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Split Second by Alex Kava

From Publishers Weekly
FBI profiler Maggie O'Dell, star of Kava's first thriller, is back again in her second, but her return is not a happy one. From the very first scene, in which serial killer Albert Stucky escapes from two pitifully inadequate prison guards, through the inevitable and apparently endless escalation of brutality (usually against women), to the predictable ending, this is strictly a blender job: part Thomas Harris and part Patricia Cornwell, with odd bones and scraps tossed in from other similarly grisly and more successful sources. O'Dell, who plays Clarice Starling to Stucky's Hannibal Lecter, is still physically and mentally scarred by the two years she spent on his case and she's fighting to get back on it. She gets her wish. Before she can even unpack the boxes in her new home, one of her neighbors disappears, leaving behind a bloody mess, and another is found dead in a Dumpster. Soon, Stucky strikes even closer to home. The supporting cast is full of cardboard cutouts unsuccessfully masquerading as characters, and since O'Dell herself is so miserable from the start, it's hard to care whether or not she and Stucky ever do make it to their final showdown or, for that matter, which of them survives. Kava's hackneyed prose doesn't help matters: "Dear God! How much longer could she put up with the nightmares?" Probably longer than a lot of readers will put up with this book. (Aug.)Forecast: Kava's first O'Dell vehicle, A Perfect Evil, was widely praised, and Mira is looking to build on that success with a national ad campaign, a teaser chapter in the Perfect Evil paperback and a multicity author tour. Fans may go along for the ride, but Kava won't recruit many new readers with this one.

One Dark Night by Jaid Black


From the Publisher
When Dr. Nikki Adenike's rendezvous with an Internet playmate turns into a life-and-death fling with the serial killer called "Lucifer," she manages to escape—into the arms of the detective investigating the case. But the danger is far from over—and a newfound passion is just beginning.

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A fling to die for
From a daring, fresh new voice in romantic suspense comes this sizzling erotic thriller about a workaholic surgeon who jump-starts her love life by meeting a sexy bad boy for a naughty rendezvous – and crosses the dangerous line between fantasy and reality…

Dr. Nikki Adenike is successful and content with who she is – but her love life is nowhere. Used to be in control, she longs to surrender herself to her most secret fantasies. So, night after night, Nikki searches the Web. There, she finds Richard – a seductive stranger uncannily attuned to her desires, someone almost too good to be true...

The press has dubbed him “Lucifer,” a smoothie who’s charmed his way into the hearts of many smart, accomplished women with his killer sex appeal. Women who trusted him, who surrendered their bodies to him – and ultimately their lives.

Nikki is the one woman who manages to escape - running straight into the arms of the detective investigating the killings. But the danger is far from over. And a newfound passion is just beginning...

NOTE - Do not let the romantic suspense fool you...there was some seriously sick shit going on in this book. Additional notice -- it does have some S&M type scenes in it.

Mysterious' Reveal ~~ James Neal Harvey 2-fer



By Reason of Insanity

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Mass Market Paperback

PSYCHOPATHIC KILLER. BEAUTIFUL YOUNG VICTIMS. EACH SEEKING A DIFFERENT TYPE OF IMMORTALITY...

Fame was the bait that enticed the young models into the lair of a demented killer. Fame was the reason reporter Sarah Weston continued to air gruesome photos to millions on the local news. And fame was the reason Peter Barrows--an on-the-rise yuppie by day--continued to slaughter his beautiful victims by night.

But NYPD Lieutenant Ben Tolliver--a veteran detective who's seen it all--has reasons of his own for wanting to apprehend the murderer. Reasons far beyond fame--and more shocking than anyone can imagine...BY REASON OF INSANITY



Dead Game

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Mass Market Paperback

A Brilliant Pychopath and a Desperate Cop...
The body of a beautiful woman has been found in her bed, and all the clues point to a crime of passion.
Manhatan Homicide Detective Ben Tolliver arrives at the murder scene, only to view an image that will be burned into his memory--the mutilated corpse of his former lover.

Caught in a Deadly Game....
When another body shows up--butchered in the same horrific fashion--Tolliver is stunned to discover he knew the second victim as well.

of Winner Take All
With everyone from the media to his own superiors at the NYPD believing him guilty, Tolliver is on his own.

Giz's reveal:


Bright Rooms by Jenny Maxwell




Book Description
Celia has never been the most diligent of aunts. Even when her brother died she didn't pay very much attention to her niece, Tamsin, and now it is too late. Tamsin is dead, found hanged in woodland near her home and leaving behind an enigma about her passing.

Devastated by her death and ridden with guilt by her own neglect, Celia is determined to discover what would have caused her to take her own life. Then she learns that Tamsin was pregnant, but everything she is told by Tamsin's mother and her schoolfriends indicates that the teenager's reputation was the complete opposite to being promiscuous, yet the forensic evidence establishes that she was sexually 'mature'. Even more determined to get at the truth, Celia gradually reveals a side of Tamsin's life which no-one had known or guessed at, and she begins to believe that someone else was involved with her death. Engrossing, moving and chilling, this is a heart-rending novel of psychological suspense.

Synopsis
The apparent suicide of a teenage girl throws her family into chaos, particularly when it is discovered she was pregnant and that her death could have been caused by somebody else. Her devastated aunt is determined to get to the truth and reveals a side of Tamsin no one had known.

The Prey by Allison Brennan




First, she imagined it. Then a killer made it real.

Rowan Smith is living in a borrowed Malibu beach house while her bestselling novel is made into a Hollywood movie. A former FBI agent with a haunted past, Rowan thinks she has outrun her demons. But fiction and reality collide when a dismembered body is found in Colorado: the real-life victim had the same name, occupation, and looks as a character in Rowan’s novel. By the time the FBI, the LAPD, and her own private bodyguard gather around her, another person is killed–again, the murder ripped from the pages of Rowan’s book.

In the company of a former Delta Force officer with secrets of his own, Rowan faces an excruciating dilemma: the only way to chase down the tormenting killer is by revisiting the darkness of her past–and by praying for some way out again.

After the prey is chosen, the hunt is on and the kill is certain.

Sarradee's reveal was:



Before the Frost by Henning Mankell

A cult leader instigates a mass suicide, killing himself and his whole flock of fanatical worshippers. But one man escapes. Deep in the woods outside Ystad, the police make an horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in the attitude of prayer. An old Bible lies at the victim's side, handwritten corrections and amendments on every page. A series of incidents including the murder of domestic animals has been taking place and Kurt Wallander fears that these events could be the prelude to attacks on humans on a much greater scale. Linda Wallander, preparing to join the Ystad police force, arrives at the station. Showing all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper - she becomes involved in a case to take on a group of religious extremists bent on punishing the world's sinners. Before the Frost is a totally compelling and atmospheric crime story.

Sex Dolls by Reggie Nadelson

An Artie Cohen Thriller
London at midnight on New Year's Eve. Artie Cohen realizes something is horribly wrong with his long-time girlfriend Lily Hanes. Three days later, a call takes Artie to Paris. Lily has been found beaten up and raped in an empty apartment. When she regains consciousness, she doesn't recognize Artie.

BOB:
Artie Cohen's longtime girlfriend, Lily Hanes, has been found beaten up, raped and left for dead in an empty Parisian apartment. In the wintry French capital, where drugs are sold like fries at McDonalds and the hookers are trucked in with the vegetables, Artie looks for Lily's attackers and finds himself drawn into a web of sex, death and deceit.

A brilliantly conceived plot moves Artie from Paris through Europe to Vienna and then, finally, back to his native New York on a roller-coaster ride where there is no return ticket.

"The book is classy noir entertainment - edgy, witty, slickly plotted ... As with all good thriller writers Nadelson takes us to some authentically nasty places ... She has perfect pitch for the voice of her hard-boiled, jazz-loving, skirt-chasing hero." Independent

Butterfly-Noir's Reveal

With Red Hands by Stephen Woodworth (TBR)




From back cover:

"Natalie Lindstrom was once one of an elite group of investigators with the power to interview the dead victims of violent crime. But now Natalie has had enough. Enough of the violence. Enough of the darkness that has already gotten too close to her five-year-old daughter. Yet as she tries to build a new life and protect her child from the world she has left, Natalie still knows injustice when she sees it. And she knows that in a high-profile California trial, a young man is getting away with murder.

The case against Prescott Hyland Jr. is airtight - until a corrupt Violet delivers devasting testimony against another man. Now Natalie is being drawn back into her former career and a danger far worse than she can imagine. For while one killer is being tried in the courtroom, another has gone horribly free; to unleash a storm of venegance - aimed straight for the heart of Natalie's new life. Because, in the world of the Violets, sometimes your past can literally come back to haunt you..."

LML's reveal is........................

Heads by David Osborn



The surgery is sanctioned by Washington, performed in secret, and afterwards, the patients are never seen or heard from again. Until Susan McCullough, a young neurophysiologist on the staff of the eminent Borg-Harrison Medical Laboratory, opens a door that should have been locked. Behind that door is proof of the most shocking medical experiment of all time.
Now Susan has discovered the truth, and she knows that her fate is sealed. For if she is caught, they will strap her on a table and wheel her into surgery. Then they will shut her away in that horrible room - the terrifying chamber that no one ever escapes....