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  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       Touch and Go is written by Lisa Gardner. It is published by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Spinning off from the Detective Warren series, Tessa Leoni is now working as an investigator for Northledge Investigations. Her next assignment is to find out who kidnapped the CEO of Denbe Construction and his family. The family's expensive home is a fortress with state-of-the-art security, which begs the question: how did the kidnappers enter the home? If Justin and Libby Denbe and their teenage daughter, Ashlyn, are kidnapped for ransom, then why has there not been a demand for money?      Meanwhile hundreds of miles away in the wilds of Northern New Hampshire, Officer Wyatt Foster gets the call that there has been a kidnapping that may at one point entered his area. But Wyatt needs to see for himself where the family was taken and to meet the acting head o...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,     Right Behind You is the seventh book in Lisa Gardner's popular FBI Profiler series. It is published by Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.  This story begins eight years ago when Telly Ray Nash took a baseball bat to his father's head to save his little sister, Sharlah, from being murdered. With a mother and father lying dead in the family double-wide trailer, years of abuse had finally come to an end. Years later, w e return to Oregon and the lives of FBI Profilers Pierce Quincy and his wife, Rainie Connor. Their foster daughter is Sharlah Nash, who has grown up to be a very capable and caring teenager. Although she is still coping with the fractured memories of her parents' death, Sharlah is determined to be the best person she can be. Then one morning, several miles away, at the EZ Gas Station, a customer, and a store clerk are gunned down in cold blood. And at the end of the station's v...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,  The Girls in the Garden is published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster. In this slick mystery, we are introduced to the communities of Virginia Crescent and Virginia Terrace, two blocks of housing, shops, and centers encircling a massive park. Virginia Park has a playground, gardens, walking trails, and fields. It is a community that is closely knit, with many of the neighborhood kids playing together. It seems to be an ideal place to raise families, and many of the residents have been there since childhood.    One night, many months ago, Clare Wild's husband had a psychotic break and burned her family's house down. After his admittance into a psychiatric hospital, she took her girls, Pip and Grace, and moved to Virginia Terrace. As Clare and the girls become part of the community, Pip and Grace meet the other children. It seems like a seamless integration into the community. B...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,      The Neighbor is published by Bantam Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. It is the third novel in the Detective Warren series. In it, we are introduced to Jason and Sandra Jones, and their adorable little girl, Ree. Sandra is a school teacher and Jason is a reporter for the Boston Daily newspaper. They have split parenting into a "night and day" routine with Sandra as the night parent and Jason as the day parent. It is a well-worked formula that keeps Ree happy in her four-year-old mind.     But the happiness is short-lived when an unidentified intruder attacks and abducts Sandra on Wednesday night.  For Sergeant Detective D.D. Warren the craziest part of this case is Sandra's husband. He is quiet, cold, and has a set of eyes as black as midnight. He is able to turn his emotions off at will, which makes him the prime suspect in Warren's eyes....