Audiobook "Chosen to Die" by Lisa Jackson

HE’LL CHOOSE THEM…
Detective Regan Pescoli has worked the “Star Crossed Killer” case for months, never imagining she’d be captured by the madman she’s been hunting. Regan knows exactly what he’s capable of—the way he leaves his victims to freeze to death, terrified and alone. And avoiding the same fate will take every drop of her courage and cunning.

ABDUCT THEM…
Regan Pescoli is unlike any woman Nate Santana has met before. But now she’s missing, and Nate knows something is dangerously wrong. The only person who can help him find his lover is Detective Selena Alvarez, Regan’s partner. As Selena digs deeper into the Star-Crossed Killer case and the body count rises, the truth about Regan’s disappearance becomes chillingly clear.

AND KILL THEM…
In the desolate Montana woods, evil is lurking. And with time running out, the only way to save Regan will be to get inside a killer’s twisted mind and unravel a shocking message that is being revealed, one body at a time…

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Audiobook "Left to Die" by Lisa Jackson

NOTHING IS MORE TERRIFYING . . .
THAN BEING LEFT ALONE . . .
TO DIE

One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. the police can't yet see the beauty of his work, but soon, very soon, they will. In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli have been hoping for a career-making case, but this is a nightmare. Even with the FBI involved, Selena and Regan have nothing to go on but a killer's cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come. When Jillian Rivers opens her eyes, she's trapped in a mangled car. Then a stranger, claiming to be a trail guide named Zane MacGregor pries her free. Though she's grateful, something about him sets Jillian on edge. And if she knew what lay out there in the woods of Montana, she'd be truly terrified. Because someone is waiting...watching... poised to strike and make Jillian the next victim...

Audiobook "Think Twice" by Lisa Scottoline

Is evil born or bred? This is the question Bennie Rosato must answer after her twin sister, Alice Connolly, drugs her and leaves for dead, buried underground in a remote field.

As Alice slips easily into Bennie's life, doing her job, interacting with her friends, seducing her boyfriend, she never counts on the fact that Bennie is tougher than she seems. And that, against all odds, Bennie will escape.

But escaping is only the first challenge. Alice's sociopathic lies are so believable that she has everyone convinced that she is Bennie, and Bennie is her deranged twin sister Alice. As Bennie descends further into Alice's life, she starts to feel the pull of evil herself. As the clock ticks and Alice gets closer to her ultimate goal, Bennie must face the shocking truth that she is perhaps more like Alice than she ever realized.

Currently Reading: "U is for Undertow" by Sue Grafton

It's April, 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone's 38th birthday and she's alone in her office doing paperwork when a young man arrives unannounced. He has a preppy air about him and looks as if he'd be carded if he tried to buy booze, but Michael Sutton is 27, an unemployed college drop-out. Twenty-one years before, a four-year old girl disappeared. A recent reference to her kidnapping has triggered a flood of memories. Sutton now believes he stumbled on her lonely burial when he was six years old. He wants Kinsey's help in locating the child’s remains and finding the men who killed her. It’s a long shot but he's willing to pay cash up front and Kinsey agrees to give him one day. As her investigation unfolds, she finds out Michael Sutton has an uneasy relationship with the truth. In essence, he's the boy who cried wolf. Is his current story true or simply one more in a long line of fabrications?
Grafton moves the narrative between the eighties and the sixties, changing points of view, building multiple subplots, and creating memorable characters. Gradually, we see how they all connect. But at the beating center of the novel is Kinsey Millhone, sharp-tongued, observant, a loner—"a heroine," said The New York Times Book Review, "with foibles you can laugh at and faults you can forgive."

Audiobook "Lost Souls" by Lisa Jackson

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson delivers her most harrowing novel yet as a young woman's determined hunt for a serial killer draws her into a twisted psychopath's unspeakable crimes. Twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz is lucky to be alive. Not many people her age have nearly died twice at the hands of a serial killer, and lived to tell about it. Her dad, New Orleans detective, Rick Bentz, wants Kristi to stay in New Orleans and out of danger. But if anything, Kristi's experiences have made her even more fascinated by the mind of the serial killer. She hasn't given up her dream of being a true-crime writer--of exploring the darkest recesses of evil--and now she just may get her chance.
Four girls have disappeared at All Saints College in less than two years. All four were "lost souls"--troubled, vulnerable girls with no one to care about them, no one to come looking if they disappeared. The police think they're runaways, but Kristi senses there's something that links them, something terrifying. She decides to enroll, following their same steps. All Saints has changed a lot since Kristi was an undergraduate. The stodgy Catholic college has lured edgy new professors to its campus and gained a reputation for envelope-pushing, with classes like the very popular "The Influence of Vampirism in Modern Culture and Literature," and elaborately staged morality plays that feel more like the titillating entertainment of some underground club than religious spectacles. And there are whispers of a dark cult on campus whose members wear vials of blood around their necks and meet in secret chambers--rituals to which only the elite have access. To find the truth, Kristi will need to become part of the cult's inner circle, to learn their secrets, and play the part of lost soul without losing herself in the process. It's a dangerous path, and Kristi is skating on its knife-thin edge.
The deeper she goes, the more Kristi begins to wonder if she is the hunter or the prey. She's certain she's being watched and followed--studied, even--as yet another girl disappears, and another. And when the bodies finally begin to surface--in ways that bring fear to the campus and terror to the hearts of even hardened cops like Detective Bentz and his partner Reuben Montoya--Kristi realizes with chilling clarity that she has underestimated her foe. She is playing a game with a killer more cunning and bloodthirsty than anyone can imagine, one who has personally selected her for membership in a cult of death from which there will be no escape.

Audiobook "Demon Rumm" by Sandra Brown

It was the publicity stunt from hell as far as Kirsten Rumm was concerned. She may have been writing the book about her late husband, aeronautical daredevil Demon Rumm, but she didn’t see the need to play host to the arrogant bad-boy actor starring in the film version’s title role. Still, for the good of the project, Kirsten agreed to share her beachfront home with the impossibly sexy screen idol. Any other woman would do anything to be in her sandals, but Kirsten wasn’t falling for Rylan North, even if he did play his role of male lead to perfection. His down-home charm, his gentleness and virile charisma, might be seducing her in every sense of the word, but he was an actor, after all. Seducing an audience was his job. Rylan could have any woman he wanted. So why was he so desperately pretending to want her?From the moment he saw her, Rylan North knew that Kirsten Rumm was the woman he’d been waiting all his life to cast as the star in his real-life love story. What did it matter if he was every woman’s fantasy if he couldn’t get Kirsten to so much as glance his way? He’d caught the look of past hurt behind her sky-blue eyes–a dark secret that shadowed the sparkle. Rylan was determined to find out what tragedy held this passionate woman back from a second chance at love even if it cost him his reputation, his career, and his life. But first he’d have to get Kirsten to act on her instincts . . . and to trust the flesh-and-blood man behind the fantasy.

Audiobook "The Pilot's Wife" by Anita Shreve

I actually did read this book several years ago. I remember liking it very much...

Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her reality?

Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening effect of time. As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone—but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.

As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless focus on her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret? Fighting the impulse to protect herself and her daughter from the details of the crash and the mystery surrounding it, Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was—whatever that knowledge may cost. The search will lead her to shocking revelations, testing both the truth of her marriage and the limits of her ability to face it.

A list of James Patterson's books

James Patterson is a writing genius... I came across a list of his books and it is mind blowing how much he writes (alone or in cooperation with someone, but still...) in a year.
Here's the list:

1976 - The Thomas Berryman Number
1977 - Season of the Machete
1977 - The Jericho Commandment (published again in 1997 as See How They Run)
1980 - Virgin
1986 - Black Market (published again in 2000 as Black Friday)
1988 - The Midnight Club
1992 - Along Came A Spider (Alex Cross Series)
1994 - Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross Series)
1996 - Jack & Jill (Alex Cross Series)
1996 - Hide & Seek
1996 - Miracle on the 17th Green (with Peter De Jonge)
1997 - See How They Run (published previously as The Jericho Commandment)
1997 - Cat and Mouse (Alex Cross Series)
1998 - When the Wind Blows
1999 - Pop Goes the Weasel (Alex Cross Series)
2000 - Black Friday (previously published in 1986 as Black Market)
2000 - Cradle & All (previously published in 1980 as Virgin)
2000 - Roses are Red (Alex Cross Series)
2001 - Violets are Blue (Alex Cross Series)
2001 - Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
2001 - 1st to Die (Women's Murder Club)
2002 - Four Blind Mice (Alex Cross Series)
2002 - Beach House(with Peter De Jonge)
2002 - 2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club, with Andrew Gross)
2003 - The Big Bad Wolf (Alex Cross Series)
2003 - The Jester(with Andrew Gross)
2003 - The Lake House (sequel to When The Wind Blows)
2004 - 3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club, with Andrew Gross)
2004 - London Bridges (Alex Cross Series)
2004 - Sam's Letters to Jennifer
2004 - Santa Kid
2005 - 4th of July (Women's Murder Club, with Maxine Paetro)
2005 - Mary, Mary (Alex Cross Series)
2005 - Honeymoon(with Howard Roughan)
2005 - Lifeguard(with Andrew Gross)
2005 - Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
2006 - Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever
2006 - Cross(Alex Cross Series)
2006 - Beach Road(with Peter De Jonge)
2006 - Judge and Jury(with Andrew Gross)
2006 - 5th Horseman (Women's Murder Club, with Maxine Paetro)
2007 - Step on a Crack
2007 - Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
2007 - 6th Target
2007 - The Quickie
2007 - You've Been Warned
2007 - Double Cross
2008 - 7th Heaven
2008 - Maximum Ride #4: The Final Warning
2008 - Sundays at Tiffany's
2008 - Sail
2008 - The Dangerous Days of Daniel X
2008 - Against Medical Advice
2008 - Cross Country
2009 - Run for Your Life
2009 - Maximum Ride: Max
2009 - The 8th Confession
2009 - Daniel X: Watch the Skies
2009 - The Murder of King Tut
2009 - I, Alex Cross
2009 - Witch and Wizard
2009 - Alex Cross’s Trial
2009 - Swimsuit
2010 - Maximum Ride: Fang
2010 - Worst Case
2010 - The 9th Judgment
2010 - Private
2010 - Daniel X: Demons and Druids
2010 - The Postcard Killers
2010 - Don't Blink
2010 - Cross Fire
2010 (December 13) - Witch & Wizard: The Gift
2011 (January 24) - Tick Tock
2011 (March 14) - Toys

Upcoming releases:

2011 (May 2) - 10th Anniversary
2011 (June 27) - Now You See Her

2011 (June 27) - Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
2011 (August 29 ) - Kill Me If You Can

You can also find the complete list of James Patterson's books on his website.


List of the books I still have to read/listen to:

1976 - The Thomas Berryman Number
1977 - Season of the Machete
1996 - Miracle on the 17th Green (with Peter De Jonge)
2004 - Santa Kid
2009 - Witch and Wizard
2010 - Daniel X: Demons and Druids

2010 (December 13) - Witch & Wizard: The Gift

2011 (February 14) - Angel

Upcoming releases:

2011 (May 2) - 10th Anniversary
2011 (June 27) - Now You See Her
2011 (June 27) - Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
2011 (August 29 ) - Kill Me If You Can

Audiobook "Blood Game" by Iris Johansen

First comes darkness, then comes fear... Eve Duncan is back! Blockbuster New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen’s latest thriller brings Eve closer to discovering her daughter’s killer…and into a web of danger from which she may not be able to escape… Eve Duncan returns in a thriller that pits her against the most evil mind she has ever encountered: a ruthless killer who taunts her with his every move…and who has a special affinity for blood. When a Georgia senator’s daughter is found murdered, and her body drained of blood, Eve Duncan is drawn into the web of Kevin Jelak—a serial murderer who is on Eve’s short list of killers who might know something about her missing daughter Bonnie. When a goblet of blood is found in Eve’s refrigerator, she knows the taunting is over…and the games have begun. As Eve and Jelak engage in a dance of death, Eve must call upon those she loves and trusts the most…even if it means bringing them into the game as well.

Currently Reading: "Sam's Letters to Jennifer" by James Patterson

Dear Reader,

Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? It happened to me once. I still can feel the urgency that overtook me as I opened the envelope and the hunger I felt for whatever that letter would say. It seemed as if my entire life hung in the balance as I read.

Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story that will upend completely the world she thought she knew - and throw her into a love more powerful than she ever imagined could be possible. Two extraordinary love stories are entwined here, full of hope and pain and emotions that never die down.

I hope you'll enjoy this novel as much as I've enjoyed writing it. It's not often that you get a letter that changes your life. But it should happen to everyone at least once.

Yours,
James Patterson