Kenny Wright is a sixth grade 'Grandma's Boy' in a tough inner city school, struggling with bullies, schoolwork and keeping his detentions secret from his 'G-ma'. Though in his active imagination he's a world-famous superhero, Stainlezz Steel, who fights crime, saves lives and rescues helpless animals. But now Kenny's neighbourhood need him – can he step up in his real life and help his 'G-ma' save the best School Principal he's ever had? Views: 37
From the author of Blindsided & Time on the Wire. Left for dead by smugglers, Will Taggert must figure out how to save the damaged luxury yacht, the Venetian, and get her home to the U.S. With the yacht barely sea worthy, Will knows it won't be the little-umbrellas-in-fancy-drinks pleasure cruise he was promised. Worse, he's worried about what's waiting for him in Florida. Banning Sloan, the bank CEO who sent him to Rio to collect the yacht, is suddenly being evasive. Garcia Cabrera, Sloane's nemesis and the yacht's former owner, may be trying to steal her back. And then there's his newfound relationship with the yacht's chef—the mysterious Su Li. Is she on his side or is she working for someone else? Granted, the Venetian is a valuable yacht, but Will's convinced there's more to it than that. Something—some contraband—has to be hidden onboard. When the Venetian arrives in Florida, all the players converge and Will hopes to get answers. Instead,... Views: 37
Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Peter Decker, are shocked by an outrage that cuts close to the spiritual heart of their family. Rina's small storefront synagogue has been desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti and grisly Nazi death camp photographs. The alleged perpetrator is seventeen-year-old Ernesto Golding, a "rich kid" obsessed with haunting suspicions about the origins of his Polish paternal grandfather. Then Ernesto is found brutally murdered, along with his therapist, Dr. Mervin Baldwin, at an exclusive nature camp that caters moneyed, troubled children. For Decker and his wife, unraveling the truth behind Ernesto's violent death becomes more terrifying with each sinister twist. For lethal secrets with roots in the horrors of a past genteration are coming to the surface, propelling Peter and Rina into a ghastly world of ruthless parents and damaged youth -- and toward a dark evil and its ultimate retribution.Amazon.com ReviewL.A. homicide detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, his Orthodox Jewish wife, return in a new entry in this popular series. Faye Kellerman can be counted on to deliver emotional complexity along with suspense, and in The Forgotten it comes from the relationship between Peter and Jacob, Rina's troubled teenage son. Jacob has a personal connection to the event that sets off this intricately plotted novel, the defacing of Rina's synagogue by one of his classmates. Ernesto Golding can't explain why he vandalized the synagogue, but when he and his therapists are murdered months after the incident, Peter realizes that something the teenager told him when admitting his guilt may hold the key to the killings: Ernesto's belief that his grandfather may have been a Nazi who posed as a Jew to escape to South America after the war. Investigating Ernesto's story gives Rina a strand of the plot to tease out; meanwhile, Peter concentrates on another motive for the therapist murders that involves computer fraud, the College Board exams, and the high cost exacted by parents who pressure their teenagers to succeed.Kellerman skillfully keeps the dramatic tension going as she pulls all the pieces of her complex plot together. But what makes this novel her best yet is her acutely revealing portrait of Jacob, struggling with the existential angst of adolescence as he attempts to reconcile his devotion to Judaism with the temptations of contemporary life, from drugs to sex. She brilliantly limns his search for identity, intimacy, and independence even as he redefines his relationship to Peter and Rina, in a scenario that resounds with psychological truth. The Forgotten is a terrific addition to the Kellerman oeuvre. While she's always been an exceptional illustrator of the emotional life of the family, this time she writes with an expertise that may owe something to professional insights of her husband, author Jonathan Kellerman, who's also a child psychologist. --Jane AdamsFrom Publishers WeeklyIn this complex, disturbing novel (after 2000's Stalker), Kellerman again adroitly balances Rina Lazarus's consuming Orthodox Judaism with the broader societal issues faced by her husband, L.A. homicide detective Peter Decker. Here they intertwine when the vicious defacement of their synagogue reverberates in a widening circle of murders. Ernesto Golding, a troubled, spoiled youth and acquaintance of Rina's son, Jacob, confesses to the crime, but several months later Ernesto and his therapists, Mervin and Dee Baldwin, are murdered. Ernesto had discovered that his beloved grandfather may have been a Nazi who escaped Germany disguised as a Jew. While Rina delves into this provocative strand of the plot, Peter and his staff investigate hate groups. Then another killing ties the therapists to not only the hate groups but also an insidious current of psychological and sexual manipulation and computer fraud. Kellerman focuses on the plight of desperate young people misused and misunderstood by their parents, who apply unbearable pressures for success on their often- bewildered children. She also shows the deepening love and rapport between Decker and his stepson as Jacob helps solve the case. Although the Holocaust subplot seems forced to give Rina a larger role, the author, as usual, seamlessly weaves her themes of religious belief and familial respect into a multilayered thriller, with finely realized characters and a tangible sense of place. 250,000 first printing. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Views: 37
During the Great Depression, outlaw rivals of Bonnie and Clyde battle for their lives in a bullet-riddled cornfield that holds the secret of love and death.In a suburban American ghost town, a frightened boy armed with a BB gun stands alone against a soul-stealing stranger.In the Old West, a legendary gunslinger follows a trail of severed heads as he delivers a mail-order bride to a madman.Hard-boiled thrillers. Gonzo suspense. Grisly horror. Tough yet tender character studies. Norman Partridge gives readers all this and more in his biggest and best collection of short fiction.Known for a vivid, exuberant writing style that goes straight for the throat, Partridge's resolutely eccentric fiction is powered by an obvious affinity--and affection--for the outrageous and grotesque. But don't try to put a label on him-- Partridge is a writer who fits no category but his own.Herein you'll find an original introduction by the author himself, twenty-plus stories, and two brand new tales from a talent The Washington Times calls "... as crazy as a scorpion on a red-hot skillet--and twice as dangerous."Gentle reader, you're in for a ride and a half.Winner of the 2001 Bram Stoker Award for fiction collection! Views: 37
Needham is Asia's most stylish and atmospheric writer of crime fiction. – THE SINGAPORE STRAITS TIMES.... Jake Needham is Michael Connelly with steamed rice. – THE BANGKOK POST.... Thailand is hurtling closer and closer to a bloody civil war. And as unlikely as it may sound, Jack Shepherd is probably the only person on earth who can stop it. Views: 37
John Vir owns a newsagent in Southampton - the only shop that still stocks packets of petrified celery soup, drosophila-studded fruit and boxes of henna. Lucy and Paul are his favourite customers - they live across the road above Snooke's Electrical Stores, soon to become the Bluebird Café. Stencilling blue doves below the picture rails and buying stripped-pine chairs from the Oxfam furniture store Lucy works in the newly opened café whilst Paul spends his time at the Badger Centre as a volunteer. Meanwhile John Vir thinks of little else but Lucy and invites her to the cash 'n' carry, hoping of course, that it will be a prelude to something more exciting, for them both ... Views: 37
London, 1859. Great exhibitions. Foreign conquests. Underground trains. The era of Victorian marvels is also the time of the Great Stink. Beneath the respectable surface, a multitude of ills need flushing out. When a man is killed in a hydraulic burst, novice detective Campbell Lawless stumbles on to the trail of Berwick Skelton: this elusive activist rose from humble beginnings to cross swords with London's illuminati, before vanishing, heartbroken, amid presages of disaster. The Worms, a gang of urchins, help Lawless investigate the 'Skeleton Thefts' mystifying society, revealing to him the disillusion that lurks beneath the filthy cobblestones. Berwick's trail leads to music hall hoofers, industrial sabotage and royal scandal. Lawless peels away veneers of secrecy to convince the powers-that-be of Berwick's revolutionary plans. Can he track down the underworld mastermind before he wreaks vengeance on those who ride roughshod over his people? Views: 37
Confirmed atheist Jill McGavock faces the mental deterioration of her brilliant mother. In a quest to cope with this devastating situation, Jill seeks out philosophy professor Sam Hunt. Savvy Sam challenges Jill to make "Pascal's wager" -- to "bet" that God exists by acting as if he does. The results not only change Jill's mind but transform her life in ways she never could have imagined. An exciting, faith-building thriller! From the Trade Paperback edition.About the AuthorNancy Rue taught English and theater before pursuing writing full time. The award-winning author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction for children, young adults, and adults, Nancy lives with her husband in Lebanon, Tennessee. Views: 37
Private Investigator Rafe James knew attorney Libby Corbett wasn't safe -- even before the death threats. And just the thought of something happening to Libby shook Rafe to his core. He whisked her off to the Crooked Arrow Reservation where he could offer his round-the-clock protection. Libby's only interest in Rafe was as her bodyguard, and that suited him just fine. Having buried the memories of his Native American past, along with his emotions, Rafe wasn't about to make any promises -- to anyone. But then Libby was snatched in the night and Rafe realized that the only place Libby would truly be safe was in his arms. Views: 37
Three strangers born on the same day, three worlds that were once one, three missing pieces of an ancient amulet...According to Naissance law, all children must leave their foster-homes on their fourteenth birthday and proceed to The Circle...Leah is devastated to be leaving the only home she's ever known. Especially for a future no-one seems to know anything about...On the eve of his fourteenth birthday, Raff is bursting with excitement at the prospect of leaving behind his boring life to embark on an unknown adventure...All Belle wants is to escape the horrors of her life. Anything must be better than what she's endured for the last fourteen years...Even though the three have never met, they soon learn that being born on the same day is not all they have in common.Magically transported to another world, they learn of a 1000-year-old prophecy awaiting the union of three special children – them!In order to fulfil the prophecy, and... Views: 37
