2008: #18 – Triptych (Karin Slaughter)

Book #18 was Triptych by Karin Slaughter. The back of the book reads: In the city of Atlanta, women are dying–at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race. And the

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2008: #17 – Relic (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child)

Book #17 was Relic, the first book in the Pendergast series co-written by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. The back of the book reads: Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum’s dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human…But the museum’s directors plan

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2008: #16 – Dead Until Dark (Charlaine Harris)

Book #16 was Dead Until Dark, the first book in Charlaine Harris’ Southern Vampires series. The back of the book reads: Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn’t date much because of her “disability” to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can’t hear a word he’s thinking. He’s the type of guy she’s waited for

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2008: #15 – The Paid Companion (Amanda Quick)

Book #15 was The Paid Companion by Amanda Quick. The back of the book reads: The Earl of St. Merryn needs a woman. His intentions are purely practical – he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for a few weeks among polite society. He has his own agenda to pursue, and a false fiancée will keep the husband-hunters at

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