Bones are Forever by Kathy Reichs
Temperance Brennan Series #15
A woman calling herself
Amy Roberts checks into a Montreal hospital complaining of uncontrolled
bleeding. Doctors see evidence of a recent birth, but before they can
act, Roberts disappears. Dispatched to the address she gave at the
hospital, police discover bloody towels outside in a Dumpster. Fearing
the worst, they call Temperance Brennan to investigate.
In a
run-down apartment Tempe makes a ghastly discovery: the decomposing
bodies of three infants. According to the landlord, a woman named Alma
Rogers lives there. Then a man shows up looking for Alva Rodriguez. Are
Amy Roberts, Alma Rogers, and Alva Rodriguez the same person? Did she
kill her own babies? And where is she now?
Heading up the
investigation is Tempe’s old flame, homicide detective Andrew Ryan. His
counterpart from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is sergeant Ollie
Hasty, who happens to have a little history with Tempe himself, which
she regrets. This unlikely trio follows the woman’s trail, first to
Edmonton and then to Yellowknife, a remote diamond-mining city deep in
the Northwest Territories. What they find in Yellowknife is more
sinister than they ever could have imagined.
Creole Belle by James Lee Burke
Dave Robicheaux Series #19
Languishing in a
recovery unit on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans, Dave Robicheaux is
fighting an enemy more insidious than the one who put a bullet in his
back a month earlier in a shootout on Bayou Teche. The morphine meant to
dull his pain is steadily gnawing away at his resolve, playing tricks
on his mind, and luring him back into the addict mentality that once
threatened to destroy his life and family. With the soporific Indian
summer air wafting through the louvered shutters of his hospital room,
and the demons fighting for space in his head, Dave can’t be sure
whether his latest visitor is flesh and blood or a spectral reminder of
his Louisiana youth. Tee Jolie Melton, a young woman with a troubled
past, glides to his bedside and leaves him with an iPod that plays the
old country blues song “My Creole Belle.”
What Dave doesn’t know
is that Tee Jolie disappeared weeks ago, and no one believes she
reappeared to comfort an old man with a bullet wound. Dave becomes
obsessed with the song and the vivid memory of Tee Jolie, and when he
learns that her sister has turned up dead inside a block of ice floating
in the Gulf, he believes that putting the evils of the past to rest is
more urgent than ever before.
Meanwhile, an oil spill in the Gulf
brings back intense feelings for Dave of losing his father to a rig
explosion years ago. As the oil companies continue to risk human lives
in pursuit of wealth and power, Dave begins to see links to the Melton
sisters, even when no one else shares his suspicions. Dave’s expartner
Clete Purcel helps him search for Tee Jolie, though Clete fears for his
friend’s mental health and safety. But Clete has his own troubles, too;
he’s discovered an illegitimate daughter who may be working as a
contract killer—and may have set her sights on someone he loves.
Keepers of the Cave by Gerri Hill
While the
investigations go on in Dallas and Baton Rouge after the disappearance
of a senator’s daughter, FBI agents CJ Johnston and Paige Riley are
assigned to the sleepy backwoods of East Texas for a dead-end assignment
to infiltrate an all-girls school.
Random disappearances dating back
fifty years and more raise red flags that point to the tiny, isolated
community of Hoganville. But CJ and Paige fear there will be little
distraction from the memories of the one-night stand they shared six
months ago.
Nevertheless, they integrate themselves into the lives of
the teachers and staff, but soon the odd behavior of the townspeople
has them convinced something sinister lurks there. Something, perhaps,
that even the residents of Hoganville don’t know about.
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure
From bestselling author
Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquleaure.
In the traditional folktale of
'Sleeping Beauty,' the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and
everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. It is
an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply
disturbs the mind's unconscious.
Now Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty
story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by
exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire. Here the Prince
reawakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His
reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete
and total enslavement to him as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic
yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a
compelling experience.
Beauty's Punishment by A.N. Roquelaure
From bestselling author
Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquleaure.
This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty,
the first of Anne Rice's elegantly written
volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the
psychology of human desire.
Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and
forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent
away from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she
will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as
her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness is
turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And once
again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the
most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart.
Beauty's Release by A.N. Roquelaure
From bestselling author
Anne Rice, writing as A.N. Roquleaure.
In the final volume of
Anne Rice's deliciously tantalizing erotic trilogy, Beauty's adventures
on the dark side of sexuality make her the bound captive of an Eastern
Sultan and a prisoner in the exotic confines of the harem.
In Beauty's Release, Anne Rice makes the forbidden side of passion a doorway into the hidden regions of the psyche and the heart.