Title: Blind Man's Alley Author: Justin Peacock File Type: Mobi Subject:Mystery Description: **From the author of the Edgar Award–nominated legal thriller *A Cure for Night*, an ambitious and compulsively readable novel set in the cutthroat world of New York real estate. ** A concrete floor three hundred feet up in the Aurora Tower condo development in SoHo has collapsed, hurling three workers to their deaths. The developer, Roth Properties (owned by the famously abrasive Simon Roth), faces a vast tangle of legal problems, including allegations of mob connections. Roth’s longtime lawyers, the elite midtown law firm of Blake and Wolcott, is assigned the task of cleaning up the mess. Much of the work lands on the plate of smart, cynical, and sea­soned associate Duncan Riley; as a result, he falls into the pow­erful orbit of Leah Roth, the beautiful daughter of Simon Roth and the designated inheritor of his real estate empire. Meanwhile, Riley pursues a seemingly small pro bono case in which he attempts to forestall the eviction of Rafael Nazario and his grandmother from public housing in the wake of a pot bust. One night Rafael is picked up and charged with the mur­der of the private security cop who caught him, a murder that took place in another controversial “mixed income” housing development being built by . . . Roth Properties. Duncan Riley is now walking the knife edge of legal ethics and personal morality. *Blind Man’s Alley *is a suspenseful and kaleidoscopic journey through a world where the only rule is self- preservation. The *New York Times Book Review *said of *A Cure for Night *that “[Peacock] heads toward Scott Turow country . . . he’s got a good chance to make partner.” This taut, topical, and socially alert thriller delivers on that promise.

Title: Ghosted Author: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall File Type: Mobi Subject:Fiction Description:From Publishers WeeklyLike Down to This: Squalor and Splendour in a Big-City Shantytown, an account of the authors undercover year in Torontos Tent City, Bishop-Stalls debut novel breaks hearts. Emotionally damaged by childhood and adolescent traumas, druggie drifter and alcoholic gambler Mason Dubisee pushes the Dogfather hot dog cart in downtown Toronto during the day and sporadically tackles his stalled novel at night. Between his agonizingly described hangovers, Mason also writes suicide notes for various disturbed personalities. He falls in desperate love with Willy, a hemiplegic with a heart of gold and a heroin habit of her own, and runs afoul of a psychopathic prisoner on parole, who steals Masons file from Masons sometime shrink, who has serious problems of her own. Bishop-Stalls gritty, experimental style and grungy subject matter may turn off some readers, but his occasionally inchoate if conventional message about the toughness and grace of people who have saved one another will resonate with many. br Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From BooklistMason Dubisee, who has just turned 30, is struggling to churn out a novel as he battles his gambling and cocaine addictions. After his childhood friend and drug dealer, Chaz, finds him an apartment and a job selling hot dogs in Toronto, one of Mason’s lunchtime customers commissions him to write a love letter that later turns out to be a suicide note. This prompts Mason to seek out work as a suicide-note writer. He feels guilty about this occupation, spending long nights at Chaz’s illegal bar, The Cave, where he meets and slowly falls in love with Willy, a beautiful young hemiplegic woman addicted to heroin. As their romance develops, Mason becomes increasingly aware that crafting a suicide note for his latest customer, a recent ex-con, will be more dangerous than he bargained for. This somewhat sophomoric novel becomes increasingly more suspenseful as Mason struggles to save the lives of those closest to him and as he seeks out redemption for his former sins. An adventurous, wild page-turner of a debut from Canadian author Bishop-Stall. --Julie Hunt