(beckyworkman.blogspot.com, Dec 21, Becky Workman)
Funny book! An ex mob hit man in the witness protection program is placed at a hospital as a doctor. It’s viewed as his punishment for all the people that he’d killed while a part of the mob. The story is a 24 hour period where Dr. Brown is trying to save lives in the hospital while also trying to save his own. One of his patients recognizes him and Dr. Brown knows that his cover has been blown and that he will need to beat the reaper!
I enjoyed this book and found myself laughing at Dr. Brown’s predicament. It’s a comical approach to a suspensful thriller. There is a lot of medical terminology and description as well as adult language. Overall, it’s a quick and easy read, and quite enjoyable.
Get your copy at www.vjbooks.com!
(anneperry.net)
I was born in Blackheath, London England in October 1938.
I spent my earliest years moving around a bit during and immediately after the war. At aged six I was severely ill, so much so that the doctor told my mother he would be back in the morning to sign my death certificate.
However I had a lot more illness, and at eight I was sent to the Bahamas to live with a family who fostered me, and thus saved my life. After the Bahamas they moved to a private island off the coast of New Zealand, where I lived a Swiss Family (more…)
James Rollins is the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Judas Strain, Black Order, Map of Bones and other adventure thrillers. Rollins is also a veterinarian in Northern California, who when not writing or working in his veterinary practice, can often be found underground or underwater as an amateur spelunker and scuba diver. These hobbies have helped in the creation of his earlier books Subterranean, Deep Fathom, Amazonia, and Sandstorm.
The Judas Strain, a thriller that garnered rave reviews, including this comment from the Charleston Post-Courier, saying Rollins “invests…with his characteristic command of detail, along with a creeping dread.,” spent 5 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list — and broke onto international bestseller charts as well, proving that this riveting author has won countless numbers of new fans, both at home and abroad. Rollins’ previous thriller, Black Order was proclaimed by People Magazine as one of summer’s “hottest reads.” Map of Bones was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the most likely to win over Dan Brown’s faithful audience, and the New York Times rated the book as one the summer’s top crowd pleasers.
In 2008, Rollins also released
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a novelization of the long-awaited Lucasfilm sequel starring Harrison Ford.
See all James Rollins signed books at www.vjbooks.com
Hello friends!
2008 was a great year for books. We had the pleasure of bringing hundreds of new titles to you this year, and introducing you to dozens of new authors.
When it was suggested to make a list of our favorites and give you one last chance to add them to your collection, I found picking titles kind of like choosing between my children!
Of course all your favorites climbed the charts and we were proud to bring you new books by Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson, George Pelecanos, Janet Evanovich, Robert Crais, Clive Cussler, Jonathan Kellerman, Gregg Hurwitz, and all the other usual suspects.
So we have picked our favorites in ten different catagories. If you didn’t already pick these up, here’s your last chance to get them, and save 25%.
Looking ahead, we have already ordered titles for the first quarter of ’09. It promises to be another big year with exciting new authors making their first appearance in our store as well as new books from all the bestselling authors you’ve come to expect at VJ Books. Take a look at our Upcoming Titles to see what is ahead for 2009.
For now, grab these before they are gone!
Good reading,
John
Best New Author: Mark Alpert (Final Theory)
Best New Legal: James Scott Bell (Try Dying)
Best Psychological Thriller: Alan Jacobson (7th Victim)
Best Political Novel: Eric Van Lustbader (First Daughter)
Best Spy Novel: Dan Fesperman (The Amateur Spy)
Best Youth Novel: Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry (Science Fair)
Best from the UK: David Hewson (The Garden of Evil)
Best Movie Tie-in: James Rollins (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
John’s Top Pick: Joe Domenici (Bringing Back the Dead)
Best Anthology: Lee Child (Killer Year)
New Friend of VJ Books: Iris Johansen (Dark Summer)
Best Translation: Alnauldur Indridason (The Draining Lake)
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(The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 22, Matthew Kaminski)
Last year, a teenager in a trench coat shot to death five people in a crowded Salt Lake City shopping mall, before being gunned down himself by police. The story caught the writer Aleksandar Hemon‘s eye not for its horrible post-Columbine banality, but because of a detail about the shooter — he was a Bosnian Muslim refugee from Srebrenica, Europe’s bloodiest killing field since World War II. Without presuming to know the boy’s demons, Mr. Hemon, who fled Bosnia himself, notes that traumas of war and exile lurk deep inside.
In his recent novel, “The Lazarus Project,” a protagonist is a seemingly adjusted Bosnian-born writer in Chicago named Brik. But he is angry, says Mr. Hemon, like so many Bosnians who settle “for the comfortable mediocrity of their lives here” yet “have this sense of indelible loss.” Mr. Hemon is angry too. “My friends are scattered around the world, my family is scattered around the world,” he says. “Loss is not something you can (more…)
(southwalesargus.co.uk, Dec. 23, Jane Helmich)
ANOTHER sterling thriller featuring the Camel Club, a group of oddballs and misfits who manage to outwit, and outfight, the villains – even when they are purportedly on the right side of the law.
Although sadly missing one of their members, killed in a previous skirmish, and “Oliver Stone” going off on a one-man mission, the club are soon working together to help him and defeat the bad guys.
A typically convoluted but fascinating plot filled with conspiracies kept me riveted. Baldacci is a master story teller.
See all David Baldacci‘s books at www.vjbooks.com!
(examiner.com, Dec. 2, Michelle Kerns)
Bestselling author Patricia Cornwell‘s latest addition to her wildly popular Kay Scarpetta series, Scarpetta, goes on sale today, December 2nd, and boy, is it a doozy.
It’s been a year since we’ve seen Dr.Kay Scarpetta in action, and many of us Cornwell followers would rather forget our last encounter with Kay and her long time sidekick Pete Marino who broke the hearts of fans as well as the trust of many when he attempted to assault Kay in the 15th book of the (more…)
(www.gazette.com, Dec. 19, Joy Harper)
It’s coming – the big daddy of local literary events, the 2009 Pikes Peak Writers Conference (PPWC), April 23-26 at the Colorado Springs Marriott, 5580 Tech Center Drive.
Why think about something happening in April? Because the event usually sells out long before the early registration deadline. And for good reason. Recognized as one of the best writers confabs in the country, the PPWC is a three-day expedition into the world of multigenre, commercial fiction writing. It offers more than 40 genre-specific workshops, group networking and one-on-one interactions with editors and agents. It’s attended by writers from all over the country. Featured speakers include Jeffery Deaver, James N. Frey, Susan Mallery and Laura Resnick. Interview opportunities between writers and agents or editors will give attendees with completed manuscripts the chance to pitch their work. Critique sessions are also offered. An optional add-on day features a hands-on workshop.
Registration for PPW members is Jan. 15, with open registration starting Feb. 1. Fees for registration before April 1 are $295 for PPW members, $350 for nonmembers. After April 1, costs increase to $360 for members, $415 for nonmembers. Fees include materials, access to workshops and presentations, and meals. The extra workshop is $95.
For complete details or to register, visit www.pikespeakwriters.com, or call 531-5723.
George Mastras has worked as a criminal investigator for the public defender service, a counselor at a juvenile correctional facility, and a litigator in New York and Los Angeles. After ten years of practicing law, he quit his job, sold his belongings, and spent several years backpacking around the globe and trekking in the Himalayas, Karakorams, and Hindu Kush. Since returning to the United States, he has worked as a screenwriter and has written for several television series, including The Evidence, The Dresden Files, and currently the Emmy Award-winning drama Breaking Bad, for which he was nominated for a Writers Guild Award in 2008. George was awarded the competitive Disney-ABC Writing Fellowship for Television Drama in 2005. He lives in Los Angeles.
Get your signed copy of George Mastras‘s books at www.vjbooks.com!
(savvyreader.typepad.com, Nov. 28, Cathi Bond)
Bestselling author of the Richard Sharpe series, Bernard Cornwell, recently sat down with Cathi Bond to record a Prosecast episode about his new book, Azincourt. Read on to see what this king of historical fiction has to say about the battle that inspired his book, the weapons used, and what kind of research goes into his writing.
Cathi Bond Talks With Bernard Cornwell
Cathi Bond: Most of us have heard about the famous battle either from history class or Shakespeare’s Henry V. But I thought, why not start by asking if you could give us a quick historical primer about Azincourt.
Bernard Cornwell: Well, it’s really a terribly well known story because Agincourt is certainly famous in British history. It’s one of the few battles that everybody seems to know: Agincourt, Waterloo, and Trafalgar. It’s not just famous because of Shakespeare ([he] made it immortal) but it was so long before he wrote Henry V. The battle is famous because, above all, it was the victory of the few over the many. The story is how Henry V takes a small, but actually very good army to France, and then he messes up completely. His army gets sick and he loses about half his men to [the] sickness. He rather stubbornly decides that he’s going to march through France anyway, even though most of the advice he’s getting, and we know some of this, was saying if you do that you’re going to hit disaster. And it appears he does hit (more…)
