Latest Books: March 2010 Archives

The Barbary Pirates by William Dietrich, the fourth novel in the Ethan Gage series of rollicking historical thrillers, has the hero on the hunt for the Mirror of Archimedes, an ancient death ray that could tip the balance of power in the Mediterranean. After embroiling three real-life scientists - Georges Cuvier, William Smith, and Robert Fulton - in an imbroglio in a brothel, Ethan is dispatched by Napoleon to find the mirror before the Barbary pirates do. The action ranges from Paris to Venice to Santorini to Syracuse, and at the climax in Tripoli he must rescue his lost love Astiza and a two-year-old son he didn't know he had. Swift, fact-filled, funny, and suspenseful.

"Dietrich is an excellent writer...an action-filled romp that's both historically accurate and great fun." Library Journal.

"Should be heartily recommended to all action-adventure lovers." Booklist.

"Dietrich's imaginative page-turner will enjoy a long and lively run." Publisher's Weekly.

William Dietrich is the author of 13 books that combined have sold into 28 languages. As a journalist he won a Pulitzer for covering the Exxon Valdez oil spill for the Seattle Times. He is also a professor at Western Washington University. HIs historical thrillers combine careful research with rapid-fire action and social commentary.

In Dianna Love and Sherrilyn Kenyon's newest, Silent Truth, Bureau of American Defense operative Hunter Wesley Thornton-Payne has a chance to corner the ruthless assassin he's hunted for four years. It's a rogue operation, but he's got nothing to lose until a woman pulls him into her own dangerous agenda.

Abigail Blanton was only trying to find out what mysterious illness was killing her mother before she ran out of time, but her gamble to pressure an heiress into telling the truth backfires in a bloody way. Survival comes down to choice - her salvation or his redemption?

Only one can win and the assassin holds the best odds.

"All hell breaks loose in this over-the-top romantic thriller from bestseller Kenyon (BAD Attitude) and Love (aka Dianna Love Snell, Worth Every Risk).... Da Vinci Code-derivative components tweaked with a bioterrorism twist add extra punch." Publisher Weekly

New York Times bestseller Dianna Love started writing suspense while working over a hundred feet in the air creating spectacular marketing projects for Fortune 500 companies. Her first book won the prestigious RITA award and second one debuted on the NYT list. She writes thrillers and urban fantasy, now co-writing a contemporary BAD Agency thriller series with #1 NYT best seller Sherrilyn Kenyon and an upcoming paranormal thriller series on the Beladors. Her next release is Silent Truth (Pocket/April 2010). An international speaker, Dianna teaches the highly-successful Break Into Fiction® Character-Driven Power Plotting program. Visit www.AuthorDiannaLove.com ~ www.BreakIntoFiction.com

If you liked the movie Taken, let W.D. Gagliani's Savage Nights take you much, much farther into the darkness. It's a tough, pulls-no-punches, noir thriller that's not for the faint of heart.

"I truly enjoyed it and the pages kept turning... the suspense grew, the shocks had real jolt, and the big scenes were big and satisfying...better than (David) Morrell!" -- Brian Pinkerton, author of Abducted and Vengeance

Rick Brant is a Vietnam veteran tormented by his past, his secrets, and his inconsistent and unreliable psychic ability. When his beloved 19-year old niece, Kit, is kidnapped from a busy mall, he is forced to use his old connections and his skills. Hard-nosed inquiries suggest that Kit has been snatched for auction by an international sexual slavery ring. Brant reconnects with his Vietnam buddies, some of them ex-cops, to help him pry Kit from the clutches of the ruthless Goran ("the Serb") and his gang. The Serb's daughter, Irina, is also a key to finding Kit, whose ultimate destination may be a modern harem, a brothel, a dungeon, or one of the Serb's kinky slavery clubs. Or worse. As the horror of Kit's captivity increases daily, Brant becomes rescuer, avenging angel - and executioner. In his quest, he may find redemption for his own past sins.

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Includes bonus material: excerpts from horror thrillers by W.D. Gagliani, John Everson, and Scott Nicholson, and a complete crime short story by David Benton and W.D. Gagliani.

W.D. Gagliani is the author of WOLF'S TRAP, WOLF'S GAMBIT, WOLF'S BLUFF, WOLF'S EDGE (2011), all from Leisure Books. All available on Amazon Kindle and other e-formats. Gagliani is a member of the Horror Writers Association (HWA) and the International Thriller Writers (ITW). See www.williamdgagliani.com for more info!

Andy McDermott's The Covenant of Genesis, the fourth adventure for Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase, sees them hunting for a secret pre-dating even Atlantis... a secret so shocking, so dangerous, that its discovery sees them both marked for death!

Off the Indonesian coast, Nina makes an incredible find: a settlement that existed over a hundred thousand years before any previously known culture. But before she can reveal her findings, the expedition is attacked by a clandestine religious group, the Covenant of Genesis, which is determined to suppress all knowledge of the mysterious race - at any cost.

But why? Their search for the truth takes Nina and Eddie to the ends of the earth, from the frozen Antarctic wastes to the searing Sahara - where the most world-shaking revelation in history awaits...

"A pulse-racing adventure" - Northern Echo

"Great stuff!" - The Bookseller

Born in Halifax, England, Andy is the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunt For Atlantis. Previously, he was a journalist and editor of such magazines as DVD Review and the iconoclastic film publication Hotdog. He has also worked as a cartoonist, graphic designer and videogame reviewer, and written for the award-winning British sci-fi comic 2000AD.

Nina Bruhns' latest romantic thriller, A Kill to Kill, has everything -

Revenge...
Eight months ago, Dr. Gina Cappozi and CIA black ops commando Captain Gregg van Halen were lovers until Gregg committed the ultimate betrayal. Left in the hands of terrorists and to do the unspeakable or die, Gina vowed to kill the man she once loved.

Danger...
She knows that Gregg lives in the shadow world of violence and darkness. She knows that he's watching her every move. What she doesn't know is that Gregg isn't the only one following her-or that he still cherishes her.

Sex...
When Gina's burning need for revenge leads her back to the one place she can easily lure Gregg-his bed-she rediscovers another, more irresistible need. Now, with the threat of enemies at every turn, Gina and Gregg realize that the power of betrayal and revenge is nothing compared to the power of love.

"A thrill ride of fast action and hot sex ... Nina Bruhns' latest delivers it all!" -- CJ Lyons, bestselling author

"Suspense just got a whole lot hotter with Nina Bruhns dynamite romantic thriller. A hero to die for and a heroine to cheer for . . . an awesome, sexy story." -- New York Times Bestselling author Allison Brennan

"Intense pacing...powerful characters...searing emotions and explosive sexual tension! Once I started reading Shoot to Thrill, I couldn't stop! Nina Bruhns writes high-action suspense at its very best!" -- Bestselling author Debra Webb

"A provocative, sexy thriller that will get your adrenaline pumping on all levels. A riveting breakout novel that will shoot Ms. Bruhns straight to bestsellerdom. Move over, boys, and see how it's really done!" -- Award-winning mystery author Tamar Myers

Bestselling romantic thriller writer Nina Bruhns has penned over twenty novels to date, selling over two million copies, translated into a dozen languages. Known for vivid settings, unique characters, and page-turning plot twists, Bruhns is by profession an archaeologist, has lived all over the world, and done fieldwork in Sudan, Egypt, Spain, Sweden, and USA. She now lives in Charleston, SC.

Ms. Bruhns' books have garnered numerous awards, including three prestigious Daphne du Maurier Awards of Excellence for Overall Best Mystery/Suspense Novel of the Year, five Dorothy Parker Awards, and a National Readers Choice Award, along with two Rita nominations.

Specially published to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and Dublin becoming a UNESCO World City of Literature in 2010 City-pick Dublin will be available from March 11, 2010.

Pat Mullan, who is Ireland Chair of International Thriller Writers, says "I am very pleased (and honored) to be included in this selection of fifty Irish writers.  My short thriller story, Tribunal, which was published in Dublin Noir by Akashic Books in the US and by Brandon in Ireland and the UK has been selected for inclusion.  Tribunal is the opening chapter of my novel, Last Days of the Tiger (available from my agent, Svetlana Pironko)."

The publisher, Oxygen Books, talks about city-pick Dublin:   A truly astonishing variety of writers evoke the myriad pleasures of this legendary writers' city, bringing Dubliners, famous, not so famous and famously fictional, to life.
city-pick Dublin is introduced by Orna Ross, well-known Dublin journalist and bestselling author of A Dance in Time, who offers her own fascinating perspective on the city and its writers as Dublin becomes a UNESCO World City of Literature in 2010.   'Okay, London might have its share of good writers ... but in a straight contest - great writers per head of population - isn't Dublin the clear winner? Haven't we four Nobel Prizewinners (Shaw, Yeats, Becket and Heaney) out of only a million or so inhabitants? As well as the world's best novelist (Joyce) who should have got one too?'