Border Crossings by Michael Weems

While on spring Break in Cancun Taylor Woodall is kidnapped her parents call on an old family friend to help find her.  Catherine James not only takes on the case but won't let it go until she feels that justice has been served.  Since the corrupt justice system in Mexico can't be trusted to bite the hand that feeds it she will.

I loved this book.  Don't read it if you are on your way to sunny Cancun soon but otherwise it is a great read.  Definately going to check out more by this author.

The Surrogate by Tania Carver

In Colchester a very brutal murder takes place where two women are killed and an unborn child is stolen from the belly of one of the victims.  Detective Inspector Philip Brennan and psychologist Marina Esposito team up to try and solve this crime, stop a serial killer and save the life of the infant. 

This was a great book had me on the edge of my seat and I had a hard time putting it down. 

Descentant: Chronicles of the Ipswich Witch by Miranda Bachman

This was a very different take on vampires.  Placing them as a type of fallen angels created by God to punish or cause some wicked people to be forced to meet their maker and be judged ahead of their natural time.  A witch from the 1700's who has become very powerful by helping demons pass over into our world has also learned to body swap keeping herself alive.  Unable to swap and steal the body of a vampire she has come up with a plan to get her own immortal body.  It has taken hundreds of years but she is now on the brink of getting everything she has worked for. 

This was a good book, quick read.  Vampires have a different history in this book then I have ever read before, but I found it to be interesting. 

The Girl Who Disappeared Twice by Andrea Kane

Hope Willis a family court judge lived through her twin sister being kidnapped right out of the bed they were sharing when she was 6 years old.  Now 32 years later her own 6 year old daughter has just been kidnapped.  The clock is ticking so she calls in Forensic Instincts to help find her daughter.  They have never been involved in a kidnapping case but reluctantly agree to take on the job along with local police and the FBI. 

I really liked this book and it looks like there are others on the horizon for the Forensic Instincts team.  I loved almost all of the characters and found the story to be interesting and liked the way the author writes.  Although I have never read anything by this author before I see myself reading more of her books and will definately read any others in this series.

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake - Aimee Bender

Rose Edelstein at the age of nine realizes that she can taste the emotions of the people that prepared her food.  All of their emotions the good, the bad and the ugly and there are very few that seem to make for very good flavoring in food.  Emotions harbor secrets and most of them she doesn't want to know.  As she grows she learns to come to terms with not only her own secret ability but the secrets of those around her, learning that the things we keep hidden can be what shapes us the most.  The end of the book kind of took a twist that I wasn't expecting but I won't put any spoilers in. 

This was a pretty quick easy read took a couple of hours total.  If I hadn't been reading this for a book club I don't think that I would have finished it.  The twist at the end did redeem it a little and make it a little more interesting, but it also ended rather abrubtly.  I felt like it left to many unanswered questions about certain characters.  I wish that she would have spent a little less time talking about all of the foods Rose ate and a little more time developing other characters and storylines that were mentioned but left you wanting more.  I don't know that I would read another book by this same author, I would have to take a look at some of her other stuff before I could say no all together.  It was an intersting concept for a book.

Deliverance From Evil by Frances Hill

George Burrows was a Puritan pastor who had been the pastor in Salem in the early 1680's.  He left Salem after some disputes with some neighbors and moved to Maine.   During the Salem witch trials he was arrested, taken to Salem where he was examined found guilty and hanged. He was reported as giving a very moving last speech just before he was put to death.  

This was a fascinating book, I felt that since the hero of the book is a man it created a different feel from other books on the same subject. 

Oblivion (Witches of Santa Anna #13)

Today I read Oblivion by Lauren Barnholdt and Aaron Gorvine part of the Witches of Santa Anna series.  These are novellas and this book marks the end of season two.  Natalia and Cam two high school students  have found each other are in love and trying to stay together.  They are caught in the middle of some sort of struggle between two opposing sides.  One being good one being evil although we still don't know which is which.  One side wants them together and one wants them apart.  Stay tuned to find out who is good and who gets what they want.  I guess? 

This is an interesting story line although I don't know how into the whole novella thing I am.  I will continue reading to find out what happens.  There is some language.