The Jaguar

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Reena Library

The Jaguar – A Charlie Hood Novel
By T. Jefferson Parker

When Benjamin Armenta, leader of the powerful Gulf Cartel, kidnaps songwriter Erin McKenna, his demands are as unique as the jungle fortress in which Erin is imprisoned. She’s ordered to compose a narcocorrido, a folk ballad that will romanticize Armenta as one of the greatest desperadoes in Mexican history. Allowed to wander the hallways of the castle with only a guitar and a mysterious old priest to keep her company, Erin must produce the loveliest song these men have ever heard. Or she’ll be skinned alive.

As Erin’s music wafts through the jungle, it serves as a siren call to the two men who love her: lawman Charlie Hood and Erin’s outlaw husband, Bradley Jones. They have the power to rescue her, but their long-simmering rivalry could very well compromise Erin’s deliverance and cause the ending of a life-and-death ballad to be rewritten in blood.

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Creation in Death

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Reena Library

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

Hardback – Book Club Size
ISBN 978-0-399–15436-2
Copyright 2007

It’s 2060, and the serial killer nicknamed The Groom is back in town after an absence of nine years, resuming his horrific run of kidnapping, torturing and killing young women. Dallas, who served as a detective in the frustrating first investigation, assumes lead role in this one. This time, not only do the killer’s chosen victims have ties to Dallas’s husband, Roarke, but Dallas herself may be the killer’s ultimate target.

The Bodies Left Behind

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Reena Library

The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver
Hardback-Discarded Library book
Copyright 2008

ISBN 13-978-1-4165-9561-8

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver’s novel introduces female protagonist Brynn McKenzie, who stumbles on a heinous murder and finds herself the next potential victim. This award-winning novel contains the masterful plot twists and ticking bomb suspense that have become Deaver’s signature.

Down the Darkest Road

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Reena Library

Down the Darkest Road by Tami Hoag

Once upon a time I had the perfect family. Then, as in all fairy tales, evil came into our lives…

Four years after Lauren Lawton’s sixteen-year-old daughter disappeared, the world gave up the girl for dead. Lauren’s husband took his own life. Her younger daughter is looking only for what’s left of her childhood. But Lauren never surrendered. She knows who took her child, and there’s not a shred of evidence against him.

Looking for a fresh start, Lauren and her younger daughter Leah move to idyllic Oak Knoll. So has Lauren’s suspect. And it feels that history is about to repeat itself.

Leah is turning sixteen, and Oak Knoll has a cunning predator on the hunt. But as sheriff’s detective Tony Mendez and his team sift through the circumstances of an increasingly disturbing case, a stunning question changes everything they thought they knew…

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Burned

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Reena Library

Burned – A Regan Reilly Mystery by Carol Higgins Clark

L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly gets a call from her best gal pal, urging her to come to Hawaii for one last girls’ weekend before Regan ties the knot with Jack “no relation” Reilly, and so she happily packs her bags.

At the Waikiki Waters Playground and Resort, the body of Dorinda Dawes, the hotel’s gossipy PR woman, washes ashore wearing a valuable lei that once belonged to a Hawaiian princess and was stolen from a museum in Honolulu thirty years ago.

The resort manager doesn’t believe that Dorinda drowned accidentally and persuades Regan to take on the case. The more she starts digging, the more danger she is in. Can Regan find out what really happened before it’s too late for her and the other vacationers at the Waikiki Waters?

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12th of Never

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Reena Library

12th of Never by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
Copyright 2013Paperback
ISBN 978-1-4555-1578-3

Detective Lindsay Boxer’s baby is finally born – and the Women’s Murder Club will never be the same. While Lindsay and Joe are at home in bliss, San Francisco gets hit with multiple killings. An eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a murder that he claims is real. No one believes him – until a vicious shooting fits the man’s description to the last detail. Then the girl-friend of a star player for the San Francisco 49ers is found dead in her car, making the athlete the prime suspect. This seems like an open-and-shut case until the body inexplicably vanishes from the morgue. When the desperate chief of police calls for help, Lindsay must return to work after only one week at home with her newborn. But all the crimes in the world will seem like nothing when she suddenly faces the most devastating loss of her life.

Split Image

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Reena Library

Split Image by Robert B. Parker – A Jesse Stone Novel

Family ties prove deadly in the brilliant new Jesse Stone novel from New York Times-bestselling author Robert B. Parker.

The body in the trunk was just the beginning.

Turns out the stiff was a foot soldier for local tough guy Reggie Galen, now enjoying a comfortable “retirement” with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, in the nicest part of Paradise. Living next door are Knocko Moynihan and his wife, Robbie, who also happens to be Rebecca’s twin. But what initially appears to be a low-level mob hit takes on new meaning when a high-ranking crime figure is found dead on Paradise Beach.

Stressed by the case, his failed relationship with his ex-wife, and his ongoing battle with the bottle, Jesse needs something to keep him from spinning out of control. When private investigator Sunny Randall comes into town on a case, she asks for Jesse’s help. As their professional and personal relationships become intertwined, both Jesse and Sunny realize that they have much in common with both their victims and their suspects-and with each other.

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Something More

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Reena Library

Something More by Janet Dailey
Copyright 2007, 2008 by Janet Dailey
Zebra Books
ISBN-13 978-0-8217-7544-8

An unforgettable journey between a man who’s given up and a woman who won’t let go. . .

While life in Glory, Wyoming, isn’t exactly exciting, for stoic cowboy Luke McCallister, that’s just fine. But then he stumbles across a human skull–and possibly the key to Glory’s oldest mystery. . .

A hundred years ago, the sole survivor of a band of outlaws took the secret of a buried treasure with him to the gallows. That man was Angie Sommers’s great-great-grandfather, and she’s come to Glory to see if the legend is true–with Luke’s help. But Luke has no interest in chasing pipe dreams. Still, he can’t deny that Angie’s sweet, trusting nature, her honest eyes, and unshakeable belief make him feel things he hasn’t allowed himself to feel in years.

Now, bound by the thinnest of ties and shadowed by danger, Luke and Angie set off in search of a mystery as romantic as the west itself, traveling into Wyoming’s rugged, treacherous terrain and even deeper into the heart’s tender graces. . .

Skinny Dipping

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Reena Library

ISBN978-0-451-41244-7

Mimi Olsen is crushed to learn that her family’s Minnesota retreat is up for sale. Unless someone can get the cash to save it, the house that’s served as a peaceful anchor for generations will go under the hammer. A free spirit like Mimi has the will, what she needs is a way. Moving back into Chez Ducky is a start. But when she meets the man next door, her life is going to change direction in ways she never imagined.

The Season

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Reena Library

ISBN 978-0-515-04886-6

Murder, treason, ballgowns, and boys . . . Regency London has never been so deliciously treacherous, adventure-filled, or . . . romantic!

Seventeen year old Lady Alexandra is strong-willed and sharp-tongued — in a house full of older brothers and their friends, she had to learn to hold her own. Not the best makings for an aristocratic lady in Regency London. Yet her mother still dreams of marrying Alex off to someone safe, respectable, and wealthy. But between ball gown fittings, dances, and dinner parties, Alex, along with her two best friends, Ella and Vivi, manages to get herself into what may be her biggest scrape yet.

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