Product DescriptionHeadhunters, Leslie Wetzon and Xenia Smith, go after the top guns in the financial world- Wall Street, where everyone is looking to make the big killing. A slick, successful stockbroker that Wetzon is interviewing. at the Four Seasons, leaves her to make an urgent phone call and doesn't come back. When Wetzon goes to check on him, his dead body tumbles out of the phone booth.“Ingratiating first novel featuring the soft-boiled amateur detecting team of Smith and Wetzon, who are actually high-powered Wall St. headhunters.”—Kirkus Reviews“A novel of suspense on Wall Street. A supremely likeable whodunit.”—Publishers Weekly“ ... the characters are also sharp enough to make you want to dump your broker - quick.”—New York Times Book Review“Meyer’s storytelling is wonderful.... she evokes the feel, smell, atmosphere of the city so well that I got homesick. Not only that but her portrayal of the life of a headhunter is masterful. Read the book, make up your own mind about it, but read it, please.”—Mystery Scene. Views: 54
The camp centres on a couple, who, though living through one of the longest & hottest summers on record believe themselves to be stuck in a house, in a snow-storm, that like the summer, is never going to end. They have no food and can't stay where they are through fear they will be killed by marauding looters. Meanwhile, outside, families play on, unaware of the struggle going on behind closed doors. They attempt an escape … an escape that leads to horror. What is it that happening to some of the campers, and what is the connection between the camp and a secret government department? Views: 54
When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world. In just a few years, Jasmine becomes Jane Ripplemeyer, happily pregnant by a middle-aged Iowa banker and the adoptive mother of a Vietnamese refugee. Jasmine's metamorphosis, with its shocking upheavals and its slow evolutionary steps, illuminates the making of an American mind; but even more powerfully, her story depicts the shifting contours of an America being transformed by her and others like her -- our new neighbors, friends, and lovers. In Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee has created a heroine as exotic and unexpected as the many worlds in which she lives. "Rich
one of the most suggestive novels we have about what it is to become an American." -- The New York Times Book Review Views: 54
Eleven-year-old Michael Patrick Kelly from New York City is sent to a foster home, a Missouri farm with a sadistic owner, a bullying son, and a number of secrets, one of which may be murder Views: 53
'Extremely engaging... A book full of good moments and humane insights.'Alan Ryan, Observer This book collects the essays of one of England's best-known and most distinguished psychiatrists. Its theme is creativity. What internal dynamic forces artists, scientists and politicians to devote so much time and energy to creative invention? Anthony Storr weighs and tests Freud's theory that creativity is the result of dissatisfaction by examining the impulses which drove such figures as Churchill, Kafka and Newton. Whether he is exploring the 'divine discontent' that motivates creativity, analysing Jung's mid-life crisis, assessing the psychology of jealousy in Othello or denouncing the abuses of psychiatry, Storr brings wisdom, erudition and compassion to all his subjects in this highly readable and human collection, which is accessible to those who know nothing about psychoanalysis as well as to those who know a great deal. Views: 53
Patrick McGinley's sixth novel, true to his distinctive style, is set in the austere and haunting landscape and shoreline of the author's native county, Donegal, Ireland. Love and death appear as the inescapable enigmas of being in the world. The Red Men is rich in vocabulary, in the particularities of daily life, and in various surprising areas of arcane lore. Views: 53
To tie into the December release of Archer Mayor's Joe Gunther hardcover Fruits of the Poisonous Tree, here is a reissue of the debut novel that first introduced Joe Gunther in 1989--out of print since 1991. Gunther investigates the murder of a juror by another juror from a three-year-old case. Views: 53
SynopsisAnnie Byrne was born during one of the worst winters Lancashire ever remembered. When the doctor finally got through the nine-foot drifts of snow, mother and daughter were in a pretty bad way, but both the new-born Annie and her exhausted mother - a spinner in the cotton mill - were fighters, tough and determined not to let the world knock them down.They needed to be tough, for when Annie's father was killed in the war, Nancy married again. And Eddie Higson - once he'd courted and won Nancy Byrne - turned into a nightmare of a man, terrorizing the young girl with one secret evil after another.She had two friends who helped her through these bad years. Martin Cullen, rough, uneducated, loyal, who knew he wasn't good enough for her, and David Pritchard, the doctor who had supported her through the worst times and who had bad problems of his own.Together they watched her grow into a beautiful young woman, desperately fighting the legacy of her childhood. Views: 52
Melvin Corey must choose between an alliance with the Pattern of Amber or the Pattern of Chaos, in a tale of a sometimes murderous family of wizards and their alternate worlds. Views: 52
Detroit PI Amos Walker attempts to clear the name of a woman accused of murdering her husband Constance Thayer probably isn’t a nice woman. If she was, she wouldn’t have shot her husband to death. But just because she has a taste for nightlife—drinking, clubbing, and the finest hard drugs—doesn’t mean her husband didn’t deserve it. An automobile magnate in a city where internal combustion still reigns supreme, Doyle Thayer Jr. was a wife-beater with a collection of assault weapons that could furnish an army.At least that’s the story spun by Amos Walker’s new client, a large investigatory outfit hired by Mrs. Thayer to clear her name. Walker’s job is to get the dirt on her late husband, to learn enough about him that her shooting looks like an act of heroism. And please, his new bossbegs, don’t make any waves—a sure sign that the man doesn’t know Amos Walker.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author’s personal collection. Views: 52
Product DescriptionA collection of three stories from the casefiles of Joe and Frank Hardy. The stories featured are "Disaster for Hire", "Scene of the Crime" and "The Borderline Case". Views: 51
