Dark, Twisting, Crime & Thrillers titles at RM9.90 only!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The Geneva Deception by James Twinning RRP: RM36.90 Price: RM9.90
There is an art to murder… In Rome, the Eternal City… three shocking homicides occur in three days—each a grisly re-creation of a painting by one of the most revered artistic giants of all time. But this new “artist” works in blood, not oils. A shattering assassination rocks Kirk’s world, plunging him and unorthodox Italian detective Allegra Damico into an international web of evil that encompasses the Church, politicians, the police, and the Mafia. The road Kirk and Allegra must now follow is twisting and treacherous, winding through Vatican secrets, blood oaths, and Swiss betrayals. And death surely waits at the end.
The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne RRP: RM35.90 Price: RM9.90
Legend says that in every generation, there are 36 righteous men on whom the fate of humanity depends. One by one, these men are being murdered, and journalist Will Monroe smells a big story. As Will’s wife is kidnapped and another innocent life is in danger, he begins to realize he must stop the killings or the future of the world may be at stake.
Fragment by Warren Fahy RRP: RM35.90 Price: RM9.90
In this powerhouse of suspense—as brilliantly imagined as Jurassic Park and The Ruins—scientists have made a startling discovery: a fragment of a lost continent, an island with an ecosystem unlike any they’ve seen before… an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards. A television crew stumbles onto an unexplored island inhabited by terrifying creatures and seething with danger. There’s no question it is the reality-TV chance of a lifetime, but will it be the death of the crew–or something more precious?
The Final Reckoning by Sam Bourne RRP: RM36.90 Price: RM9.90
Tom Byrne has fallen from grace since his days as an idealistic young lawyer. So when the UN call him in to do their dirty work, he accepts without hesitation. A suspected bomber shot by UN security staff has turned out to be a harmless old man and Tom must placate the family. In London, Tom meets the dead man’s alluring daughter, and learns that her father was not as innocent as he seemed. He unravels details of a hidden brotherhood, united in a mission that has spanned the world and caused hundreds of unexplained deaths. Pursued by those ready to kill to uncover the truth, Tom has to unlock a secret that has lain buried for more than 60 years…
The Lost Labyrinth by Will Adams RRP: RM36.90 Price: RM9.90
Twenty years after vanishing without a trace, French archaeologist Roland Petitier makes a dramatic reappearance at a major Athens conference, promising an astonishing find – the legendary Golden Fleece. But before he can give his talk, he’s found dead in a hotel room; and an out-of-control policeman puts Petitier’s onetime protege Augustin Pascal into intensive care, then later accuses him of Petitier’s murder.
New Arrivals: Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Monday, August 2, 2010Look out for our new arrivals of crime, thriller & mystery titles that will sure send your spine chilling & goosebumps raised away! BookXcess promises you books that will leave your mind wandering, speculating, inspecting in suspense & beyond!
Little Girls Lost by J.A. Kerley RRP: RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
Children are disappearing in Mobile, Alabama, the latest snatched from her own bedroom. There are no clues — and, as yet, no bodies. Homicide Detective Carson Ryder is called in to investigate the abduction of little LaShelle Shearing only to find the case getting tangled up in murky departmental and civic politics. Public rage is now reaching dangerous levels, and Ryder’s bosses turn for help to ex-Detective Conner Sandhill whose uncanny ability to spot connections and details missed by others is legendary — but who left the department under a cloud. Ryder and Sandhill form an uneasy alliance in the hunt for the missing children, a hunt which becomes all the more urgent for tragic personal reasons. But at the root of these disappearances is something truly evil & its source is closer to home than either could have imagined.
Blood Brother by J.A. Kerley RRP: RM38.90 Price: RM17.90
These brothers have murder in their veins. Detective Carson Ryder’s sworn duty is to track killers down. He’s never revealed the fact that his brother, Jeremy, is one of America’s most notorious killers — now imprisoned. Secretly, Ryder has used Jeremy’s homicidal insight to solve cases. He’s made a career out of it. Now his brother’s escaped and is at large in New York. With Jeremy the chief suspect in a series of horrifying mutilation-murders, a mysterious video demands Ryder be brought into help. A dangerous cat-and-mouse game develops between Jeremy, and the NYPD with Ryder in the middle, trying to keep his brother alive and the cops in the dark. But it’s a game of life, death and deceit, a game with an unknown number of players and no clear way of winning!
Robert Ludlum’s the Cassandra Compact: A Covert-One Novel by Robert Ludlum, Philip Shelby RRP: RM34.90 Price: RM17.90
Following “The Hades Factor” and “The Prometheus Deception, ” this novel continues the best-selling Covert-One series. Covert-One operative Jon Smith and CIA undercover agent Randi Russell come into possession of a slain Russian security service officer’s classified papers. They soon unearth a terrifying global conspiracy that threatens to unleash a plague of immeasurable proportions.
Cold Granite by Stuart Macbride RRP: RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
Fans of the “tartan noir” novels of Ian Rankin should enjoy Stuart McBride’s debut, a police procedural set in Aberdeen, Scotland–the so-called “Granite City.” Freshly returned to work after recovering from stab wounds, Detective Sergeant Logan McRae must cope with a stern new boss, decidedly unfriendly treatment from the department’s chief pathologist (and McRae’s ex-girlfriend), the shocking brutality of a serial killer who targets children, and a vigilante-minded public fired up by the confidential details of the killer’s depredations, which someone has leaked to the press.
New Arrivals: Ever Growing Fiction Titles
Thursday, July 29, 2010
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy RRP: RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
Winner of the prestigious Booker Prize in 1997, The God Of Small Things was a stunning debut for Arundhati Roy. Set in Kerala, India, in 1969, seven-year-old twins Rahel & Estha, born of a wealthy family & literally joined at the soul. The God Of Small Things effectively shifts between two time periods: Rahel’s present-day trip home to see her mute, haunted twin brother, & a December day 20 years before — the tumultuous day that tears the family apart. With mesmerizing language that brings to mind, The God Of Small Things ambitiously tackles such profound issues as family, race, & class, the dictates of history, & the laws of love. Rahel & Estha learn too soon that love & life can be lost in a millisecond.
The Good Divorce Guide by Cristina Odone RRP: RM34.90 Price: RM17.90
When Rosie Martin discovers that Jonathan, her husband of 15 years, is having an affair, she feels that her world is falling apart. That is, until she realises that she’s actually fallen out of love with him, too. So Rosie & Jonathan decide to go their separate ways, determined to be civilised about their divorce, for the sake of the children — in short, to have a ‘good divorce’! Cue the rest of the world, where divorce is always a dirty word. Everyone & everything seems determined to conspire to make this divorce bitter — the lawyer, the estate agent, the botox man, the friends, not least their respective families! ‘The Good Divorce Guide’ is a touching, witty, funny story about starting afresh & learning to find your own way in life, no matter what anyone says.
A Darker Domain by Val McDermid RRP: RM35.90 Price: RM17.90
The superb new psychological thriller from bestselling author Val McDermid mixes fiction with one of the most symbolic and exceptional moments in recent history – the national miners’ strike 1984, Fife: Heiress Catriona Maclennan Grant and her baby son are kidnapped. The ransom payoff goes horribly wrong. She is killed while her son disappears without trace. 2008, Tuscany: A jogger stumbles upon dramatic new evidence that re-opens the cold case. Past and present intertwine in a dark novel of psychological suspense that explores the intersection of desire and greed.
Fairytale Of New York by Miranda Dickinson RRP: RM34.90 Price: RM17.90
Are happy-ever-afters made in Manhattan? Once upon a time an English girl went to New York to live out her very own fairytale! Florist Rosie Duncan’s life couldn’t be better, she has a flourishing business on New York’s Upper West Side and fantastic friends. Moving to Manhattan feels like the best decision she ever made. Even though at the time, it was her escape route from heartbreak … But a chance meeting brings Rosie face to face with her past, unravelling the mystery behind her arrival in New York. Rosie is forced to confront questions she has long been trying to ignore, including will she ever get her very own happy-ever-after? A sparkling, romantic comedy about an English girl who finds herself in the city where dreams can come true – or so she thinks!
Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison RRP: RM39.90 Price: RM17.90
Sexy bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan prowls the dark streets of Cincinnati, keeping tabs on the vampires and other creatures of the supernatural who prey on the city’s innocent and vulnerable inhabitants.
New Arrival: Fiction Reads only at RM9.90!
Thursday, July 22, 2010Today we’re featuring fiction reads priced at only RM9.90! Where else can you get exciting reads at such exciting price bargain? Yours truly, BookXcess.
Fine Just The Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
RRP: RM36.90 Price: RM9.90
Returning to the territory of “Brokeback Mountain,” National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winner Proulx has written a stunning and visceral collection of new stories.
Her stories about multiple generations of Americans struggling through life in the West are a ferocious, dazzling panorama of American folly and fate. Proulx’s characters try to climb out of poverty and desperation but get cut down as if the land itself wanted their blood. Deeply sympathetic to the men and women fighting to survive in this harsh place, Proulx turns their lives into fiction with the power of myth — and leaves the listener in awe.
The winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable language, her exhilarating eye for detail and her dark sense of humor make this a profoundly compelling collection.
Master & Commander by Patrick O’ Brian RRP: RM49.90 Price: RM9.90
Set sail for the read of your life! Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O’Brian’s now famous Aubrey/Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship’s surgeon and an intelligence agent. It contains all the action and excitement which could possibly be hoped for in a historical novel.
All The Things We Didn’t Say by Sara Shepard RRP: RM36.90 Price: RM9.90
Emotional, issue-led fiction perfect for all fans of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter and Jodi Picoult Tragedy came as if so often does: a teenage party, emotions running high, followed by a horrific car crash. A girl is left dead and a boy is forced to leave his home town, with a secret that he will carry with him forever! Years later, when Summer’s mother disappears one summer, she is left with her father. Obsessed with an accident from years ago, he slowly descends into mental illness. And as he becomes more disorientated, he reveals small fragments of a secret that has been hidden since his youth, a secret that changes everything. Summer supports her father as much as she can but eventually realises that she has to escape. She finds refuge with her great-aunt, Stella. Feisty, fun-loving, and dying of cancer, Stella holds parts of the family secret. Slowly, things fall into place for Summer – or at least so she thinks! This is a story of the importance of family, of the damage a lie can do, and of how nothing is ever what it seems.
Bad Things by Michael Marshall RRP:RM35.90 Price: RM9.90
From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Intruders and The Straw Men comes a nerve-shattering story of guilt, rage, deadly secrets, and very, very . . . bad things. Three years ago, lawyer John Henderson watched his four-year-old son tumble from a jetty into the lake outside their Washington home. In a terrible instant, a life all too brief and innocent ended. But it wasn’t drowning, the fall, or even some previously undetected internal defect that killed the little boy. Scott Henderson had simply, inexplicably . . . died. Today, John is a different man—divorced, living a solitary existence in a beach house in Oregon, working as a waiter in a restaurant that caters to the summer crowd. Withdrawn from a life and past too painful to revisit, he touches no one and no one touches him. Then one night he receives a short and profoundly disturbing e-mail message from a stranger. It reads: I know what happened.
A twisting, relentlessly thrilling, and consistently surprising novel of psychological suspense, Michael Marshall’s Bad Things is a masterwork of chilling brilliance that will keep the reader guessing right to the final page.
RM9.90 Bargain Corner Books!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010Who wouldn’t love the Bargain Corner? These books may not be bestsellers but they sure are worth a read! Interesting twisty plotlines we noticed here! 
Do give ‘em a chance & pick up a copy or two that interests you…
Marker by Robin Cook
As Robin Cook’s roller-coaster of a medical thriller opens, otherwise healthy people are dying shortly after undergoing minor surgery in New York City hospitals. Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton, the sparring lovers and co-workers from a previous Cook novel, Vector, must put their romantic difficulties aside when Laurie realizes that a serial killer is responsible for the deaths, and that she herself could be one of the killer’s next targets.
Talking to Strange Men by Ruth Rendell
The coded messages that John Creevey should never have seen were coming in fast. Was it a major spy ring? A drugs gang? A protection racket? Whatever, to John Creevey the messages were a lifeline — a means of getting back his wife and perhaps a way to harm the man who had seduced her away from him.
Fallen Hearts by Virginia Andrews
Returning home to Virginia and about to marry her first love, Heaven finally feels she can get on with her life. Until her past yet again returns to haunt her!
Your Cheatin’ Heart by Anne McCartney
Your Cheatin’ Heart is set in 1977 in America when drugs, sex and rock and roll were all that really mattered. Twenty-one-year-old Maggie Lennon from Northern Ireland travels to America looking for a summer job before settling into her career as a teacher. What she finds is very different to what she imagined. As Maggie’s career takes off, her love life takes a nosedive. We don’t know how it happens or whether Maggie must be crazy, but pretty soon she’s standing with a gun in her hand, Buford’s girlfriend is lying on the floor and the police are on their way…
**McCartney’s second novel is a roller coaster of a read. Hilarious, evocative and moving, you will adore Maggie and the rest of the crazy cast.**
The Breakdown Lane by Jacklyn Mitchard
Every family has it’s problems – Julie Gillis collects them. She’s used to telling the readers of her agony column what to do, but somehow she’s missed the warning signs at home. A loving mother and a good wife, she is shattered when her husband Leo walks out, leaving her to bring up two teenagers and a small daughter alone. But even tougher times lie ahead – and Julie’s going to need all she’s got to keep her family together and start again. With her trademark insight, Jacquelyn Mitchard delicately unravels the complications of human emotion within a story that is compelling as it is inspiring.
Blood Ties by Pamela Freeman
Bramble: a village girl, whom no-one living can tame … forced to flee from her home for a crime she did not commit.
Ash: apprentice to a safeguarder, forced to kill for an employer he cannot escape.
Saker: an enchanter, who will not rest until the land is returned to his people.
As their three stories unfold, along with the stories of those whose lives they touch, it becomes clear that they are bound together in ways that not even a stonecaster could foresee – bound by their past, their future, and their blood.
Mosquito by Roma Tearn
A lyrical and profoundly moving story of love, loss and civil war, set in Sri Lanka, London and Venice. When author Theo Samarajeeva returns to his native Sri Lanka after his wife’s death, he hopes to escape his gnawing loss amidst the lush landscape of his increasingly war-torn country. Beautifully written, by turns heartbreaking and uplifting, ‘Mosquito’ is a first novel of remarkable and compelling power.
The Story of You by Julie Myerson
This book begins with snow, the story of you. It is a freezing room in a student house, a sagging mattress on the floor, and two people, one nineteen, the other twenty, kissing passionately, all night. It is to this scene that, twenty years later, Rosy, the narrator of Julie Myerson’s astonishing new novel, returns obsessively. She has just lost a child in a terrible, careless accident, and Tom, her partner, has taken her to Paris to forget about things, to start again. “The Story of You” is an account of a woman trying to get by as a mother, a wife, while falling in love with a man from a memory. As always Julie Myerson maps the vagaries of the human heart with extraordinary empathy and precision, while at the same time keeping the reader in breathless suspense and on the edge of tears.
Chicago by Alaa al Aswany
This is a story of love, sex, friendship, hatred, and ambition, pulsating and alive with a rich and unforgettable cast of American and Arab characters who are achingly human in their desires and needs. Beautifully rendered, this is an illuminating portrait of America, a complex, often contradictory land in which triumph and failure, opportunity and oppression, small dramas and big dreams coexist. Chicago is a powerfully engrossing novel of culture and individuality from one of the most original voices in contemporary world literature.
The Berlin Cross by Greg Flynn
Down and out New York PI John Docker has a past he’d rather forget. So when he finds himself in Berlin in 1948, just after the Russians blockade the city in a move that ultimately sparks the Cold War, it’s against his better judgment. Docker is there to track down some stolen treasure – the Cross of Christ, a legendary religious relic that was last in the hands of the Nazis and is now missing. Reluctantly he collaborates with British Military Policeman Captain Beauchamp.Against the backdrop of the Berlin airlift, Docker and Beauchamp race against the clock in a bid to recover the atomic secrets and the Cross. THE BERLIN CROSS is an extraordinary debut crime thriller by a gifted author with a great future. Dark, witty, full of rich, authentic detail and with a cast of memorable characters, many from the history books, it keeps you guessing until the end.
The Assassin King by Elizabeth Haydon
Haydons lyrical sixth installment in her sweeping saga . . . While deftly managing a large cast of intriguing characters in a story thats both grand and intimate but never predictable, Haydon moves all the pieces into place for the next volume.–”Publishers Weekly.”
Rifling Paradise by Jem Poster
When past indiscretions catch up with Charles Redbourne, a minor English landowner, he is propelled from England to Australia, where he plans to make his mark as a naturalist. There, his life begins to change dramatically, not least when he meets his host’s wayward, artistic daughter. But it is on an expedition in search of scientific specimens in the Blue Mountains that events take a terrifying turn. Vividly conveying the unspoken codes of Victorian society, this is a gripping tale of an emotional and psychological reckoning, which offers an inspired meditation on the relationship between humankind and the natural world.
Four Play by Fiona Walker
Despite her broken heart, when Dilly Gently joins Magnus Olensen’s new band, the chemistry between them is explosive. Both impossibly romantic blondes with the souls of poets, they seem to be made for one another. But before they have chance to declare their affections, Dilly’s friend Nell confides that she has a huge crush on Magnus, and Dilly nobly steps down in order to play the reluctant matchmaker. Nell returns the favor by setting Dilly up with her dashing twin brother, Flipper. But Flipper is not a good rebound for a true romantic: he hides a secret that could break Dilly’s heart all over again.