Books at Bookhabit.com http://www.bookhabit.com 2008-08-28 07:37:10 Joshua Green is a psychologist practicing in NYC. He is known for taking on clients no one else wants to work with. A late night call from Lenore Lefebvre, a distressed mother, brings him into contact with the most dysfunctional family he has ever met but he accepts them as clients even when his common sense is telling him to run as far as he can get from them. Lenore deals with secrets she cannot tell. Her ex-husband, newspaper reporter Gabe has anger he can't deal with and an on-going sexual relationship with Lenore that keeps either of them from moving on. Eighteen-year-old Jennifer, their daughter, develops a madness that can't be contained as she tried to face her inner demons. As layers of denial are stripped from this family, the darkest secrets of all hover just above them waiting to destroy them. Joshua is juggling an almost-ex-wife, terminal loneliness and a career that is barely giving him financial support - but he is doing what he loves to do. Into his life comes a young woman, Amy, who has deep problems of her own but sets her sights on Joshua as the new man in her life. If she can only get up the nerve to say hello, maybe something will come of it! Circling just out of reach is a killer whose pattern seems to have no pattern and who childhood friend, Jon Kandel, police detective, is trying to solve while wrapping himself in a series of meaningless dalliances with women he meets. Nothing is quite what it appears to be in this novel. Is the killer one of Joshua's clients? Perhaps it is Joshua himself. Perhaps the killer is not connected to his life. The book is filled with quirky and fully developed characters who will stick in the reader's mind and be so real that when you put the book down to go to the fridge for a snack, you will want to bring something back for them, too. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=168 The further frenetic mythopoetic adventures of Coyote in post-modern industrial civilization as he steals a car, invents television, runs for office, works on wall street, goes mouse hunting, and meets interesting new people, like Bombay Chevrolet and Forest Trump, as well as Baglady, Death, Legba, and the New Gods. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=222 The new new Coyote backslides into the bad bad behaviors of the old old Coyote made famous over thousands of years and thousands of fires in American Indian lore. (And you can buy a hard copy of this book for $10 at www.amazon.com or www.3musesbooks) http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=95 In a world of demons, goblins, witches, gremlins, sirens, werewolves, and vampires, it can be difficult to determine who is guilty of what and why. Chris White is a detective who fearlessly investigates this supernatural world, himself a unique product of it. From strange rituals and runaway vampires, to fighting sorcerers and cornering a demon lord, this paranormal detective will take any case - so long as its interesting enough. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=567 Dark Jewel (A Riki Storm Vampire Mystery) follows a classic mystery/suspense plotline, with the added twist of vampires as villains. The book is fast moving and funny, staying with Riki as she finds herself in a series of dark basements full of dead bodies, some of which are neither human nor dead. Set in the San Francisco Bay Area, and including a zany list of supporting characters, this book is a fun romp through the dark side. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=15 Have you ever dreamed of escaping the rat race to run away to a beautiful Caribbean island? In Island in the Clouds, Geoff does manage to escape - but as the scapegoat in a front-page securities fraud case in Canada. While hiding on Bequia, his cover, and the secret life he has carved out the previous two years, is at risk when murder victims begin piling up over a few days during a hot July. Local police prove incompetent, so Geoff is unwillingly drawn into the investigation. After receiving a warning that he will be next, followed by his girlfriend's disappearance, Geoff has no choice - he must track down and stop the murderer before others are killed, and his piece of paradise is lost. Please leave a comment after you have read my first chapter. You're the critic and hearing what you think of my writing is the best way for me to know how to improve. No need to identify yourself, but please also tell me know where in the world you're writing from. Thanks! http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=153 Although this is primarily a tale of crime and punishment, weird, dark, and unexpected laughs abound in this deadly serious novel. Insanity involving cats weaves a spell of symbolism in a lateral story. Can nothing stop the beast? What's it all about and who wins the mini war between cat and man? The narrator/protagonist/killer is Nicholas, the straight man of the bunch. He is preoccupied with orderliness to the point of killing; then too, he's responsible for the murders of other women. Murphy is his friend, an ex-con who is perpetually in the wrong place at the wrong time. When a crime is committed in their own neighborhood, Murphy is the logical choice to take the rap. The novel deals with Nicholas' feelings over inadvertently getting his friend in trouble and also spells out his attempts to not only cover his own crime, but to get Murphy safely off the hook. But safety is not to be for the poor, hard-luck bastard Murphy, who's on the superhighway to death row. There is another major player in this drama, old man Nailor, a gossip who is at the top of his game and who disseminates information to deadly effect, often making the news. It's an amazing truth that a single bit of information, totally unfounded, can indeed become fact. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=53 Passion-killer is a murder mystery. It is about how love, jealousy and obsession turn passion to murder. It begins when Sylvia arrives home one evening to find her boyfriend lying in a pool of blood. As the murder investigation gets underway past loves and jealousy combine to ensure friends and acquaintances becoime suspects. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=308 When Beth Heinze fell in love finally she blossomed into a new and startling beauty, a mature beauty; even a stranger watching her would have known she was in love. Her beau was a viscount, and reputed to be one of the richest men in England. He paid Beth's debts, and gave her a small, elegant house in the Loop Circle; she wore exquisite jewels. She came, radiant, one day to The Crow's Nest. One look at her face told Sue and Katrina her news was true. Her love ended too soon. They had already read in a local newspaper that her beau had been drowned in a river on his estate. They felt her anguish in her silence. A couple of days pass when a brief letter arrived at The Crows Nest addressed to Sue and Katrina. Katrina's attention was else where when Sue read its opening lines aloud. Sue looked at Katrina with stricken eyes as she hesitated in disbelief before going on to the next paragraph. Watch for part two of "PittyPat Hollor" soon! http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=489 The Courier In their quest to solve what originally appears to be a mundane case of misplaced baggage involving an innocent student, two detectives are drawn into a complex web of deceit. The contents of a lost briefcase in London's Waterloo station escalates the investigation to a high level of intensity. As the mystery unravels they realise that some highly professional criminal activity is taking place. Their enquiries lead them to northern France, resulting in the discovery of a school which uses English students to smuggle contraband goods into the United Kingdom. When two suspects are assassinated in St. John's Wood and Primrose Hill, a murder hunt ensues in tandem with their ongoing investigation.Further revelations indicate the awesome possibility of a potential bio-terrorism threat, resulting in personal problems for both the inspector and his sergeant. In opposition to accepted procedures they enlist the support of the criminal fraternity to prevent the infiltration of bio-chemical components into mainland Britain. To their horror, they learn that their actions have been thwarted. Decisions, putting lives at risk, have to be made to stop the destructive forces of evil. Will the power of the state over-ride the future lives and careers of its servants or will loyalty and dedication to duty prevail? James R. Vance March 2008 http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=354 The Lighthouse Murders is written with a particular Scottish blackness. Even the sparrows are dying. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=3 “Yes, pirates,” agreed Federi with a dark grin. Trouble - yes, Hungarian sea devil Radomir Lascek, Captain of the Pirate Ship Solar Wind, is trouble. But not half as much trouble as he has loaded on himself by hiring Shawn, Paean and Ronan Donegal, three musicians fleeing Dublin... Books in the series of the Solar Wind: 1. The Mystery of the Solar Wind 2. The Assassin Coming soon: 3. Freedom Fighter http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=585 Orphaned at a young age, Sam Nelson had strived his whole life to attain that which he wanted most; a family. And now husband to a loving wife and father to four young children, Sam was happy and content. It was the perfect life of a good man. Then one night Sam had a dream that exposed him to some of the great mysteries of heaven and though he couldn't remember the dream after waking the next day, his rich full life would soon be over. While on vacation with his family in San Antonio a few weeks later, the city is attacked by middle-eastern terrorists during the height of the annual week-long fiesta celebration. The terrorists explode four powerful bombs that kill tens of thousands attending the parades. As a result of the attack, Sam's family is killed; he himself is gravely injured after selflessly trying to fight four heavily-armed men. Succumbing to his wounds, Sam lay in a coma for three long years. Upon awakening, the harsh reality of his loss pushes him to the brink of insanity and suicide. With the help of a kindly old man, Sam begins to heal only to find himself a pawn to the forces of good and evil. Learning that one of his children may have survived the attack, Sam with his new friend Ben, begin a search that reveals the wrathful nature of mankind as well as the humble penance that can also be ours. In an epic struggle between heaven and hell, the Creator calls upon Sam to fulfill a destiny he could never have imagined while Lucifer sees Sam as a tool that can finally provide him with the single victory over Heavenly Father he has always sought, and in the end, Sam may have no choice but to give Lucifer his prize. http://www.bookhabit.com/book_details.php?book_id=493