Amy

The Devil You Know is the first in the Felix Castor series. Castor is the modern version of Sam Spade- if Sam Spade were an exorcist. In Carey's post-millennial London, the world didn't end as Y2Kers feared, but the barrier between living and dead became a lot thinner. A rogue succubus is the new femme fatale and a computer geek zombie is the equivalent to the friend in the record's office. Castor's investigation takes him all over the seedy other world underworld filled with plenty of villains- living and dead.

-Amy

The Winter Queen is the first in Akunin's Erast Fandorin series. In this outing, Fandorin must navigate the high society of Imperial Russia to thwart a potential national threat. This thrilling mystery also offers a glimpse of Russian history few Americans know, the one that existed before the Revolution and the Soviet era.

Brooklyn, Burning captures the fierce, frightening, wonderful feeling of first love. It is not a traditional telling of the well known story, but a very modern one. This is a YA book for anyone who likes a writer with an original voice and characters you swear you could pick out on the street.

-Amy

Kate is given an impossible choice- to save her mother's life, she must sacrifice her own. She accepts a challenge and pledges herself to Henry. Even as the prospect of spending eternity with the god of the underworld seems more appealing, Kate is threatened by unknown forces who wish to see her fail. The Goddess Test is the first in Aimee Carter's YA Greek inspired series and is based on the fable of Persephone and Hades.

-Amy