International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has spent the last five years gathering spellbinding stories from around the globe. These fifteen brand-new tales showcase Archer’s talent for capturing an unforgettable moment in time, whether tragic, comic, or outrageous.

Some of these stories will make you laugh while others will bring you to tears but, once again, every one of them will demand that you keep turning the page until you finally discover what happens to this remarkable cast of characters.

 Two words:  KAREN VAIL

Okay, more detail . . . ALAN JACOBSON’S KAREN VAIL

Virginia and I first met Alan Jacobson a couple of years ago when he came to the PNBA to promote The 7th Victim, his first Karen Vail novel.  Having read and thoroughly enjoyed the book I was anxious to meet him.  We met at the convention hotel prior to the event, and got to know him while he signed books for us.   Since that first meeting we have come to enjoy a friendship with Alan as I continue to be impressed with his work.

Last years Crush took FBI profiler Vail west to wine country as she gets pulled into a case involving a serial killer in Napa Valley.  Alan uses the wine industry, its people, and its locale as characters in the novel, bringing the story to life.  Crush concludes with the story still raging, with many questions unanswered.  Somewhat frustrating for the reader, but as Alan explained at the time, “the story was just too big to be told in one book.”

So I waited.  Yes, I waited a whole year.  A few weeks ago I received an advance copy of Velocity, and it was truly worth the wait.   I immediately decided that this series deserves special treatment, and that we needed to acknowledge Alan’s work in way to get you to read the first two Karen Vail mysteries, get sucked in . . . anxious for the third, and NOT have to wait a whole year to be rewarded by the finale.

We have designed a special limited production collector package that features all three Karen Vail mysteries housed in a specially designed slipcase with an exclusive introduction written by Alan Jacobson.   Subscribe now and we will immediately ship to you signed first edition copies of The 7th Victim and Crush so that you can start reading.  Early in October we will send you Velocity, Alan’s exclusive introduction, and the deluxe slipcase to house your collection.   These are books you must have, by an author you must come to know, offering stories and characters that will astonish you, in a format to grace your collection.   I spoke with Alan recently and he agreed to produce the video below to introduce this collection.  Please enjoy it and pass it on to other booklovers!

John

A new novel from New York Times bestseller Brown, full of her trademarks: tight plotting, breathless twists, edge-of-your-seat suspense, and sizzle.

Colleagues, friends, and lovers know Dodge Hanley as a private investigator who doesn’t let rules get in his way-in his private life as well as his professional one. If he breaks a heart, or bends the law in order to catch a criminal, he does so without hesitation or apology. That’s why he’s the first person Caroline King-who after a thirty-year separation continues to haunt his dreams-asks for help when a deranged stalker attempts to murder their daughter . . .the daughter Dodge has never met. He has a whole bagful of grudging excuses for wishing to ignore Caroline’s call, and one compelling reason to drop everything and fly down to Texas: guilt… (more…)

Anna Pigeon, a Ranger with the National Park Service, is newly married but on administrative leave from her job as she recovers from the traumas of the past couple of months. While the physical wounds have healed, the emotional ones are still healing. With her new husband back at work, Anna decides to go and stay with an old friend from the Park Service, Geneva, who works as a singer at the New Orleans Jazz NHP. She isn’t in town long before she crosses paths with a tenant of Geneva’s, a creepy guy named Jordan. She discovers what seems to be an attempt to place a curse on her-a gruesomely killed pigeon marked with runic symbols; and begins to slowly find traces of very dark doings… (more…)

Ms. Gardner took time from her tour schedule to visit with the staff at VJ Books.  Lisa was born in Oregon, and was escorted by her mother who still lives in the area.  “It’s always nice to visit with an author with roots in the northwest, especially one as celebrated as Lisa Gardner,” said Virginia Lenneville of VJ Books.  

Lisa Gardner is getting rave reviews for her newest thriller–Live to Tell–while at the same time celebrating last year’s hit, The Neighbor, which just was recognized as ITW’s Best Novel of The Year at Thrillerfest in New York City on July 10^th.  Beating out the likes of Harlan Coben, Linwood Barclay, Joseph Finder, and T. Jefferson Parker, she is the first woman to earn the prestigious award.  Both books currently hold positions on the NY Times List.

When a child is too sick and the parent can no longer handle care, the child ends up in the acute care facility under the tutelage of pediatric psych nurse Danielle, the lone survivor of… (more…)

Acclaimed internationally bestselling author Peter Robinson delivers a fast-paced, nail-biting thriller in which Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks must face his most challenging and personal case yet