Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Review: Deadly Sins by Kylie Brant

Title: Deadly Sins
Series: Mindhunters
Author: Kylie Brant
Read copy: eBook
Published: August 1, 2011
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 1101517220
ISBN-13: 9781101517222

An unknown assassin has appointed himself judge, jury, and executioner, brutally taking out high-level human targets citywide. And the list of suspects is a sensitive one: an Iranian diplomat, a U.S. senator, and a vengeful priest. It's just the kind of case to test the resolve of tough FBI agent, Jaid Marlowe. Especially when her new partner is Adam Raiker, Jaid's former colleague and ex-lover. But that's history—and it left scars.

Determined to leave it behind them, Jaid and Adam dive into the most shocking investigation of their careers. But when Adam himself becomes a suspect, Jaid must choose between past and present. Her choice plunges them into a far-reaching, high-level conspiracy of shadows—and on the run not only from secrets and lies, but for their lives. Now, despite their history, they have only each other, and the desperate hope that love can keep them alive.


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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Review: Deadly Dreams by Kylie Brant

Title: Deadly Dreams
Series: Mindhunters
Author: Kylie Brant
Read copy: eBook
Published: April 5, 2011
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 1101481811
ISBN-13: 9781101481813

Risa Chandler's prescient dreams of death and murder haunted her nights. They also proved invaluable for Adam Raiker's brilliant team of forensic criminologists, the Mindhunters—until a tragic end to one case shattered Risa's confidence, and drove her into seclusion. But for Risa, there's no hiding from death—or from her dreams.

Though skeptical, Philadelphia homicide detective Nate McGuire enlists Risa's help in finding a serial killer who has claimed three victims. Reluctantly, she agrees. Because she's been dreaming again—rituals by fire, charred horrors, tortured screams. But Risa's feeling something else: the heat of a stranger who's watching her just as closely, a madman with dreams of his own—to make Risa his ultimate fiery sacrifice.


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Monday, December 26, 2016

Review: Deadly Intent by Kylie Brant

Title: Deadly Intent
Series: Mindhunters
Author: Kylie Brant
Read copy: eBook
Published: November 2, 2010
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 1101444878
ISBN-13: 9781101444870

No one knows the patterns and nuances of communication like forensic linguist Macy Reid. She is also an expert on kidnapping, having experienced firsthand the stark terror of being abducted when she was a child. So she is the perfect investigator to be called in when a Denver tycoon's eleven-year-old daughter is abducted—for the second time.

The biggest stumbling block for Macy may be a member of her own team: Kellan Burke, the wisecracking, rule-breaking investigator who relishes getting under Macy's skin. Their styles couldn't be more different; the attraction between them, more explosive. And when it becomes apparent that Macy can't solve this case without confronting the demons from her past, Kell is just the man to take her there—and back...


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Saturday, December 24, 2016

Review: Waking the Dead by Kylie Brant

Title: Waking the Dead
Series: Mindhunters
Author: Kylie Brant
Read copy: eBook
Published: November 3, 2009
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 1101151218
ISBN-13: 9781101151211

A KILLER IN THE WILDERNESS

Forensic anthropologist Caitlin Fleming knows bones. So she is the first one called when seven sets of skeletal remains are found dumped in a makeshift graveyard in the Oregon wilderness. The skeletons bear the same distinctive marks—and each is minus a skull.

Cait needs outdoor guide Zach Sharper for one reason only—to help her find her way through the Willamette Forest as she pieces together clues. Despite the attraction that burns between them, Cait will let nothing shake her focus. Until the killer closes in to terminate the search - and the investigators on the verge of unmasking him...


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Friday, December 23, 2016

Review: Waking Evil by Kylie Brant

Title: Waking Evil
Series: Mindhunters
Author: Kylie Brant
Read copy: eBook
Published: October 6, 2009
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 1101145250
ISBN-13: 9781101145258

A KILLER, A PROPHECY - AND THREE DEATHS FORETOLD

Buffalo Springs, Tennessee, is a neighborly kind of place where folks leave their doors unlocked and crime is unheard of. But once every generation, a strange red mist settles over the town, and with it comes omens of death...

When the body of a young woman is found, forensic investigator Ramsey Clark is called in. She knows about the legend of the mist and about the curse that has the entire town afraid of the dark. But Ramsey believes in evidence, not superstition, despite what she's told by the parapsychologist who's been dogging her every step. Then another murder rocks Buffalo Springs, and Ramsey begins to wonder if a killer is playing on everyone's fears or if a prophecy is indeed being fulfilled—one victim at a time.


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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Review: Waking Nightmare by Kylie Brant

Title: Waking Nightmare
Series: Mindhunters
Author: Kylie Brant
Read copy: eBook
Published: September 1, 2009
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 1101140011
ISBN-13: 9781101140017

FIRST HE LEARNS YOUR DARKEST FEARS...
THEN HE MAKES YOU LIVE THEM.


With a serial rapist loose on the streets of Savannah, hotshot detective Ryne Robel needs all the help he can get for his task force. And he needs it now, before another woman falls victim. But Abbie Phillips isn't what he bargained for. Sent from an exclusive group of the best criminologists in the country, she's smart, fierce...and distracting. She may be a brilliant forensic profiler, but Ryne needs answers, not psychobabble and head games.

However, Abbie convinces him that head games are exactly what this elusive suspect is all about. The seemingly random acts of torture are actually calculated to match each victim's darkest fears. And the stakes are rising. While they study the devious psychopath, he's watching them—the next objects of his horrifying obsession.


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Monday, December 19, 2016

Review: How to Become a Lady by Hannah West

Title: How to Become a Lady
Series: London Ladies
Author: Hannah West
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: December 19, 2016
Publisher: Hannah West
ASIN: B01M0JILUH

Emmaline Clarke, the daughter of a penniless baron with no influence, had been left behind once again. With her father's passing everything was taken to pay off the debt and she had been left without a place to live. Her only hope is her sister that she had not seen in eight years, her sister that her father had disowned when she was only fourteen. Desperate just to have a home is was willing to do anything, even beg for her sister to take her in.

Derek Ashford, the eighteenth Duke of Montrose, was a distinguished lord of the realm and was well known for being a paragon of society. He was as strait-laced and austere as a duke should be and held his duties above all else. And that 'else' included his impending duty of marriage. Derek would need to find a lady who came from good breeding, a sizeable dowry and the manner suited to a duchess this Season. The last thing he needed was a scandal like the one his parents had created.

The first time Emma walked into a ball she experienced something she never would have expected and could not imagine this would be the new world in which she lived.

The first lady to capture Derek's eye brushed him off and his interest was sparked. She seemed nothing like any other lady he had encountered in his years roaming the London Seasons and she sparked something in him he didn't even know he could feel.

Could Emma be his future Duchess or would she be the one to get away?


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