Books by Nora Roberts and Complete Book Reviews

Nora Roberts. Berkley, $28 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-17516-9
Romance queen Roberts entices readers with a winning tale in which a woman tries to embrace love even as horrific events of her past threaten her happiness. Naomi Bowes was just a young girl living in West Virginia when she discovered a cellar where
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-16159-8
The latest from the prolific Roberts (Irish Thoroughbred) follows the survivors of a mass shooting in Maine as they piece their lives together, only to be targeted three years later by the tragedy’s mastermind. After saving a child during a shooting
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Nora Roberts. Berkley, $17 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-28012-6
Dr. Riley Gwin, the shape-shifting heroine of this dramatic Guardians Trilogy finale, will remind readers of Eve Dallas (star of Roberts’s In Death series, written as J.D. Robb), right down to her whiskey-colored eyes—but Roberts is so prolific that
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Nora Roberts. Berkley, $17 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-28011-9
A mermaid and a time and space traveler fall in love while searching for a magical object off the island of Capri and protecting it from the goddess of lies and her minions in the second Guardians fantasy romance (after Stars of Fortune). Mermaid...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-515-13122-2
The first installment of Roberts's newest trilogy set on Three Sisters island invokes the sensitive characterizations and magic that distinguished her previous trilogy (Jewels of the Sun; Tears of the Moon; Heart of the Sea). An enchanted island
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Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-14824-8
Triple-platinum romance doyenne Roberts spins a tale of bayou passions old and new in her latest romantic suspense novel, set on the grounds of a dilapidated postbellum mansion outside New Orleans. Declan Fitzgerald, a Harvard-educated Boston lawyer,
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-515-13202-1
Roberts (Dance Upon the Air) popularized the romance trilogy, and here she offers up the second installment of her newest trilogy, a conventional saga about three witches who must right the wrongs of their ancestors in order to save their homeland,...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-14840-8
Acts of thievery ultimately lead to justice in the wildly prolific Roberts's latest romantic suspense novel. The little silver statues representing Greek mythology's Three Fates are an art collector's dream: they're extremely...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-515-13287-8
The final installment in Roberts's Three Sisters trilogy (after Heaven and Earth), which is set on a New England island called Three Sisters, lacks the compelling emotional drama that has won her such a loyal readership. After being abandoned...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $25.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-14984-9
Set in and around rural Woodsboro, Md., a small town drawn with affection and familiarity, Roberts's latest is the literary equivalent of a big delicious meal whipped up by a talented home cook. She offers a dash of exoticism and innovationȁ
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-13628-9
Roberts built her reputation writing first-rate romantic tales involving legends and magic, and now she returns to the supernatural realm with a story that's not as stellar as her earlier works but should delight her fans. The life of gallery...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (338p) ISBN 978-0-515-13637-1
Following hot on the heels of the first installment in Roberts's Key trilogy, this second book (following Key of Light ) continues the story of three contemporary female friends chosen to free the souls of ancient demigoddesses called the...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-13653-1
This book concludes Roberts's Key Trilogy, in which mortal women quest to unlock the spellbound souls of ancient demigoddesses. The third and last woman to make the attempt is hairstylist Zoe McCourt. Like her friends Malory and Dana—heroin
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Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $25.95 (576p) ISBN 978-0-399-15205-4
Roberts shines again with a nuanced tale of the Alaskan wilderness and the appealing eccentrics who cluster there. Former Baltimore cop Nate Burke accepts the unlikely post of police chief of Lunacy, Alaska (pop. 506), to stave off the depression...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-515-13855-9
Flower metaphors run amok in this first installment of Roberts's newest trilogy, which focuses on a quaint nursery called In the Garden and the haunted estate neighboring it. The book starts out at a plodding pace, with the sudden death of...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (370p) ISBN 978-0-515-13865-8
Book two of Roberts's In the Garden trilogy (following Blue Dahlia ) ably showcases the author's many strengths, from her creation of appealing characters to her melding of the eerily paranormal with the delightfully down-to-earth. Rosalind...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $25.95 (437p) ISBN 978-0-399-15306-8
Romantic suspense queen Roberts (Blue Dahlia , etc.) lights up Baltimore's Little Italy with this appealing story of love, family, food and arson. Eleven-year-old Reena Hale, watching her family's restaurant go up in flames, decides to...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $25.95 (439p) ISBN 978-0-399-15372-3
Roberts's latest novel of romantic suspense is a cunningly calibrated portrait of a young chef's recovery from violent trauma. While driving in the Grand Tetons, displaced Bostonian Reece Gilmore stops in the small town of Angel's Fist,...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-515-14165-8
Romance institution Roberts dives into her first paranormal series with the first book in the Circle Trilogy. In 12th-century Ireland, sorcerer Hoyt Mac Cionaoith does battle with a centuries-old vampire named Lilith, who has turned Hoyt's twin...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (341p) ISBN 978-0-515-14166-5
Roberts's Circle Trilogy continues with this second installment (following Morrigan's Cross ), in which the circle of six prepare for their battle against the powerful vampire Lilith and her undead army. The six members, culled by the...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-515-14167-2
Roberts's paranormal Circle Trilogy concludes with the "circle of six" warriors—the sorcerer Hoyt, Hoyt's vampire brother Cian, the witch Glenna, the warrior Blair, the shape-shifter Larkin and Larkin's scholar-princess...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-15434-8
A t the start of this scintillating slice of romantic suspense from prolific bestseller Roberts (Sweet Revenge ), Lt. Phoebe MacNamara, the chief hostage negotiator for the Savannah, Ga., PD, meets Duncan Swift, a sports bar owner, as they both try...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Jove $7.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-515-14380-5
After three boys accidentally awaken an ancient evil near their small Maryland town, the tight-knit community finds itself lost to a Stephen King–style plague of madness and destruction for a week every seven years. Twenty-one years later,...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $26.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-15491-1
Roberts sets her underwhelming latest in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, where former child star Cilla McGowan rehabs her famous grandmother's long-neglected farm. Cilla's movie-star grandmother, the Marilyn Monroe–like Janet Hardy, who died...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $26.95 (472p) ISBN 978-0-399-15581-9
It’s not just a sure-fire formula that’s kept the crown atop the queen of romance, as this thriller proves. The gushy love-conquers-all story of South Dakota wildlife biologist Lil Chance and ex-cop/PI Coop Sullivan takes a back seat to...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Berkley $16 (243p) ISBN 978-0-425-22751-0
The frighteningly prolific Roberts (see also Black Hills , reviewed on page 42) kicks off a frothy series about four friends who form an all-inclusive wedding service called Vows. Mackensie “Mac” Elliot loves capturing happy and playful...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Berkley $16 (358p) ISBN 978-0-425-23007-7
In her second bridal-themed romance about four friends who run Vows, a Greenwich, Conn., wedding planning business, Roberts focuses on Emma Grant while her partners, MacKensie, Parker and Laurel, play supporting roles. In the first installment of...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Berkley $16 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-23368-9
Happily-ever-afters continue to bloom in book three of Roberts's sugary Bride Quartet (after Bed of Roses ) as the spotlight shines on pastry chef extraordinaire Laurel McBane. Vows, the Greenwich, Conn., wedding business run by the four BFFs,...
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Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $26.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-399-15657-1
The serviceable latest from Roberts centers on Fiona Bristow, a professional canine search-and-rescue trainer, who moved to Orcas Island in Puget Sound eight years earlier, just after barely escaping from a serial killer. The story opens with Simon...
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Nora Roberts, Author Putnam $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-14122-5
Having published 100 novels in 15 years, Roberts (True Betrayals) just keeps getting better. In life, Jack Mercy, owner of the 25,000-acre Mercy Ranch, garnered more enemies than friends. His death promises to do the same, since his will forces his...
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Nora Roberts, Author Putnam $23.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-399-14240-6
On the heel of the breakout hardcover success of bestseller Montana Sky, Roberts plows through a predictable saga of passion, betrayal and murder involving an estranged Southern family haunted by tragedy. Recovering from a nervous breakdown brought...
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Nora Roberts, Author Putnam $23.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-399-14470-7
Her signature florid style again serving a suspenseful mystery combined with a fated romance, bestselling Roberts (Hot Ice) tells a Helter Skelter-type Hollywood horror story lurid with murder, drugs and insanity. One summer night in 1979, four-year-
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Nora Roberts, Author Putnam $24.95 (438p) ISBN 978-0-399-14592-6
Doyenne of the bestseller lists, Roberts (River's End) may have achieved her personal best in this tense Southern gothic. As atmospheric and unsettling as a Tennessee Williams play, the story takes us into the gifted mind and troubled soul of...
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Nora Roberts, Author Putnam $25.95 (421p) ISBN 978-0-399-14712-8
Another novel rich in emotion and rife with conflict from the prolific Roberts (From the Heart; Carolina Moon etc.), this sweeping saga of Northern California wine-making steeps the reader in a heady mix of sex, scandal and the excesses of the...
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Nora Roberts, Author Bantam $7.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-553-29490-3
Clare Kimball, an accomplished sculptor, is troubled by depression and the return of childhood nightmares. So she takes a break from New York City and heads for her sleepy hometown in Maryland, despite its association with her beloved father's...
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Nora Roberts, Berkley, $16 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-23675-8
Bridal expert Parker "Legs" Brown meets her perfect match in Roberts's delicious ode to weddings and happy endings, the charming conclusion of the Bride Quartet (after Savor the Moment) about four childhood friends who as adults form a Connecticut...
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Nora Roberts, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-553-28578-9
Complex relationships among a believable ensemble of characters give Roberts's ( Sweet Revenge ) new romantic thriller much of its appeal. Emma McAvoy, daughter of a British rock star, is only six years old when her infant half-brother Darren is...
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Nora Roberts, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-553-29078-3
Though the opening scene of this book refers to a murder, that deed only occurs 100 pages from the end of the story, when Roberts's ( Public Secrets ) disappointing tale finally heats up. Until then, the reader is dragged through the sordid secrets...
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Nora Roberts, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-553-29597-9
Roberts ( Genuine Lies ) plunks a pair of likable lovers into an equally likable rural Southern community; she then keeps the story from turning sweeter than blackstrap molasses by setting loose a serial killer. World-class violinist Caroline...
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (405p) ISBN 978-0-515-11469-0
The first in a projected trilogy about the lives of three Irish sisters, Born in Fire gets the series off to a fine start, telling the story of talented glass-artist Maggie Concannon's contentious relationship with Dublin gallery owner Rogan Sweeney.
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-515-11920-6
Roberts begins a smooth-talking trilogy about three friends who grew up together among the megawealthy Templeton family of hoteliers, on their beautiful estate in Big Sur: Laura Templeton, the sweet rich girl who is getting marrid as the story...
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Nora Roberts, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (371p) ISBN 978-0-515-11675-5
Roberts's second installment in her Born In trilogy (after Born in Fire) takes the reader back to Ireland, where Brianna Concannon uncovers some unexpected and disturbing details about her deceased father. While trying to turn the attic of her bed-an
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (357p) ISBN 978-0-515-11779-0
The final installment in Roberts's Ireland-based trilogy about three sisters who are brought together by a packet of old love letters, tells the story of Shannon Bodine, the American-born half-sister of Maggie (Born in Fire) and Brianna (Born in Ice)
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-515-12087-5
If Freud wanted to know what women want, he should have asked Nora Roberts, who seems to have it down cold and can reproduce it several times a year. In the last installment of her Dream trilogy (Daring to Dream, Holding the Dream) about three...
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (356p) ISBN 978-0-515-12000-4
Roberts continues her three-part saga of the Templeton Hotel dynasty with the story of Kate Powell, the serious, pragmatic, adopted cousin of the Templeton heirs, Josh and Laura. Margo Sullivan, the housekeeper's daughter and heroine of Daring to...
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (340p) ISBN 978-0-515-12184-1
Roberts's Dream trilogy involved three women living in a palatial Big Sur mansion. This, the first volume of the Quinn Brothers trilogy, revolves around a trio of strapping, lusty guys in a comfortable home on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Cameron Quinn-
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-515-12421-7
This is the final installment of Roberts's juicy Chesapeake trilogy--one volume for the romance of each of the mighty Quinn brothers: Cam, Ethan and, now, Phillip, the bronze god whose Italian suits hide the scars of bullet holes on his chest. Like...
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (339p) ISBN 978-0-515-12317-3
Roberts continues to celebrate the healing power of love and family in the second volume of her Quinn trilogy (one for each of the Strapping young Quinn lads). The three brothers, abused boys who were adopted by Ray and Stella Quinn have moved into...
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (369p) ISBN 978-0-515-12855-0
Veteran romance writer Roberts is known for her ability to deliver a rich and satisfying story, and this conclusion to her Irish trilogy (following Jewels of the Sun and Tears of the Moon) is no exception. The final installment begins when wealthy...
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-515-12677-8
In her recent romance trilogies, Roberts (Carnal Innocence, etc.) has combined ghosts with lively humor and vivid sensuality. In this first volume of her newest series, Jude Murray, an American psychologist, has come to spend six months at Faerie...
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Nora Roberts, Author Jove Books $7.99 (367p) ISBN 978-0-515-12854-3
The prolific Roberts adds a second installment to her trilogy set in the village of Ardmore, Ireland. In order to break a centuries-old spell that keeps him from his true love, Carrick, Prince of Faeries, must help pub-owners Aidan, Darcy and Shawn...
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Nora Roberts, Author Suma de Letras $19.99 (412p) ISBN 978-987-04-1029-4
The final installment in Roberts's Ireland-based trilogy about three sisters who are brought together by a packet of old love letters tells the story of Shannon Bodine, the American-born half-sister of Maggie and Brianna. The story takes on an...
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Nora Roberts, Author Silhouette Books $6.99 (377p) ISBN 978-0-373-48350-1
The MacGregor Brides is a full-length contemporary spun off from Roberts's MacGregor series of category romances that began with the story of Daniel and Anna MacGregor. Here, their grandchildren, the cousins Laura, Gwen and Julia, are the brides....
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Nora Roberts, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (383p) ISBN 978-0-399-13761-7
Roberts ( Hot Ice ; Sacred Sins ) combines conventional elements--sizzling sex, a cunning villain, a captivating story, some tugs at the heartstrings--then adds a twist (the good guys are criminals), and the result is spellbinding. Max Nouvelle is...
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Nora Roberts, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-13828-7
The latest from veteran Roberts ( Genuine Lies ) is set in the glamorous world of television and concerns the rise of hot new talk-show host Deanna Reynolds. Deanna, a sincere and dedicated one-time local reporter in Chicago, has moved to New York,...
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Nora Roberts, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (395p) ISBN 978-0-399-13948-2
There are many riddles to unravel in Nora Roberts's latest novel before the chain of seemingly random murders and robberies swirling around a lovely Philadelphia antiques dealer can be resolved. There's no mystery, however, about why Roberts is a...
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Nora Roberts, Author Putnam Publishing Group $22.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-399-14059-4
The world of championship thoroughbred racing is the milieu for Roberts' (Born in Fire) latest, a fast-paced, engaging tale of envy, greed and romance. Kelsey Byden, 26, is in the throes of divorcing her unfaithful husband when she suffers a second...
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Nora Roberts, Putnam, $27.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-15744-8
This searing stand-alone from bestseller Roberts (The Search) celebrates the smoke jumpers of Missoula, Mont., who routinely risk life and limb to beat down raging forest fires. As close knit as any military combat unit, the "Zulies" include veteran
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Nora Roberts. Berkley, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-24321-3
Perennial bestseller Roberts draws extensively on her experiences of renovating and operating Inn BoonsBoro for this trilogy launch not so much set in as advertising the bed-and-breakfast and its adorable neighboring town. Architect Beckett...
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Nora Roberts. Putnam, $27.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-15912-1
In this powerful romantic suspense (Roberts's 200th novel, after Captivated), readers are introduced to a fascinating young woman trying to atone for a tragic act witnessed long ago. Though Elizabeth Fitch was a model daughter—a prodigy en route to...
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Nora Roberts. Berkley, $16 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-24603-0
Roberts' newest addition to her enormous body of work (after The Next Always: Book One of the Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy) fails to uphold the dictum that practice makes perfect—or at least makes better. Though Roberts has authored over 200 books, this...
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Nora Roberts. Berkley, $16 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-24604-7
Ghosts, betrayal, misunderstanding, and jealousy take a hand in this enchanting final installment of the Inn BoonsBoro Trilogy by bestselling romance writer Roberts (The Last Boyfriend). Hotelier Hope Beaumont leaves her post at a swanky Washington,
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Nora Roberts. Putnam, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-399-15989-3
This spellbinding contemporary from romantic fiction doyenne Roberts (The Perfect Hope) explores the centuries-old secrets of a New England seaside home. Eli Landon is suspected of murdering his adulterous wife, but there’s no evidence to convict...
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Nora Roberts. Berkley, $17 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-25985-6
Bestselling contemporary romance and women’s fiction author Roberts (the Inn Boonsboro trilogy) ventures into paranormal territory with the competent first segment of the Cousins O’Dwyer trilogy. Iona Sheehan has come to Ireland in search of her...
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Nora Roberts. Putnam, $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-399-16445-3
The awesomely prolific Roberts (Whiskey Beach) entices readers with this blend of romance and sizzling suspense. Lila Emerson lives a free-spirited life as a New York housesitter and author of paranormal YA novels. But her peace is irrevocably...
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Nora Roberts. Berkley, $17 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-25986-3
The second Cousins O’Dwyer paranormal (after Dark Witch) continues the tale of six magical warriors—the three descendants of the 13th-century Irish witch Sorcha, and their loyal friends—determined to stand against the evil sorcerer Cabhan. After...
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Nora Roberts, read by Joyce Bean. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, three CDs, 3.5 hrs., $14.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-6758-2
Originally released in the anthology Once Upon a Midnight, Roberts’s short story is a sentimental fairy tale in which Aurora is destined to reclaim her dead parents’ throne from an evil sorcerer king who has subjugated her kingdom. As Aurora...
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Nora Roberts, read by Alyson Silverman. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 5 hrs., $24.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-5748-4
When her father dies, young socialite Eden Carlbough finds herself part of the working class. Trying to make her way in the world, she invests her meager assets in a girls’ summer camp. Then one day, some of the campers lead her into apple orchards...
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Nora Roberts, Author, Jill Gregory, Joint Author, Ruth Ryan Langan, Joint Author Jove Books $7.99 (357p) ISBN 978-0-515-12947-2
On the heels of their previous collaboration, Once Upon a Star, four of America's most beloved romance authors present what is sure to be a popular collection of magical stories, wherein princely gentlemen (both human and not) sweep dazzling damsels
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Nora Roberts, Author, Bernadette Quigley, Read by , read by Bernadette Quigley. Brilliance $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58788-693-5
Audio Reviews reflect PW's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.FictionTHREE FATESNora Roberts, read by Bernadette Quigley. Brilliance, unabridged, 10 cassettes, 14 hrs., $34.95
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Nora Roberts, Author, Jill Gregory, Author, Marianne Willman, Author Jove $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-515-13386-8
The four stories in Once Upon a Kiss, the newest volume in the Once Upon... series (Once Upon a Rose, etc.), contain elements of the fantastic, but only Nora Roberts and Jill Gregory succeed in making the unbelievable believable. Fate pairs a...
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Nora Roberts, Author, Jill Gregory, Author, Ruth Ryan Langan, Author . Jove $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-515-13166-6
An addition to the "Once Upon..." series (Once Upon a Dream, etc.), this anthology of magical stories is anchored once again by the prolific Roberts. All four entries have the vaguely mystical feel of the fairy tale and the connecting...
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Nora Roberts, Author, Jill Gregory, Author, Ruth Ryan Langan, Author . Jove $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-515-13619-7
Midnight plays but a token role in this latest Once Upon a... anthology (after Once Upon a Kiss), with the exception of the solid offering from Roberts, who easily outclasses her companions. Roberts's "The Witching Hour" is a fantastical
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Nora Roberts, Author, Jill Gregory, Author, Ruth Ryan Langan, Author . Jove $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-515-13831-3
Loosely connected by their incorporation of the paranormal, this quartet of novellas takes readers, with varying degrees of success, from contemporary Maine to the fantastical land of Callemore, the Scottish Highlands and the 19th-century Cornish...
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This 12th installment in Robb's (aka Nora Roberts) popular and critically praised futuristic cop series, set in the year 2059, finds Lt. Eve Dallas butting heads with the FBI in a race to take down a hired killer who appears to be targeting the
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author . Berkley $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-18397-7
Seasoned author Nora Roberts, writing as Robb, delivers another exhilarating entry in her popular futuristic cop series featuring Eve Dallas (Seduction in Death, etc.). Dallas, a New York police lieutenant, is a hard-bitten warrior cop who buries...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author . Berkley $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-18630-5
"A sick computer can and does infect other computers, but not its operator," claims Roarke, dreamboat husband of New York's hotshot futuristic cop, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, in the 15th installment in Robb's 'Death' series (afte
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author , writing as J.D. Robb. Berkley $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-18903-0
Lieutenant Eve Dallas may live in 2059, but she's still a recognizable Manhattan police officer: mouthy, courageous, skeptical and impatient. In Roberts's latest In Death novel (after Purity in Death), she's charged with finding a killer
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-15106-4
A perfect marriage of sensuality and suspense, this sparkling new offering from Roberts (Birthright, etc.) and her alter ego, Robb (Imitation in Death, etc.) takes readers on a two-part journey—first to the quaint burg of Angel's Gap, Md.
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author writing as J.D. Robb. Berkley $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-19158-3
The latest entry in Robb's series of feisty futuristic mysteries (after Portrait in Death) delivers. This time, Lt. Eve Dallas shows up to investigate the grisly killing of a New York City prostitute only to find a note from the killer on the...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author . Putnam $25.95 (356p) ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6
In bestseller Robb’s slick 26th not-so-near-future crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after 2007’s Creation in Death ), the New York City homicide cop investigates the murder of business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author Berkley $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-18146-1
In the 13th installment of Robb's (aka Nora Roberts) futuristic In Death series (after Betrayal in Death), New York's Lieutenant Eve Dallas takes on a Casanova killer who targets young women via on-line poetry chat rooms. The killer sets the mood
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-15518-9
The year is 2056. mood-altering drugs are legal, prostitution is licensed, virtual-reality games have replaced TV sets for entertainment and New York supercop Eve Dallas continues her sleuthing in Robb's fourth installment in the Death series (Naked
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-425-16039-8
The publishing world might be hard-pressed to find an author with a more diverse style or fertile imagination than Roberts, writing here as J.D. Robb. As in her five earlier Eve Dallas novels, the time is mid-21st century, and tough super-cop...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-425-16371-9
The year is 2058. Guns are banned and medical science has learned how to prolong life to well beyond the century mark. And man has yet to stop killing man. At Cop Central, it's Lieutenant Eve Dallas's job to stand up for the dead. So begins the...
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-425-16813-4
""For some, death wasn't the enemy. Life was a much less merciful opponent."" So opens the eighth and latest installment (following Holiday in Death) in Robb's (a.k.a. Nora Roberts's) futuristic crime drama series. Moody, angst-ridden Lieutenant Eve
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J. D. Robb, Author, Nora Roberts, Author, Mary Blayney, Author . Jove $7.99 (394p) ISBN 978-0-515-14367-6
Robb (aka Nora Roberts) is indeed the headliner, but this all-new four-novella anthology definitely doesn't suffer from “standout single” syndrome—this one's all killer, no filler. In Robb's opener, a courageous...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-250-12307-7
Roberts takes the reader on a journey to western Montana to a family ranch and the story of how one of their own disappeared. Over two decades ago, rebellious Alice Bodine ran away from her Montana home to make her fortune in Hollywood—only to head...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-12295-7
The entertaining latest from Roberts (Come Sundown), the first of a trilogy, concerns a magical blight that wipes out most of mankind and leaves some survivors with otherworldly powers. After what becomes known as the Doom is unwittingly unleashed...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-12299-5
Roberts’s fun follow-up to 2017’s Year One focuses on the training phase of mankind’s chosen savior, 13-year-old Fallon Swift. After most of the world’s population dies from a virus known as The Doom, people called Uncannys develop magical powers...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-20709-8
Roberts (Shelter in Place) cleverly blends the past into the present as abuse survivors discover the healing power of love. Zane Bigelow and his sister, Britt, grew up in the wealthy Lakeview Terrace development in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-12303-9
Roberts’s rushed-feeling follow-up to 2018’s Of Blood and Bone concludes her Chronicles of the One trilogy, which details how 19-year-old Fallon Swift—who is prophesied to save the world—raises an army to prepare for the ultimate showdown between...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-250-20710-4
An early trauma shapes the course of a woman’s life in this impactful drama from Roberts (Under Currents). Ten-year-old Cate Sullivan is a fourth generation actor whose famous great-grandfather has recently died. At a celebration of his life, Cate...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-27261-4
Bestseller Roberts (Shadows in Death) launches a fantasy trilogy with this heartwarming story of a woman finding her true self across parallel worlds. Philadelphia teacher Breen Kelly, 26, has lived under her mother’s thumb ever since her father...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-27293-5
Adrian Rizzo, the protagonist of this melodramatic thriller from bestseller Roberts (Hideaway), first meets her father, Jonathan Bennett, a university professor with a reputation for forcing sex on his students, at age seven when he barges into the...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $28.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-27270-6
Bestseller Roberts’s second Dragon Heart Legacy fantasy refines characters and beats left hazy in the series opener to create a satisfying mid-trilogy outing. The story picks up immediately where The Awakening left off, just as protagonist Breen is...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-27819-7
The latest romantic suspense novel from bestseller Roberts (Legacy) is a master class in the slow burn, blending heartrending emotion and thrills to deeply satisfying effect. Harry Booth spends his childhood becoming an exceptional thief to support...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $29.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-27272-0
Bestseller Roberts expertly weaves threads from the previous two books of her Dragon Heart Legacy series into an epic climax and gratifying grand finale (following The Becoming). Life continues in the magical world of Talamh in the aftermath of the...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-1-250-28411-2
Bestseller Roberts (Nightwork) gives readers another strong protagonist to root for in this otherwise rote standalone thriller. After a peripatetic childhood, 25-year-old Morgan Albright has finally made a home for herself in a quiet suburb of...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-28832-5
Bestseller Roberts (the Dragon Heart Legacy series) brings her talents to bear on a romantic ghost story—the first in the Lost Bride Trilogy—with more heartstring tugs than scares. Boston graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is shocked to learn that a...
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Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-250-28969-8
Bestseller Roberts (Inheritance) returns with a busy supernatural thriller that stuffs in romance, murder, telekinesis, and a few handy tips on candle-making. When Thea Fox is 12 years old, her parents drive her and her brother to their grandmother...
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