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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — JUNE 1988

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Rocket to the Morgue
Anthony Boucher

New Books List: 463 titles

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  • Diana Palmer

    SWEET DARLIN' Although Calhoun Ballenger had raised Abby since childhood, she was now nearly twenty-one years old. How dare he keep her under his thumb, protected like a hothouse flower! Abby had to teach Calhoun a lesson. With the fury of a S...



  • Johanna Lindsey

    THEIR EYES MET, AND DESTINY WAS FOREVER SEALED... Lady Roslynn Chadwick was an exquisite Scottish heiress with an urgent need for the safety of marriage -- her only protection from a villainous cousin and every other fortune-hunting scoundrel who ...



  • Sandra Brown

    Randy Price fought like a wildcat when the desperate, masked man abducted her, fiercely sweeping her onto his horse and racing away. What did he want with her and her young son, and why was her terror mixed with disturbing passion for this modern-day...



  • Lynne Graham

    Kerry had betrayed his trust Four years ago, Alex Veranchetti, a strong-willed Italian tycoon, had abruptly ended their marriage -- wounded by the dreadful wrong he thought Kerry had done to him. Now he was back in Kerry's life, and intent on ...



  • Lisa Kleypas

    She learned the power of passion in love's fiery embrace. When strong and handsome Heath Rayne pulled lovely young Lucinda Caldwell from a winter river, he rescued her from an icy death. But soon he was plunging her into a torrid torrent of passio...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Amanda Caulden led a sheltered life on her father's California ranch--until the day Hank Montgomery stormed into town. A hot-blooded union organizer with a taste for ladies and fine champagne, he sensed the fire smoldering beneath her prim, virtuous ...



  • Danielle Steel

    Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and World War I Europe, Zoya, young cousin to the Tsar, flees St. Petersburg to Paris to find safety. Her entire world forever changed, she faces hard times and joins the Ballet Russe in Paris. And then,...



  • Heather Graham

    THE FIRST MOMENT HE SAW HER... The dark, handsome rebel had ruthlessly seduced exquisite Katrina Seymour. She fled her powerful Tory family to be by his side. But as revolution raged and a nation struggled to be born, heartbreaking betrayal and trea...



  • Sherryl Woods

    UP, UP AND AWAY... Audrey Nelson had heard the words "We knew we could count on you" too many times. She was known as a good sport, but to her that meant she was just a wimp! Canceling her vacation to cover a hot-air balloon festival was the absol...



  • Emma Darcy

    There was no forgetting... To lose the man she loved to another woman, when she'd only just learned she was carrying his child -- Genevra's hurt had been unbearable. She'd kept thinking Luke would leave Australia and come back to he...



  • Catherine Anderson

    She had made a promise to a dying woman Nothing less would have convinced Breanna Morgan to return to the Crescent Moon claim -- to face the doubt she'd fled so long ago. But what she faced was not who she'd anticipated. Prowlers, vandals ...



  • William W. Johnstone

    FRONTIER JUSTICE Smoke Jensen had been off buying cattle when the news came back from his spread. The gunhawks had struck as cowards always do -- in a pack and at night. They'd shot and nearly killed his wife, and shootin' a woman on the Colorado...



  • William W. Johnstone

    Paul Kelly had a very big temper for such a small boy. When he tired of his toys, he smashed them. When a dog or cat got in his way, he kicked them. And when other children told on him, he made sure they were very, very sorry… But that was nothi...



  • Margaret Way

    His opinion of women galled her! Just because the outrageously handsome Kiall Lancaster was supreme master of his domain, the breathtaking Australian station of Mowana, didn't give him the right to treat all females with disdain. Alison All...



  • Robert B. Parker

    Spenser is back on his home turf: a Boston of sleaze and surprises, dangerous days and deadly nights. A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. Called the "Red Rose Killer" because he leaves a long-stemmed red rose on ...



  • Carla Neggers

    Trouble was brewing Michael Pennington was the first and only man Kate O'Smiley had loved. And he, too, was bewitched. But when a war of wills sent them their separate ways, all she took with her were memories, her recipes . . . and Michael's name...



  • Catherine George

    Her only hope was a man she loathed... Lucy's life was literally crashing around her ears. As a desperately struggling single mother of a ten-year-old son, she had no choice but to turn for help to the one man she despised more than any other....



  • Stephen King
    in

    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...



  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Emma Harte's courageous and passionate granddaughter and heir, Paula McGill O'Neill, reigns as head of the family and it's elegant business empire. Possessed of Emma's strength and compassion, Paula has successfully lavished equal attention on the bu...



  • Brenda Joyce

    FIRE AND ICE Wrenched from a sheltered life in a French convent, Miranda was on her wary to the New World, betrothed by her English father to a Texas rancher she had never met. It seemed worse than a sentence of death! Shaking with fear, she arriv...



  • Lilian Peake

    Their differences threatened to drive them apart. Jemma Hale loved her job as company counselor, and nothing would persuade her to give it up. Not even falling in love with Arne Drummond. She understood his longing to become an artist, and she ...



  • Connie Mason

    "I won't cheat you, Glenna ", Kane Morgan swore in the heat of passion. "I promise you'll find only pleasure in my arms". And pleasure -- searing, breathtaking, exquisite pleasure was what she did find as Kane took her innocen...



  • George R.R. Martin

    When an alien virus struck New York four decades ago, it created a new breed of superhuman men and women known as Aces and Jokers. But America was not the only nation struck by its awesome power. Now a team of Aces sets out on a voyage of exploration...



  • Marion Chesney

    WALKING INTO A LION'S DEN AND CLIMBING UP A DRAINPIPE HALF-NAKED WAS NO WAY FOR A LADY TO BEHAVE! From the top of his faultlessly groomed head to the tip of his fashionable shoes, Lord Andrew Childe was every inch the perfect gentleman. Ala...



  • Joan Smith

    A Man of Honor. A Lady of the Night. A Dream of Everlasting Love... Lovely, titian-haired Flora Sommers was the talk of the ton, a woman shrouded in mystery and surrounded by whispers of scandal. She was sought after by the peers of London, but o...



  • Flora Kidd

    She disapproved of what he stood for A millionaire stockbroker was not the kind of man Rachel wanted. Her dream of succeeding as an artist came first. Ross Eraser, dynamic and charming, changed Rachel's mind and the course of her life in fo...



  • Constance O'Banyon

    HE'D PUT HER BEHIND BARS When aristocratic Julian Westfield learned that the "Swallow" had caused his brother's disgrace and death, the vengeful young lord swore the conniving colonial wench would pay for her tricks. Determined to snare her in her...



  • Rosanne Bittner

    ONLY THE WHITE INDIAN COULD SAVE HER FROM A LIFE OF SHAME... Raised in the harsh poverty of the Tennessee hills, Emma Simms hoped that one day she would escape to the excitement of Knoxville. Then her ma died, leaving her alone with her stepfather...



  • Lilian Jackson Braun

    There's something rotten in the small town of Pickax--at least to the sensitive noses of newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum. An accident has claimed the life of the local paper's eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran an...



  • Don Pendleton

    ASSASSIN'S CREED The world is being held hostage, terrorized by fanatical mercenaries whose services are available to anyone who can pay the price. Intel from Stony Man Farm reveals that a zealous desert sheikh has resurrected the centuries-old...



  • Kathleen Eagle

    THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE . . . For the love of her son, Elizabeth Donnelly was going to sneak back to De Colores, an island paradise to the eye and a horror to the soul. There she would find her boy, a prisoner of the regime just as she had once ...



  • John Saul

    Lush, a deceptively tranquil, the secluded island  basks in splendid isolation off the South Carolina  coast--as does the Devereaux mansion, a once-great  plantation house now crumbling amidst the ancient  oaks...



  • Joan Hohl
    in

    The time Dawn Kingsley and Bryce Stone spent in the majestic Grand Canyon had been the stuff of dreams and illusions--not the normal interaction of everyday life. But Dawn soon found that her love for Bryce had the power to turn the ordinary into the...



  • Dixie Browning

    ONE LOOK WAS ALL IT TOOK Rex Jones had first seen her when she'd been barefoot and cane-pole fishing. He didn't know then that this was Tallulah Lavender, pillar of the Parrish Falls community. It didn't matter; he was hooked. Lu ha...



  • Barbara Boswell

    Nick Torchia was the one man Candace Flynn had never been able to banish from her thoughts, the only man she'd ever cried over, her first love-but he'd come too close, touched too deep, and she'd driven him away. Now, three years later, he was back, ...



  • Clive Barker
    in

    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...



  • Elmer Kelton

    Working faithfully for a Texas rancher despite his family's warnings, Chacho Fernandez steals his payment when his dishonest employer refuses to compensate him and is falsely accused of murdering a lawman. Reprint....



  • Tony Hillerman

    A noted anthropologist vanishes at a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim ...



  • Emma Goldrick

    Talk about working together as a team! Ryan Quinn considered Mathilda Latimore a snoop when her father sent her to troubleshoot on the Latimore Railway problem in the Sudan, but he showed some sense by finally cooperating. Although, Ryan's ...



  • Ben Bova

    PEACEKEEPERS Created by the Athens Peace Conference in the wake of nuclear war in the Middle East, assigned control of every nation's orbiting nuclear hardware, the International Peacekeeping Force's brief is to prevent any military action across na...



  • Catherine Hart

    CAPTIVE LOVE From the moment Blake Montgomery held up the westward-bound stagecoach carrying lovely Megan Coulston to her adoring fiance, she hated everything about the virile outlaw. How dare he drag her off to an isolated mountain cabin and hold h...



  • Barbara Bretton

    Fantasy was John's strong suit Applied to business, it turned his deliciously indulgent Love Cottages--complete with waterbeds and heart-shaped bathtubs--into the hottest honeymoon hotel in the Poconos. Applied to matters of the heart, it brok...



  • Joan Elliott Pickart

    Patrick Mullaney was a hunk of a heartbreaker, a gorgeous specimen with tanned muscles and a lethal smile -- and a bum knee that had probably ended his brilliant football career. When Lux Sherwood appeared at his door almost hidden behind a six-foot...



  • Fayrene Preston

    Rugged, ruthless Sloan Lassiter was a man bent on revenge when he came to Colorado in search of Wes McCord. He was looking for trouble --- but instead he found Brianne Delaney, a tenderhearted spitfire whose hair blazed like the sun at high noon. As ...



  • Marcia Muller

    Joanna Stark, art lover and part owner of an art security firm, has devised a daring plan to recover two valuable stolen paintings. Here scheme will also entrap one of the world's greatest art thieves - a man with whom she shares a passionate and vio...



  • Jill Marie Landis

    Sometimes, a single moment can change your life forever... Their Love Was Never Meant To Be ANALISA A young Dutch beauty, her dreams of a new life in the west were shattered by a savage Indian massacre. Ravaged by the men who killed her family...



  • Valerie Parv

    Could he really love an imposter? Danni was a journalist by profession, but because of the debt she owed her identical twin -- Trina, a beautiful model -- she agreed to fill in for her on a modeling assignment. Too late Danni learned that the p...



  • Francine Pascal

    A shadowy past . . . After a chilling encounter with murder, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are now ready for a calm summer in Sweet Valley--until Eric Hankman appears. Like Elizabeth, Eric is a quiet, sensitive writer, and the two of them imm...



  • Peter Straub
    in

    This stunning collection of novellas and short stories by masters of the macabre brings to fans and newcomers an unrelenting spell of horror and suspense. These are tales that strike beyond sheer terror, as their disturbing visions capture the dark r...



  • Robert K. Tanenbaum

    Roger Karp, a handsome D.A. with an insatiable lust for justice, won't rest until he gets no lesser plea than “guilty of murder” out of a vicious assassin. Mandeville Louis killed two people in cold blood, then cleverly threw a phony crazy fit in...


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