organized life and the nature of memory when he discovers hidden notes written by his wife which contradict those beliefs.


Mystery & Detective
(some titles may also be found in General Fiction)

coverBetrayers (Nameless Detective)
By Bill Pronzini
An investigation of a former lover leads Tamara to a charity-targeting scam, while Nameless’s assistance of an elderly woman reveals ugly family agendas and Runyon’s search for a bail jumper leads him to make a wrenching choice.

coverBroken
By Karin Fossum
Awakened in the middle of the night by one of her own desperate characters, a shocked writer is compelled to envision a background and publish his story, which unfolds through the appearance of an obsessive young drug addict.

coverA Brush with Death (Penny Brannigan)
By Elizabeth J. Duncan
A sequel to The Cold Light of Mourning finds Penny Brannigan discovering, in the Welsh cottage she inherited from schoolteacher Emma Teasdale, a package of letters that reveal Emma’s lesbian affair with a Liverpool artist who was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident.

coverBurn (Anna Pigeon)
By Nevada Barr
Recovering from the emotional scars of recent traumas, National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon goes to stay with her friend, Geneva, in New Orleans, where she becomes the target of a dark curse.  As a result, she’ll investigate what it has to do with Geneva’s creepy tenant and a fugitive mother accused of killing her family.

coverCat in an Ultramarine Scheme (Midnight Louie)
By Carole Nelson Douglas
Preparing to launch a high-risk Las Vegas mob museum and casino, publicist Temple Barr uncovers a buried safe and a recently murdered body during a live event and finds herself turning to Midnight Louie’s cat posse to stave off media threats on her life.

coverCity of Veils
By Zoe Ferraris
After the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on a beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Detective Osama Ibrahim, along with the help of female coroner Katya and her friend Nayir, discovers that the victim was a controversial filmmaker and must discern who wanted her dead.

coverDog Tags
By David Rosenfelt
Dog-loving lawyer Andy Carpenter plunges into a high profile murder case in which a rogue German Shepherd police dog may be the only hope for its owner, an Iraq war vet and former-cop-turned-thief accused of murder.

coverThe Drowning River:  A Mystery in Florence
By Christobel Kent
Investigating the alleged suicide of an eminent architect and Holocaust survivor, private investigator Sandro Cellini discovers links between the victim’s final hours and a missing art student, a connection that triggers an urgent race to protect other possible victims.

The Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas (Good Thief’s Guides)
By Chris Ewan
Scheming to steal a fortune in casino chips from a famous illusionist who has been courting Victoria, magician thief Charlie Howard is thwarted by a dead body found in his mark’s hotel bathtub, a situation that is further complicated by the illusionist’s own heist and subsequent disappearance.

Hangman:  A Decker/Lazarus Novel
By Faye Kellerman
LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to do a big favor for an old friend, Teresa McLaughlin, but when she and her husband disappear, Decker’s search is interrupted by the gruesome murder of a young health care worker.

coverHemingway Cutthroat
By Michael Atkinson
A reimagining of the classic author’s experiences in 1930s Spain finds Hemingway obsessing over the disregarded murder of a political official and teaming up with John dos Passos to solve the crime, an effort that inspires the writing of For Whom the Bell Tolls.

I’d Know You Anywhere
By Laura Lippman
Eliza Benedict’s peaceful suburban life is shattered after being contacted by Walter Bowman, the man who kidnapped and held her hostage as a teen in 1985, and who now claims to want forgiveness while on death row.

coverJohannes Cabal the Detective
By Jonathan Howard
Stealing the identity of a minor bureaucrat after reclaiming his soul from the Devil, Johannes Cabal escapes aboard a passenger aeroship before encountering an enemy from his past with whom he is forced to collaborate in order to solve a murder.

coverThe Last Talk with Lola Faye
By Thomas H. Cook
Unexpectedly visited by a woman he blames for his father’s murder decades earlier, historian Lucas Page reluctantly agrees to a drink during which they exchange what they know about the crime and Lucas begins to realize that dangerous forces are in play.

coverLove Songs from a Shallow Grave:  A Dr. Siri Investigation Set in Laos
By Colin Cotterill
Seventy-four-year-old Laotian coroner Dr. Siri seeks to find the killer behind the deaths of three women from fencing-sword wounds, but first he must extricate himself from a Cambodian prison, where he faces beatings, torture, and possible death.

coverThe Man with the Baltic Stare (Inspector O)
By James Church
Ordered out of retirement to Pyongyang to cover up a crime of passion committed by the young leader of a transitional government vital to a tenuous peace agreement between the two Koreas, Inspector O finds his life threatened when the case tests his loyalties.

coverThe Messenger of Athens (Mysteries of the Greek Detective)
By Anne Zouroudi
After the battered body of a woman is found on the Greek island of Thiminos, modern Athenian investigator Hermes Diaktoros inexplicably shows up to prove that the death was not an accident and find the killer, but Hermes brings mysteries of his own to this tiny, remote island.

coverMurder in the Air (Sheriff Dan Rhodes)
By Bill Crider
Local complaints about unpleasant smells originating from Lester Hamilton’s chicken farm escalate to the point where the farmer is found murdered, prompting an investigation by Sheriff Dan Rhodes.

coverOn Location (Rita Farmer)
By Elizabeth Sims
When her sister goes missing in the wilds of Washington, part-time actress and full-time single mom Rita Farmer launches a determined search.

coverPepperoni Pizza Can Be Murder
By Chris Cavender
After the body of her delivery driver’s brother ends up on the floor of her pizzeria, Eleanor Swift enlists the help of her sister Maddy in searching for the real killer, all while trying to keep her pizza business afloat.

coverTreachery in the Yard:  A Nigerian Thriller (Detective Peterside)
By Adimchinma Ibe
A first installment in a new series finds Detective Peterside investigating an assassination attempt on a political candidate whose fierce effort to win his party’s nomination has revealed widespread corruption and caused Peterside to doubt those closest to him.

The Viognier Vendetta (Wine Country)
By Ellen Crosby
When her reunion with an old friend in Washington, D. C., is derailed by the friend’s suspicious disappearance along with an invaluable antique, Lucie Montgomery follows elusive clues to discern her friend’s fate and the truth about a billionaire philanthropist’s involvement.


Romance

coverScarlet Nights (Edilean)
By Jude Deveraux
When a handsome undercover cop informs her that her fiancé is actually a con man using her for a potentially lucrative heist, a terrified Sara is forced to pretend she is still committed to the relationship in order to survive and help the investigation.

coverVeil of Night
By Linda Howard
Wedding planner Jaclyn Wilde gets more than she bargained for when she helps bride-to-be Carrie Edwards.  A bridezilla of the worst kind, Carrie’s epic temper and eccentric demands prompt someone to kill her.  The suspects include everyone in the wedding party and those behind-the-scenes professionals – including Jaclyn, who has had a brief and steamy romantic interlude with the detective investigating Carrie’s murder.


Science Fiction & Fantasy
(some titles may also be found in General Fiction)

coverAfter America
By John Birmingham
A follow-up to Without Warning traces the harrowing reconstruction of the United States after most of its population is killed by a natural disaster, an effort lead by President James Kipper and challenged by pirates, freebooters, and a rogue governor of Texas.

coverThe Bear (Saga of First King)
By R. A. Salvatore
When Yeslnik the Fool unexpectedly tips the war of Honce in his favor to become the realm’s most bloody and merciless ruler, Dame Gwydre and Father Artolivan desperately attempt to join forces with Laird Ethelbert while Bransen struggles to extricate himself from his allies.

coverBearers of the Black Staff (Legends of Shannara)
By Terry Brooks
Co-existing peacefully for 500 years after creating their magically protected valley, the surviving members of four non-demon races that were featured in Brooks’s “The Genesis of Shannara” trilogy band together against frightening creatures that are penetrating the shield around their home.

coverThe Black Prism (Black Prism Trilogy)
By Brent Weeks
In a world where color is the basis of all magic, Lip has yet to realize his powers, but he soon begins to learn the truth behind the great rift between his father – Gavin Guile, the current Prism – and his uncle, Javen, and discovers that time is running out for the world.

coverDeath’s Excellent Vacation
By Charlaine Harris and Toni Kelner, eds.
The editors of Many Bloody Returns present twelve original tales featuring supernatural beings going on vacation, including an all-new Sookie Stackhouse story.  Other contributors include Katie MacAlister and Jeaniene Frost.

coverElminster Must Die! (Forgotten Realms: The Sage of Shadowdale)
By Ed Greenwood
Powerful, yet aged, wizard Elminster must feed magic items to the Simbul, his lover, in order to keep her sane, but his actions draw his many enemies ever closer to him.

The Evolutionary Void
By Peter F. Hamilton
A conclusion to the epic space adventure that began with The Dreaming Void and The Temperal Void returns readers to the Commonwealth universe of the far-future.

Labyrinth:  A Greywalker Novel
By Kat Richardson
After dying for two minutes, private investigator Harper Blaine becomes a Greywalker, straddling the line between the living world and the paranormal realm, and must search for the ghost of the man who killed her.

coverNo Mercy (Dark-Hunter)
By Sherrilyn Kenyon
A latest entry in Kenyon’s best-selling series follows the story of shape-shifter Dev Peltier and Dark-Hunter Samia, who fall in love in spite of Samia’s painful history as a betrayed Amazon warrior and the presence of old and new enemies in New Orleans.

coverOmnitopia Dawn
By Diane Duane
Dev Logan, the genius programmer responsible for a popular, massive multiplayer online game, Omnitopia, guards a secret about his invention – it’s not just a piece of code, it’s alive!

coverThe Questing Road
By Lyn McConchie
After a group of farmers searching for a stolen foal inadvertently cross through a gateway into a different world, the cat-seeking lord and lady of a nearby keep also find themselves in the same alternate realm, where both groups discover their common link to a dangerous scheme.

coverShades of Milk and Honey
By Mary Robinette Kowal
Set in a Jane Austen-inspired alternative universe, two sisters – one beautiful and the other skilled in the glamour arts – test the limits of their gifts on an unscrupulous suitor.

coverStars and Gods
By Larry Niven
A sequel to Scatterbrain is an anthology of excerpts from the Hugo Award and Nebula Award-winning author’s recent works, including Ringworld’s Child and an assortment of top-selected short stories, nonfiction pieces, interviews, editorials, and correspondence.

coverWaking the Witch (Women of the Otherworld)
By Kelley Armstrong
Using the powers she inherited from her dark witch mother and notorious wizard father to solve crimes, beautiful spell-casting investigator Savannah Levine is recruited to track down a supernatural killer.

coverThe Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive)
By Brandon Sanderson
A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan’s final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery, and a woman who would save her impoverished house.


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