Latest Books: March 2008 Archives
A killer identified via fleeting facial expression and behavioral clues turns a
middle-aged FBI agent dealing with a disruptive disability into an unexpected
hero in Goldman's latest terrific thriller. After the brutal murder of Marcellus
Pearson, a notorious Kansas City drug dealer, the collateral damage includes his
cronies; his young son, Jalise; Jalise's mother and another woman who witnesses
the killer fleeing the crime scene. FBI Special Agent Jack Davis understands
secrets - he has seizures he's been able to hide until he's exposed at the
Pearson crime scene. Forced to take medical leave, he conducts a private
investigation that connects to another chilling puzzler involving his missing
daughter, while his girlfriend, jury consultant Kate Scranton, helps him deal
with both cases by teaching him how to read faces with the Facial Action Coding
System."Goldman's surefooted plotting ...make this a fascinating and compelling read." -- Publisher's Weekly
"Locked and loaded and full of the blood of character and the gritty detail that make up the truth...I loved it." -- Michael Connelly
"Chillingly realistic. Fast-paced, smartly plotted, gripping." Linda Fairstein
Joel Goldman is
the author of the Edgar and Shamus nominated thriller series featuring trial
lawyer, Lou Mason. SHAKEDOWN marks the beginning of a new series featuring FBI
Special Agent Jack Davis. Jack's world is coming apart and there is nothing he
can do about it. One reason is a rare movement disorder that has come out of
nowhere, causing him to shake when he should shoot. It is something Jack Davis
and Joel Goldman have in common, Jack's story providing the author with a way of
understanding his.
Robbie Farris stabbed his junior college professor twenty-seven times.At his arraignment, after he pulls a gun and escapes, and after his mother is found murdered in her shabby house trailer, Robbie's lawyer, Jimmy O'Brien, is led into the seemingly unrelated worlds of high-profile, religious evangelism and old-fashioned Mojave Desert borax mining.
Jimmy fights the clock, the cops, and the DA in his effort to find and return Robbie before he himself is charged with Section 187--murder in the first degree.
Author Jeff Sherratt has obviously studied the masters of the crime genre, yet he still manages to bring his own unique and talented spin to the table. Reading The Brimstone Murders is like going to an old-fashioned Saturday matinee - so sit back and enjoy the action, the fun, and the cast of colorful characters. Popcorn optional. -- Sue Ann Jaffarian, author of The Odelia Grey mystery series
The Brimstone Murders is filled to the brim with good fun and great action. Jeff Sherratt has come up with a winner in this wonderful vintage mystery featuring criminal defense attorney Jimmy O'Brien. -- Michele Scott, author of The Wine Lovers Mystery Series and the Horse Lovers Mystery Series (Berkley Prime Crime)
Mystery writer, Jeff
Sherratt lives in Newport Beach, California with his wife, Judy. He is a member
of the board of Sisters in Crime, Los Angeles, an organization combating
discrimination against women in the mystery field, and the professional
association, Mystery Writers of America. Jeff Sherratt is scheduled to be a
guest speaker and panelist at the Southern California Writer's Conference held
in San Diego.
Three best friends on vacation in a luxurious golf community, embark on a pleasure hunt like no other. Their sexcapades, an X-rated scavenger hunt, is the stuff of every single girl's fantasy vacation.One week. One list. One very hot vacation....
Springing for an impromptu get-away for her two best girlfriends wasn't entirely a selfless act on Kennedy James' part. Sure, she wanted to help Lisa get over her cheating ex-husband, and Justine to quit obsessing about the ticking of her biological clock. But Kennedy had her own raging libido in mind when she booked their trip to Walker Hook, North Carolina. What could be more fun than a week in a beach paradise surrounded by wealthy, eligible, and smokingly sexy men? What about an X-rated scavenger hunt? Kennedy's cooked up a checklist to die for: Your date's boxers . . . Sex in a limo . . . Skinny dipping with him . . . A shooter he slurps from your belly button. . . . and more wickedly erotic adventures sure to blissfully obliterate their heartaches back home in Seattle. The first one among their try-anything trio to complete the list is the winner--but in sexcapades this uninhibited, you just might bag a prize even bigger and more irresistible than you ever dreamed . . . with a lover who knows just the right spot for unleashing sensations not even these daring huntresses have experienced.
A resident of the Pacific Norhtwest, Kathleen Lawless lives in a cottage steps from the beach, where she can often be found writing on her Neo, inspired by the sounds, smell and energy of the west coast. The award winning author of 16 published novels, both historical and contemporary, she believes chocolate and red wine are basic good groups and knows first hand that oysters are a natural aphrodesiac. Kathleen is currently at work on a very sexy thriller.
The ugly underbelly of the record industry is exposed in this taut mystery thriller, a fast-paced behind-the-scenes, below-the-belt account of deceit, treachery, romance, revenge and retribution that pits ex-LAPD detective Josh Wainwright against Clyde ("Mr. Magic") Davenport, the rich, famous, eccentric relic of the Golden Age of Rock-and-Roll he blames for the murder of his wife, international signing idol Katie Sunshine. His pursuit of the truth takes Josh to Las Vegas, Nashville, more danger, and an unpredictable turn of events before he finds an answer he never expected about the death of his beloved Katie."Pure Levinson--smart, dark and funny. Levinson's vision of human foible has never been sharper.-- T. Jefferson Parker
"A smooth and well-turned tale of music, murder and revenge...A novel of sparkling wit and complicated characters, of keen suspense and shocking revelations. A riveting thrill from start to finish." -- James Rollins
"A gem--fast-paced and full of surprises, with a wonderful assortment of twists, turns and oddball characters... Superbly written." -- Michael Palmer
ROBERT S. LEVINSON is the author of seven novels: In the Key of Death, Where the Lies Begin, Ask a Dead Man, Hot Paint, The James Dean Affair, The John Lennon Affair, and The Elvis and Marilyn Affair, and a three-time Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Award "Top 10" finisher. He has stories in two new anthologies, Hollywood and Crime and A Prisoner of Memory and 24 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories. His play, "Murder Times Two," has been nominated for an International Mystery Writers Festival "Angie" award and will be performed in June at RiverPark Center, Owensboro, KY. He served four years on the Mystery Writers of America board of directors, wrote and produced two MWA Edgar Awards shows and two International Thriller Writers Thriller Awards shows. More at www.robertslevinson.com.
Freeman Lockhart, a burned-out American aid worker still trying to live down his own dark secrets, is recruited to spy on an old Palestinian friend, who may or may not be funneling money to all the wrong places. Freeman is plunged into the maelstrom of the Middle East, and is quickly in over his head. He is then confronted with a terrible dilemma -- no matter what he does, lives will be ruined, and perhaps lost. The only question is how many, and whether the casualties will include those who are closest to him. "Dan Fesperman is honing the genre of intelligent political thrillers... The Amateur Spy offers a gritty versimilitude against a subtle political backdrop. Every foreign correspondent supposedly dreams of becoming a successful thriller writer. They now have some new standards to match." -- The Economist
"A fine thriller to add to his impressive body of work." -- The (London) Sunday Telegraph
Dan Fesperman's travels as a writer have taken him to three war zones and more than 30 foreign countries. Two of his novels have won Dagger awards from the UK's Crime Writers Association, and his previous book, The Prisoner of Guantanamo, won the Dashiell Hammett Award from the International Crime Writers Association. He lives in Baltimore. The Amateur Spy is his fifth novel.
When a lone runner is savagely murdered on Miami Beach's North Shore, Detective Sam Becket is concerned for his adopted daughter Cathy. She's a runner, too, and vulnerable. After a second beach slaying, others are drawn into the web: a troubled boy patient of Sam's child psychologist wife, Grace; Kez Flanagan, a charismatic runner to whom Cathy feels powerfully drawn; and Terri Suarez, an ambitious cop and Sam's brother's girlfriend. With ever-increasing fears for his family's safety, Sam has no choice but to put his career and life on the line to stop the killer.'Norman's fearless willingness to kill off sympathetic characters and explore the dark side of the human psyche should earn her new fans...a mind blowing ending.' -- Publishers Weekly
'An accomplished novelist' -- New York Times Book Review
'Heart-stopping suspense' -- Mary Higgins Clark
'Norman is still superior to many rivals at their very best.' Gerald Kaufman, The Scotsman
Hilary Norman is the author of eighteen internationally bestselling novels, translated into seventeen languages, including "Mind Games", her first Sam Becket suspense. She lives in London with her husband.
From Raymond Benson, author of sixteen novels including six James Bond 007 novels, comes this original mystery/thriller set in the world of rock 'n' roll. Rock star Peter Flame is found dead. It looked like he hanged himself, but the coroner ruled it a homicide. Now it's up to Spike Berenger and Rockin' Security to find out who killed Flame... and why. Was it his ex-wife? A former bandmate? A religious cult that had become Flame's groupies? A member of one of the mysterious rock 'n' roll gangs terrorizing New York? Only a music insider like Spike can hope to wade through the rumors and the legends and find the cold hard facts... and a cold-blooded killer."A frantic dash through the world of rock and roll. Thrills a-plenty and backstage passes to the magical mystery musical twilight zone." -- Ian Anderson of JETHRO TULL
"A sizzling story full of classic thriller twists, humor, and a dead-on look at the music business."
--Jeffery Deaver, author of The Sleeping Doll
RAYMOND BENSON wrote six original James Bond novels, three film novelizations, and three short stories--all published worldwide. As "David Michaels" Raymond was the author of the NY Times best-sellers TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL and TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL--OPERATION BARRACUDA. Raymond's recent original thrillers are FACE BLIND, EVIL HOURS, and SWEETIE'S DIAMONDS; and there are three titles for 2008--A HARD DAY'S DEATH, METAL GEAR SOLID, and an anthology of his 007 work.
Pristine water--millions of years old and untouched by pollution--is discovered miles under Antarctic ice. Meanwhile, a cluster of new cases of Mad Cow disease explodes in a rural France. Dr. Noah Haldane and his WHO team are urgently summoned. Noah recognizes the deadliness of a prion that kills with the speed and ferocity of a virus, but he suspects factors other than nature have ignited its spread among animals and people in France. Facing a spate of disappearances and unexplained deaths, he uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from Moscow to Beverly Hills, and from the North to the South Pole. He soon realizes that the scientific find of the century--a body of water the size of Lake Michigan buried under the Antarctic ice--might hold the key to a microscopic Jurassic Park. "Fast paced and smartly written. Kalla has quickly matured into a force to be reckoned with." -- Booklist
"Meticulously detailed and carefully plotted new thriller..." -- Publishers Weekly
Born and raised in Vancouver, Dan Kalla is as an Emergency Room physician and author of five suspense and medical thriller. His works have been translated into ten languages, and two of his novels, Resistance and Pandemic, have been optioned for film. Cold Plague (April '08) is his first sequel, to the novel, Pandemic. Next year, his epic multi-generational novel, Hospital, will be released. At forty-one, Dan is married and the father of two girls. When not doctoring or writing, he is an avid skier and hockey player.
From authors including National Book Award winner Pete Hautman, Shamus award winner Ken Bruen, best seller Michele Martinez, and renowned social commentator turned short-story writer Mike Davis, a chilling and subversive collection of new crime and thriller stories with stark themes of greed, corruption and insatiable ambition in the very highest places.
Gary Phillips, editor of this collection, has previously co-edited the jaw grinding anthology of aberrant behavior, the Cocaine Chrinicles. Currently he's writing an online, weekly political thriller, Citizen Kang, on The Nation magazine's website
Winter Massey, former deputy U.S. marshal, tangles with an old enemy in Miller's latest intense thriller. After the shooting of an African-American teen in Tunica County, Miss., Sheriff Brad Barnett suspects it's a hunting-related accident until he spots one of Winter's old business cards, left where the shooter set up. He locates Winter deer hunting with his family in the Mississippi Delta and secures his help. Winter asks FBI agent Alexa Keen to analyze something else left at the scene of the crime: a clove-flavored toothpick, the hallmark of ruthless assassin Paulus Styer.This time Styer, last seen in New Orleans, has some black op experts on his tail. The victim was killed at Six Oaks, a cotton plantation owned by Sheriff Barnett's old lover Leigh Gardner, and her desperate ex, Jacob, is secretly trying to sell it. Styer abducts Leigh's daughter Cynthia, who's having an affair with Jack Beals, a security officer at Roundtable Casino. Kurt Klein, Roundtable's offsite German industrialist owner, needs Six Oaks for a resort/casino complex. But at what cost? Full of breathless blood and guts action, hairpin twists and turns, Miller's cocktail of murder and dirty business is potent and compelling.
John Ramsey Miller, a native son of the Mississippi Delta, is the author of six thrillers published by Bantam/ Dell: THE LAST FAMILY, INSIDE OUT, UPSIDE DOWN, SIDE BY SIDE, TOO FAR GONE, and SMOKE & MIRRORS. His books have been translated into twelve languages. UPSIDE DOWN was nominated for ITW's THRILLER AWARD and INSIDE OUT was nominated for a BARRY Award. John lives and writes full time from near Gold Hill, North Carolina.
Who will be Next?Former FBI Special Agent Sloane Burbank has survived a life-threatening injury sustained in the line of duty, only to face leaving a job she loves in order to recuperate. As an independent consultant, she now uses her specialized skills to train law enforcement and private organizations in crisis resolution. But when one of her closest childhood friends mysteriously disappears, and the woman's devastated parents beg for her help, Sloane takes the case--even though her ex-lover Derek Parker is the FBI agent in charge.
Continue reading Twisted by Andrea Kane.
New York Times bestseller Stuart Woods returns with Santa Fe Dead, a dynamic thriller starring take-no-prisoners attorney Ed Eagle.In this new thriller featuring the colorful Santa Fe trial lawyer, Ed Eagle finds the tables turned when he testifies as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of his ex-wife, Barbara Eagle, who has been a very, very bad girl.
The trial ends in a way Ed had not anticipated, and Barbara is still in a position to make his life and that of others, a living hell.
With private detectives, hit men, double crosses and billion-dollar-bank accounts involved, Ed calls in every favor and follows every lead, no matter where they take him. From the posh resorts of desert California and the lush wine country of Napa, to the New Mexico high country and the seedy hotels of Tijuana, Ed Eagle won't rest until he's discovered the truth about what Barbara is up to - and settled the score.
With Santa Fe Dead, Stuart Woods once again proves he's the master of an unstoppably good read.
Stuart Woods
is the author of thirty-six novels. He has a run of twenty-two straight
New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Key West, Florida, Mt. Desert
Island, Maine and New York City.
From Mary Higgins Clark, America's Queen of Suspense, comes Where Are You Now?, a gripping tale of a young woman trying to unravel the mystery of a family tragedy -- a quest with terrifying repercussions.It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already accepted at Duke University Law School, he walked out of his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side without a word to his college roommates and has never been seen again. However, he does make one ritual phone call to his mother every year: on Mother's Day. Each time, he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frantic questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father, a corporate lawyer, in the tragedy of 9/11 does not bring him home or break the pattern of his calls.
Continue reading Where Are You Now? from Mary HIggins Clark.
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ITW's annual celebration of the thriller world is the largest event of its kind, a meeting place for authors, readers, budding writers, and publishing industry professionals.
This year we're in the heart of New York in July, with two special add-on events, CraftFest and AgentFest, where authors of all levels can meet the professionals.
ThrillerFest 2008 will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. There are limited rooms available at our conference rate. As soon as you register, please make your hotel reservation--don't wait! Once our block of rooms is filled, there will be no space available at the conference rate. You must be registered for the conference before making a hotel reservation. Update 6/5/08: Conference Rooms are SOLD OUT for all nights. Please call the Hyatt at 1-800-233-1234 to check for availability of rooms at a non-conference rate.
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