Sunday, September 4, 2011

Patiently Awaiting

These are some forthcoming books that I am patiently (or not so patiently) awaiting the release of.


Season 4 of Castle premiers 19 September, the fourth installment of the Nikki Heat series comes out the day after. It will be a good fall.

Heat Rises by Richard Castle
Expected publication: 20 September 2011 by Hyperion

Fast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat with hotshot reporter Jameson Rook in New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most thrilling mystery yet.

The bizarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat's most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York's most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. And that is just the tip of an iceberg that leads to a dark conspiracy reaching all the way to the highest level of the NYPD.

But when she gets too close to the truth, Nikki finds herself disgraced, stripped of her badge, and out on her own as a target for killers, with nobody she can trust. Except maybe the one man in her life who's not a cop: reporter Jameson Rook.
In the midst of New York's coldest winter in a hundred years, there's one thing Nikki is determined to prove: Heat Rises. (Goodreads)


I'm not even close to catching up to this 16th book in the Jack Reacher series, but I'm always happy to see a new Reacher book being published because then I know I have even more to look forward to.

The Affair by Lee Child
Expected publication: 29 September by Bantam Press

Everything starts somewhere. . . .For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup.

A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.

Reacher is ordered undercoverto find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming, and the investigation spins out of control.

Local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux has a thirst for justiceand an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust one another, Reacher and Deveraux reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission, and turn him into a man to be feared.
(Amazon)


I've only read one book by Cecelia Ahern before (The Book of Tomorrow), but I really liked it. I can't wait to try one of her adult books, and this one sounds interesting. And I love the cover.

The Time of My Life by Cecelia Ahern
Expected publication: 13 October by HarperCollins

Dear Lucy Silchester, You have an appointment for Monday 27th July 2011. Yours sincerely Life.

Lucy Silchester has received an appointment card. Actually, she's been invited along a few times to this appointment, but she keeps brushing the gold embossed envelope under the shag pile carpet. She's taken her eye off the ball and has busied herself with work (a job she doesn't love), helping out friends, fixing her car, feeding her cat, seeing her family and devoting her time to their life dramas. But Lucy is about to find out that this is one appointment that she can't miss. And she can't escape it either. Her Life is about to catch up with her in the most surreal of ways. (Goodreads)



The Scarecrow series is my favourite of Matthew Reilly's books, and this sounds just as good as the rest.

Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves by Matthew Reilly
Expected publication:12 October by Simon & Schuster

At an abandoned Soviet base in the Arctic, the battle to save the world has begun...

THE SECRET BASE
It is a top-secret base known only as Dragon Island. A long-forgotten relic of the Cold War, it houses a weapon of terrible destructive force, a weapon that has just been re-activated...

A RENEGADE ARMY
When Dragon Island is seized by a brutal terrorist force calling itself the Army of Thieves, the fate of the world hangs in the balance, and there are no crack units close enough to get there in time to stop the Army setting off the weapon.

ONE SMALL TEAM
Except, that is, for a small equipment-testing team up in the Arctic led by a Marine captain named Schofield, call-sign SCARECROW. It's not a strike force; just a handful of Marines and civilians. It's not equipped to attack a fortified island held by a vicious army. But Scarecrow will lead the team in anyway, because someone has to.
. (Goodreads)

What books are you patiently awaiting?

4 comments:

Gigi Ann said...

I like the "Castle" TV show, and I look forward to reading that book. Thanks for reminding me of the dates.

Carine said...

I did not know there was a third Niki heat novel coming out soon. I read the first one while in NYC this summer and watched the first 2 seasons on DVD.

Priya said...

New here, just came across your blog!
Ooh, I totally forgot about the Nikki Heat books! I have only read Heat Wave, but I liked it. I read the first book in the Jack Reacher series, but I wasn't as impressed as I was expecting to be! Maybe I had too many expectations; I hate it when hype ruins a book for me. I am going to give the sequels a try, hoping I'll like them! Hope you enjoy these books!

Hilde said...

I love Castle, and can't wait for the new season to start. I really enjoyed Heat Wave; it felt like reading an episode of the show. :)

Priya - I didn't like Killing Floor as much as I had hoped either, but I liked the next two books in the series much better. I hope you will too. :)

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