Barr, Nevada
Burn
Anna Pigeon series
9/9/11
Anna is on leave from the Park Service and staying with a friend in the New Orleans Frence Quarter.  Investigates kidnapping, murder, child trafficing and prostitution.

Card, Orson Scott
Empire
9/10/11
Political thriller not scifi.  Somebody kills the President, Vice President, and SecDef using a plan developed by Major Malik as a threat scenario.  The narrator is Captain Coleman who has just started to work for Malik in the Pentagon.  The two of them chase right and left wing extremists trying to split the US.  The Winner is ostensibly a middle of the road professor who is plotting empire.

Harris, Charlaine
The Julius House
9/12/11
Aurora Teagarden #4
Ro and Martin get married.  She buys him his childhood home as a wedding present.  He buys her the Julius house.  This house has been unoccupied for 6 years since all the occupants disappeared.  She finds the bodies and discovers the killers.

Francis, Dick and Felix Francis
Crossfire
9/13/11
Typical Francis - fast paced, horses, mayhem, and murder.  Our hero is an Afghanistan vet who lost a foot in combat.  He ends up at home with his mother who trains horses.