Sunday, June 10, 2018

Book Town's Summer Reading List 2018





















A Deadly Fundraiser
Radio talk show host Dr. Maggie Walsh finds herself in the middle of a murder—again! An invitation to a glitzy fundraiser at a south Florida mansion sounds like the perfect evening. Maggie and her pals are digging up clues for a scavenger hunt when a real mystery lands in their laps. Suddenly the party’s over, and the killer is playing for keeps. Will Maggie and her team be able to crack the case and solve the crime?

Mary Kennedy






Keep Her Safe 
In the blink of an eye, she's gone. Maggie’s daughter Penny is her whole world… and she’d do anything to protect her. So when Maggie wakes one night to find a strange woman in her home, she runs to barricade herself in her bedroom with her child. Because Maggie knows why she’s come…

Richard Parker




'Till Death:  Second Impressions 
Wisecracking Private Detective Sam Rockwell is running for his life, but that doesn’t keep him from taking the case of a Return who's slipped past Heaven’s radar and overstayed his time on earth. Together with his fiancé, Amelia, Sam brawls and dances his way through San Francisco to unravel a zany mystery where nothing is what it seems at first blush.

Jason Anspach



Oney: My Escape From Slavery 
by award-winning author Piper G Huguley and Diana Rubino
Diana Rubino’s Oney: My Escape From Slavery is a painstakingly re-imagined account of a true and painful story told generations on. At its heart is the paradox of liberty – for an individual, for a race, for a nation. In a modern world where cultures and histories collide, it is a timely reminder of perspectives on ‘slavery’ and ‘freedom’ that we may have become blind to. It is a big, strong, uplifting book with a soul.



Snow Storm
by award-winning author Bobby Nash

Abraham Snow's career ended with a single shot, but his adventures are just beginning.

Snow’s former partner, Samson Brooks, a retired agent turned p.i., arrives in Atlanta with a problem. He’s gotten into some trouble with some bad people and needs Snow’s help to get out of it. 




Over My Dead Body 
by award-winning author James Callan

A large corporation is seizing land by eminent domain. Syd Cranzler stands in its way, threatening a court battle. After a heated meeting with the corporation representative, Syd is found dead from an overdose of heart medication. The police call it suicide. Case closed.

But Father Frank, Syd's pastor, and Georgia Peitz, another member of his church, don't believe Syd committed suicide and begin to look for clues of what really happened. This puts a strain on Georgia's romantic interest with the lead detective. But she's dedicated to finding the truth.

The priest is almost poisoned, then becomes the target of rumors and speculation he might have had something to do with Syd's death.

The more clues Father Frank and Georgia uncover, the more danger they find themselves in. Can they find the real killer before they become victims? 




A Mersey Mariner 
by award-winning author Brian L. Porter

Soon after the aging cargo liner Alexandra Rose steams into the fog-enveloped Mersey Estuary, one of the ship’s passengers is found dead in his cabin, leading into Detective Inspector Andy Ross’s most baffling and complicated case to date.

Another death soon follows, and Ross discovers that his case has its roots in the depths of the Amazonian Rainforest. A billionaire entrepreneur, passengers who may not be exactly who or what they say they are, a team of medical researchers and a team of vicious mercenaries combine to confound and complicate what begins as a simple death aboard an insignificant ship.

Ross and his team from the Merseyside Police Specialist Murder Investigation team need all their skills in order to solve the case of the Mersey Mariner.


The Ka 
by award-winning author Mary Deal
California archaeology student Chione has vivid dreams about the discovery of an opulent tomb. After the founder of the Institute of Archaeology learns that Chione’s dreams might be connected to events in Egypt, he accepts an offer to examine a mysterious site in Valley of the Queens.

After they discover an ancient burial site, spells encoded into the hieroglyphs on the tomb’s walls transport Chione and her former boyfriend, archaeologist Aaron Ashby, 3,500 years into the past: to ancient Egypt. There, they learn of Tutankhamon and Tauret, a priestess in Pharaoh's Court.

Meanwhile, the other team members are affected in unfathomable ways by the Ka: the spirit of the entombed. Chione and Aaron learn that Tauret plans to provide Tutankhamon with a living heir... and that they have been chosen to play a crucial part in completing their destiny.



Getting Even: A delicious tale of revenge 
by award-winning author Morgan St. James 





The Five Manners of Death by Darden North

What are the five manners of death?  They are:
Homicide
Suicide
Natural
Accidental
Undetermined

After a construction worker unearths a human skull on the campus of the University of Mississippi dating to the 1960s, an older woman’s desperate attempt to erase history counts down the five manners of death.

Dr. Diana Bratton is a surgeon surrounded by bodies after the discovery of her Aunt Phoebe’s 50-year-old note detailing the manners of death. Suicide, accident, natural cause, and one death classified undetermined are soon crossed off this list—leaving Diana to believe that only murder remains. When Diana spots photographs in a 1966 university yearbook, Phoebe is linked not only to that death, but to the recent deaths of two local men. Diana is torn between pursuing Phoebe’s innocence and accepting police theory that her aunt is involved in the murder of several men she knew in college.

In “The Five Manners of Death,” Dr. Diana Bratton steals precious time from her young daughter, her surgical practice, and her hopes for renewed romance to clear Aunt Phoebe’s name of multiple murder and uncover the significance of the list. Even as Diana searches Phoebe’s home basement for evidence, she works to trump the police and outrun the conspiracy between her ex-husband and Phoebe’s long-time lover—her quest to expose the truth overshadowed by a need to rebury the past. Even though she realizes there is a chance to save her shrinking family, Diana understands that of the five ways to die, murder is her family secret.




 Blackout: Alexander Steele Murder Mystery Series by Lawrence Johnson Sr.

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Alexander Steele is a private detective turned night club owner in Philadelphia. Hoped to put the detective life behind him and move on with his longtime girlfriend Steele's plans are derailed when a friend brings him an encrypted travel drive with info on a blackout that was created 3 months before the recent Canadian event; Alex finds himself drawn into the well-crafted mind games of a madman known as Chameleon an American terrorist whose goal is to shut down the country by collapsing the economy of the United States.

From the snow cover streets of Montreal to the tropical beaches of Nassau Alex follows the trail of clues and dead bodies as he inches closer to revealing the plot to bring down the entire U S government while narrowly surviving the constant attempts on his life.


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