Nov 26, 2016

White Night - Jim Butcher (2007) Roc

Wizard Harry Dresden, now a Warden, has a personal puzzle to work out; his first love has surfaced and is trying to guard a club of minor witches, with no luck. Surveillance video shows his brothe, Thomas, an emotion sucking vampire, abducting the missing women. All this and more is going on during a lull in a war between the wizards and the vampires.  And there may be a third party in the background.

Nov 16, 2016

61 Hours - Lee Child (2010) Delacorte Press

A Jack Reacher novel - the hours are used as a suspense device counting down.  A small town in South Dakota - in the end we don't even know if Reacher survives.

Nov 11, 2016

Naked in Death - J.D. Robb (2004) Putnam 

A mix of Sci Fi, murder mystery and bodice ripper with an anachronistic killer using 20th century guns as the weapon of choice in a 22nd century world.

Raven Girl - Audrey Niffenegger (2013) Harry N. Abrams 

A raven and a postman have a daughter who wants nothing but to be able to fly.  Like her mother, she is a raven, but she has a human body like her father.

Nov 6, 2016

The Chosen - Alex Archer (2007) Gold Eagle 

The third in the Rogue Angel series - Anja Creed has become the bearer of Joan of Arc's sword and it stays in a dimension within her reach at all times.  In this episode, odd sightings of a holy child and of horrific animals threaten small towns in New Mexico while a former mercenary, turned Jesuit priest and hitman for high ranking church officials threaten to eradicate Anja while she tries to halt the violence of innocents.

Nov 1, 2016

 Poison Fruit - Jacqueline Carey (2014) Ace

The third, and perhaps final installment of the Agent of Hel series.  Daisy Johannssen has to navigate not only her love life, trying to decide between a werewolf and a 600 year old Ghoul who used to be a Bohemian Knight, but try to outwit another Hellspawn and prevent Persephone from taking Little Niflheim from Hel.  In the end, she makes everyone proud, even her demon father, by bargaining with God for the good of everyone.