Edited by Jonathan Santlofer. Touchstone, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4516-8475-9
Despite the usual serial-novel pitfalls, C.J. Box, Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Charlaine Harris, Val McDermid, and the 15 other distinguished crime authors who each contribute a chapter to this team project succeed in fashioning an engaging...
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Edited by Paula Guran. Prime (www.prime-books.com), $14.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-60701-254-2
Guran (Zombies: The Recent Dead) compiles 25 21st-century vampire stories, with an all-star author lineup. Several stories focus on vampirism as a cure for disease, as in Mary A. Turzillo's "When Gretchen Was Human," in which a mother sacrifices her
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Laurell K. Hamilton, Author, Charlaine Harris, Author, Angela Knight, Author . Jove $7.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-515-13970-9
Those looking to take a brief taster's tour through five sexually charged paranormal worlds may enjoy the stories and novellas served up in this anthology, but readers with an appetite for something a little more meaty likely won't be sated.
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Edited by Christopher Golden. Gallery, $18 trade paper (544p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8309-3
The notion of the romantic vampire is transcended to chilling and even heartbreaking effect in this stellar anthology of tales collected by Golden (Tin Men). The best is Laird Barron’s atmospheric, Alaska-set “In a Cavern, in a Canyon,” in which one
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Charlaine Harris. Ace, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-937007-44-7
The events of Dead Reckoning—particularly the death of the despicable but powerful vampire Victor—have consequences for Sookie Stackhouse and her supernatural gang in Harris’s intriguing 12th and penultimate series installment. When Sookie’s vampire
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Charlaine Harris, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (221p) ISBN 978-0-684-19640-4
In this best of the series to date, Aurora (Roe) Teagarden, the former librarian returned to her roots in Lawrenceton, Ga., marries Martin Bartell, the rich, secretive and charismatic businessman she met in Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (1994). For...
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Charlaine Harris, Author Minotaur Books $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-19330-0
Harris, author of the Aurora Teagarden cozies, adds a touch of grit to her books featuring briskly efficient, 31-year-old Arkansas cleaning lady Lily Bard. Lily hides a traumatic past under a prickly exterior, but, in the series' third book (after...
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Charlaine Harris, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26228-0
""There's nothing more revealing about people than the mess they leave for someone else,"" says Lily Bard, who has the perfect job for an amateur sleuth--she's a cleaning lady in the small, close-knit town of Shakespeare, Ark. A detached and wary...
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Charlaine Harris, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (230p) ISBN 978-0-312-27764-2
In Charlaine Harris's Poppy Done to Death: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, the eighth in this lively cozy series after Last Scene Alive (Forecasts, July 29, 2002), the smalltown librarian looks into a murder too close to home-that of her stepsister-i
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Charlaine Harris, Author Walker & Company $18.95 (175p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5769-2
An ingenious plot and sufficient flow of blood keep the pages flying in Harris's ( Sweet and Deadly ) third novel, as a series of killings patterned after celebrated murders is perpetrated on the small community of Lawrenceton, Ga. Twenty-eight-year-
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Charlaine Harris, Author Walker & Company $18.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1245-5
Aurora Teagarden, who made a strong series debut (in Real Murders ) as a southern librarian turned amateur sleuth, suddenly finds herself very rich when elderly spinster Jane Engle dies and leaves her a fortune. When Aurora goes to take possession...
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Charlaine Harris, Author Gale Cengage $20 (217p) ISBN 978-0-684-19643-5
At loose ends after her adventures in A Bone to Pick , former librarian Aurora Teagarden pitches in to help her mother Aida, a busy real estate agent in Lawrenceton, Ga. On her first unofficial showing of a house, Aurora discovers the naked corpse...
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Charlaine Harris, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14415-9
While on a late-night job in tiny Shakespeare, Ark., Lily Bard, 31, sees a furtive figure placing large plastic garbage bags in the local park and, untying one, discovers the body of her former landlord. In a quick but anonymous phone call (she is...
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Charlaine Harris, Author Scribner Book Company $20.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-80429-3
This uninspired addition to the Aurora Teagarden series (The Julius House, etc.) opens memorably with Lawrenceton, Ga.'s premiere librarian adjusting her lawn chair and observing Angel Youngblood, her bodyguard and all-around helper, cut the grass....
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Charlaine Harris, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-17005-9
Full of surprises, this second fast-paced and gripping Lily Bard adventure (after Shakespeare's Landlord, 1996) showcases the amateur sleuth's strength, determination and martial arts prowess. Two unsolved murders in two months have already shaken...
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Charlaine Harris. Ace, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-441-02031-7
The past, both recent and distant, comes back to haunt telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse in Harris's solid 12th installment (after Dead in the Family). When a firebomb hits Merlotte's bar in Bon Temps, Louisiana, Sookie wonders if the attack was
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Charlaine Harris. Ace, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-26315-0
Bestseller Harris (the Southern Vampire Mysteries, which spawned the HBO series True Blood) introduces the small town of Midnight, Tex., where the locals can all take a day off for a picnic by the river—and discover a corpse. Residents of Midnight...
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Charlaine Harris. Ace, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-26319-8
Outsiders swarm the sleepy streets of Midnight, Tex., as supernatural superstar Harris returns with another practiced out-of-the-ordinary mystery (following Midnight Crossroad). Local phone psychic Manfred Bernardo returns from Dallas, where a...
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Charlaine Harris. Ace, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-26322-8
Bestseller Harris (the Sookie Stackhouse books) brings a real sense of community to the characters she introduced in Midnight Crossroad and Day Shift, deepening the reader’s connection to an irresistible assortment of phone psychics and cowpunching...
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $24.95 (306p) ISBN 978-0-425-23015-2
In bestseller Harris's solid fourth Harper Connelly mystery (after 2007's An Ice Cold Grave
), Harper, who can not only locate bodies but also deduce the cause of death, and her stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, are summoned to Texas by members...
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Charlaine Harris, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-312-26246-4
In her seventh cozy outing, librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is back to form after the downbeat A Fool and His Honey
(1999). Roe and her once-significant other, true-crime writer Robin Crusoe, team up to untangle the results of their first...
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Ace $19.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-441-01167-4
Fans of Laurell Hamilton's Anita Blake looking for a lighter version of the vampire huntress should cotton to Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic Louisiana gal who really wants to be normal, but suffers from a huge self-confidence problem, a case of
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Ace $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-441-01279-4
Harris's rousing fifth Sookie Stackhouse fantasy-mystery (after 2004's Dead to the World
) pits vampires, were-creatures, shifters and one fairy godmother against a sniper with an apparent aversion to nonhumans. If trying to discover who'
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-425-20568-6
Ever since Harper Connelly survived a zap from a lightning bolt, she's been able to find dead people, a skill that makes the protagonist in the first installment of Harris's new series a tad more bizarre than the mind-reading heroine of the...
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Ace $23.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-441-01400-2
In bestseller Harris's perky sixth Southern Vampire novel to star Sookie Stackhouse (after 2005's Dead as a Doornail
), the telepathic waitress of Bon Temps, La., is off to (pre-hurricane) New Orleans to close out her dead cousin Hadley's
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-425-21203-5
At the start of Harris's winning second supernatural caper to feature Harper Connelly (after 2005's Grave Sight
), a skeptical anthropology professor, Clyde Nunley, tests Harper's gift of clairvoyance in a historic Memphis cemetery,...
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Ace $24.95 (323p) ISBN 978-0-441-01494-1
Bestseller Harris mixes humorous Southern-fried fantasy with biting satirical commentary in her seventh novel to feature Sookie Stackhouse, the bubbly telepathic barmaid from Bon Temps, La. (after 2006's Definitely Dead
). Sookie attends an all-i
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $23.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-425-21729-0
Bestseller Harris’s exciting third Harper Connelly mystery (after 2006’s Grave Surprise
) finds the psychic sleuth faced with her most challenging and heartbreaking job to date: locating the bodies of “runaway” boys who the...
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Berkley Prime Crime $7.99 (262p) ISBN 978-0-425-21979-9
In the second Real Murders club novel starring diminutive, busty librarian Aurora “Roe” Teagarden, our heroine is smarting from a breakup and resentful at having to attend her ex’s sudden wedding (along with that of her long-divorce
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Ace $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-441-01589-4
Harris outdoes herself in this pivotal eighth Sookie Stackhouse novel (after 2007’s All Together Dead
), packing the story full of romantic tension and supernatural action. Having barely survived a catastrophic vampire hotel explosion, Sookie&#
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Ace $25.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-441-01715-7
Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse braces herself for trouble when another group of supernatural beings goes public in her disjointed eighth adventure (after 2008's From Dead to Worse
). Following the vampires' lead, the shape-shifters decide to...
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Charlaine Harris, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-312-27762-8
Harris's fifth Lily Bard mystery set in the small Arkansas town of Shakespeare (Shakespeare's Trollop, etc.) is good enough in part to make one wish it was better as a whole. Its mainstream novelistic promise is left unfulfilled in its...
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Charlaine Harris, Author . Ace $25.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-441-01864-2
Still reeling from the deaths of her fairy cousin, Claudine, and many others in 2009's Dead and Gone
, Sookie Stackhouse struggles with paranormal politics in her entertaining if slow-moving 10th outing. When Claudine's triplet, Claude,...
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Edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner. Berkley, $26.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-425-27174-2
For fans mourning the end of Harris's popular Southern Vampire Mysteries series, Harris and Kelner (Games Creatures Play) have assembled a collection of stories that take place on the periphery, in the cracks, or between previously chronicled events.
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Charlaine Harris, Author, Nalini Singh, Author, Ilona Andrews, Author . Berkley $15 (361p) ISBN 978-0-425-22959-0
Four well-known fantasy writers bring magical dogs into the plots of otherwise standard paranormal novellas. Harris's urban fantasy, “The Britlingens Go to Hell,” pits bodyguards Batanya and Clovache against demons, wolfwomen and...
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Charlaine Harris, Author, Harris, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-20306-1
This latest in the Aurora ""Roe"" Teagarden series (Dead Over Heels, etc.) features the sleuthing Southern librarian in a gripping tale that explores the lengths to which people will go to obtain what they desire. Roe and her new husband, Martin,...
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P. N. Elrod, Editor, Author, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Author, Charlaine Harris, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $13.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-34360-6
Nine top fantasists imagine just how amusingly amok a wedding might run in this diverting compilation of original stories on the theme of nuptials among the fey folk. Jim Butcher, the sole male contributor, serves up the book's best romp, "So
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Charlaine Harris. Minotaur, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-09003-4
Things are definitely looking up for Aurora Teagarden, last seen in 2003’s Poppy Done to Death, in bestseller Harris’s absorbing ninth mystery featuring the Lawrenceton, Ga., librarian. Aurora has a new husband, mystery writer Robin Crusoe, and a...
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Charlaine Harris. Minotaur, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-09006-5
In Agatha-finalist Harris’s engrossing 10th Aurora Teagarden novel (after 2016’s All the Little Liars), the Lawrenceton, Ga., librarian and first-time mother comes down with the flu just as her mystery writer husband, Robin Crusoe, is about to leave
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Charlaine Harris. Ace, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-399-58759-7
Bestseller Harris’s delightful collection of all the short works set in the world of her Southern Vampire Mysteries series (the basis for the HBO series True Blood) includes nine stories and one novella featuring telepath and barmaid Sookie...
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Charlaine Harris. Saga, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9492-2
In a bleak alternate history of what’s left of a broken-up United States after Franklin Roosevelt is assassinated—where poverty is rampant and magic is real but not widely accepted—Harris (the Midnight, Texas series) tells the harrowing story of a...
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Charlaine Harris. Subterranean, $40 (136p) ISBN 978-1-59606-921-3
The four stories in this slight collection from bestseller Harris (the Southern Vampire mysteries) center on Anne DeWitt, the principal of Travis High School in Colleton County, N.C. Under a different name, Anne was once an instructor at a secret...
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Charlaine Harris. Saga, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9495-3
The second installment in Harris’s Gunnie Rose series (after An Easy Death) does little to expand the alternate world it’s set in, resulting in a disappointingly flat fantastical analog of the Jim Crow South. Lizbeth Rose has joined a new crew of...
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Charlaine Harris. Subterranean, $30 (200p) ISBN 978-1-59606-996-1
With these two thrilling novellas, Harris (A Longer Fall) offers fans a fun, dance-filled return to the world of her Sookie Stackhouse series. Dancer in the Dark introduces Layla LeMay, who takes a job as a dancer for Blue Moon Entertainment while...
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Charlaine Harris. Saga, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9499-1
A hired gun accustomed to working dangerous but impersonal protection jobs puts it all on the line to save the man she loves in Harris’s eventful third Gunnie Rose fantasy (after A Longer Fall). When Gunnie Lizbeth Rose receives a coded letter from...
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Charlaine Harris. Saga, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-982182-49-6
Series heroine Lizbeth Rose lets go of the reins for Harris’s action-packed fourth Gunnie Rose alternate history (after The Russian Cage), which sees Lizbeth’s half sister, Felicia, taking over as narrator. Rescued by Lizbeth and her partner, Eli,...
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Charlaine Harris. Saga, $28.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-982182-52-6
Bestseller Harris’s action-packed fifth Gunnie Rose alternate history (after The Serpent in Heaven) proves what a powerful force newly reunited sisters Lizbeth and Felicia are when working together. Shortly after Felicia arrives in Texoma to visit...
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Charlaine Harris et al. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-07678-6
Bestseller Harris, best known for her Southern Vampire mysteries (Dead Ever After, etc.), and nine other authors have collaborated on this mixed bag of a fantasy suspense novel, which calls to mind a story told around a campfire, with each...
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Edited by Lee Child. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4159-1
Each of the 11 collaborative tales in this stellar sequel to the International Thriller Writers’ anthology FaceOff (2014) pairs a top-rank female thriller writer with a male counterpart. Sandra Brown’s Lee Coburn and C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett send...
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