Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Private: #1 Suspect by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Private: #1 Suspect (Jack Morgan) - Jack Morgan has several situations that all need to be resolved.  His former employee and lover is murdered in his bed.  Another ex is threatening to leave Private.  And he is strong armed into finding $30 million of drugs stolen from the mob.

Private: #1 Suspect by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Private: #1 Suspect (Jack Morgan) - Jack Morgan has several situations that all need to be resolved.  His former employee and lover is murdered in his bed.  Another ex is threatening to leave Private.  And he is strong armed into finding $30 million of drugs stolen from the mob.

Gun Games by Faye Kellerman

Gun Games: A Decker/Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus)- A local teenager, Gregory Hess, committed suicide but his mother refuses to accept it.  Peter Decker and his team investigate to find out why Gregory shot himself.  The more the investigate, the more questions they have.  And them another teen commits suicide.  On the surface they don't seem to have anything in common.  But there is a group of teenagers who have fashioned themselves after the Mafia and Decker believes that might have something to do with the suicides.

Meanwhile, his foster child, Gabriel Whitman, is finding love with a daughter of Decker's friends.  His piano mastery is also being recognized.  However, he is running afoul of the local teen "Mafia" group.

Gun Games by Faye Kellerman

Gun Games: A Decker/Lazarus Novel (Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus) - A local teenager, Gregory Hess, committed suicide but his mother refuses to accept it.  Peter Decker and his team investigate to find out why Gregory shot himself.  The more the investigate, the more questions they have.  And them another teen commits suicide.  On the surface they don't seem to have anything in common.  But there is a group of teenagers who have fashioned themselves after the Mafia and Decker believes that might have something to do with the suicides.

Meanwhile, his foster child, Gabriel Whitman, is finding love with a daughter of Decker's friends.  His piano mastery is also being recognized.  However, he is running afoul of the local teen "Mafia" group.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Seizure by Kathy Reichs

Seizure: A Virals Novel - Tory Brennan and her friends, Ben, Hi, & Shelton and their wolfdog, Cooper are still getting use to the effects of being infected by the parvovirus that has changed their DNA to allow their senses to become ultra sensitive at times.  Now Charleston University is planning to shut down the animal research facility where all their parents work.  This would cause the "Virals" to be split up. Tory learns of a female pirate, Anne Bonny, who legend has it, buried her treasure near Charleston.  Tory and her group decide that the treasure would save their home and their parents livelihood.  Thus begins their treasure hunt.

Seizure by Kathy Reichs

Seizure: A Virals Novel - Tory Brennan and her friends, Ben, Hi, & Shelton and their wolfdog, Cooper are still getting use to the effects of being infected by the parvovirus that has changed their DNA to allow their senses to become ultra sensitive at times.  Now Charleston University is planning to shut down the animal research facility where all their parents work.  This would cause the "Virals" to be split up. Tory learns of a female pirate, Anne Bonny, who legend has it, buried her treasure near Charleston.  Tory and her group decide that the treasure would save their home and their parents livelihood.  Thus begins their treasure hunt.

Death Benefit by Robin Cook

Death Benefit - Pia Grazdani is a gifted, but socially stunted medical student working with Dr. Tobias Rothman, who is very disliked, at Columbia University Medical Center.  Dr. Rothman is studying different strains of the salmonella virus as well as growing human organs from stem cells.  Edmund Matthews and Russell Lefevre have invested everything they have in their new business, buying the life insurance (for pennies on the dollar) of the elderly who are ill and need cash for the medical care.  When they learn of Dr. Rothman's success in growing organs in the lab, they decide to take drastic measures.

Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery play a very minor role near the end of the book.

Death Benefit by Robin Cook

Death Benefit - Pia Grazdani is a gifted, but socially stunted medical student working with Dr. Tobias Rothman, who is very disliked, at Columbia University Medical Center.  Dr. Rothman is studying different strains of the salmonella virus as well as growing human organs from stem cells.  Edmund Matthews and Russell Lefevre have invested everything they have in their new business, buying the life insurance (for pennies on the dollar) of the elderly who are ill and need cash for the medical care.  When they learn of Dr. Rothman's success in growing organs in the lab, they decide to take drastic measures.

Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery play a very minor role near the end of the book.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

A Grown-up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty: A Novel - Every 15 years, Ginny "Big" Slocumb's life is turned upside down by a drastic event.  When she was 15, she had her daughter Liza.  When Liza was 15, she had Mosey.  Now Mosey is 14 and Big and Liza are doing everything to prevent a Mosey pregnancy.  But, Liza has been incapacitated by a stroke.  In order to help her daughter, plans to put a pool in the back yard.  To do so she has the Willow Tree cut down.  As the roots are dug up, so are the bones of a baby.

A Grown-up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty: A Novel - Every 15 years, Ginny "Big" Slocumb's life is turned upside down by a drastic event.  When she was 15, she had her daughter Liza.  When Liza was 15, she had Mosey.  Now Mosey is 14 and Big and Liza are doing everything to prevent a Mosey pregnancy.  But, Liza has been incapacitated by a stroke.  In order to help her daughter, plans to put a pool in the back yard.  To do so she has the Willow Tree cut down.  As the roots are dug up, so are the bones of a baby.

Break Down by Sara Paretsky

Breakdown (V.I. Warshawski Novel) - Vic's cousin Petra is running a book club for 12 & 13 year-old girls.  They are currently into "Carmilla, Queen of the Night", a shape shifting raven.  The girls sneak out to hold their own made up ceremony in an old cemetery. When Vic follows the girls with the intent to return them to their homes, she discovers a newly murdered person near where the girls were holding their ceremony.  As Vic investigates, she is hampered by the girl's powerful families as well as perpetrators.

Break Down by Sara Paretsky

Breakdown (V.I. Warshawski Novel) - Vic's cousin Petra is running a book club for 12 & 13 year-old girls.  They are currently into "Carmilla, Queen of the Night", a shape shifting raven.  The girls sneak out to hold their own made up ceremony in an old cemetery. When Vic follows the girls with the intent to return them to their homes, she discovers a newly murdered person near where the girls were holding their ceremony.  As Vic investigates, she is hampered by the girl's powerful families as well as perpetrators.

The Rebels by John Jakes

The Rebels (Kent Family Chronicles Volume 2) - The Rebels begins June 17, 1775.  Phillip Kent is fighting along with the American colonists who wish to throw off the yoke of English rule.  The story follows Phillip as he travels and fights with the army from Breed's Hill to Valley Forge.  At home, his wife Ann, having invested in Will Caleb privateer's operation, is fighting her own battles against Caleb's partner.

We also meet Judson Fletcher, who being denied marriage to the woman he loves, becomes a wastrel.  Jud is offered the chance to represent the colony of Virginia in the continental congress as they declare themselves a separate country from England.

The Rebels by John Jakes

The Rebels (Kent Family Chronicles Volume 2) - The Rebels begins June 17, 1775.  Phillip Kent is fighting along with the American colonists who wish to throw off the yoke of English rule.  The story follows Phillip as he travels and fights with the army from Breed's Hill to Valley Forge.  At home, his wife Ann, having invested in Will Caleb privateer's operation, is fighting her own battles against Caleb's partner.

We also meet Judson Fletcher, who being denied marriage to the woman he loves, becomes a wastrel.  Jud is offered the chance to represent the colony of Virginia in the continental congress as they declare themselves a separate country from England.