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 books, published bi-monthly and available by subscription, from Reader's Digest

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. Each volume consists of four to five current bestselling novels, selected by Digest editors, and carefully edited (or "condensed") to shorter form to accommodate the anthology format.

This series is the renamed version of the long-running anthology series Reader's Digest Condensed Books

Reader's Digest Condensed Books

The Reader's Digest Condensed Books were a series of hardcover anthology collections, published by Reader's Digest and distributed by direct mail. Each volume contained several current best-selling novels , abridged...

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1997

Volume 233 - #5

• The Partner
  The Partner
  The Partner is a legal/thriller novel by noted American author John Grisham.-Plot:Patrick Lanigan, a junior partner in a law firm in Biloxi, Mississippi, gets wind of a plan masterminded by Benny Aricia to defraud the U.S. government over a shipbuilding overcharging scheme. His firm is deeply...
  
   - John Grisham
  John Grisham
  John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American lawyer and author, best known for his popular legal thrillers.John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981 and practiced criminal law for about a decade...
  
  
• All God's Children - Thomas Eidson
  Thomas Eidson
  Thomas Eidson is an American author best known for his writing of The Last Ride, which turned into a movie known as The Missing in 2003. It was filmed entirely in Santa Fe, New Mexico where the novel is set.His writing credits include:...
  
  
• Medusa's Child - John J. Nance
  John J. Nance
  John J. Nance is an American pilot, aviation safety expert, and author. His novels are largely about aviation, while his non-fiction covers various other areas.-Biography:Nance was born in Dallas, Texas...
  
  
• Only Son - Kevin O'Brien

Volume 234 - #6

• Pretend You Don't See Her
  Pretend You Don't See Her
  Pretend You Don't See Her is a 2002 TV movie based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark.-Story:Lacey Farrell, a young rising star on Manhattan's high-powered and competitive real estate scene is in the course of selling a luxurious apartment when she becomes the witness to a murder and hears the...
  
   - Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  
• The Big Picture - Douglas Kennedy
  Douglas Kennedy (writer)
  Douglas Kennedy is an internationally renowned and bestselling novelist. His 10 novels havebeen translated in 22 countries. His latest novel, , to be published in paperback with...
  
  
• A Place to Call Home - Deborah Smith
  Deborah Smith
  Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 35 novels in romance and women's fiction. Her books include 21 series romances under her real name and under two pen names...
  
  
• Chromosome 6
  Chromosome 6 (novel)
  Chromosome 6 is a 1997 science fiction novel by the American novelist Robin Cook. It follows a minor forensic pathologist, Dr. Jack Stapleton, as he and Dr. Laurie Montgomery, another forensic pathologist, try to identify a badly mutilated body with various parts missing. On the other side of the...
  
   - Robin Cook
  Robin Cook (novelist)
  Dr. Robin Cook is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health....
  
  

1998

Volume 235 - #1

• Guilt - John Lescroart
  John Lescroart
  John T. Lescroart is an American author best known for two series of legal and crime thriller novels featuring the characters Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky....
  
  
• Only Love - Erich Segal
  Erich Segal
  Erich Wolf Segal was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story , a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit....
  
  
• Five Past Midnight - James Thayer
  James Thayer
  James Stewart "Jim" Thayer is an author of thriller novels and an attorney. His first six novels were written under his full name, but since then his middle name is not used.-Early life:...
  
  
• Three Wishes - Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky is an American writer of nineteen New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.-Biography:Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  

Volume 236 - #2

• Plum Island
  Plum Island (novel)
  Plum Island is a 1997 novel by American author Nelson DeMille. It introduces NYPD detective John Corey, convalescing on the North Fork of Long Island from gunshot wounds sustained in the line of duty...
  
   - Nelson DeMille
  Nelson DeMille
  Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of thriller novels. His works include Word of Honor , The Charm School, The Gold Coast, Plum Island, and The General's Daughter .DeMille has also written under the pen names Jack Cannon, Kurt...
  
  
• Homecoming - Belva Plain
  Belva Plain
  Belva Plain , née Offenberg, was a best-selling American author of mainstream fiction. She was born in New York City.-Biography:...
  
  
• 10 Lb. Penalty - Dick Francis
  Dick Francis
  Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE was an English jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.- Personal life :...
  
  
• The Starlite Drive-In - Marjorie Reynolds

Volume 237 - #3

• The Winner
  The Winner (novel)
  The Winner is a 1998 thriller novel by author David Baldacci. It tells the story of LuAnn Tyler, a destitute mother living in a trailer park, who meets with Jackson, a man running a massive lottery scam from inside the National Lottery...
  
   - David Baldacci
  David Baldacci
  David Baldacci is a bestselling American novelist.-Biography:Baldacci received a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. As a student, Baldacci wrote short stories in his spare time, and later practiced law for nine years near Washington, D.C....
  
  
• Homeport - Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...
  
  
• Flight of Eagles
  Flight of Eagles
  Flight of Eagles is a novel by Jack Higgins, set in World War II.-Plot summary:Jack Kelso, an American ace pilot in World War 1, is shot down and nursed back to health by a German nurse, Baroness Elsa von Halder. They marry and return to America after the war...
  
   - Jack Higgins
  Jack Higgins
  Jack Higgins is the principal pseudonym of UK novelist Harry Patterson. Patterson is the author of more than 60 novels. As Higgins, most have been thrillers of various types and, since his breakthrough novel The Eagle Has Landed in 1975, nearly all have been bestsellers...
  
  
• Then Came Heaven - LaVyrle Spencer
  LaVyrle Spencer
  LaVyrle Spencer is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies. Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers...
  
  

Volume 238 - #4

• The Street Lawyer
  The Street Lawyer
  The Street Lawyer is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham. It was released in the United States on 1 January 1998, published by Bantam Books, and on 30 March 1998 in the UK, published by Century.-Plot:...
  
   - John Grisham
  John Grisham
  John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American lawyer and author, best known for his popular legal thrillers.John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981 and practiced criminal law for about a decade...
  
  
• Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• The Cobra Event
  The Cobra Event
  The Cobra Event is a 1998 thriller novel by Richard Preston describing a terror attempt on the United States by a lone man, the creator of a virus, called "Cobra", that mixes the incurable common cold with one of the world's most deadly diseases, smallpox...
  
   - Richard Preston
  Richard Preston
  Richard Preston, born August 5, 1954 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., is a New Yorker writer and bestselling author perhaps best-known for his books about infectious disease epidemics and bioterrorism, although he has written other non-fiction works...
  
  
• Sooner or Later - Elizabeth Adler

Volume 239 - #5

• You Belong to Me - Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  
• American Dreams - John Jakes
  John Jakes
  John William Jakes is an American writer, best known for American historical fiction.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Toxin
  Toxin (novel)
  Toxin is a 1998 suspense thriller written by Robin Cook. It tells the story of a doctor whose daughter is infected with E. coli and his investigation into how she contracted it and his battle to save her life and discover the source of her illness....
  
   - Robin Cook
  Robin Cook (novelist)
  Dr. Robin Cook is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health....
  
  
• Firebird - Janice Graham

Volume 240 - #6

• No Safe Place - Richard North Patterson
  Richard North Patterson
  Richard North Patterson is an American author of fiction. He was born in Berkeley, California, the eldest child of a corporate executive and a housewife. While still a child, he moved with his parents to Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Bay High School in 1964. He...
  
  
• Somebody's Baby - Elaine Kagan
• Riptide
  Riptide (novel)
  Riptide is a novel written by Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston published in 1998 by Warner Books.The novel revolves around a plot to retrieve the buried treasure of nefarious pirate Red Ned Ockham. The treasure, which is estimated to be worth close to two billion dollars, reputedly includes "St...
  
   - Douglas Preston
  Douglas Preston
  Douglas Preston is an American author who has written seventeen popular techno-thriller and horror novels, four alone and the rest with Lincoln Child...
  
   & Lincoln Child
  Lincoln Child
  Lincoln Child is an author of seventeen techno-thriller and horror novels. He often writes with Douglas Preston. Many of their novels have become bestsellers, and one, Relic, was adapted into a feature film...
  
  
• The Coffin Dancer
  The Coffin Dancer
  The Coffin Dancer is a 1998 novel by Jeffery Deaver.The book features his regular character Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective.- Plot :...
  
   - Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling...
  
  

1999

Volume 241 - #1

• The Loop - Nicholas Evans
  Nicholas Evans
  Nicholas Evans is an English journalist, screenwriter television and film producer and novelist. Evans was born at in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove School but before studying at Oxford University, he served in Africa with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas...
  
  
• "N" Is for Noose - Sue Grafton
  Sue Grafton
  Sue Taylor Grafton is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series' featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W...
  
  
• Coast Road - Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky is an American writer of nineteen New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.-Biography:Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  
• The Eleventh Commandment
  The Eleventh Commandment
  The Eleventh Commandment is a novel by Jeffrey Archer, first published in 1998. The title refers to the rule Thou Shalt Not Get Caught.- Plot summary :...
  
   - Jeffrey Archer

Volume 242 - #2

• Rainbow Six
  Rainbow Six (novel)
  Rainbow Six is a techno-thriller novel written by Tom Clancy. It focuses on John Clark, Ding Chavez, and a fictional multi-national counterterrorist unit codenamed Rainbow, rather than Jack Ryan and national politics...
  
   - Tom Clancy
  Tom Clancy
  Thomas Leo "Tom" Clancy, Jr. is an American author, best known for his technically detailed espionage, military science, and techno thriller storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War, along with video games on which he did not work, but which bear his name for licensing and...
  
  
• Cloud Nine - Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice is the bestselling American author of twenty-five novels. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family....
  
  
• The Simple Truth - David Baldacci
  David Baldacci
  David Baldacci is a bestselling American novelist.-Biography:Baldacci received a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. As a student, Baldacci wrote short stories in his spare time, and later practiced law for nine years near Washington, D.C....
  
  
• The Cat Who Saw Stars - Lilian Jackson Braun
  Lilian Jackson Braun
  Lilian Jackson Braun was an American writer, well known for her light-hearted series of "The Cat Who..." mystery novels...
  
  

Volume 243 - #3

• The Hammer of Eden
  The Hammer of Eden
  The Hammer of Eden is a work by Ken Follett. It is about a group of people living together in a commune cut off from the rest of the world. When their commune is threatened by a plan to build a dam, they turn desperate and devise a devious plan to arm twist the governor of California to abandon the...
  
   - Ken Follett
  Ken Follett
  Ken Follett is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 100 million copies of his works. Four of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list: The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, and World Without End.-Early...
  
  
• Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! - Fannie Flagg
  Fannie Flagg
  Patricia Neal , known professionally as Fannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedienne and author. She is perhaps best-known for the 1988 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes; Flagg was nominated for an Academy Award for...
  
  
• Stonewall's Gold - Robert J. Mrazek
  Robert J. Mrazek
  Robert Jan Mrazek was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 3rd congressional district on Long Island for most of the 1980s...
  
  
• River's End - Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...
  
  

Volume 244 - #4

• The Testament
  The Testament
  The Testament is a legal thriller by American author John Grisham. It was published in hardcover by Doubleday on February 2, 1999.-Plot summary:...
  
   - John Grisham
  John Grisham
  John Ray Grisham, Jr. is an American lawyer and author, best known for his popular legal thrillers.John Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University before attending the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981 and practiced criminal law for about a decade...
  
  
• The Snow Falcon - Stuart Harrison
  Stuart Harrison
  Stuart Charles Harrison is a former Welsh cricketer. Harrison was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Cwmbran, Monmouthshire....
  
  
• Terminal Event - James Thayer
  James Thayer
  James Stewart "Jim" Thayer is an author of thriller novels and an attorney. His first six novels were written under his full name, but since then his middle name is not used.-Early life:...
  
  
• Liberty Falling - Nevada Barr
  Nevada Barr
  Nevada Barr is an American author best known for her Anna Pigeon series of mystery novels set in national parks in the United States. Barr won an Agatha Award and Anthony Award for best first novel for Track of the Cat...
  
  

Volume 245 - #5

• We'll Meet Again - Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  
• The Marching Season
  The Marching Season
  The Marching Season is a 1998 spy fiction novel by Daniel Silva. It is the sequel to The Mark of the Assassin by the same author.-Plot summary:...
  
   - Daniel Silva
• Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind - Ann B. Ross
  Ann B. Ross
  Ann B. Ross is an American novelist known for her popular series of "Miss Julia" books. As of April 2010, there are eleven books in the series:*Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind *Miss Julia Takes Over *Miss Julia Throws a Wedding...
  
  
• 8.4 - Peter Hernon

Volume 246 - #6

• Lake News - Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky is an American writer of nineteen New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.-Biography:Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  
• The Devil's Teardrop
  The Devil's Teardrop
  The Devil's Teardrop is a novel published in 1999, written by author Jeffery Deaver. It, like other books of Deaver's, is a suspense-crime novel and contains several plot twists...
  
   - Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling...
  
  
• A Walk to Remember
  A Walk to Remember (novel)
  A Walk to Remember is a novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks, released in October 1999. The novel, set in the mid-1950s in Beaufort, North Carolina, is a story of two teenagers who fall in love with each other despite the disparity of their personalities...
  
   - Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• Thunderhead
  Thunderhead (novel)
  Thunderhead is a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child about a woman named Nora Kelly who finds a letter that was written sixteen years ago, but mysteriously sent to her only recently. The letter is written by her father, long believed dead. The letter talks about a lost city of gold that...
  
   - Douglas Preston
  Douglas Preston
  Douglas Preston is an American author who has written seventeen popular techno-thriller and horror novels, four alone and the rest with Lincoln Child...
  
   & Lincoln Child
  Lincoln Child
  Lincoln Child is an author of seventeen techno-thriller and horror novels. He often writes with Douglas Preston. Many of their novels have become bestsellers, and one, Relic, was adapted into a feature film...
  
  

2000

Volume 247 - #1

• Black Notice - Patricia Cornwell
  Patricia Cornwell
  Patricia Cornwell is a contemporary American crime writer. She is widely known for writing a popular series of novels featuring the heroine Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a medical examiner.-Early life:...
  
  
• Eddie's Bastard - William Kowalski
  William Kowalski
  William John Kowalski III is an American novelist and screenwriter.-Youth:Kowalski is the eldest child of Dr. William John Kowalski, Jr. of Buffalo, N.Y. and Kathleen Emily Siepel of Angola, N.Y. . In 1974, the family moved to Erie, Pennsylvania...
  
  
• Boundary Waters - William Kent Krueger
  William Kent Krueger
  William Kent Krueger is a multi award-winning American author and crime writer, best known for his Cork O'Connor series of books, which is mainly set in Minnesota. USA...
  
  
• The Innocents Within - Robert Daley
  Robert Daley
  Robert Daley , is an American novelist. He is the author of 28 books, five of which have been adapted for film.Daley graduated from Fordham University in 1951 and served in the Air Force during the Korean War...
  
  

Volume 248 - #2

• Follow the Stars Home - Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice is the bestselling American author of twenty-five novels. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family....
  
  
• Hunting Badger
  Hunting Badger
  Hunting Badger is a 1999 novel by Tony Hillerman involving the armed robbery of a Ute Indian gambling casino by three men in which two security guards are shot....
  
   - Tony Hillerman
  Tony Hillerman
  Tony Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels...
  
  
• The Quiet Game
  The Quiet Game
  The Quiet Game is a novel by Greg Iles. It was first published in 1999 by Dutton in the United States.-Plot summary:The novel is of investigative crime fiction genre, entailing the main character of Penn Cage. Penn Cage travels back to his home town of Natchez, Mississippi with his daughter after...
  
   - Greg Iles
  Greg Iles
  Greg Iles is an American bestselling novelist who lives in Natchez, Mississippi.Iles was born in Stuttgart, Germany, where his father ran the U.S. Embassy Medical Clinic. He was raised in Natchez, Mississippi, where he attended Trinity Episcopal Day School and graduated from the University of...
  
  
• Second Wind - Dick Francis
  Dick Francis
  Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE was an English jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.- Personal life :...
  
  

Volume 249 - #3

• Blackout - John J. Nance
  John J. Nance
  John J. Nance is an American pilot, aviation safety expert, and author. His novels are largely about aviation, while his non-fiction covers various other areas.-Biography:Nance was born in Dallas, Texas...
  
  
• Angel Falls - Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award.-Biography:...
  
  
• Void Moon
  Void Moon
  Void Moon is the ninth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. It was released in the UK in 2000 and was Michael Connely's third book not to follow the character Harry Bosch...
  
   - Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
  
  
• The Kingsley House - Arliss Ryan
  Arliss Ryan
  Arliss Ryan is an American novelist and short story writer and essayist.Ryan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in English in 1971. For a time, Ryan worked at the United Nations as an administrative assistant before pursuing writing full-time...
  
  

Volume 250 - #4

• The Lion's Game
  The Lion's Game
  The Lion's Game is a 2000 novel by American author Nelson DeMille. It is the second of DeMille's novels to feature the detective John Corey, now working as a contractor for the fictional FBI Anti-Terrorist Task Force in New York. The 2004 novel Night Fall is a sequel to The Lion's Game and takes...
  
   – Nelson Demille
  Nelson DeMille
  Nelson Richard DeMille is an American author of thriller novels. His works include Word of Honor , The Charm School, The Gold Coast, Plum Island, and The General's Daughter .DeMille has also written under the pen names Jack Cannon, Kurt...
  
  
• Handyman – Linda Nichols
• The Patient – Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer (novelist)
  Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. , is the author of 16 novels, often called medical thrillers...
  
  
• Round Robin – Jennifer Chiaverini
  Jennifer Chiaverini
  Jennifer Chiaverini is an American quilter and author. She is best known for writing the Elm Creek Quilts novels.A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago, she is also a former writing instructor at Penn State and Edgewood College...
  
  

Volume 251 - #5

• Ghost Moon – Karen Robards
  Karen Robards
  Karen Robards is a best-selling author of over thirty romance novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical romance novelists to successfully make the switch to contemporary romantic fiction...
  
  
• The Empty Chair
  The Empty Chair
  The Empty Chair is a crime novel from renowned crime author Jeffery Deaver. It is the third novel in Deaver's series featuring Lincoln Rhyme; the first of which was made into a movie, The Bone Collector.-Plot summary:...
  
   – Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling...
  
  
• Hawke's Cove – Susan Wilson
• The Color of Hope – Susan Madison

Volume 252 - #6

• Before I Say Good-bye – Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  
• Julie and Romeo – Jeanne Ray
• Demolition Angel – Robert Crais
  Robert Crais
  Robert Crais is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. He lists amongst his literary influences the authors Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest...
  
  
• Winter Solstice – Rosamunde Pilcher
  Rosamunde Pilcher
  Rosamunde Pilcher OBE is a British author of romance novels and mainstream women's fiction. Early in her career she was also published under the pen name Jane Fraser. Pilcher retired from writing in 2000.-Early years:...
  
  

2001

Volume 253 - #1

• The Rescue – Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• Code to Zero
  Code to Zero
  Code to Zero is a novel by the English author Ken Follett, published by Pan Macmillan. The story follows Luke, an amnesiac who spends the duration of the book learning of his life, and slowly uncovering secrets of a conspiracy to hold America back in the space race.It is set out in both chapters...
  
   – Ken Follett
  Ken Follett
  Ken Follett is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 100 million copies of his works. Four of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list: The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, and World Without End.-Early...
  
  
• My Mother's Daughter – Judith Henry Wall
• Even Steven – John Gilstrap

Volume 254 - #2

• Running Blind – Lee Child
  Lee Child
  Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
  
  
• Dream Country – Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice is the bestselling American author of twenty-five novels. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family....
  
  
• Shattered – Dick Francis
  Dick Francis
  Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE was an English jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.- Personal life :...
  
  
• A Certain Slant of Light – Cynthia Thayer

Volume 255 - #3

• The Villa – Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...
  
  
• 24 Hours – Greg Iles
  Greg Iles
  Greg Iles is an American bestselling novelist who lives in Natchez, Mississippi.Iles was born in Stuttgart, Germany, where his father ran the U.S. Embassy Medical Clinic. He was raised in Natchez, Mississippi, where he attended Trinity Episcopal Day School and graduated from the University of...
  
  
• Nora, Nora – Anne Rivers Siddons
  Anne Rivers Siddons
  Anne Rivers Siddons is an American novelist who writes stories set in the southern United States.-Biography:Born Sybil Anne Rivers in Atlanta, Georgia, she was raised in Fairburn, Georgia, and attended Auburn University, where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority...
  
  
• Force 12 – James Thayer
  James Thayer
  James Stewart "Jim" Thayer is an author of thriller novels and an attorney. His first six novels were written under his full name, but since then his middle name is not used.-Early life:...
  
  

Volume 256 - #4

• Peace Like a River – Leif Enger
  Leif Enger
  Leif Enger is an American author who wrote the novel Peace Like a River.Enger was born in 1961 and raised in Osakis, Minnesota. Since his teens, he wanted to write fiction. He worked as a reporter and producer for Minnesota Public Radio from 1984 until the sale of Peace Like a River to publisher...
  
  
• "P" Is for Peril – Sue Grafton
  Sue Grafton
  Sue Taylor Grafton is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series' featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W...
  
  
• Summer Island – Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Incumbent – Brian McGrory

Volume 257 - #5

• The Ice Child – Elizabeth McGregor
• The Blue Nowhere – Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling...
  
  
• Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
  Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
  Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas is a 2001 novel by James Patterson that argues the importance of balance within one's life. Two interwoven stories are told throughout the novel. The framing story is based on Katie Wilkinson, a New York City book editor, whose relationship with poet Matthew Harrison...
  
   – James Patterson
  James Patterson
  James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...
  
  
• Back When We Were Grownups
  Back When We Were Grownups
  Back When We Were Grownups is a 2001 novel written by Anne Tyler in memory of her husband, who died in 1997.Tyler's 15th novel, like most of her work, is set in Baltimore, Maryland...
  
   – Anne Tyler
  Anne Tyler
  Anne Tyler is an American novelist.Tyler, the eldest of four children, was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her father was a chemist and her mother a social worker. Her early childhood was spent in a succession of Quaker communities in the mountains of North Carolina and in Raleigh...
  
  

Volume 258 - #6

• Summer Light – Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice is the bestselling American author of twenty-five novels. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family....
  
  
• Echo Burning
  Echo Burning
  Echo Burning is the fifth novel in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published in 2001 by Putnam in America and Bantam in the United Kingdom.-Plot summary:...
  
   – Lee Child
  Lee Child
  Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
  
  
• The Rich Part of Life – Jim Kokoris
• On the Street Where You Live – Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  

2002

Volume 259 - #1

• Envy – Sandra Brown
  Sandra Brown
  Sandra Lynn Brown is an American bestselling author of romantic novels and thriller suspense novels. Brown has also published works under the pen names of Rachel Ryan, Laura Jordan, and Erin St. Claire....
  
  
• Secret Sanction – Brian Haig
  Brian Haig
  Brian Haig is an American thriller author and Fox News military analyst.-Early life and family:Haig's father was former U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig ; his mother is Patricia . He has a brother Alexander and a sister Barbara.-Military life:Haig graduated from West Point in 1975 and was...
  
  
• Entering Normal – Anne D. LeClair
• A Mulligan for Bobby Jobe – Bob Cullen

Volume 260 - #2

• A Bend in the Road
  A Bend in the Road
  A Bend in the Road is the fifth novel by the American author Nicholas Sparks, who also wrote the novels A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, and The Rescue. It was published in 2001.- Plot summary :...
  
   – Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• The Woman Next Door – Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky is an American writer of nineteen New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.-Biography:Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  
• Jackdaws
  Jackdaws
  Jackdaws is a World War II spy thriller written by British novelist Ken Follett. It was published in hardcover format in 2001 by the Macmillan. It was reissued as a paperback book by Signet Books in 2002.- Plot teaser :...
  
   – Ken Follett
  Ken Follett
  Ken Follett is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 100 million copies of his works. Four of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list: The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, and World Without End.-Early...
  
  
• Long Time No See – Susan Isaacs
  Susan Isaacs
  Susan Isaacs is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, educated at Queens College, and worked as a senior editor at Seventeen magazine. She married Elkan Abramowitz, a lawyer, in 1968 and in 1970 left work to stay at home with her newborn son, Andrew. Three...
  
  

Volume 261 - #3

• Safe Harbor – Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice is the bestselling American author of twenty-five novels. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family....
  
  
• The Analyst – John Katzenbach
  John Katzenbach
  John Katzenbach is a U.S. author of popular fiction. Son of Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General, John worked as a criminal court reporter for the Miami Herald and Miami News , and a featured writer for the Herald’s Tropic magazine...
  
  
• Fallen Angel – Don J. Snyder
  Don J. Snyder
  Don J. Snyder is an American novelist and screenwriter.-Life:He grew up in Bangor, Maine. He graduated from Colby College in 1968 and earned a Masters Of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1986 where he was chosen for their prestigious Teaching-Writing Fellowship...
  
  
• Open Season – C.J. Box

Volume 262 - #4

• The Stone Monkey
  The Stone Monkey
  The Stone Monkey is a novel by crime writer Jeffery Deaver. First published in 2002, it is the fourth Deaver novel featuring the quadraplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme.-Plot summary:...
  
   – Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling...
  
  
• Step-Ball-Change – Jeanne Ray
• The Smoke Jumper – Nicholas Evans
  Nicholas Evans
  Nicholas Evans is an English journalist, screenwriter television and film producer and novelist. Evans was born at in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove School but before studying at Oxford University, he served in Africa with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas...
  
  
• The Wailing Wind
  The Wailing Wind
  The Wailing Wind, a New York Times best-seller, is the fifteenth in the Chee/Leaphorn Navajo Tribal Police series of crime fiction novels by Tony Hillerman.-Plot summary:...
  
   – Tony Hillerman
  Tony Hillerman
  Tony Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels...
  
  

Volume 263 - #5

• Daddy's Little Girl – Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  
• Without Fail
  Without Fail
  Without Fail is the sixth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published by Putnam in 2002.-Main characters:*Jack Reacher: hero, brother of Froelich's former boyfriend Joe....
  
   – Lee Child
  Lee Child
  Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
  
  
• Flight Lessons – Patricia Gaffney
  Patricia Gaffney
  Patricia Gaffney is an American writer of romance novels and women's fiction novels.-Biography:Patricia Gaffney was born on December 27 in Tampa, Florida United States. She is the daughter of Joem and Jim Gaffney. She and her brother, Mike, grew up in Bethesda, Maryland.Patricia graduated from...
  
  
• Three Weeks in Paris – Barbara Taylor Bradford
  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  Barbara Taylor Bradford OBE is an English novelist, and one of the world's most beloved storytellers. Her debut novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 and has sold over 32 million copies worldwide. To date, she has written 27 novels -- all bestsellers on both sides of the Atlantic...
  
  

Volume 264 - #6

• An Accidental Woman – Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky is an American writer of nineteen New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.-Biography:Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  
• 2nd Chance
  2nd Chance (novel)
  2nd Chance is the second novel in the Women's Murder Club series written by James Patterson with Andrew Gross. It is the sequel to 1st to Die.- Plot summary :...
  
   – James Patterson
  James Patterson
  James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...
  
  
• Distant Shores – Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award.-Biography:...
  
  
• City of Bones
  City of Bones (Michael Connelly novel)
  City of Bones is the twelfth novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the eighth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch. It was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.-Plot summary:...
  
   – Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
  
  

2003

Volume 265 - #1

• Chesapeake Blue – Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...
  
  
• No One To Trust – Iris Johansen
  Iris Johansen
  Iris Johansen is an American author of crime fiction and romance novels.-Biography:Johansen began writing after her children left home for college. She first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, Johansen began writing suspense historical romance novels,...
  
  
• Standing in the Rainbow – Fannie Flagg
  Fannie Flagg
  Patricia Neal , known professionally as Fannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedienne and author. She is perhaps best-known for the 1988 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes; Flagg was nominated for an Academy Award for...
  
  
• In the Bleak Midwinter – Julia Spencer-Fleming
  Julia Spencer-Fleming
  Julia Spencer-Fleming is an American novelist.She lives in Maine with her husband, 3 children, a dog, and two cats.-Rev. Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series :...
  
  

Volume 266 - #2

• Hornet Flight
  Hornet Flight
  Hornet Flight is a World War II based spy thriller written by British author Ken Follett. It was published in 2002 by Macmillan in the UK and Dutton in the US.-Plot introduction:...
  
   – Ken Follett
  Ken Follett
  Ken Follett is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 100 million copies of his works. Four of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list: The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, and World Without End.-Early...
  
  
• Leaving Eden – Ann LeClaire
• "Q" Is for Quarry – Sue Grafton
  Sue Grafton
  Sue Taylor Grafton is a contemporary American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the 'alphabet series' featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W...
  
  
• Nights in Rodanthe
  Nights in Rodanthe (novel)
  Nights in Rodanthe is a novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks in September 2002.Set in Rodanthe, North Carolina, the story follows the romance of a divorced mother, Adrienne Willis, and a divorced father and surgeon, Paul Flanner...
  
   – Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  

Volume 267 - #3

• The Last Promise – Richard Paul Evans
  Richard Paul Evans
  Richard Paul Evans is an American author.-Biography:Evans graduated from Cottonwood High School in Salt Lake City. He graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of Utah in 1984. While working as an advertising executive he wrote a Christmas story for his children...
  
  
• Danger Zone – Shirley Palmer
• Not a Sparrow Falls – Linda Nichols
• Street Boys – Lorenzo Carcaterra
  Lorenzo Carcaterra
  Lorenzo Carcaterra is an American writer. Hell's Kitchen is the setting for his most famous book, Sleepers, which was adapted into the Sleepers...
  
  

Volume 268 - #4

• Proof of Intent – William J. Coughlin & Walter Sorrells
  Walter Sorrells
  Walter Sorrells is an award-winning author of mystery and suspense novels for adults and teens. He has written many novels, including Fake I.D., named one the ten Best Mysteries by Booklist magazine in 2005 and several novels based-on the television series Flight 29 Down. He also writes under the...
  
  
• Eat Cake – Jeanne Ray
• The Vanished Man
  The Vanished Man
  The Vanished Man is a forensic crime mystery by Jeffery Deaver featuring the quadriplegic criminalist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner Amelia Sachs. It is the fifth novel in the Lincoln Rhyme series, which began with The Bone Collector....
  
   – Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling...
  
  
• The Secret Hour – Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice
  Luanne Rice is the bestselling American author of twenty-five novels. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family....
  
  

Volume 269 - #5

• Final Witness – Simon Tolkien
  Simon Tolkien
  Simon Mario Reuel Tolkien is a British barrister and novelist. He is the grandson of J. R. R. Tolkien, and the eldest son of Christopher Tolkien. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford and then Downside School. He studied modern history at Trinity College, Oxford.Since 1994, he has been a...
  
  
• The Guardian - Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• The Second Time Around - Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  
• Between Sisters - Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award.-Biography:...
  
  

Volume 270 - #6

• Avenger
  Avenger (book)
  Avenger is a political thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth published in September 2003.This was adapted for television in 2006, starring Sam Elliott.-Plot summary:...
  
   - Frederick Forsyth
  Frederick Forsyth
  Frederick Forsyth, CBE is an English author and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Fourth Protocol, The Dogs of War, The Devil's Alternative, The Fist of God, Icon, The Veteran, Avenger, The Afghan and The Cobra.-...
  
  
• Waterloo Station - Emily Grayson
• Flirting With Pete - Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky is an American writer of nineteen New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.-Biography:Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  
• The Anniversary - Amy Gutman
  Amy Gutman
  Amy Gutman is an American novelist. Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she graduated Harvard College magna cum laude, and thereafter became a journalist, working at the Wilson Quarterly in Washington, DC and The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee. She then worked in several positions for newspapers in...
  
  

2004

Volume 271 - #1

• Cold Pursuit - T. Jefferson Parker
  T. Jefferson Parker
  thumb|T. Jefferson ParkerT. Jefferson Parker is an American novelist. Parker's books are police procedurals set in Southern California.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Temporary Sanity - Rose Connors
  Rose Connors
  Rose Connors is an author of mystery fiction. She has written four books about her fictional attorney Marty Nickerson.-Works:*Absolute Certainty , won the Mary Higgins Clark Award*Temporary Sanity *Maximum Security...
  
  
• The Forever Year - Ronald Anthony
• Lover's Lane - Jill Marie Landis
  Jill Marie Landis
  Not to be confused with Marie Landis, an American writer who has written two novels in collaboration with Brian HerbertJill Marie Landis Not to be confused with Marie Landis, an American writer who has written two novels in collaboration with Brian HerbertJill Marie Landis Not to be confused with...
  
  

Volume 272 - #2

• Drifting - Stephanie Gertler
• A Perfect Day - Richard Paul Evans
  Richard Paul Evans
  Richard Paul Evans is an American author.-Biography:Evans graduated from Cottonwood High School in Salt Lake City. He graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of Utah in 1984. While working as an advertising executive he wrote a Christmas story for his children...
  
  
• Beachcomber - Karen Robards
  Karen Robards
  Karen Robards is a best-selling author of over thirty romance novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical romance novelists to successfully make the switch to contemporary romantic fiction...
  
  
• Split Second - David Baldacci
  David Baldacci
  David Baldacci is a bestselling American novelist.-Biography:Baldacci received a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and a law degree from the University of Virginia. As a student, Baldacci wrote short stories in his spare time, and later practiced law for nine years near Washington, D.C....
  
  

Volume 273 - #3

• Summer Harbor - Susan Wilson
• The Wedding - Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• The Conspiracy Club - Jonathan Kellerman
  Jonathan Kellerman
  Jonathan Kellerman is an American psychologist, and Edgar and Anthony Award winning author of numerous bestselling suspense novels....
  
  
• The Sight of the Stars - Belva Plain
  Belva Plain
  Belva Plain , née Offenberg, was a best-selling American author of mainstream fiction. She was born in New York City.-Biography:...
  
  

Volume 274 - #4

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a 2003 novel by British writer Mark Haddon. It won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book...
  
   - Mark Haddon
  Mark Haddon
  Mark Haddon is an English novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.- Life and work :...
  
  
• The Promise of a Lie - Howard Roughan
  Howard Roughan
  Howard Roughan is an American author. He currently has two novels in print: The Up and Comer and The Promise of a Lie . The rights to The Up and Comer have been optioned by October Films, and Michael Douglas is attached to produce the movie-version of Roughan's novel...
  
  
• PS, I Love You
  PS, I Love You
  P.S. I Love You is Irish writer Cecelia Ahern's first novel, published in 2004. The book reached #1 bestseller status in Ireland , the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands.-Characters in "P.S...
  
   - Cecelia Ahern
  Cecelia Ahern
  Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, since 2004. In addition to publishing several novels, she has also contributed a number of short stories to various anthologies, for which all her royalties go to charity.Ahern also created and produced the ABC comedy Samantha Who? starring Christina Applegate...
  
  
• Letter from Home - Carolyn G. Hart

Volume 275 - #5

• The Valley of Light - Terry Kay
  Terry Kay
  Terry Kay, born 10 February 1938, in Royston, Georgia, is a novelist. Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy....
  
  
• Killer Smile - Lisa Scottoline
  Lisa Scottoline
  Lisa Scottoline is an American author of legal thrillers. Her novels have been translated into 25 languages.Scottoline was born in Philadelphia and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a degree in English. In 1981, she received a Juris Doctorate from the...
  
  
• Sam's Letters to Jennifer
  Sam's Letters to Jennifer
  Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel written by James Patterson, published in 2004. It was the tenth bestselling fiction hardcover book of 2004 in the United States.-Plot:...
  
   - James Patterson
  James Patterson
  James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...
  
  
• The Zero Game - Brad Meltzer
  Brad Meltzer
  Brad Meltzer is a bestselling American political thriller novelist, non-fiction writer, TV show creator and award-winning comic book author.-Early life:...
  
  

Volume 276 - #6

• Some Danger Involved - Will Thomas
  Will Thomas
  Will Thomas, born 1958 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is a novelist who writes a Victorian mystery series featuring Cyrus Barker, a Scottish detective or "private enquiry agent," and his Welsh assistant, Thomas Llewelyn. The Barker/Llewelyn novels are set in the 1880s and often feature historical...
  
  
• Blood Is the Sky - Steve Hamilton
  Steve Hamilton (author)
  Steve Hamilton is an American writer of detective fiction. He was born January 10, 1961 and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated in 1983 from the University of Michigan where he won the Hopwood Award for fiction. -Works:...
  
  
• Maximum Security - Rose Connors
  Rose Connors
  Rose Connors is an author of mystery fiction. She has written four books about her fictional attorney Marty Nickerson.-Works:*Absolute Certainty , won the Mary Higgins Clark Award*Temporary Sanity *Maximum Security...
  
  
• Nighttime Is My Time - Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  

2005

Volume 277 - #1

• Three Weeks with My Brother
  Three Weeks With My Brother
  Three Weeks with My Brother is a book written by Nicholas Sparks and his brother Micah.This book is an account of their three-week trip around the globe. As the only surviving members of their family, the two brothers embarked on this journey to visit the wonders of the world. However, on this...
  
   - Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
   and Micah Sparks
• The Things We Do for Love - Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Murder Artist - John Case
• Night Train to Lisbon - Emily Grayson

Volume 278 - #2

• Skeleton Man
  Skeleton Man (Tony Hillerman novel)
  Skeleton Man is a New York Times best-seller and is seventeenth in the Chee/Leaphorn Navajo Tribal Police series of crime fiction novels by Tony Hillerman.-Plot summary:...
  
   - Tony Hillerman
  Tony Hillerman
  Tony Hillerman was an award-winning American author of detective novels and non-fiction works best known for his Navajo Tribal Police mystery novels...
  
  
• Whiteout
  Whiteout (novel)
  Whiteout is a thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett about the theft of a deadly virus from a lab in snow-covered Scotland.-Plot summary:...
  
   - Ken Follett
  Ken Follett
  Ken Follett is a Welsh author of thrillers and historical novels. He has sold more than 100 million copies of his works. Four of his books have reached the number 1 ranking on the New York Times best-seller list: The Key to Rebecca, Lie Down with Lions, Triple, and World Without End.-Early...
  
  
• Redbird Christmas - Fannie Flagg
  Fannie Flagg
  Patricia Neal , known professionally as Fannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedienne and author. She is perhaps best-known for the 1988 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes; Flagg was nominated for an Academy Award for...
  
  
• The Summer I Dared - Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky is an American writer of nineteen New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.-Biography:Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  

Volume 279 - #3

• Kill the Messenger - Tami Hoag
  Tami Hoag
  Tami Hoag is an American novelist, best known for her work in the romance and thriller genres. More than 22 million copies of her books are in print.-Biography:...
  
  
• A Northern Light
  A Northern Light
  A Northern Light is an American historical novel by Jennifer Donnelly. In the United Kingdom it was published under the alternative title A Gathering Light...
  
   - Jennifer Donnelly
  Jennifer Donnelly
  Jennifer Donnelly is a historical fiction author best-known for her novel A Northern Light . She has also written The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and Revolution, as well as Humble Pie, a picture book for children...
  
  
• Murder at the B-School - Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
• The Queen of the Big Time - Adriana Trigiani
  Adriana Trigiani
  Adriana Trigiani is an American novelist, television writer, producer and film director.-Career:Trigiani grew up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and attended Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She was a writer for The Cosby Show and its spin-off series A Different World before beginning on...
  
  

Volume 280 - #4

• Mosaic - Soheir Khashoggi
• Diving Through Clouds - Nicola Lindsay
  Nicola Lindsay
  Nicola Lindsay is an English writer/actor, living for the past forty years in the Republic of Ireland. She writes novels, poetry, screenplays, children's books and material for radio and the theatre.- Biography :...
  
  
• One Shot
  One Shot (novel)
  -Awards and nominations:*2006 Macavity Award nominee, Best Mystery Novel*New York Times Bestseller-Film adaption:Paramount Pictures own the rights to One Shot and a film is said to be in production. Josh Olson is attached to write the script. Tom Cruise has been confirmed to play the role of Jack...
  
   - Lee Child
  Lee Child
  Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
  
  
• Bait - Karen Robards
  Karen Robards
  Karen Robards is a best-selling author of over thirty romance novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical romance novelists to successfully make the switch to contemporary romantic fiction...
  
  

Volume 281 - #5

• The Closers
  The Closers (novel)
  The Closers is the 15th novel by American crime author Michael Connelly, and the eleventh featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.-Plot summary:LAPD detective Harry Bosch is back on the force after a three-year retirement...
  
   - Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
  
  
• The Ladies of Garrison Gardens - Louise Shaffer
  Louise Shaffer
  -Biography:Shaffer was born in Woodbridge, Connecticut, where she showed an interest in acting early on in her life. After finishing high school, she attended Connecticut College for Women, then Yale Drama School...
  
  
• Heartbreak Hotel - Jill Marie Landis
  Jill Marie Landis
  Not to be confused with Marie Landis, an American writer who has written two novels in collaboration with Brian HerbertJill Marie Landis Not to be confused with Marie Landis, an American writer who has written two novels in collaboration with Brian HerbertJill Marie Landis Not to be confused with...
  
  
• Julie and Romeo Get Lucky - Jeanne Ray

Volume 282 - #6

• This Dame for Hire - Sandra Scoppettone
  Sandra Scoppettone
  Sandra Scoppettone is an American author whose career spans the 1960s through the 2000s. She is known for her mystery and young adult books.She also wrote Suzuki Beane...
  
  
• False Testimony: A Crime Novel - Rose Connors
  Rose Connors
  Rose Connors is an author of mystery fiction. She has written four books about her fictional attorney Marty Nickerson.-Works:*Absolute Certainty , won the Mary Higgins Clark Award*Temporary Sanity *Maximum Security...
  
  
• No Place Like Home
  No Place Like Home (novel)
  No Place Like Home is a thriller novel written by Mary Higgins Clark and published in 2005.-Plot summary:The story starts with 10 year old Liza Barton accidentally shooting and killing her mother and shooting and injuring her stepfather Ted...
  
   - Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  
• Twisted - Jonathan Kellerman
  Jonathan Kellerman
  Jonathan Kellerman is an American psychologist, and Edgar and Anthony Award winning author of numerous bestselling suspense novels....
  
  

2006

Volume 283 - #1

• Undomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella
• True Believer - Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• The Double Eagle - James Twining
  James Twining
  James Twining is a British thriller writer.- Life :Although born in London, Twining spent most of his childhood in France after his family moved to Paris when he was four...
  
  
• One Soldier's Story: A Memoir - Bob Dole
  Bob Dole
  Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole is an American attorney and politician. Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election, and was Senate Majority Leader from 1985 to 1987 and in 1995 and 1996...
  
  

Volume 284 - #2

• Sacred Cows - Karen E. Olson
• Lifeguard - James Patterson
  James Patterson
  James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...
  
  
• Blue Bistro - Elin Hilderbrand
  Elin Hilderbrand
  Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer of Summer beach read romance novels. Hildebrand's novels have all been set on and around Nantucket Island where she lives with her husband and three children...
  
  
• Looking for Peyton Place - Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky
  Barbara Delinsky is an American writer of nineteen New York Times bestsellers. She has also been published under the pen names Bonnie Drake and Billie Douglass.-Biography:Delinsky was born on August 9, 1945 near Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  

Volume 285 - #3

• The Town That Came a Courtin - Ronda Rich
• The Sunflower - Richard Paul Evans
  Richard Paul Evans
  Richard Paul Evans is an American author.-Biography:Evans graduated from Cottonwood High School in Salt Lake City. He graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of Utah in 1984. While working as an advertising executive he wrote a Christmas story for his children...
  
  
• Dead Simple - Peter James
  Peter James (writer)
  Peter James is a British writer of crime fiction and film producer.-Life:James is the son of Cornelia James, the former glovemaker to Queen Elizabeth II. He was educated at Charterhouse School and went on to Ravensbourne Film School. Subsequently he spent several years in North America, working as...
  
  
• Magic Hour - Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award.-Biography:...
  
  

Volume 286 - #4

• Sun at Midnight - Rosie Thomas
  Rosie Thomas (writer)
  Rosie Thomas is a writer, currently living in London. Her numerous novels, several of them top ten bestsellers, deal with the common themes of love and loss.She is a keen traveller and mountaineer...
  
  
• Cover Your Assets - Patricia Smiley
• At First Sight - Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• False Impression
  False Impression
  False Impression is a mystery novel by English author Jeffrey Archer, first published in February 2005 by Macmillan . The novel was published in several countries, including Brazil, where it was first released in 2007 by Bertrand Brasil....
  
   - Jeffrey Archer

Volume 287 - #5

• Rosie - Alan Titchmarsh
  Alan Titchmarsh
  Alan Fred Titchmarsh, MBE DL is an English gardener, broadcaster and novelist. After working as a professional gardener and a garden journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on gardening programmes...
  
  
• Two Little Girls in Blue - Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  
• The Hard Way
  The Hard Way (novel)
  The Hard Way is the tenth Jack Reacher novel written by Lee Child. It was published in 2006 by Delacorte Press.-External links:*...
  
   - Lee Child
  Lee Child
  Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
  
  
• Where Mercy Flows - Karen Harter

Volume 288 - #6

• Sailing to Capri - Elizabeth Adler
• A Christmas Guest - Anne Perry
  Anne Perry
  Anne Perry is an English author of historical detective fiction. Perry was convicted of the murder of her friend's mother in 1954.-Early life:Born Juliet Marion Hulme in Blackheath, London, the daughter of Dr...
  
  
• The Conjuror's Bird
  The Conjuror's Bird
  The Conjuror's Bird is a 2005 novel by British author Martin Davies which fictionalises the early life of botanist Joseph Banks and the search to find the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta.ISBN 978-1-4000-9734-0...
  
   - Martin Davies
  Martin Davies (writer)
  Martin Davies is a British author. His most recent work includes The Unicorn Road and a book about Joseph Banks and the Mysterious Bird of Ulieta, entitled The Conjuror's Bird . He is also the author of two mystery novels about Sherlock Holmes' housekeeper Mrs. Hudson: Mrs. Hudson and the Spirits'...
  
  
• Married to a Stranger - Patricia MacDonald

2007

Volume 289 - #1

• The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig
  Ivan Doig
  Ivan Doig is an American novelist. He was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to a family of homesteaders and ranch hands. After the death of his mother Berneta, on his sixth birthday, he was raised by his father Charles "Charlie" Doig and his grandmother Elizabeth "Bessie" Ringer...
  
  
• Consigned to Death - Jane K. Cleland
  Jane K. Cleland
  Jane K. Cleland is a contemporary American author of mystery fiction. She is the author of the Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries, a traditional mystery series set in New Hampshire and featuring antiques appraiser Josie Prescott, as well as "noir" plays that focus on women and their complicated love...
  
  
• Orbit - John J. Nance
  John J. Nance
  John J. Nance is an American pilot, aviation safety expert, and author. His novels are largely about aviation, while his non-fiction covers various other areas.-Biography:Nance was born in Dallas, Texas...
  
  
• Angels Fall - Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts
  Nora Roberts is a bestselling American author of more than 209 romance novels. She writes as J.D. Robb for the "In Death" series, and has also written under the pseudonym Jill March...
  
  

Volume 290 - #2

• Angels of Morgan Hill - Donna VanLiere
• The Saddlemaker's Wife - Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler
  Earlene Fowler is the author of a number of mystery novels set in the fictional city of San Celina, California. She was raised in La Puente, California....
  
  
• Echo Park
  Echo Park (novel)
  Echo Park is the 17th novel by American crime-writer Michael Connelly, and the twelfth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch.- Plot summary :...
  
   - Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
  
  
• Under Orders
  Under Orders
  Under Orders is the title of a novel by Dick Francis, published on 7 September 2006.This is the fourth Francis novel to feature Sid Halley, jockey turned private detective....
  
   - Dick Francis
  Dick Francis
  Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE was an English jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.- Personal life :...
  
  
• "The Glass Case" (short story) - Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award.-Biography:...
  
  

Volume 291 - #3

• Dear John
  Dear John (novel)
  Dear John is a novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks, released in 2006.-Exposition:The story starts by explaining John Tyree's childhood in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was raised by a single dad who suffers with Asperger's syndrome and also an extreme obsession with coins. Sometimes, this is...
  
   - Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• The Two Minute Rule - Robert Crais
  Robert Crais
  Robert Crais is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. He lists amongst his literary influences the authors Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest...
  
  
• Can't Wait to Get to Heaven - Fannie Flagg
  Fannie Flagg
  Patricia Neal , known professionally as Fannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedienne and author. She is perhaps best-known for the 1988 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes; Flagg was nominated for an Academy Award for...
  
  
• A Whole New Life - Betsy Thornton
  Betsy Thornton
  Betsy Thornton is a contemporary American writer of mystery fiction novels set in the Southwestern United States.-Biography:Thornton was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, the oldest of four children born to Mary Elizabeth Thornton, a professor of Classics at Miami University in Ohio and Colonel...
  
  

Volume 292 - #4

• Autumn Blue - Karen Harter
• Bad Luck and Trouble
  Bad Luck and Trouble
  Bad Luck and Trouble is the eleventh book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child.The title is derived from the song lyrics by singer Albert King "Born Under a Bad Sign".-Plot summary:...
  
   - Lee Child
  Lee Child
  Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
  
  
• Tallgrass - Sandra Dallas
  Sandra Dallas
  Sandra Dallas is an award-winning American author of both novels and non-fiction books, as well as an ex-reporter for BusinessWeek magazine.-Biography:...
  
  
• Winter's Child - Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron
  Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels.-Biography:Maron was born and grew up in central North Carolina. She has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now...
  
  

Volume 293 - #5

• Shadow Dance - Julie Garwood
  Julie Garwood
  Julie Garwood is an American writer of over twenty-five romance novels in both the historical and suspense subgenres. Over thirty million copies of her books are in print, and she has had at least 15 New York Times Bestsellers...
  
  
• Francesca's Kitchen
  Francesca's Kitchen
  Francesca's Kitchen is a novel by Peter Pezzelli. It was Published in trade paperback by Kensington Publishing in 2006.-Reception:A Publishers Weekly review says, "Most of the action happens in kitchens: home cooking, good pasta and traditional family values conquer all in this amusing and touching...
  
   - Peter Pezzelli
  Peter Pezzelli
  Peter Pezzelli is an author from Narragansett, Rhode Island, who is best known for writing five novels. He lives with his wife, two children and their dog in Rhode Island where, most days, he is busy at work on his next novel. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Peter Pezzelli grew up in the town of...
  
  
• The Sleeping Doll - Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver
  Jeffery Deaver is an American mystery/crime writer. He has a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Fordham University and originally started working as a journalist. He later practiced law before embarking on a successful career as a best-selling...
  
  
• Garden Spells - Sarah Allen
  Sarah Allen
  Sarah Allen is a Canadian actress. She studied acting at Canada's National Theatre School and graduated in 2002.-Filmography:*Student Seduction Jenna*Wall of Secrets Carrie*Il Duce canadese Colleen Kelly...
  
  

Volume 294 - #6

• No Time for Goodbye - Linwood Barclay
  Linwood Barclay
  Linwood Barclay is a Canadian-American humourist, author and former columnist. He has published books of autobiography and both humorous and dramatic detective fiction, and he formerly wrote the thrice-weekly humour column in the Toronto Star, as well as releasing a podcast with his articles. He...
  
  
• Daddy's Girl - Lisa Scottoline
  Lisa Scottoline
  Lisa Scottoline is an American author of legal thrillers. Her novels have been translated into 25 languages.Scottoline was born in Philadelphia and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a degree in English. In 1981, she received a Juris Doctorate from the...
  
  
• Thunder Bay - William Kent Krueger
  William Kent Krueger
  William Kent Krueger is a multi award-winning American author and crime writer, best known for his Cork O'Connor series of books, which is mainly set in Minnesota. USA...
  
  
• I Heard That Song Before
  I Heard That Song Before
  I Heard That Song Before is a suspense novel by American author Mary Higgins Clark.-Synopsis:The daughter of a landscaper for the wealthy Carrington family, six year old Kay Lansing sneaks away from her father's side one morning, and overhears a woman blackmailing a man for money. When she tells...
  
   - Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  

2008

Volume 295 - #1

• The Overlook
  The Overlook
  The Overlook is the 18th novel by American crime writer Michael Connelly, and the thirteenth featuring the Los Angeles detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch....
  
   - Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
  
  
• Meet Me in Venice - Elizabeth Adler
• Step on a Crack
  Step on a Crack
  Step on a Crack is the first novel in the Michael Bennett series by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge featuring Detective Michael Bennett and his 10 kids. It was released on February 6, 2007.-Plot summary:...
  
   - James Patterson
  James Patterson
  James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...
  
   and Michael Ledwidge
  Michael Ledwidge
  Michael Ledwidge is an American author of Irish descent. His most successful writing has been several books he has co-authored with the best-selling author James Patterson. -Bibliography:-References:...
  
  
• An Irish Country Doctor - Patrick Taylor
  Patrick Taylor (author)
  Patrick Taylor is a retired medical researcher and best-selling novelist.Born in 1941 and brought up in Bangor, Northern Ireland, Taylor studied and practiced medicine in Belfast and rural Ulster before immigrating to Canada in 1970 to work in the field of human infertility...
  
  

Volume 296 - #2

• Bad Blood - Linda Fairstein
  Linda Fairstein
  Linda Fairstein is an American feminist author and former prosecutor focusing on crimes of violence against women and children. She served as head of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney's office from 1976 until 2002 and is the author of a series of novels featuring Manhattan...
  
  
• The Long Walk Home - Will North
• The Blue Zone - Andrew Gross
  Andrew Gross
  Andrew Gross is an American author of thriller novels including four New York Times bestsellers. Best known for his collaborations with suspense writer James Patterson. Gross’s books feature close family bonds relationships characterized by loss or betrayal and large degree of emotional resonance...
  
  
• Iris & Ruby - Rosie Thomas
  Rosie Thomas (writer)
  Rosie Thomas is a writer, currently living in London. Her numerous novels, several of them top ten bestsellers, deal with the common themes of love and loss.She is a keen traveller and mountaineer...
  
  
• "James Penney's New Identity" (short story) - Lee Child
  Lee Child
  Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
  
  

Volume 297 - #3

• The Ghost
  The Ghost (novel)
  The Ghost is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris.In 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair resigned. Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write the book...
  
   - Robert Harris
  Robert Harris (novelist)
  Robert Dennis Harris is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter.-Early life:Born in Nottingham, Harris spent his childhood in a small rented house on a Nottingham council estate. His ambition to become a writer arose at an early age, from visits to the local...
  
  
• The Choice
  The Choice (novel)
  The Choice is a 2007 novel by acclaimed author Nicholas Sparks.Travis Parker and Gabby Holland set off into an interesting journey of life as neighbors and then lovers. Many conflicts are overcome. Travis Parker is a happy man with wonderful friends, great occupation and an envious life. He thinks...
  
   - Nicholas Sparks
• The Watchman - Robert Crais
  Robert Crais
  Robert Crais is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. He lists amongst his literary influences the authors Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest...
  
  
• Her Royal Spyness - Rhys Bowen

Volume 298 - #4

• Blue Heaven - C. J. Box
  C. J. Box
  Charles James Box, Jr. is an American writer, a native of Wyoming, who lives outside of Cheyenne with his wife Laurie, and daughters, Molly, Becky and Roxanne. His Joe Pickett Series has eleven novels. The first in this series, Open Season, was included in the New York Times list of "Notable...
  
  
• The First Patient - Michael Palmer
  Michael Palmer (novelist)
  Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. , is the author of 16 novels, often called medical thrillers...
  
  
• The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
• Dead Heat - Dick Francis
  Dick Francis
  Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE was an English jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.- Personal life :...
  
   & Felix Francis

Volume 299 - #5

• Sundays at Tiffany's
  Sundays at Tiffany's
  Sundays at Tiffany's is a romance novel by the bestselling author James Patterson and co-author Gabrielle Charbonnet released on April 29, 2008. It has also recently been adapted into a Lifetime Television original movie that premiered on December 6, 2010....
  
   - James Patterson
  James Patterson
  James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...
  
   & Gabrielle Charbonnet
• Lady Killer - Lisa Scottoline
  Lisa Scottoline
  Lisa Scottoline is an American author of legal thrillers. Her novels have been translated into 25 languages.Scottoline was born in Philadelphia and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned a degree in English. In 1981, she received a Juris Doctorate from the...
  
  
• The Christmas Promise - Donna VanLiere
• Final Theory - Mark Alpert

Volume 300 - #6

• Where Are You Now?
  Where Are You Now? (novel)
  Where Are You Now? is a suspense novel by Mary Higgins Clark.-Synopsis:Ten years ago, 21-year-old Charles MacKenzie, Jr. walked out of his apartment without a word and has never been seen again. He does, however, call his mother annually on Mother's Day to assure her of his health and safety,...
  
   - Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Higgins Clark
  Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney , known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels...
  
  
• A Single Thread - Marie Bostwick
• An Irish Country Village - Patrick Taylor
  Patrick Taylor (author)
  Patrick Taylor is a retired medical researcher and best-selling novelist.Born in 1941 and brought up in Bangor, Northern Ireland, Taylor studied and practiced medicine in Belfast and rural Ulster before immigrating to Canada in 1970 to work in the field of human infertility...
  
  
• Italian Lessons
  Italian Lessons
  Italian Lessons is a novel by Peter Pezzelli. It was published in trade paperback by Kensington Publishing on October 1, 2007.-Reception:A Publishers Weekly review says "Pezzelli , brings his fans a light if sometimes trite story of two lovelorn men who form an unlikely friendship...
  
   - Peter Pezzelli
  Peter Pezzelli
  Peter Pezzelli is an author from Narragansett, Rhode Island, who is best known for writing five novels. He lives with his wife, two children and their dog in Rhode Island where, most days, he is busy at work on his next novel. Born and raised in Rhode Island, Peter Pezzelli grew up in the town of...
  
  

2009

Volume 301 - #1

• Nothing to Lose
  Nothing to Lose (novel)
  Nothing to Lose is the twelfth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child. It was published in the UK by Bantam Press in March 2008...
  
   - Lee Child
  Lee Child
  Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
  
  
• Remember Me?
  Remember Me? (novel)
  Remember Me? is a successful novel by the author Madeleine Wickham under the pseudonym Sophie Kinsella which tells the story of Lexi Smart who is forced to piece her life together after losing the last three years of her life due to the effects of amnesia, the result of a car crash.-External...
  
   - Sophie Kinsella
• Don't Tell a Soul - David Rosenfelt
• Leaving Jack - Gareth Crocker

Volume 302 - #2

• The Brass Verdict
  The Brass Verdict
  The Brass Verdict is the 19th novel by American author Michael Connelly and features the second appearance of Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Michael "Mickey" Haller...
  
   - Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
  
  
• Crossroads - Belva Plain
  Belva Plain
  Belva Plain , née Offenberg, was a best-selling American author of mainstream fiction. She was born in New York City.-Biography:...
  
  
• Guilty - Karen Robards
  Karen Robards
  Karen Robards is a best-selling author of over thirty romance novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical romance novelists to successfully make the switch to contemporary romantic fiction...
  
  
• Hannah's Dream - Diane Hammond

Volume 303 - #3

• The Lucky One
  The Lucky One (novel)
  The Lucky One is a novel by American writer Nicholas Sparks, released on September 30, 2008. The story revolves around a US Marine named Logan Thibault who finds a photograph of a smiling young woman half-buried in the sands of Iraq during his third tour of duty...
  
   - Nicholas Sparks
  Nicholas Sparks (author)
  Nicholas Charles Sparks is an internationally-bestselling American novelist and screenwriter. He has 16 published novels, with thematic ideas that include cancer, death and love. Six have been adapted to film, including Message in a Bottle, A Walk to Remember, The Notebook, Nights in Rodanthe,...
  
  
• A Foreign Affair
  A Foreign Affair
  A Foreign Affair is a 1948 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay by Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Richard L. Breen is based on a story by David Shaw adapted by Robert Harari...
  
   - Caro Peacock
• Envy the Night - Michael Koryta
  Michael Koryta
  Michael Koryta is an American author of contemporary crime and mystery fiction. He is known for novels such as Tonight I Said Goodbye, Sorrow's Anthem, A Welcome Grave and The Silent Hour ....
  
  
• The Last Lecture
  The Last Lecture
  The Last Lecture is a New York Times best-selling book co-authored by Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal...
  
   - Randy Pausch
  Randy Pausch
  Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
  
   with Jeffrey Zaslow
  Jeffrey Zaslow
  Jeffrey Zaslow is an American journalist and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He is also the author or coauthor of several bestselling books: The Last Lecture with Randy Pausch, Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters with Capt...
  
  

Volume 304 - #4

• Silks - Dick Francis
  Dick Francis
  Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis CBE was an English jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing.- Personal life :...
  
   and Felix Francis
• Very Valentine - Adriana Trigiani
  Adriana Trigiani
  Adriana Trigiani is an American novelist, television writer, producer and film director.-Career:Trigiani grew up in Big Stone Gap, Virginia and attended Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She was a writer for The Cosby Show and its spin-off series A Different World before beginning on...
  
  
• Chasing Darkness - Robert Crais
  Robert Crais
  Robert Crais is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Quincy, Miami Vice and L.A. Law. He lists amongst his literary influences the authors Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest...
  
  
• Water, Stone, Heart - Will North

Volume 305 - #5

• Still Life - Joy Fielding
  Joy Fielding
  Joy Fielding is a Canadian novelist and actress. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.-Biography:Born in Toronto, Ontario, she graduated from the University of Toronto in 1966, with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature...
  
  
• Grace - Richard Paul Evans
  Richard Paul Evans
  Richard Paul Evans is an American author.-Biography:Evans graduated from Cottonwood High School in Salt Lake City. He graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of Utah in 1984. While working as an advertising executive he wrote a Christmas story for his children...
  
  
• Hell Bent - William G. Tapply
• Prayers for Sale - Sandra Dallas
  Sandra Dallas
  Sandra Dallas is an award-winning American author of both novels and non-fiction books, as well as an ex-reporter for BusinessWeek magazine.-Biography:...
  
  

Volume 306 - #6

• Love in Bloomt - Sheila Roberts
• Pursuit - Karen Robards
  Karen Robards
  Karen Robards is a best-selling author of over thirty romance novels. After first gaining recognition for her historical romances, Robards became one of the first historical romance novelists to successfully make the switch to contemporary romantic fiction...
  
  
• Serendipity - Louise Shaffer
  Louise Shaffer
  -Biography:Shaffer was born in Woodbridge, Connecticut, where she showed an interest in acting early on in her life. After finishing high school, she attended Connecticut College for Women, then Yale Drama School...
  
  
• The Nine Lessons - Kevin Alan Milne

2010

Volume 307 - #1

• Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child
  Lee Child
  Jim Grant , better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer. His wife Jane is a New Yorker, and they currently live in New York state. His first novel, Killing Floor, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel....
  
  
• Lost & Found - Jacqueline Sheehan
• The Murder of Tut - James Patterson
  James Patterson
  James B. Patterson is an American author of thriller novels, largely known for his series about American psychologist Alex Cross...
  
   and Michael Dugard
• La's Orchestra Saves the World - Alexander McCall Smith

Volume 308 - #2

• The Scarecrow
  The Scarecrow (Michael Connelly novel)
  The Scarecrow is a 2009 novel written by award-winning American author Michael Connelly. It was Connelly's 21st book and the second featuring as the main character Jack McEvoy, a reporter now living in Los Angeles, and FBI agent Rachel Walling...
  
   - Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
  
  
• The French Gardener - Santa Montefiore
  Santa Montefiore
  Santa Montefiore, born Santa Palmer-Tomkinson, is a British author.Santa is the sister of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. Her parents are Charles Palmer-Tomkinson and Patricia Palmer-Tomkinson, of Anglo-Argentine background. Her father represented his country in skiing at Olympic level...
  
  
• Heaven's Keep - William Kent Krueger
  William Kent Krueger
  William Kent Krueger is a multi award-winning American author and crime writer, best known for his Cork O'Connor series of books, which is mainly set in Minnesota. USA...
  
  
• The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
  Garth Stein
  Garth Stein is an American author and film producer from Seattle, Washington.-Career:Stein earned a B.A. in 1987 from Columbia College of Columbia University and later received a Master of Fine Arts degree in film from the University's School of the Arts. Subsequently, Stein worked as a director,...
  
  

Volume 309 - #3

• Winter Garden - Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah
  Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling American writer, who has won numerous awards, including the Golden Heart, the Maggie, and the 1996 National Reader's Choice award.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Poacher's Son - Paul Doiron
• A Thread So Thin - Marie Bostwick
• Half Broke Horses - Jeannette Walls
  Jeannette Walls
  Jeannette Walls is a writer and journalist widely known as former gossip columnist for MSNBC.com — and author of The Glass Castle, a memoir of the nomadic family life of her childhood, which stayed on the New York Times Best Seller list for 100 weeks.-Early life and education:Walls was born...
  
  

Volume 310 - #4

• Villa Mirabella - Peter Pezzelli
• Rainwater - Sandra Brown
• The First Rule' '- Robert Crais
• The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen

Volume 311 - #5

• The Christmas List - Richard Paul Evans
• From Cradle to Grave - Patricia MacDonald
• Spinning Forward - Terri DuLong
• Blood Lines - Kathryn Casey

Volume 312 - #6

• The Mountain Between Us- Charles Martin
• Nine Dragons - Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly
  Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 36 languages, have garnered him many awards...
  
  
• A Dog's Purpose - W. Bruce Cameron
• This Time Together - Carol Burnett
  Carol Burnett
  Carol Creighton Burnett is an American actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she made her television debut...