Japan, 1701. A woman is brutally attacked within a bamboo prison as clouds swirl around her head. Meanwhile, at Edo Castle, samurai detective turned chamberlain Sano Ichiro is suspicious of his old rival, Yanagisawa, who has been oddly cooperative since returning from exile. But just as Yanagisawa's true motives begin to emerge, Sano's estranged uncle comes to him for help: His daughter has disappeared, and he begs Sano and his wife—who once suffered through the kidnapping of their own son—to find her before it is too late.Publishers Weekly calls Laura Joh Rowland's The Cloud Pavilion "One of the best mysteries of the year." Views: 14
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A bizarre series of murders inside the court of Henry VIII is the center of this dramatic and colorful mystery in the tradition of Ellis Peters. In 1517 the English armies have defeated and killed James IV of Scotland at Flodden, and James's widow queen. Margaret, sister to Henry VIII, has fled to England, leaving her children behind and her crown under a Council of Regency. Sir Roger Shallot, a bon vivant with the sharpest wits and fastest legs in Christendom, and his friend Benjamin Daunbey, nephew to Cardinal Wolsey, are ordered to restore her to her throne. They encounter a murder conspiracy and bloody intrigue on every side. Dr. Selkirk, a half-mad physician imprisoned in the Tower, has information they need, but he is found poisoned in a locked chamber, guarded by soldiers, the only clue a poem of riddles. Other gruesome murders soon follow: at a haunted manor house in England; in the dark recesses of the Tower. The assassin is unknown, but always leaves a white rose - the mark of Les Blancs Sangliers, the secret society that plots the overthrow of the Tudor Monarchy. Views: 14
Dumped on an alien world, with no memory of his past, and among a strange bunch of people who had filled their own blank memories with myth and legend, what do you do?If you just agree with the others, you stand a good chance of losing what little sanity you have left, and then what?You could try to find the truth behind the myths, but if you do, you are labelled a heretic.It takes a very tough character and a very thick skin to unravel the mysteries the man with no identity found himself submerged in.Huddled inside their cave complex, life moves at a snail's pace, when daytime outside is blisteringly hot, and the nights icy cold.With little more than his own urge to survive at all costs, and a determination to put right the terrible wrongs which had been done, he set out on his quest against impossible odds......"D. B. Reynolds-Moreton paints a bleak picture of a group of people surviving on a knife-edge and true to his style creates a compelling and... Views: 14
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Running from the law and a false accusation of murder, Christabel Van Alen is abducted by a gang of outlaws and auctioned off to the highest bidder, a U.S. marshall working undercover. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo. Views: 14
Regan and friends fight one of the most difficult battles yet as they loot a gun emporium in hopes of restocking their non-existent supplies. Hendrix and Reagan steel a few moments alone and the girls bond with Tyler. Views: 14
In late 2013, Americans were shocked to learn that a former FBI agent turned private investigator who disappeared in Iran in 2007 was there on a mission for the CIA. The missing man, Robert Levinson, appeared in pictures dressed like a Guantánamo prisoner and pleaded in a video for help from the United States.Barry Meier, an award-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, draws on years of interviews and never-before-disclosed CIA files to weave together a riveting narrative of the ex-agent's journey to Iran and the hunt to rescue him. The result is an extraordinary tale about the shadowlands between crime, business, espionage, and the law, where secrets are currency and betrayal is commonplace. Its colorful cast includes CIA operatives, Russian oligarchs, arms dealers, White House officials, gangsters, private eyes, FBI agents, journalists, and a fugitive American terrorist and assassin.Missing Man is a fast-paced story that moves... Views: 14
Pokémon Go meets The Goonies in this exciting new adventure series! Monsters. Aliens. What's next? Use your BRAINS and figure it out! In their third exciting adventure, Bex and Charlie battle the living dead—ZOMBIES. After all they've gone through, Bex and Charlie have no intention of playing the new zombie game that Veratrum Games Corp just released. But everyone else in town is hooked, and when a flu sweeps the school, turning teachers and students into the undead, it turns out that only non-players are immune. Now, Charlie and Bex have to find a way to save their friends and neighbors—and stop the company from unleashing more of their deadly games. Views: 14
She'll risk everything for their love--even her life. Aspiring screenwriter Gwyn Morland is ready for her big break. That means securing the film rights to elusive author Lady Ruthven's acclaimed novel--which means traveling to Scotland. It's a trip timid Gwyn isn't prepared for, and her fears seem justified when her tour bus careens over a cliff outside of Castle Glenarvon. But the plot thickens when Gwyn is rescued from the brink of death by a handsome and mysterious stranger... Leith MacQuill is not only the writer behind Lady Ruthven's novel, but a shape-shifting faery knight bearing a tragic curse: the woman he gives his heart to will die. Saving Gwyn proves to be a dangerous choice when he finds himself falling for her the longer she stays in the castle. Not even his usual BDSM role-playing games are enough to thwart the intense desire they feel for each other. But to stay together, Gwyn and Leith must embark on a dangerous mission into Avalon,... Views: 14
This series of 7 stories are full of adventure, intrigue and suspense. Views: 14
July 1944, Normandy, France. Maverick 'troublemaker' Sgt C. J. Mahoney and his kill-crazy sidekick, Cranepool, seem to draw all the assignments nobody else can handle. This time, they're sent to bail out Charlie Company of the First Battalion, Fifteenth Infantry Regiment, which is about to be torn to pieces by the deadly Panzer units in Normandy's savage Battle of the Hedgerows.It's Mahoney's deadliest test, as he must struggle against his own yen for girls, brawls and good times, not to mention an implacable German military genius—and a vengeful Yank commander who wants to see the Sergeant's hide hung up on the 'bloody bush' of the Hedgerows.Third in the all-action War series written by Len Levinson writing as Gordon Davis. Views: 14
A dishy, incisive exploration of gossip — from celebrity rumors to literary romans à clef, personal sniping to political slander — by one our "great essayists" (David Brooks)To his successful examinations of some of the most powerful forces in modern life — envy, ambition, snobbery, friendship — the keen observer and critic Joseph Epstein now adds Gossip. No trivial matter, despite its reputation, gossip, he argues, is an eternal and necessary human enterprise. Proving that he himself is a master of the art, Epstein serves up delightful mini-biographies of the Great Gossips of the Western World along with many choice bits from his own experience. He also makes a powerful case that gossip has morphed from its old-fashioned best — clever, mocking, a great private pleasure — to a corrosive new-school version, thanks to the reach of the mass media and the Internet. Gossip has invaded and changed for the worse politics and... Views: 14
