TailSpin, by Catherine Coulter

Married FBI agents Savich and Sherlock are back in action. The book begins when a drugged girl wakes up enough to discover she's about to be drowned. She was the captain of her college swim team so is able to escape, and then is in the right place to save someone else when a plane crashes. A fast-paced, tense page-turner.

Off season, by anne Rivers Siddons

Set in Maine against the rocky coast, this novel ebbs and flows with the tide, telling the love story of Lilly and Cam. Lilly's childhood is well drawn, a loving family hit with tragedy and retreating to Washington, DC. Then Lilly meets Cam, and begins to live again. Siddons does another excellent job of pulling us into her characters' lives.

Foreign bodies, by Robin Cook

Another medical thriller by one of the most recognized physician-authors. The subject is "medical tourism," Americans traveling overseas for cheap operations. Is this a threat to the U.S. healthcare industry? One company thinks so, and sends a mole to India to start killing off patients, creating a PR nightmare. If only Cook's characters weren't so flat and lifeless...

The Broken window, by Jeffery Deaver

When Captain Lincoln Rhyme, the paraplegic, learns that his cousin has been arrested for murder, he reluctantly agrees to look into it. The evidence against his cousin, he learns, has been carefully arranged by someone who used computer access to incriminate him. And his cousin is not the only one who's been set up this way. One company, SSD, a "knowledge service provider," has collected computer information on all of us "16's" and sells it to corporations as well as the government. Get ting too close to the criminal, Rhyme has his electricity turned off due to nonpayment of bills; Amelia Sachs, his partner, has her car (a 1969 Camaro) repossessed; one detective fails his drug test and another detective's wife is seized by INS officials. We librarians do our best to protect patron privacy; it's mind-boggling how much information is available online and how it can be twisted against us.

Tropic Thunder (movie)

This movie is like getting on a plane to Boston, and then finding out that it's really going to Bora Bora. Do you tell the flight attendant you're on the wrong plane, or do you settle back and enjoy the unique experience? Racist, indeed. Pokes fun at people with disabilities, yes. Trite ending, absolutely. Ben Stiller knows just how far he can go -- and then goes even farther, getting great performances from these terrific actors.

Fractured, by Karin Slaughter

Imagine a mother's rage as she finds her daughter dead and the murderer standing over her. This mother kills him with her bare hands. The Atlanta police have a closed case. Enter Will Trent from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, who finds that another girl was also there, and has been kidnapped. Slaughter takes us on a wild ride and you'll enjoy each twist and turn. This is the second time Will Trent, the dyslexic detective, shows up as a character in one of Slaughter's books. He's a keeper!

Shadow of power, by Steve Martini

Did you realize that in the Constitution, former slaves are referred to as 3/5 of a human being? The language itself has not been amended. A new book reveals that to the general public, and the author is on a book tour, generating protests that are increasingly violent. He refers to a letter written by Jefferson that is so inflammatory, he predicts social revolution will occur. After he's murdered, attorney Paul Madriani defends the accused killer.

What was lost, by Catherine O'Flynn

Kate, ten, has her own detective agency and takes her notebook of observations everywhere she goes. Although she doesn't have any friends her age she hangs out with the 20-year-old son of the shopkeeper next door.
The story then leaps ahead in time, and you learn that Kate disappeared. You don't learn what actually happened until the end of the book. That engaging ten-year-old will stay with me for a long time.