Diana Gabaldon and Michael Connelly deliver the goods this week.
The Scottish Prisoner
Author: Diana Gabaldon
Country: United States
Series: Lord John
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: November 29, 2011
Pages: 560
The mistress of word-weaving, Diana Gabaldon returns with her third novel in the Lord John series. The Scottish Prisoner features the hero from the enormously popular Outlander novels, Jamie Fraser and of course, Lord John Grey. The character of Lord John Grey was originally introduced in Voyager, the third book in the Outlander series. The Scottish Prisoner alternates between Jamie Fraser’s point of view and Lord John Grey’s.
The Drop
Author: Michael Connelly
Country: United States
Series: Harry Bosch
Genre: Crime
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: November 28, 2011
Pages: 400
Harry Bosch, the LAPD homicide investigator is back. He has been told that he has three years before he must retire and is hungry for cases. Two get dropped in his lap the same morning; one is a cold case of a woman murdered several years earlier and the other is a new crime scene involving the son of his longtime nemesis. The Drop is the 17th novel is the series by bestselling crime writer, Michael Connelly.



