FICTION SELECTIONS

August July June
  • Impending Peril
    By Bill Frash
    One man can turn the balance of power in the Pacific and greatly influence a world careening toward war. Impending Peril takes place in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese war. China is unstable and President Roosevelt sends a lone operative, Marine Captain Matt Hunter into the field. His secrecy is compromised, and the future is uncertain.
    Northwest Publishing $8.95 1-56901-769-7

  • The Statement
    By Brian Moore
    An aging former military officer who murdered Jews in the war is running out of time. As the world shrinks, French government officials and the Catholic Church no longer can or want to hide him. The Statement is about retribution and ultimate justice--a riveting, morally complex suspense novel about a Nazi collaborator who knows no guilt.
    Dutton $22.95 0-525-94128-2

  • The Halls of Justice
    By Lee Gruenfeld
    Two sisters, one of them a prominent attourney, are brutally attacked, and then traumatized by the legal system when justice fails them. The Halls of Justice is a legal thriller in which the victims concoct a remarkable scheme to exact revenge and set off a chain of events that leave no one unscathed.
    Dutton $24.95 0-525-94130-4

May
  • Impending Peril
    By Bill Frash
    One man can turn the balance of power in the Pacific and greatly influence a world careening toward war. Impending Peril takes place in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese war. China is unstable and President Roosevelt sends a lone operative, Marine Captain Matt Hunter into the field. His secrecy is compromised, and the future is uncertain.
    Northwest Publishing $8.95 1-56901-769-7

  • The Rosewood Casket
    By Sharyn McCrumb
    Four brothers come together to build a casket for their dying father and make a decision on selling the family farm. An aggressive developer wants to spoil the mountain in The Rosewood Casket, and a longtime secret involving a baby's bones threatens the family's stability even more.
    Dutton $23.95 0-525-94011-1

  • Defiant Heart
    By Janelle Taylor
    As the Civil War rages, a man and a woman--enemies and lovers who can neither trust nor resist each other--seek to fulfill their destiny in the shadow of passion, treachery, and betrayal. Defiant Heart follows Vixen, a Union spy, as she uses her feminine wiles to charm her way through blockades and danger.
    Kensington $21.95 1-57566-029-6

April
  • Infernal Affairs
    By Jane Heller
    Bizarre things start happening to real estate agent Barbara Chessner when she cries out to heaven for help, not realizing someone diabolical may be listening. Infernal Affairs twists and turns with humor as a sexy, new Barbara tries to find out what the devil is going on, but when she finally discovers it, all hell is going to break loose.
    Kensington $21.95 1-57566-021-0

  • Harm's Way
    By Stephen White
    A psychiatrist travels deep into a friend's provocative past to solve the mystery of his violent death. Harm's Way is a fast-paced thriller that enlightens with harrowing truths about the human heart--about the struggle for survival and the quest for forgiveness. When the smoke clears, the truth is a surprise.
    Viking $22.95 0-670-85861-7

  • The World on Blood
    By Jonathan Nasaw
    The vampire myth evolves into a modern-day circle of sex, blood, passion, and horror in The World on Blood. The intense high, increased physical powers, and sensory perceptions are no longer enough to keep one of the group's addicts in line. As he attempts to break away, a trap is set to ensnare him and bring him back into the fold.
    Dutton $22.95 0-525-94066-9

February
  • A Man to Slay Dragons
    By Meagan McKinney
    Clarie's identical twin, Zoe, was killed by an unknown assailant. In her memory, a support group was formed. Now the group has taken a startling turn: plotting to avenge the victims by executing their attackers. When Claire discovers that Zoe's death is to be avenged, she wants no part of it. But the contract has already gone out-in Clarie's name . . . A Man to Slay Dragons.
    Kensington $21.95 1-57566-009-1

  • What the Deaf Mute Heard
    By G.D. Gearino
    Ten-year-old Sammy Ayers was abandoned, a lost child in a small Georgia town of the 1940s. On the morning that his mother left him in the bus depot, he became deaf and mute. But Sammy creates a place for himself. He learns all of the town's secrets . . . while keeping his own . . . What the Deaf Mute Heard.
    Simon & Schuster $21 0-684-81337-8

  • The Veracruz Blues
    By Mark Winegardner
    The wealthy Pasquel brothers pay unheard-of salaries to lure big-league ballplayers to Mexico. They find that the league has major-league-caliber players banned because of racism. What follows is the first fully integrated season in baseball. The Veracruz Blues evokes an era of dramatic changes and possibilities.
    Viking $22 0-670-86636-9

January
  • Trial by Fire
    By Nancy Taylor Rosenburg
    Tough-as-nails, high profile attorney Stella Cataloni is haunted by the one case she has never cracked. In Trial by Fire, Cataloni persuades the DA to re-open the case on the arson fire that killed her parents 15 years earlier. She appears to be a woman bent on revenge; yet she turns out to be the prime suspect.
    Dutton $22.95 0-525-93767-6

  • The Final Judgment
    By Richard North Patterson
    From the author who brought you Degree of Guilt and Eyes of a Child, Richard North Patterson's latest novel, The Final Judgment, begins in a nightmare of murder. It opens in the formal arena of the courtroom and progresses into the maze of one family's past. The truth Caroline Masters ultimately uncovers-shocking beyond the deepest fears that have haunted her adult life-is the explosive core of Patterson's most powerful novel to date.
    Alfred A. Knopf, $25 0-679-42989-1

  • Intensity
    By Dean Koontz
    Chyna Shepherd-a young woman struggling to rise above a troubled, difficult past-finds herself suddenly caught in the black shadow of a sociopath. intensity unfolds over the course of just 24 hours, but within that brief time frame, Dean Koontz gives you what is perhaps his most inventive, emotionally intricate, and terrifyingly suspenseful novel yet.
    Alfred A. Knopf, $25 0-679-42525-X

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