In tiny Murphy's Harbour, where Reid Bennett serves as the one-man police force, questions and dead bodies tend to pile up all at once. The morning starts with Reid chasing off a gang of threatening teens with a baseball bat. Minutes later, Reid learns that a bank robber might be headed his way looking for vengeance. But, the day doesn't really start rolling until Reid finds a dead woman in the trunk of a waterlogged car. What follows is a fast-paced thriller involving rich lawyers, a questionable movie producer and quite a few shifting identities. Everyone seems to be circling everyone else in a complicated orbit of sex and money. Can all these events be tied together? Views: 56
Red Wheels Turning tells the story of British Secret Service agent Brian Finch-Malloy in Tsarist Russia, as he works to prevent the Russian secret war-winning weapons from falling into the hands of the Bolshevik henchman, Kolinski, who makes his way across Europe, leaving a trail of blood and corpses behind him. From the author of the acclaimed alternate history novel, Beneath Gray Skies. Views: 56
When state high school track champion Suzanne Czarnopias goes missing her home town is shocked, but as the police find no clues to her fate, that shock turns to anger, first at the Lake City, New York, police, and then, when their newspaper prints letters to the editor claiming to be from the culprit, that anger and fear focuses on the new managing editor, Jim Stanton.And as the community questions the newspaper's reporting, and rumors about the possibility of Stanton's role in the story make their way through the town, the letter writer threatens to make Stanton's daughter the next victim if he fails to pursue the story.Relying on his military training for the first time as a civilian, Stanton readies himself for his first test as an investigator – with everything near and dear to him on the line. Views: 56
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At the turn of twenty-second century, prisons are obsolete. Rehabilitation is done in cities that are isolated from civilization. But those cities are deeply different. There are no laws there. None whatsoever. Views: 56
Shy, dreamy, and incurably romantic, Harriet Poole was shattered when her brief affair with Simon Villiers, Oxford’s leading playboy undergraduate, ended abruptly, leaving her penniless, alone and pregnant. She becomes a nanny to the children of an eccentric scriptwriter and a whole host of visitors begin to arrive to disrupt her routine including of all people, Simon. Views: 56
Jen is the love of Lance's life. Regardless of the challenge, Lance would do anything to make sure that his wife is happy. Little does he know that this next challenge will come in the form of his self-absorbed and conniving sister-in-law. As she pushes Lance's devotion to the brink, he will struggle to find a way to protect his wife and his fidelity. Views: 56
Padgett Powell's You & Me, mixed with 750 ml of fine bourbon, is the most fun you can have in many states without getting arrested.—Gary Shteyngart, bestselling author of Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love StoryThe novel's penetrating, playful words manage to 'pick impossibly heavy sht up' and deliver what one of the characters calls 'the perfect nonsense a real dream makes.'—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Padgett Powell, author of the acclaimed The Interrogative Mood and one of the few truly important American writers of our time (Sam Lipsyte), returns with a hilarious Southern send-up of Samuel Beckett's classic Waiting for Godot. Truly a master of envelope-pushing, post-postmodern American fiction, in a class with Nicholas Baker and Lydia Davis, Powell brilliantly blends the sublime, the trivial, and the oddball in You & Me, as two loquacious gents on a porch... Views: 56
Ten years ago, Las Vegas was terrorized by "CAST"--a vicious serial killer responsible for nearly half a dozen brutal murders, and who tested the mettle of the LVPD's new Captain, Jim Brass. After a two-year spree, CAST suddenly disappeared and has not been heard from ... until now. Gil Grissom and his CSI team are called in to investigate a homicide that perfectly fits the notorious criminal's modus operandi. But all hell breaks loose when a reporter made famous by the original cases receives a letter from someone claiming to be CAST--and who says he has nothing to do with the latest slaying. Now the CSIs must stop someone who may be a copycat killer from striking again....even as a murderer from the past continues to evade capture, and isn't taking too kindly to rivals.... Views: 56
