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March/April 2006 Picks
The Mangrove Coast by Randy Wayne White
"In The Mangrove Coast, the daughter of a dead war buddy calls Ford in distress. If you're ever really in trouble, his friend had written her, Ford's the one you can trust. And trouble is what she's got. Her mother's disappeared in Mexico without a trace, in the company of an unsavory companion, and her money's gone, too. Doc agrees to help, and finds himself in Baja, on the trail of a man more genuinely evil than any he has ever encountered. There's more to it than that, though -- a third man whose shadowy presence brings death in its wake. For Doc, the mystery -- and the danger -- only deepens. In fact, solving the puzzle may turn out to be the most perilous thing of all."
Recommended by Tracy Dunham
$6.50
Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
"Sookie Stackhouse has broken up with Bill, her vampire lover, after he cheated with the vampire who initiated him, but being telepathic, she can't seem to get away from the supernatural. Driving home from work one day, she comes across Bill's sexy boss, Eric, half naked and on the run. When she approaches him, he doesn't remember her or even who he is. She gets him to come back to her house, and a call to his second-in-command, Pam, reveals that Hallow, a witch whose advances Eric spurned, robbed him of his memory. Still hoping to get her hands on him, Hallow is posting signs with his picture on them all over town, so Pam is determined that Eric stay put at Sookie's. Sookie is apprehensive about that, especially after her brother disappears, and she comes to suspect that the coven Hallow runs is responsible. But as her attraction to Eric deepens, Sookie finds she is drawn into the vampires' plot to attack Hallow's coven."
---Booklist
Recommended by Sarah Colacino
$7.99
Rapture in Death by J. D. Robb
"The year is 2056. mood-altering drugs are legal, prostitution is licensed, virtual-reality games have replaced TV sets for entertainment and New York supercop Eve Dallas continues her sleuthing in Robb's fourth installment in the Death series (Naked in Death, Glory in Death, etc.). This time around, Eve has married her soul mate, Roarke, and is caught up in the puzzling suicide of a technician who's been working on Roarke's unfinished space resort. The young tech, Eve learns, had cheerfully hanged himself after a VR trip. Back on Earth, autopsies from two similar suicides reveal a pin-sized burn on the brains of the victims. All clues point to a deadly subliminal message in a VR toy--one that Roarke produces."
---Publishers Weekly
Recommended by Michele Schutt
$6.99
Artemis Fowl #3: The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
"Ever the resourceful young criminal master-mind, Artemis has found a way to construct a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. Called the "C Cube, " it will render all existing human technology obsolete. Artemis then arranges a meeting with a Chicago businessman, Jon Spiro, to offer to suppress the Cube for one year in return for gold, his favorite substance. But the meeting is a trap, and Spiro steals the Cube and mortally injures Butler. Artemis knows his only hope to save Butler is fairy magic, so once again he is forced to contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrepcon fairy police. In a miraculous feat, Butler is healed, but there is a catch: he has aged fifteen years. As a result, Butler's infamously ditzy sister, Juliet, is called in as Artemis's bodyguard. Together, they travel to Chicago to steal back the Cube and ensure that Jon Spiro is put out of business---permanently."
Recommended by Katie Toth
$7.99
