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  • 2nd Chance
    by James Patterson
    ISBN 1417619449 (1-4176-1944-9)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Francisco's homicide squad. But there's an odd detail she finds even more disturbing: both victims were related to city cops. A symbol glimpsed at both murder scenes leads to a racist hate group, but the taunting killer strikes again and again, leaving deliberate clues and eluding the police ever more cleverly. In the meantime, each of the women has a personal stake at risk--and the killer knows who they are.

    2nd Chance speeds along at a Formula One pace through many tight curves, but unlike recent entries in the Alex Cross series, it doesn't sacrifice good characters to a twisted plot. Lindsay's the star, but there's a fine esprit de corps among the four women, who are even better developed here than in the first book. What makes them both convincing and interesting as a criminal-justice juggernaut is their willingness to stick their necks out, even if they suffer for it. If you haven't picked up a James Patterson novel in a while, this is a great time to start anew. --Barrie Trinkle [via]

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  • Angels & Demons
    by Dan Brown
    ISBN 1416524797 (1-4165-2479-7)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).

    Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.

    Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It's tasty. --Kelly Flynn [via]

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  • Angels and Demons
    by Dan Brown
    ISBN 0739326759 (0-7393-2675-9)
    Softcover, Random House Large Print

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    It takes guts to write a novel that combines an ancient secret brotherhood, the Swiss Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, a papal conclave, mysterious ambigrams, a plot against the Vatican, a mad scientist in a wheelchair, particles of antimatter, jets that can travel 15,000 miles per hour, crafty assassins, a beautiful Italian physicist, and a Harvard professor of religious iconology. It takes talent to make that novel anything but ridiculous. Kudos to Dan Brown (Digital Fortress) for achieving the nearly impossible. Angels & Demons is a no-holds-barred, pull-out-all-the-stops, breathless tangle of a thriller--think Katherine Neville's The Eight (but cleverer) or Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (but more accessible).

    Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is shocked to find proof that the legendary secret society, the Illuminati--dedicated since the time of Galileo to promoting the interests of science and condemning the blind faith of Catholicism--is alive, well, and murderously active. Brilliant physicist Leonardo Vetra has been murdered, his eyes plucked out, and the society's ancient symbol branded upon his chest. His final discovery, antimatter, the most powerful and dangerous energy source known to man, has disappeared--only to be hidden somewhere beneath Vatican City on the eve of the election of a new pope. Langdon and Vittoria, Vetra's daughter and colleague, embark on a frantic hunt through the streets, churches, and catacombs of Rome, following a 400-year-old trail to the lair of the Illuminati, to prevent the incineration of civilization.

    Brown seems as much juggler as author--there are lots and lots of balls in the air in this novel, yet Brown manages to hurl the reader headlong into an almost surreal suspension of disbelief. While the reader might wish for a little more sardonic humor from Langdon, and a little less bombastic philosophizing on the eternal conflict between religion and science, these are less fatal flaws than niggling annoyances--readers should have no trouble skimming past them and immersing themselves in a heck of a good read. "Brain candy" it may be, but my! It's tasty. --Kelly Flynn [via]

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  • The Ape Who Guards the Balance
    by Elizabeth Peters
    ISBN 1568955979 (1-56895-597-9)
    Hardcover, Southgate Publishers

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    Named 1998 Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America, Elizabeth Peters is also a doctor of Egyptology whose mysteries have submerged readers in the vivid turn-of-the-century world of Amelia Peabody. In The Ape Who Guards the Balance Peters captures the immediacy of uncovering a new Egyptian tomb within the context of a tightly plotted murder investigation involving the entire Emerson Peabody clan. The characters, including Amelia's husband, Radcliffe Emerson, and her gifted son, Ramses, are meticulously drawn. As in previous novels the dialogue is reminiscent of The Thin Man. When a man calls out to passing suffragettes, "You ought to be 'ome washin' your 'usband's trousers!" Ramses shoots back, "I assure you, sir, the lady's trousers are not in such sore need of laundering as your own." Peters also toys with differing narrative perspectives, and Ramses emerges as a possible successor to his mother's legacy of crime solving.

    The Ape Who Guards the Balance begins in 1907 in England where Amelia is attending a suffragettes' rally outside the home of Mr. Geoffrey Romer of the House of Commons. It seems Romer is one of the few remaining private collectors of Egyptian antiquities, and a series of bizarre events at the protest soon embroil Amelia in grave personal danger. Suspecting that the Master Criminal, Sethos, is behind their problems, the Emerson Peabodys hasten to Egypt to continue their studies in the Valley of Kings where they soon acquire a papyrus of the Book of the Dead. As with past seasons, however, their archaeological expedition is interrupted. The murdered body of a woman is found in the Nile. Ramses, Radcliffe, and Amelia all have their theories as to the origin of the crime, but their own lives might soon be at stake if the cult of Thoth and their ancient book is, indeed, involved.

    Other Peabody mysteries include Seeing a Large Cat, The Hippopotamus Pool, The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, The Deeds of the Disturber, Lion in the Valley, The Curse of the Pharaohs, and Crocodile on the Sandbank. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]

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  • Ludlum, Robert: The Apocalypse Watch
    The Apocalypse Watch
    by Robert Ludlum
    ISBN 1568952384 (1-56895-238-4)
    Hardcover, Thomson Gale

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  • Grafton, Sue: B Is for Burglar
    B Is for Burglar
    by Sue Grafton
    ISBN 0708917860 (0-7089-1786-0)
    Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books

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    Beverly Danziger looked like an expensive, carefully wrapped package from a good but conservative shop. Only her compulsive chatter hinted at the nervousness beneath her cool surface. It was a nervousness out of all proportion to the problem she placed before Kinsey Millhone. There was an absent sister. A will to be settled--a matter of only a few thousand dollars. Mrs. Danziger did not look as if she needed a few thousand dollars. And she didn't seem like someone longing for a family reunion.

    Still, business was slow, and even a private investigator has bills to pay. Millhone took the job. It looked routine.

    Elaine Boldt's wrappings were a good deal flashier than her sister's, but they signaled the same thing: The lady had money. A rich widow in her early forties, she owned a condo in Boca Raton and another in Santa Teresa. According to the manager of the California building, she was last seen draped in her $12,000 lynx coat heading for Boca Raton. According to the manager of the Florida building, she never got there. But someone else had and she was camping out illegally in Mrs. Boldt's apartment. The job was beginning to seem a bit less routine.

    It turned tricky when Beverly Danziger ordered Millhone to drop the case and it took on an ominous quality when Aubrey Danziger surfaced, making all kinds of wild accusations about his wife. But it only became sinister when Millhone learned that just days before Elaine Boldt went missing, her next-door neighbor and bridge partner had been murdered and the killer was still at large.

    A house destroyed by arson. A brutally murdered a woman. A missing lynx coat. An apartment burgled of valueless papers, another ransacked in a melée of mindless destruction. And more murder. As Millhone digs deeper into the case, she finds herself in a nightmarish hall of mirrors in which reality is distorted by illusion and nothing--except danger--is quite what it seems.
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  • The Best Revenge
    by Stephen White
    ISBN 1587244608 (1-58724-460-8)
    Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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    Tom Clone's stay on death row is over, thanks to new evidence uncovered by Kelda James, a young FBI agent whose efforts on Clone's behalf have not exactly endeared her to her colleagues. Referred by that same agent to psychologist Alan Gregory, Clone is struggling to adapt to life outside prison. But others who believe he got off on a technicality don't agree that the former medical student deserves his freedom, and they will go to any lengths to make sure he's punished accordingly for the crime of which he was once accused. There are some surprising plot twists here, but more interesting is Gregory's midlife crisis and his declining interest in his work: as his partner responds when he voices doubts about his efficacy as a therapist, "Those are the bricks we lay. If you've started hating the bricks, maybe it's time to reconsider being a brick layer." Certainly Gregory gets himself into more sinister and frightening scrapes than most shrinks, and this is one of his strangest cases. The Best Revenge is a solid, well-reasoned thriller, set in the marvelously drawn Colorado landscape the author has made his own, with guest appearances by minor figures familiar to readers of this increasingly popular psychological suspense series. --Jane Adams [via]

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  • Paretsky, Sara: Bitter Medicine
    Bitter Medicine
    by Sara Paretsky
    ISBN 044023476X (0-440-23476-X)
    Softcover, Bantam Books

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    Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski knows from the start that Consuelo Alvarado's baby is trouble.  Consuelo is sixteen.  Diabetic.  And the daughter of a friend.  When she goes into labor too early, even V.I.'s wild drive to get her to the hospital can't save either Consuelo or her child.  Soon V.I. is investigating possible malpractice at the emergency room--and falling for a doctor who works there.  Mixing business and love is always bad medicine, but V.I. finds herself listening to her heart, not her head.  And when a brutal murder and the violent destruction of a women's clinic put her at the center of a very dirty conspiracy, justice may be the only remedy for a hurt that cuts deep...and chills right to the bone.... [via]

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  • Paretsky, Sara: Blacklist
    Blacklist
    by Sara Paretsky
    ISBN 0451209699 (0-451-20969-9)
    Softcover, Signet

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    Privilege, politics, and perfidy jointly propel the circuitous plot of Blacklist, Sara Paretsky's 11th novel featuring tenacious Chicago private-eye V.I. Warshawski. By the time this story runs its course, V.I. will have harbored an alleged Arab terrorist, resurrected the ghosts of America's 1950s anti-Communist hysteria, and questioned the integrity of a man she once admired "to the point of hero worship." In other words, it's a typical case for this hard-headed, sarcastic, and perpetually sleep-deprived sleuth.

    Still suffering from "exhaustion of the spirit" in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, V.I. is hired to find out who may be sneaking into a vacated suburban mansion. Geraldine Graham, the home's 91-year-old former owner, who still lives nearby, claims she's seen lights in the attic at night. Our heroine suspects this is simply a bid by the wealthy dowager for greater attention, but agrees to do some nocturnal prowling--only to stumble (literally) across the body of a dead black journalist, Marcus Whitby, in the estates ornamental pond and encounter a teenage girl fleeing the scene. The girl turns out to be Catherine Bayard, the granddaughter of Calvin Bayard, an unapologetically liberal book publisher who survived a hounding by the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee in the '50s without being blacklisted like so many of his authors. Digging deeper, V.I. learns that Whitby was doing research for a book about an African-American dancer and anthropologist who had enjoyed Bayard's support before she too was branded a Communist. Was Whitby killed en route to visit Bayard, one of Graham's neighbors--and a man who has strangely vanished from public view? And is there any connection between this murder and the disappearance of an Egyptian dishwasher, or the recent demise of a right-wing attorney and Bayard foe, in whose apartment V.I. is attacked by an intruder?

    Except for a few astounding turns of luck (including the 11th-hour discovery of a revealing audiotape left in a car's player), Paretsky rolls out a credible yarn here, enriched by meticulous character development and an agreeably ambiguous conclusion. The author's intention to link McCarthy-era abuses with post-9/11 government assaults on civil rights is obvious, without being didactic, and it adds currency to a fictional investigation that's already rife with sex, betrayal, and long-held secrets among the rich. It's good to see that V.I. the P.I. hasn't lost the compassion or righteousness that first made her attractive two decades ago, in Indemnity Only. --J. Kingston Pierce [via]

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  • Blood Work
    by Michael Connelly
    ISBN 0613236882 (0-613-23688-2)
    Hardcover, Bt Bound

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    Michael Connelly has been attracting fans by the droves with his hard-boiled, edgy thrillers. A former crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Connelly combines a poet's ear for language with a deep understanding of the criminal mind to create dark, dramatic stories that raise the thriller genre to a new level.

    In Blood Work, Connelly introduces a new character, Terry McCaleb, who was a top man at the FBI until a heart ailment forced his early retirement. Now he lives a quiet life, nursing his new heart and restoring the boat on which he lives in Los Angeles Harbor. Although he isn't looking for any excitement, when Graciela Rivers asks him to investigate her sister Gloria's death, her story hooks him immediately: the new heart beating in McCaleb's chest is Gloria's.

    As McCaleb investigates the evidence in the case, the suspected randomness of the crime gives way to an unsettling suspicion of a twisted intelligence behind the murder. Soon McCaleb finds himself on the trail of a killer more horrifying than anything he ever encountered before. [via]

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  • Gerritsen, Tess: Bloodstream
    Bloodstream
    by Tess Gerritsen
    ISBN 0671016768 (0-671-01676-8)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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  • Cornwell, Patricia: Blow Fly
    Blow Fly
    by Patricia Cornwell
    ISBN 0754087298 (0-7540-8729-8)
    Hardcover, Chivers Press

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    A New York Times Bestselling Author

    The golden touch that has marked Patricia Cornwell's run of number-one bestsellers continues with this arresting new novel featuring Kay Scarpetta, one of thriller fiction's most charismatic and passionate characters. In Blow Fly, Scarpetta steps over the threshold of a new life after her work as Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner comes to a jarring end. Then she receives chilling news: Jean-Baptiste Chandonne -- the vicious and unrepentant Wolfman -- has asked to see her. [via]

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  • The Body in the Big Apple
    by Katherine Hall Page
    ISBN 0688157483 (0-688-15748-3)
    Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers

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    In The Body in the Big Apple, Faith Sibley Fairchild returns to solve her first mystery ever. Set during Faith's earlier days as a young, single career woman living in New York City, this exciting urban adventure is loaded with blackmail, intrigue, and murder.

    Thriving on the success of her new catering company, Faith runs into former classmate Emma Stanstead while catering an exclusive party on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Emma is terrified, and soon Faith is caught up in a desperate race to discover who's threatening to reveal the dark secret of Emma's past--one that would quickly put an end to her husband's fast-rising political career--before it's too late. But it isn't long before Faith realizes that Emma's life is in more danger than her reputation. Faith's search takes her from Central Park to the Lower East Side as time runs out to catch a killer.

    With plotting that The New York Times Book Review calls "smartly executed," the recipes (all featuring apples this time) that have won Katherine Hall Page a devoted readership, and a skeleton in every closet, The Body in the Big Apple will delight Page's devoted readership and those new to this award-winning mystery series.In The Body in the Big Apple, Faith Sibley Fairchild returns to solve her first mystery ever. Set during Faith's earlier days as a young, single career woman living in New York City, this exciting urban adventure is loaded with blackmail, intrigue, and murder.

    Thriving on the success of her new catering company, Faith runs into former classmate Emma Stanstead while catering an exclusive party on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Emma is terrified, and soon Faith is caught up in a desperate race to discover who's threatening to reveal the dark secret of Emma's past--one that would quickly put an end to her husband's fast-rising political career--before it's too late. But it isn't long before Faith realizes that Emma's life is in more danger than her reputation. Faith's search takes her from Central Park to the Lower East Side as time runs out to catch a killer.

    With plotting that The New York Times Book Review calls "smartly executed," the recipes (all featuring apples this time) that have won Katherine Hall Page a devoted readership, and a skeleton in every closet, The Body in the Big Apple will delight Page's devoted readership and those new to this award-winning mystery series.In The Body in the Big Apple, Faith Sibley Fairchild returns to solve her first mystery ever. Set during Faith's earlier days as a young, single career woman living in New York City, this exciting urban adventure is loaded with blackmail, intrigue, and murder.

    Thriving on the success of her new catering company, Faith runs into former classmate Emma Stanstead while catering an exclusive party on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Emma is terrified, and soon Faith is caught up in a desperate race to discover who's threatening to reveal the dark secret of Emma's past--one that would quickly put an end to her husband's fast-rising political career--before it's too late. But it isn't long before Faith realizes that Emma's life is in more danger than her reputation. Faith's search takes her from Central Park to the Lower East Side as time runs out to catch a killer.

    With plotting that The New York Times Book Review calls "smartly executed," the recipes (all featuring apples this time) that have won Katherine Hall Page a devoted readership, and a skeleton in every closet, The Body in the Big Apple will delight Page's devoted readership and those new to this award-winning mystery series. [via]

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  • The Body in the Fjord
    by Katherine Hall Page
    ISBN 0688145744 (0-688-14574-4)
    Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers

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    Faith's friend and neighbor Pix Miller takes center stage, heading off to Norway to investigate the sudden disappearance of a family friend. Posing as a member of "Scandie Sights, " a Norwegian tour group, Pix is drawn into intrigue - and murder. She discovers a sinister world of secret histories and deadly promises as her search for the truth takes a turn she never expected. Unfazed, she doggedly persists until she finds herself the unwitting object of a killer's attention. From the first hints of danger on the tour to the dramatic ending in the Norwegian countryside, The Body in the Fjord keeps readers guessing. [via]

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  • Body of Evidence
    by Patricia Cornwell
    ISBN 0684192403 (0-684-19240-3)
    Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

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    A spine-tingling new novel by an author likened by the press to Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton featuring Dr. Kay Scarpetta, Virginia's dynamic Chief Medical Examiner and extraordinary sleuth. [via]

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  • Body of Evidence
    by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
    ISBN 0743493915 (0-7434-9391-5)
    Softcover, Pocket Star

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    This second commanding thriller by the Edgar Award-winning author of Postmortem and featuring forensic sleuth Dr. Kay Scarpetta was a Mystery Guild main selection as well as a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate in cloth. [via]

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  • The Brethren
    by John Grisham
    ISBN 0582453526 (0-582-45352-6)
    Softcover, Longman Publishing Group

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    John Grisham's novels have all been so systematically successful that it is easy to forget he is just one man toiling away silently with a pen, experimenting and improving with each book. While not as gifted a prose stylist as Scott Turow, Grisham is among the best plotters in the thriller business, and he infuses his books with a moral valence and creative vision that set them apart from their peers.

    The Brethren is in many respects his most daring book yet. The novel grows from two separate subplots. In the first, three imprisoned ex-judges (the "brethren" in the title), frustrated by their loss of power and influence, concoct an elaborate blackmail scheme that preys on wealthy, closeted gay men. The second story traces the rise of presidential candidate Aaron Lake, a puppet essentially created by CIA director Teddy Maynard to fulfill Maynard's plans for restoring the power of his beleaguered agency.

    Grisham's tight control of the two meandering threads leaves the reader guessing through most of the opening chapters how and when these two worlds will collide. Also impressive is Grisham's careful portraiture. Justice Hatlee Beech in particular is a fascinating, tragic anti-hero: a millionaire judge with an appointment for life who was rendered divorced, bankrupt, and friendless after his conviction for a drunk-driving homicide.

    The book's cynical view of presidential politics and criminal justice casts a somewhat gloomy shadow over the tale. CIA director Teddy Maynard is an all-powerful demon with absolute knowledge and control of the public will and public funds. Even his candidate, Congressman Lake, is a pawn in Maynard's egomaniacal game of ad campaigns, illicit contributions, and international intrigue. In the end, The Brethren marks a transition in Grisham's career toward a more thoughtful narrative style with less interest in the big-payoff blockbuster ending. But that's not to say that the last 50 pages won't keep your reading light turned on late. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]

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  • The Broker
    by John Grisham
    ISBN 0385340540 (0-385-34054-0)
    Softcover, Dell Publishing

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    Before he was sent to federal prison for treason (among other things), Joel Backman was an extremely powerful man. Known as "the broker," Backman was a high roller--a lawyer making $10 million a year who could "open any door in Washington." That is, until he tried to broker a deal selling access to the world's most powerful satellite surveillance system to the highest bidder. When caught, Backman accepted prison as the one option that would keep him safe and alive, since the interested parties (the Israelis, the Saudis, the Russians, and the Chinese) were all itching to get their hands on his secrets at any cost. Little does he know that his own government has designs on accessing that information--or at least letting it die with him. Now, six years after his incarceration, the director of the CIA convinces a lame duck president to pardon Backman, and the broker becomes a free man--and an open target.

    The Broker marries the best of John Grisham's many talents--his ability to immerse himself in the culture of small-town life (in this case, Bologna, Italy), and his uncanny mastery of the chase. The first half of the book focuses on Backman's transformation from infamous power broker to helpless victim in his own game. Upon his release from prison, Backman is taken into "protective custody" and whisked off to Italy where he is assigned a new identity, and a tutor to help him blend in. Sure he is on the run, but some readers may feel that Backman's time spent in Bologna is a bit too leisurely--readers join him on an almost cinematic tour through the Italian town, complete with language and history lessons. Impatient readers will be happy to know that the final half of the novel is classic Grisham--a fast-paced, thrilling cat and mouse chase pitting Backman against the numerous agencies that want him dead--as the broker makes a move to take back his life. --Daphne Durham

    Grisham: The Books

    • A Time to Kill, 1989
    • The Firm, 1991
    • The Pelican Brief, 1992
    • The Client, 1993
    • The Chamber, 1994
    • The Rainmaker, 1995
    • The Runaway Jury, 1996
    • The Partner, 1997
    • The Street Lawyer, 1998
    • The Testament, 1999
    • The Brethren, 2000
    • A Painted House, 2001
    • Skipping Christmas, 2001
    • The Summons, 2002
    • The King of Torts, 2003
    • Bleachers, 2003
    • The Last Juror, 2004
    • The Broker, 2005

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    A Time to Kill
    The Firm
    A Painted House

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    The Rainmaker
    The Pelican Brief

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    The Last Juror
    Skipping Christmas
    Bleachers

    The Testament
    The Partner
    The King of Torts

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    A Time to Kill
    The Pelican Brief
    The Client

    The Firm
    The Rainmaker
    The Chamber

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  • Grafton, Sue: C Is for Corpse
    C Is for Corpse
    by Sue Grafton
    ISBN 0816151466 (0-8161-5146-6)
    Softcover, Thorndike Press

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    Kinsey meets him in the local gym. Bobby Callahan is a scarred young man struggling back to life after a car forced his Porsche over the edge of a canyon, battering his body and muddling his memory. All he remembers is that someone, for some reason, tried to kill him. Desperate for clues about his own past life and certain he is being stalked, he asks Kinsey to protect him. Kinsey can't resist the brave kid - and neither can the killers. Three days late Bobby is dead. Kinsey Millhone never welshed on a deal. She'd been hired to stop a killing. Now she'd find the killer.


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  • Perry, Anne: Cain His Brother
    Cain His Brother
    by Anne Perry
    ISBN 0804115079 (0-8041-1507-9)
    Softcover, Ballantine Books

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    "A TRIUMPH . . . A model of the richness and subtleties of relationships, characters, and story construction."
    --Chicago Sun-Times
    In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now Angus is missing, and it appears more than possible that Caleb--a creature long since abandoned to depravity--has murdered him. Hired to find the missing man, William Monk puts himself into his shoes, searching for clues to Angus's fate and his vicious brother's whereabouts. Slowly, Monk inches toward the truth--and also, unwittingly, toward the destruction of his good name and livelihood. . . .
    "MASTERFUL . . . DARKLY CHILLING . . . Perry eloquently delivers to her readers the flavor of Victorian England. . . . Readers will be kept entertained and guessing--right up to the final pages."
    --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    "JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT FIGURED OUT, THINK AGAIN! No one can capture and bring to life the drama, excitement, and feel of Victorian England like Perry."
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  • Cat and Mouse
    by James Patterson
    ISBN 0783883455 (0-7838-8345-5)
    Softcover, Thorndike Press

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    Alex Cross, the Porsche-driving doctor-detective-profiler-psychologist and single father of two must save his own life as well as the lives of his lover and family in a deadly game of Cat and Mouse. Cross meets up again with his old nemesis Gary Soneji, the ruthless, bloodthirsty megalomaniac from Along Came a Spider. Apparently, Soneji isn't too happy with Cross for putting him away and keeping him out of the violent crime loop for five years, so he's back with a bone to pick and a couple of fish to fry--or innocent bystanders to shoot, stab, or bludgeon. Soneji goes on a commuter killing spree in hopes of luring Cross down a bloody trail that ends at the good detective's own home. Cross is hot on the case and hot for Christine Johnson, his children's babe-a-licious principal who happens to be the widow of George Johnson, one of Soneji's victims. Never mind the coincidence; is Christine a bad-luck charm? Is there another killer? If so, is she or he in cahoots with Soneji? Once again, Patterson delivers a fast-paced, action-packed thriller that's sure to keep the pages flying. [via]

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  • Cause of Death
    by Patricia Cornwell
    ISBN 0783817924 (0-7838-1792-4)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Press

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    Patricia Cornwell's heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta is back; this time to solve the mystery of the death of an Associated Press reporter who was killed while nosing about in a decommissioned navy yard. Scarpetta's involvement in the case leads her to be targeted for murder herself by a nasty little neo-fascist cult with delusions of grandeur that include a plan to "kill and maim, frighten, brainwash and torture" all who oppose their plan to rule the world. Helping Scarpetta is her niece Lucy, an F.B.I. agent whose computer expertise leads to a heart-stopping journey into cyberspace. [via]

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  • A Certain Justice
    by John Lescroart
    ISBN 1556114451 (1-55611-445-1)
    Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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    In San Francisco - a city of tolerance and hope - everything came apart. One man died at the hands of another. The next victim was killed by a mob. Now fires burn in the night, helicopters throb through the air, and politicians, lawyers and cops vie for the remnants of power. Somewhere in the once-placid streets of San Francisco, a young man is on the run, charged by the media with a crime he didn't commit, hounded by demagogues, hunted by a desperate police department. One cop knows that Kevin Shea is innocent of a brutal racial murder. An ambitious politician will use Shea for her own ends. And a down-and-out lawyer is all that stands between Kevin Shea and an even more atrocious crime. For when there's no law left, justice is the only hope. [via]

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  • City of Bones
    by Michael Connelly
    ISBN 0446611611 (0-446-61161-1)
    Softcover, Grand Central Pub

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    Since his first appearance in 1992's Edgar-winning The Black Echo, Detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch has joined Dennis Lehane's Patrick and Angie, George Pelecanos's Derek Strange, and Greg Rucka's Atticus Kodiak in the pantheon of new-school hard-boiled detectives. Rather than giving Bosch a clever gimmick (like Jeffery Deaver's Lincoln Rhyme, who is a quadriplegic), Michael Connelly embraces the noir archetype: Bosch, an L.A. homicide detective, is a chain-smoking loner who refuses to play by his superiors' rules. Although he has quit smoking, Harry's still the same tightlipped outsider, taking each crime as a personal affront as he tries to cleanse his beloved city of the darkness he sees engulfing it.

    In City of Bones, Connelly's eighth Bosch title, Bosch and his well-dressed partner, Jerry Edgar, are working to identify a child's skeleton, buried for 20 years in the forest off Hollywood's Wonderland Drive, and to bring the killer to belated justice. For Bosch this is more than just another homicide, as the mystery child, beaten and abandoned, comes to represent much of what he sees as evil in his city. Add in a tragic love affair with a fellow cop, complications from overzealous media, and the growing feeling that he's fighting a losing battle about which no one cares, and the usually stoic Bosch is pushed to his limits. This isn't the strongest plot Connelly has concocted for Bosch, but it leads to an ending the whole series has been building toward. The conclusion may not shock longtime fans, but it will leave them wondering where the series will go from here. --Benjamin Reese [via]

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  • The Client
    by John Grisham
    ISBN 038542471X (0-385-42471-X)
    Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing

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    In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two  boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the  curb...Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother  were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance  encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing  a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of  the most sought-after dead body in America. Now Mark is caught  between a legal system gone mad and a mob killer  desperate to cover up his crime. And his only ally is  a woman named Reggie Love, who has been a lawyer  for all of four years. Prosecutors are  willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The  mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And  Reggie will do anything to protect her client --  even take a last, desperate gamble that could win  Mark his freedom... or cost them both their  lives. [via]

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  • O'Connell, Carol: Crime School
    Crime School
    by Carol O'Connell
    ISBN 1587243768 (1-58724-376-8)
    Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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  • Brown, Sandra: The Crush
    The Crush
    by Sandra Brown
    ISBN 141040160X (1-4104-0160-X)
    Softcover, Thorndike Press

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  • The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown
    ISBN 1400079179 (1-4000-7917-9)
    Softcover, Bantam Books

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    With The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown masterfully concocts an intelligent and lucid thriller that marries the gusto of an international murder mystery with a collection of fascinating esoteria culled from 2,000 years of Western history.

    A murder in the silent after-hour halls of the Louvre museum reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high-ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome clues at the scene that only his daughter, noted cryptographer Sophie Neveu, and Robert Langdon, a famed symbologist, can untangle. The duo become both suspects and detectives searching for not only Neveu's father's murderer but also the stunning secret of the ages he was charged to protect. Mere steps ahead of the authorities and the deadly competition, the mystery leads Neveu and Langdon on a breathless flight through France, England, and history itself.

    Brown (Angels and Demons) has created a page-turning thriller that also provides an amazing interpretation of Western history. Brown's hero and heroine embark on a lofty and intriguing exploration of some of Western culture's greatest mysteries--from the nature of the Mona Lisa's smile to the secret of the Holy Grail. Though some will quibble with the veracity of Brown's conjectures, therein lies the fun. The Da Vinci Code is an enthralling read that provides rich food for thought. --Jeremy Pugh [via]

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  • Digital Fortress: A Thriller
    by Dan Brown
    ISBN 0786259795 (0-7862-5979-5)
    Hardcover, Thorndike Pr

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    In most thrillers, "hardware" consists of big guns, airplanes, military vehicles, and weapons that make things explode. Dan Brown has written a thriller for those of us who like our hardware with disc drives and who rate our heroes by big brainpower rather than big firepower. It's an Internet user's spy novel where the good guys and bad guys struggle over secrets somewhat more intellectual than just where the secret formula is hidden--they have to gain understanding of what the secret formula actually is.

    In this case, the secret formula is a new means of encryption, capable of changing the balance of international power. Part of the fun is that the book takes the reader along into an understanding of encryption technologies. You'll find yourself better understanding the political battles over such real-life technologies as the Clipper Chip and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) software even though the book looks at the issues through the eyes of fiction.

    Although there's enough globehopping in this book for James Bond, the real battleground is cyberspace, because that's where the "bomb" (or rather, the new encryption algorithm) will explode. Yes, there are a few flaws in the plot if you look too closely, but the cleverness and the sheer fun of it all more than make up for them. There are enough twists and turns to keep you guessing and a lot of high, gee-whiz-level information about encryption, code breaking, and the role they play in international politics. Set aside the whole afternoon and evening for it and have finger food on hand for supper--you may want to read this one straight through. [via]

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  • H Is for Homicide
    by Sue Grafton
    ISBN 080501084X (0-8050-1084-X)
    Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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    His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjustor for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity's offices.To the cops, it looked like a robbery gone sour. To Kinsey Millhone, it looked like the cops were walking away from the case. She didn't like the idea that a colleague and sometime drinking companion had been murdered. Or the idea that his murderer was loose and on the prowl. It made her feel exposed. Vulnerable.Bibianna Diaz was afraid for her life. If there was one thing she knew for sure, it was that you didn't cross Raymond Maldonado and live to tell the tale. And Bibianna had well and truly crossed him, running out on his crazy wedding plans and going into hiding in Santa Teresa--light years away from the Los Angeles barrio that was home turf to Raymond and his gang. Now she needed money to buy time, to make sure she'd put enough space between them. And the quickest way she knew to get money was to work an insurance scam--just like the ones Raymond was running down in L.A. The trouble was, Bibianna picked California Fidelity as her mark. And it wasn't long before her name surfaced in one of Parnell Perkins's open files and Kinsey was on her case. But so, too, was her spurned suitor, Raymond Maldonado.He had a rap sheet as long as his arm, a hair-trigger temper that was best left untested, and an inability to take no for an answer. He also had Tourette's syndrome, which did nothing to smooth out the kinks in his erratic and often violent behavior. All in all, Raymond Maldonado was not someone to spend a lot of time hanging out with. Unfortunately for Kinsey, she didn't have a lot of choice in the mater. Not after the love-sick Raymond kidnapped Bibianna. Like it or not, Kinsey was stuck babysitting Bibianna along with Raymond and his macho crew. [via]

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  • A Is for Alibi
    by Sue Grafton
    ISBN 0805013342 (0-8050-1334-2)
    Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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    274 p. 21 cm. First edition, second printing. First in the series. Dust jacket. [via]

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  • Grafton, Sue: 'J' Is for Judgement
    'J' Is for Judgement
    by Sue Grafton
    ISBN 0805019359 (0-8050-1935-9)
    Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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  • Grafton, Sue: L Is for Lawless
    L Is for Lawless
    by Sue Grafton
    ISBN 0805019375 (0-8050-1937-5)
    Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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  • Grafton, Sue: M Is for Malice
    M Is for Malice
    by Sue Grafton
    ISBN 0805036377 (0-8050-3637-7)
    Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co

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  • N Is for Noose
    by Sue Grafton
    ISBN 0805036504 (0-8050-3650-4)
    Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co

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    "Suppose we could peer through a tiny peephole in time and chance upon a flash of what was coming up in the years ahead?" The questioner is Kinsey Millhone, middle-aged, two-time divorcee detective and junk food junkie star of Sue Grafton's popular "alphabet" mysteries; the book is 'N' Is for Noose. If Kinsey had had just a smidgen of foresight, she would never have taken her current case, handed down to her from her on-again, off-again flame and comrade in arms, Robert Dietz. We encounter the two this time out after Deitz's knee surgery, as Kinsey drives his "snazzy little red Porsche" back to Carson City, where she checks out his digs for the first time. To her surprise, he lives in a palatial penthouse, which--under the unspoken bylaws of investigative etiquette--she qualmlessly snoops through. They sit around for a fortnight playing gin rummy and eating peanut butter and pickle sandwiches together, but perennially single Kinsey grows wary: "It was time to hit the road before our togetherness began to chafe."

    She heads off to meet Dietz's former client, Mrs. Selma Newquist, a devastated widow whose makeup tips seem to come from Tammy Faye Baker. Her husband Tom Newquist, a detective himself, had been working on a mysterious case when he abruptly died of a heart attack. Selma suspects foul play, but bless her, she isn't the brightest star in the sky and can't figure out what Tom was working on even though he's left behind enough paper to fill a recycling truck. Kinsey digs right in and roams the sleepy, one-horse town of Nota Lake for clues, interviewing a colorful cast of in-laws and locals. Beneath the quaint, quiet, country veneer, she unearths a bubbling hotbed of internal strife and familial double-dealing. Was Tom covering up for his partner? Is Selma protecting someone? Grafton's knack for gritty details and realistic characters ("[Selma's] skin tones suggested dark coloring, but her hair was a confection of white-blond curls, like a cloud of cotton candy"), coupled with the fast-paced, believable story line, makes for another delightful, entertaining read. --Rebekah Warren, Bestsellers editor [via]

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  • Postmortem
    by Patricia Cornwell
    ISBN 0743477154 (0-7434-7715-4)
    Softcover, Pocket Books

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    A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalized and strangled in their own bedrooms. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. [via]

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  • The Rainmaker
    by John Grisham
    ISBN 0582364124 (0-582-36412-4)
    Softcover, Longman Publishing Group

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    The supple voice and deft narrative skills of Frank Muller are an excellent match for this tremendously popular courtroom thriller. With subtle vocal changes, accents, and thoughtful interpretation, Muller helps elevate the drama and suspense of this fascinating tale, which pits a small-time rookie lawyer against the power and influence of a corrupt insurance company. Muller's talent gives life to the entire cast: from apathetic law students to slippery corporate lawyers and heartbroken senior citizens. "It's simple... they're a bunch of crooks," exclaims the young lawyer's first clients, an elderly couple bitter over being swindled. "They think we're simple, ignorant trash with no money to fight 'em." Battling his instinct to agree, he sets out to defend their rightful claims and finds himself enmeshed in a suspenseful case of ruthless intimidation and deadly criminal behavior. (Running time: 17 hours, 12 cassettes) --George Laney [via]

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  • Angeles y Demonios
    by Dan Brown
    ISBN 8495618710 (84-95618-71-0)
    Hardcover, Ediciones Urano S. A.

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    El arma más poderosa creada por el hombre, una organización secreta sedienta de venganza... y apenas unas horas para evitar el desastre.

    La eterna pugna entre ciencia y religión se ha convertido en una guerra muy real.

    En un laboratorio de máxima seguridad, aparece asesinado un científico con un extraño símbolo grabado a fuego en su pecho. Para el profesor Robert Langdon no hay duda: los Illuminati, los hombres enfrentados a la Iglesia desde los tiempos de Galileo, han regresado. Y esta vez disponen de la más mortífera arma que ha creado la humanidad, un artefacto con el que pueden ganar la batalla final contra su eterno enemigo. Acompañado de una joven científica y un audaz capitán de la Guardia Suiza, Langdon comienza una carrera contra reloj, en una búsqueda desesperada por los rincones más secretos de El Vaticano. Necesitará todo su conocimiento para descifrar las claves ocultas que los Illuminati han dejado a través de los siglos en manuscritos y templos, y todo su coraje para vencer al despiadado asesino que siempre parece llevarle la delantera.

    El autor de El Código Da Vinci nos arrastra a una espiral de acción sin pausa, un impactante thriller donde se suceden las sorpresas y se revelan algunos de los más oscuros enigmas de la historia. Fuerzas que han permanecido  ocultas durante siglos y que ahora planean destruir la Iglesia... literalmente. [via]

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  • Angeles y Demonios / Angels and Demons: El Ilustrado / Illustrated
    by Dan Brown, Eduardo G. Murillo
    ISBN 849561877X (84-95618-77-X)
    Hardcover, Ediciones Urano

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    Del mismo autor del Bestseller numero uno de El New York Times El Código Da Vinci FonoLibro les trae el audiolibro en español de la primer episodio de la trilogía del famoso escritor Dan Brown, Ángeles & Demonios en una magnifica producción que no podrá dejar de escuchar hasta que llegue al final. Robert Lagndom, el renombrado profesor de simbología de la universidad de Harvard es convocado a un laboratorio de alta seguridad en Suiza para analizar un símbolo grabado con fuego en el pecho de un científico asesinado. Langdom descubre lo inimaginable, una venganza sangrienta contra la iglesia por una organización secreta, que existe desde los tiempos de Galileo, Los Illuminati. Robert Langdom, en compañía de una atractiva científica, Victoria Vetra, entran en una carrera contra el tiempo para salvar al Vaticano de la más mortal arma creada por el hombre en manos de esta peligrosa organización. Juntos se embarcan en una casería para descifrar los códigos que los illuminatis han dejado a lo largo de los siglos en pergaminos, templos, catedrales, el vaticano, y el la catacumba más secreta de la tierra, la olvidada guarida de los illuminatis. Dan Brown nos adentra a una trama llena de acción y misterio que revela la verdad de la guerra entre la religión y la ciencia. Fuerzas que han permanecido ocultas durante siglos y que ahora planean destruir la Iglesia... literalmente. El Código Da Vinci esta disponible también audiolibro en versiones completa y resumida en una magnifica producción. [via]

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  • El Caso Bourne
    by Robert Ludlum
    ISBN 8401499267 (84-01-49926-7)
    Hardcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.

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  • El Caso Bourne/ the Bourne Identity
    by Robert Ludlum, Equipo Traductor de Editorial Atlantida
    ISBN 8497593693 (84-9759-369-3)
    Softcover, Debolsillo

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    Un hombre, herido de bala y al borde de la muerte, es rescatado del mar por unos pescadores franceses. Al cabo de varios dias de inconsciencia, vuelve en si. Pero ignora su nombre, su nacionalidad, su procedencia: todo. Su amnesia es absoluta. Una sola pista lo une al pasado: un microfilme que lleva implantado bajo la piel, y en el que figura el numero de una cuenta bancaria en Zurich. A partir de esa referencia, el desconocido empieza a rastrear su propia identidad en Zurich, Marsella, Paris, Nueva York... Lo que va descubriendo es aterrador. Dentro de este laberinto, sus pasos se encaminan inexorablemente hacia el mas buscado terrorista internacional de todos los tiempos: «Carlos». [via]

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  • Ciudad de Huesos
    by Michael Connelly, Javier Guerero Gimeno
    ISBN 8466613463 (84-666-1346-3)
    Softcover, Ediciones B

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    On New Year's Day, detective Harry Bosch fields a call that a dog has found a bone that is believed to be humana chance discovery that leads him to evidence of a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. Digging through police reports and hospital records, and tracking down street kids and runaways from the 1970s, Bosch finds a family ripped apart by an absence and a trail into a violent, terrifying world. As the case takes him deeper into the past, and he fights to keep control in a lawless and brutal showdown, the investigation races to a shocking conclusion and leaves Bosch on the brink of an unimaginable decision. Harry Bosch recibe la orden de acudir a visitar a un doctor que insiste en que ha encontrado un hueso humano cuando paseaba con su perra por las colinas de Hollywood. Acompañado de un equipo de antropólogos forenses, Bosch descubre que el hueso pertenece al esqueleto de un niño que fue asesinado casi tres décadas atrás. Despierta no sólo la conmoción general, sino un inusitado interés dentro del propio equipo de investigadores. A Bosch no le gusta un asunto que, más allá de las típicas complicaciones policiales, denota claros paralelismos con su propia infancia tortuosa. En este escenario, Harry Bosch, cansado de esta lucha que parece no tener fin, tomará una drástica decisión vital.
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  • El Codigo Da Vinci
    by Dan Brown
    ISBN 8495618818 (84-95618-81-8)
    Softcover, Ediciones Urano S. A.

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    Nº 1 en USA

    ¿ Qué misterio se oculta tras la sonrisa de Mona Lisa? Durante siglos, la Iglesia ha conseguido mantener oculta la verdad& hasta ahora.

    Antes de morir asesinado, Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda del experto en simbología Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.

    Un apasionante juego de claves escondidas, sorprendentes revelaciones, acertijos ingeniosos, verdades, mentiras, realidades históricas, mitos, símbolos, ritos, misterios y suposiciones en una trama llena de giros inesperados narrada con un ritmo imparable que conduce al lector hasta el secreto más celosamente guardado del inicio de nuestra era.

    " Intriga y amenaza se mezclan en una de las mejores novelas de suspense que he leído jamás. Un sorprendente relato donde los enigmas se suceden a los secretos y éstos a las adivinanzas."

    Clive Cussler.

    " Un inteligente thriller lleno de enigmas y códigos que, sin duda, puede recomendarse con rotundo entusiasmo."

    The New York Times
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  • La Fortaleza Digital / Digital Fortress
    by Dan Brown, Eduardo G. Murillo
    ISBN 8489367019 (84-89367-01-9)
    Softcover, Ediciones Urano

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    Susan Fletchr, la criptografa estrella de la ultrasecreta Agencia de Seguridad Nacional (NSA) o puede dar credito a sus oidos cuando su jefe, el subdirector de la Agencia, le informade que han interceptado un codigo que ni siquiera la mayor supercomputadora conocida puede descifrar... [via]

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  • Grisham, John: El Intermediario
    El Intermediario
    by John Grisham, Antonia Menini Pages
    ISBN 846662452X (84-666-2452-X)
    Softcover, Ediciones B

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  • Legitima Defensa / the Runaway Jury
    by John Grisham
    ISBN 840804124X (84-08-04124-X)
    Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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  • Post Motem
    by Patriua Coknwell
    ISBN 9700509435 (970-05-0943-5)
    Softcover, Grijalbo Mondadori

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  • Die Bourne Identitat/ the Bourne Identity
    by Robert Ludlum
    ISBN 345319781X (3-453-19781-X)
    Softcover, Heyne Wilhelm Verlag Gmbh

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  • Die Bruderschaft.
    by John Grisham
    ISBN 3453210697 (3-453-21069-7)
    Softcover

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    Die Romane von John Grisham sind alle auf so geradezu systematische Weise erfolgreich gewesen, dass man leicht vergisst, dass er auch nur ein Schriftsteller ist, der sich still mit seinem Kugelschreiber abmüht, herumexperimentiert und mit jedem Buch besser wird. Wenn er als Prosa-Stilist auch nicht so begabt ist wie ein Scott Turow, so ist Grisham doch einer der besten Storyschreiber im Krimigeschäft. Seine Bücher sind von einer moralischen Anziehungskraft und einer kreativen Vision, die sie deutlich von denen seiner Kollegen abheben.

    Die Bruderschaft ist in vielerlei Hinsicht sein bisher kühnstes Werk. Die Geschichte entwickelt sich aus zwei unterschiedlichen Nebenhandlungen heraus. In der ersten hecken drei inhaftierte ehemalige Richter (die im Titel erwähnte "Bruderschaft"), frustriert von ihrem Verlust von Macht und Einfluss, einen ausgeklügelten Erpressungsplan aus, der wohlhabende, verdeckt homosexuelle Männer zum Opfer haben soll. Die zweite Geschichte zeichnet den Aufstieg des Präsidentschaftskandidaten Aaron Lake nach, einer Marionette des machtgierigen CIA-Chefs Teddy Maynard.

    Beide Erzählstränge werden im im Laufe der Handlung zusammengeführt. Grishams sorgfältige Personenbeschreibungen sind besonders beeindruckend. Ex-Richter Hatlee Beech beispielsweise ist ein faszinierender, tragischer Antiheld: ein Millionär mit lebenslanger Berufung auf sein Richteramt, der sich nach seiner Verurteilung wegen Trunkenheit am Steuer mit Todesfolge als einsamer, von Ehefrau und Freunden verlassener Mann wieder findet und obendrein noch pleite ist.

    Die zynische Betrachtung der präsidialen Politik und des Strafrechts Amerikas wirft einen düsteren Schatten auf die Geschichte. CIA-Direktor Maynard ist ein allmächtiger Dämon, der sich bestens mit dem öffentlichen Willen und den öffentlichen Geldern auskennt und auch Macht über sie ausübt. Sogar sein Präsidentschaftskandidat, der Kongressabgeordnete Lake, ist eine Schachfigur in Maynards egomanischem Spiel um Anzeigenkampagnen, illegale Spenden und internationale Intrigen. Spannung bis zum Schluss! --Patrick O'Kelley [via]

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