Miami Public Library Online
New Books - July, 1998

FICTION

Archer, Jeffrey. The Eleventh Commandment. New thriller based in Washington (with side trips to Russia) pits a double agent in the CIA against his boss.

Borchardt, Alice. The Silver Wolf. The wolf is a werewolf, running loose in Rome at the time of the Dark Ages. What's more, this wolf is a woman.

Brown, Sandra. Unspeakable. A killer's escape from prison, the arrival of a mysterious stranger at Anna Corbett's cattle ranch, and Anna's self-imposed silence are connected in Brown's latest.

Cornwell, Patricia. Point of Origin. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta's newest antagonist is a murderer who uses fire to cover his tracks.

Delinsky, Barbara. Coast Road. Delinsky follows up her best-selling Best Wishes with the story of a man who learns more about his ex-wife when she is comatose after a car accident than he ever knew while they were married.

Hill, Reginald. On Beulah Height. In the latest in Hill's award-winning Dalziel and Pascoe mystery series, a little girl goes missing, recalling a 15-year-old case that still troubles Dalziel.

Jakes, John. American Dreams. Best-selling historical novelist Jakes continues the story of the Crown family in early 20th-century Chicago.

Siddons, Anne Rivers. Low Country. A bored Southern belle springs to action when she finds out that her tycoon husband plans to build an island resort that will destroy a band of wild ponies.

Truman, Margaret. Murder at the Watergate. When perennial crime solvers Mac and Annabel Smith move into the Watergate, they end up next door to the vice president, who is targeted for assassination by Mexican drug lords.

Truscott, Lucian. Full Dress Gray. Ry Slaight of Truscott's best-selling Dress Gray deals with a West Point scandal, including a dead female cadet.

NON-FICTION

Gray, John. Mars and Venus Starting Over. The author of Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus--one of the titles most borrowed from libraries last year--returns with advice for the divorced, widowed, and generally lovelorn.