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TRY
FEAR by James Scott Bell
For Ty Buchanan, defending a
suspected drunk driver named Carl Richess seems routine enough. But when his
client ends up dead, an apparent suicide, there's nothing routine about it.
Because the cops suspect it's murder, and arrest Eric Richess, Carl's brother,
for the crime. Now Ty, at the desperate urging of Eric's mother, agrees to
defend him. But it won't be easy. Because there's DNA on the gun that matches
Eric's, and a history of conflict between the brothers.
Then Ty, assisted by Sister Mary Veritas, begins to uncover tentacles of
corruption that reach into the citadels of city power. But he's being watched.
Because somewhere in the dark labyrinth of LA is someone who will do anything to
keep from being found out, someone who believes that when warnings don't work,
try fear.

KILL
HER AGAIN by Robert Gregory Browne
ONE WOMAN'S MIND HOLDS THE SECRET
Ever since a close call with death, FBI Agent Anna McBride has been having
strange visions of a kidnapped little girl... a little girl who is about to be
murdered. Is she going crazy? When Anna is assigned to a multiple homicide case,
her visions recur with an even fiercer frequency...and she can't shake the
feeling that what she's seeing is somehow connected to this latest grisly crime.
TO FINDING HER OWN KILLER...
When Anna meets Daniel Pope, a hypnotist who's no stranger to the paramormal, he
suggests the impossible: that the girl in her visions is Anna in a past life.
But Anna refuses to believe Pope -- until she finds herself face to face with
the killer from her nightmares. Now she must go into the dark recesses of her
mind and relive the horrors of her past to find a diabolical psychopath who
won't rest until he kills her again...

ABANDON
by Blake Crouch
On Christmas Day in 1893, every man,
woman and child in a remote mining town will disappear, belongings forsaken,
meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone will be found - not
even the gold that was rumored to have been the pride of this town. One hundred
and thirteen years later, two backcountry guides are hired by a leading history
professor and his journalist daughter to lead them into the abandoned mining
town so they can learn what happened. This has been done once before but the
people who went in did not come out. With them is a psychic, and a paranormal
photographer - the town is rumored to be haunted. They've come to see a ghost
town, but what they are about to discover is that twenty miles from
civilization, with a blizzard bearing down, they are not alone, and the past is
very much alive...
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Blake Crouch

NO
MERCY by John Gilstrap
Deep inside the dangerous world of
rescue operations, one anonymous hero pays no ransom, takes no prisoners, and
breaks every rule. Meet Jonathan Grave…
No names. No feds. No trace
evidence. That’s how Jonathan Grave operates. As a freelance specialist in
covert rescues, he has to work outside the law to get things done—especially in
highly sensitive hostage situations. But when an Indiana college student is
abducted, and Jonathan’s meticulous plan explodes into a deadly shooting spree,
the local authorities are out for blood—and they’re not alone. Someone wants to
control a devastating secret . . . someone rich and powerful . . . someone
willing to capture, torture, and kill anyone to get it. Even the people Jonathan
loves most…
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John Gilstrap

GREEDY
BONES by Carolyn Haines
Sarah Booth
Delaney, a Southern belle known for abiding by tradition only when it suits her,
is no stranger to drama. A talented actress and a P.I., she’s chosen to pursue a
career in Hollywood when she hears that her best friend’s husband is suddenly on
his deathbed back home in Mississippi---and he's not the only one. The vicious
illness begins with burning fevers and delirium, quickly plunging its victims
into a coma. The Centers for Disease Control is on the scene, but they can’t
find a cure for it or the boll weevils that are decimating Sunflower County’s
cotton crop. With patients in quarantine and the whole town in crisis, Sarah
drops everything to stop the outbreak and save the only place she’s ever been
able to call home.
From feuding scientists to ailing locals, there is no shortage of bad blood
coursing through the little town of Zinnia, Mississippi, as Carolyn Haines’s
often steamy and always charming series turns equally intense in Greedy Bones.

KILL
ZONE by Vicki Hinze
Dr. Morgan
Cabot—the intuitive psychologist head of a new Secret Assignment Security
Specialist corps—moves her unit front and center to combat the latest attack by
terrorist and black market intelligence broker Thomas Kunz in this latest
captivating thriller. Kunz's target is United States Air Force Captain Jackson
Stern, or so Morgan thinks. Could it also be Bruce Stern, Jackson’s brother who
was recently arrested for murdering his wife Laura? Double-crossing,
misinformation, and astonishing plot twists pile up as Morgan tries to determine
if Jackson is on the level or working for Thomas, whether Bruce is a murderer or
a victim, and exactly what Laura has to do with all of this.
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Vicki Hinze

OUTCAST
by Joan Johnston
Society bachelor
and former army sniper Ben Benedict moves between two worlds—from high-society
Washington to the mean city streets, from tuxedos to Glocks. His powerful
Virginia family wants him out of harm's way, but Ben stays on the job,
determined to make amends for a past that haunts him.
Dr. Anna
Schuster is fighting demons of her own when she crosses paths with Agent
Benedict. The two become adversaries—and lovers—as they search for an Al Qaeda
operative bent on revenge.
Ben must fight
against time—and his own darkness—to rescue millions of innocents and the woman
he loves from a virulent bioweapon in the hands of a dangerous enemy.
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Joan Johnston

MISSING
MARK by Julie Kramer
In this
page-turning sequel to Stalking Susan, TV reporter Riley Spartz pursues a
curious story of a bride left at the altar and finds herself caught in a
dangerous missing-person case.
When Riley
Spartz sees a want ad reading “Wedding Dress for Sale: Never Worn,” her news
instincts tell her that the backstory might make an intriguing television sweeps
piece.
The groom, Mark,
last seen at the rehearsal dinner, never showed up for the wedding, humiliating
his bride, Madeline—and her high-strung, high-society mother—in front of 300
guests. His own mother, eager to spare him further embarrassment, waited weeks
before filing a missing-person report and then learned how difficult it is to
get police, or the media, interested in missing men.
Now Riley is up
against a boss who thinks that finding a famed missing fish will net the station
higher ratings, a meth cartel trying to assassinate a K-9 dog because of his
powerful nose for drugs, and a neighbor who holds perpetual garage sales that
attract traffic at odd hours.
When her
missing-person case leads to a murder investigation, Riley discovers a startling
motive for Mark's disappearance—and a TV exclusive guaranteed to win the ratings
. . . if she lives to report it.
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Julie Kramer

HOUSE
SECRETS by Mike Lawson
Mike Lawson’s
previous novels starring Joe DeMarco, fixed for the Speaker of the House have
earned him a loyal following from thriller aficionados and a place among the
most talented and captivating thriller writers focusing on the dangerous games
of our nation’s capital.
In House
Secrets, DeMarco is sent to investigate the death of a reporter, the son of one
of his boss’s old colleagues, even though it appears to be nothing more than an
unfortunate accident. He soon learns that the reporter was on the trail of
Senator Paul Morelli, a rising star considered a shoe-in for his party’s
presidential nomination. Some politicians are lucky, and Morelli has been
luckier than most, but his past has already b
Dirty secrets,
beltway politics, and divided loyalties threaten as DeMarco’s investigation
spirals dangerously out of control. Filled with surprising twists, a captivating
plot, and excellent characters both old and new, House Secrets is Lawson’s best
book yet.
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Mike Lawson

TIMESCAPE
by Robert Liparulo
(Dreamhouse Kings #4)
In the fourth
installment of this stunning young adult series, the King family plummets into a
nightmare of head-spinning action, as the house and the worlds that lay beyond
grow increasingly dangerous.
David, Xander,
Dad, and Keal have discovered a terrible secret. Now, finding Mom is only a
small part of their mission. And time is running out. Using the portals to build
an empire, Taksidian wants the house for himself, and there's nothing he won't
do to get the family out. The consequences of his meddling reach far beyond the
family--to the future of the world itself. The Kings know their survival depends
on stopping the bloodthirsty assassin. If only they can find his weakness in
time.
Most startling
of all is their ability to change the path of history. But will their tinkering
in time reunite the family and save the future . . . or set mankind on an
irreversible course of destruction?

FUGITIVE
by Phillip Margolin
Amanda Jaffe,
the heroine of Wild Justice and Proof Positive, is back—in this twisting tale of
international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past . . . and
into the crosshairs of a killer.
Charlie Marsh, a
petty thief and con man, becomes a national hero when he rescues the warden of a
state penitentiary during a prison riot, but it doesn't take long before he is
wanted again, suspected of killing a United States congressman. After twelve
years of living in the African nation of Batanga, at the mercy of Jean-Claude
Baptiste, a sadistic, power-mad dictator, Charlie flees for home to face his
murder charge, when Baptiste learns about Charlie's affair with the tyrant's
favorite wife.
But it's not
just the state of Oregon that's got it in for the philandering con. Criminal
lawyer Amanda Jaffe has her work cut out for her. She must keep Charlie off
death row, protect him from the head of Baptiste's deadly secret police, and
prevent him from being caught by a shadowy killer who will stop at nothing to
keep the truth about a decade-old crime buried forever.

THE
APOSTLE by Brad Thor
Every politician
has a secret. And when the daughter of a politically-connected family is
kidnapped abroad, America's new president will agree to anything -- even a
deadly and ill-advised rescue plan -- in order to keep his secret hidden.
A new
administration and a new approach to dealing with America's enemies have left
covert counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath without a job. But when American
doctor Julia Gallo is kidnapped in Afghanistan, the terms of her ransom leave
the president with only one course of action. In a dangerous assignment that the
United States government will deny any knowledge of, Scot Harvath must secretly
infiltrate Kabul's notorious Policharki Prison and free the man the kidnappers
demand as ransom -- al-Qaeda mastermind, Mustafa Khan.
But when Harvath
arrives, he quickly learns that there is more to the kidnapping than anyone
dares to admit. And as the subterfuge is laid bare, Harvath must examine his own
career of hunting down and killing terrorists, and ask himself if he has what it
takes to help one of the world's worst go free.
Brimming with
the kind of ripped-from-the-headlines authenticity Brad Thor's internationally
bestselling novels are known for, The Apostle doubles down on the blockbuster
success of The Last Patriot and reaffirms Thor's status as the master of the
political thriller.
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Brad Thor

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31,
2009. One (1) name will be drawn from
all qualified entries and notified via email. The winner will receive free
autographed copies of TRY FEAR by James Scott Bell; KILL HER AGAIN by
Robert Gregory Browne; ABANDON by Blake Crouch; NO MERCY by John Gilstrap;
GREEDY BONES by Carolyn Haines; KILL ZONE by Vicki Hinze; OUTCAST by Joan
Johnston; MISSING MARK by Julie Kramer;
HOUSE SECRETS by Mike Lawson; TIMESCAPE by Robert Liparulo; FUGITIVE by Phillip
Margolin; THE APOSTLE by Brad Thor,
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