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In My Mailbox is a weekly feature that is hosted by The Story Siren. Every Sunday (maybe Monday if I’m feeling off) I will post a list of all of the books I received or bought over the past week. I don’t expect this to be a weekly feature at TS – but hey – it’d be great if it was!

Without further ado, here are the books I received for the week of August 31 to September 6, 2009.

Books Received for Review:

Lovers, Muggers & Thieves: A Boston Memoir by Jonathan Tudan

Back Cover Excerpt: In 1969, an eighteen-year-old college freshman is offered a free ride into Boston’s Combat Zone, the most bizarre neighborhood the city has ever known, to manage a flophouse renting rooms by the week to the purveyors of the neighborhood sex trade. Within a very short time he discovers the ride is anything but free. The seedy marquees of Boston’s notorious adult entertainment district, along with its strip clubs, triple-X peep shows and adult book stores have passed into history. Dancers, musicians, drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes that once dominated these streets return to the scene to join a boy surrounded by a man’s world. Lovers, Muggers & Thieves – A Boston Memoir brings you through a convergence of extraordinary events inside one of America’s most infamous neighborhoods in this entertaining journey of friendship flirting with the dark side.

This one arrived on Monday (August 31) and is just sitting there in my TBR pile teasing me. Read me it screams!

Butcher by Gary C. King

Back Cover Excerpt: HIS GOAL: TO KILL AN “EVEN FIFTY”
They called him “Uncle Willie.” At night, Robert “Willie” Pickton visited the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The women he picked up never came back…

HIS METHODS: RAPE AND TORTURE
For years, police built a long list of missing prostitutes, women at the edge of society. Some people claimed there was a serial killer. One detective lost his job for saying so. But investigators didn’t have a single body…until someone found a skull sawed in half…

THE PIG FARM MURDERS
On land that had made his family millions, on a squalid pig farm near a school, a condo development, and a Starbucks, Robert Pickton ran a house of horrors for decades. What he did to his victims was unspeakable. What he did to the bodies was unimaginable. How he got away with it is the most shocking crime of all…

This one arrived on Thursday, and I must confess, I am very tempted to just drop everything else in order to read this one. I love reading true crime books (and watching television enactments and documentaries too) but this one is especially intriguing. I can’t wait to start it.

Awakening by K Lippi

Excerpt from Back Cover: For Emilia Miani, a fifteen year old girl from San Diego, CA, the supernatural world and its creatures only existed in books and movies. But when she went to visit her father in Japan and met Shin Kurosaki, a Japanese demon assigned by one of her ancestors 500 years ago to be her guardian angel and protect her from her destiny, supernatural events begin happening to Emilia and they continue escalating.

During her journey, Emilia discovered her family secrets. Her grandfather was a death angel hired by God and she is his heir and forced to step into his shoes by God and Lucifer to stop Markus, an ex-death angel set on destroying them to become a new god. She also discovers that she has a special blood – a divine blood – running through her veins. A blood that kills anything it comes into contact with, including her.

And this one arrived on Friday. A supernatural young adult story that appears to have its setting in Japan. Can it get any better? I sure hope so!

That’s it for this week folks! Now I must be going, I’ve got a stack of books to be read!