Jul 31, 2018

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (2008) Ace 

First in the Stackhouse mysteries wherein Sookie must navigate her way through becoming enamored of vampires and her brother being accused of murdering their grandmother and a nest of vampires.

Jul 27, 2018

Tourist Trap by Julie Smith (1986) Mysterious Press 

Rebecca Schwartz, native San Franciscan and lawyer, must prove the innocence of a former cable car driver accused of multiple murders.

Jul 22, 2018

Spell Breaker by Connie Suttle (2018) SubtleDemon 

In the fourth volume of the First Ordinance series, our winged heroine,  must go without her wings back to her original way of being unobtrusive, by not speaking - making those around her think she cannot speak and revealing secrets that can save the universe.

Jul 18, 2018

Night Broken by Patricia Briggs (2014) Ace Books

Mercy Thompson, the walker who shifts into a coyote finds herself in a bind.  Her husband, the Alpha Wolf in a werewolf pack, gets an urgent call from his ex - she's being hunted by a man she dated and he is killing people trying to get to her.  Of course, he's not human.

Jul 13, 2018

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (2011) Ballentine

A billionaire who built a virtual world with free access has died without heirs.  His will states that the person who finds three keys and opens the portals associated will get his entire estate.

Jul 9, 2018

Brief Cases by Jim Butcher (2018) Ace 

The Dresden files - previously uncollected short stories - Bigfoot's son, and other character points of view.  Like reading a Dresden story on speed dating.

-          A Fistful of Warlocks

-          B is for Bigfoot

-          AAAA Wizardry

-          I was a Teenage Bigfoot

-          Curses

-          Even Hand

-          Bigfoot on Campus

-          Bombshells

-          Cold Case

-          Jury Duty

-          Day One

-          Zoo Day

Jul 4, 2018

Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard (2000) Delacorte Press

Father Terry Dunn isn't really a priest.  But no one seems to know that.  He left for missionary work in Africa shortly after the other two guys in an illegal cigarette trafficking scheme blamed him for everything when all he did was drive the truck.  Now, five years later, with his uncle, an actual priest he was visiting has died and he was saying mass in place of the old man, when the Hutu's raided the church and slaughtered the Tutsi congregation, he comes back to America, showing pictures of the starving pagan babies to raise money.