The B's
« Previous EntriesThe Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Saturday, March 6th, 2010SYNOP: As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol Building. Within minutes of his arrival, however, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object — artfully encoded with five symbols — is discovered in the Capitol Building. Langdon recognizes the object as [...]
Evil Without A Face by Jordan Dane
Sunday, September 6th, 2009SYNOP:
Haunted and Obsessed
She sleeps with a Colt Python in her nightstand and her senses on alert—Jessica Beckett isn’t taking any chances. Hiding a chilling secret, living in a world of snitches and felons, good cops and bad dreams, Jessica is a bounty hunter who brings lowlifes to justice. But not even she can imagine [...]
To the Power of Three by Laura Lippman
Friday, August 15th, 2008Book Synop:
The three girls have been inseparable best friends since the third grade — Josie, the athletic one; Perri, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen; and Kat, the beauty, who also has brains, grace, and a heart open to all around her. But their last day of high school becomes their final day together after one [...]
The Devil You Know by Mike Carey
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Book Synop:
A violent ghost in a world where spirits are rarely mean-spirited is a clue to a deeper mystery in this engrossing dark fantasy debut from comics-writer Carey. Felix Fix Castor is an itinerant exorcist who (like a certain famous group of Hollywood ghost-evictors) alternates between dispatching spooks and doing stage magic at ungrateful [...]
Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Book Synop:
In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of “rehabilitation”— the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was….
Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter [...]
Don’t Tell by Karen Rose
Monday, September 3rd, 2007Book Synop: It was a desperate plan. But Mary Grace Winters knew the only way to save herself and her child from her abusive cop husband was to stage their own death. Now all that remains of their former life is at the bottom of a lake…Armed with a new identity in a new [...]
Riding the Storm by Sydney Croft
Sunday, September 2nd, 2007Book Synop: A storm’s rage. A woman’s desire.
A man with the power to set them both free.
He can summon lightning at will. Emerge unscathed from the center of a tornado. Strip a woman down to her barest defenses through the sheer force of his sexuality. He’s gorgeous, dangerous, and the [...]
Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta
Friday, August 24th, 2007I can’t tell you how excited I was when I received an e-mail from Marta Acosta asking if I would be willing to review her books, Happy Hour at Casa Dracula (Casa Dracula Series, Book 1) and Midnight Brunch (Casa Dracula Series, Book 2). I received them and then my reading hours went down [...]
Exit Strategy by Kelley Armstrong
Sunday, July 29th, 2007Book Synop: (from Amazon) Regulars at Nadia’s nature lodge don’t ask what she does in the off-season. And that’s a good thing. If she told them, she’d have to kill them. She’s a hit woman for a Mafia family. Tough and self-sufficient, Nadia doesn’t owe anyone any explanations. But that doesn’t mean she always [...]
The Harlequin by Laurell K. Hamilton
Saturday, July 14th, 2007Synop: (From B&N)
Anita Blake is about to face the challenge of her life. Into her world-a world already overflowing with power-have come creatures so feared that powerful, centuries-old vampires refuse to mention their names. It is forbidden to speak of The Harlequin unless you’ve been contacted. And to be contacted by The Harlequin is [...]