A Tale of Two Demon Slayers (Mass Market Paperback)
By: Angie Fox
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) In this third installment of Fox’s red-hot, hilarious paranormal series, Lizzie and the gang travel to Dimitri’s home in Greece where they are confronted with his past . . . and an unwelcome family secret that could destroy them all.
The Manual of Detection (Paperback)
By: Jedediah Berry
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) In this tightly plotted debut novel, an unlikely detective, armed only with an umbrella and a singular handbook, must untangle a string of crimes committed in and through people’s dreams.
Nightwalker (Mass Market Paperback)
By: Heather Graham
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Amazon.com): Jessy Sparhawk has seen firsthand how gambling can ruin people’s lives. But one night, desperate for money, she places the bet that will change her life forever. Just as she’s collecting her winnings, a man stumbles through the crowd, a knife protruding from his back, and crashes into her, pinning her to the craps table. Hired to investigate the murder, private detective Dillon Wolf finds himself fascinated by the gorgeous redhead who’d been trapped beneath the victim – and by the single word the dying man had whispered in her ear, Indigo. What neither of them realizes is that the nightmare is only just beginning. Because bodyguard Tanner Green may have been killed by that knife, but his angry ghost isn’t going anywhere – not without vengeance. Now, literally caught between the living and the dead, Dillon and Jessy have no choice but to forge ahead together. Their investigation will take them from the glitz of the Vegas strip into the dealings of casino magnate Emil Landon, the man who signs both their paychecks, and out into the desert to a ghost town called Indigo, where past and present come together in a search for gold. Years ago, blood was shed on that very ground, and now it looks as if history is about to repeat itself, with the living and the dead facing off for possession of a fortune, and Dillon and Jessy fighting not only to stay alive but for the chance to build a future.
Twice As Hot (Mass Market Paperback)
By: Gena Showalter
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) Showalter’s reluctant superheroine Belle Jamison returns for twice the adventure and twice the romance in a brand-new, steaming-hot, action-packed novel in the Tales of an Extra-ordinary Girl series.
Night Tides (Mass Market Paperback)
By: Ales Prentiss
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) Description: For 20 years, Rachel Matre has communed with the lake spirits. The price: shemust help those in need. Young women have gone missing and the police have nobodies nor a suspect. Only the spirits seem to sense the truth. Through them, Rachel finds herself drawn into a madman’s web. Original.
Break of Dawn (Mass Market Paperback)
By: Chris Marie Green
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) To save her father, Hollywood stuntwoman and vampire hunter Dawn Madison must enter the vampire Underground, where she will encounter an unthinkable betrayal.
Spider’s Bite: An Elemental Assassin Book (Mass Market Paperback)
By: Jennifer Estep
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) Estep delivers the first book in a thrilling new urban fantasy series filled with vampires, giants, dwarves, and elementals, featuring Gin Blanco, a tough female assassin known as the spider, who moonlights at a barbecue joint in Tennessee.
The Enchanted Quest (Hardcover)
By: Frewin Jones
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) The adventures of Tania, the long-lost princess of Faerie, continue in this fifth installment of the Faerie Path series, packed with action, magic, and romance.
The Immortal Realm (Paperback)
By: Frewin Jones
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) Princess Tania thinks she’s found a way to bring her two worlds together. But as faeries fall to a mysterious illness, Tania must race to save her beloved immortal realm from a dangerous mortal threat.
Incarceron (Hardback)
By: Catherine Fisher
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a 17-year-old prisoner, has no memory of his childhood and is sure that he came from Outside Incarceron. And then Finn finds a crystal key that allows him to communicate with a girl who claims to live on the Outside.
Bones of Faerie (Paperback)
By: Janni Lee Simner
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) The war between humanity and Faerie devastated both sides. Or so 15-year-old Liza has been told. Nothing has been seen or heard from Faerie since, and Liza’s world bears the scars of its encounter with magic. Trees move with sinister intention, and the town Liza calls home is surrounded by a forest that threatens to harm all those who wander into it. Then Liza discovers she has the Faerie ability to seeinto the past, into the futureand she has no choice but to flee her town. Liza’s quest will take her into Faerie and back again, and what she finds along the way may be the key to healing both worlds. Janni Lee Simner’s first novel for young adults is a dark fairy-tale twist on apocalyptic fictionas familiar as a nightmare, yet altogether unique.
I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It (Paperback)
By: Adam Selzer
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) Algonquin “Ali” Rhodes, the high school newspaper’s music critic, meets an intriguing singer, Doug, while reviewing a gig. He’s a weird-looking guygoth, but he seems sincere about it, like maybe he was into it back before it was cool. She introduces herself after the set, asking if he lives in Cornersville, and he replies, in his slow, quiet murmur, “Well, I don’t really live there, exactly. . . .” When Ali and Doug start dating, Ali is falling so hard she doesn’t notice a few odd signs: he never changes clothes, his head is a funny shape, and he says practically nothing out loud. Finally Marie, the school paper’s fashion editor, points out the obvious: Doug isn’t just a really sincere goth. He’s a zombie. Horrified that her feelings could have allowed her to overlook such a flaw, Ali breaks up with Doug, but learns that zombies are awfully hard to get rid ofat the same time she learns that vampires, a group as tightly-knit as the mafia, don’t think much of music critics who make fun of vampires in reviews. . . .
Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter (Paperback)
By: A.E. Moorat
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Amazon.com): There were many staff at Kensington Palace, fulfilling many roles; a man who was employed to catch rats, another whose job it was to sweep the chimneys. That there was someone expected to hunt demons did not shock the new Queen; that it was to be her was something of a surprise. London, 1838. Queen Victoria is crowned; she receives the orb, the scepter, and an arsenal of bloodstained weaponry. If Britain is about to become the greatest power of the age, there’s the small matter of the undead to take care of first. Demons stalk the crown, and political ambitions have unleashed ravening hordes of zombies even within the nobility itself. But rather than dreams of demon hunting, Queen Victoria’s thoughts are occupied by Prince Albert. Can she dedicate her life to saving her country when her heart belongs elsewhere? With lashings of glistening entrails, decapitations, zombies, and foul demons, this masterly new portrait will give a fresh understanding of a remarkable woman, a legendary monarch, and quite possibly the best demon hunter the world has ever seen. In another incarnation as a more serious (though still satirical) author, A. E. MOORAT has won critical acclaim and been shortlisted for awards. Here, however, he was chained in the dungeon, fed tea and ghost stories, and kept busy writing the adventures of Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter.
Dragon Keeper (Rain Wilds Series #1) (Hardcover)
By: Robin Hobb
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From BarnesandNoble.com) Here be dragons—but debilitated, deformed, damaged dragons, hatched too soon, sick and starving, into a world that has mostly forgotten them. The first of Hobb’s Rain Wild Chronicles, an absorbing extension of her Liveship and Tawny Man trilogies, introduces 15 young dragons who struggle to survive with the grudging help of mutant Rain Wilders. Eventually driven out by the Traders Council, the hatchlings decide to seek Kelsingra, their ancient home. Caught up by the dragons’ plight and longing to escape unhappy families and the stifling Rain Wild culture, self-taught dragon scholar Alise Kincannon and teenage tree-dwelling mutant Thymara volunteer to accompany them on the quest, with the help of magnetic liveship captain Leftrin and a host of colorful characters. Hobb’s meticulously realized fantasy tale is a welcome addition to contemporary dragon lore.
Bone Crossed (Mercy Thompson) (Paperback)
By: Patricia Briggs
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Amazon.com): Briggs makes a well-deserved move into hardcover with the rousing fourth adventure for kick-ass were-coyote auto mechanic Mercedes Thompson. Healing in body and spirit after the events of 2008’s Iron Kissed, Mercy is preparing to marry alpha werewolf Adam Hauptman when an old friend asks her to help fend off a nasty ghost. It’s a good time for Mercy to leave Portland, Ore.: vampire queen Marsilia is after her and her vampire friend Stefan for successfully hunting down a monster that should have killed them. Mercy leaves Adam to negotiate peace with Marsilia and heads to Spokane, Wash., to investigate the ghost, an unexpectedly complicated task. Though action supersedes characterization, the preternatural culture of vampire seethes and wolf pack politics is deeply intriguing. Briggs provides plenty of detail about Mercy’s complex world without boring info-dumps, satisfying both new and longtime readers.
Blood Ties: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit: Blood Trilogy) (Hardcover)
By: Kay Hooper
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Amazon.com): New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes us to the outer reaches of fear in her latest thriller, as the Special Crimes Unit finds itself targeted by a monster intent on destroying both Noah Bishop and his people. The elite Special Crimes Unit, the FBI’s most controversial and effective team, is a group of mavericks and misfits trained to use their unique psychic abilities to hunt the worst monsters imaginable—human ones. Led by the enigmatic Noah Bishop, the SCU has earned a reputation for pitting their skills and cunning against killers that other cops fear. But this time Bishop and his agents face an enemy who has them in his sights, a trained sniper with a deadly plan—and more than one ace up his sleeve. It starts with an unspeakable series of grisly murders across three states, a trail of blood leading, finally, to the small Tennessee town of Serenade. There, two more brutal killings lure the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap. One of the first investigators on the scene, Special Agent Hollis Templeton, is willing to push herself as hard and as far as necessary. Risking more than her life to help and protect her SCU colleagues, Hollis must cope with her own psychic abilities, which are evolving in unprecedented ways, an attraction to the most complex man she’s ever known, and a serial murder investigation that turns very, very personal. In her time with the SCU, Hollis has shown an uncanny ability to survive even the deadliest attacks. But what she can’t know is that this killer intends to destroy the team from within. The clock is ticking. The body count is rising. And as Bishop and his agents race to uncover the true identity of their enemy, not even their special senses can warn them just how bloody, and how terrifyingly close, the truth will be.
The Scarecrow (Mass Market Paperback)
By: Michael Connelly
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) The instant #1 bestseller from “the best mystery writer in the world” (“GQ”) brings back the hero of “The Poet” in a terrifying new thriller. Forced out of the “Los Angeles Times” amid the latest budget cuts, reporter Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career.
The Fall of the Templars: A Novel (Paperback)
By: Robyn Young
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) The internationally bestselling author of “Brethren” and “Crusade” tells the cataclysmic story of the last days of the Knights Templar.
The Seventh Witch (Mass Market Paperback)
By: Shirley Damsgaard
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) Damsgaard delivers the seventh and final installment of the enchanting mystery series featuring a small-town librarian psychic and her grandmother, a benevolent witch.
Darkness on the Edge of Town (Mass Market Paperback)
By: Brian Keene
Release Date: 1/26/2010
(From Borders.com) One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, wake up to find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by an impenetrable wall of darkness. For some residents, even the fear of an unseen death can’t keep them from trying to escape.
The Walking Dead Book 5 (Hardcover)
By: Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, and Cliff Rathburn
Release Date: 1/29/2010
(From Amazon.com): This hardcover features another 12 issues of the hit series along with the covers for the issues all in one oversized hardcover volume. Perfect for long time fans, new readers, and anyone interested in reading a zombie movie on paper that never ends.
Night Angels (Paperback)
By: Danuta Reah
Release Date: 1/30/2010
(From Borders.com) A missing academic and a brutally murdered prostitute. Another woman is found, floating face down, in the Humber Estuary. Two of the women had been part of DI Lynne Jordon’s investigation into the trafficking of women in Hull. But when murder claims a fourth woman, Jordon fears that something even more sinister is at hand.
Danuta Reah (a.k.a. Carla Banks) lectures in language and linguistics and researches the link between language disorders and criminal behavior-and “Buff y the Vampire Slayer.”
