Xepherus Reads

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,        Look For Me is written by Lisa Gardner, and is published by Penguin Random House under their Dutton Books imprint. In it, we are reunited with Flora Dane. One year after she was integral in saving college student Stacey Summers, Flora continues to seek out justice for those such as herself.  Across town there is a crack of bullets early in the morning, leaving a family of four gunned down in their Brighton home. The eldest daughter and the family's pet dogs are missing. Sergeant Detective D.D. Warren is reunited with Flora Dane, who offers to help the police find the missing girl, but D.D. is unsure if she can trust the vigilante.     But against her better judgment, D.D. accepts the woman's help. If she is going to find this family's murderer and their eldest daughter, she realizes that she may need help from an alternate source.  Together t...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       P lum Lovin' is published by St. Martin's Press and is set after the events of Twelve Sharp. The bail bonds agency Stephanie Plum works for is in a slump due to the cold weather. The only name on Cousin Vinnie's roster is Annie Hart: assault with a deadly weapon and armed robbery. Vinnie is getting ready for a cruise with his wife for Valentine's Day, and he is after Stephanie to bring Annie in since she has mysteriously disappeared. The thing is Annie is with Diesel. And Diesel has a proposal. If Stephanie can take Annie's caseload (Annie is a relationship expert) and find true love for Hart's clients, Diesel will hand Annie over to Stephanie for re-bonding. Oh, and he needs to track down an Unmentionable, named Bernie. Bernie's magical ability is the power to give people hives. Bernie is after Annie Hart because he believes she ruined his marr...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       Cross Her Heart is written by suspense writer, Melinda Leigh. It is published by Montlake Publishing, an imprint of Amazon. In this first book of a new series, we are introduced to homicide detective Bree Taggert. A survivor of horrific domestic violence, Bree worked hard to become a member of law enforcement. Estranged from her siblings, she tries to include them. Then one day she receives a desperate call from her sister, Erin. Driving to see her sister, Bree is met with the report that Erin has been murdered, possibly by her husband, Justin.    Teaming up with local authorities, Bree unofficially begins to investigate her sister's murder. With the help of Justin's former partner on the police force, Matt Flynn, Bree unravels the life of Erin. It is a life that eerily mirrors that of their mother, killed by their father when they were young. But the truth of Erin's death is...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,          Angels and Demons is the first novel in the Robert Langdon series of adventure novels written by Dan Brown. The edition that I read was published by Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. In it, we are introduced to Harvard Professor Robert Langdon. A somewhat famous symbologist, whose work on researching the Illuminati had in the past drawn him into the limelight of academia. Comfortable in his position as a Harvard professor, Langdon leads a quiet life lately.  Soon Langdon is en route to Geneva, Switzerland to meet with  Maximillian  Kohler at his CERN research facility.  A fellow scientist named Leonardo Vetra has been murdered. On the dead man's chest is branded the name Illuminati.    And upon inspection of the lab, it is discovered that a large sample of ...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       I See You is Mary Burton's second book of her Criminal Profiler series. In it, we are introduced to a disgraced reporter, Nikki McDonald. She is on the hunt for the story that will re-launch her career. But when a tip leads her to the remains of a long-dead girl, she may be in over her head. Enter Special Agent Zoe Spencer, whose job is to painstakingly reconstruct a likeness from skeletal remains. She is diligent in her work and soon the remains are identified as Marsha Prince, the daughter of a wealthy business owner, missing for many years. Prince's sister, Hadley Foster, had since moved on with her life, married and with a teenage daughter, Skylar.   Soon Zoe is reunited with a former lover, Detective William Vaughan, as the two are assigned the case. To complicate things a serial killer has seemingl...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       Written by Janet Evanovich and published by Bantam Publishing, Wicked Business picks up directly after the first novel. With the Gluttony Stone safely tucked away at the Bureau of Unmentionable Marshalls, the next stone to be found is the Stone of Lust. With an already heated attraction between her and her often arrogant partner, Diesel, Lizzy Tucker is not sure she wants to find the stone.     When a professor is thrown from the balcony of his high-rise apartment, all clues lead to the Luxuria Stone and a book of sonnets written decades prior. The book was owned by the professor and it has gone missing. Lizzy and Diesel have the key that opens the book and their sinister adversary, Wulf, has the book. Using information gathered all over Boston, Cambridge, and Salem, Massachusetts, the magical pair are on the trail of the Luxuria Stone.     This book zipped along at a very fast pace...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       The Trapped Girl is written by Robert Dugoni, and is published by Thomas and Mercer, an Amazon imprint. In it,  a terrifying discovery is made by a teenager illegally crabbing Puget Sound in Washington. Encased in a snagged crab pot are the remains of a woman, with a gunshot wound to the head. Upon further investigation, it is found that she had recently had plastic surgery. When Tracy Crosswhite and her A-Team of detectives take on the case, they begin to find more information on the woman. And from what they discover the woman appears to have been on the run. Soon Jane Doe's identity is revealed to be that of a woman named Lynn Hoff. But Lynn Hoff's face matches another woman that had been reported missing months prior during a hike on Mount Rainier.   To complicate matters further, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department has called jurisdiction on the case. Since the hiker went missing on Mount Rainier, t...