This is the 4th and last Hilary Tamar mystery novel by Sarah Caudwell, who died in 2000. Written in first person by Professor Tamar and including a series of letters by different characters, the story is told of a financial tax mess and a series of strange deaths. Professor Tamar seems to think there is a connection, but is there? Even though she wrote only four novels, her death was a profound loss, not only in itself but also in that it deprives us forever of learning more of Julia, Selina, Ragwort, Cantrip, Timothy and the eternally mysterious and genderless Professor Hilary Tamar. The book itself? Lovely, cosy, funny, clever, erudite, and ultimately deeply satisfying. Views: 35
Goddard weaves a compelling tale of murder, family mystery, literary scandal, and hazardous romance...,Robbery seems to be the motive for the death of dowager Beatrix Abberly; shady antiques dealer Colin Fairfax is quickly arrested and charged with her murder. Colin, however, maintains his innocence, and asks his timid brother, Derek, to clear his name. Charlotte Ladram, Beatrix's loyal godchild and heir, has doubts abouth everything, including the motive for the crime. Her godmother was the sister of the great English poet Tristram Abberley, who died fifty years earlier in the Spanish Civil War. When long-lost letters he wrote to Beatrix are unearthed, they reveal shocking secrets about Tristram's work - secrets any number of people would kill to possess. Drawn together by their passionate desire to find the answers, Charlotte and Derek follow a labyrinthine trail of clues across rural England to Wales, New York, Paris, and Spain - only to discover that no one and nothing are what they seem. A pattern of evil is surfacing that will change forever their sense of the world... and lead them on a quest even more intriguing than the Chinese box of mysteries they've opened in the aftermath of an old woman's cruel murder... Views: 35
The Season has yet to begin, and the second member of the Bastion Club, tall, handsome Anthony Blake, Viscount Torrington, is already a target for every matchmaking mama in London. None of their flighty daughters can fix his interest, but a certain lady does...
Alicia is living a deception. Desperation has caused the determined but penniless lady to boldly launch her ravishing younger sister into the ton and have her make a spectacular match. By masquerading as the widowed "Mrs. Carrington" Alicia can act as the perfect chaperone…but fashionable ladies are not accused of murder...
When Tony Blake discovers Alicia standing over a dead body in his godmother’s garden, every instinct tells him she is innocent. His connections allow him to take control of the investigation, his social prominence provides her public support, but it is more than honor that compels him to protect her and to do everything in his seductive power to make her his.
From Publishers Weekly In this steamy Regency, the second in Laurens's new Bastion Club series (following The Lady Chosen), Lord Anthony Blake, a former spy for England, finds himself at loose ends after the fall of Napoleon. Genteel widow Alicia Carrington, who's in London to chaperone her younger sister, puts an end to Anthony's ennui when she stumbles upon a dead body at a soiree and he stumbles upon her at the same time. A mysterious villain seems determined to frame Alicia for the murder, but the real danger lies in the secret she's hiding from everyone-including Anthony, who quickly insinuates himself into her life. As in all of Laurens's romances, the love scenes are passionate, and chemistry hums between the pair. Alicia is a classic Laurens heroine: plucky and determined. Anthony is high-handed at times but not offensively so. Although the romantic tension relies heavily on a few unspoken words, it's entertaining to watch the baffled couple finally admit to their feelings. Unfortunately, the mystery subplot is less compelling, depending as it does on following a paper trail that offers up little drama. Still, Laurens's fans should be more than satisfied with this heady tale. Views: 35
The ritziest bordello in the world run by two sweet spinster sisters…30 curvaceous prostitutes…a suave but deadly doctor…a lovely mayor's assistant who goes undercover as a "lady of the night"…all gather together in THE GOLDEN ROOM, a wonderfully entertaining and suspenseful turn-of-the-century novel by the best-selling author of THE CELESTIAL BED. Business is booming at the Everleigh Sisters' Club in Chicago – until a newly reelected mayor tries to close them down. When he sends the gorgeous Karen Grant to investigate, she finds a lot more than prostitution under the Club's gilded roof – including love…and murder. Views: 35
He signed up to fight with visions of honour and glory, of fighting for king and country, of making his family proud at long last.But on a battlefield during the Great War, Robert Jones is shot, and wonders how it all went so very wrong, and how things could possibly get any worse.He'll soon find out. When the attacking enemy starts to shapeshift into a nightmarish demonic force, Jones finds himself fighting an impossible war against an enemy that shouldn't exist.A Song for No Man's Land is the first in an ongoing series. Views: 35
Cool and controlled, they don't call him The Iceman for nothing. Yet Sofia heats his blood and threatens to make him melt. Knowing he needs to hold on to the reins, his brand of control comes with cuffs and paddles, and he has more than one reason to punish his lover. Can he hold on to his control and not let his own dark needs overshadow hers? Views: 35
College freshman Liv is more than just a fangirl: The Starveil movies are her life...and her last tangible connection to her deceased father. Thus, when her favorite character, Captain Matt Spartan, is killed off at the end of the last movie, Liv Just. Can't. Deal.Tired of sitting in her room sobbing, Liv decides to launch an online campaign to bring her beloved hero back to life. With the help of her best friend, Xander, actor and steampunk cosplayer extraordinaire, she creates #SpartanSurvived, a call that ignites the fandom. But as her online life succeeds beyond her wildest dreams, Liv is forced to balance that with the pressures of school, her (mostly nonexistent and entirely traumatic) romantic life, and her disapproving mother's new boyfriend. A trip to DragonCon with Xander might be exactly what she needs to get away from it all... and figure out what (and who!) she really wants, in this geeky romance by Danika Stone. Views: 35
Red O'Ryan spends most of his days like many high school juniors—dealing with the demands of class, thinking about girls, and trying to measure up to his older brother. Cerebral palsy is just part of his life, and he doesn't think the experimental treatments he's receiving for the disability are doing anything for him. When a confrontation with a football player ends with the bully on the ground, Red knows he never touched him. But he can't help wondering how his tormentor fell.Soon, Red realizes that he may have to do more than just get used to the nickname Super Crip. Views: 35
“What John Irving or Kurt Vonnegut might produce if they wrote a novel about crime and real estate set in the Florida keys…hilarious and deeply satisfying,” Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Dennis “Doom” Lewis is a small-time conman who paid a big-price: a five-year prison sentence for forging a novel by Eleanor Roosevelt that became an international bestseller. He gets an early release to attend his crooked father’s funeral…and discovers that he’s inherited a sailboat and a Florida town that’s sinking into the sea.
But the town is on prime real estate that two warring developers want badly enough to have already killed his father for and will go to outrageous lengths to snatch away from him. Dodging bombs, corrupt cops, and crazed killers, Doom teams up with a Nyquil-chugging history professor, two documentary film-makers named Anne, and a drop-dead-sexy scuba instructor and her Seminole grandmother in an elaborate plot to swindle the swindlers and save himself from fatally living up to his nick-name.
“A flamboyant, comic nightmare. The author's best inventions are his characters -- gaudy as comic-strip villains, unpredictable as ancient gods and given to mighty mock-heroic combat of epic consequence. There is fun here, but also real fury in Mr. Murphy’s raging imagination,” The New York Times
“Dallas Murphy is right up there with Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen.
I loved it” Donald Westlake
“Masterful. Apparent Wind is much more than an excellent crime novel,” Palm Beach Post
“A loopy, cynical, romantic caper novel. Daring and funny and smart,” Miami Herald
**From Library Journal
Released early from prison to attend his con-man father's Florida funeral, unflappable Dennis "Doom" Loomis (incarcerated for literary fraud) inherits a large sailboat; a sinking, decrepit town on Omnium Key; and his father's oddball friends. Soon tangled up with two deluded and rapacious descendants of early Florida land developers, who attempt to wreak further havoc on the neighborhood, Doom and entourage retaliate with clever disguises and precocious procedures. As their off-the-wall antics grow more absurdly successful, the plot becomes funnier and funnier. An unusual, noteworthy effort from the author of Lover Man (Scribner, 1987).
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“What John Irving or Kurt Vonnegut might produce if they wrote a novel about crime and real estate set in the Florida keys…hilarious and deeply satisfying,” Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
Dennis “Doom” Lewis is a small-time conman who paid a big-price: a five-year prison sentence for forging a novel by Eleanor Roosevelt that became an international bestseller. He gets an early release to attend his crooked father’s funeral…and discovers that he’s inherited a sailboat and a Florida town that’s sinking into the sea.
But the town is on prime real estate that two warring developers want badly enough to have already killed his father for and will go to outrageous lengths to snatch away from him. Dodging bombs, corrupt cops, and crazed killers, Doom teams up with a Nyquil-chugging history professor, two documentary film-makers named Anne, and a drop-dead-sexy scuba instructor and her Seminole grandmother in an elaborate plot to swindle the swindlers and save himself from fatally living up to his nick-name.
“A flamboyant, comic nightmare. The author's best inventions are his characters -- gaudy as comic-strip villains, unpredictable as ancient gods and given to mighty mock-heroic combat of epic consequence. There is fun here, but also real fury in Mr. Murphy’s raging imagination,” The New York Times
“Dallas Murphy is right up there with Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen. I loved it” Donald Westlake
“Masterful. Apparent Wind is much more than an excellent crime novel,” Palm Beach Post
“A loopy, cynical, romantic caper novel. Daring and funny and smart,” Miami Herald Views: 35
Rosaleen Magee has it all – a loving family, good looks and a handsome fiancé with his own thriving business. But then Sean Devlin turns up at the Falls Flax Factory, where Rosaleen works, and everything changes. She knows she should leave well alone, but what harm is there in one date before she settles down for good? That one date will set in motion a train of events that will shake Rosaleen's family to its core. And as the war throws everyone's lives into turmoil, will Rosaleen risk everything for love? A new edition of the bestselling novel from Belfast's leading saga writer. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Maureen Lee, Pam Weaver and Alrene Hughes. Also available: FULL CIRCLE, the next part of this enthralling saga. Views: 35
In Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia, acclaimed author José Manuel Prieto has masterfully crafted a kaleidoscopic portrait of post-Communist Russia. Strikingly poetic and cleverly humorous, it's the story of two misfits caught between old world traditions and the lure of contemporary Western influences as they set off on an adventure to immerse themselves in the beauty of the world.Thelonius Monk (not his real name) and Linda Evangelista (not her real name) meet in Saint Petersburg after the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991. They journey to Yalta, where Thelonius promises to make Linda famous in the fashion magazines. But in fact, he's drafting a novel about her. Over the course of their travels, the two indulge in all sorts of sensual amusementsextravagant dinners, luxury automobiles, seaside hotelswhile they engage in grand discussions of love, art, celebrity, and other existential polarities.Alphabetically organized from Abacus to Zizi,... Views: 35
