Some of the most highly anticipated books are coming out this summer! This is our comprehensive July 2010 eBook Preview edition! You will find the latest electronic books to be available via the month of July! Popular Authors return this month such as Nora Roberts and Janet Evanovich and Paranormal sensations like Karin Slaughter. Grab your favorite e-reader and be prepared to spend some down time at the beach with these ebook treats. Also, most of these ebooks are by named authors with proven track records, and are mostly future best sellers!
The Search by Nora Roberts
Release Date: July 6, 2010
The #1 New York Times-bestselling author presents a riveting novel where a canine search and rescue volunteer fights danger and finds love in the Pacific Northwest wilderness.
To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life-a quaint house on an island off Seattle’s coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search and rescues. Not to mention her three intensely loyal Labs. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare…
Several years ago, Fiona was the only survivor of the Red Scarf serial killer, who shot and killed Fiona’s cop fiancé and his K-9 partner.
On Orcas Island, Fiona found the peace and solitude she needed to rebuild her life. But all that changes on the day Simon Doyle barrels up her drive, desperate for her help. He’s the reluctant owner of an out-of-control puppy, foisted upon him by his mother. Jaws has eaten through Simon’s house, and he’s at his wit’s end.
To Fiona, Jaws is nothing she can’t handle. Simon, however, is another matter. A newcomer to Orcas, he’s a rugged and in-tensely private artist, known for the exquisite furniture he creates from wood. Simon never wanted a puppy-and he most definitely doesn’t want a woman. Besides, the lanky redhead is not his type. But tell that to his hormones.
As Fiona embarks on training Jaws, and Simon begins to appreciate both dog and trainer, the past tears back into Fiona’s life. A copycat killer has emerged out of the shadows, a man whose bloodlust has been channeled by a master with one motive: to reclaim the woman who slipped out of his hands…
Broken by Karin Slaughter
Release Date: July 6, 2010
When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It’s a brutal, cold-blooded murder. All too soon former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton – home for Thanksgiving after a long absence – finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight – he lies dead in his cell, the words ‘Not me’ scrawled across the walls. Something about his confession doesn’t add up and deeply suspicious of Lena Adams, the detective in charge, Sara immediately calls in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Shortly afterwards, Special Agent Will Trent is brought in from his vacation to investigate. But he is immediately confronted with a wall of silence. Grant County is a close-knit community with loyalties and ties that run deep. And the only person who can tell the truth about what really happened is dead
Elin Hilderbrand The Island
Release Date: July 6 2010
Summer suspense on an island off Nantucket, as a mother- daughter pre-wedding vacation takes a dark turn.
Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Fly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner is the story of a mother and two daughters who take refuge together at a beach house after their husband/father, who is a prominent senator, has an affair that puts them all in the spotlight. The three women all reexamine their lives for different reasons, and they finally learn to relate to each other.
Faithful Place by Tana French
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Faithful Place by Tana French is the third novel of the Dublin Murder Squad. Faithful Place is an area of Dublin where Frank Mackey grew up. At nineteen, he and his fiancée made secret plans to elope to England. When she didn’t show up, he assumed she had dumped him. Twenty-two years later, her suitcase is found behind a fireplace in Faithful Place, and a murder investigation begins. Frank is now a detective, and he returns from England to find the truth.
Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel by Lisa Gardner
Release Date: July 13, 2010
“Boston police detective D. D. Warren returns in another gripping thriller. A family is murdered, apparently by the father (who, it seems, barely failed to take his own life after killing his wife and young children). But soon there are questions, the most pressing of which is, Why would this man, apparently out of the blue, slaughter his own family? Is it possible that someone else was the killer, perhaps another member of the family? In addition to telling a compelling story, Gardner also explores an issue that is rarely discussed in fiction: children who are psychotic. In first-person chapters narrated by other characters (Victoria, a mother at her wits’ end; Danielle, survivor of a family slaughter), she eases the reader into unfamiliar territory, telling us about children—like Evan, Victoria’s eight-year-old son—who are capable of astonishing violence, including plotting to murder their own parents. Gardner has never shied away from creepy, psychologically twisted stories, but this may be her most unsettling. The notion of murderous children may be off-putting enough to make some readers avoid the book. That would be a mistake: Gardner never sensationalizes her story, and the book ends with a resolution that is creatively and emotionally appropriate. An excellent novel.
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater is the follow up to Shiver, and another young adult supernatural romance series. In Linger, Sam and Grace must fight to be together, dealing with Sam’s werewolf past. They also must contend with a new wolf who threatens the whole pack.
Troublemaker Book 1: Alex Barnaby Series 3 by Janet Evanovich, Alex Evanvovich, Joelle Jones
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Janet Evanovich, the New York Times #1 best-selling author of Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, brings Alexandra Barnaby and Sam Hooker, from the hit Barnaby novels Metro Girl and Motor Mouth, to Dark Horse Comics with her debut graphic novel Troublemaker!
Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker are back together and fighting crime the only way they know how by leaving a trail of chaos, panic, and disorder. Alex, an auto mechanic and spotter for racecar driver Sam Hooker, is drawn to trouble like a giant palmetto bug to a day-old taco. Unfortunately, she’s also drawn to Hooker in the same fashion. There’s no steering clear of trouble or Hooker when friends Rosa and Felicia call for help. A man has gone missing, and in order to find him Barnaby and Hooker will have to go deep into the underbelly of Miami and south Florida, surviving Petro Voodoo, explosions, gift- wrapped body parts, a deadly swamp chase, and Hooker’s mom.
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva
Release Date: July 20, 2010
Gabriel Allon returns in the spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
Two families, one terrible secret, and a painting to die for…
It has been six months since Gabriel’s showdown with Ivan Kharkov. Now, having severed his ties with the Office, Gabriel has retreated to the Cornish coast with only one thing in mind: healing his wife, Chiara, after her encounter with evil. But an unspeakable act of violence once again draws Gabriel into a world of danger when an art restorer is brutally murdered and the newly discovered Rembrandt on which he is working taken. Gabriel is persuaded to use his unique skills to trace the painting and those responsible for the crimes; but, as he investigates, he discovers there are terrible secrets connected to the painting, and terrible men behind them. Before he is done, he will have undertaken a journey through some of the twentieth century’s darkest history-and come face-to-face with some of the same darkness within himself.
Star Island by Carl Hiaasen
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Star Island by Carl Hiaasen is another satirical mystery that will keep pages turning but doesn’t take itself too seriously. Twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye has been a star since she was 14. She is planning a comeback after her latest drug and alcohol induced hiatus. Ann DeLusia is Cherry’s “stunt double” — she portrays Cherry in public whenever Cherry is too wasted to go out herself. When Ann is kidnapped by someone who thinks they have Cherry, Cherry’s entourage must track her down before the public finds out the truth.
Water Bound (A Sea Haven Novel) by Christine Feehan
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Off the shores of Sea Haven, a beautiful diver rescues a man from drowning, a man with no memory of who he is-or why he seems to possess the violent instincts of a trained killer. But soon, he and his savior will be engulfed in a storm of dizzying passion and inescapable danger…
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Alone for six years since his wife passed, Retired British Officer Major Pettigrew has grown weary of the world around him, until Pakistani shopkeeper Mrs. Ali shows up on the scene. Read how old world resolve dissolves when someone new enters. Who should play these characters if the book was made into a movie? Timothy Dalton or Ciarán Hinds could aptly play Major Pettigrew. Either Hiam Abbass or Vaneeza Ahmed would be
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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.
