Mike's 111 in 2011

#1 Savages: a Novel by Don Winslow
Partners Chon and Ben are informed that the Mexican Baja Cartel want to take over their marajuana operation. When they kidnap their friend Ophelia, the cartel goes too far.

#2 Blood of My Brother by James LePore
An attorney wants to find who killed his best friend and then take revenge.

#3 the green pope by Miguel Angel Asturias A former pirate in the Caribbean decides to make more money on the land and begins buying land from innocent natices to have a large bananna plantation in South America.

#4 The Sentry by Robert Crais
Joe Pike is a good samaratan and helps a store owner and the owner's niece. He opens up a world of mystery that he couldn't have imagined.

#5 Body Work Sara Paretsky Vic Warshawski is hired to clear the name of an Iraq vet accused of murder.

#6 Don't Blink by James Patterson
New York reporter Nick Daniels hears the voice of the killer when Nick plays back the tape of an interview he conducted.

#7 Ape House: A Novel by Sara Gruen
Animal rights extremists set a bomb in a language lab where bonobo apes are being studied. Then the university sells the apes to a man who puts them on a reality TV show.

I just read Ape House. What did you think of it?

#8 Afraid by Jack Kilborn
A book in the vien of King or Koontz. A helicoptor crashes in a lake outside a small town and the terrorists in the chopper begin torturing and killing town residents.

#9 Tripwire by Lee Child
Jack Reacher is asked to help an old friend's daughter. A missing soldier from Vietnam is searched for and the real history of that soldier will surprise the reader.

#10 Damaged: A Maggie O'Dell Novel
by Alex Kava
FBI profiler, Maggie O'Dell helps with a case where body parts are found in a fisherman's cooler.

#11 Spirit Storm by E.J. Stevens
Yuki helps Calvin identify the killer of a werewolf in his pack. Then she must deal with Samhain when the spirits of the dead are able to run free.

#12 The Officers' Club by Ralph Peters
Roy Banks is questioned about the murder of Lt. Jessica Lamoureaux.
The story is about what had led up to the murder.

#13 The Unwanted by John Saul
High School student Cassie Winslow comes to live at Cape Cod after her mother's death. Not long after, strange things begin to happen.

#14 Shaken J. A. Konrath
Former Chicago cop, Jackie "Jack" Daniels is abducted by a serial killer who intends to torture and kill her.

#15 Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva
A newspaper reporter investigates a number of arson fires to his old neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island.

#16 The Firm John Grisham Mitch McDerre takes a job in a law firm in Memphis and finds that the firm is doing illegal things and he may have no way to get out.

#18 undressing the moon by T. Greenwood
Piper Kincaid comes down with cancer at age thirty and thinks about her earlier life.

The Firm is still my favorite Grisham novel.

Grisham --> Playing for Pizza and The Testament

#19 Faithful Place by Tana French
A Dublin, Ireland cop was to run away with his girlfriend and get married but she didn't show. Now her suitcase is found in an abandoned house and he begins to investigate.

I've considered Faithful Place several times... it looks very good, but still...

#20 A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
In 1719 Jewish investigator Benjamin Weaver learns that his father's death may have been a murder and investigates.

#21 Worth Dying For Lee Child
Jack Reacher arrives in a small Nebraska town and helps the residents who are being controlled by an evil family named Duncan.

#22 The Reversal Michael Connelly
Mickey Hatcher and Harry Bosch work together to retry and attempt to send a convicted kidnapper and child killer back to prison after he was given a new trial based on DNA evidence.

#23 Absolute Certainty Rose Connors
Assistant DA Martha "Marty' Nickerson is trying to find the person killing young men in her community.

#24 The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Mickey Haller must defend a man he knows is guilty of murder.

#25 The Corruptible by Mark Mynheir
Ray Quinn, former homicide detective is asked to find ex-cop Logan Ramsey who is supposed to have taken client information from Armon Mayer.

#26 Breach of Trust by David Ellis
Jason Kolarich goes undercover with the FBI to help catch corrupt officials and catch a murderer.

#27 The Innocents by Richard Barre
Wil Hardesty attempts to find the person responsible for the deaths of seven children found buried in the California desert.

#28 Eve Iris Johansen
Eve Duncan looks for answers about her daughter, Bonnie's kidnapping.

#29 Power Down by Ben Cole
Terrorists strike against the U.S. energy system and Dewey Andreas fights back.

#30 The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
A Marine in Iraq finds a photo of a woman in front of a sign Luck Lady and comes to feel that the woman in the sign is protecting him. After his discharge from the Marines, he finds the woman.

#30 Three Seconds by Roslund and Hellstrom
In Sweden, the Polish Mafia are involved in smuggling drugs. An undercover police officer has become one of the higher ups in the Mafia and a valuable police operative. His life is in danger.

#31 The Mammoth Hunters by Jean M Auel Continuing saga of the Earth's Children.

#32 Dust by Joan Frances Turner A group of zombies finds that an epidemic is killing their members and also the humans.

#33 Hostage Zero John Gilstrap
Jonathan "Digger" Grave tries to rescue two teenage boys who have been kidnapped and find the reason for the crime.

#34 the many aspects of mobile home living by martin clark
A southern judge goes on a treasure hunt and begins divorce proceedings against his wife when he finds her at a motel with another man.

#35 The Last Estate by Conor Bowman A coming of age story in France in 1917-1920.

#36 Heads You Lose Lisa Lutz and David Howard
A young brother and sister find a decapitated body on their front lawn. They can't call the police for fear that the police will find the pot they're growing in their back yard so they decide to find the killer themselves.

#37 Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner
Boston det. D.D. Warren investigates two families that were murdered.

#38 The Inner Circle by Brad Meltzer
A person at the National Archives finds a dictionary that belonged to George Washington and was a method for Washington to contact his own group of spies.

#39 Sons and Princes by James LePore
Chris Massi attempts to run his life in a legal manner but circumstances and his father's history with the Mafia challenge this.

#40 Power in the Blood by Michael Lister
A prison chaplain witnesses a prisoner who is killed, apparently attempting escape. The chaplain is ordered to help in the investigation of the situation.

#41 An Impartial Witness by Charles Todd
Bess Crawford helps investigate the death of a wounded soldier's wife in WWI.

#42 Fallen Karin Slaughter
Faith Mitchell and her partner, Will Tent help search for Faith's mother, who has been kidnapped.

#43 Manassas James Reasoner
The Bannon family in Culpepper, Virginia are farmers and living at the start of the Civil War.
Will, the eldest, is one of the first to enlist when the war begins.

#44 Skull Dance by Gerd Balko and Michael LoRocca
Chris Ramsdorf attempts to stop a deal where a nuclear weapon is involved.
I'm having a giveaway for this book, ending June 24th at my blog
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#45 Every Trace by Gregg Main
Ellen Donnelly seeks revenge when the man convicted for killing her father thirty-years-ago, is paroled from jail.

#46 Iron House by John Hart
Michael and Julian are raised in a home for boys. Juilian is adopted and Michael lives on the streets but their paths converge.
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# 47 Blow the House Down Robert Baer
The story of what might have been behind the scenes of 9/11 and what could have happened if officials listened to Max Waller.

#48 Dust to Dust by Heather Graham
The forces of good and evil are pitted against each other in what could be the battle of the earth.

#49 You're Next Gregg Hurwitz
Mike Wingate is abandoned by his father when Mike is age four. When Mike is an adult and is in the paper for receiving an award, a number of people begin following him in a threatening manner.

#50 Swan Peak James Lee Burke
Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcel work on two double murders in Montana.

#51 Friends or Lovers Rory Ridley-Duff
A novel about sexual harassment in the workplace.

#52 The Quest for Anna Klein Thomas H. Cook
Thomas Danforth is recruited to provide a secret place where Anna Klein can train for an operation inside Germany in pre-war 1939.
He finds himself drawn to her and to help participate.

#53 Play Dead by Ryan Brown
Two rival football teams meet for a game that will enable the zombie players on the Jackrabbits to find salvation.

#54 The Jefferson Key by Steve Berry
Former Justice Dept. operative Cotton Malone stops an attempt on the President's life and looks for the plotters.

#55 Hunter's Pursuit by Kim Baldwin
Kat is a bounty hunter with a price on her head. She rescues a woman who was in an auto accident and as she cares for the woman's injuries, she wonders if this woman was sent to kill her.

#56 Buried Prey by John Sandford
Two bodies are discovered and Lucas Davenport must reexamine an earlier case.

#57 Northwest Angle by William Kent Kureger
Cork O'Connor investigates the murder of a young woman and tries to save the murdered woman's baby.

#58 So Big by Edna Ferber 1924 Pulitzer Prize winner describes life on a farm at the turn of the century and Selina DeJong's life.

#59
13 Million Dollar Pop
by David Levine
Frank Behr investigates the attempt on the life of Bernark Kolodnik, who he saved from being murdered.

#60 To be sung underwater by Tom McNeal
A woman gets a second chance at love.

#61 The Cold Kiss by John Rector
Two young lovers, Nick and Sara, give a man a lift to Reno. In a snowstorm they pull into a run-down-motel and bad things begin to happen.

#62 In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
John Wade suffers a major loss in a political campaign and shortly after, his wife disappears.

# 63 A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd
WWI nurse Bess Crawford comes home from the battlefields of France and becomes part of a murder investigation.

#64 The Accident by
Linwood Barclay
Glen Garber investigates the situation around his wife's death.

#65 Vanished by Joseph Finder
Nick Heller searches for his brother, Roger, who has been kidnapped.

#66 The Sixth Man by David Baldacci
Former Secret Service agents, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell help defend Edgar Roy who has been accused of being a serial killer.

#67 The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly

Mickey Haller defends a client accused of murdering the banker responsible for mortgage forclosure action against her home.

#68 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
Martin Arrowsmith goes to med school and begins a life as a young doctor in the early nineteen hundreds.

#69 Act of Deceit by Steven Gore

Harlan Donnally promises a dying friend to find the friend's younger sister and when he finds she's been murdered, he decides to find her killer.

I love your ability to sum up the whole book in one fine sentence.

Thanks, Judylou.
I appreciate your kind words.
Mike

#70 Shelter by Harlan Coben
Mickey Bolitar, age fifteen investigates the disappearance of his high school girlfriend.

#71 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
John Berendt visits Savannah and writes a story about Jim Williams who is accused of killing his companion, Dnny Hansford.

#72 Screams & Whispers by Randall Peffer
A man in Cape Cod travels to Vietnam to help a lost love.

#73 First Avenue Lowen Clausen
A police officer in downtown Seattle tries to make a difference to the people on his police beat.

#74 Nightwoods Charles Frazier
The story of Lucve, a young woman who inherits her mudered sister's twins.

#75 Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
An eccentric environmentalist tries to stop a building project that he thinks will be a blemish to the natural beauty of Florida.

#76 A Hidden Affair Pam Jenoff
Jordan Weiss resigns from the Intelligence Dept. and searches for the boyfriend she thought was dead.

#80 The touch F. Paul Wilson
A family physician is grasped by a man in a hospital and soon the doctor finds that he can cure people who are ill just by touching them.

# 81 Cross Fire by James Patterson
Dr. Alex Cross is after one of his greatest enemies.

# 82 The Things We Cherished by Pam Jenoff

Charlotte Gold and Jack Warrington defend a man from WWII war crimes and develop feelings toward each other.

#83 Coup D'etat by Ben Coes
Pakistan and India seem ready for a nuclear war and Dewey Andreas is asked to carry out a coup d'etat.

# 84 The Arrivals by Meg Mitchell Moore
Live in Vermont as a retired couple have their children return home to live with them but they are not sure for how long.

#85 Killer Move by Michael Marshall
Bill Moore finds a paper with the word MODIFIED and his life changes.

#86 The Arrivals by Meg Mitchell Moore
A retired couple have their three adult children all come to their home for a prolonged stay.

#87 The Lost Angel by Javier Sierra
A scientist is kidnapped by a group that believes they are descendents of angels and are intent to destroy the world.

# 88 Feast Day of Fools" by James Lee Burke
Sheriff Hackberry Holland searches for a missing federal employee in the Texas - Mexico border area.

#89 The Alienist by Caleb Carr
A number of young boys dressed in women's clothing are murdered in 1896 and police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt sets a private investigatory team to find the killer.

#90 The Ninth Day by Jamie Freveletti
Emma Coldridge a chemist is abducted by a drug cartel to find a cure for the infection in their marijuana that is causing people who come in contact with it to become sick and die within nine days. The ultimatum, find a cure or be killed.

#91 The Burning Soul by John Connolly
PI Charlie Parker tries to find a missing teenager in Maine and find her kidnapper.

#92 Survivors James Wesley, Rawles
An economic callapse leads to a world disaster where inflation soars and paper money becomes useless. Rioting and looting begin and only those who have prepared will survive.

#93 For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Robert Jordan joins a Spanish group of guerrillas fighting against the Facist government in the Spanish Civil War.

#94 Half-Past Dawn by Richard Doetsch
DA Jack Wheeler and wife, FBI agent Mia are stopped at a bridge and ordered from their car. When Jack resists, he's shot on the arm, placed back in his car and pushed over the bridge into the water.
The next morning he opens his paper to the headlines that he and his wife are dead.

#95 Pompeii by Richard Harris
Events leading up to the eruption to the volcano that destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD.

#96 The Technologists by Matthew Pearl
In Boston Harbor, something makes the instruments on a number of ships fail at the same time. This causes seven ships to crash and great damage. Students from the newly formed MIT investigate.

#97 Burned: A Novel by Thomas Enger
A crime reporter in Oslo, Norway, investigates the killing of a college girl.

#98 The Infernals by John Connolly
A young boy and his dog fight against a powerful evil.

# 99 The Goat Woman of Largo Bay by Gilian Royes
Story of a mysterious woman who comes to Largo Bay, Jamaica.

# 100 Start Shooting by Charlie Newton

Two brothers in Chicago join the police department and have to come to grips with their past.

#101 We All Fall Down by Michael Harvey
A biological pathogen is set loose in the Chicago railway system.

#102 Stolen Souls by Stuart Neville
A woman who was being forced into prostitution escapes in Belfast, Ireland.

#103 The Most Dangerous Thing by Laura Lippman
5 young friends in the Baltimore area think of their youth and an incident that happened.

104 Star Struck by Betty Dravis
Interviews with celebrities with a personal touch

105 Splattered Blood by Michael A. Draper
A widow and her friends search for the killer of the woman's husband.

106 The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
Tells of a woman in contemporary time who finds a body in her garden. We learn of how this woman died and the owner of the house of the woman who was gardening.

107 Marshmallow Clouds by Leslie Parrott
A little girl wonders why broccoli is so yucky and how she would change the world by making things more tasty.

108 The Innocent by Taylor Stevens
A female assassin is asked to save a young teenage girl from a religious cult.

# 109 A World I Never Made by James LePore
A man searches for his estranged daughter.

#110 The Drop by Michael Connelly
Harry Bosch tries to solve the death of a politician's son.