Latest Books: April 2010 Archives

In Eric Wilson's Valley of Bones, Romanian Jew, Gina Lazarescu, knows a showdown is imminent along the shores of the Dead Sea. She and her family must join forces with other immortals, fighting evil in Ezekiel's prophesied "valley of dry bones."

Vampires, gollums, and history collide in this rousing climax to the Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy.

"A heart-pounding tale with deep symbolism." --Scott Nicholson, author of The Red Church, They Hunger, and The Skull Ring

"Now this is the way to end a trilogy!" --Jake Chism, FictionAddict.com

"Gutsy, masterful storytelling." --Tosca Lee, author of Havah, and Demon

 New York Times bestselling author Eric Wilson has published ten novels and has over a million words in print. Many of his books explore the supernatural and the historical against complex, modern backdrops.

In P.A. Brown's L.A. Bytes, Los Angeles' Ste. Anne's Medical Center has been hacked by a brilliant, malicious cracker. Christopher Bellamere has been hired to find out who is behind the break in. When tampered medical records nearly kill his lover, Homicide Detective David Eric Laine, the stakes go up and Chris goes after the cracker with all his skills.

It quickly becomes clear the cracker's intentions go far beyond just breaking into a hospital's computer network. He has the skill to bring the city of Los Angeles to its knees. Can Chris and David stop him in time? Or will a digital Armageddon descend on the city of Angels?

From readers:

"... someone wants [Chris and David] gone and he wants to destroy them in the process. The end of the story is action-packed drama and excitement. P.A. Brown pens another masterful scenario that is intricate, riveting, and well planned."

"This has to be the best mystery I have read in my small scope of reading this genre... Superb, superb, superb."

Born in Canada, Pat Brown's approach to life was tempered in the forges of Los Angeles and after eight years in the City of Angels she was endowed with a fascination for the darker side of life and the professionals who patrol those mean streets. She considers those eight years a life time's worth of experience that she mines regularly in her novels. She is not afraid to explore the darker sides of her characters and the streets they inhabit, including the ones most people are afraid to walk down alone at night.

In Robert Gregory Browne's newest thriller, Down Among the Dead Men, the newspapers called it Casa de la Muerta, a grisly house of horrors in the Mexican desert where five Catholic nuns were brutally murdered. Freelance journalist Nick Vargas knows it's a terrific subject for a true crime book--and a chance to revitalize his ruined career. But when he arrives at the scene, he learns there may have been a sixth victim: an American woman whose body has disappeared. Now Nick is dead set on finding her...

L.A. prosecutor Beth Crawford thought it would be fun to join her sister on a cruise to Baja Norte. But when she meets a pair of seductive strangers onboard--and her sister mysteriously disappears--Beth follows her suspicions into a sinister world of crime, corruption, and dark superstition. Now, with the help of reporter Nick Vargas, Beth must enter the heart of evil itself, where all shall be revealed...on the Day of the Dead.

"Browne's thrillers are lean, mean, and thoroughly entertaining." -- Allison Brennan

Robert Gregory Browne is a Nicholl Award-winning screenwriter who, after years on the Hollywood roller coaster, fulfilled a lifelong dream by writing his first novel, Kiss Her Goodbye, followed by Whisper in the Dark and Kill Her Again--all available from St. Martins' Paperbacks. Raised in Honolulu, he now lives in California. To learn more, visit him on the Web at www.robertgregorybrowne.com.

In Dave Zeltserman's latest thriller, Killer, Leonard March walks free from jail after fourteen years' hard time served after turning state's witness against his Mafia boss Salvatore Lombard. It's only after Leonard is sentenced that the public learns that he was a Mob hitman with eighteen deaths to answer for.

Leonard is released to public outrage and media furor. He spends his time working as a janitor while looking over his shoulder, fearful of a vigilante attack or revenge hit from his former colleagues. At sixty-two and with plenty of time on his hands, he is at an age when most men grow reflective and attempt to understand their mark on the world. But for Leonard, while the threats to his safety are not imagined, his self-reflection may pose the greatest threat of all.

"Spare prose and assured pacing place this above most other contemporary noirs." - Publisher's Weekly

"With graphic imagery and exciting twists, this novel is impossible to put down and has a surprising ending. A brilliant read" - Aberdeen Press & Journal

"Killer is a major novel of crime." Ed Gorman

"This novel is everything hard-boiled fiction should be - compact, direct and disciplined, and concerned with humans rather than stereotypes. It is also, for all its violent subject matter, a quietly told story, which makes its tension all the more intense" - Mat Coward, Morning Star

Dave lives in the Boston area with his wife, Judy, and his short crime fiction has been published in many venues. His third novel, Small Crimes, was named by NPR as one of the 5 best crime and mystery novels of 2008. His novel, Pariah, was named by the Washington Post as one of the best books of 2009. Killer, the 3rd book in his 'man out of prison' noir trilogy will be published in the US this May. His upcoming novel, Outsourced, is currently in development by Impact Pictures and Constantin Film.