books about: mysteries

books about: mysteries

books:

Mysteries

Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire Mysteries, No. 1)

Charlaine Harris

Ace, 2008

great series
I started reading the book once the show came on HBO. The book has a great flow and the series is great because it always gives a "flashback" like in soap operas so you can remember what happened before that book. I highly recommend this series if you are a vamp lover!

The Brass Verdict: A Novel

Michael Connelly

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

great combo legal thriller and police procedural
In Los Angeles ironically, they were rivals on a double homicide case that the rising star of the prosecutor's office Jerry Vincent lost to the "LINCOLN LAWYER" Mickey Haller; the former's career as an ADA died that day so he went private as a defense attorney. Thus ...

The White Tiger: A Novel

Aravind Adiga

Free Press, 2008

great literature
The White Tiger is superb. Embedded in a narrative which draws the reader along, are profound insights about modern India and the human condition. Once again, India has produced a literary giant. With Messrs. Adiga and Rushdie in good form, Indian literature holds the ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

Knopf, 2008

A welcome relief from Patterson novels!
This was one of the best mystery novels I have read in a long time. Reading this was such a welcome relief from James Patterson novels. I love the foreignness of the book, the pace is great, and the characters jump off the pages with personality.

The Gate House
Nelson DeMille

Grand Central Publishing, 2008

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille delivers the long-awaited follow-up to his classic novel The Gold Coast . When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come ...

A Most Wanted Man

John le Carre

Scribner, 2008

Raise your social consciousness on the war on terror-read this book!
I've loved John Le Carre ever since I picked up "Smiley's People" many years ago. Initially I was drawn to him because of his repeat character, an English spy named George Smiley (Smiley is a family name, but also a fairly common English/Scottish last name since the ...

Extreme Measures: A Thriller

Vince Flynn

Atria Books, 2008

Classic Vince Flynn Thriller
Classic Vince Flynn thriller, a real page turner, very accurate on world-wide challenges for the United States and the free, democratic world.

Club Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 3)

Charlaine Harris

Ace Books, 2003

Gripping Story - I can't get enough of this series
I liked this almost as much as my favorite so far in this series, (book 4 - Dead to the World). Sookie's boyfriend, Vampire Bill goes out of town on business and turns up missing. Sookie agrees to help find him and works with Eric (Bill's Vampire Boss) and ...

Living Dead in Dallas (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 2)

Charlaine Harris

Ace Books, 2002

Read with caution - This series is addictive
I read the first in this series, "Dead Until Dark" and loved it. This installment "hooked me". Sookie finds herself seriously attacked by a "creature" and is saved from a certain death by the vampires by a quite unusual approach. Sookie and Bill find themselves ...

The Shack

William P. Young

Windblown Media, 2008

A must-read for anyone wanting to know Jesus more closely
This book reads like a novel but covers some very special areas of the Christian Faith. It is very different, and excellent book for discussion in small groups and is designed to blow the boundaries of the old views of who our God really is. It is being read all ...

Dead as a Doornail (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 5)

Charlaine Harris

Ace, 2006

ckendrick
I read this book in one night. You will not believe what happens to Sookie.

Tsar: A Thriller

Ted Bell

Atria, 2008

Great Fun.. Shared with my teenagers
What a fun ride. Hawke is a classy, sophisticated Indiana Jones. I shared this book with my teen-aged sons and we loved it! We read it at the same time and had endless political, historical and technical discussions.("Can you believe he did that?"! ha) I highly ...

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Neil Strauss

William Morrow, 2005

Man's Sex in the City
I think this is essential reading for every male who has trouble with women. Whether it's just talking to them, getting a date, or just having confidence. Women have things like Cosmo, Sex in the City, etc. Which tell women how to interact with different types of ...

Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Mysteries, Book 6)

Charlaine Harris

Ace, 2007

Definately Dead
This is another great Sookie Stackhouse novel. Charlaine Harris brings her characters to life. There is plenty of action and mystery surrounding Sookie and the small town she lives in. Each chapter keeps you wanting to read more.

Cross Country
James Patterson

Little, Brown and Company, 2008

When the home of Alex Cross's oldest friend, Ellie Cox, is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe that he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer. As Alex and his girlfriend, Brianna Stone, become entangled in the deadly Nigerian underworld of Washington D.C., what they discover is shocking: a ...