Death Du Jour by Kathy Reichs

Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan Novels)

In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Tempe Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. Although Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past, it’s a chain of contemporary deaths and disappearances that has seized her attention – and she alone is ideally placed to make a chilling connection among the seemingly unrelated events. At the crime scene, at the morgue, and in the lab, Tempe probes a mystery that sweeps from a deadly Quebec fire to startling discoveries in the Carolinas, and culminates in Montreal with a terrifying showdown – a nerve-shattering test of both her forensic expertise and her skills for survival.

Copyright 1999 ISBN 0-671-01137-5

The Walk by Richard Paul Evans
The Walk: A Novel (Pocket Readers Guide)

What would you do if you lost everything? When Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen loses his job, his home, and the love of his life – all at the same time – he’s tempted by his darkest thoughts. Then as he sits with a bottle of pills in his hand, he hears a voice telling him to live. That’s when he decides to go on a walk, but no ordinary walk. Taking with him only the barest of essentials, Alan leaves behind all that he’s known and heads for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life – and inspire yours.

The first of an unforgettable series of books about one man’s search for hope! Watch for Miles to Go.

ISBN 978-1-4516-2533-2

The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks

The Wedding

From Nicholas Sparks, American’s favorite chronicler of love stories, comes the long-awaited follow-up to The Notebook – a story of an ordinary man who goes to extraordinary lengths to win back the love of his life.

After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault.

Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun and their fifty year love affair, Wilson is unable to express his true feelings. He has spent too little time at home and too much time at the office. Now his daughter is about to marry, and his wife is thinking about leaving him. But if Wilson is sure of anything, it’s this: his love for Jane has grown over the years, and he will do anything he can to save their marriage. With the memories of Noah and Allie’s inspiring life together as his guide, he vows to find a way to make his wife fall in love with him…. all over again.

Taken from the back cover

ISBN 0-446-69333-2

Betrayal in Death – Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb

Betrayal in Death

At the luxurious Roarke Palace Hotel, a maid walks into Suite 2062 for the nightly turndown – and steps into her worst nightmare. When they find her, she’s dead… strangled by a thin, silver wire. This is a killer that Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows well. He’s Sly Yost, virtuoso of music and murder – a hit man for the elite. But in this twisted case, knowing the killer doesn’t help solve the crime. Because there has to be someone else involved, someone with a more personal motive. And Eve must face a terrifying possiblility – the real target may, in fact, be her husband Roarke…

Copyright 2001 ISBN 0-7862-3397-4

Diamond Spur by Diana Palmer Copyright 1988

Diamond Spur

Texas rancher Jason Donovan was known for his temper, his brooding nature and his deep distrust of women. No one at the Diamond Spur ranch could stand his moods – except Kate Whittman.

Kate was young and inexperienced, but she knew that Jason was the only man for her. She wanted him more than anything, but her offered her only brotherly protection – until the day she discovered that Jason’s desire was as strong as her own.

But Jason was not interested in commitment, or marriage, and especially not love. So Kate pursued another fantasy – becoming a successful New York fashion designer. But just when it seemed that her fairy tale was coming true, fate brought her back to Texas. To Jason. And to a dream that she’d almost abandoned…

The dialogue is charming, the characters like-able and the sex sizzling…

ISBN 1-55166-950-1

Matters of the Heart by Danielle Steel Copyright 2009

Matters of the Heart

From the back cover

In this spellbinding blend of suspense and human drama, Danielle Steel tells a powerful and unusual story of one woman’s journey from darkness into light, as she fights to escape a mesmerizing sociopath who hold her in his thrall…

Top photographer Hope Dunne has known joy and heartbreak, and finds serenity through the lens of her camera. Content in her SoHo loft, she isn’t looking for a man or excitement. but these things find her when she flies to London to photograph one of the world’s most celebrated writers.

Finn O’Neill exudes warmth and a boyish charm. Enormously successful, he is a perfect counterpoint to Hope’s quiet, steady grace – and he’s taken instantly by her. He courts her as no one ever has before, whisking her away to his palatial, isolated Irish estate.

Hope finds it all, and him, irresistible. But soon cracks begin to appear in his stories: Gaps in his history, a few innocent lies, and bouts of jealousy unnerve her. Suddenly, Hope is both in love an deeply in doubt, and ultimately frightened of the man she loves. Is it possible that this adoring man is hiding something even worse? The spell cast by a brilliant sociopath has her trapped in his web, too confused and dazzled to escape, as he continues to tighten his grip on her.

Some of the greatest crimes against humanity have been committed in the name of love.

“A sociopath is a person who will destroy you, without a heart, without a conscience, without even a second glance. At first they are too perfect and too good to be true. Then, they remove your heart, and whatever else they want, with a scalpel. The operation they perform is brilliant, often but not always flawless. And when they’ve gotten whatever they came for in the first place, they leave you traumatized, stunned and bleeding by the roadside and silently move on, to do it again to someone else.” – Danielle Steele

ISBN 978-0-440-24331-1