The evenings are getting shorter and the orange colored lights are popping up all over town. Time to let our minds wander a bit to the supernatural and to the cycle of life. Today we'll be talking about a few frightening and not so scary books to consider. We'll start off slow and get you ready for some of the truly frightening thrillers so popular this time of year. As usual a little for everyone, from young adult novels to serial killers to historical suspense. Enjoy!
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The epic conclusion to the amazing Sabina Kane urban fantasy series. Don't miss the first book in the series: RED-HEADED STEPCHILD.
Sabina Kane is on the hunt. Her prey: Cain, the father of the vampire race and the one who murdered her family and her friends. Unfortunately, Cain is hunting Sabina, too.
The one man who holds the key to defeating Cain is, of course, Abel. A mage with secrets to spare and, hopefully, the power to match it. Unfortunately, for Sabina, he's in Rome and may not want to be found.
Sabina sets out for Italy with her friends, Giguhl and Adam Lazarus, to track down the only man who can get her the revenge she hungers for. But will he help her or oppose her? And just who is Abel, really? Worst of all, when Sabina figures out the goddess Lilith has a plan for her-she realizes this trip is getting deadlier by the minute. As they say: when in Rome-SURVIVE.
My name is Cherry St. Croix. Society would claim that I am a well-heeled miss with an unfortunate familial reputation. They've no idea of the truth of it. In my secret world, I hunt down vagrants, thieves . . . and now, a murderer. For a monster stalks London's streets, leaving a trail of mystery and murder below the fog.
Eager for coin to fuel my infatuations, I must decide where my attentions will turn: to my daylight world, where my scientific mind sets me apart from respectable Society, or to the compelling domain of London below. Each has a man who has claimed my time as his—for good or for ill. Though as the corpses pile, and the treacherous waters of Society gossip churn, I am learning that each also has its dangers. One choice will see me cast from polite company . . . the other might just see me dead.
Tempest Maguire is happy with her decision to embrace her mermaid nature and live among her mother's clan within the ocean's depths. Even though training to one day ascend the throne for the aging mermaid queen is rigorous, she finds refuge in the arms of Kona, the selkie who first opened her up to her mermaid side. But when word comes that one of her brothers has been gravely injured on land, Tempest immediately rushes to his side—which also brings her back to her old flame, Mark. And in her absence, a deadly battle begins raging at the hands of Tempest's old nemesis, the sea witch Tiamat. As the dangerous war erupts, Tempest's two loves—Kona and Mark, sea and land—will collide for the first time, both to protect her and to force her to choose.
The Witches of Eastwick meets Desperate Housewives in Susie
Moloney's The Thirteen, her new and long-awaited novel.
Haven Woods is suburban heaven, a great place to raise a
family. It's close to the city, quiet, with great schools
and its own hospital right up the road. Property values are
climbing. The streets are clean, people keep their yards
really nicely. It's fairly pet friendly, though barking dogs
are not welcomed. The crime rate is practically
non-existent, unless you count the odd human sacrifice,
dismemberment, animal attack, demon rape and blood atonement.
When Paula Wittmore goes home to Haven Woods to care for a
suddenly ailing mother, she brings her daughter and a pile
of emotional baggage. She also brings the last chance for
twelve of her mother's closest frenemies, who like to keep
their numbers at thirteen. And her daughter, young,
innocent, is a worthy gift to the darkness.
A circle of friends will support you through bad times. A
circle of witches can drag you through hell.
Sitting alone in a maximum-security prison cell, Abby Maddox is a celebrity. Her claim to fame is the envy of every freak on the outside: she's the former lover of Ethan Wolfe, the killer who left more than a dozen dead women in his wake and nearly added Puget Sound State professor Sheila Tao to the tally. Now Abby, serving a nine-year sentence for slashing a police officer's throat in a moment of rage, has little human contact — save for the letters that pour in from demented fans, lunatics, and creeps. But a new wave of murders has given Abby a possible chance for a plea bargain — because this killer has been sending her love letters, and carving a message on the bodies of the victims: Free Abby Maddox.
Jerry Isaac will never forget the attack — or his attacker. The hideous scarring and tortured speech are daily reminders that the one-time Seattle PD officer, now a private investigator, is just lucky to be alive. Abby Maddox deserves to rot in jail — forever, as far as Jerry's concerned. But she alone may possess crucial evidence — letters from this newest killer — that could crack open the disturbing case. With the help of Professor Sheila Tao, seasoned police detective Mike Torrance, and intuitive criminology student Danny Mercy, Jerry must coax the shattering truth from isolated, dangerous Abby Maddox. Can he put the pieces together before Abby's number one fan takes another life in the name of a killer's perverted idea of justice?
The second installment in the bestselling Danish crime
series starring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg, following Fall
2011's New York Times�bestselling The Boy in the
Suitcase
In the ruins of an abandoned
Soviet military hospital in northern Hungary, two
impoverished Roma boys are scavenging for old supplies or
weapons they could sell on the black market when they find
more than they ever anticipated. The resulting chain of
events threatens to blow the lives of a frightening number
of people into bits and pieces.
In this
feverishly anticipated follow-up to 2011's critically
acclaimed The Boy in the Suitcase, Danish Red Cross
nurse Nina Borg doesn't realize she is putting life and
family on the line when she tries to treat a group of sick
Hungarian gypsies who are living illegally in a Copenhagen
garage. Nina has unwittingly thrown herself into a deadly
nest of the unscrupulous and the desperate, and what is at
stake is much more terrifying than anyone had realized.
England, 1783. In Island of Bones, Crowther's haunting past
is at last revealed. For years he has pursued his forensic
studies—and the occasional murder investigation—far from his
family estate. But an ancient tomb there will reveal a
wealth of secrets.
When laborers discover an extra body inside, the lure of the
mystery brings Crowther home at last. Fans of both
historical fiction � la Anne Perry and the intricate
forensics of Tess Gerritsen will be delighted by Robertson's
latest.