The International Thriller Writers (ITW) ™   latest release of Thriller 2:  Stories You Just Can’t Put Down (2009: Mira) brings offerings by top thriller writers.  From Jeffery Deaver’s tale of international terrorism to Lisa Jackson’s dysfunctional family in the California wine country, this collection has something for everyone.

Twenty-three bestselling and hot new authors in the genre have submitted original stories to make up this unforgettable blockbuster event; edited by the Grandmaster himself, Clive Cussler. 

The Norwood Press limited edition is signed by all 23 contributing authors and Clive Cussler.  “This edition is one of our finest editions” reports John Hutchinson of Norwood Press.  “It is a special limited numbered edition in deluxe cloth binding, foil stamped, marbled paper boards and matching slipcase.  For the book collector, knowing that it is strictly limited to 150 copies hand-signed by each of the 24 contributing authors makes it a tremendous addition to any book collection.”

For a limited time, free with your purchase of Thriller 2 Limited Numbered edition, you will receive the Norwood Press signed limited edition chapbook of Serial, the new thriller novella by Blake Crouch and Jack Kilborn (aka J.A. Konrath). 

The Norwood Press limited edition of Thriller 2:  Stories You Just Can’t Put Down is available for $139.99, or the trade edition, signed by Clive Cussler at $29.99 can be found at http://www.vjbooks.com/SearchResults.asp?Search=thriller+2.  Quantities are limited.

The Return: Book IV of Voyagers

Venerable SF author Bova returns to his Voyagers series after nearly two decades with this clumsy mashup of wildly different universes. Relativistic star flight has somehow catapulted Keith Stoner, Jo Camerata and their children, Cathy and Rick, to a parallel universe. Bova fans will recognize the setting of the Grand Tour series (most recently 2008′s Mars Life), but to Keith and Jo, it is alien and seems to be doomed by environmental and cultural issues. Leaving his family to secretly tour the Earth, Keith finds a willing ally in engineer Tavalera, but their joint efforts to prevent human extinction are opposed by the shortsighted and authoritarian New Morality government. Bova’s decision to merge two unrelated sets of books is baffling, and Keith’s arrogant machinations transform the Grand Tour universe in ways that its fans are unlikely to appreciate. (Publisher’s Weekly, June

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Now in Stock – VJ Books has received The Lost Throne, 9 Dragons by Michael Connelly, Evidence by Jonathan Kellerman, The Price of Malice by Archer Mayor, and The Professional by Robert Parker.

Ellroy concludes the scorching trilogy begun with 1995′s American Tabloid with a crushing bravura performance. As ever, his sentences are gems of concision, and his characters—many of whom readers will remember from The Cold Six Thousand and from American history classes—are a motley crew of grotesques often marked by an off-kilter sense of honor: stone bad-asses, in other words, though the women are stronger than the men who push the plot.

The violence begins with an unsolved 1964 L.A. armored car heist that will come to have major repercussions later in the novel, as its effects ripple outward from a daring robbery into national and international affairs. There’s Howard Hughes’s takeover of Las Vegas, helped along by Wayne Tedrow Jr., who’s working for the mob. The mob, meanwhile, is scouting casino locations in Central America and the Caribbean, and working to ensure Nixon defeats Humphrey in the 1968 election. Helping out is French-Corsican mercenary Mesplede, who first appeared in Tabloid as the shooter on the grassy knoll and who now takes under his wing Donald Crutchfield, an L.A. peeping Tom/wheelman (based, curiously, on a real-life private eye). Mesplede and Crutchfield eventually set up shop in the Dominican Republic, where the mob begins casino construction and Mesplede and Crutchfield run heroin from Haiti to raise money for their rogue nocturnal assaults on Cuba. In the middle and playing all sides against one another is FBI agent Dwight Holly, who has a direct line to a rapidly deteriorating J. Edgar Hoover (“the old girl”) and a tormented relationship with left-wing radical Karen Sitakis, and, later, Joan Klein, whose machinations bring the massive plot together and lead to more than one death. Though the book isn’t without its faults (Crutchfield discovers a significant plot element because “something told him to get out and look”; Wayne’s late-book transformation is too rushed), it’s impossible not to read it with a sense of awe. The violence is as frequent as it is extreme, the treachery is tremendous, and the blending of cold ambition and colder political maneuvering is brazen, all of it filtered through diamond-cut prose. It’s a stunning and crazy book that could only have been written by the premier lunatic of American letters. (Sept.)

VJ Books is taking orders for signed 1st editions of Blood’s a Rover by James Ellroy

VJ Books has received: 13 1/2 by Nevada Barr, Level 26 by Anthony E. Zuiker, The Night Monster by James Swain, Stardust by Joseph Kanon, The Fourth Realm Trilogy by John Twelve Hawks, Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby, The Gates by John Connolly, Fifty Grand by Adrian McKinty, and The Hidden by Man by David Ellis .

VJ Books has received: The Return by Ben Bova, Meg: Hell’s Aquarium by Steve Alten, The Magic Thief Book 2: Lost by Sarah Prineas

Fourth Realm Trilogy

A world that exists in the shadows of our own.
A conflict we will never see.
A frantic race to save a long-lost Traveler.
An epic battle for freedom.

In 2005 we introduced you to John Twelve Hawks, or simply JXIIH. The Traveler, the first installment in The Fourth Realm Trilogy was a runaway bestseller with signed copies limited to 777. High demand for this edition drove prices into the stratosphere. The author proved to be as mysterious as his novel, “living off the grid,” granting no access and only limited interviews from an untraceable satellite phone.

Moving from the back alleys of Prague to the heart of Los Angeles, from the high deserts of Arizona to a guarded research facility in New York, THE TRAVELER explores a parallel world that exists alongside our own. John Twelve Hawks’s stunningly suspenseful debut is an international publishing sensation that marks the arrival of a major new talent.

Two years later JXIIH returns with volume two, The Dark River. Once again signed copies were limited to 777, with prices quickly climbing.

A mesmerizing return to the places and people so richly portrayed in The Traveler, THE DARK RIVER is propelled by edge-of-the-seat suspense and haunted by a vision of a world where both hope and freedom are about to disappear.

This year brings the conclusion of the trilogy with the release of The Golden City. Random House has kept us guessing for months whether we would receive our order for this book. We recently got confirmation reliable enough for us to begin taking orders for signed copies of this book. We are not sure of the quantity of the signed copies, but are confident it will remain small.

The thrilling third book in John Twelve Hawks’s Fourth Realm trilogy, THE GOLDEN CITY is packed with the knife-edge tension, intriguing characters, and startling plot twists that made The Traveler and The Dark River international hits. John Twelve Hawks’s previous novels about the mystical Travelers and the Brethren, their ruthless enemies, generated an extraordinary following around the world.

In anticipation of the conclusion of this trilogy, we set aside a carton of signed/numbered/stamped JXIIH of both THE TRAVELER and THE DARK RIVER. After adding copies of THE GOLDEN CITY to the first two books we have had all three books housed in a deluxe slipcase and are offering them as a complete set.

With prices for THE TRAVELER and THE DARK RIVER approaching $500 each, and the market price for THE GOLDEN CITY yet to be established, our exclusive complete set in a beautiful slipcase is priced at $777. Only twelve, appropriately, sets exist.

Now In Stock – Juliet, Naked.  See it here