2008: #40 – 20th Century Ghosts (Joe Hill)

Book #40 was 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill.  The back of the book reads: Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She’s also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . . Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift

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2008: #39 – Envy (Kathryn Harrison)

Book #39 was Envy by Kathryn Harrison.  The back of the book reads: Will has a good sex life–with the woman he married. So why then is he increasingly plagued by violent erotic fantasies that, were they to break out of his imagination and into the real world, have the power to destroy not only his family but his career? He’s about to lose his

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2008: #38 – Hide (Lisa Gardner)

Book #38 was Hide, the second Bobby Dodge book by Lisa Gardner.  The back of the book reads: You have good reason to be afraid. . . . It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day—the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome

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