Dana Stabenow hosted by Diana Gabaldon

Lord John Grey is a gay 18^th Century aristocrat with a passion for Jamie Fraser. If you're missing an Outlander fix you can get views of Jamie in this volume made of three novellas with nifty military history as well as mystery and suspense and romance. Lord John and the Private Matter ($11) has an intriguing medical component; Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade ($25 &) high adventure and family dynamics. The Lord Johns are not a series spinoff; they are mysteries.

Don't forget you can order all of the six Outlander novels in signed hardcovers ($28 each with one of three Gaelic inscriptions) as well as The Outlandish Companion ($29).

Stabenow went aboard a Coast Guard thriller (she says she’ll have to kill me if she tells me where) to research her new novel, sequel to 2006’s Blindfold Game ($6.99). But she’s not in Alaska’s frozen bays, she somewhere warm, somewhere not far from the Kennedy Space Center, where the latest space shuttle launch is to take place. In its Starred Review, Publishers Weekly writes: “Stabenow harnesses the strands of her story with consummate skill: the passion that propels a rogue terrorist on a crusade to strike a blow that will shatter American pride; the efforts of U.S. intelligence to thwart a bewildering array of foes; the rising careers of Capt. Cal T. Schuyler, ‘the golden boy of the U.S. Coast Guard,’ and astronaut Kenai Munro, whose life ambition is realized when she’s named to the shuttle crew. Stabenow proves equally adept at portraying the workings of a cutter, the complexities of a shuttle mission or the machinations of a terrorist. The result is entertainment and suspense of a high order.” A new Kate Shugak publishes in 2009.