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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

September's Book Suggestions - Voting 08-05-09 to 08-08-09

Below are the September book suggestions that were chosen by club members.

September book genre is "Mystery" or "Thriller"

For September book suggestion, please review the books below.

Members, please vote on the book you would like to read for August's Book of the Month. Every member should vote including those who suggested a book.

For those who suggested a book, you may vote for you own book or vote for a book suggested by the other members.I provided a video interview by the author or a video related to the book. The ones that don't have a video, I could not find a video for the suggested book.

To vote, members please comment on this blog post and not on the forum. Voting will begin August 5th to August 8th. Voting will close at 11:00 pm PST August 8th. If there's a tie, I will make the final decision. I will post the selected book for August Book on August 9th. Thank you for voting!!

Heather's Suggestion:

Miss Julia Delivers the Goods
by Ann B. Ross

Published: April, 2009
Pages: 352

Synopsis

Get ready for double the trouble and twice the fun in Ann B. Ross's tenth Miss Julia adventure. If there's no rest for the weary, Miss Julia must be absolutely exhausted. She's just learned a secret—Hazel Marie is pregnant with twins and the prospective father has cleared out of town. But good things come in unexpected packages. Abbotsville finds itself the scene of a heist; and Miss Julia knows there's only one man who can solve the crime.

It's J. D. Pickens, P.I., renowned investigator and Hazel Marie's wayward love. When he's summoned, one thing becomes clear: Miss Julia must help set things right between them or find herself the only one who can, quite literally, deliver the goods.Ann B. Ross consistently draws crowds at bookstores, not only to purchase her books, but also to meet her in person. Her tenth Miss Julia novel will bring the goods to her tried-and-true fans and new readers alike.

Reviews:

Amazon
Barnes and Nobles

Mary's Suggestion:

Relentless by Dean Koontz

Published: June, 2009
Pages: 368

Synopsis

#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz delivers a mesmerizing new thriller that explores the razor-thin line between the best and worst of human nature—and the anarchy simmering just beneath society’s surface—as a likeable, successful family man is drawn into a confrontation with a foe of unimaginable malice….Bestselling novelist Cullen “Cubby” Greenwich is a lucky man and he knows it.

He makes a handsome living doing what he enjoys. His wife, Penny, a children’s book author and illustrator, is the love of his life. Together they have a brilliant six-year-old, Milo, affectionately dubbed “Spooky,” and a non-collie named Lassie, who’s all but part of the family.So Cubby knows he shouldn’t let one bad review of his otherwise triumphant new book get to him—even if it does appear in the nation’s premier newspaper and is penned by the much-feared, seldom-seen critic, Shearman Waxx. Cubby knows the best thing to do is ignore the gratuitously vicious, insulting, and inaccurate comments. Penny knows it, even little Milo knows it. If Lassie could talk, she’d tell Cubby to ignore them, too.

Ignore Shearman Waxx and his poison pen is just what Cubby intends to do. Until he happens to learn where the great man is taking his lunch. Cubby just wants to get a look at the mysterious recluse whose mere opinion can make or break a career—or a life.But Shearman Waxx isn’t what Cubby expects; and neither is the escalating terror that follows what seemed to be an innocent encounter. For Waxx gives criticism; he doesn’t take it. He has ways of dealing with those who cross him that Cubby is only beginning to fathom. Soon Cubby finds himself in a desperate struggle with a relentless sociopath, facing an inexorable assault on far more than his life. Fearless, funny, utterly compelling, Relentless is Dean Koontz at his riveting best, an unforgettable tale of the fragile bonds that hold together all that we most cherish—and of those who would tear those bonds asunder.


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Theresa's suggestion:

Fresh Kills by Bill Loehfelm

Published: July, 2009
Pages: 336

Synopsis:

When John Sanders, Jr., learns that his father has been murdered, his only regret is that he didn't pull the trigger himself. Yet despite his rage at his father for a lifetime of abuse, he becomes obsessed with finding the killer.But as a string of dead ends and violent encounters leave Junior no closer to any answers, his relationship with his beloved sister crumbles, while his affair with an old high school sweetheart wreaks havoc on his fracturing psyche. Only when a chance for revenge finally arrives must Junior decide whether he will continue the chain of violence or accept the challenge of a new beginning.

Review:

6 comments:

  1. Mary is voting for Relenteless. :)

    Mary

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  2. I have always been a Dean Koontz fan, so my vote is for Relentless. :0)

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  3. I LOVE Dean Koontz!! I have MOST of his stuff!! However, this I have not! So....my vote is for Dean Koontz!! Thanks!

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  4. I vote for Fresh Kills, because I am going to read it anyway.
    I haven't read Koontz in a while, so wouldn't mind that one either.
    I wouldn't want to start at the tenth book in a series...I'm just a sequential kind of gal.

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  5. I'm ot much of a Mystery/Thriller, lol! I'm a scaredy-cat! I got lucky with the last one ;)
    I've read a few Koontz, so I wouldn't mind trying his again... hopefully it won't have to be one that I put in the freezer at night ;)

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