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This is Grisham’s latest release in paperback. His new hard back is The Street Lawyer. This has some unusual twist, even for Grisham. Lawyer Patrick Lanigan stole ninety million dollars and successfully eluded capture for four years. Now he’s back home, awaiting trial. This book is about a scam within a scam, with only a couple of brief courtroom scenes. One of his best a must read.

Hart is also Mamdalyn Kayo. Macon Stratford is a successful political consultant, but a woman who never lets anyone get too close, even her loving stepfather, her own living relative. Secret Service agent Jacob Black foot strolls into her life commanding her cooperation in an effort to capture the leaders of a world wide counterfeiter group. What he does not tell Macon is that suspects her stepfather is one of the chief conspirators. You’ll enjoy the bristly dialogue between two characters who are both carrying around family baggage and eavesdropping as they fall in love is fun.

Years later the murders of two teens remains unsolved. Careers were made and ruined in the process of trying to get convictions. Hypnosis, questionable police practices, issues of redemption, all feed in to this unusual story. Very worth your while if you like books of this type.

Some of you may recognize black detective Alex Cross from earlier works, well he’s back and more interesting than ever. I love his mouthy grandmother and his cadre of fellow officers and Patterson gives Alex two complex cases that twist and turn to intrigue and drive you crazy.

Boy, you got to love Nora Roberts, that woman gets around as a writer. This is the second in a series starring police detective Eve Dallas and her Irish-born millionaire husband with a shady past. Serial killer is on the loose and he’s picked Eve as his opponent, although his ultimate goal is to destroy anything Eve’s husband loves. Oh, one twist here this story is set in 2050. Got to get the first one. Pay attention, Twyla. Save it for me.

This is a Kay Scarpetta novel. Kay is called on a case that looks like an out brake of small pox, when she starts envisaging she finds more cases and that they were exposed on propose. Then she starts getting e-mail from the killer, then things get entrusting. For anyone who likes the Kay Scarpetta books this is a must read all of your old friends are there.

This is a grate story about a women who has lost a child and she moves to a old house by the east coast. She starts hearing a baby cry in the night but there is no one in the house, and then one day when she is out side looking a the house she see a women standing on the widows watch. As she starts investigating the history of the house she finds that something tragic happened years ago. This as a great book if you like haunting stories. No one can do them a well as Ms. Clark.

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