Coming Soon: April 16

Nora Roberts new thriller is The Witness. Young Elizabeth grew up with a controlling mother, finally one night she lets loose and goes to a bar to get drunk. While there she lets a strange man with a Russian accent seduce her and bring her back to his house. The decision she made that night changed her life forever.

Now twelve years later, a woman known as Abigail Lowery lives a secluded life in the Ozarks. She earns a living by creating sophisticated security systems. She is very private and lives alone with a guard dog and an assortment of guns. By all outward accounts she wants to be left alone but her mysterious life catches the attention of the police chief Brooks Gleason. He is fascinated by her, she is secretive and logical, and he guesses that she is protecting herself from something. There is a story behind her, and he wants to know what it is.

 

Another book by Iris Johnson featuring two characters from the Eve/Quinn/Bonnie Trilogy I read, as well as other books. Catherine Ling and John Gallo were my favourite two, they had great chemistry and it would be nice to get to know them better since they weren't the focus of the trilogy.

This book focuses on Catherine, the beautiful but deadly woman who was abandoned on the streets of Hong Kong at the age of four. She learned to survive on her own, and as a teenager came under the guidance of a mysterious man named Hu Chang, an assassin and master in poisoner.  Recruited by the CIA she deals with information and is one of the best operatives they have, but she is smart and knows that she is expendable by those she deals with. When Hu Chang creates something so deadly, there is a race to get it first.  John Gallo is on the hunt too, and Catherine finds herself pitted against people so evil she is not sure if she will be able to survive.

This book is by David Baldacci. It is about a hitman who goes soft. The plot line kind of reminds me of a movie I saw once with a similar idea.

Will Robie works for the U.S government, his job is to kill those that the military and the FBI can't touch, and he never questions  his orders. This time is different. His target is close by, in Washington D.C. Something about it just doesn't feel right and for the first time in his career he decides to disobey the order. The decision puts him in the cross hairs for a change. While fleeing the scene he runs into a teenage girl. She is a runaway from a foster home, but Robie begins to believe she is in the middle of a cover-up. Her parents were murdered and now her life is in danger too. Out of character Robie rescues her and is thinking about putting his own life in danger to help her.