A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper family—and the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now they've swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the house even comes with a cat, a shy marmalade named Esmond! Everything seems purrfect...until someone tries to kill Mr. Harper.Now the genteel village feels sinister, the snooty next-door neighbor is acting suspicious and the house is filled with its real owner's secrets. Numerous attempts on Mr. Harper's life convince his wife Nancy they can't pussyfoot around. They need to investigate, starting with what the mousey orange cat knows... Views: 33
A fantasy tale of a girl's upheavel of the court and empire. Views: 33
The SEALs must stop a Chinese freighter from delivering a nuclear arsenal to Libya — or the entire Middle East will be turned into an apocalyptic wasteland. Views: 33
From former NPR correspondent Mary Louise Kelly comes a heart-pounding story about fear, family secrets, and one woman’s hunt for answers about the murder of her parents.Two words: The bullet. That’s all it takes to shatter her life. Caroline Cashion is beautiful, intelligent, a professor of French literature. But in a split second, everything she’s known is proved to be a lie. A single bullet, gracefully tapered at one end, is found lodged at the base of her skull. Caroline is stunned. It makes no sense: she has never been shot. She has no entry wound. No scar. Then, over the course of one awful evening, she learns the truth: that she was adopted when she was three years old, after her real parents were murdered. Caroline was there the night they were attacked. She was wounded too, a gunshot to the neck. Surgeons had stitched up the traumatized little girl, with the bullet still there, nestled deep among vital nerves and blood... Views: 33
A novella in the hilarious Haley Randolph cozy mystery series.Fashionista and event planner to the stars Haley Randolph thinks the Thanksgiving Day feast she's organizing for the wealthy young owners of the Pammy Candy Company at their Calabasas mansion will be easy—until the hostess is pushed to her death from a second floor balcony.Money-hungry relatives expecting to dish up a share of the candy company profits, an ex-lover, and a family secret make a tempting recipe for murder. It's a feast of suspects as Haley gobbles up clues that threaten to turn this warm, welcoming occasion into cold leftovers—but with private detective Jack Bishop in charge of the investigation, things heat up fast.Haley searches for the designer handbag of her dreams—but finds a hot new attorney instead—and a killer who knows revenge is a meal best served cold! Views: 33
Past Abandon is a psychological thriller about Natalie, a woman abducted by a sadistic serial killer, and his only survivor, Cora, who fears her missing memories hold the key to his identity. Views: 33
