I read alot this year.

Jeffrey Deaver has a new one out-- a Lincoln Rhyme thriller about identity theft/data mining--it was very good, but rather anxiety producing when you read about what is out there as information on people! Cringe!
The Broken Window


Also I read Pigs in Heaven, by Barbara Kingsolver.
This was just excellent...a rather complex chick type book, with more adult themes than chick books typically have. (adoption, family, subtle humor, Native American culture, etc ) It was a very good intelligent touching read.

Ann Rule, Every Breath You Take. What would summer be without an Ann Rule book? This one was exceptionally good, up there with her best. About an obsessive, narcissistic, man who stalked his ex-wife and finally had her murdered. It was pretty chilling. It is the only book she has written that was requested by the victim herself, before her own murder. This chilling story, evolves over 10 yrs and Sheila Blackthorne actually sent a letter to Ann Rule to please write her story if she is ever killed! And she was! And Ann did!

Michael Connolly-- now these were very good. I have never read a Michael Connolly thriller that I didn't like.
The Poet
The Narrows
The Closers

John Connolly, no relation to Michael Connolly.
The Black Angel
This one was just fabulous, but a little creepy. It is a "Charlie Parker" one. It was written very well.

James Rollins: Map of Bones.. introduces the "Sigma Force".
This was an action packed thriller. (he is a veterinarian in real life and writes very interesting books!)

Connie Willis-- Doomsday Book-- This won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for Sci Fi. It is about time travel back to the middle ages where the young female traveler gets sent to the Plague by mistake. Connie Willis has a very subtle droll sense of humor, and this permeates the book, along with much historical detail. This was a very compelling read.

The new Faye Kellerman was disappointing...The Mercedes Coffin. I can't recommend it.

I read my first Lisa Jackson book:
Shiver. It was pretty good. The only other "romance" I occasionally read is JD Robb (Nora Roberts) In Death series.
Shiver, I have to say was pretty good. I found this one at our local library, with about 1/2 of the above ones.

I also read Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. And Marley and Me, about the amazing yellow Lab!
I don't recommend Dreamcatcher...it was not up to his usual quality--(was pretty gross in parts)