In My Mailbox (#35)

Goodreads Summary:

Demon hunter Maxine Kiss wears her armor as tattoos, which unwind from her body to take on forms of their own at night. They stand between her and her enemies, just as Maxine stands between humanity and the demons breaking out from behind the prison veils. It is a life lacking in love, reveling in death, until one moment—and one man—changes everything.

Frostbitten (Women of the Otherworld #10)

Kelley Armstrong (Orbit)

Publication Date: 13 May 2010

Paperback: 405 pages

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Goodreads Summary:

When word comes of a series of humans apparently killed by wolves near Anchorage, Elena and Clay are sent to check things out. But they find more than they bargained for among the snow and trees of the savage Alaskan wilderness.

A Licence To Steal

Samantha Graves (Piatkus)

Publication Date: 27 May 2010

Paperback: 303 pages

Genre: Paranormal Adventure

(I made this up as can’t find category)

Press Release:

Ravel Callahan Doesn’t do it for the money. She does it for the thrills. As a consultant for API, an art recovery company, she gets to steal – legally – with the help of a rare psychic power that lets her read the emotions locked inside ancient objects. But when her colleague is kidnapped during an assignment, Raven is forced to steal a priceless masterpiece to save him. ESP takes a backseat to quick wits, steely nerves and the lethal skill she needs to survive.

David ‘Dax’ Maddox was the perfect street cop – until a botched burglary raid cost his partner his life and Dax his ability to see colour. Now, with his world grey, Dax has only one mission: to take down the murderer. And he’ll use anyone – even a sexy thief with questionable ethics – to get justice.

Are the criminals they see one and the same? If so, Dax and Raven’s growing need for each other could inspire a madman’s terrifying scheme for the ultimate revenge…

Crawlers

Sam Enthoven (Corgi)

Publication Date: 1 April 2010

ARC: 264 pages

Genre: Horror

Reading Level: Young Adult

Amazon Summary:

Ben is on a school trip. So is Jasmine. What they don’t know is that not everybody in the theatre is there to watch the play and, in fact, they’ll never get to see it …

There is panic at the Barbican when the fire alarms start wailing, but the strangely silent theatre staff, trap them inside the building rather than letting them out to safety. Ben, Jasmine and their classmates soon discover that there’s no fire – what’s happening is much weirder, and much scarier.

Strange spider-like creatures swarm through the building attacking people and turning them into vicious killers, and the kids have to run for their lives. But barricaded in an office, with these creatures waiting outside for them, the children realise they’re stuck. Will they ever get out? And, more importantly can they trust each other?

First Lord’s Fury (The Codex Alera #6)

Jim Butcher (Orbit)

Publication Date: 13 May 2010

Paperback: 691 pages

Genre: Fantasy

Goodreads Summary:

The concluding book in the thrilling New York Times bestselling series.

For years he has endured the endless trials and triumphs of a man whose skill and power could not be restrained. Battling ancient enemies, forging new alliances, and confronting the corruption within his own land, Gaius Octavian became a legendary man of war—and the rightful First Lord of Alera.

But now, the savage Vord are on the march, and Gaius must lead his legions to the Calderon Valley to stand against them—using all of his intelligence, ingenuity, and furycraft to save their world from eternal darkness.

The Ambassador’s Mission (Traitor Spy #1)

Trudi Cavanan (Orbit)

Publication Date: 13 May 2010

Hardback: 592 pages

Genre: Fantasy

Goodreads Summary:

Sonea, former street urchin, now a Black Magician of Kyralia, is horrified when her son, Lorkin, volunteers to assist Dannyl in his new role as Guild Ambassador to Sachaka, a land still ruled by cruel black magicians. When word comes that Lorkin has gone missing Sonea is desperate to find him, but if she leaves the city she will be exiled forever, and her old friend Cery needs her help. Most of his family has been murdered. The Thieves have been waging a deadly underworld war for years, and now it appears they have been doing so with magical assistance …

The Pull of the Moon

Diane Janes (Robinson)

Publication Date: 3 May 2010

Paperback: 336 pages

Genre: Psychological Suspense

Goodreads Summary:

Knowledge is power, but secrets are more powerful still…secrets have a life of their own and a way of working themselves to centre stage. When Kate Mayfield receives a letter from Mrs Ivanisovic, she realises that the secret she has kept for more than thirty years is not so safe as she imagined. Haunted by the echoes of a vanished summer which changed her life for ever, Kate is forced to confront memories she would rather forget…a dead white face in a flickering beam, not flinching when the soil hit it…Mrs Ivanisovic is dying and demands to be told the truth, but is Kate’s story of love, lies and murder really what Mrs Ivanisovic wants to hear? And how much does she herself already know?

Murder in the Latin Quarter (Aimee Ludec Detective #6)

Cara Black (Robinson)

Publication Date: 17 May 2010

Paperback: 368 pages

Genre: Crime

Amazon Summary:

Aimee finds herself entangled with murders on the Rive Gauche…A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aimee’s sister, her father’s illegitimate daughter. Aimee is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother’s disappearance and her father’s death, she has always wanted a sister. Her partner, Rene, is wary of this stranger, but Aimee embraces her and soon finds herself involved in murky Haitian politics, which leads to murder in Paris’ bohemian Latin quarter.

Unhooking the Moon

Gregory Hughes (Quercus)

Publication Date: 6 May 2010

Paperback: 240 pages

Genre: ?

Reading Level: 10+

Amazon Summary:

Meet the Rat: A dancing, football-playing gangster-baiting ten-year-old. When she foresaw her father’s death, she picked up her football and decided to head for New York. Meet her older brother Bob: Protector of the Rat, but more often her follower, he is determined to find their uncle in America and discover a new life for them both. On their adventures across the flatlands of Winnipeg and through the exciting streets of New York, Bob and the Rat make friends with a hilarious con man and a famous rap star, and escape numerous dangers. But is their Uncle a rich business man, or is the word on the street, that he something more sinister, true? And will they ever find him?

The Glass Demon

Helen Grant (Penguin)

Publication Date: 6 May 2010

Paperback: 240 pages

Genre: Thriller/Ghost (?)

Reading Level: Young Adult

Goodreads Summary:

The first death: Seventeen-year-old Lin Fox finds a body in an orchard. As she backs away in horror, she steps on broken glass. The second death: Then blood appears on her doorstep – blood, and broken glass.The third death: Something terrible is found in the cemetery. Shards of broken glass lie by a grave.Who will be next? As the attacks become more sinister, Lin doesn’t know who to trust. She’s getting closer to the truth behind these chilling discoveries, but with each move the danger deepens. Because someone wants Lin gone – and won’t give up until he’s got rid of her and her family. Forever.

The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker

Leanna Renee Hieber (Dorchester Publishing)

Publication Date: 27 May 2010

Paperback: 321 pages

Genre: Historical/Fantasy Romance

Goodreads Summary:

With radiant, snow white skin and hair, Percy Parker was a beacon for Fate. True love had found her, in the tempestuous form of Professor Alexi Rychman. But her mythic destiny was not complete. Accompanying the ghosts with which she alone could converse, new and terrifying omens loomed. A war was coming, a desperate ploy of a spectral host. Victorian London would be overrun. Yet, Percy kept faith. Within the mighty bastion of Athens Academy, alongside The Guard whose magic shielded mortals from the agents of the Underworld, she counted herself among friends. Wreathed in hallowed fire, they would stand together, no matter what dreams or nightmares—may come.

Stay With Me

Jessica Blair (Piatkus)

Publication Date: 27 May 2010

Paperback: 368 pages

Genre: Romance/Saga