GREAT READS

David Rosenfelt is a new author to me, though he has written quite a few novels previous to Leader of the Pack. Discovering him on the shelves of the library was a happy accident. The cover of the book asserts, "Rosenfelt walks a line between pulse...

Combine medicine, politics, greed, scientific experimentation, and conspiracy, and you have the formula for a frightening scenario that will keep you turning page after page. Oath of Office begins with an unbelievable massacre in a doctor's office. ...

In Stay Close, Harlen Coben introduces us to three very different people who share one important quality . . . each is hiding the truth. Megan is living the perfect life as a suburban wife and mother, but a secret from her past and the desire for th...

Author Rick Gavin takes us on a rollicking tour of the backcountry of the Mississippi Delta in his debut novel, Ranchero. The Ranchero in question is a bright pink, 1969 Ford that main character, repo man Nick Reid, borrows from his landlady. Unfor...

Smart, sassy, funny, capable, sexy female detectives are a staple in adult fiction. Now, Beth McMullen adds a new dimension to the genre with the introduction in "Original Sin" of Sally Sin, wife, mother, and spy. Retired from her dangerous life as...

Who doesn't like a bargain? And a bargain is what you'll get with "Heads You Lose," a collaboration from ex-couple Lisa Lutz, author of the Spellman comedy-mystery series, and David Hayward. You get two novels for the price of one, a book within a ...

Golf? Though I am an ardent sports fan and a happy spectator at almost any contest, I have never understood the thrill of watching a game where grown men or women walk around a course for hours, smacking a small, white ball while crowds of people on ...

In The Reversal, author Michael Connelly provides a twist on the Law and Order theme when attorney Mickey Haller and investigator Harry Bosch team up to retry a 24-year-old case. The defendant, a convicted child murderer, has been granted a new tria...

It's never easy to live up to the legend of a famous parent, and when you choose to follow the same career, the self-imposed pressures are even greater. In Down to the Wire, Chris Turley, a reporter for the Bergen News covers mundane daily community...

Longing for a vacation from the sizzling summer heat and humidity? Read Snow Angels by James Thompson and escape to Lapland, a hundred miles inside the Arctic Circle during kaamos, just before Christmas, where the setting is as much a character as a...

L.A.P.D. Detective Harry Bosch is feeling a touch of malaise.  His partner, back from rehabilitation from a shooting injury nine months before, isn't really back.  Ferras is basically "riding the desk," finding every excuse to do paperwork ...