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Steve Hamilton

Alex McKnight #06 - Ice Run

<p class="description">Edgar Award-winner Steve Hamilton introduced one of the most compelling characters in modern fiction with Alex McKnight. Now Alex finds himself in the middle of a very strange mystery with much greater consequences than he ever anticipated... AN OLD MAN WITH A SECRET...It may be one of the worst winters in recent memory in Paradise, Michigan, but Alex McKnight is looking forward to spending some quality time with his new girlfriend, Natalie Reynaud, an officer from the Ontario Provincial Police. But a chance encounter with a mysterious old man, Simon Grant, turns chilling when he seems to know a lot about Natalie and her family. A BIZARRE NOTE...When Natalie and Alex return to their room later that evening, they discover the same hat the old man was wearing lying outside their room filled with ice and snow and containing a cryptic note: I know who you are! A day later, Simon Grant is found frozen to death in a snowdrift. A BLOOD FEUD FROM THE PASTNatalie and Alex are stunned. The mystery is just too much of a coincidence for Alex to ignore. His trail leads him to a blood feud buried decades ago in Natalie's family's past-an event that can still drive men to kill each other...www.minotaurbooks.com "Powerful suspense and a socko climax."-Booklist</p><

Steve Hamilton

Alex McKnight #07 - A Stolen Season

<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>The chill of Michigan's Upper Peninsula doesn't cool the action in Edgar-winner Hamilton's expertly paced seventh Alex McKnight novel (after 2005's <em>Ice Run</em>). On an unusually frigid Fourth of July night, the retired Detroit cop and his sometime partner, Leon Prudell, save three men from a boating accident in Lake Superior's Waishkey Bay. But the men return to accuse their rescuers of stealing a locked box off the boat, and Alex discovers that they're squeezing members of the Bay Mills Indian reservation for government-financed prescription painkillers. As Alex closes in on the dealers, he narrowly avoids death. Meanwhile, his long-distance girlfriend, Ontario police officer Natalie Reynaud, goes undercover in Toronto to ferret out an illegal arms dealer. When she pays Alex a surprise visit at his Paradise, Mich., cabin, their operations intersect with tragic results. Plot turnarounds and double-crosses ensure a startling conclusion. <br>Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. </p><h3>From Booklist</h3><p>Hamilton, who received the Edgar Award for his first mystery, <em>A Cold Day in Paradise</em> (1999), is now on his seventh installment in the series starring private eye Alex McKnight, who works as a cabin curator and sometimes private eye in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. McKnight has a familiar backstory for a private eye: he is a one-time cop with a troubled past (in McKnight's case, the trauma of having his partner killed). Hamilton, however, uses McKnight's break from his former life as a way of exploring his character's efforts to escape despair and find some semblance of meaning. He found at least some of that meaning in the last adventure, <em>Ice Run </em>(2004), in the form of a tentative love affair with a female cop. This time the action shuttles between McKnight's attempts to stop a prescription pain-killer drug ring in Paradise, Michigan, and his girlfriend's assignment to Toronto as an undercover gun dealer. Hamilton's gamble of putting the most exciting action offstage with the girlfriend pays off big-time here. Hair-raising suspense with poignant characterization. <em>Connie Fletcher</em><br><em>Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved</em></p></div><

Steve Hamilton

Alex McKnight #08 - Misery Bay

<div><h3>Amazon.com Review</h3><p>ALEX MCKNIGHT IS BACK in the long-awaited return of one of crime fiction's most critically acclaimed series.</p><p>On a frozen January night, a young man loops one end of a long rope over the branch of a tree. The other end he ties around his neck. A snowmobiler will find him thirty-six hours later, his lifeless eyes staring out at the endless cold water of Lake Superior. It happens in a lonely corner of the Upper Peninsula, in a place they call Misery Bay. <br>            Alex McKnight does not know this young man, and he won’t even hear about the suicide until another cold night, two months later and 250 miles away, when the door to the Glasgow Inn opens and the last person Alex would ever expect to see comes walking in to ask for his help.  <br>            What seems like a simple quest to find a few answers will turn into a nightmare of sudden violence and bloody revenge, and a race against time to catch a ruthless killer. McKnight knows all about evil, of course, having faced down a madman who killed his partner and left a bullet next to his heart. Mobsters, drug dealers, hit men—he’s seen them all, and they’ve taken away almost everything he’s ever loved. But none of them could have ever prepared him for the darkness he’s about to face.</p><p><strong>Author One-on-One: Steve Hamilton and Michael Koryta</strong> </p><p>In this Amazon exclusive, Steve Hamilton is interviewed by fellow thriller author Michael Koryta. The tables get turned when Hamilton interviews Koryta on the <em>The Ridge</em> page.</p><p><strong>Koryta:</strong> <em>Misery Bay</em> opens with relentless good cheer--a frigid night, a corpse dangling from a tree. And, back for the first time in a few years, Alex McKnight. Tell us a little about how it felt to be back with him from the writer's perspective.</p><p><strong>Hamilton:</strong> It was great to be back, for the simple reason that it had been so long. Almost five years between books! I hadn’t planned on being away from the series for so long, but I sorta ended up getting lost at sea there for a while. A standalone that just about kills you will do that.</p><p><strong>Koryta:</strong> You opened your career with seven straight Alex McKnight novels, and then followed with two standalones, including last year's <em>The Lock Artist</em>, which just won the Edgar for best novel. Did you always know you were going to return to Alex, or was there a time when you thought you were done?</p><p><strong>Hamilton:</strong> I knew that, after <em>A Stolen Season</em>, the last McKnight book, I really needed to take a break. And that Alex needed a break, too--as strange as that may sound to say about a fictional character. I just couldn’t bring myself to drag him out of his cabin, into some new sort of trouble again. Does that make any sense?</p><p><strong>Koryta:</strong> Absolutely! I know you don't write from an outline. What's something from <em>Misery Bay</em> that stands out as a favorite unanticipated development?</p><p><strong>Hamilton:</strong> I guess that would have to be the relationship that develops between Alex and his old nemesis, Chief Roy Maven. I knew they’d have to unlikely allies in this book, but actually having them together for so long, I was surprised to see how well that worked. I wouldn’t call them good friends or anything at this point, but they definitely had to come to a new understanding about each other.</p><p><strong>Koryta:</strong> We both got our publishing start through the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America contest. So tell me: who's your all-time favorite fictional detective, and who is a newer discovery that you're excited about?</p><p><strong>Hamilton:</strong> All-time favorite fictional detective? Still has to be Lawrence Block’s Matt Scudder, I think. As far as a newer discovery... If you’re talking about a new private eye, I honestly don’t know of one right now. The genre has been down a little bit lately, and I haven’t read anything new and great for while. (Maybe this year’s contest winner? There’s always hope!)</p><p><strong>Koryta:</strong> As I look over my shoulder at the Steve Hamilton section in my bookshelf, I can't help but notice some repeated themes in the titles: winter, north, ice, cold, wind. And, oh yeah, misery. Be honest: are you really that inspired by cold weather, or is this evidence that you desperately want to move to the tropics?</p><p><strong>Hamilton:</strong> To me, when I think about “hardboiled” or “noir,” I think about cold. When just going outside to your car is an act of courage, that has to say something about you already, right? I know that Raymond Chandler’s idea of hardboiled was a sun-baked street in Los Angeles, but for me there’s just something about a frozen lake and a cold wind that will turn you inside-out.</p><p><strong>Koryta:</strong> I’m in sun-drenched Los Angeles right now and it’s tough to argue that point. This is your 10th novel. It has been 13 years since your Edgar-winning debut, <em>A Cold Day in Paradise</em>. What has changed in your perspective and approach to writing in that time and throughout those books?</p><p><strong>Hamilton:</strong> Well, it doesn’t get any easier. Or at least it shouldn’t, or else you’re doing it wrong. And I’m STILL waiting for a great idea for a book to come floating by and land on my shoulder like a some kind of beautiful butterfly. These authors who have all these great ideas that just come to them out of nowhere, I want to slap them. If I have one sorta half-baked idea that might get me through one chapter, I’m lucky.</p><p><strong>Koryta:</strong> What's next--another Alex or another standalone? Give us a taste.</p><p><strong>Hamilton:</strong> The publisher really likes this return to Alex thing, so they want some more of that. More importantly, I’m finding it’s pretty great to be back in Paradise. So for the next two books, at least, it’s Alex McKnight all the way! I know I’ll take breaks again and try new things, but it’s nice to know I can always to come back to see what he’s up to next.</p><h3>Review</h3><p><strong>Praise for <em>Misery Bay:</em></strong></p><p>"_Misery Bay_ showcases Hamilton's dark vision and his talents as a sturdy plotter. ... Hamilton's view of the harsh, bleak landscape of winter in Michigan's Upper Peninsula will have readers grabbing their coats and gloves as the frigid air seems to seep through the pages. <em>Misery Bay</em> is like a visit with an old friend with whom you can't wait to catch up."--_Sun-Sentinal_</p><p>"A triumphant return for McKnight. <em>Misery Bay</em> is as good as the previous ones in this critically acclaimed series. The plot is as suspenseful as they come, with lots of unpredictable twists and turns."--_The Associated Press_</p><p>"Superb.... Assured prose, a thrilling plot, and a surprising, satisfying conclusion make this a winner."--_Publishers Weekly _(starred review)</p><p>"Hamilton's prose is straight and clean, as devoid of pretense as the author's name — Steve, just Steve, with no accompanying initials. The book's complexity comes in Hamilton's gift for layers and the slow reveal."--_Seattle Times_</p><p>"The best mystery novel I’ve read in a while."--John J. Miller, <em>The National Review</em></p><p>"I'm often asked to recommend a detective series readers might have missed.  This is it. Hamilton has been flying under the radar with his Alex McKnight series for too long. <em>Misery Bay</em> will change that, I hope."--Harlan Coben</p><p>"This new entry in Hamilton's Alex McKnight series is one of his best. ... You'll not put this down willingly, and when you do, you'll still be thinking about it."--_Romantic Times_</p><p>__ </p><p>"Outstanding."--_Yahoo! Shine_</p><p>__ </p><p>"A solid, character- and conflict-driven procedural with one of his twistier plots."--_The Boston Globe_ </p><p>"Hamilton is as good as anyone out there when it comes to fast-paced dark mysteries."--_City Pulse_</p><p><strong>Praise for Steve Hamilton:</strong></p><p>“Hamilton’s compelling, vigorous prose doesn’t allow the option of taking a break.” —_Los Angeles__ Times </p><p><em>“Steve Hamilton writes the kind of stories that manly men and tough-minded women can’t resist.” —</em>The New York Times </p><p>_"Hamilton writes tough, passionate novels.... This is crime writing at its very best.” —George Pelecanos </p><p>“Hamilton gives us mysteries within mysteries as well as a hero who simply won’t be beaten down.” —_The Miami Herald </p><p>_“Already one of our best writers.” —Laura Lippman </p><p>“Hamilton’s prose moves us smoothly along and his characters are marvelously real.” —_Publishers Weekly </p><p><em>“Hamilton’s prose...remains an unself-consciously terse pleasure.” —</em>Entertainment Weekly </p><p><em>“Hamilton... paints a rich and vivid portrait of a world where the chill in the air is often matched by that of the soul.” —</em>The Providence Journal </p><p><em>“Hamilton never misses a beat.” —</em>Rocky Mountain News_</p><p>"I really like his main character, Alex McKnight, and I'm ready to re-visit Paradise, Michigan."--James Patterson on <em>North of Nowhere</em></p></div><

Jason Henderson

Alex Van Helsing

Joe Haldeman

All My Sins Remembered

<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Otto McGavin is peaceful and idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist, who seeks employment with the Confederacion because he believes in it and its mission to protect the rights of humans and nonhumans. The only problem is that the Confederacion needs him as a Prime Operator for its secret service, the TBII, and the TBII wants Otto as a spy, a thief and an assassin. It's not, of course, a problem for the Confederacion, which simply uses immersion therapy and hypnosis for Otto's training, and then sends him out in deep cover on a variety of dangerous missions on a number of bizarre worlds. But for Otto, it's a different matter: what he has to witness and what he is forced to do take a terrible toll on him . . . </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Joe Haldeman was born in Oklahoma in 1943 and studied physics and astronomy before serving as a combat engineer in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and won a Purple Heart. The Forever War was his first SF novel and it won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, a feat which The Forever Peace repeated. He is also the author of, among others, Mindbridge, All My Sins Remembered, Worlds, Worlds Apart and Worlds Enough and Time. </p><

Tate Hallaway

Almost Final Curtain

IN HIGH SCHOOL, THE REAL DRAMA HAPPENS BACKSTAGE . . .Ever since high school student Anastasija Parker discovered she was vampire royalty, her life has been sort of crazy. The half vampire/half witch just wants some normalcy, and trying out For The spring musical seems like the perfect fix. But things are a little different this year since Nikolai Kirov vampire hunter in training and Ana's sometimes boyfriend and his rock band are lending the musical a harder edge.But in between worrying about tryouts and her uncertain status with a boyfriend who's learning the best way to kill her, Ana has an even bigger problem: the magical ancient talisman that stands between vampire freedom and slavery to witches has been stolen from the Minnesota Historical Society. Now Ana has to track down the dangerous talisman before someone uses it to make this year's curtain call her last.Praise for Almost to Die For'Hallaway's witty, fast-paced series starter cheerfully details the horrors of magical war and high school life.'- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)'Put me under its spell and didn't let go! A great story and characters I can't wait to meet again.'- NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR RACHEL CAINE'Take the Princess Diaries, sprinkle on some Charmed and a dash of Twilight, and you're ready to enjoy Almost to Die For.'- JUSTINE<

Linda Howard

Almost Forever

Elizabeth Hay

Alone in the Classroom

<div><p class="description">SUMMARY:</p> <p class="description" style="text-align: justify;">In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day. </p> <p class="description" style="text-align: justify;">Connie’s niece, Anne, tells the story. Impelled by curiosity about her dynamic, adventurous aunt and her more conventional mother, she revisits Connie’s past and her mother’s broken childhood. In the process, she unravels the enigma of Parley Burns and the mysterious (and unrelated) deaths of two young girls. As the novel moves deeper into their lives, the triangle of principal, teacher, student opens out into other emotional triangles—aunt, niece, lover; mother, daughter, granddaughter—until a sudden, capsizing love thrusts Anne herself into a newly independent life.</p></div><

Francesca Hawley

Alpha vs. Alpha

Nancy Haddock

Always the Vampire

It's not easy being a dutiful maid of honor when you're a vampire in the Sunshine State... Cesca Marinelli has been slacking on her duties as a vampire princess, but she will be the best maid of honor ever for Maggie's Victorian wedding. However, when her mostly-human honey, Saber, falls ill due to a magical construct called the Void, she knows she'll have to go beyond the call of bridesmaid duty... The Void is affecting every supernatural being in Cesca's afterlife, including her shapeshifter ex, Triton. To counter the Void's reign of terror, Cesca must fully summon her vampire powers-which may lead to her own doom.<

Donald Hamilton

The Ambushers

<h3 /><p>The top-ranking American Secret Agent rides again with good writing, slick plotting and stimulating characters. "All tartly flavored with wit," says Book Week. Another in the classic Matt Helm series. Rated R for violence. </p><

Odo Hirsch

Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp

A funny, touching, thought-provoking novel, peopled with memorable characters and pulsing with ideas, from the inimitable author of Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman and Hazel Green. Amelia Dee lives in the green house on Marburg Street, where a rare bronze lamp hangs outside her bedroom door. No one knows where it came from or how it got there. Only she, Amelia thinks, knows the secret that the lamp contains. Bu she’s wrong.When Mr Vishwanath introduces Amelia to the Princess Parvin Kha-Douri, the puzzle of the lamp becomes even deeper. Where has the princess seen it before? Why is she so bitter and angry? And most importantly, what should Amelia do about it?In solving the mystery, Amelia risks revealing a secret of her own.Odo Hirsch is at his enchanting best in this funny, poignant story full of memorable characters and resonant ideas. Fans of Antonio S and Hazel Green will love Amelia Dee.’I have only 6 words for this book: Best book I have ever read!’ - Inez, 12<

David Hosp

Among Thieves

Douglas Hulick

Among Thieves

<h3>Product Description</h3><p>Drothe has been a member of the Kin for years, rubbing elbows with thieves and murderers in the employ of a crime lord while smuggling relics on the side. But when an ancient book falls into his hands, Drothe finds himself in possession of a relic capable of bringing down emperors-a relic everyone in the underworld would kill to obtain. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p>Douglas Hulick has been reading fantasy literature for almost as long as he can remember. He suspects this penchant for far-away lands of yore led, in part, to his acquiring a B.A. and M.A. in Medieval History, and likewise to his subsequent study and teaching of European Historical Martial Arts. It most certainly resulted in his authoring several short stories, as well as, now, a novel. Douglas reads and writes and plays with a rapier in Minnesota, where he is often surprisingly tolerated by his wife (who also fences) and two sons (who do not). All of them read. </p><

James P Hogan

The Anguished Dawn

<div><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>This clumsy sequel to Hogan's Cradle of Saturn will produce more anguished readers than satisfied ones. Maverick engineer Landen Keene has led his band of survivors from an Earth where civilization has been wrecked by the passage of a mysterious planetary body named Athena. They land among the Kronians, human settlers in the asteroid belt and Saturn's moons who have developed a utopian society and (conveniently) anti-gravity. Unfortunately, some of the other survivors from Earth, led by Kurt Zeigler, form a faction called the Pragmatists, who want to jettison Kronian ideals in favor of competition, money, militarism and a resettlement of Earth. With the help of the handful of surviving and implausibly primitive inhabitants of Earth, under the boy war-chief Rakki, the Pragmatists are making an alarming amount of progress. Luckily, the quick-thinking Keene can turn to Kronian loyalists who've infiltrated the Pragmatist ranks and to Pragmatist dissidents for help in thwarting the menace. Big action (or at least disaster) scenes don't make up for uneven pacing, the fringe cosmology of Immanuel Velikovsky, wooden characterization and excessive exposition. <br>Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>Product Description</h3><p>After a near miss by a white-hot protoplanet, Earth is devastated, civilisation as we know it has ended, and the survivors are reverting to barbarism. Only the Kronian colony on Saturn's moons preserves technology and human culture. Landen Keene, taken off the Earth before the disaster, is a key figure in the Kronian efforts to rebuild civilization on Earth. Then he finds that other survivors from Earth miss the power they once Wielded, and are bent on restoring the old privileges and hierarchy, with themselves at the top. And if subtle methods fail, they won't hesitate to use the violent tactics that served them well back on Earth... </p></div><

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #01 - Guilty Pleasures

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #02 - The Laughing Corpse

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #03 - Circus of the Damned

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #04 - The Lunatic Cafe

EDITORIAL REVIEW: And you don't fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you're a preternatural expert, like me. My business brings me up close and personal with all shapes and sizes of monsters. And not ALL of them want to kill me. Take, for instance, the local pack of lycanthropes - they're werewolves to you. A number of them are missing, and they've come to me for help. Maybe because I'm dating the leader of the pack. I've survived a lot - from jealous vampires to killer zombies - but this love thing may kill me yet. Look out for information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk.<

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #05 - Bloody Bones

EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** A look that kills for the fifth Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel. ** Here's a job to strain even Anita Blake's capabilities: raising an entire graveyard of two-hundred-year-old corpses.<

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #06 - The Killing Dance

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #07 - Burnt Offerings

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #08 - Blue Moon

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #09 - Obsidian Butterfly

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #10 - Narcissus in chains

EDITORIAL REVIEW: "I've never read a writer with a more fertile imagination - and fewer inhibitions about using it." (Diana Gabaldon) Six months of celibacy have made Anita crave the two men in her life like never before. But merging their powers together will give this mortal woman a taste of immortal hunger that she'll never be able to forget...<

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #11 - Cerulean Sins

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #12 - Incubus Dreams

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #13 - Micah

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #14 - Danse Macabre

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #15 - The Harlequin

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Readers haven't seen anything yet-new in the "fabulously imagined series" (*Publishers Weekly*) from the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author. Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden to speak of The Harlequin unless you've been contacted. And to be contacted by The Harlequin is to be under sentence of death. Long-time rivals for Anita's affections, Jean-Claude, Master Vampire of the City, and Richard, alpha-werewolf, will need to become allies. Shapeshifters Nathaniel and Micah will have to step up their support. And then there's Edward. In this situation, Anita knows that she needs to call the one man who has always been there for her...<

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #16 - Blood Noir

EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Readers can’t get enough of the #1 *New York Times* bestselling author.** A favor for Jason, vampire hunter Anita Blake’s werewolf lover, puts her in the center of a fullblown scandal that threatens master-vampire Jean- Claude’s reign—and makes her a pawn in an ancient vampire queen’s new rise to power.<

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #17 - Skin Trade

EDITORIAL REVIEW: **A proven series with a hot new look. The #1 bestselling author returns with her most anticipated novel yet.** When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Ten officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal style. Anita heads to Vegas, where's she's joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward. It's a good thing he always has her back, because when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses "tiger" too strongly to ignore it. The weretigers are very powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone important the wrong way just got a lot higher.<

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #18 - Flirt

EDITORIAL REVIEW: ** The *New York Times* bestselling series. ** When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn't the miracle he thinks he needs. The creature that Anita could coerce to step out of the late Mrs. Bennington's grave would not be the lovely Mrs. Bennington. Not really. And not for long.<

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #19 - Bullet

Laurell K Hamilton

Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter #20 - Hit List

<div><h3>Product Description</h3><p><strong>The #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series continues! </strong> </p><p>A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect "monsters" are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer. </p><h3>About the Author</h3><p><strong>Laurell K. Hamilton</strong> is a full-time writer. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri with her family. </p></div><

Matt Hults

Anything Can Be Dangerous

Anything Can be Dangerous contains four amazing stories, plus a preview to the highly praised novel Husk. The stories include: Anything can be Dangerous ~ the simple things in life can kill. Through the Valley of Death ~ a dark vampire story that will make you remember fear. The Finger ~ zombie literature has never been so extraordinary. Feeding Frenzy ~ lunchtime in a place called hell.<

Lori Handeland

Apocalypse Happens

<h3>Review</h3><p>Praise for <strong>DOOMSDAY CAN WAIT</strong></p><p>“A striking series…with a decidedly sexy edge. Readers again view the world through the eyes of ex-cop turned humanity’s savior Liz Phoenix [in] this complex mythology.”—<em>Romantic Times BOOKreviews </em>(4 stars) </p><p>“Awesome.”—Heidi Betts, bestselling author of <em>Tangled Up in Love</em></p><p>“We really enjoyed it…and are looking forward to [more] in this series.”—Robots &amp; Vamps</p><p>“Cool…exciting.”—Lurv à la Mode</p><p>“Fascinating, vivid, and gritty.”—<em>Fallen Angel Reviews</em></p><p>“Handeland does an amazing job of packing so much punch into the pages of this story without ever leaving the reader behind. <em>Doomsday Can Wait</em> ups the paranormal and emotional content of the series, adding strength to the heroine and a more human touch to one of her closest allies.  This is an action packed series that urban fantasy readers should thoroughly enjoy, and I’m looking forward to seeing where the author takes us next.”—<em>Darque Reviews</em>   </p><p>“Handeland pens another tale that captured my heart…with captivating characters[and]an absorbing plot that will keep readers on the edge of their seats.”—<em>Romance Junkies </em></p><h3>From the Back Cover</h3><p><em> Let bestselling and RITA Award–winning author Lori Handeland take you into a dark and seductive world—one that might just face its final destruction…</em></p><p><strong>SHE IS THE LEADER OF THE LIGHT</strong></p><p>Elizabeth Phoenix is one of a select few with the power to battle those who have escaped from the darkest level of hell—demons bent on destroying humanity and reclaiming earth once and for all.  Liz is determined to stop yet another Doomsday. But this time, it’s going to be more difficult than ever because someone she thought was dead isn’t dead anymore…and is bound and determined to destroy Liz and everyone she loves in the upcoming Apocalypse.</p><p><strong>BUT CAN SHE CONTROL THE DARKNESS WITHIN HERSELF?</strong></p><p>Liz has arrived in Los Angeles to ferret out a nest of varcolacs: half human, half dragon creatures who crave the destruction of the sun and moon. But before she can prevent the kind of eclipse that would bring the world to an end, Liz must mine the depths of her own heart. She and her former lover Jimmy Sanducci have some personal demons to battle—and there’s always her mentor, the Navajo shaman Sawyer. Is he on their side or isn’t he? In the end, the three of them must find a way to fight together…or perish alone.</p><p><em /> “Intriguing urban fantasy…immense suspense.”<strong><em><em>—</em>Publishers Weekly<em /> </em></strong></p><p><strong>“Sexy, dangerous, and hot as hell.”—L. A. Banks</strong></p><

Robert Harris

Archangel

SUMMARY: Archangel is a remarkably literate novel--and simultaneously a gripping thriller--that explores the lingering presence of Stalin amidst the corruption of modern-day Russia. Robert Harris (whose previous works include Enigma and Fatherland) elevates his tale by choosing a narrator with an outsider's perspective but an insider's knowledge of Soviet history: Fluke Kelso, a middle-aged scholar of Soviet Communism with a special interest in the dark secrets of Joseph Stalin. For years, rumors have circulated about a notebook that the aging dictator kept in his final years. In a chance encounter in Moscow, Kelso meets Papu Rapava, a former NKVD guard who claims that he was at Stalin's deathbed and says that he assisted Politburo member Beria in hiding the black oilskin notebook just as Stalin was passing. Before Kelso can get more details, Rapava disappears, but the scholar is energized by the evidence Rapava has provided. As Kelso begins to pursue his historical prize, however, his investigation ensnares him in a living web of Stalinist terror and murder. It soon becomes clear that the notebook is the key to a doorway hiding many secrets, old and new. Harris's understanding of Soviet and modern Russian is impressive. The novel rests on a seamless blend of fact and fiction that places real figures from Soviet history alongside Kelso and his fictional colleagues. Especially disturbing are the transcripts from interrogations and the excerpt from Kelso's lectures on Stalin; the documents provide chilling evidence to support Kelso's claim: "There can now be no doubt that it is Stalin rather than Hitler who is the most alarming figure of the twentieth century." --Patrick O'Kelley<

Karen Hancock

Arena

<p>Callie Hayes is living a life of fear and disillusionment when she volunteers for a psychology experiment that promises to turn her life around. As her orientation proceeds, Callie becomes frightened by the secrecy and evasion she encounters. When she demands to be released from the program, she is suddenly dropped into a terrifying alien world and into a perilous battle between good and evil. With limited resources and only a few cryptic words to guide her, Callie embarks on a life-changing journey. Will she decipher the plans the Benefactor has established for her escape, or will she succumb to the deception of the Arena?<

Anthony Horowitz

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