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Louis Lamour

Sacketts 08 - Sackett

William Tell Sackett, oldest of five brothers including Tyrel and Orrin, finds an old gold mine deep in the mountains of Colorado, once worked by conquistadors hundreds of years before. He also finds a young girl, Angie Kerry, who came with her grandfather to mine the gold. The grandfather has died, and she fights a daily battle for survival until Tell rescues her. Tell has a knack for collecting dangerous enemies. The Bigalows, a group of rough brothers with plenty of nerve but very poor judgment, want him for killing their brother, Wes, in a shootout over cheating at cards. Will Boyd wants to get even with Tell for humiliating him after another saloon altercation. Kid Newton is just a would-be bad man running with the wrong crowd. With Angie and Cap Roundtree, a friend of Tyrel and Orrin's, Tell returns to the hidden valley deep in the mountains to bring out the gold. But he soon learns his enemies have banded together and found the hidden entrance to the valley. Both groups are trapped, however, when the entrance is buried by an early snow fall. Time period: 1874-1875.

Mercedes Lackey

Sacred Ground

From School Library Journal

YA-Native American Jennifer Talldeer is a private investigator who usually deals with mundane cases of divorce, insurance fraud, and missing persons. Her cantankerous grandfather is teaching her the skills of a shaman and the magic possessed by warriors. When she is hired by an insurance company to look into the bombing of a shopping mall where fragments of Indian artifacts are discovered, both of these interests come into play. The burial ground of her ancestors has been destroyed as well as the mall site, freeing evil spirits who hinder the investigation and threaten to destroy her and the entire world. Jennifer must also deal with the return of her former lover, David Spotted Horse, who is an Indian activist and a prime suspect in the bombing. Skillfully weaving a tale of fantasy, mystery, and Native American folklore, Lackey has written a unique novel sure to appeal to YAs.
Katherine Fitch, Lake Braddock Secondary School, Burke, VA
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Jennifer Talldeer, a private investigator and Osage shaman-in-training, follows a trail of sabotage and murder as a routine insurance investigation unearths a conspiracy between an unscrupulous businessman and a powerful spirit of vengeance. Set in contemporary Oklahoma, Lackey's fantasy/mystery crossover draws on the region's rich Native American heritage for atmosphere. Although the villain's identity is apparent early in the tale, a strong female protagonist and colorful supporting characters maintain interest in an otherwise predictable story. The author's popularity should ensure a readership for this title.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Frank Lesser

Sad Monsters

An Emmy Award-winning writer for The Colbert Report follows in the (big) footsteps of Bigfoot: I Not Dead.

Monsters have it tough. Besides being deeply misunderstood, they suffer from very real problems: Mummies have body image issues, Godzilla is going through an existential crisis, and creatures from the black lagoon face discrimination from creatures from the white lagoon. At heart, these monsters are human; after all, you are what you eat. Quirkily illustrated, Sad Monsters hilariously documents the trials and tribulations of all the undead creatures monster-mad readers have grown to love, from vampires and werewolves, to chupacabras and sphinxes, and even claw-footed bathtubs.

Richard Laymon

Savage

From Publishers Weekly

Relating a gruesome story through the first-person narrative of an ingenuous 15-year-old boy, horror novelist Laymon ( The Stake ) appears to aim at the complex tone of Huckleberry Finn . He doesn't even come close, although that parallel might explain his London-born narrator's curiously un-British speech patterns ("gas lamps didn't give off a whole lot of light"). After witnessing Jack the Ripper's final murder on the streets of Whitechapel in 1888, Trevor Bentley is pursued by the psychopath into the Thames and ends up as his prisoner on a yacht bound for America. Improbable plot twists take both characters to Arizona, where the Ripper wreaks havoc while Trevor encounters a couple of snake-oil salesmen, rides with a bandit gang, becomes a crack shot and falls in love with pert, 16-year-old Jesse Sue Longley. The young couple survive a gore-splattered encounter with the Ripper in an Arizona cave, going on to marriage and a career in the snake-oil business. The grisly mutilation scenes induce no horror, Trevor's unrelenting innocence becomes tiresome, and his byplay with Jesse skirts soft-core kiddy-porn.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

In 1888, Following a disturbance at home, Trevor Bentley's mother sends the 15-year-old to find his uncle, a constable on the London police force. Trevor embarks on a bizarre sequence of adventures, beginning with his witnessing Jack the Ripper at work. Over the next few months, the Ripper and Trevor pursue each other across the Atlantic and on to Arizona, sometimes exchanging roles of hunter and the hunted. Laymon's other horror novels include The Stake (St. Martin's, 1992) and, under the pseudonym Richard Kelly, Midnight's Lair (St Martin's, 1991). He is an accomplished wordsmith, but Savage 's plot falters with too many improbabilities and the author's denigrating peep show presentation of his women characters. Not a necessary puchase.
- Robert Jordan, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Robert Ludlum

The Scarlatti inheritance

SUMMARY: Her weapons: Money and Power. Her target: The most dangerous man in the world--her son. Elizabeht Wyckman Scarlatti has a plan--a desperate, last-minute gamble--designed to save the world from her own son, Ulster, an incalculably dangerous man who is working under the name of Heinrich Kroeger: Unless she can stop him, he is about to give Hitler's Third Reich the most powerful triumph on earth. "Great, astonishing, the most spellbinding suspense in years!"-- "Minneapolis Tribune." "Has that sense of drama and pact that only the best storytellers have."-- "San Francisco Chronicle." "Drive and excitement from first page to last."--Mario Puzo, author of "The Godfather." "Gripping. . .Ludlum writes with imagination and convincing authority."-- "Baltimore Sun"

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