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Title:   Survivor In Death by JD Robb Publisher: Berkley 384 pages Genre: Romance Synopsis:  No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city - not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family members were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision. The state-of-the-art security was breached, and the killers used night vision to find their way through the cozy middle-class house. Clearly, Dallas is dealing with pros. The only mistake they made was to overlook the nine-year-old girl cowering in the dark in the kitchen. . . Now Nixie Swisher is an orphan - and the sole eyewitness to a seemingly inexplicable crime. Kids are not Dallas's strong suit. But Nixie needs a safe place to stay, and Dallas needs to solve this case. Not only because of the promise she made to Nixie. Not only for the cause of justice. But also to put to res...

Title:   Of Fever and Blood (The Inspector Svärta Thrillers, 1) S. Cedric Publisher: Publishers Square 408 pages Genre: Mystery I received an advanced e-galley of this book through netgalley.com . I was published on September 23, 2013 Synopsis:  Of Fever and Blood begins at the end of an investigation. Inspector Svärta, an albino profiler, and her colleague Vauvert, solve a series of sadistic ritual murder cases, and the supposed culprits—the Salaville brothers—are killed in a standoff. However, one year later, the killings start again, this time in Paris. All forensic evidence points to the brothers, but how could that be? The investigation leads to a discovery of the incredible truth about a killer for whom death is not an option. Review:  Super natural mixed with a mystery thriller.  While John Connelly's Charlie Parker series does this mix really well I felt that this one pushed the envelope a little to far and made it hard to be believable.  ...

Title:   Runner (A Sam Dryden Novel) by Patrick Lee Publisher: Minotaur books 336 pages Genre: thriller I received an advanced e-copy of this title through netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review. It is due to be released February 18, 2014. Synopsis:  Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she’s running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal—to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept in a secret prison by forces within the government. But she doesn’t know much beyond her own name, Rachel. She only remembers the past two months of her life—and that she has a skill that makes her very dangerous to these men and the hidden men in charge. ...

Title:   Reality Boy by A. S. King Publisher: Little Brown 368 pages Genre: YA I received a free copy of this book from netgalley.com for an honest review. This title was released October 22, 2013 Synopsis:  Gerald Faust started feeling angry even before his mother invited a reality TV crew into his five-year-old life. Twelve years later, he's still haunted by his rage-filled youth--which the entire world got to watch from every imaginable angle--and his anger issues have resulted in violent outbursts, zero friends, and clueless adults dumping him in the special education room at school. No one cares that Gerald has tried to learn to control himself; they're all just waiting for him to snap. And he's starting to feel dangerously close to doing just that...until he chooses to create possibilities for himself that he never knew he deserved. Review: Reality TV is not really reality.  It is staged for the camera's and for entertainment value.  What you think...

Title:   Coming Clean: A Memoir by Kimberly Rae Miller Publisher: New Harvest 272 pages Genre: Memoir Synopsis:  Kim Miller is an immaculately put-together woman with a great career, a loving boyfriend, and a tidy apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. You would never guess that Kim grew up behind the closed doors of her family’s idyllic Long Island house, navigating between teetering stacks of aging newspapers, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every room—the product of her father’s painful and unending struggle with hoarding. Review: I've watched Horders on tv, and been shocked by their living conditions but Kimberly's memoir puts you right in their moldy trash ridden house along with her.  The shame and humiliation she felt at living like that.  Surviving a fire that killed all her pets, but left her happy that they got to start over somewhere else that was clean was heartbreaking.  At least nowdays its known to b...