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ASSAULT AND PEPPER
by Tamar Myers
It's a five-alarm frenzy as Magdalena Yoder and the rest
of the congregation of the Beechy Grove Mennonite Church get ready
for the annual chili supper cook-off. But just
when the devout diners sit down to eat, beloved Reverend
Schrock falls facedown into a pot of the savory stew. It
seems someone slipped some peanut butter into the chili,
knowing full well that the good reverend was deathly
allergic to peanuts.
At the request of the weeping widow, Magdalena agrees to
investigate. But once she begins to look into the victim's
death-and life--she discovers that Schrock wasn't as well
liked as she'd thought. There's more than one person who
had reason to want him dead, including the serial monogamist with a grudge and the man who spent seven years in
jail after the reverend testified against him in court. As
more foibles and squabbles amass, Magdalena struggles to find the
truth amid evidence that is becoming a fullout assault on her senses....
MONSTER
by Frank Peretti
Something's out there...
Reed Shelton organized this survival weekend. Hired the best guide
in the region. Meticulously trained, studied, and packed while
encouraging his wife, Beck, to do the same. But little did they know
that surviving the elements would become the least of their
worries.
INFERNAL
by F. Paul Wilson
The ninth Repairman Jack novel
begins with a tragedy that throws Jack together with his brother,
Tom, a judge from Philadelphia. They've never been close, and Jack,
the career criminal, soon finds that he adheres to a higher ethical
standard than his brother the judge.
Determined to get to know his brother better, Tom convinces Jack to
go on a wild treasure hunt with him. Armed only with a map pointing
the way to a desolate wreck off the coast of Bermuda, the brothers
come across something much stranger, and much more dangerous, than
mere treasure. Part organic, part man-made, the object is known as
the Lilitongue of Gefreda. Ancient lore claims that it is a means
"to elude all enemies and leave them
helpless."
HARD TRUTH
by Nevada Barr
Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna
Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as
district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. When two of three
children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear,
Anna's investigation brings her face-to=face with a paranoid
sect--and with a villain so evil, he'll make the hairs on the back
of your neck stand on end
STRANGE AFFAIR
by Peter Robinson
On a warm summer night, an
attractive woman hurtles north in a blue Peugeot with a hastily
scrawled address in her pocket, while, back in London, a desperate
man leaves an urgent late-night phone message on his brother's
answering machine. By sunrise the next morning, the woman is found
inside her car along an otherwise peaceful country lane,
shot, execution style, through the head.
Welcome to the idyllic Yorkshire Dales, where Detective Inspector
Annie Cabbot arrives on the scene and discovers, to her surprise, a
slip of paper in the dead woman's pocket that bears the name of her
colleague and erstwhile lover, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks.
Banks, meanwhile--already haunted and withdrawn after nearly dying
in the fire that destroyed his home--has gone missing just when he's
needed most, and has left plenty of.
GARDEN OF BEASTS
by Jeffery Deaver
Paul Schumann, a German American
living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much
for his brilliant tactics as for taking only "righteous"
assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer
offers him a stark choice: prison or covert government service. Paul
is asked to pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics taking
place in Berlin. He's to hunt down and kill Reinhard Ernst--the
ruthless architect of Hitler's clandestine rearmament. If
successful, Paul will be pardoned and given the financial means to
go legit; if he refuses the job, his fate will be Sing Sing and the
electric chair.
THERAPY
by Jonathan Kellerman
FROM THE BOOK JACKET:
"'Been a while since I had me a nice little whodunit,'"
homicide detective Milo Sturgis tells Alex Delaware. But there's
definitely nothing nice about the brutal tableau behind the yellow
crime-scene tape. On a lonely lover's lane in the hills of Los
Angeles, a young couple lies murdered in a car. Each bears a single
gunshot wound to the head. The female victim has also been impaled
by a metal spike. And that savage stroke of psychopathic fury tells
Milo this case will call for more than standard police procedure. As
he explains to Delaware, "'Now we're veering into your territory.'"
ORANGE CRUSHED
by Pamela Thomas-Graham
FROM THE BOOK JACKET:
Pamela Thomas-Graham's beguiling and atmospheric Ivy League novels
simmer with hot button issues--and unveil layers of malice and
murder inside the life academic. Harvard economics professor Nikki
Chase is intent on becoming the first tenured African-American woman
in her department. But with her affinity for solving crimes, she may
make her name in a place where the highest levels of human intellect
can court the lowest impulses of the human heart.
JURY OF ONE
by David Ellis
FROM THE BOOK JACKET:
In "Jury of One," Shelly Trotter, an able and determined lawyer and
a children's rights advocate, is thrust into a world in which she's
completely unschooled--the criminal court. Her client is a
seventeen-year-old accused of killing a policeman, and she begins to
suspect that he may have been involved in an undercover operation to
entrap dirty cops, though his role in the scheme remains unclear.
Was he the target or the bait--and what does the prosecution really
have against him?
PEACH COBBLER MURDER
by Joanne Fluke
FROM THE BOOK JACKET:
With The Cookie Jar, Hannah Swensen has a mouthwatering monopoly on
the bakery business of Lake Eden, Minnesota. But when a rival store
opens, tensions begin to bubble...
As she sits in her nearly empty store on Groundhog Day, Hannah can
only hope that spring is just around the corner--and that the
popularity of the new Magnolia Blossom Bakery is just a passing fad.
A TAINT IN THE BLOOD by Dana Stabenow
Thirty-one years ago in Anchorage, Alaska, Victoria Pilz Bannister
Muravieff was convicted of murdering her seventeen-year-old son,
William. The jury returned a quick
verdict of guilty, believing the prosecutor's claims that she had
set fire to her own home with both her sons inside; William died and
the other, Oliver, narrowly escaped. Victoria was sentenced to life
in prison without parole, and though she pleaded not guilty at the
trial, she never again denied her guilt.
TWO DOLLAR BILL
by Stuart Woods
"Two-Dollar Bill" delivers all
the story-telling twists and whip-smart banter readers have come to
love in Stuart Woods's thrillers. In this latest, Stone Barrington,
the suave Manhattan cop turned lawyer, is back on his home turf,
facing down a brilliant southern flimflam man. The fun--and
action--begin with what Stone believes will be a
quiet dinner with his ex-partner, Dino, when they are interrupted by
Billy Bob, a filthy-rich, smooth-talkin' Texan, who strolls in with
the head of Stone's law firm and, unwrapping his wad of rare
two-dollar bills,
announces he's in town "to make money" and in need of an
attorney--namely, Stone--to handle his affairs. No sooner have they
sealed the deal with a handshake than the rollercoaster ride begins.
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