title: After a Dead Dog: Dangerous Love, Dark Secrets, Sudden Death
author: Perseus
description: Set on the west coast of Scotland, Murray's promising debut thriller reunites Iain Lewis, a poet turned intermittently employed sitcom writer, with his married ex-girlfriend, Carole, at her mother's funeral. Carole is trapped in an unhappy marriage with Irish mob-connected Duncan Ferguson, who now runs her family's fisheries business. Both her parents died under mysterious circumstances, and her enigmatic brother, Martin, is clearly hiding something. After the wake, Iain returns home to find his house burgled and a briefcase containing a gun, cocaine and cash left behind. Iain doesn't trust the local constable, so he seeks help from a hard-drinking buddy, Glasgow crime reporter Dougie Henderson. Iain later comes upon the body of "harmless alkie" Danny McGovern on a deserted beach, and soon finds himself stalked by two thugs linked to Ferguson. Murray delivers pounding suspense with a violent if not completely surprising conclusion. <I>(May)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter
  returns with her most explosive Lords of the Underworld
  tale to date, about a fierce warrior on the brink of sanity
  who will stop at nothing to claim the exquisite human with
  the power to soothe the beast inside him...
  Driven to his death by the demon of Distrust, Baden spent centuries in purgatory. Now he’s back, but
  at what cost? Bound to the king of the underworld, an even darker force, he’s unable to withstand the
  touch of another...and he’s quickly devolving into a heartless assassin with an uncontrollable temper.
  Things only get worse when a mission goes awry and he finds himself saddled with a bride—just not
  his own.
  Famed dog trainer Katarina Joelle is forced to marry a monster to protect her loved ones. When she’s
  taken hostage by the ruthless, beautiful Baden immediately after the ceremony, she’s plunged into a
  war between two evils—with a protector more dangerous than the monsters he hunts. They are meant
  to be enemies, but ne