BOOK
RELEASES
October and November 2008
Compiled by Lady Nightdancer
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Science Fiction, Thrillers, Horror, Fantasy
Grace
By
Richard Paul Evans
Pub. Date:
October 07, 2008
She was my first kiss. My first love. She was a little match girl who could see
the future in the flame of a candle. She was a runaway who taught me more about
life than anyone has before or since. And when she was gone my innocence left
with her.
As I begin to write, a part of me feels as if I am awakening something best left
dead and buried, or at least buried. We can bury the past, but it never really
dies. The experience of that winter has grown on my soul like ivy climbing the
outside of a home, growing until it begins to tear and tug at the brick and
mortar.
I pray I can still get the story right. My memory, like my eyesight, has waned
with age. Still, there are things that become clearer to me as I grow older.
This much I know: too many things were kept secret in those days. Things that
never should have been hidden. And things that should have.
The Brass Verdict
Pub. Date:
October 14, 2008
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two
years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer
Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of
Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and
her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the
big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next.
Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to
using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners
realize their only choice is to work together.
Pub. Date:
October 21, 2008
When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense,
#1New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as “master
of the psychological thriller” (People). Now, Kellerman has worked his magic
again in this chilling new masterpiece.
The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about
something “real dead . . . buried in your marsh.” The eco-volunteer on the other
end of the phone thinks it’s a prank, but when a young woman’s body turns up in
L.A.’s Bird Marsh preserve no one’s laughing. And when the bones of more victims
surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city’s under siege to an
insidious killer. Milo’s first move: calling in psychologist Alex Delaware.
Salvation
in Death
(In Death Series #27)
By J. D. Robb
(Pen Name of Nora Roberts)
Pub. Date:
November 04, 2008
A search of the victim's sparsely furnished room reveals little— except for a
carefully hidden religious medal with a mysterious inscription, and a couple of
underlined Bible passages. The autopsy reveals more: faint scars of knife
wounds, a removed tattoo—and evidence of plastic surgery, suggesting that
"Father Flores" may not have been the man his parishioners had thought. Now, as
Eve pieces together clues that hint at gang connections and a deeply personal
act of revenge, she believes she's making progress on the case. Until a
secondmurder—in front of an even larger crowd of worshippers—knocks the whole
investigation sideways. And Eve is left to figure out who committed these unholy
acts—and why.
Swallowing Darkness
(Meredith Gentry Series #7)
By Laurell K. Hamilton
Pub. Date:
November 04, 2008
Toss everything you think you know about vampire stories and sword and sorcery
novels into an open grave, because Laurell K. Hamilton is reinventing the genres
with chills, thrills, and giggles. With her popular Anita Blake and Meredith
Gentry series, Hamilton is making dark fantasy fantastically entertaining again.
By
Stephen King
Pub. Date:
November 11, 2008
In his first collection in six years, Stephen King delivers his strongest, most
broadly appealing stories ever. “Gingerbread Girl,” published in Esquire in July
2007 (unprecedented in number of magazine pages devoted to it), is set, like
Duma Key, in Florida. It is a riveting, fabulously dramatic stalker tale
featuring a young woman as vulnerable—and resourceful—as Audrey Hepburn’s
character in “Wait Until Dark.” “Willa” published in Playboy, blurs the lines
between living and the dead. “Ayana,” one of the most beautifully written and
haunting stories, was published in The Paris Review. From the subtle and
disturbing to the outright terrifying, these tales will thrill every known King
fan and win new ones.
Cross Country
Pub. Date:
November 17, 2008
When the home of Alex Cross's oldest friend, Ellie Cox, is turned into the worst
murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe that he's
chasing a horrible new breed of killer. As Alex and his girlfriend, Brianna
Stone, become entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington D.C.,
what they discover is shocking: a stunningly organized gang of lethal teenagers
headed by a powerful, diabolical man-the African warlord known as the Tiger.
Just when the detectives think they're closing in on the elusive murderer, the
Tiger disappears into thin air. Tracking him to Africa, Alex knows that he must
follow. Alone.
Pagan
Stone
(Sign of Seven Series #3)
By Nora Roberts
Pub. Date:
November 25, 2008
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Blood Brothers and The
Hollow—the conclusion to the electrifying trilogy of three men and three women
who join forces—and hearts—to battle the ultimate evil.
In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same
birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10.
But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their
blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse.
Twenty-one years later, Gage and his friends have seen their town plagued by a
week of unexplainable evil events two more times—every seven years. With the
clock winding down on the third set of seven years, someone else has taken an
interest in the town's folklore.
PAPERBACK
Blood Memories
By Barb Hendee
Pub. Date:
October 07, 2008
Eleisha Clevon has the face of a teen angel, but she is no
angel. Unlike most vampires, she doesn't like to kill, but self-preservation
comes first.
When an old friend destroys himself by walking into sunlight right in front of
her, Eleisha is shocked. And what she finds afterwards points to how very sick
of his existence her friend had become—piling drained corpses in the basement
and keeping records of other vampires' real names and addresses. That's a
problem.
Because now, there are policemen on the case: two very special humans with some
gifts of their own. They know who Eleisha is, and, even more dangerous, what she
is.
Brother Odd
(Odd Thomas Series #3)
By Dean Koontz
Pub. Date:
October 28, 2008
St. Bartholomew’s Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of
California’s high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a
sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live
fully again, and among the eccentric monks, their other guests, and the nuns and
young students of the attached convent school, he has begun to find his way. The
silent spirits of the dead who visited him in his earlier life are mercifully
absent, save for the bell-ringing Brother Constantine and Odd’s steady
companion, the King of Rock 'n' Roll.
But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path in
the form of the sinister bodachs he has met previously, the black shades who
herald death and disaster, and who come late one December night to hover above
the abbey’s most precious charges. For Oddis about to face an enemy who eclipses
any he has yet encountered, as he embarks on a journey of mystery, wonder, and
sheer suspense that surpasses all that has come before.
A Coven of Vampires
By Brian Lumley
Pub. Date:
October 31, 2008
Subterranean Press is proud to announce this brand-new edition of Brian Lumley's
most sought after book, A Coven of Vampires, featuring a collection of 13
classic vampire tales: What Dark God?, Back Row, The Strange Years, The Kiss of
the Lamia, Recognition, The Thief Immortal, Necros, The Thing From the Blasted
Heath, Uzzi, Haggopian, The Picknickers, Zack Phalanx is Vlad the Impaler, and
The House of the Temple.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
By Ann Radcliffe
Pub. Date:
November 15, 2008
A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Sade, Poe, and other purveyors of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gothic horror, The Mysteries of Udolpho remains one of the most important works in the history of European fiction. After Emily St. Aubuert is imprisoned by her evil guardian, Count Montoni, in his gloomy medieval fortress in the Appenines, terror becomes the order of the day. With its dream-like plot and hallucinatory rendering of its characters' psychological states, The Mysteries of Udolpho is a fascinating challenge to contemporary readers.