VJ Books has received: Rita Mae Brown  - Cat of the Century, James Patterson - 9th Judgment, Iris Johansen - Eight Days To Live, David Baldacci - Deliver Us From Evil, Dan Wells - I Am Not A Serial Killer, and Brian Freeman - The Burying Place.

A Book Review from David in California!

One of the rare books that has you rooting for a bad guy (in this case a career burglar) Absolute Power follows a path that starts out intriguing and ends up exciting. Baldacci writes about the secret service and has sufficient knowledge to convince the reader that he may have, at one time, served himself.

Not the pulse pounding thriller that others of the genre may be, but a very well written, well developed storyline.

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VJ Books has just received:  Ridley Pearson and Dave Barry - Peter and the Sword of Mercy,  Louise Penny - The Brutal Telling,  David Baldacci - True Blue.

Here’s a look at Publisher’s Weekly fiction bestsellers as we reach the half-year.  It’s become increasingly hard of late for authors to hold onto the #1 spot, but this year seems tougher still.  Of the 18 authors who have nabbed that perch, only three - John Grisham, The Associate; Janet Evanovich, Plum Spooky; and Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care - have exceeded a week’s stay.  Such bestseller veterans as Michael Connelly, James Patterson, Harlan Coben, Mary Higgins Clark and others have managed only one week on top.  Of this year’s fiction newcomers, the five longest-running tenures to date are David Baldacci (First Family, nine weeks and counting); James Patterson (Run for Your Life, nine weeks); James Patterson (The 8th Confession, seven weeks); Maeve Binchy (Heart and Soul, seven weeks) and W.E.B. Griffin (Black Ops, seven weeks).

(Publisher’s Weekly, June 29)

“People think of the First Family as being in a bubble, but the President and First Lady have family outside the bubble.  I’ve never written about this extended family until now.  I also go way outside the power corridors of Washington.  All the way to an antebellum plantation inthe Deep South.  It’s David versus Goliath only not in the way you think.”

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(Publisher’s Weekly, May 18)

Every year,the International Thriller Writers organization has a gala readers/writers event called THRILLERFEST. This year, it is again taking place at the Grand Hyatt hotel in New York City. Featured guests include David Baldacci, Sandra Brown, Robin Cook, Brad Meltzer, and Katherine Neville. Lee Child, Steve Barry, James Rollins, Gayle Lynds, and a host of other thriller luminaries will be there for the entire four days and very accessible. At this year’s THRILLERFEST the ITW will present David Morrell with its prestigious THRILLERMASTER award for his long career in which he devoted himself to extending the idea of what a thriller can be. Previous recipients include Clive Cussler, James Patterson, and Sandra Brown. For details, please go to http://thrillerwriters.org and click on “ThrillerFest.”

John and Virginia from VJ Books are planning on being there!

(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar 30)

Plenty of intense action drives bestseller Baldacci’s stellar fourth novel to feature former Secret Service agents Michelle Maxwell and Sean King (after Simple Genius). Maxwell and King, D.C. PIs, step on the toes of everyone, including the FBI and the Secret Service. They even manage to bruise the ego of First Lady Jane Cox, who hires them after her 12-year-old niece is kidnapped following a birthday party at Camp David. Baldacci excels at making the improbable believable as one obsessed man, 62-year-old Sam Quarry, takes on the best security the U.S. can muster from his Alabama redoubt. Even more impressive than Quarry’s determined campaign is the ingeniousness with which Baldacci manages to disguise both Quarry’s precise motivation and aims. Meanwhile, Maxwell has to deal with her mother’s death and a host of other personal issues. Baldacci’s careful plotting and confidant depictions of national security procedures make this a thinking man’s thriller. (Apr. 21)

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(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 23, by Dermot McEvoy and Michael Coffey )

Familiar voices crowd the top in fiction; in nonfiction, the fundamental rules apply—plus all things Obama

John Grisham’s aptly titled Appeal had the most of it, as far as the novel-buying reading public went, earning the #1 slot on our hardcover fiction list last year—just enough to beat out the beloved Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski, which sold 1.3 million. Our top 15 fiction titles this year look much like last year’s, with the notable absence of Khaled Hosseini, who was top dog in ‘07. The prolific James Patterson racked up three in the top echelon, and Nicholas Sparks, Patricia Cornwell, Dean Koontz and David Baldacci made returns. The new kids on the block, in addition to Wroblewski, were Stephenie Meyer, seamlessly crossing over from the YA genre with The Host, and Glenn Beck, whose Christmas Sweater apparently warmed the hearts of his faithful. (more…)

(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 9)

The Whole Truth (copies in print:  1,066,000) leads off a roster of 12 new mass market arrivals - the highest number since March 12, 2007, when a lucky 13 newbies landed. There are 65 million copies of Baldacci’s books in print in 40+ languages an din mor ethan 85 countires.  A stickler for realism, Baldacci is one of only a handful of authors contacted by top government agencies to help them theorize potential terrorist scenarios.  Coming on April21 is his next hardcover, First Family.

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