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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JULY 2004

Best Reviewed

The Center of Everything
Laura Moriarty

Best Reviewed

The Death of an Ordinary Man
Glen Duncan

Best Reviewed

The Dark Water
David Pirie

Best Reviewed

The Empress of the Last Days
Jane Stevenson

Best Reviewed

When Red is Black
Qiu Xiaolong

Best Reviewed

The Locus Awards
Charles N. Brown; Jonathan Strahan

New Books List: 591 titles

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  • Linda Howard

    Efficient and unapologetic, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can't be touched by the law. Now Lily is playing a deadly, unauthorized game, seeking ...



  • Penny Jordan

    Suzy Roberts has never been called a security risk before -- but Colonel Lucas Soames insists she is! And to safeguard his mission, the tough security millionaire forces her to pose as his mistress! In a luxurious Italian villa she is kept under t...



  • Anne Mather

    Tess Daniels's new job in Italy is off to a bad start when wealthy vineyard owner Rafe di Castelli accuses her of being responsible for the disappearance of his teenage son. It's actually Tess's younger sister whom Rafe is after -- and sh...



  • Janet Dailey

    Young and beautiful, with a mix of cool elegance and smoldering earthiness, Laura Calder will never be content to be some man's wife, living on a Montana ranch like her mother. She's thrilled to tour Europe with her sophisticated "Aunt" Tara, taking ...



  • Fern Michaels

    Raised by her loving but eccentric aunt, former F.B.I. agent Quinn Star has always relied on herself -- how else could she have survived the Bureau's old boys network, or navigated the heartbreak of a thwarted affair with her boss? Now Quinn risks he...



  • Christine Feehan

    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light.... Her childhood had been a nightmare of violence and pain until she heard his voice calling out to her. Golden and seductive. The voice of an angel. He...



  • Brenda Jackson

    SOONER OR LATER...THEY ALL SURRENDERED TO STONE He was strictly a love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy. And sexy vixens with all the right moves were the kind Stone Westmoreland liked to love the best! A confirmed bachelor, Stone had vowed never ...



  • Karen Robards

    When beautiful advertising executive Maddie Fitzgerald is attacked in a New Orleans hotel, she thinks that she's a victim of random, senseless violence. FBI agent Sam McCabe thinks otherwise--that she's the target of a serial killer who's eluded the ...



  • Susan Wiggs

    It's the beginning of another season in the seaside resort town of Winslow, Rhode Island, and Rosa Capoletti is given the chance to rediscover the pleasures of love and laughter, food and wine, friendship and romance... With a little determination...



  • Lori Foster

    You first met Bruce Kelly in Lori Foster's steamy novel, The Secret Life of Bryan. Now, Bruce comes into his own--and a whole lot of trouble--when he falls for a woman who is nothing like he is, but she's everything he wants... WHEN OPPOSITES ATT...



  • Lynsay Sands

    It bit: New York hotels cost an arm and a leg, and Terri had flown from England to help plan her cousin's wedding. The new in-laws offered lodging. But they were a weird bunch. There was the sometimes-chipper-sometimes-brooding Lucern, and the wacky ...



  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    After centuries, pure evil finally has the power -- and the armies -- to prevail ... Dagnarus has risen from the Void, backed by an unstoppable horde of bestial minions and a host of the insidious undead. Mortal kingdom after mortal kingdom must ...



  • R.L. Stine

    Dim the lights, lock the doors -- and BEWARE! It's time to read R.L. Stine's favorite scary stories. Discover a ghastly secret in "The Judge's House," a terrifying tale of evil rats by Bram Stoker, the author of dracula. Laugh out loud at the scar...



  • William W. Johnstone

    Falcon MacCallister's father was a legend in the West, but Falcon's quest for justice has driven him onto the wild side of the law. Famed as a gunslinger, feared for his lethal speed and accuracy, Falcon decides to make it a fair fight when he comes ...



  • J.A. Jance

    Thirty years ago, a local Papago girl was brutally murdered, her butchered body found stuffed into a large cooler left on the side of Highway 86. No one was ever charged for the crime. Few even cared. And no one suspected it was only the beginning...



  • Robyn Donald

    The only way Lauren can escape from the war-torn island of Sant Rosa is to marry Guy, a sexy stranger, in a fake ceremony. But reunited with Guy under safer conditions, Lauren is overwhelmed by their mutual feelings of explosive desire! And he has...



  • Margaret Way

    The heiress... His Bride...? When lawyer Jude Conroy tells Cate Costello that she's just inherited a fortune from a wealthy man, everyone -- including Jude -- presumes she must have been the man's mistress.... Cate insists she doesn'...



  • Beverly Barton

    PASSION -- PAST AND PRESENT Trent Winston had spent years trying to forget the only woman he'd ever loved and the tragedy that had torn their world apart. But now she was back in town, stirring up unwanted memories and unwelcome desires -- and dem...



  • Carla Cassidy

    She promised not to leave him. She lied.... A year ago, Juliette Monroe took her young son and fled from her violent husband with only the clothes on their backs--and the terrifying fear that he would find them. A powerful man of seemingly limitl...



  • Rebecca Winters

    The billionaire's pregnancy proposition! Andrea is about to lose her last chance to have a baby -- and so is stunned when her sexy boss, businessman Gabe Corbin, suggests he can help her become a mother! Now they have six months to conceive --...



  • Lindsay McKenna

    “GROWING UP, I DENIED AUTHORITY, DENIED MY MOTHER'S WISHES...” She'd left her family and her tribe to serve her country. Now Lieutenant Kai Alseoun's military career was over, shattered by betrayal. And so the prodigal daughter came home -- to...



  • Delores Fossen

    She bet her badge and her honor when she bent the rules to hunt the deadly sniper who'd declared open season on newlyweds. Now police detective Katelyn O'Malley would answer to hotshot Sergeant Joe Rico, her new boss -- and temporary fiance. Joe h...



  • Sandra Marton

    He's forced to wed her! Despite his attraction to her, Sheikh Qasim is trying not to take Megan O'Connell to his wealthy but tradition-bound kingdom; women have no status in his homeland. Yet, as no one else has Megan's financial exper...



  • Mary Jo Putney

    Laird of an ancient Scottish clan, Duncan Macrae also possesses the secret powers of the Guardians--humans with mystical abilities to control nature's forces and see into the hearts of others. Duncan has sworn to use his abilities for the greater goo...



  • Christina Dodd

    Once upon a time, high in the Pyrenees Mountains, there were two happy and prosperous kingdoms. In one kingdom, a son was born and declared the crown prince. In the other kingdom, three daughters were raised in royal splendor. This is the story of...



  • Karin Slaughter

    Two armed men enter the police station in tiny Heartsdale, Georgia, and open fire. When the shooting stops, an officer is dead, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver is seriously wounded, and the survivors--including a class of grade-school children and medi...



  • Maureen Child

    Nine years ago, Samantha Marconi was swept away in a whirlwind wedding...even though she'd only known her new husband for a month. When Jeff left her just weeks after the wedding-she found out she was pregnant and had nowhere to turn. So Sam did the ...



  • Jeffery Deaver

    Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only "righteous" assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: ...



  • Julia James

    Spanish millionaire Cesar Montarez wants Rosalind the moment he sees her; this electrifying attraction is like nothing he's ever felt before. But Cesar has little respect for money-hungry women -- mistresses or trophy wives. Rosalind is determine...



  • Sue Grafton

    Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but wasn't t...



  • Tracie Peterson

    FROM HER FAVORITE HILLTOP perch, the unadorned beauty of Montana-- in all its rugged, untamed charm--fills Dianne Chadwick with serenity and purpose. But fear gnaws at that peace, for her fiance, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. W...



  • Lori Wilde

    Former Olympian Maddie Cooper keeps her trim, taut body in great shape...and her heart safe from any man. Until her thrill-seeking twin, Cassie, gets in big trouble and Maddie has to come to her rescue-again! FBI agent David Marshall has a big hea...



  • Kresley Cole

    A man noted for his courage and integrity, Captain Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, an English girl lost at sea a decade before. He's given her ailing grandfather his word -- as a gentleman -- to find and protect her....



  • Jane Porter

    The disobedient princess... The royal plane is about to crash! Princess Chantal Thibaudet is rescued from the wreckage by Demetrius Mantheakis, a renowned international security expert, with wealth and a reputation to match. He insists that Chanta...



  • Tom Clancy

    Tom Clancy brings Jack Ryan's son -- Jack Ryan, Jr. -- to the forefront in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.A man named Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. What if they combined his network of Midd...



  • Geronimo Stilton

    Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are full of fun -- tastier than Swiss cheese and t...



  • Rochelle Alers
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    In Rochelle Alers' Summer Madness, a sexy brother with a mysterious past turns a pretty librarian's play-it-safe Hamptons vacation into a torrent of sensual delights. But can she trust him without knowing his whole story?...



  • Nalini Singh

    “WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO MARRYING ME?” The proposal was as unexpected as her feelings for the man whose dark good looks rivaled an even darker past. Painful experience screamed that Taylor Reid should run far and fast from Jackson Santorini. But...



  • Jillian Hart

    Dillon Hennessey was a man like no other... Strong yet caring, determined yet kind. But he was still a man, Katelyn Green reminded herself, and therefore not to be trusted. Hadn't her own husband abandoned her in her hour of need? And yet the whisper...



  • Kate Walker

    A prisoner -- of passion! Joaquin Alcolar has a rule: never to keep a mistress for more than twelve months! Cassie knows that her time is nearly up, and to save her pride -- and her heart -- she decides to jump before she's pushed! Howeve...



  • Leanne Banks

    Bound by a promise made to a fallen comrade, retired marine Brock Armstrong had no choice but to seek out the man's widow. Past conversations and shared letters had given Brock great insight into Callie Newton; he knew her every like and dislike, her...



  • Teresa Medeiros

    Gabriel Fairchild's valor during battle earns him the reputation of hero, but costs him both his sight and his hope for the future. Abandoned by the fiancee he adored, the man who once walked like a prince among London's elite secludes himself in his...



  • Eric Jerome Dickey

    After his blockbuster holiday novel, Naughty or Nice, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey is serving up his new novel with style, sexiness, and a bit of grit. "Driver" is an ex-con trying to make his life right but who shares an exp...



  • Carl Hiaasen

    Marine biologist Chaz Perrone can't tell a sea horse from a sawhorse. And when he throws his beautiful wife, Joey, off a cruise liner, he really should know better. An expert swimmer, Joey makes her way to a floating bale of Jamaican pot -- and then ...



  • Anne McAllister

    Hugh McGillivray is stunned when he fishes a sexy woman out of the ocean. But even Pelican Cay's most determined playboy is tempted by beautiful Sydney St. John.... Sydney needs to escape her deeply unattractive business partner, who's dem...



  • Justine Davis

    THE WOMEN OF ATHENA ACADEMY SHARED AN UNBREAKABLE BOND...UNTIL ONE OF THEIR OWN WAS MURDERED. Top-notch forensic scientist Alexandra Forsythe returned to Athena to prove that the death of her dearest friend had been no accident. Armed with only he...



  • Louise Allen

    RUNNING AWAY FROM LOVE! Miss Joanna Fulgrave has turned herself into the perfect society catch to be worthy of dashing Colonel Giles Gregory. But all her hard effort to improve herself comes to nothing when it looks as if Giles is about to propose...



  • Lori Wick

    A Different Kind of Hero 1945 Rigg thought about his ideals as he'd entered the war. He'd told the Lord he was up for anything. He told God and his family that if he had to lay down his life for his country, he was willing. What he hadn't banked on...



  • Christopher Pike

    Almost everyone, at some time, dreams of being the hidden king or queen of a far-off land. Almost everyone dreams that someday that secret identity will be revealed, heralding a new life filled with magic and power and love. Teenager Ali Warner ha...



  • Marion Chesney

    SECRETS TO DIE FOR Lady Rose Summer refuses to abide by her parents' insistence that she marry. Even more distressing, she wants to become self-supporting by moving out with her maid Daisy and going to work in trade. On advice from Captain Har...


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