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This Week’s New Releases: 23/11/09 ~ 29/11/09
by Carolyn • Posted in This Week's New Releases
There are some great books being released in the UK this week (most are out in the US I think). I’ve only managed to select a few, mainly the books I’m interested in 
but I’m sure you’ll all agree, they all sound fab! All links go to Goodreads, incase you want to add any to your shelves.
but I’m sure you’ll all agree, they all sound fab! All links go to Goodreads, incase you want to add any to your shelves.
Skin Trade (Anita Blake #17)
Laurell K Hamilton
(Headline Review)
Publication Date: 26 Nov 2009
Paperback: 608 pages
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Summary (Goodreads)
When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City’s local authorities what they’re dealing with. Only it’s worse than she thought. Ten officers and one executioner have been slain—paranormal style. Anita heads to Vegas, where’s she’s joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward. It’s a good thing he always has her back, because when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses “tiger” too strongly to ignore it. The weretigers are very powerful in Las Vegas, which means the odds of her rubbing someone important the wrong way just got a lot higher.
Simon Clark (Leisure Books)
Publication Date: 24 Nov 2009
Paperback: 320 pages
Genre: Horror
Summary (Goodreads)
Pel Minton is opening graves in a cemetery for an archaeological dig, but this particular cemetery contains a disturbing portrait which is known by local children as ‘The Ghost Monster.’ For centuries this grim image has imprisoned the spirit of Justice Murrain and his vicious gang of misfits, but soon these sadists will enjoy the darkest of pleasures…A chef carves human flesh with a pizza cutter. A laughing thug films his own death-dive from a cliff. People binge on mayhem, fighting until streets run with blood. These are the Possessed. Death will not stop them…
Kathryn Fox (Hodder Books)
Publication Date: 26 Nov 2009
Paperback: 352 pages
Genre: Medical Thriller
Summary (Goodreads)
A teenager is found barely alive by the roadside, bleeding from her slit throat. The police can’t even begin to imagine the horrors she has faced. For inside their house lies the girl’s older sister: brutally tortured, raped and stabbed to death. As the girl struggles for survival, forensic scientist Anya Crichton is brought in to examine the evidence, all of which points towards a well-known family of career criminals. However, it soon becomes clear that they will stop at nothing to evade the law. Even if others have to die.
Daryl Gregory (Del Ray Books)
Publication Date: 24 Nov 2009
Paperback: 400 pages
Genre: Horror
Summary (Goodreads)
Switchcreek was a normal town in eastern Tennessee until a mysterious disease killed a third of its residents and mutated most of the rest into monstrous oddities. Then, as quickly and inexplicably as it had struck, the disease–dubbed Transcription Divergence Syndrome (TDS)–vanished, leaving behind a population divided into three new branches of humanity: giant gray-skinned argos, hairless seal-like betas, and grotesquely obese charlies.
Paxton Abel Martin was fourteen when TDS struck, killing his mother, transforming his preacher father into a charlie, and changing one of his best friends, Jo Lynn, into a beta. But Pax was one of the few who didn’t change. He remained as normal as ever. At least on the outside. Having fled shortly after the pandemic, Pax now returns to Switchcreek fifteen years later, following the suicide of Jo Lynn. What he finds is a town seething with secrets, among which murder may well be numbered. But there are even darker–and far weirder–mysteries hiding below the surface that will threaten not only Pax’s future but the future of the whole human race...
J. R. Ward (Piatkus Books)
Publication Date: 26 Nov 2009
Paperback: 736 pages
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Summary (Goodreads)
Rehvenge, as a half-breed symphath, is used to living in the shadows and hiding his true identity. As a club owner and a dealer on the black market, he’s also used to handling the roughest nightwalkers around – including the members of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. He’s kept his distance from the Brotherhood as his dark secret could make things complicated on both sides – but now, as head of the vampire aristocracy, he’s an ally that Wrath, the Blind King, desperately needs. Rehv’s secret is about to get out, though, which will land him in the hands of his deadly enemies – and test the mettle of his female, turning her from a civilian into a vigilante..
Kelly Gray (Pocket Books)
Publication Date: 26 Nov 2009
Paperback: 416 pages
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Summary (Goodreads)
Divorced mother of one, Charlie Madigan, lives in a world where the beings of heaven and hell exist among us, and they aren’t the things of Sunday school lessons and Hallmark figurines. In the years since the Revelation, they’ve become our co-workers, neighbors, and fellow citizens.
Charlie works for ITF (Integration Task Force). It’s her job to see that the continued integration of our new “friends” goes smoothly and everyone obeys the law, but when a new off-world drug is released in Underground Atlanta, her daughter is targeted, and her ex-husband makes a fateful bargain to win her back, there’s nothing in heaven or earth (or hell for that matter) that Charlie won’t do to set things right..
Caleb (Shadow Wranglers #1)
Sarah McCarty (Berkley US)
Publication Date: 26 Nov 2009
Paperback: 392 pages
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Summary (Goodreads)
Meet three sexy ranchers-who also happen to be vampires-in the first of a new series by the national bestselling author of Wild Instinct.
Allie always desired mysterious, sexy rancher Caleb Johnson, but he never seemed to notice her. Until the night she’s attacked by a vicious animal, and rescued by a shapeshifting vampire that she almost seems to recognize: the baritone growl, the mesmerizing eyes, the inexplicable animal attraction. That’s because her savior is Caleb, and now he has no choice but to bring Allie into the shadows with him-to protect her from a rival werewolf pack, and to finally reveal his true feelings for the woman he’s been afraid to love.
Mary Naylus (Prospera)
Publication Date: 27 Nov 2009
Paperback: 238 pages
Genre: Historical Fantasy, YA
Summary (Goodreads)
Picky’s Mum forces her to look after Gran, who has dementia, she is accidentally locked in Gran’s dusty old attic. There she finds a chest full of old clothes, and tomboy Picky is forced to don what appears to be a ball-gown when the freezing night temperatures hit. As soon as the dress is pinned together, Picky is transported back to the year 1700, where a man who appears to know her as Amelia is trying to kill her. Managing to get the dress off just in time, Picky returns to the present with the dress covered in blood. Did the man kill the girl called Amelia? Will wearing the other dresses in the chest take her back in time too? And will she be in danger again should she try it?
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I must say the cover of Caleb is tempting ;0
Thanks for the list.
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Believe it or not, I have never read and LKH or JRW. They are on my list, but I just never got there.
Elie (Ellz Readz)
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Being in the UK too, I'll have to look into that Skin Trade one! I have slacked on that series lately, but will definitely add it to my TBR list.
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skin trade and lover avenged are so awesome!!!
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I'm really looking forward to The Devil's Alphabet by Daryl Gregory. I read his first book, Pandemonium, and loved it. He is a brilliant writer with a very unique voice.
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That must be the paperback Skin Trade because i've had it for a few months.
It's blummin good
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I've been meaning to read the Anita Blake series for years. Is it good?
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Hi Jenny, I would say it's definitely worth it. I love the series, although I only read up until book 11, so I have a bit of catch up to do – you should join my Anita Blake Challenge
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Caleb looks and sounds good…adding to my TBR. I am thinking of starting the Anita Blake books, too. Maybe I will join your challenge. I've been challenge happy lately! LOL
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Enjoy the Dresskeeper. I did.
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Hi
Thank you for the post & for the covers & links too.
All the best,
RKCharron
xoxo
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Excited about Better part of Darkness. I swore off LKH at Obsidian…LOL
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Thanks for putting the good reads link made it so simply to add to my to read list!
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so u think anita blake now is good cause i got the impression that u don't like the late anita books
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I don't think I've ever given that impression as I have only read up to book 11, so I wouldn't have commented that they were bad. I may have said I had heard that they weren't as good, but I shall see when I read them for myself
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