TAILED is the third book to feature Brian M. Wiprud’s character of Garth Carson, but no need to worry if you haven’t read any of the other two. All are stories that stand by themselves, with only a little bit of minor continuity.
Garth works for a insurance company examining taxidermy collections, and he has been asked to examine one belonging to a football player/big-game hunter. When he arrives at the estate, there is no one to great him, so he presses on into the home, only to make a grisly discovery: the owner is dead, and from the looks of it, killed by his own stuffed bear paw.
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On the first page of Matt Richtel’s debut novel, a man at a Starbucks-esque coffee bar is handed a note that tells him to “Get out of the café – NOW!” One line after he reads it, the place explodes.
No wonder this thing is titled HOOKED.
Thanks to the note, health journalist Nat Idle is one of the lucky survivors of the explosion. Was it an act of terrorism? Why was he forewarned? And isn’t it weird that the attractive woman who slipped him the note reminded him of his girlfriend, who died in a boating accident four years prior?
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It’s kind of disheartening to know that teenage cliques will remain alive and well in the 30th century, and few are as snobby as the one on display in SHOWCASE PRESENTS LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES: VOLUME 1.
Like a malt-shop arm of the Justice League, the Legion is comprised of vibrant Aryan youths with incredible crimefighting powers. For instance, Bouncing Boy can, um, inflate and bounce; Triplicate Girl can, er, divide into three versions of herself; and Cosmic Boy can … well, I can’t remember, but I’m sure it’s awfully keen and strikes danger in the hearts of bad guys everywhere.
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Dean Koontz is the master of the high-concept thriller, cranking out novels whose devilishly clever, insta-hook scenarios can be described in one sentence. In the case of THE GOOD GUY, it’s this: Mistaken for a hitman, an Everyman is given $10,000 and instructions to kill a woman.
That Everyman is Tim Carrier, a bricklayer by trade winding down after a hard day’s work at his best friend’s bar. A mysterious man sidles up beside him with a bag of dough, a photograph and tells him it’s on. In disbelief, Tim plays along for a moment, but by the time he reveals he’s not who they think he is, it’s far, far too late.
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