Mama Does Time by Deborah Sharp

Mama Does Time by Deborah Sharp is the first book in the new “Mace Bauer” mystery series.  Publisher: Midnight Ink, October 2008 Meet Mama: a true Southern woman with impeccable manners, sherbet-colored pantsuits, and four prior husbands, able to serve...

Now You Die by Roxanne St. Claire

Now You Die by Roxanne St. Claire is the sixth book (+ 2 novellas) in the “Bullet Catchers” romantic suspense series.  Publisher: Pocket Star, August 2008 Former Bullet Catcher and lone wolf investigator Jack Culver is on a mission. Thirty years ago, an...

The Hiding Place by Karen Harper

The Hiding Place by Karen Harper. Publisher: Mira (Harlequin), November 2008 After spending nine months in a coma, Tara Kinsale awakes to devastating news. Her best friend, Alexis, has been murdered, leaving Tara as guardian to her daughter, Claire. And Tara’s...

A Fatal Slip by Melissa Glazer

A Fatal Slip by Melissa Glazer is the third book in the “Clay and Crime” cozy mystery series.  Publisher: Berkley Prime Crime (Penguin), November 2008 When a building inspector is found drowned in a bucket of liquid clay slip, potter Carolyn Emerson’s...

Blood Sins by Kay Hooper

Blood Sins by Kay Hooper is the second book in the “Blood Trilogy” and the eleventh book in the “Bishop/Special Crimes Unit” thriller series.  Publisher: Bantam, December 2008 Some sins can’t be forgiven… because some sins no one survives. New...

Dark Summer by Iris Johansen

Dark Summer by Iris Johansen.  Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, October 2008 It begins with a single shot. Devon Brady is a devoted veterinarian working in a makeshift hospital on a remote search and rescue mission. When a man arrives with his wounded black Lab,...