Kindred in Death ~ J. D. Robb

This is the newest book in the Eve Dallas series.

Eve is called in on a holiday to work the brutal murder of a fellow officer’s daughter. Eve and her team, including Rourke do everything they can to catch this killer, even though it appears they have no leads to begin with.  Can Eve catch the killer and figure out why this girl was targeted?

Heat Seeker ~ Lora Leigh

This is the third book in the Elite Ops series.

A former CIA agent, Bailey is determined to find the corruption in her family’s circle of friends that killed her parents. She knows that there is a criminal mastermind hiding in their midst, and she has spent several years hunting him.  And then John Vincent shows up. Bailey recognizes John as someone else in her life, who was killed. But is her mind playing tricks on her? Can Bailey find the mastermind on her own? Can she accept help from John, and his men?

Hostage to Pleasure ~ Nalini Singh

This is the sixth book in the Psy-Changlings series.

Dorian has hated the Psy since his sister was brutally murdered by one, but now, he finds himself as the guard to one. One who has helped the Changlings in the past, and is looking for refuge now. As much as he distrusts her, he also finds himself strangely drawn to Ashaya, how will he come to terms with it? or will he?

The Darkest Evening of the Year ~ Dean Koontz

This book tells the tale of Amy Redwing, the founder of Golden Heart, a rescue for Golden Retrievers, and Brian McCarthy, the architect she is dating. They encounter a Retriever who seems to be more than just a dog, and follow their pasts and the histories that haunt them both, to their future.

This is not a bad book, but was way, way too focused on the dogs to suit me. I pick up Koontz for a thriller/suspense novel, not a homage to Golden Retrievers, if there hadn’t been long detours about the dogs and the breed, this would have been a really great book.

Into the Fire ~ Suzanne Brockmann

This is book number Thirteen in the Troubleshooters series.

We revisit Vihn Murphy, who’s wife Angelina, was killed in a Hot Target.  We see how he has spent the time between then and now, mostly in a drunken haze, missing Angelina and wanting to kill the man he sees as responsible for her death. He periodically goes back to see his friend, and Angelina’s best friend Hannah, who becomes worried about his state of mind and goes to Troubleshooters to see if they can help find him.

When the man believed to be responsible for her death shows up dead himself, even the FBI is on the hunt for Murphy, thinking that he may be responsible.

We also get another look at Izzy Zanella, (who hopefully will get his own book soon, Hint, Hint,) as he becomes entangeled in a young woman who walks into the Ladybug looking for one of his teammates.

Cerulean Sins ~ Laurell Hamilton

This is book eleven in the Anita Blake series.

Jean-Claude has been negotiating with the head of his vamipire line, Belle Morte, for a group of her followers to enter his land for a visit. Suddenly, they are here two months early. In an effort to keep those close to them safe they start making plans and accounting for everyone. And it appears that the only one unaccounted for may be Asher. Can Anita face doing something about that?

At the same time, Anita is called out to work a pair of crime scenes, where Dolph can’t manage to keep his personal problems from interfering with his work. And Anita has to try to figure out who and what is committing the murders.

If You Decieve ~ Kresley Cole

This is the third book in the McCarrick series.

Ethan McCarrick has spent the last ten years being angry, and bitter, and bent on revenge for the long scar he wears along one side of his face. And then one night, while trying to protect his boss’s daughter from an assassin, he sees a woman he is drawn to. Drawn as never before, so, for the first time in his life, he begins to pursue a woman. Except things don’t seem to be going well, he discovers the next morning that she has fled the country to get away from him, and he must continue the job to protect his new sister in law.

Madeline has been leading her friends to believe things that are untrue. After her encounter with McCarrick she fled back to France, to the small flat she lives in, in one of the slums of Paris. She tries to continue her life, barely surviving and now trying to avoid the money lender who is after her.

Once Ethan learns Madeline’s identity, he comes up with a plan of how to deal with her, and in the process of carrying it out, discovers that Madeline is not the person he had thought she was, but now what should he do and can he let her go?

An Ice Cold Grave ~ Charlaine Harris

this is the third book in the Harper Connelly series.

Harper has been called to a small town in North Carolina to help locate a boy who has been missing for 3 months, and is part of a string of teenage boy disappearances. She quickly locates not only the boy she was hired to find, but all the boys who have disappeared, including two that the local law enforcement didn’t realize were missing, as they were from out of town.

The first evening that they are in town, after locating the bodies, Harper is injured. Someone attacked her in the motel parking lot with a shovel. Also while in town, Tolliver begins acting strangely, he seems somewhat distant and is suddenly telling people that he is not Harper’s brother.

Can Harper manage to keep from getting hurt more, and figure out who is trying to hurt her, and what is going with Tolliver?

Grave Surprise ~ Charlaine Harris

This is the second book in the Harper Connelly series.

Harper Connelly survived being struck by lightening, one of the side effects is that she can sense corpses. if she stands on the grave she can tell you who is in it, and what they died from.

While performing a demonstration for a college class, in a cemetery where the records have only recently been discovered, Harper finds something that surprises everyone. Now she is trying to help solve this crime, without becoming a suspect herself.

I accidentally picked up the second book in the series first, so now I am off to find the first one.

Fearless Fourteen ~ Janet Evanovich

This is the fourteenth book in the Stephanie Plum series.

Typical Stephanie Plum, stumbling from one catastrophe to another. Somehow  Stephanie and  Morelli end up caring for a fourteen year old boy, that rumor has it, may be Morelli’s. While searching for his mother and the missing money from a bank robbery ten years earlier. During all this Ranger asks Stephanie for a favor, he needs help running security for a visiting star, now what could go wrong there?