title: Thief of Midnight
author:  Catherine Butzen 
description: Butzen's strong debut livens up some common urban fantasy tropes with witty dialogue and fun monsters. After surviving an attack by a ghoul, Chicagoan Abby Marquise is recruited by the Society for the Security of Reality (SSR), which captures and kills supernatural creatures. Meanwhile, El Cucuy, leader of the looseknit group of bogeymen known as the Family, launches a plan to kidnap thousands of children from around the world. Of the monsters, only Likho and L'uomo Nero are willing to try to stop him. Butzen's character development often falters, but the assorted bogeymen make for genuinely interesting supernatural villains, and the power struggles within their group--as well as their personal struggles for identity even as they fear to display human traits--keep this otherwise bythe-numbers tale moving. <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: MEMORIES OF MIDNIGHT
  In The Other Side of Midnight Sidney Sheldon created one
  of
  his most unforgettable characters: Constantin Demiris,
  billionaire,
  art lover, womanizer . . . and killer. To Noelle, the
  woman
  who betrayed him, and Larry, the man who stole her,
  Demiris
  brought a chilling retribution. Now, in Memories of
  Midnight, he confronts the problem of someone else he
  believes has stayed
  alive too long.
  Greece, 1948. In the seclusion of a remote convent a young
  woman emerges from the trauma of memory loss. To Catherine
  Alexander, Larry's widow, Demiris seems a benefactor, the
  man who helps her build a life again. She knows that Larry
  and
  Noelle are dead but not who was responsible. Nor that
  Demiris'
  desire for revenge is unquenched; that there is a last,
  unsilenced
  victim.
  In this atmosphere of deception, Catherine's move to
  London
  seems just another example of Demiris' good nature. Set
  down
  in a strange and unsettling environment she cannot guess
  the
  fate her benefactor has in sto