Walk in My Combat Boots: stories America needs to hear

Walk in My Combat Boots by James Patterson. “These are the stories America needs to hear about the remarkable young men and women who serve.” - Admiral William H. McRaven, US Navy (Ret.). The most moving and powerful war stories ever told, by the men and women who lived them.

The Fortunate Ones by Catherine Hokin. Germany, 1941. When Felix first spots Inge across a dimly lit dancefloor, it’s clear they come from two different worlds. It doesn’t matter – the joy in her face when she dances makes his heart skip a beat. The next time they see each other, it will be across the packed courtyard of a Nazi concentration camp.

Faithless in Death by J.D. Robb. The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don’t add up.

The Scorpion’s Tail by Preston & Child. A mummified corpse, over half a century old, is found in the cellar of an abandoned building in a remote New Mexico ghost town. Corrie is assigned what seems to her a throwaway case: to ID the body and determine cause of death. She brings archaeologist Nora Kelly to excavate the body and lend her expertise to the investigation, and together they uncover something unexpected and shocking: the deceased apparently died in agony, in a fetal position, skin coming off in sheets, with a rictus of horror frozen on his face.

Hidden on the corpse lies a 16th century Spanish gold cross of immense value.

In the Garden of Spite: A novel of the Black Widow of LaPorta by Camilla Bruce. An audacious novel of feminine rage about one of the most prolific female serial killers in American history—and the men who drove her to it. They whisper about her in Chicago. Men come to her with their hopes, their dreams—their fortunes. But no one sees them leave. No one sees them at all after they come to call on the Widow of La Porte.