While searching all over Bangkok for her half-sister, Rebecca Brown captures the attention of Kash Santelli, a man who suspects her of being a spy. Views: 97
The layered plot of the latest in the excellent Jenny Cain series (SAY NO TO MURDER) finds the Port Frederick, Mass., sleuth probing the cause of her recently deceased mother's insanity. Cain discovers that her mother's mental collapse many years before coincided with the bankruptcy of the family business. The closing of Cain Clams created considerable unemployment locally and countless enemies for the Cains--one such foe may now be trying to prevent the amateur detective from delving further into her family's past and the town's secrets. As she tracks down public mysteries, Cain unearths painful personal issues; an attempt on her life, construed as an effort at suicide, forces her to deal with the legacy of her mother's madness. Pickard masterfully resolves both plot lines in this affecting, provocative novel centering around the mystery at the heart of mother-daughter relationships. Views: 96
Three exiting episodes from television's most popular science fiction series!Complete in this volumeBeyond the Farthest StarThe Enterprise goes to investigate a mysterious radio signal and suddenly finds itself locked in orbit around a dead star. The suddenly, as if that weren't bad enough, the alien ship is taken over by a potent alien force . . . a force that may destroy the Enterprise and everyone aboard!YesteryearSpock travels back into his past to protect his future that is still to come . . .One of Our Planets is MissingWhen a huge cosmic cloud is reported moving into the outer fringes of the galaxy, the Enterprise is sent to investigate. But before the crew can do anything, the cloud consumes the planet Alondra . . . and then heads for Mantilles— a planet with 82 million people! Views: 93
Barton Royal, a deranged misfit, kidnaps twelve-year-old Billy Neary from the video arcade at the Crossland Mall and imprisons him in the secret black room beneath his house, in a tale of madness and evil Views: 92
an amazing yearEllie Farley's father, Okey, drinks too much, mostly because he hasn't been able to work since he was injured in a mining accident. He hasn't been able to hunt, either, so it's strange when he brings home a hunting dog, a beagle named Bullet. But Bullet is only the first odd thing that happens to Ellie the year she's eleven. She sees a favorite uncle go off to war; a boy in her class has a fit in the middle of geography and another is accidentally killed while target shooting; and Okey drives his Chevy pickup off the mountain, with near-tragic consequences. But still Ellie manages the ordinary pleasures of making a best friend and getting kissed for the first time -- it's no wonder she confides to Bullet on her twelfth birthday, "Some year." Views: 89
The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy. Views: 87
THE WORLD IN TURMOIL
1938. In Germany, Nazism reaches a fever pitch. Rumors of war spread across the continent of Europe. In the calm before the storm, Hitler searches for a shortcut in his plans for world domination—and looks to Hollywood. He sends his agents across the Atlantic to the celluloid capital of sin and glamour, on the trail of an all-powerful secret weapon.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD
Los Angeles. Cliff Secord is a barnstorming air-race pilot. He makes his living by living dangerously, is happiest when he's shattering air-speed records and riding the contrail edge of disaster. After thugs destroy his prized GeeBee race plane during an FBI gun battle, Secord finds himself out of work, out of luck . . . and hung out to dry. For someone has saddled him with the most dangerous weapon of the war—the Cirrus X-3 rocketpack, a flying device faster and more dangerous than any Secord has ever encountered. Now he and his starlet girlfriend are on the run, one step ahead of gangster mercenaries, federal agents, and Nazi assassins, who prowl the City of Angels looking for America's most reluctant hero.
Men have died for this weapon.
Cliff Secord is next in line. Views: 86
The Edgar Award-winning author of Junkyard Dog is back with a new mystery featuring Chicago's most endearing sewer inspector, Jimmy Flannery. When a high-and-mighty police chief asks him to help investigate the mysterious death of a man who remains unidentified at the morgue, Jimmy runs up against some Chicago big boys--and an underworld warlord.
Well, it finally happened. Old Chips Devlin made me committeeman for the Twenty-seventh ward. I'm the warlord now. What with the celebration and all, my diet's shot to hell. Which is why I was sweating it out at the Paradise Health Club with Shimmy Dugan and Princess Grace -- a black man of the gay persuasion which don't mean he ain't tough as a marine drill instructor when it comes to making you do the deep knee bends and duck waddles -- when Mr. P. Pig met his maker.
Nobody knows his name. He's on a trial membership and renews weekly under the name P. Pig. All I know is he seems to take exercise very seriously and smiles a lot. For a man with an olive complexion, he had very blue eyes. But the man who smiles all the time ain't smiling now. He's lying on the floor like a beached baby whale -- dead.
Why is his coroner file closed? Why have the cops suddenly shifted gears? Somebody with clout wants Mr. Porky's identity kept quiet. But how far are they willing to go to stop my snooping? Chip's old pal, the big boss Vito Vellitri, finally puts it to me point blank: "This is a family. You understand that there is law and then there's justice...." Yeah. And I got thirty pieces of silver and what I saw in a Pig's eye that won't let me stop until I dig up the truth....
Jimmy is up to the task in this hard-boiled yet light-hearted mystery tale Views: 80
