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Week of February 11, 2013

In ANOTHER PIECE OF MY HEART by Jane Green, readers are introduced to Andi, who has spent much of her adult life looking for the perfect man. And at 37, she's finally found him: Ethan, a divorced father of two. But in his daughter Emily’s eyes, Andi is an obstacle to her father’s love, and Emily will do whatever it takes to break her down.

Week of February 4, 2013

In THE FALLEN ANGEL by Daniel Silva, Gabriel Allon is called on to investigate the death of a beautiful woman in Rome. He fights against police who have already ruled her death a suicide and the Vatican’s “don’t ask too many questions” rule to uncover the truth. But along the way, he must also penetrate a criminal smuggling network and encounter an old enemy plotting revenge that puts himself and those he holds dear on the razor’s edge of danger.

Week of January 28, 2013

Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, has finally gotten his personal life in order in Karin Slaughter's CRIMINAL. For the first time, he is starting to gain a life outside of solving the hardest --- and often darkest --- cases. But GBI’s newest investigation and its long-buried crimes threaten his new life and change everything he thought he knew about his past.

Week of January 21, 2013

In Richard Ford's latest bestseller, CANADA, 15-year-old Dell Parsons' sense of a happy, knowable life is forever shattered when his mother and father rob a bank. Undone by the calamity of his parents' criminal actions and arrest, Dell struggles under the vast prairie sky to remake himself and define the adults he thought he knew.

Week of January 14, 2013

In Karen Thompson Walker's THE AGE OF MIRACLES, Julia and her family awake to discover that the rotation of the earth has suddenly begun to slow. The days and nights grow longer and longer, gravity is affected, and the environment is thrown into disarray. Yet, as she struggles to navigate an ever-shifting landscape, Julia is also coping with the normal disasters of everyday life. As she adjusts to the new normal, the slowing inexorably continues.

Week of January 7, 2013

Like many couples, Michael and Jolene Zarkades have to face the pressures of everyday life --- children, careers, bills, chores --- even as their 12-year marriage is falling apart. In HOME FRONT by Kristin Hannah, an unexpected deployment sends Jolene deep into harm’s way and leaves defense attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls.

Week of December 31, 2012

In THE COLUMBUS AFFAIR by Steve Berry, investigative journalist Tom Sagan's professional reputation crashes and burns when a controversial report from a war-torn region is exposed as a fraud. He is haunted by bad decisions and the shocking truth he can never prove: that his downfall was a deliberate act of sabotage by an unknown enemy. But before Sagan can end his life, fate intervenes in the form of an enigmatic stranger with a request that cannot be ignored.

Week of December 24, 2012

In CATCH ME by Lisa Gardner, Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant tells a chilling story: Each year at 8:00 p.m. on January 21st, a woman has died. The victims have been childhood best friends from a small town in New Hampshire; the motive remains unknown. Now only one friend, Charlie, remains to count down her final hours --- and she’s hiring Detective D. D. Warren to investigate the case after she’s killed.

Week of December 17, 2012

In Anne Holt's latest Hanne Wilhelmsen novel, the criminal investigating officer is sent to a macabre crime scene on the outskirts of Oslo: an abandoned shed that is covered in blood. On one wall is an eight-digit number written in blood. There is no sign of a victim. Is it just a kid’s prank, or foul play?

Week of December 10, 2012

Dana and Julie were bonded by sisterhood and separated by a devastating secret. When Dana returns to Black Bear, Minnesota, in Carla Buckley's INVISIBLE, some people remember her as a troublemaker while others remember her as the one who got away. Dana comes back for her sister's funeral, but stays to help Peyton, her teenaged niece. What she finds in her old hometown will blow open a Pandora's box of tightly-held secrets, and put everyone she loves in jeopardy.

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