Suggestions:October 2010 BOTM:Mystery

[Libra]

So,make your suggestions for October BOTM:Must be mystery.

 

[Tai_Mai_Shu]

Robert Crais - L.A. Requiem
Michael Connelly - The Poet
Jeffery Deaver - The Empty Chair
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child - Mount Dragon

 

[eldog]

2010 Edgar Award Winner: The Last Child - John Hart

From Publishers Weekly: (possible minor spoilers)
A year after 12-year-old Alyssa Merrimon disappeared on her way home from the library in an unnamed rural North Carolina town, her twin brother, Johnny, continues to search the town, street by street, even visiting the homes of known sex offenders, in this chilling novel from Edgar-winner Hart (Down River). Det. Clyde Hunt, the lead cop on Alyssa's case, keeps a watchful eye on Johnny and his mother, who has deteriorated since Alyssa's abduction and her husband's departure soon afterward. When a second girl is snatched, Johnny is even more determined to find his sister, convinced that the perpetrator is the same person who took Alyssa. But what he unearths is more sinister than anyone imagined, sending shock waves through the community and putting Johnny's own life in danger. Despite a tendency to dip into melodrama, Hart spins an impressively layered tale of broken families and secrets that can kill.

 

[Landslide]

Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier.

From Barnes&Noble website:

With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers: a suite immaculate and untouched, clothing laid out and ready to be worn, but not by any of the great house's current occupants. With an eerie presentiment of evil tightening her heart, the second Mrs. de Winter walked in the shadow of her mysterious predecessor, determined to uncover the darkest secrets and shattering truths about Maxim's first wife—the late and hauntingly beautiful Rebecca.

 

[Landslide]

We need more suggestions people!

Also one suggestions per member. Tai_Mai_Shu do you mind choosing one of the books you recomended?

 

[Anamnesis]

Star Island by Carl Hiaasen.

Publishers Weekly review

The career of singer Cheryl Bunterman (aka Cherry Pye), who debuted with Jailbait Records at age 15, is foundering due to her lack of talent and indiscriminate appetite for drugs, booze, and sex in this outrageous, offbeat novel from Hiaasen (Nature Girl). Among those struggling to keep Cherry's career afloat are her mother, Janet Bunterman; producer Maury Lykes; and "undercover stunt double" Ann DeLusia, who will, say, mislead the press into thinking Cherry is out and about when she's really in rehab. Hiaasen has easy targets in misbehaving celebrity sightings, tabloid stalkings, and spin control experts, and he makes the most of them. Crooked real estate developer Jackie Sebago and paparazzo Bang Abbott, who plans to hitch his wagon to Cherry's star, add to the madcap fun. Mayhem follows after Bang kidnaps Ann instead of Cherry by mistake, and ex-Florida governor and eco-vigilante Clinton "Skink" Tyree, who was smitten with Ann after a chance encounter, rushes to her rescue. The torrent of pop culture barbs are bound to please Hiaasen's ardent fans

 

[Tai_Mai_Shu]

Sorry about that.

Robert Crais - L.A. Requiem

From Amazon:

The terrific Elvis Cole series has grown through the years, each book better than the last, but nothing prepared me for the quantum leap (yes, it's a cliché, but it belongs here) that Crais has made with L.A. Requiem. It's not as funny as the other books in the series, but it's a beautifully plotted detective story, rich with police procedure, and it will keep even the most sophisticated reader at sea right until the end. And that's what elevates this book to the level of literature.

 

[Lincoln Rhyme]

Michael Connelly's Blood Work

Summary from Goodreads:

Specially priced! McCaleb learns a terrible truth: that the donor of his heart was not killed in an accident, but was actually murdered.

Not much,but all I could find .

 

[chiangmaifalcon]

Flood by Andrew Vachss

 

[Landslide]

Sorry about that.

No problem. It hadn't been mentioned before so it's really my fault!

We already have 6 suggestions so I'm going to go ahead and make a poll.