Threads by Jim Jameson

A novelette about a set of triplets whose mother died in childbirth and were given up for adoption.  Their father has passed away, a billionaire, and now they’ve inherited his business empire and his private island.  But all is not perfect in paradise.  Unbeknown to the triplets, they have already met before during a spring break.  The brother met one sister at a beach party with a promise to meet again at a nightclub.  He met the other at a strip club in between, and mistaking a stripper for his potential date, he gets her alone.  She gives him a lap dance he’ll never forget, but her voice is different.  He goes to the party and meets the first girl.  They end up spending the night together.  When she leaves the next day, he kicks himself for not finding out how to contact her again.  Now, they’ve been united upon their father’s death with the guilt of incest once they find out they’re siblings.  But that’s not all folks.  It turns out the island’s architect and manager has been using secret cameras all over the island to gather secret tapes of the various island’s visitors and their picadilloes.  Now he has tapes of the siblings talking about what happened three years earlier.

Monet Itinerant of Light by Salva Rubio and EFA (Richard Fernandez) 

A graphic novel about Claude Monet’s lifelong pursuit of using light in painting.  It is well done, both as a summary of his life and in artwork by Mr. Fernansez.  Included in the back are comparisons of Monet’s paintings and panels in the biography.  There are other biographies published by nbm graphic novels that would be interesting to see.

Eternal Journey by Alex Archer 

Wherein our heroine, Annja Creed, in the 17^th episode (of 57), is covering a dig in Australia that is finding Egyptian artifacts.  She and her cameraman stay overnight when the rest of the crew have returned home.  Only in the morning, the cameraman doesn’t get up in time to prepare for their flight.  Annja discovers his room has been ransacked, and then she is attacked.  She fights off her assailants with her charmed sword from Joan of Arc and flees.  She goes into the worst neighborhood of Sydney and is recognized by a young man with a motorcycle, who gives her a ride back to the dig site.  She is worried that whomever attacked her a abducted and/or killed her cameraman may go there and harm the university students working on the site.  She learns that the professor who is sponsoring the dig is actually stealing artifacts to sent back to Egypt.  He is also using terrorists to poison water, first in Sydney, then in Cairo, in an attempt as an offering to Hathor in hopes of gaining eternal life.  This is the first volume to not have an appearance by Roux or Garin.  The series, published by Harlequin, is written by various people.  This is the first written by Jean Rabe.

The Left Handed Booksellers by Garth Nix 

An interesting take on urban fantasy and mystery.  The story takes place in London where a young art student goes to visit her 'uncle' only to find herself thrust into a war of sorts where left-handed booksellers are authorized to kill fantastical creatures posing as humans.  Only it turns out that the young woman has some fantastical connections of her own.

1602 by Neil Gaiman 

Gaiman imagines a world where the Marvel universe of characters is placed back in the year 1602.  He deftly makes them fit in with the times.  Dr. Doom still has fantastic plans to rule the world, the Fantastik Four sail a ship named The Fantastic, Spiderman is a loyal scribe to Nick Fury, and Doctor Strange is the Queen's physician who is pulled out of time by the Watcher.