Reading Ahead: January 2018, Part 3

Feeling the need for something suspenseful and thrilling to keep you warm on a winter's night? Consider one of the following, due out in just a few weeks!

Act of Revenge, by Dale Brown & Jim DeFelice. Part of the writing duo's ongoing Dreamland series (following Puppet Master, 2016), Act of Revenge finds Louis Massina racing against time to save the city of Boston when terrorists attack on Easter Sunday. The robotics master, aka the Puppet Master, takes the attack personally--this is his city, and one of his employees is among the hostages taken. Step One: stop the attacks. Step Two? Track down the terror mastermind and make him pay.

Dark In Death, by J.D. Robb. An unbelievable 46th* entry into Robb's (aka Nora Roberts) long-running and best-selling series. In a case of death imitating art, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called on-scene when a woman is murdered during a screening of Psycho. The clues are few and Dallas is puzzled, only to get a tip from an unexpected source: an author of police thrillers who recognizes the details...from her own book. Dallas is certain this isn't just coincidence; upon further investigation, another recent crime is also straight from the author's work. If the theory holds, the NYPSD may be in for a long-running series, unless Dallas and her team can catch a killer and fast.

Promise Not to Tell, by Jayne Ann Krentz. Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy is a woman with a dark past, including a childhood as part of a cult and the tragic death of her mother. Now, one of her artists has taken her own life, but not before sending Virginia a message, one that makes Virginia not only question the supposed suicide, but her own past, as well. A private investigator who is also a survivor of the same cult, Cabot Sutter may be the only one who can help her now. As they struggle to unravel the clues sent to Virginia, it becomes clear that someone thinks she knows more than she does, and is willing to kill to keep those secrets from coming out.


*Technically, including novellas, short stories and anthologies, this is the 58th entry in the series, but the 46th stand-alone novel.