Get Yours on Amazon An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 3) By: Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0425217299 Published by: Berkley Prime Crime Genre: Mystery, Paranormal Pages: 280 Author’s Website: http://www.charlaineharris.com/ Recommendable for people who: Enjoy suspense, mystery, paranormal, and/or ghost stories. Synopsis {from Penguin’s website}: Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there, only to discover that the boy was the only one left of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them…
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The Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
Buy on Amazon The Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer By: Lucy Weston Published by: Gallery ISBN: 143919033X Genre: fiction Pages: 320 Author’s Website: Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lucy.weston.vampire FAQ: Lucy Weston was a character in Bram Stokers Dracula. Synopsis: Sovereign Power. Eternal Pleasure. Revealed at last in this new vampire saga for the ages: the true, untold story of the "Virgin Queen" and her secret war against the Vampire King of England. . . . On the eve of her coronation, Elizabeth Tudor is summoned to the tomb of her…
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Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 1) By: Charlaine Harris 0425212890 Published by: Berkley Genre: Pages: 310 Author’s Website: http://www.charlaineharris.com Recommendable for people who like: Supernatural, Murder, Mystery, Thriller Synopsis: Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. The way Harper sees it, she’s providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living – but she’s used to most people treating her…
Read MoreIn the Woods by Tana French
In the Woods By: Tana French 0143113496 Published by: Penguin (Non-Classics) Genre: Pages: 464 Author’s Website: http://tanafrench.com/ Author’s Twitter: Synopsis {from the author’s site} As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children, gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled shoes, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.…
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The Freakshow By: Bryan Smith 0843958278 Published by: Leisure Books Genre: Pages: 324 Author’s Website: http://thehorrorofbryansmith.blogspot.com/ Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bryansmith Recommendable for people who: like bizarro, splatterpunk, horror Synopsis {from the back cover}: The Flaherty Brothers Traveling Carnivale and Freakshow has rolled into Pleasant Hills, Tennessee, and the quiet little town will never be the same. In fact, much of the town won’t survive. At first glance, the freakshow looks like so many others–lurid, rundown, decrepit. But this freakshow is definitely one of a kind… The townspeople can’t resist the…
Read Morethe Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Help By: Kathryn Stockett 0399155341 Published by: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam Genre: fiction Pages: 464 Author’s Website: http://www.kathrynstockett.com/ Author’s Twitter: n/a Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kathryn-Stockett-THE-HELP/73669783277?ref=ts MOVIE TIE-IN: In production by Dreamworks AWARDS: 2010 Indies Choice Book of the Year – Adult Debut 2010 Southern Independent Booksellers Association’s Book of the Year for Fiction BookClub pick: January 2011 the Synopsis {from the author’s website}: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it…
Read MoreBare Bones by Kathy Reichs
Bare Bones : A Novel By: Kathy Reichs 0743233468 Published by: Scribner Genre: Pages: 320 Author’s Website: http://www.kathyreichs.com/ Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/kathyreichs Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KathyReichs Recommendable for people who: enjoy mystery, crime drama, suspense, and the tv show BONES. 🙂 Synopsis {from the authors site}: She works with the dead, but she works for the living. “Down time” is not a phrase in Tempe Brennan’s vocabulary. A string of disturbing cases has put her vacation plans on hold; instead, she heads to the lab to analyze charred remains from a…
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Book Received: Jan 11 2011 Book Reviewed: Jan 18 2011 The Limit By: Kristen Landon 1442402717 Published by: Aladdin Genre: Pages: 304 Author’s Website: http://www.kristenlandon.com/ Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kristen-Landon/44925881848 Recommendable for: Young readers ages 10-15 who enjoy suspense Synopsis: An eighth grade girl was taken today . . . With this first sentence, readers are immediately thrust into a fast-paced thriller that doesn’t let up for a moment. In a world not too far removed from our own, kids are being taken away to special workhouses if their families exceed the…
Read MoreAbraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter By: Seth Grahame-Smith 0446563080 Published by: Grand Central Publishing Genre: Pages: 336 Author’s Website: n/a Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/sethgs Recommendable for people who: Like Vampire stories, Historical Fiction, Lincoln Brief synopsis: Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother’s bedside. She’s been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness." "My baby boy…" she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother’s fatal affliction was actually…
Read MoreThe Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book (Hardcover) By: Neil Gaiman (Author) Dave Mckean (Illustrator) Published by: HarperCollins Genre: YA Fiction Pages: 312 Author’s Website: http://www.neilgaiman.com/ Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/neilhimself Recommendable for people who: enjoy fiction, YA, ghost tales Watch Gaiman Read this entire book! http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx Winner of the 2009 Newbery Medal, Hugo Award, and the Carnegie Medal Synopsis: {from Gaiman’s website} Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he’s the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned…
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