Books at Bookhabit.com http://www.bookhabit.com 2008-10-06 19:04:27 When Consuela Espinoza discovers that she will be cross-examining the man who deserted her twenty-five years ago in Uruguay at the height of the Falklands War, she is torn between her well-honed professional ethics and a visceral desire for revenge. While she struggles with her primeval urge to punish Lt. Col. Christopher Martin (The Parachute Regiment (UK)) on the witness stand, what was supposed to be a routine libel suit explodes into a court room drama of international proportions when she discovers that her client is a former member of an intelligence unit responsible for multiple human rights violations. As the focus shifts to identifying the leader of the unit and its employers, Consuela is devastated to discover that her family has been directly involved in assisting the interrogation unit and several murderous dictatorships in Central and South America for the last twenty years. To further add to the combustible mix, she discovers that Chris was the leader of the British Army's Tisiphone unit assigned to tracking these faceless war criminals. Had he used her to assist his investigation? The question remains unanswered when she realizes that her children may now be threatened by the ensuing maelstrom of international intrigue and events that have invaded the Manhattan courtroom. In desperation, Consuela turns to the only man who can possibly help her - Lt. Col. Chris Martin. But can she trust him this time? http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=644 Checkmate - A Crime thriller: A story of obsession, sex, death…… and chess. What happened to the missing journalist, Helen Baxter? Did Simon Carrington have her killed for discovering the truth about his business - or did she fall victim to the unhealthy obsession of photographer David Kilbride? To find the answers, Detective Inspector Nick Anderson embarks on an investigation that will lead him to abandon his principles, question his loyalties, distrust those closest to him and risk his career on a game of chess with one of his prime suspects - a game that endangers his sanity and his life. Checkmate - where chess and obsession are deadly games, where nothing is what, and no one is who, they seem. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=612 Joshua Green is a psychologist practicing in NYC. He is known for taking on clients no one else wants to work with. A late night call from Lenore Lefebvre, a distressed mother, brings him into contact with the most dysfunctional family he has ever met but he accepts them as clients even when his common sense is telling him to run as far as he can get from them. Lenore deals with secrets she cannot tell. Her ex-husband, newspaper reporter Gabe has anger he can't deal with and an on-going sexual relationship with Lenore that keeps either of them from moving on. Eighteen-year-old Jennifer, their daughter, develops a madness that can't be contained as she tried to face her inner demons. As layers of denial are stripped from this family, the darkest secrets of all hover just above them waiting to destroy them. Joshua is juggling an almost-ex-wife, terminal loneliness and a career that is barely giving him financial support - but he is doing what he loves to do. Into his life comes a young woman, Amy, who has deep problems of her own but sets her sights on Joshua as the new man in her life. If she can only get up the nerve to say hello, maybe something will come of it! Circling just out of reach is a killer whose pattern seems to have no pattern and who childhood friend, Jon Kandel, police detective, is trying to solve while wrapping himself in a series of meaningless dalliances with women he meets. Nothing is quite what it appears to be in this novel. Is the killer one of Joshua's clients? Perhaps it is Joshua himself. Perhaps the killer is not connected to his life. The book is filled with quirky and fully developed characters who will stick in the reader's mind and be so real that when you put the book down to go to the fridge for a snack, you will want to bring something back for them, too. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=168 The further frenetic mythopoetic adventures of Coyote in post-modern industrial civilization as he steals a car, invents television, runs for office, works on wall street, goes mouse hunting, and meets interesting new people, like Bombay Chevrolet and Forest Trump, as well as Baglady, Death, Legba, and the New Gods. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=222 The new new Coyote backslides into the bad bad behaviors of the old old Coyote made famous over thousands of years and thousands of fires in American Indian lore. (And you can buy a hard copy of this book for $10 at www.amazon.com or www.3musesbooks) http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=95 Dark Jewel (A Riki Storm Vampire Mystery) follows a classic mystery/suspense plotline, with the added twist of vampires as villains. The book is fast moving and funny, staying with Riki as she finds herself in a series of dark basements full of dead bodies, some of which are neither human nor dead. Set in the San Francisco Bay Area, and including a zany list of supporting characters, this book is a fun romp through the dark side. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=15 Being a survivor of the Roswell UFO incident of 1947, seventeen year old Grace Gregory and her two brothers are use to keeping secrets and looking over their shoulders. But after a crash her brothers caused, her life and those around her begin to spiral out of control as their secrets are revealed and other alien survivors reappear in their lives - including their mother who is supposed to be dead. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=804 With every new victim come new verses. With every new victim come new levels of horror and existential terror. Dark forces gather in the endless pine forests of rural Western Georgia as a serial killer terrorizes the nation with his heinous deeds. Two men stand in his way. A rural Sheriff who has been crying wolf for months without attention, now finally validated in his beliefs with a series of grisly new slayings. With him a mysterious FBI Agent that may be more monster than man. Can they stand in the way of the Butcher of Babylon? Or will they be his next victims? http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=886 When a lesbian is brutally murdered in a sleepy college town in Central Vermont, Police Chief Frank Macy ignores his homophobic tendencies and sets out to catch the killer. Before he and his small team of officers can solve the crime, another young lesbian is similarly murdered. Six years earlier, the governor of Vermont signed legislation to allow civil unions of the same sex, disrupting the small town of Farmington, and doubling its population, with most of the new residents admittedly gay. Now, because of the murders, the town is split evenly in its support of their police department and its investigation. On one side, the gay community claims that the Chief is deliberately hindering the murder investigation because the victims are lesbians. On the other side, the original residents enthusiasticaly support him and his department, and are resentful of the newcomers, whom they believe are trying to make the town theirs. Among all this turmoil, Frank Macy tries to balance his duties with his tumultuous family life. When his wife leaves him, and his loving daughter rejects him, it becomes a race as to whether he will catch the murderer, who is rapidly destroying his once idyllic town, before his own family life disintegrates. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=1126 Although this is primarily a tale of crime and punishment, weird, dark, and unexpected laughs abound in this deadly serious novel. Insanity involving cats weaves a spell of symbolism in a lateral story. Can nothing stop the beast? What's it all about and who wins the mini war between cat and man? The narrator/protagonist/killer is Nicholas, the straight man of the bunch. He is preoccupied with orderliness to the point of killing; then too, he's responsible for the murders of other women. Murphy is his friend, an ex-con who is perpetually in the wrong place at the wrong time. When a crime is committed in their own neighborhood, Murphy is the logical choice to take the rap. The novel deals with Nicholas' feelings over inadvertently getting his friend in trouble and also spells out his attempts to not only cover his own crime, but to get Murphy safely off the hook. But safety is not to be for the poor, hard-luck bastard Murphy, who's on the superhighway to death row. There is another major player in this drama, old man Nailor, a gossip who is at the top of his game and who disseminates information to deadly effect, often making the news. It's an amazing truth that a single bit of information, totally unfounded, can indeed become fact. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=53 The collection of stories: The ocean of fault In the memory of Howard Lovecraft The Rocker Welcome to Hellsinki Song or Suicide 40 minutes to Atlantis http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=682 Passion-killer is a murder mystery. It is about how love, jealousy and obsession turn passion to murder. It begins when Sylvia arrives home one evening to find her boyfriend lying in a pool of blood. As the murder investigation gets underway past loves and jealousy combine to ensure friends and acquaintances becoime suspects. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=308 When Beth Heinze fell in love finally she blossomed into a new and startling beauty, a mature beauty; even a stranger watching her would have known she was in love. Her beau was a viscount, and reputed to be one of the richest men in England. He paid Beth's debts, and gave her a small, elegant house in the Loop Circle; she wore exquisite jewels. She came, radiant, one day to The Crow's Nest. One look at her face told Sue and Katrina her news was true. Her love ended too soon. They had already read in a local newspaper that her beau had been drowned in a river on his estate. They felt her anguish in her silence. A couple of days pass when a brief letter arrived at The Crows Nest addressed to Sue and Katrina. Katrina's attention was else where when Sue read its opening lines aloud. Sue looked at Katrina with stricken eyes as she hesitated in disbelief before going on to the next paragraph. Watch for part two of "PittyPat Hollor" soon! http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=489 For the past 160 years, giant birds have been reported in the skies above the Black Forest region of northern Pennsylvania. Now, it's up to one man and one woman, to find out where they came from, and where they've gone. Failed Ph.D. candidate and erstwhile assistant museum curator Ian McQuade is rescued by cartographer Alma Del Nephites, after an ill-fated expedition into the Amazon Basin. They travel to meet the enigmatic CEO of a secretive organization, where the two are given the opportunity to seek out proof of the existence of thunderbirds. A madman's journal will lead them into the heart of a 700 year-old mystery, where cutting edge technology designed to locate and identify such creatures will collide with an ancient power that has hidden and protected them for centuries. Ian must face his past, in order to believe in a future that couldn't possibly exist. With lightning in their eyes and thunder in their wings, who will control the fate and destiny of the thunderbirds? http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=1035 From colonial Ceylon to the Borneo jungle, with Scotland. England and Australia in between, these tales vary in genre, place and voice to delight readers everywhere. Download the collection, then printout to read one at a time, or read them on screen. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=734 Detective Billie McCoy - attractive, intelligent and lethal – is a member of an elite undercover squad. For the past three years prostitutes, criminals and lowlifes have been vanishing without trace. Fates unknown, the only common link is their prison record. The mastermind behind their disappearance has proven to be a smart contender, outwitting the best, cunningly leaving no clues - until he goes against all the rules and kidnaps a cop. Detective McCoy is on assignment when her world is unexpectedly turned upside down. Stumbling onto a slavery racket that goes deeper than she could ever have imagined, she is plunged into a desperate journey – a fight for freedom. Filled with determination, companionship, disappointment and twists, the story follows Billie’s fight for freedom and her greatest ever challenge. The journey will bring out the best and worst in all involved. In its wake, friendships are cemented between the most unlikely characters. Billie will need all her cunning and skill to get herself and her newfound friends out alive and see justice done. Blood will be spilt, hopes will be destroyed, tears will be shed - all to uncover a plot so unpredictable that only fate can decide… http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=993 A Collection of Short Stories. From the comic to the sinister, the tragic and the blatantly absurd, "Tall Tales" is a collection of tales guaranteed to tickle your fancy, and an ideal introduction to the weird world of Ian Kidd. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=696 We are not all as others would see us. Donna Simon appears to be a simple-minded plane young woman whose timidity gets her into trouble. A fine brain lies within the head of an outwardly nervous, Donna. She knows she is not stupid. If people could stand in her shoes perhaps they would not be so quick to judge. Donna is a sensitive and delicately intelligent woman trapped by the terrors of mankind. Poor Donna was born in unfortunate circumstances, a drug addict father and a spineless mother. Donna sees things, and feels things—she senses the presence of the long dead. At times she cannot differentiate between reality, history, and imagination. A murder has been committed in her neighbourhood and accidentally the girl stumbles on the solution. Who will believe a simpleton when as far as is known no crime has been committed? http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=409 The Unicate and the Rebellion plan to tear each other apart in another nuclear war. But how much more fallout can Earth absorb? In a treacherous climate where you can't tell friend from foe, Radomir Lascek unleashes his secret weapon... But who is the Master and who is the Slave? Is the Rebellion really an ally? And what is actually behind the Unicate? Books in the series of the Solar Wind: 1. The Mystery of the Solar Wind 2. The Assassin Coming soon: 3. Freedom Fighter http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=856 He calls himself the Coppersmith. A religious fanatic bent on murder, he begins systematically eliminating pastors in Upstate New York. From small towns to large cities he selects his victims, seemingly at random, and subjects them to a torturous death. Janelle Becker is the agent with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit charged with solving the crimes. But even with the Bureau's resources, she finds herself ill-prepared to unravel the Coppersmith's message. Why do his methods keep changing? How can they know where he'll strike next? As she and her fellow agents track down the clues of the Coppersmith, they find themselves following an ancient itinerary that hearkens back to the steps of the apostle Paul. It becomes a race against this faceless killer as they struggle to predict his movements and get ahead of his deadly message of judgment. Can they stop this killer in time? http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=628 The Courier In their quest to solve what originally appears to be a mundane case of misplaced baggage involving an innocent student, two detectives are drawn into a complex web of deceit. The contents of a lost briefcase in London's Waterloo station escalates the investigation to a high level of intensity. As the mystery unravels they realise that some highly professional criminal activity is taking place. Their enquiries lead them to northern France, resulting in the discovery of a school which uses English students to smuggle contraband goods into the United Kingdom. When two suspects are assassinated in St. John's Wood and Primrose Hill, a murder hunt ensues in tandem with their ongoing investigation.Further revelations indicate the awesome possibility of a potential bio-terrorism threat, resulting in personal problems for both the inspector and his sergeant. In opposition to accepted procedures they enlist the support of the criminal fraternity to prevent the infiltration of bio-chemical components into mainland Britain. To their horror, they learn that their actions have been thwarted. Decisions, putting lives at risk, have to be made to stop the destructive forces of evil. Will the power of the state over-ride the future lives and careers of its servants or will loyalty and dedication to duty prevail? James R. Vance March 2008 http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=354 The Lighthouse Murders is written with a particular Scottish blackness. Even the sparrows are dying. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=3 “Yes, pirates,” agreed Federi with a dark grin. The year is 21 16. Three Irish musicians who are fleeing from the sinister world government, the Unicate, board a trader, the Solar Wind. But that’s where the trouble starts, because the Solar Wind is a pirate ship. Her Captain, sea-devil Radomir Lascek, is going to sail his ship through Panama to break through to the Pacific, come hell or high water. Panama is a death trap, the narrow canal is watched by the Unicate along its whole length. How is the pirate hoping to escape? But not enough – on the way he sails his crew straight into a beleaguered Hamilton harbour, just to prove a point to the enemy. Followed by bounty hunters, hounded by the Unicate and pursued by the Rebellion too, Radomir Lascek forges on, balanced precariously between his luck and skill, and the underworld… Trouble - yes, Captain Radomir Lascek is trouble. But not half as much trouble as he has loaded on himself by hiring Shawn, Paean and Ronan Donegal, the three teen musicians who boarded in Dublin... Books in the series of the Solar Wind: 1. The Mystery of the Solar Wind 2. The Assassin Coming soon: 3. Freedom Fighter http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=585 Book 5 in the CHILDREN OF THE DRAGON series by T. M. Moore, a chronicle of the Xosan, living vampires from the ancient planet Antellus who were once human but were transformed by a dragon's blood. They are stories of science fiction, fact and fantasy, myth and history, tragedy and triumph; set in a universe as real as the reader's own and intermixed with real historical events. In 1878 Robert St. John enlists in the British army to serve in Afghanistan. On the way there he meets two strangers who change his life forever. He becomes a hero, is knighted and recruited by Disraeli to form Her Majesty's Secret Service. He is menaced by Count Vladimir Drakulya, who wants the information he keeps secret. Robert loses everything but his life, but finds a new purpose when he reunites with an old friend to help rid London of the evil haunting it. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=706 In the U.S. Geological Survey, there are over 100 tribal and 2300 location names, in the United States alone, for a creature that walks in myth and legend throughout the 25,000 square miles of the Pacific Northwest. As a young boy on a family camping trip, 9 year old Ian McQuade encountered one of the giant, apelike beings. The experience changed his life forever, limiting his academic prospects and ruining his professional career. Now, twenty years later, an anthroplogist and a Ph.D. in his own right, Dr. McQuade sets out on an urgent mission for Cyril Pritchard and the Chimaera Foundation in pursuit of Bigfoot, without partner Alma Del Nephites. In the process, two of the greatest mysteries about Bigfoot will be uncovered, in a desperate race against time. One must remain a secret at all costs. The other must be revealed, before it is too late... http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=1036 Along the coastal waterways of Georgia's tidal marshes, there lives a monster that makes the Altamaha River its home. Over 20 feet in length, with a snakelike head atop its long neck, the Altamaha-ha has been sighted dozens of times by those who live along its namesake. A pregnant female struggles to return upriver and give birth. She is bound by those who captured her before, and pursued by others who already killed her mate for where she can lead them. A place marked as the abode of dragons by the Tama Indians, it is also the location of a treasure buried in the final days of the Confederacy. Drawn to the river and caught up in events centuries in the making, Ian becomes the unwitting pawn in a quest for world domination. He soon learns of his link to the Altamaha-ha, and that he must save it, if he is to save himself. Aided only by a few colorful locals, McQuade must defeat the enemies of the Foundation, before its technology is turned into a doomsday device. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=1037 Orphaned at a young age, Sam Nelson had strived his whole life to attain that which he wanted most; a family. And now husband to a loving wife and father to four young children, Sam was happy and content. It was the perfect life of a good man. Then one night Sam had a dream that exposed him to some of the great mysteries of heaven and though he couldn't remember the dream after waking the next day, his rich full life would soon be over. While on vacation with his family in San Antonio a few weeks later, the city is attacked by middle-eastern terrorists during the height of the annual week-long fiesta celebration. The terrorists explode four powerful bombs that kill tens of thousands attending the parades. As a result of the attack, Sam's family is killed; he himself is gravely injured after selflessly trying to fight four heavily-armed men. Succumbing to his wounds, Sam lay in a coma for three long years. Upon awakening, the harsh reality of his loss pushes him to the brink of insanity and suicide. With the help of a kindly old man, Sam begins to heal only to find himself a pawn to the forces of good and evil. Learning that one of his children may have survived the attack, Sam with his new friend Ben, begin a search that reveals the wrathful nature of mankind as well as the humble penance that can also be ours. In an epic struggle between heaven and hell, the Creator calls upon Sam to fulfill a destiny he could never have imagined while Lucifer sees Sam as a tool that can finally provide him with the single victory over Heavenly Father he has always sought, and in the end, Sam may have no choice but to give Lucifer his prize. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=493