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All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 3)
All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 3)
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 246
Review Date: 5/3/2007
Helpful Score: 1


Kay Scarpetta must track down a killer before he takes his next couples' lives.


The Baby-Sitter II
The Baby-Sitter II
Author: R. L. Stine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 31
Review Date: 8/29/2006


Jenny's last baby-sitting job nearly killed her - for real.

But she's a survivor. She's getting over it. The crazy guy who was after her is gone. She's even got a new baby-sitting job.

Then the phone rings. When she answers, she hears a familiar voice.

A voice from the past...from the grave...

Hi, Babes, I'm back.


Beach House (Point Horror)
Beach House (Point Horror)
Author: R. L. Stine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 26
Review Date: 8/29/2006


The sun is hot. The water's cold. And the kids are cool.

Too cool to live.

Because a killer is stalking them, one by one. A killer who never leaves a clue. Who disappears as completely as a footprint in the sand.

A killer who has found a very special place in the sun.

For some special fun...


Beach Party
Beach Party
Author: R. L. Stine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 20
Review Date: 8/29/2006


It's the ultimate party beach in California, summer fun in the sun to the max. And Karen, who's just broken up with her old boyfriend, means to enjoy every minute of it - especially having two new guys to choose between: one so handsome, and one so deliciously dangerous.

But the party summer takes a nasty turn when Karen realizes that someone is out to spoil all the fun. As the beach party gets wilder and wilder, Karen realizes that someone very close to her is too close - close enough to kill.

Will the next beach party be her last?


Bound by Honor : A Mafioso's Story
Bound by Honor : A Mafioso's Story
Author: Bill Bonanno
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 14
Review Date: 8/29/2006


A young mafioso being groomed for leadership spends his nights at the Stork Club in New York City, rubbing elbows with the likes of Tony Bennett, Marilyn Monroe, and Mickey Mantle...Two proud men, one named Bonanno, the other named Kennedy, dream of their sons taking over their dynasties -- each taking a different, but equally powerful path...A sudden spray of bullets rips through the salon in Manhattan's Park Sheraton Hotel; moments later, a major figure on the organized crime scene -- slumped over in midshave -- lies dead in his barber chair...


The Burning (Fear Street Saga 3)
The Burning (Fear Street Saga 3)
Author: R. L. Stine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 43
Review Date: 8/29/2006


Simon Fear thought changing his name would stop the evil. He was wrong - dead wrong.

After generations of unspeakable horror, it is up to Daniel and Nora, brought together by their fateful love, to unite the feuding families. But is their forbidden love strong enough to withstand such awesome evil?

Poor Nora - desperate to tell the truth and bury the family curse...before it buries her.


The Cheater (Fear Street #17)
The Cheater (Fear Street #17)
Author: R. L. Stine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 32
Review Date: 8/29/2006


Carter Phillips is under a lot of pressure to ace her math achievement exam - so much pressure that she gets Adam Messner to take the test for her...in exchange for one date. But Adam wants more than a date - much more. Carter has no choice. She has to do whatever he asks. If not, he'll tell her secret and ruin her life.

Adam's control over her gets more and more unbearable. Carter is desperate to get rid of him - but how? Is murder the only way?


Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 4)
Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, Bk 4)
Author: Patricia Cornwell
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 647
Review Date: 5/3/2007


Kay Scarpetta is involved in a case where a recently executed murderer's fingerprints turn up at a new crime scene.


The Dead Lifeguard (Fear Street Superchiller, Bk 6)
The Dead Lifeguard (Fear Street Superchiller, Bk 6)
Author: R. L. Stine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 21
Review Date: 8/29/2006


The lifeguards at North Beach Country Club know they're lucky. While other kids are flipping burgers, they're sunning themselves by day and partying by night. So what if some people say the place is cursed, haunted. This is the life!

And then, one by one, the lifeguards start to die horrible deaths. Someone - or something - evil is stalking them. They all know how to save other people's lives...but who will save theirs?


Dead of Night: The True Story of a Serial Killer
Dead of Night: The True Story of a Serial Killer
Author: Don Lasseter
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 13
Review Date: 6/27/2006


Great book...Couldn't put it down.


Dying to Get Married: The Courtship and Murder of Julia Miller Bulloch
Review Date: 5/3/2007


Julie Miller meets Mr. Right only to find out the he is another person other than she expected.


Fire Game (Fear Street, Bk 11)
Fire Game (Fear Street, Bk 11)
Author: R. L. Stine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
 16
Review Date: 8/29/2006


The first fire started almost by accident. A wastebasket fire in the school library. Jill Franks and her friends found it exciting. And it got them out of school for a few hours.

Who could have guessed that the fire game would quickly spread? That one fire would lead to another? That Jill, and Andrea, and Diane, and the three boys they hung out with would find themselves caught up in the most dangerous-and deadly-game of all?

When one of their fires ends in murder, the game ends - and the real terror begins. All of them realize that someone is playing the game for keeps. Now Jill has no choice. She knows she must find the murderer - before her life goes up in flames!


First Evil (Fear Street Cheerleaders, Bk 1)
First Evil (Fear Street Cheerleaders, Bk 1)
Author: R. L. Stine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 28
Review Date: 8/29/2006


Newcomers Corky and Bobbi Corcoran want more than anything to make the cheerleading squad at Shadyside High. But as soon as the Corcoran sisters are named to the team, terrible things happen to the cheerleaders.

The horror starts with a mysterious accident near the Fear Street cemetary. Soon after, piercing screams echo through the empty school halls. And then the ghastly murders begin...

Can Corky and Bobbi stop the killer before the entire cheerleading squad is destroyed?


A Flash of Diamonds
A Flash of Diamonds
Author: Clarissa McNair
Book Type: Paperback
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Review Date: 8/29/2006


Cynthia...A ravishing blueblood raised rich on Boston's Beacon Hill, she had everything she'd ever wanted. Yet hidden deep in her unimpeachable past was a secret that could shatter her perfect world...

Iris...She left her old life behind in the Midwest and became the mysterious Parisian painter known only as "Iris." A material girl and the ultimate intimate, she loved men - and their money...and she'd do anything to get them.

They were two blonde beauties whose daring choices would take them from New York and Paris, and from Italy to Switzerland - where, on the shores of Lake Geneva, they would meet in a showdown over the seductive man each had claimed for herself...


A Golden Dream
A Golden Dream
Author: Carol Jerina
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
 1
Review Date: 8/29/2006


For lovely Jennifer Avery, stationed with her career officer husband and two young daughters in Naples, marriage is no longer joyous, fulfilling union it once was. Torn by her changing feelings for the man she married too young, she makes a decision that will shatter forever the safe, secure world she has known. But it is a step she knows she must take-before it is too late...

For attorney Richard Lassiter, Jennifer is the one woman he has never been able to forget. Now he has come to Italy to find the elusive midwestern beauty he is at last free to love - and to seize their only chance of happiness together. And Jenny, enthralled by this sensual stranger who has swept back into her life, must find the courage to leave the past behind - and embrace a rapturous new dream of love...


Guilty by Choice
Guilty by Choice
Author: Patricia D. Benke
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 5
Review Date: 8/29/2006


A little girl died badly in California...And blind chance nabs her unrepentant killer.

But now a series of disastrous police foul-ups is causing the murder case to unravel at blinding speed. The prosecuting attorney desperately needs an eyewitness. The defense smells blood...and victory.

Only one frightened and tormented woman on the edge can hold together the fraying threads of justice. But she can never tell what she saw...even though her silence will set a monster free.


The Halls of Justice
The Halls of Justice
Author: Lee Gruenfeld
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 13
Review Date: 6/27/2006
Helpful Score: 2


Very Good book. Suspenseful and holds your attention to the end.


Hit and Run
Hit and Run
Author: R. L. Stine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 29
Review Date: 8/29/2006


Eddie, Scott, Winks, and Cassie. They went out for a drive one night. Just to practice, so Eddie would be sure and get his license.
Then Eddie had a little accident. Now four friends share a terrible secret.
Because Eddie hit someone and killed him.
Didn't he?


The Hitchhiker
The Hitchhiker
Author: R.L. Stine
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
 19
Review Date: 8/29/2006


He wants a ride. She wants a thrill. So in spite of her best friend Terri's arguments, Christina stops to pick up the handsome hitchhiker.

He's everything she thought he'd be. And more. Much, much, more.

Maybe too much more.

Maybe enough to thrill Christina and Terri...to death...


If You Really Loved Me: A True Story of Desire and Murder
If You Really Loved Me: A True Story of Desire and Murder
Author: Ann Rule
Book Type: Paperback
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 160
Review Date: 7/25/2006


Great book...Great movie as well...


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