Welcome to another Good e-Reader eBook Preview for books coming out in April 2011. April this year is kicking off the official season of Spring and many people are roving outside in the sun. Why not load up some new books for your e-reader and take it out on the go? Today we are listing off the essential April 2011 reading list. We cover all of the genres such as Paranormal, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery and many more! Of course, with our previews we only look at Fiction books.
City of Fallen Angles – by Classandra Clare – Release Date: April 5 2011
“City of Fallen Angels takes place two months after the events of City of Glass. In it, a mysterious someone is killing the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine’s Circle and displaying their bodies around New York City in a manner designed to provoke hostility between Downworlders and Shadowhunters, leaving tensions running high in the city and disrupting Clary’s plan to lead as normal a life as she can — training to be a Shadowhunter, and pursuing her relationship with Jace. As Jace and Clary delve into the issue of the murdered Shadowhunters, they discover a mystery that has deeply personal consequences for them — consequences that may strengthen their relationship, or rip it apart forever. Meanwhile, internecine warfare among vampires is tearing the Downworld community apart, and only Simon — the Daylighter who everyone wants on their side — can decide the outcome; too bad he wants nothing to do with Downworld politics. Love, blood, betrayal and revenge: the stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels.”
I’ll Walk Alone: A Novel by Mary Higgins Clark – Release Date: April 5th 2011
Who has not read about —or experienced with a sinking feeling — the fear that someone else out there may be using your credit cards, accessing your bank account, even stealing your identity.
In “I’ll Walk Alone,” Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Park — a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair.
Now, on what would be Matthew’s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebody —but who? Zan asks herself desperately, and why?— has stolen her identity.
Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax.
What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herself —and those she loves most— in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction.
Even Zan’s supporters, who include Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective, and Father Aiden O’Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity, until, in the kind of fast-paced explosive ending that is Mary Higgins Clark’s trademark, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place with an unexpected and shocking revelation.
The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly – Release Date: April 5th 2011
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home.
Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own —Haller is assaulted, too— and he’s certain he’s on the right trail.
Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in. Connelly proves again why he “may very well be the best novelist working in the United States today.”
The 39 Clues Book 11: Vespers Rising by Rick Riordan – Release Date: April 5th 2011
The Cahills thought they were the most powerful family the world had ever known. They thought they were the only ones who knew about Gideon Cahill and his Clues. The Cahills were wrong.
Powerful enemies —the Vespers— have been waiting in the shadows. Now it’s their time to rise and the world will never be the same. In “Vespers Rising,” a brand new 39 Clues novel, bestselling authors Rick Riordan, Peter Lerangis, Gordon Korman, and Jude Watson take on the hidden history of the Cahills and the Vespers and the last terrible legacy Grace Cahill leaves for Amy and Dan.
44 Charles Street: A Novel by Danielle Steel – Release Date: April 5th 2011
The plumbing was prone to leaks and the furniture rescued from garage sales. Every square inch was being devotedly restored to its original splendor —even as a relationship fell to pieces. Now Francesca Thayer, newly separated from her lawyer boyfriend Todd, is desperate. The owner of a struggling art gallery and suddenly the sole mortgage payer on her Greenwich Village townhouse, Francesca does the math and then the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders. Soon her house becomes a whole new world.
First comes Eileen, a fresh, pretty L.A. transplant, now a New York City schoolteacher. Then there’s Chris, a young father struggling with a troubled ex-wife and the challenge of parenting a seven-year-old son who visits every other weekend. The final tenant is Marya, a celebrated cookbook author hoping to start a new chapter in her life after the death of her husband. As Francesca’s art gallery begins to find its footing and Todd moves on to another woman, she discovers that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life.
As the roommates bond, and the house fills with the aroma of Marya’s exquisite cuisine, there are shadows as well as light. Naïve Eileen explores the precarious boundaries of online dating with a series of strangers. Chris’s custody fight for his son escalates to devastating levels. Marya faces an unexpected choice that will take her into untested waters. And Francesca herself will contemplate what had seemed impossible: opening her heart once more.
Chasing Fire by Nora Roberts – Release Date: April 12th 2011
This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Montana, who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the “Zulies” include veteran Rowan Tripp, haunted by the loss of Jim Brayner, her onetime jump partner who was killed the previous season in a fall, and rookie Gulliver Curry, who soon earns the nickname “Fast Feet” for his speed and prowess. Threatening trouble is cook Dolly Brakeman, Jim’s girlfriend, who blames Rowan for his death —and whose new baby may well be Jim’s. Rowan and Gull grow closer as the team battles fires from Montana and Idaho to California and Alaska. Meanwhile, the Zulies are plagued by vandalism and sabotage as well as a killer with arson among his crimes. Roberts fans can expect another bestseller.
The Sixth Man by David Baldacci – Release Date: April 19th 2011
Edgar Roy —an alleged serial killer held in a secure, fortress-like Federal Supermax facility— is awaiting trial. He faces almost certain conviction. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy’s attorney, Sean’s old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins. En route to their first meeting with Bergin, Sean and Michelle find him murdered.
It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want answered: Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? With help from some surprising allies, they continue to pursue the case. But the more they dig into Roy’s past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.
Beware the Night by Holly Black – Release April 19th 2011
Kitsune. Werewolves. Crane wives. Selkies. Every culture has stories of such strange creatures —animals turning into humans, humans shapeshifting into animals. Sometimes seductive, sometimes bloodthirsty, but always unpredictable like nature itself, these beings are manifestations of our secret hearts, our desire to belong to both worlds. One tame and civilized, the other unfettered and full of wild impulse. Here are stories that will make you wish you could howl at the moon until your heart bursts with longing or feel yourself shedding your human body as easily as a snake sheds its skin. Beware the night… it might not kill you, but it will certainly steal you away!
That about wraps it up for our picks of the best Fiction Books to come out this month. Also, look out for the new Terry Goodkind addition to the “Sword of Truth” series.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
