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Express (New) Books, April-May 2008
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List compiled by Pearl Steinhart; annotations written by Rosemarie Gatzek, and Page Design by Andrew Heiz of the Finkelstein Memorial Library. The note Featured next to the title are books from popular authors or are expected to be best sellers.
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PRISONER OF BIRTH
Featured Check catalog While out celebrating their having just become engaged, Danny Cartwright and his fiance meet barister Spencer Craig.Several hours later, Danny is arrested for murder, and eventually is tried and convicted because of Craig'stestimony. Danny, who is innocent, plans his escape and revenge on Craig. Archer challenges readers to guess the ending. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SECRET BETWEEN US Featured Check catalog Dr.Deborah Monroe lets her daughter Grace drive as they head home one rainy evening, and, distracted by anargument, Grace hits a jogger. Deborah sends her daughter home, tends the victim, and faces the police alone, never correcting the officer's assumption that she had been the driver. When the jogger dies the next daythe consequences of this omission become greater-and now Deborah must deal with not only a policeinvestigation, but she must also watch how the truth is destroying her daughter. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
KILLER HEAT (Alex Cooper series) Featured Check catalog Manhattan D.A. Cooper is faced with a serial killer during an unusally warm New York City August. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
APPEAL Featured Check catalogGrisham's newestlegal thriller follows on the heels of his most recent bestselling nonfiction title, 'The Innocent Man.' In an interview, Grisham said the novel is set in Mississippi and focuses on the election of state Supreme Courtjustices. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
THE KILLING GROUND (Sean Dillon
series) Featured Check catalog It isn't long after top-terrorist Caspar Rashid is apprehended atHeathrow airport in a routine passport check that intelligence operative Sean Dillon begins to suspect thatRashid WANTED to be caught. As events unfold and Rashid turns to Dillon for help in finding his kidnappeddaughter, offering important intelligence in return, and Dillon finds himself involved in a chain of eventsthat, if mismanaged, will result in disaster for all. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COMPULSION (Alex Delaware Milo Sturgisseries) Featured Check catalogDelaware and Sturgis must solve a series of murders that areobviously committed by the same person, but for which witnesses describe killers that look completelydifferent. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DUMA KEY Featured Check catalogWhen self-mademillioniaire Edgar Freemantle assesses his life after an almost fatal accident that has left him handicapped,he divides his fortune among his ex-wife, two daughters and himself. Taking his share and buying a home onDuma Key on the Florida coast, Freemantle discovers a previously unknown talent for painting. There issomething eerie about his paintings, though, and when a ghost of a previous owner of the Key begins to appear, Freemantle begins to doubt that he can escape the terrifying consequences of his move to | REMEMBER ME? Featured Check catalogLexi wasliving a charmed life--she'd just gotten promoted at work, was married to a millionaire, and, if she wasn'talways the nicest person in the world--that was no problem to her. Then came the accident, and, after wakingfrom a three-year coma, Lexi tries to piece her life together, and decides that perhaps it DOES pay to be nice to people. | SIZZLE AND BURN (Arcane Society series) Featured Check catalog Raine Tallentyre, a woman with psychic abilities, has resigned herself to a lonely life, since her special powers have scared away every man she has ever been close to, and herlast remaining relative, her also psychic aunt Vella, has just died. While settling Aunt Vella's estate,Raine finds herself the target of death threats, and meets private investigator Zack Jones. Romance withJones seems like a possibility, since he also has psychic abilities-but Zack is a member of the ArcaneSociety, a group that Raine has vowed never to trust. But she will have to learn to trust someone, as newthreats on her life increase as a cabal of psychic criminals known as Nightshade have her in their | SONG YET SUNG Featured Check catalogForces thatare for and against slavery clash in the border state of Maryland in this historically authentic story of afree black woman and the conflict she has with various slave owners. | FAST TRACK (Rules of the Game series) Featured Check catalog Back in the US, the women of the Sisterhood think that they'll havesome time to recover from their last assignment while living on Big Pine Mountain in North Carolina. Thenthey're given a dangerous assignment that, if they are successful, will reward them beyond their wildestdreams. Unfortunately the consequences of failure are equally extreme. | STRANGER IN PARADIESE (Jesse Stoneseries) Featured Check catalogJesse meets an old adversary, Wilson Cromartie, who claimsthat his return doesn't mean that there'll be any trouble. Cromartie just wants to find mobster LouisFrancisco's wayward daughter and return her to Florida. Cromartie conveniently doesn't mention that he willneed to kill the girl's mother, as well. | 7TH HEAVEN (Women's Murder Club series) Featured Check catalog Two of the members of the Women's Murder Club are involved with casesthat are not only frustrating them because they are so difficult to solve, but also because the cases are sohigh-profile that the pressure from their bosses is unbelievable.San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer is trying to find an arsonist/murderer who targets young, well-to-docouples in trendy parts of town, while Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano fears for the safety ofthe missing son of a former California Governor, with each passing day that he remains | CHANGE OF HEART Featured Check catalogIronically, the man who is a perfect match as a heart-donor for Claire Nealon is Shea Bourne, the man who is on deathrow for killing her father and sister. If he were to become and organ donor, though, he could not be executed "humanely" by leathal injection. Can Claire and her mother forgive Shea and accept the donation that hewants to make--and will the system allow a convicted murderer to influence the method of hisexecution? | LIGHT OF THE MOON Featured Check catalogArespected anthropologist, Susannah Connolly has always felt in control of her life. Now she finds herselffeeling as though she's cut adrift. Alone after a failed love affair, and mourning the loss of her mother,Susannah leaves her comfortable New England home and travels to French Camargue, to see its famous whitehorses and to find a mysterious saint linked to her family's history. There she finds more than she bargained for-not only in her family history, but also in a lonely widower, whose own quest for fulfillment in Camarque | STRANGERS IN DEATH (Eve Dallas series) Featured Check catalog Was the death of prominent businessman, found tied to his bed in hisPark Avenue apartment, an accident caused by some kinky goings on, or actually a well-planned execution? Lt.Eve Dallas and husband Rourke investigate. | LADY KILLER Featured Check catalogTrish Gamboneis in trouble: her latest boyfriend is an abusive, gun- toting, drug-dealing thug-and she doesn't know how to escape his grasp. Turning to her former high school rival, Mary DiNunzio, is an act of desperation. Andwhen Trish vanishes. Mary is plunged into a nightmare that threatens her job, her family, and her life as shegoes on a one-woman crusade to unmask a possible killer.
| HONOR THYSELF Featured Check catalogCaroleBarber, a successful film and stage actress, had decided to write a novel-and is there a better city to be awriter in than Paris? When a terrorist attack on the "city of light" leaves Carol unconscious in a hospital,her family come to keep vigil at her bedside, as does a mysterious stranger, a man from Carol's past whodesperately hopes she will remember him.When Carole awakens from her coma, she doesn't remember anyone, or anything of her past. As she recovers,Carole discovers that she has been given a second chance to count her blessings, heal wounded hearts, | HOLLYWOOD CROWS (Nathan Weiss series) Featured Check catalog Weiss and Bix think that socialite Margot Aziz will just bring somelevity into their lives as they watch her divorce proceedings from nightclub owner Ali Aziz. Margot has other plans however, and Nate and Bix will have to be careful not to get caught in her scheme to commit the"perfect murder," and get her husband's fortune. | BEVERLY HILLS DEAD (Rick Barron series) Featured Check catalog Former Beverly Hills cop Rick Baron is back in this latest thriller by Stuart Wood, set in California during the Red Scare in the 1950s. Rick, now the head of a motion picturecompany, is seeing many of his friends and associates called upon to testify to Congress's House on Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Rick's concern for his friends is nothing compared to the fear he fears when Hollywood regulars start turning up dead, and he is drawn into a web of intrigue involving jealous | STONE COLD (Camel Club series) Check catalogWhile Oliver Stone and the other members of the Camel Club are protecting Annabelle Conroy, who avenged her mother's death by conning millions of dollars from casino king Jerry Bagger, a much more formidableopponent sets his site on Stone. | THE CHASE Check catalogIn the still wild West of 1906, aningenious bank robber, named the "Butcher Bandit" confounded lawmen until the U.S. government sent indetective Isaac Bell. The result of Bell's investigation is lost to history, but perhaps all will be madeclear once investigators in 1950 Montana are able to examine an old, rusted steam locomotive that has justbeen discovered at the bottom of a lake. | PLUM LUCKY (Stephanie Plum series) Check catalogStephanie's life becomes even more chaotic when Diesel re-appears just after Valentine's Day,and Grandma Mazur discovers a sack with $890,000 in it. | PROTECT AND DEFEND (Mitch Rapp) Check catalog Worried about the progress of Iran's nuclear technology, the Israeli intelligence operatives launch asuccessful operation that creates a nuclear wasteland in what was Iran's second largest city. As the Iranianpresident engineers a double-cross using an Iranian operative that the Americans think is working for them, ,the American president calls on Mitch Rapp to help bring events to a successful conclusion. | A WEEK FROM SUNDAY Check catalogAdrianna Moore discovers that the money that her father left her when he died is being controlled by his attorney, Richard Pope, who won't let her have a cent until she agrees to marry him. Adrianna, quite understandably, runs away. Many miles later, still upset, she crashes her car into Quinn Baxter. While waiting for her car to be repaired, Adriannastarts to fall for the handsome, single tavern owner, but he, too has someone who has been conniving to marryhim for years. Can Quinn and Adrianna find happiness together despite those plotting against | SHADOW MUSIC Check catalogKing John has promised the hand of thebeautiful Princess Gabrielle to a noble stranger, but on the way to the wedding she meets the man of herdreams and becomes caught up in an adventure that could plunge the highland kingdom into chaos and be thedeath of her. | T IS FOR TRESSPASS (Kinsey Millhoneseries) Check catalogMilhone is pursuing a criminal who isn't what, or whom, she appears to be. When asociopath steals the identity of Solana Rojas, she now has access to employment in assisted living facilities, and in them, many potential victims. Can Milhone stop her before she kills again? | THIRD DEGREE Check catalogElizabeth Pike thought that by endingher affair with a retired air force pilot and working at her marriage, she would be able to solve all of herproblems. But her distant, workaholic husband's medical practice is being audited. And she's just discovered she's pregnant, and doesn't know which man is the father. As Elizabeth's world disintegrates around her,will she be able to hold her family together? | DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR Check catalogDog-lover Amy Redwinghas worked for years with various dog rescue groups, and has come to specialize in rescuing Golden Retrievers. But Amy's life is about to change when mysterious things happen when she rescues a new dog,Nickie. | THE SENATOR'S WIFE Check catalogIn many ways the lives of DeliaNaughton, the wife of a philandering senator, and Meri Fowler, newlywed wife and soon-to-be mother, seem to be totally different. Yet, when these two neighbors become friends, they find many parallels in their lives:bearing responsibility for another's well-being; confronting the cost of their allegiances; and reckoning with the mysteries of marriage.
| DIABLERIE Check catalogWhen you turn your life around, things the "old you" did may come back to haunt you. That's what Ben DibbukDiscovers in Mosley's latest book. Years after he stopped drinking (and blacking out), Ben was living asuccessful life, with a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient youngmistress. Then a woman from his murky past meets him at a party, there's no telling how far Ben might fall-and even Ben isn't sure, since he can't remember what it is that he's supposed to have done. | THE RACE Check catalogCorey Grace is a handsome decorated GulfWar veteran and a Republican senator from Ohio who has a serious chance of winning the next presidentialelection. Will this man, who has a reputation as someone who tells the truth, no matter what the politicalfall out can be, actually win in the current political climate, where so much depends on following the partyline? | BLASPHEMY Check catalogWhen the construction of the world'slargest supercollider runs even farther behind schedule, CIA agent Wyman Ford is sent to the undergroundlocation to investigate. He discovers that the supercollider's creator, Nobel Laureate William NorthHazelius, had not intended the machine solely for its energy-creating properties, but because he thought thatit might become a way to communicate with God.The delays are occurring because, when the machine is set to maximum power, messages (from God?) appear on the screen.As rumors of the messages begin to leak out, opposition to the machine grows, and fears that it may sparkArmeggedon promts a very public debate. Now Ford will not only need to solve the mystery of the weird | BLOOD BROTHERS (Sign of
Seven trilogy) Check catalogThree ten-year-old friends commit to a blood-brother pact and. inadvertently reactivate a curse that affects their whole town for years to come. Each increasingly severe iteration of the curse occursevery seven years. Will the boys, now adults, be able to save their town from the curse as it comes aroundthe third time, twenty-one years later? |