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Justice Author: Jennifer Harlow Published: May 16, 2013 by Devil on the Left Books Series Name: The Galilee Falls Trilogy Category: Thriller, Urban Fantasy, Hard-Boiled Main Character: Joanna Fallon It’s hard being a regular police officer in Galilee Falls, a city with the highest concentration of superheroes and villains in the country. It’s even harder watching your best friend, the man you’re secretly in love with your whole life, planning to marry another woman. Detective Joanna Fallon has to contend with both. When the vilest supervillain in the city’s history, Alkaline, the former crime boss who can shoot acid from his wrists, escapes from the maximum security prison, the whole city is gripped by panic. |
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FOAL PLAY Author: Kathryn O'Sullivan Published: May 7, 2013 by Minotaur Books Category: cozy mystery Main Character: Colleen McCabe Winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Competition, FOAL PLAY is a hilarious debut mystery featuring a fire chief heroine and the Spanish mustangs of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Colleen McCabe is enjoying an uneventful summer supervising her firefighters, making rounds with her Border collie, Sparky, and keeping an eye on the wild horses that have escaped from the local sanctuary. But when a dead body washes up on shore, she knows trouble has arrived in Corolla. Click for more info. |
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The Barbed Crown Author: William Dietrich Published: May 7, 2013 by HarperCollins Series Name: Ethan Gage Adventures Category: Historical thriller Main Character: Ethan Gage, his wife Astiza, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord Nelson, Talleyrand, Catherine Marceau In this sixth in a series of Napoleonic-era adventures, American Ethan Gage is smuggled onto the French coast determined to thwart Bonaparte, who he vowed to kill at the conclusion of The Emerald Storm. He has joined a royalist conspiracy financed by British gold and has as partner beautiful comtesse Catherine Marceau. But many surprises await him on shore, not the least of which is reunion with his wife Astiza, who readers last saw carried off in a hurricane. Things get tangled from there! Click for more info. |
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BEFORE HE KILLS AGAIN: A Veronica Vasquez Thriller Author: R. Barri Flowers Published: May 1, 2013 by R. Barri Flowers Series Name: Veronica Vasquez Thriller Category: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Woman Sleuth, Crime, Fiction, Serial Killer Thriller, Police Procedural Main Character: Veronica Vasquez, Bryan Waldicott Click for more info. |
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DEADLY HARVEST Author: Michael Stanley Published: April 30, 2013 by Bourbon Street Press (HarperCollins) Series Name: The Detective Kubu series Category: Police Procedural; international Main Character: Assistant Superintendent David "Kubu" Bengu - known as Detective Kubu A young girl goes missing after getting into a car with a mysterious man. Another girl disappears soon after, also after a man offers her a ride. When the local police lose interest, Samantha Khama, a new detective with the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department and its only woman, devotes herself to keeping the cases alive. As she starts to make progress, Detective Kubu joins forces with her to take the investigation to the next level. Click for more info. |
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