Western Counties Regional Library Booklist highlighting summer best sellers

Some bestselling authors have new books for summer reading for all tastes ... mystery, romance, suspense and fantasy. The booklist provides readers with names of books recommended by the staff of the Western Counties Regional Library. All books recommended by the staff are posted at www.westerncounties.ca under Recommended Reading with links to the library catalogue. Books summaries below are provided by library staff.



Rogue

by Danielle Steel

Having had enough of the gadabout ways of dot-com millionaire and perpetual Peter Pan, Blake Williams; Maxine, 42, divorced him five years ago and is raising their three children while running a thriving psychiatric practice specializing in childhood trauma and adolescent suicide. Blake, meanwhile, is continent-hopping among houses in London, Morocco and New York, bedding nubile young things. Maxine and Blake have remained friends, but when a horrific teen suicide case leads Maxine to meet doctor and childless divorcé Charles West, she finally falls for the type of man she thinks she’s always wanted: serious, responsible and a bit stuffy. A disaster makes Blake rethink his lifestyle; however, and Maxine suddenly has a choice to make.



Tailspin

by Catherine Coulter

FBI Special Agent Jackson Crowne is flying his Cessna over the Appalachians with a very important passenger: renowned psychiatrist Dr. Timothy MacLean; their destination is Washington, D.C. Upon their arrival, the FBI will protect the doctor – and ascertain just who wants him dead. But they don’t make it. Crowne is able to bring his plane down in a narrow valley and haul the unconscious Dr. MacLean from the burning wreckage before it explodes. When investigators arrive on the scene, they find Dr. MacLean comatose in the local hospital, prognosis unknown. What they do know frightens them: Dr. MacLean was recently diagnosed with frontal lobe dementia, and in the months prior to the crash his behaviour had become erratic and alarmingly uninhibited, his ability to maintain doctor-patient confidentiality badly compromised. With a patient list made up of Washington movers and shakers, MacLean’s role as a keeper of secrets is jeopardized as well. Is there someone out there so desperate that they’d kill the doctor for what he knows?



Kill All the Judges

by William Deverell

Is someone systematically killing all the judges in B.C., or is this just coincidence at work? Several have disappeared, some under suspicious circumstances, and at least two have been murdered. The man accused of killing Judge Whynet-Moir is being represented by Brian Pomeroy, a lawyer who has gone off his rocker, and the retired Arthur Beauchamp, legend of the B.C. bar, once again has to leave his beloved Garibaldi Island to take over the case. The timing couldn’t be worse, as his wife, Margaret, has just announced her candidacy for the Green Party in a forthcoming federal by-election. Yet Beauchamp has no choice but to take over the defence, cajole Pomeroy to check into a clinic, and somehow get his hands on the manuscript of a mystery novel about the murder the demented lawyer has been writing.



Betrayal: a novel

by John T. Lescroart

Dismass Hardy agrees to wrap up some of the caseload of a Bay Area lawyer who has mysteriously disappeared. After discovering that the lawyer was set to appeal an apparently straightforward murder case, Hardy realizes that the crime had its origins in Iraq, where the alleged killer and his victim first met. With the help of his old friend, Det. Abe Glitsky, Hardy learns that the victim, ex-navy SEAL Ron Nolan, was sleeping with the girlfriend of National Guard Reservist Evan Scholler, who was later convicted of killing Nolan. As Hardy and Glitsky dig deeper, they discover that Nolan had committed several murders himself, and it’s up to Hardy and Glitsky to unravel the conspiracy that may have roots in the U.S. government.



The Elves of Cintra

by Terry Brooks

Extinction or survival? Brooks keeps readers hanging with the hair-raising second installment (after 2006’s Armageddon’s Children) of a trilogy blending his bestselling Shannara and Void series. A plague-ridden future Earth faces annihilation from Void demons, once-men and other monstrous creatures. What chance do innocent children have? A pretty good chance when Logan Tom and Angel Perez, the last Knights of the Word, have pledged to defend them. Celebrating his 30th year as a professional writer, Brooks provides another fascinating group of characters tackling harrowing and inspiring life and death issues.



Blood at the Bookies

by Simon Brett

All bets are on when there’s a body found at the bookies. When Jude wanders into Fetherings local bookies she has no idea that she will shortly be investigating the murder of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski. With her partner in crime, friend, and next-door-neighbour Carole, she’s determined to discover who killed him and why.



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