Geez, is it Tuesday again already? In that case, see you at the bookstore. Assuming you frequent the same one I do. Which, given the worldwide readership of this site, is highly unlikely. Plus nowadays, don’t a lot of people just buy online? If that’s you, give BOOKGASM some love by clicking these cute blue links below.
• Somehow I failed to mention Stephen White’s KILL ME last week. So sue me. This thriller boasts a terrific, Koontz-worthy high concept: A man told he has mere months to live hires assassins to kill him off, then has a change of heart and has to scramble to stay alive from those he hired to do away with him. D’oh!
• Also garnering good buzz is NIGHTLIFE, a female serial killer thriller from Thomas Perry. It’s being compared to such novels as THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and MYSTIC RIVER. Now that’s some good company.
• LABYRINTH is Kate Mosse’s third novel, and one that aims to capture that DA VINCI CODE vibe with its two-pronged time-period tale of two women in search of the Holy Grail. Insert your own Monty Python joke here, nerds.
• And lastly, sci-fi fans are in for a treat with the 800-page, two-in-one anthology reprint ISAAC ASIMOV’S SCIENCE FICTION TREASURY, edited by Asimov and Martin Greenberg. Collecting the best sci-fi stories from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, the book includes such classics as Asimov’s “The Last Question,” Arthur C. Clarke’s “Who’s There?” and Daniel Keyes’ “Flowers for Algernon,” which we all had to read in junior high, right?
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