Atlantic Ave Magazine - October 2018

otta Read
entertainment | GOTTA read By lisa marie
An Easy Death
by Charlaine Harris
Released October 2
The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling
author of the Sookie Stackhouse series,
the inspiration for HBO’s True Blood, and
the Midnight Crossroad trilogy adapted for
NBC’s Midnight, Texas, has written a taut new
thriller—the first in the Gunnie Rose series—
centered on a young gunslinging mercenary,
Lizbeth Rose.
Set in a fractured United States, in the
southwestern country now known as Texoma.
A world where magic is acknowledged but
mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger
named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across
the border to Mexico, Lizbeth Rose takes a job
offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their
local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie
Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation
and they’re at a desperate crossroad,
even if they won’t admit it. They’re searching
through the small border towns near Mexico,
trying to locate a low-level magic practitioner,
Oleg Karkarov. The wizards believe Oleg is a
direct descendant of Grigori Rasputin, and
that Oleg’s blood can save the young tsar’s life.
As the trio journey through an altered
America, shattered into several countries by
the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and
the Great Depression, they’re set on by enemies.
It’s clear that a powerful force does not
want them to succeed in their mission. Lizbeth
Rose is a gunnie who has never failed a client,
but her oath will test all of her skills and resolve
to get them all out alive.
Cut and Run
by Mary BurTOn
Released October 9
Twin sisters separated by the past are reunited
by unspeakable crimes in New
York Times bestselling author Mary Burton’s
throat-clutching novel of suspense…
Trauma victims are not new to medical examiner
Faith McIntyre, but this one is different.
The unconscious woman clinging to life
after a hit and run is FBI agent Macy Crow.
What the woman from Quantico was doing
in a dark alley after midnight is just one
mystery. The other is more unsettling: Macy
is Faith’s mirror image—the twin sister she
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never knew she had.
Faith knew that she was adopted, but now
she’s finding that her childhood concealed
other secrets. Following the trail of clues
Macy left behind, Faith and Texas Ranger
Mitchell Hayden make a shocking discovery
on an isolated country ranch—a burial
ground for three women who disappeared
thirty years before.
They weren’t the only victims in a killer’s
twisted plot. And they won’t be the last.
As the missing pieces of Faith’s and Macy’s
dark lives snap into place, Faith is becoming
more terrified by what she sees—and by what
she must do to save her sister and herself from
the past.
In the Hurricane’s
Eye: The Genius of
George Washington
and the Victory at
Yorktown
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Released October 16
The thrilling story of the year that won the
Revolutionary War from the New York
Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the
Sea and Valiant Ambition.
In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating
years of war, George Washington had come to
realize that the only way to defeat the British
Empire was with the help of the French Navy.
But as he had learned after two years of trying,
coordinating his army’s movements with
those of a fleet of warships-based thousands of
miles away was next to impossible. And then,
on September 5, 1781, the impossible happened.
Recognized today as one of the most
important naval engagements in the history
of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake—
fought without a single American ship—made
the subsequent victory of the Americans at
Yorktown a virtual inevitability.
In a narrative that moves from Washington’s
headquarters on the Hudson River, to the
wooded hillside in North Carolina where Nathanael
Greene fought Lord Cornwallis to a vicious
draw, to Lafayette’s brilliant series of maneuvers
across Tidewater Virginia, Philbrick
details the epic and suspenseful year through
to its triumphant conclusion. A riveting and
wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected
turns, In the Hurricane’s Eye reveals that
the fate of the American Revolution depended,
in the end, on Washington and the sea.
Back Stabbers
by Julie Mulhern
Released October 23
All Ellison Russell wanted was an update on
her stock portfolio. Instead, she found her
broker dead.
With an unexpected out-of-town guest at
her house, Ellison is too busy for a murder investigation.
Only this time, Detective Anarchy
Jones wants her help, and she can’t deny the
handsome detective. Can Mr. Coffee supply her
with enough caffeine to keep her brain sharp
and everyone else happy?
Juggling bodies (one, two, three, four), twofaced
friends, her social calendar, and a cat
(yes, a cat) is taxing but Mother might be the
biggest challenge of all.
With a killer drawing closer, can Ellison put
together the pieces or will she be the one getting
stabbed in the back?