Fin­ished Per­suader by Lee Child. This is one of the many books in Child’s series about ex-military police­man and all-around tough guy Jack Reacher.

In this one, a chance encounter on a street leads Reacher to a remote Maine estate, where he goes under­cover in hopes of catch­ing a drug king­pin and help­ing some law enforce­ment agents find and res­cue another miss­ing agent who also went under­cover in the kingpin’s orga­ni­za­tion. But there’s more going on at the estate than meets the eye, and Reacher is in dan­ger every sec­ond even as he tries to get to the bot­tom of it all …

I like this series a lot, mainly because it kind of reminds me of The A-Team. Reacher is a one-man wreck­ing crew as he goes around the coun­try help­ing peo­ple in trou­ble. This is another fine addi­tion to the series, with some nice twists and turns and some pretty cool fight scenes. Thumbs up.

Up next: The Pro­fes­sional by Robert B. Parker

Books in my TBR pile: About 20.

Fin­ished The Rustler by Linda Lael Miller. This is one of the books in her Stone Creek west­ern series.

In this one, for­mer out­law Wyatt Yarbro jour­neys to Stone Creek, Ariz., to stay with his brother and turn over a new leaf. Soon, Wyatt is sworn in as a deputy and starts inter­act­ing with the towns­peo­ple, includ­ing Sarah Tam­lin, who helps her father run the local bank. Wyatt is deter­mined to court and marry Sarah, but Sarah has a secret, one that might tear her and Wyatt apart in the end …

I really enjoy his­tor­i­cal romances set in the Amer­i­can West, and this one was no excep­tion. Miller has a lot of inter­est­ing char­ac­ters, espe­cially Wyatt, who strug­gles with his out­law past. This one is just a clas­sic com­fort read for west­ern fans. Thumbs up.

Up next: Per­suader by Lee Child.

Books in my TBR pile: About 20.

So I sent out my monthly e-newsletter today, the first one that’s gone since before the hack this sum­mer. I’m using a new sys­tem which has been a lit­tle wonky. So if any­one has any issues with this newslet­ter, please let me know.

And if you haven’t signed up for the newslet­ter, just go to the home page and click on the tab on the right-hand side. I give away free books every month to sub­scribers.

I’ve been mean­ing to men­tion this for a while, but fan­tasy reviewer Tia Nevitt has a new blog called Debuts & Reviews. Tia and her fel­low review­ers read all kinds of fan­tasy, so if you’re a fan of that genre, you’ll prob­a­bly really enjoy the blog. Go check it out!

So I went to my local used book­store this week­end. All I have to say is that you know your genre has arrived when it gets it own shelves in the used book­store. I was thrilled to see some new shelves devoted exclu­sively to urban fan­tasy this time around, and the para­nor­mal romance sec­tion had taken over some new shelves as well.

As a result, I came home with sev­eral books.

I picked up Kiss of a Demon King by Kres­ley Cole; Exit Strat­egy by Kel­ley Arm­strong; Rachel and the Hired Gun by Elaine Levine; and Storm Born by Richelle Mead, along with a few others.

Which, of course, means that my TBR pile is now push­ing 20 books again. But there’s just some­thing about all those glossy cov­ers together in one place that I can’t resist. Hello, my name is Jen­nifer, and I’m a book addict …

What about you guys? What have you been read­ing lately? Share in the comments.