With the weather hot and humid it’s the perfect time to read something that gives you the chills. Here are just a few of the new books that have come in recently.
“The Memory Collector” by Meg Gardiner takes us to the San Francisco of Jo Beckett. Her specialty is psychological autopsy—an investigation into a person’s life to determine wh
ether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. She has dubbed herself a deadshrinker instead of a headshrinker. The silence is a key part of the job’s attraction. Her next case is that of an airline passenger that is behaving erratically and she figures out he has anteretrograde amnesia and can’t form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk and talk yet can’t help her figure out just what happened to him. For every cryptic clue he is able to drag up from his memory, Jo has to sift through a dozen nonsensical statements. Suddenly a string of clues arises—something to do with a superdeadly biological agent codenamed “Slick,” missing people and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realizes her patient’s addled mind may hold the key to prevent something from happening in her beloved San Francisco. In order to prevent it she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before, hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city and herself.
ether a death was natural, accidental, suicide, or homicide. She has dubbed herself a deadshrinker instead of a headshrinker. The silence is a key part of the job’s attraction. Her next case is that of an airline passenger that is behaving erratically and she figures out he has anteretrograde amnesia and can’t form new memories. Jo finds herself racing to save a patient who can walk and talk yet can’t help her figure out just what happened to him. For every cryptic clue he is able to drag up from his memory, Jo has to sift through a dozen nonsensical statements. Suddenly a string of clues arises—something to do with a superdeadly biological agent codenamed “Slick,” missing people and a secret partnership gone horribly wrong. Jo realizes her patient’s addled mind may hold the key to prevent something from happening in her beloved San Francisco. In order to prevent it she will have to get deeper into the life of a patient than she ever has before, hoping the truth emerges from the fog of his mind in time to save her city and herself.“Skeleton Justice” by Dr. Michael Baden & Linda K. Baden is set in New York City and fe
atures Dr. Jake Rosen and Manny Manfreda. A bizarre serial killer has emerged. He stalks his victims for the purpose of extracting a vial of blood, earning him the tabloid nickname the Vampire. As the attacks become more and more vicious and escalate to torture and then to murder, Jake and Manny begin t suspect there is a connection between the killer’s seemingly random victims. But what is the link between the Vampire and a case that Manny’s been working for a kid whose high school prank-gone-wrong has earned him the moniker the Preppy Terrorist and an FBI electronic bracelet? Jake’s careful forensic examinations, Manny’s courtroom tenaciousness, and an unusual clue suggesting that a high-ranking politician has risen from the grave take the pair from the bowels of the morgue to the worlds of international intrigue.
“Dismantled” by Jennifer McMahon introduces us to Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz, who banded together in college to form a group called the Compassionate Dismantlers. Following the
first rule of their manifesto—“To understand the nature of a thing it must be taken apart”—these daring misfits spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin the Vermont woods committing acts of meaningful vandalism and plotting elaborate, often dangerous, pranks. But everything changes when one particularly twisted experiment ends in Suz’s death and the others decide to cover it up. Nearly a decade later, Henry and Tess are living just an hour’s drive from the old cabin. Each is desperate to move on from the summer of the Dismantlers but their guilt isn’t ready to let them go. When a victim of their past pranks commits suicide—apparently triggered by a mysterious Dismantler-style postcard—it sets off a chain of eerie events that threatens to engulf Henry, Tess, and their inquisitive nine-year-old daughter, Emma. Is there someone who wants to reveal their secrets? Is it possible that Suz did not really die—or has she somehow found a way back to seek revenge?
atures Dr. Jake Rosen and Manny Manfreda. A bizarre serial killer has emerged. He stalks his victims for the purpose of extracting a vial of blood, earning him the tabloid nickname the Vampire. As the attacks become more and more vicious and escalate to torture and then to murder, Jake and Manny begin t suspect there is a connection between the killer’s seemingly random victims. But what is the link between the Vampire and a case that Manny’s been working for a kid whose high school prank-gone-wrong has earned him the moniker the Preppy Terrorist and an FBI electronic bracelet? Jake’s careful forensic examinations, Manny’s courtroom tenaciousness, and an unusual clue suggesting that a high-ranking politician has risen from the grave take the pair from the bowels of the morgue to the worlds of international intrigue.“Dismantled” by Jennifer McMahon introduces us to Henry, Tess, Winnie, and Suz, who banded together in college to form a group called the Compassionate Dismantlers. Following the
first rule of their manifesto—“To understand the nature of a thing it must be taken apart”—these daring misfits spend the summer after graduation in a remote cabin the Vermont woods committing acts of meaningful vandalism and plotting elaborate, often dangerous, pranks. But everything changes when one particularly twisted experiment ends in Suz’s death and the others decide to cover it up. Nearly a decade later, Henry and Tess are living just an hour’s drive from the old cabin. Each is desperate to move on from the summer of the Dismantlers but their guilt isn’t ready to let them go. When a victim of their past pranks commits suicide—apparently triggered by a mysterious Dismantler-style postcard—it sets off a chain of eerie events that threatens to engulf Henry, Tess, and their inquisitive nine-year-old daughter, Emma. Is there someone who wants to reveal their secrets? Is it possible that Suz did not really die—or has she somehow found a way back to seek revenge?“Roadside Crosses” by Jeffrey Deaver is the third in the High-Tech Thriller Trilogy. The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways—not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill, and to kill in 
particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they’ve carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites. The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation’s foremost kinesics expert. She and Deputy Michael O’Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in MMORPGs, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims, some of whom Kathryn is able to save, some not. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians, paranoid parents, and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance’s career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take desperate and risky measures.
particularly horrific and efficient ways: using the personal details about the victims that they’ve carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking websites. The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation’s foremost kinesics expert. She and Deputy Michael O’Neil follow the leads to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. As the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes. Using techniques he learned as a brilliant participant in MMORPGs, he easily eludes his pursuers and continues to track his victims, some of whom Kathryn is able to save, some not. Among the obstacles Kathryn must hurdle are politicians, paranoid parents, and the blogger himself, James Chilton, whose belief in the importance of blogging and the new media threatens to derail the case and potentially Dance’s career. It is this threat that causes Dance to take desperate and risky measures."The Neighbor” by Lisa Gardner opens when a young, pretty mother disappears without
a trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her handsome, secretive husband as her prime suspect. But from the moment Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren arrives at the Joneses’ snug little bungalow, she senses something off about the picture of wholesome normality the couple worked so hard to create. On the surface, Jason and Sandra Jones were like any other hardworking young couple raising a child. But just under the surface things grew murkier. With the clock ticking on the life of a missing woman and the media firestorm building, Jason Jones seems more intent on destroying evidence and isolating his daughter than searching for his “beloved” wife. Is the perfect husband trying to hide his guilt—or just trying to hide? And will the only witness to the crime be the killer’s next victim?
a trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her handsome, secretive husband as her prime suspect. But from the moment Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren arrives at the Joneses’ snug little bungalow, she senses something off about the picture of wholesome normality the couple worked so hard to create. On the surface, Jason and Sandra Jones were like any other hardworking young couple raising a child. But just under the surface things grew murkier. With the clock ticking on the life of a missing woman and the media firestorm building, Jason Jones seems more intent on destroying evidence and isolating his daughter than searching for his “beloved” wife. Is the perfect husband trying to hide his guilt—or just trying to hide? And will the only witness to the crime be the killer’s next victim?
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