Micro
By Michael Crichton
and Richard Preston
P299
MANILA, Philippines - In the vein of Jurassic Park, this high concept thriller follows a group of graduate students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company, only to find that they have been cast out into the rainforest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them. An instant classic, Micro pits nature against technology in vintage Crichton fashion. Completed by visionary science writer Richard Preston, this boundary-pushing thriller melds scientific fact with pulse-pounding fiction to create yet another masterpiece of sophisticated, cutting-edge entertainment.
Salmon Fishing In The Yemen
By Paul Torday
P349
This is the story of Dr. Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen, a project that will change his life, and the course of British political history forever. With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters including a visionary Sheikh, a weasel spin doctor, Fred’s devilish wife and a few thousand transplanted salmon, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a novel about hypocrisy and bureaucracy, dreams and deniability, and the transforming power of faith and love.
11th Hour
By James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
P635
When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco’s most untouchable criminals — and it was taken from her own department’s evidence locker. Now, anyone could be the killer even her closest friends.
Lindsay is called next to the most bizarre crime scene she’s ever seen: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor. Another head is unearthed in the garden, and Lindsay realizes that the ground could hide hundreds of victims.
A reporter then launches a series of vicious articles about the cases and Lindsay’s personal life is laid bare. But this time she has no one to turn to especially not Joe. 11th Hour is the most shocking, most emotional, and most thrilling Women’s Murder Club novel ever.
Sidney Sheldon’s Angel Of The Dark
By Sidney Sheldon and Tilly Bagshawe
P725
When an elderly multimillionaire is found brutally murdered in his Hollywood home, his young wife raped and beaten, and his art and jewels stolen, the motive seems pretty clear. But when the investigation doesn’t turn up a single lead, the case is closed and his stunning widow vanishes. Nearly a decade later, the victim’s son, Matt Daley, makes a shocking discovery: three murders identical to his father’s have taken place across the globe in recent years. In each case the widow, the sole beneficiary of the will, donates everything to children’s charities. As the case is reopened and another murder discovered, Matt becomes besotted with the latest widow until she, too, disappears. It’s only a matter of time before the killer strikes again.
Guilty Wives
By James Patterson and David Ellis
P635
No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, and to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they’re free to live someone else’s life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known.
In the morning’s harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened, something impossible, and unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime for survival. Guilty Wives is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joyride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create.