Zoo by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

All Dressed in White by Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke

All Dressed in White - Five years ago, Amanda Pierce disappeared on the eve of her wedding.  Her mother never gave up hope of finding her daughter.  Laurie Moran, is now investigating for her TV series "Under Suspicion".   Among the suspects are the ex-fiance and a bridesmaid who are now married to each other.  Her sister took Amanda's place has heir apparent of the family business.  The groomsmen, still bachelors, are suspect, even though they didn't know the bride well.  Even the bride herself is not immune from rumors of running away.

X by Sue Grafton

X (A Kinsey Millhone Novel) - Ruth Wolinsky, the widow of Pete Wolinsky, is being audited by the IRS.  Or more accurately, Pete Wolinsky's records are being audited.  Ruth asks Kinsey if she came across any financial records, receipts, or other accounting records when she went through Pete's boxes.  Although Kinsey didn't remember anything, she promised Ruth she would look in the box she still had.  While doing so, Kinsey finds an envelope hidden in the bottom of the box.  It is addressed to a priest, and dated over 20 years prior.  Kinsey decides to investigate.  Ruth's home and Kinsey's office are both searched by an unknown party. Kinsey realizes that the searches are because someone realizes that Pete had evidence that Kinsey and Ruth don't know they have or even if they do have it.  As she investigates the envelope and talking to the people that Pete talked to, she realizes that she has judged Pete unfairly and that he was looking after several women who had become obsessions of a deranged man.

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Book 1) - Smith introduces Mma Ramotswe.  This first book gives us Mma Ramotswe's history as well as how she came to run the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.  She solves a couple of little mysteries and looks into the disappearance of a young boy.

Against the Law by Kat Martin

Against the Law (The Raines of Wind Canyon, Book 3) Devlin Raines has a successful business and was happy as a bachelor, that's what he wanted to believe.  Lark Delaney was a successful business woman herself. She owns her designer purse company in Los Angeles.  Lark hires Devlin to find her sister's baby that was given up for adoption four years previously.  Her sister recently died and she promised that she would make sure that the girl was in a good, loving home.

Against the Wind by Kat Martin

Against the Wind (The Raines of Wind Canyon, Book 1) - Sarah Allen moves her daughter and herself to Wind Canyon.  Unknown to her, she is renting the cottage on Jackson Raines' property.  Jackson is the boy who had a crush on her in high school and whom she treated badly.  Soon after she arrives, she is accosted by men who want a disk that they are sure her late husband left for her.  That won't believe that she has no idea what they are talking about and that her abusive husband didn't tell her anything about his business.

Against the Sky by Kat Martin

Against the Sky (The Brodies Of Alaska, Book 2) - Samantha Hollis, city girl through and through, meets Nick Brodie in Las Vegas.  After a steaming few days she goes back to San Francisco and he to Anchorage.  Neither can get the other off their minds.  When Nick invites Samantha to Anchorage she goes only to decide whether to tell him she pregnant.  Meanwhile, Nick's young neighbor is kidnapped and told to stop investigating the death of his father.

Stars of Fortune by Nora Roberts

Stars of Fortune (Guardians Trilogy) - Three witches produces three stars as a gift for a new queen.  However, a fourth witch, Nerezza, has other plans; so the three hide the stars until those chosen can find and protect the starts. Sasha Riggs is a painter who has dreams.  She is compelled to fly to Corfu where she meets Riley Gwin, Bran Killian, Doyle McCleary, Sawyer King, and Annika Waters.  Like Sasha, they all were compelled to come to Corfu and they all are hiding something.

Final Appeal by Joanne Fluke

Final Appeal - Michael Hart has spent the last 10 years in the prison ward of a mental institution unjustly accused and convicted of the murdering his wife.  His attorney brother, Stan, has devised a way for him to escape and promises him that he has evidence that will clear his name.  However, until his name is cleared, he has to remain hidden.  Under an assumed name, he nevertheless makes friends with his neighbors. Meanwhile, members of the jury that convicted him are being killed.

Inferno: A Novel by Dan Brown

Inferno: A Novel (Robert Langdon Book 4) - Langdon wakes up in a hospital in Florence, Italy with no idea how he got there or why he is there.  As he is conversing with the doctors, a woman comes into his room, shoots one of the doctors, and aims in his direction.  He escapes with another doctor, Dr.  Sienna Brooks. As Dr. Brooks and Langdon try to reconstruct his past few days, they learn that whatever he was doing had to do with The Map of Hell By Botticelli and Dante's inferno.  Moreover, they are being chased by persons and/or entities unknown.  Meanwhile, The Consortium's provost is trying to keep his promise to a client who just died.

Sugar and Spice by Fern Michaels, Beverly Barton, Joanne Fluke, and Shirley Jump

Sugar And Spice - Several short and sweet romances all revolving around Christmas.

The Cracker Queen by Lauretta Hannon

The Cracker Queen: A Memoir of a Jagged, Joyful Life - this biography is a series of vignettes from Hannon's life.  Although sometimes interesting, not very inspiring.

Against the Wild by Kat Martin

Against the Wild (The Brodies Of Alaska) - Lane Bishop is still mourning the loss of her husband several years ago.  She is considering having a summer fling with Dylan Brodie.  As the interior designer for the lodge he is restoring in Alaska, she will be working closely with him.  What she didn't expect is to find he has a little girl who won't speak and legends of ghosts surrounding the lodge.

Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb

Devoted in Death - Ella-Loo and her boyfriend, Darryl, have worked their way across the United States to New York, leaving a trail of bodies in their wake.  With the help of an Arkansas Deputy, Dallas and her team investigate the death of their latest victim.  When they realize that the victims are held and tortured for several days before they are killed, the team races against time to find where their most recent victim is being held.

Ashley Bell by Dean Koontz

Ashley Bell: A Novel - Bibi Blair is diagnosed with a rare brain cancer that is always fatal.  When the doctor tells her she has about one year to live, she replies, "We'll see."  The next morning, she wakes up cancer free.  She soon learns that her cure comes with a price; she needs to save Ashley Bell. Running from enemies she can't see and who seem to be able to find her no matter what she does, Bibi searches for Ashley.  Along the way, she meets people who believe she has wronged her in the past and want their own revenge.

Breath of Scandal by Sandra Brown

Breath of Scandal - Only weeks before she graduated high school, Jade Sperry is ganged raped. The leader of the three boys is the Neal, son of Ivan Patchett, owner of the local company and only industry in town.   Leaving town with the scandal blamed on her, she vowed to come back and get her revenge.  Several years later, she has the means to exact her revenge and comes back to town. However, the Patchett's use their power to block her at every turn.  With Dillon Burke the contractor on her project for the town and who has his own ghosts, they battle overthrow the Patchett's power and bring economic prosperity to the town.

Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz

Secret Sisters - When Madeline Chase was 12, she was attacked at the hotel her grandma, Edith Chase, owned and operated.  Her best friend, Daphne Knight was able to raise the alarm and Edith; Clara Knight, Daphne's mother; and Tom Lomax, the caretaker, saved Madeline.  But, the five had buried a secret that was now coming back to haunt them.  Edith is dead and Madeline finds Tom dying in the lobby of the abandoned hotel.  Madeline calls her security adviser, Jack Rayner, who when they realize that the deaths have something to do with that long ago incident, has his brother and employee, Abe Rayner pick up Daphne.  The four then begin to investigate not only Tom and Edith's death which leads them to the island's leading family, the Websters.

One Heart to Win by Johanna Lindsey

One Heart to Win - Tiffany Warren's parents, Rose and Frank, promised her in marriage to Hunter Callahan when she was 3 years old.  This was to end the feud between the families.  Until Tiffany turned 18, the Callahans and the Warren's would honor a truce.  Then, without any satisfactory reason, Rose up and left Nashart, Montana and returned to East, taking Tiffany with her.  Now, Tiffany, is reluctantly traveling to Montana, sure that she would hate the west and Hunter.  When she arrives in Nashart, the Callahan's mistake her for the Warren's new housekeeper.  So, Tiffany, masquerades as Jenny, so that she could observe her fiance without him knowing who she was.

Corridors of the Night by Anne Perry

Corridors of the Night: A William Monk Novel - Hester Monk discovers that Hamilton Rand is using children to supply blood for his blood transfusion experiments.  Rand then kidnaps Hester, along with the 3 children to continue his experiment in the country.  William Monk rescues her, but then they have to prove that Hester was kidnapped and that Rand intended to kill her and the children when he finished his experiments.

Driving Heat by Richard Castle

Driving Heat (Nikki Heat) - On Nikki's first day as Captain, her psychologist is found dead on the bank of the Hudson River.  Then the body of a crash expert is found dead at the testing site.  In the midst of the deaths, Jameson Rook is kidnapped.

Shadow Play by Iris Johansen

Shadow Play: An Eve Duncan Novel - A sheriff in California begs Eve to put his skeleton's facial reconstruction before everything else.  As she works, the girl appears to her.  Meanwhile, Walsh is watching the burial site and kills one of the officers at the site.  He then goes to Georgia and intercepts the skull when it is picked up by FedEx.

A song of Shadows by John Connolly

A Song of Shadows: A Charlie Parker Thriller - Parker is convalescing in the small town of Boreas, Maine.  His neighbor, Ruth Winter moves next door with her daughter, Amanda.  Shortly afterwards, the body of a Jewish man is found on the beach nearby.  Soon thereafter, a family is killed and their house burned, only the teenage boy survives.  In Florida,  a bartender and his wife are tortured and murder.  Parker investigates and learns that they all are connected and have something to do with the Nazi prison camp in Lubsko, Poland.

A Christmas Escape by Anne Perry

A Christmas Escape: A Novel - Charles Latterly (brother of Hester Monk) takes his Christmas holiday on the volcanic island of Stromboli.  At the boarding house where he is staying he meets the other guests, not all, are genial to one another.  When the volcano begins to rumble and it becomes apparent it will erupt, the guests gather together to begin their trip down to the sea.  Before they start, one of the guests is murdered.

The Golem of Paris by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman

The Golem of Paris - Detective Jacob Lev has been relegated to cataloging files for the LAPD.  He is estranged from his father, watched over by Special Projects, haunted by the memory of Mai, and his mother is locked away in her own mind, not speaking at all to anyone.  He finds the file of an old case of the murder of a woman and her son, staged to appear looking at one another.  His investigations leads him to Paris where a similar murder has taken place.  Lev's story is interspersed with the story of a woman who was incarcerated in an asylum unjustly in 1982.

Once Upon a Castle by Nora Roberts

Once upon a Castle - Spellbound by Nora Roberts:  Calin Farrell is drawn to Ireland where he meets up with Bryna Torrence, a witch who needs Calin to help her in a fight to reclaim her castle.

Castle Doom by Jill Gregory:  Lady Arianne of Galeron is attempting to rescue her brother.  Nicholas of Dinadan comes to do the same.

Falcon's Lair by Ruth Ryan Langan:  Felicity Andrews comes to England in place of her father who has died.  She hopes that her father's friend, Lord Falcon, would accept her.  When she arrives at Falcon's Lair, she is not received very well by Lord Falcon's relatives. Moreover, they claim he is unable to receive visitors.  She ends up being befriended by the castle's ghost.

Dragonspell by Marianne Willman:  Tressalara, princess of Amelonia, escapes her castle when it is attacked.  She ends up living in the woods with the local rebellion group.

Hush by Kate White

Hush: A Novel - Kate Warren is a marketing consultant working with an fertility clinic.  Going through a divorce with two small children, she is trying to keep her head above water.  However, she gives into temptation and sleeps with one of the doctors.  While she is relaxing on the terrace of his apartment, he is murdered.  Panicking, she removes everything she can think of that relates to her and leaves.

Warriors of the Storm by Bernard Cornwell

Warriors of the Storm: A Novel (Saxon Tales) - Uhtred of Bebbanburg controls northern Mercia from Ceaster.  However, Ragnall Ivarson has gotten a foothold in Northumbria by burning all their ships in the harbor and pushing on northward.  Along with Ivarson is Hasten, another old enemy, and may Irishmen.  Uhtred now has to determine what Ivarson's plans are and how to thwart him.  First, Uhtred wants to know where his son-in-law, Sigtryggr Ivarson, Ragnall's brother, stands.

Wildfire in His Arms by Johanna Lindsey

Wildfire In His Arms - US Marshal John Hayes  asks his old friend Degan Grant to apprehend 3 outlaws for him while he takes care of some personal issues back home.  Soon after he agrees, he realizes he saw one of the most rewarding outlaws that morning, Max Dawson.  Thinking that all he had to do was find Max's hideout.  What he didn't count on was a female who was running from a corrupt sheriff that wanted to hang her for reasons unrelated to any crime.

The Naked Eye by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen

The Naked Eye: A Novel -  Kendra Michaels believes killer Eric Colby is still alive despite his execution.  No one in authority believes her.  When a journalist contacts her with proof that Colby still lives, Kendra willingly talked with her.  However, the journalist tricked her and published a humiliating column about her belief.  When the journalist is murdered, the authorities blame a copy cat, not Colby; until Colby reveals himself via video and murders one of the investigators on that video.  Furthermore, Colby indicates he will murder again, and so now everyone is searching for him.

Size 12 and Ready to Rock by Meg Cabot

Size 12 and Ready to Rock: A Heather Wells Mystery (Heather Wells Mysteries) - Heather is determined that this year she will erase the Death Dorm moniker from Fischer Hall.  Tania Trace is pregnant.  She is also hosting a camp for teenagers.  When her body guard is shot, Tania insists on moving the camp to Fischer Hall, over Heather's protests.  However, when a student is poisoned by candy meant for Tania, Heather begins to investigate.  She learns that Tania's old manager has been holding a grudge and focuses on him.

Big Boned by Meg Cabot

Big Boned (Heather Wells Mysteries) -  Since Cooper has made it very clear it wasn't going to be Heather's rebound love, she has begun dating her math teacher, Tad, who is totally hot. She is happy but it seems there is nothing in common between the two.  Meanwhile, she is on her third boss, Dr. Owen Veatch, since her last boss was promoted and the previous one was a homicidal maniac. However, no one likes Veatch.  Especially the graduate student worker's union who is currently protesting the elimination of benefits from their compensation. Veatch is supposed to be working to come to a compromise between the union and the school.

When Veatch is found shot to death in his office, the student union's leader, Sebastian, becomes the prime suspect.  However, his girlfriend and co-worker of Heather, Sarah, pleads with Heather to find the true killer. Heather's investigation leads to scandal on the campus and eventually to the true killer.

Size 14 Is Not Fat Either by Meg Cabot

Size 14 Is Not Fat Either (Heather Wells Mysteries) - Heather has settled nicely into her job as assistant director of Fischer Hall.  She is also starting night classes at the college.  However, because a cheerleader's head is found cooking on the cafeteria's stove, she misses the first few classes.  She promised Cooper and Detective Canavan that she would NOT become involved.  But she gets pulled into investigating anyway.  As she investigates, she learns that one of the most prominent students is involved, along with his fraternity.  Meanwhile, her Jordan (her ex-fiance's) wedding is looming and he keeps coming over to talk with her and calling her on the phone.

Size 12 Is Not Fat by Meg Cabot

Size 12 Is Not Fat: A Heather Wells Mystery (Heather Wells Mysteries) - Cabot introduces Heather Wells former teen pop star.  Heather is now the assistant residence hall director of Fischer Hall at New York College.  Heather's mom had absconded with Heather's her manager and life savings to Argentina.  Her ex-fiance, Jordan Cartwright, is now with Tania Price, the girl Heather found in him in bed with while they were engaged.  Heather is now living in Cooper Cartwright's brownstone.  He is on the outs with his family and generously offered his top floor in exchange for bookkeeping.  Heather keeps hoping that Cooper will notice her romantically.

A girl is found dead at the bottom of the building's elevator shaft.  The death is ruled an accident, due to elevator surfing, but Heather doesn't believe it and begins to investigate.  It is not until after another girl's death and attacks on Heather do the authorities begin to believe her.

So Pretty it Hurts by Kate White

So Pretty It Hurts: A Bailey Weggins Mystery (Bailey Weggins Mysteries) - Bailey is invited to a getaway with her co-worker Jess.  While there, she meets several people involved in the modeling business.  However, the star model is soon found dead.  Not only that, they become snowed in.  Although the police rule the death due to the stars anorexia, Bailey believes someone helped her along.

Lethally Blond by Kate White

Lethally Blond (Bailey Weggins Mysteries, No. 5) - Chris Wickersham asks Bailey to look into his friend's disappearance.  Chris and his friend have landed roles on a new series.  As Bailey investigates, she is lead to an old house everyone thought the friend had already sold where she finds the friend, dead.

14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

14th Deadly Sin (Women's Murder Club) - While Lindsay is celebrating her friend's birthday, she is called away to murder scene.  Once her friend points it out, Lindsay realizes that she has been called away to a murder scene on her friend's birthday every year for the past five years.  Meanwhile, her team investigates a group who have been robbing stores and killing anyone who gets in their way.  They are caught on video, but leave no other evidence.

14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

14th Deadly Sin (Women's Murder Club) - While Lindsay is celebrating her friend's birthday, she is called away to murder scene.  Once her friend points it out, Lindsay realizes that she has been called away to a murder scene on her friend's birthday every year for the past five years.  Meanwhile, her team investigates a group who have been robbing stores and killing anyone who gets in their way.  They are caught on video, but leave no other evidence.

The Sixes by Kate White

The Sixes: A Novel - Phoebe Hall, a non-fiction writer, has been accused of plagiarism.  Although there is basis for the charges, the plagiarism was unintentional.  Still, her reputation is shot.  Therefore, she accepts a position teaching at a small college.  While she is there a coed dies mysteriously.  Soon she finds out that other deaths have happened to college students that fit a pattern, but since they are in different jurisdictions and are alcohol related, the police label them accidents.  Meanwhile, other mysterious things are happening that students believe are related to a secret sorority called the Sixes, which supposedly encourages its to be powerful.

Over Her Dead Body by Kate White

Over Her Dead Body by Kate White - Bailey loses her job at Gloss magazine but almost immediately gains a new one at Buzz.  However, her new boss is very trying.  AS it turns out her new boss is very unpopular.  One night, Bailey comes across the cleaning woman and her boss in her boss' office.  The cleaning woman has been coshed on the head and her boss is dead.

Over Her Dead Body by Kate White

Over Her Dead Body by Kate White - Bailey loses her job at Gloss magazine but almost immediately gains a new one at Buzz.  However, her new boss is very trying.  AS it turns out her new boss is very unpopular.  One night, Bailey comes across the cleaning woman and her boss in her boss' office.  The cleaning woman has been coshed on the head and her boss is dead.

'Til Death Do Us Part by Kate White

'Til Death Do Us Part - Several years previously, Bailey Weggins was a bridesmaid for Peyton Cross.  Now, two of her fellow bridesmaids have died suspiciously.  However, the police have ruled both deaths accidents.  So of course, Bailey gets involved and begins to investigate herself. 

A Body to Die For by Kate White

A Body to Die For - Bailey Weggins is resting at a spa in rural Massachusetts.  However, a body is discovered wrapped in seaweed.  Wanting to help her mother's friend, she begins to investigate, but there is no end of suspects.  Furthermore, Bailey begins to fall for the lead police investigator.

If Looks Could Kill by Kate White

If Looks Could Kill - Kate White introduces us to Bailey Weggins, the real crime writer for Gloss magazine.  Bailey's boss, Cat Jones, asks her to investigate the death of Cat's nanny.  Apparently, the nanny ate some poisoned chocolates that were left for Cat during a gathering that Cat had in her home.

Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... But Gutsy Girls Do: Nine.. by Kate White

Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... But Gutsy Girls Do: Nine Secrets Every Career Woman Must Know - Kate White gives very direct advice for "good girls" who want to succeed in the business world.

Nemesis: An FBI Thriller by Catherine Coulter

Nemesis: An FBI Thriller -  Sherlock stops a would be bomber at JFK airport.  A young alter boy finds a backpack in the vestibule of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and a priest prevents serious destruction there. While Sherlock investigates who is behind these attacks in New York, Savich is investigating who is trying to kill him in Washington, DC.

Speaking in Bones by Kathy Reichs

Speaking in Bones: A Novel (Temperance Brennan) - Hazel “Lucky” Strike believes that Brennan has the bones of Cora Teague in her morgue.  Lucky lets Brennan listen to a tape recording that appears to be someone torturing Cora.  When Brennan, or any official, questions Cora's parents, they insist that Cora ran off with her boyfriend. Not only do they believe that Cora is all right, but they don't want to talk about her.

Seaside Summer by Pam Hanson & Barbara Andrews

Seaside Summer (Miracles of Marble Cove, 3) - The roof of Margaret's gallery cave's in.  Shelly's husband is spending lots of time away from home in the evenings.  The mystery of the lighthouse increases when Beverly finds the initials E. M. carved into its wall.

Naked Greed by Stuart Woods

Naked Greed (A Stone Barrington Novel) - As Stone Barrington walks out of a restaurant, he sees a man, Jose Perado, being assaulted by two policemen.  When Stone saves the man from the cops; he learns that the man is in town and needs a lawyer.  Stone offers his services.  However, the cops weren't cops and they worked for an old mob boss.  Soon, not only are they after Perado, now they are after Stone.

Fatal Identity by Joanne Fluke

Fatal Identity - Marcie Calder is a school teacher, her twin sister, Mercedes, is a movie star.  When Mercedes dies in what the police call an accident, Marcie moves to L.A. to take care of Mercedes children.  However, Mercedes was murdered; and now the murderer has set his sights on Marcie.

The English Spy by Daniel Silva

The English Spy - A bomb is set off on a yacht and a British princess is killed.  It is believed that Eamon Quinn, of the IRA, is responsible for the hit. Graham Seymour requests that Gabriel Allon, soon to be head of the Israeli secret service, and Christopher Keller hunt down and kill Quinn.

Winter Chill by Joanne Fluke

Winter Chill - Dan and Marian Larsen loose their young daughter,Laura, in a snowmobile accident.  Grief stricken, Dan is paralyzed and Marian imagines that Laura is writing her notes from beyond.  Soon, Laura's best friends are killed in other accidents and the town begins to wonder if there is a murderer near.