Chief of Police Bret Skoal is being blackmailed. A videotape showing his excessive use of force on a group of unarmed teenagers has been shipped overnight to the department, just in time to complicate an ongoing homicide investigation. Officer Robbie Brooks is five years sober, and barely hanging on to his job thanks to Chief …
RELEASE DAY REVIEW by Beth: The Other Eight by Joseph Lallo (@jrlallo , @bunnybetha)
Superpowers have turned out to be a disappointment. Heat vision? Super strength? Flight? They are nowhere to be found. Instead, powers like photosynthesis or the ability to spontaneously change hair color seem to be the best the world can offer. To make matters worse, the gifted individuals tend to suffer from psychological issues. Nonetheless, in …
REVIEW by Beth: Blood Rites (Harry Dresden #6) by Jim Butcher (@longshotauthor , @bunnybetha)
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only professional wizard, takes on a case as a favor to his friend Thomas-a vampire of dubious integrity-only to become the prime suspect in a series of ghastly murders.
REVIEW by Beth: Bad Blood (Bad Blood #1) by Ginny Lurcock – Released TODAY! (@bunnybetha , @GinnyLurcock)
High school senior Victoria “Tori” Reeve has it pretty good. She’s rich, she’s smart, and she’s popular. What more could a girl ask for? Sure, she’s a little lonely, what with being single and her best friend going off to college and all, but she’s got her work at the Spaulding Crisis Center to keep …
REVIEW by Beth : The Doorknob Society (Doorknob Society Saga #1) by MJ Fletcher (@fletch125 , @bunnybetha)
Chloe Masters’s world changes in a heartbeat and all she did was touch a doorknob. Illusions are part of Chloe’s everyday life, her father being a renowned magician, but how do you make sense of traveling through dimensions with the touch of a doorknob? There’s much for her to learn at the Paladin Academy, a …
REVIEW by Beth: The Hour of Predators (A Marcus Chao Mystery) by Lane Stark (@BunnyBethA)
It was the hour of prowling bears, circling nightowls, vengeful spirits, and savage hearts. It was the hour of predators. Two gruesome murders have shocked and divided the community of Bella Coola, a small, isolated village in a remote river valley on the coast of British Columbia. The evidence points to a teenaged Nuxalk boy, …
REVIEW by Beth: The Monster Within by Lola Rayne (@RayneLola , @BunnyBethA)
Sometimes the monster that haunted you as a child truly is real… All it took was one phone call to bring Nicole Jones’s life crumbling down around her. Now a nightmare she thought she’d left in her past is back, and he’s not exactly bringing her candy and flowers. While fleeing, in a non-terrified fashion, …
REVIEW by Beth: The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty (@bunnybetha)
Ellen O’Farrell is a professional hypnotherapist who works out of the eccentric beachfront home she inherited from her grandparents. It’s a nice life, except for her tumultuous relationship history. She’s stoic about it, but at this point, Ellen wouldn’t mind a lasting one. When she meets Patrick, she’s optimistic. He’s attractive, single, employed, and best …
REVIEW by Beth: Death Masks (Harry Dresden #5) by Jim Butcher (@longshotauthor, @BunnyBethA)
Harry Dresden, Chicago’s only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But now he’s getting more than he bargained for: A duel with the Red Court of Vampires’ champion, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards …Professional hit men using Harry for target …
REVIEW by Beth: Under the Banana Moon by Kimberly Gerry-Tucker
To Kim Tucker, solidly in the Asperger’s section of the autism spectrum, the colors blue and green and gray are not just colors, but rather whole worlds of iridescent life. Likewise, to say that Under the Banana Moon is full of laughter and love and heartbreak is to only scratch the surface. Growing up, Kim …
REVIEW by Beth: Otherkin (Otherkin #1) by Nina Berry
Sixteen-year-old Desdemona Gray doesn’t even bother with crushes on cute boys now that she’s forced to wear a hard plastic back brace all day. What guy would want to literally have to knock on a girl to be let in? So she squashes down every impossible desire until an uber-awkward brush with a boy brings …
REVIEW by Beth: Death Makes the Cut by Janice Hamrick – Release Date 7/17/12 (@bunnybetha)
The first bell of the new school year hasn’t even rung, and Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore is already at the scene of a murder. Friend and fellow teacher Fred Argus has been found dead on campus, and it isn’t long before the annoying, albeit attractive, Austin police detective Colin Gallagher uncovers evidence that Fred …
REVIEW by Beth: Burn Mark by Laura Powell – Released 6/19/12 (@L_R_Powell , @bunnybetha)
In a modern world—where witches are hunted down and burned at the stake—two lives interact. Glory is from a family of witches, and is desperate to develop the ‘Fae’ and become a witch herself. Lucas is the son of the Chief Prosecutor for the Inquisition and his privileged life is very different from the witches …
REVIEW by Beth: Last Call for the Living by Peter Farris – Released May 22nd (@pjfarris , @bunnybetha)
For bank teller Charlie Colquitt, it was just another Saturday. For Hobe Hicklin, an ex-con with nothing to lose, it was just another score. For Hobe’s drug-addled, sex-crazed girlfriend, it was just more lust, violence, and drugs. But in this gripping narrative, nothing is as it seems. Hicklin’s first mistake was double-crossing his partners in …
REVIEW by Beth: Robert B. Parker’s Lullaby by Ace Atkins (@bunnybetha)
When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother’s murder, he’s not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond her years, left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But …
Review by Beth: Beyond Hades (The Prometheus Wars, Book I) by Luke Romyn (@BunnyBethA , @LukeRomyn)
What if mythology isn’t myth? The ancient Greeks told fabulously detailed stories involving unbelievable creatures – monsters dominating all tales from that time. Were they just highly imaginative, or was their inspiration from somewhere else? Doctor Talbot Harrison, a professor in archeology, receives a phone call one day which will destroy everything he perceives as …
REVIEW by Beth: 11/22/63 b Stephen King (@bunnybetha)
Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, …
REVIEW by Beth: Living Without Reservations by Barbara Elaine Singer (@lifereinventor , @bunnybetha)
Is This All There Is to Life? One 44 year old woman ” quit her life”, or perhaps life quit her. There had to be more than waiting for retirement and living in a world where enough is never enough. She dreamed of a life that was so much more. A true story of a …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA : Only The Strongest Survive by Ian Fox
The novel opens with a hair-tingling scene, as two men kidnap Emely Donnovan, one of the wealthiest women in America, and bury her alive. What is behind this horrific crime? Raised in a strict religious institution, Emely never knew her parents. Fearing a life of poverty, she starts up a small business that deals mainly …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA : The Trade by Thomas Kirkwood
Small candles nestled in a silver candelabrum are ceremoniously lit to announce the start of a medieval auction. Sadly, however, we are not in the middle ages but in the first decade of this century. The auction is a nightly event somewhere in Eastern Europe. On the block are naked teenage girls, the latest …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA : Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb
Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she’s managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It’s a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA : Old Loves Die Hard by Lauren Carr
Old Loves Die Hard…and in the worst places. In Old Loves Die Hard, Lauren Carr continues the rags-to-riches story of Mac Faraday, an underpaid homicide detective who inherits two-hundred-and-seventy million dollars and an estate on Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, from his birth mother on the day his divorce becomes final. Mac is settling nicely into …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA : Gift by Andrea J Buchanan – Release Date 3/27/12 (@andibuchanan)
High school sophomore Daisy Jones is just trying to get by unnoticed. It doesn’t help that she’s the new girl at school, lives in a trailer park, and doesn’t even own a cell phone. But there’s a good reason for all that: Daisy has a secret, unpredictable power—one only her best friend, Danielle, knows about. Despite …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA: Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult – Release Date 2/28/12 (@JodiPicoult)
A life hanging in the balance . . . a family torn apart. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family secrets, love, and letting go. In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA: The Eden Prophecy by Graham Brown
The wisdom of faith. The power of science. The evil of man. In the U.N. building in New York City, a U.S. Ambassador contracts an unknown virus after opening a threatening letter. In a slum near Paris, a rogue geneticist is found dead, tortured and defiled. His last message, a desperate plea for help, was …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA: The Mark of Kane by LW Herndon (@LWHerndon)
My name is Thaddeus Kane. I exist in Los Angeles, the city known for the hustle of Hollywood, an average 266 days a year of sunshine, and smog. That’s not my L.A. I operate under the mantle of the city as a troubleshooter for the demon clan who saved my life. Not a bad job …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA: Buried Prey by John Sandford
A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis-the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they’ve been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long. In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls’ disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA: Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
Harry Dresden’s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory when you’re the only professional wizard in the Chicago area phone book. But in all Harry’s years of supernatural sleuthing, he’s never faced anything like this: the spirit world’s gone postal. All over …
REVIEW by @BunnyBethA: New York To Dallas By J.D. Robb
It was one of Eve Dallas’s earliest takedowns, back in her uniform days. A monster named Isaac McQueen had been abducting young victims and leaving them scarred in both mind and body. Thanks to Eve, he wound up where he belonged, removed from civilized society in Rikers. But he’s not behind bars anymore. After his …