Start off the beginning of August with best sellers from three popular authors: Nevada Barr, Faye Kellerman and Jude Deveraux. All will have new books available on Tuesday, AUGUST 3.
Burn, by Nevada Barr, is the 16th book in the Anna Pigeon series. Anna, a Ranger with the National Park Service, is newly married but on administrative leave from her job. She travels to New Orleans to stay with a friend and discovers what seems to be an attempt to place a curse on her. Amanda begins to slowly find traces of very dark doings in the heart of post-Katrina New Orleans.
Faye Kellerman's Hangman is the 19th book in her Peter Decker/Rina
Lazarus series. A friend of Decker's comes to L.A. and asks him for a favor. The favor soon becomes complicated when his friend and her husband go missing, leaving their fourteen-year-old son with no one to turn to except Decker and Lazarus. In a second case, a neonatal nurse at St. Timothy's Hospital signs off her night shift at eight a.m. and six hours later, a construction foreman supervising a house in a nearby suburb, discovers her body swinging from the rafters.
Scarlet Nights is the third book in Jude Deveraux's Edilean series. Sara Shaw is happily anticipating her wedding but three weeks before the wedding, her fiance Greg gets a call during the night and leaves without explanation. Two days later, a man claiming he is the brother of her best friend, moves into her apartment. What Sara does't know is that he is an undercover detective, assigned to use Sara to track down a notorious criminal who also happens to be the mother of the man Sara plans to marry.
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