Jennifer West
August 18, 2010
School has begun and the fair will be here before long! Take a break from the hot weather with a chilling new mystery! Author Robin Cook has returned with another medical thriller. In Cure, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work after taking time off to care for her young son. She immediately finds herself with a dangerous puzzler involving stem cell research, organized crime and a sudden death that may actually be murder.
Sandra Brown's new novel is titled Tough Customer That would be private investigator Dodge Hanley who does not let rules get in his way, either in his job or his private life. But when his ex-wife asks for his help, Dodge travels to Texas to unmask the deranged stalker who has targeted their daughter – a girl Dodge has never met.
Nevada Barr has a new Anna Pigeon novel, Burn. Pigeon is on administration leave from her job with the National Park Service in order to recover from physical and emotional wounds she has suffered in the previous months. While visiting a friend at the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park, Pigeon has to navigate the urban jungle and deal with a possible curse, a fugitive mother accused to killing her husband and children in a fire, and the unsettling hints that something in this city is very wrong.
Injured in Afghanistan, Captain Thomas Forsyth returns to his childhood home in England to recover. Visiting his mother, a racehorse trainer, Tom finds himself in a different, but just as deadly battlefield. In Crossfire, Dick Francis has written another multi-layered mystery of suspense, revenge and horse-racing with his son, Felix.
