Once again, Suzi must use her locked-room mystery-solving skills to figure out how her nemesis (attorney Morris Arthur) is involved in the apparent suicide of a well-known author, who was found in his study, face down on his desk, shot in the head, with the alleged suicide weapon in his hand. To make matters more difficult to understand, up until the time of his death, an entire living-room full of guests were waiting for him to walk down the hall from his study, from where they heard him using his old manual typewriter, and even communicated with him via email, from the living room computer station. The police chief and district attorney among the guests at the cocktail party, and uniformed officers were in the hallway, to confirm the fact that no-one entered or exited the deceased’s study for at least 20 minutes before the suicide shot was heard. Peter hopes that this case is resolved quickly and that Suzi’s homicide theory is proved wrong, because he is becoming involved with the deceased’s widow, having helped her with advice on her desired divorce. Will Suzi be right, or is Peter doomed to another failed relationship? This one’s also got a surprise ending and an amazing solution that only Suzi was able to figure out. As an added bonus, at the end of this book is what has been called the best locked-room mystery ever written: Jacques Futrelle’s The Problem in Cell 13, and any person interested in locked-room mysteries should read it and see the type of genre that inspired the author of this 9th Peter Sharp Legal Mystery. All thirteen of the Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries are now available in both print and Kindle versions. Views: 466
From one of our most celebrated masters, a touching, comic, deeply humane collection of linked stories about surprising developments in a gated community
“I find myself inclined to set down for whomever, before my memory goes kaput altogether, some account of our little community, in particular of what Margie and I consider to have been its most interesting hour: the summer of the Peeping Tom.” Something has disturbed the comfortably retired denizens of a pristine Florida-style gated community in Chesapeake Bay country. In the dawn of the new millennium and the evening of their lives, these empty nesters discover that their tidy enclave can be as colorful, shocking, and surreal as any of John Barth’s fictional locales. From the high jinks of a toga party to marital infidelities, a baffling suicide pact, and the sudden, apocalyptic destruction of the short-lived development, Barth brings mordant humor and compassion to the lives of characters we all know well. From “one of the most prodigally gifted comic novelists writing in English today” (Newsweek), The Development is John Barth at his most accessible and sympathetic best. Views: 466
The Dark Realms are taking cover after an angel onslaught from On High. The Antichrist has been injured and the fourth biblical seal has been broken. Yonnie and Val, a strange combination of a daywalker and an angel hybrid, have joined Damali and Carlos's team. And the two new Council-level vamps, Elizabeth Bathory and Lucrezia Borgia, are still in recovery from their last mission. Seething in the underworld is the Unnamed One, so furious that he's bringing the battle topside, unleashing a full-frontal assault on mankind for the offenses committed by the Neteru team. This time, the Guardian team must address serious human casualties and collateral damage while Nuit rebuilds Blood Music from a mere record label into a media brainwashing empire for the Dark Lord. Views: 465
'Just Henry' is a mystery-thriller, set in post-war Britain. Whenever Henry can escape his new, and annoying, stepfamily he does, and goes to the cinema. For his school project Henry is given a camera, but he's initially disgusted to be put in a group with Jeffries, the son of a man who went AWOL, and Pip, born illegitimate. Views: 464
It's June 1970. As the low country of South Carolina burns in a seven-month drought, Cassie Johnson longs for escape: both from her husband, Peck, the town's newly promoted fire chief, who seems more interested in saving everyone else's life than in living his own, and from the low country marshes where Cassie has never quite felt at home. But as Peck and Cassie drift apart, their teenage daughter, Kelly, finds herself torn between her parents and her desperate need for normalcy. It will take a tumultuous journey back to the North Carolina mountains before Cassie can begin to understand the complicated love that resides, unrecognized, deep in her heart.From a masterly voice in Southern fiction, The Fireman's Wife is an emotionally bare and moving novel about one woman's struggle to do what's right–for her family, for her love, and for herself. Views: 463
"You are wondering," said the Professor, "why I have sent for you." His voice was very low and Little Tom had to put his ear close to the evil-smelling lips. "In your mind," said the Professor, "yo are turning over the reasons for this. I must put you at ease, for I have always respected you."
Little Tom was startled.
"Yes," said the Professor, "I have seen much to admire in you. On the lot about me, men are afraid. They spread away from me when I approach. But you...you were brave, Tom Little. You did not cower away. You had steel enough in you not only to meet me and speak to me, but you alos had courage enough to risk my wrath - a thing which all other men feared." Views: 463
"This was supposed to be my best summer yet, the one I've been working toward since practically forever. Now I'm being banished from everything I know and love, and it just doesn't make any sense."
Having recently discarded her dorky image--and the best friend that went with it--Colby Cavendish is looking forward to a long hot season of parties, beach BBQ's, and hopefully, more hook-ups with Levi Bonham, the hottest guy in school. But her world comes crashing down when her parents send her away to spend the summer in Greece with her crazy aunt Tally.
Stranded on a boring island with no malls, no cell phone reception, and an aunt who talks to her plants, Colby worries that her new friends have forgotten all about her. But when she meets Yannis, a cute Greek local, everything changes. She experiences something deeper and more intense than a summer fling, and it forces her to see herself, and the life she left behind, in a whole new way, in Alyson Noël 's *Cruel Summer. * Views: 463
From Publishers WeeklyLarsen (The Perfect Assassin) links the torpedoing of the USS Indianapolis shortly after the ship delivers an atomic bomb to the island of Tinian in the South Pacific to a Nazi plot in his second thriller, set in the waning days of WWII. Maj. Michael Thatcher, a tenacious British officer whose job is to hunt down Nazi spies, is intrigued when the words Manhattan Project come up in one of his interrogations. Meanwhile, in Germany, Col. Hans Gruber knows that a sleeper spy, Die Wespe, who's been working on the atomic bomb project in Los Alamos, must be smuggled out of the U.S. with his stolen plans so that those Nazis who survive the war can rearm and continue their goal of world domination. Charged with this mission is Capt. Alexander Braun, an American fighting in the German army. Braun is clever and ruthless, but once Thatcher catches his scent, he won't rest until Braun is captured or killed. An innovative, original plot marks Larsen as an author to watch. (Oct.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistLeaders in the Third Reich see the end coming and decide to launch a bold plan. One of their most valuable spies in the U.S. is working on a top-secret initiative called the Manhattan Project, prompting the Nazis to send their top agent, ruthless killer Alexander Braun, to reconnoiter with the spy. Born in America, Braun heads back to the States with a personal agenda: visit the woman he was forced to leave behind when he left the country. He finds himself torn between his feelings for her and his mission. Meanwhile, British intelligence learns of Braun and sends one of its best agents after him. All of their lives collide at the dawn of the atomic age. This is well-trod ground—Joseph Kanon’s Los Alamos (1997), for example—and Larsen’s characters and story line provide no real surprises. Still, for readers who can’t get enough of the Manhattan Project in fiction, this is a serviceable thriller. --Jeff Ayers Views: 462
The Download was supposed to change the world. It was supposed to mean the end of aging, the end of death, the birth of a new humanity. But it wasn't supposed to happen to someone like Lia Kahn.
And it wasn't supposed to ruin her life.
Lia knows she should be grateful she didn't die in the accident. The Download saved her--but it also changed her, forever. She can deal with being a freak. She can deal with the fear in her parents' eyes and the way her boyfriend flinches at her touch. But she can't deal with what she knows, deep down, every time she forces herself to look in the mirror: She's not the same person she used to be.
Maybe she's not even a person at all. Views: 462
This is the story of the Terror Weapons developed by Hitler and Nazi Germany that were intended to be unleashed with devastating effect on the rest of the World. The book charts the development of the V rockets and their successes against allied targets. It then goes on to look at the even more sinister deadly weapons that Hitler was planning and developing, but fortunately did not succeed in producing. Hitler’s Terror Weapons tells of the desperate efforts of the Nazis to produce war-winning weapons, and the measures taken by the Allies at the high levels to frustrate them in their aim. Views: 462
“Marisa de los Santos’s Belong to Me is my favorite discovery of the past years: a terrific page-turner that’s also poignant, funny, surprising and deeply heartfelt.”
—Harlan Coben
“Complex, engaging, and surprisingly moving.”
—Boston Globe
The sensational New York Times bestseller from Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me is a gift for readers, an enchanting, luminous novel about the accidents, both big and small, that affect our choice of friend, lover, and spouse. A story centered around three very different suburban neighbors and what it truly means to “belong” to someone, this eye-opening, unforgettable book is the perfect book club selection—beautifully written, smart and sophisticated women’s fiction that invites discussion as it touches the heart—and the ideal companion to de los Santos’s previous blockbuster, Love Walked In.
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Autobiographical spiritual memoir providing an account of how the author rediscovered and fully embraced her Catholic faith after decadesas a self-proclaimed atheist. Begins with her childhood in NewOrleans, when she seriously considered entering a convent. As she grewinto a young adult she delved into concerns about faith, God, and theCatholic Church that led her away from religion. The author finallyreclaimed her Catholic faith in the late 1990s, realizing howmuch she desired to surrender her being, including herwriting talent, to God. Author: Anne Rice Format: 256 pages, hardcover, 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches Publisher: Random House ISBN: 9780307268273 Views: 461
"Fast, furious, sexy, and unique, David Angsten's NIGHT OF THE FURIES turns a tour of the Greek Isles into a gripping story of ancient history and bloody retribution. This book demands to be read in one sitting."
—James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of *The Last Oracle
Two brothers and a beautiful archaeologist exploring ancient mysteries in the Greek Isles get swept into a deadly maelstrom of Bacchanalian horror….
It was the greatest secret of the ancient world, held under penalty of death. It lasted over millennia. A procession of thousands pouring out from Athens to gather on the plains of Eleusis. The giants of empires all took part---Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Augustus, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius. A hallucinogenic elixir was poured. Secret, sacred objects revealed. In the great dark Hall of Initiation, an awe-inspiring transformation took place, a profound experience of death and rebirth….
Such was the celebrated pagan rite known as the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Midnight. Three figures descend a perilous cliff to the ancient site of the Oracle of Delphi. Jack Duran has joined his older brother, Dan, to perform an unusual---and unauthorized---experiment. With the help of Dan’s girlfriend, the brilliant young archaeologist Phoebe Auerbach, the trio will put the famous Oracle to the test.
Breathing fumes in the ruins of the Oracle’s temple, Phoebe falls into a trance of possession and succumbs to a terrifying vision, a foreboding premonition of horrors to come---and a clue to the secret of the Mysteries.
The clue leads Jack and Dan to a magnificent yacht crossing the Aegean. Soon they’re plunged into a mind-blowing orgy with a bevy of irresistibly seductive young women. But the unrestrained erotic frenzy ends in a grisly killing. And Dan disappears Now a fugitive on a mysterious island, Jack must enlist Phoebe’s help to uncover the islanders’ hidden past---and face the diabolical vengeance of the Furies.
A heart-racing adventure thriller, Night of the Furies* is a dark and exhilarating journey into contemporary Dionysian madness and horror.
Praise for Dark Gold:
“I sat down with Angsten’s thriller in the afternoon, and I was still reading at 2 a.m. Dark Gold builds to a frantic and explosive climax.”
--Royce Buckingham, author of *Demon Keeper
“Take another look at this book’s cover. What’s hidden inside . . . will make your eyes widen.”
--David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Creepers
“An alliterative, luridly readable pastiche of Crichton, Lovecraft, Jules Verne, and Robinson Crusoe.”
--Entertainment Weekly
“Thrills and chills…sunken gold, black magic, sea monsters, a beautiful Brazilian in a bikini---what more could you want from a summer thriller?”
--Kirkus Reviews* (starred)
“You’ve got yourself a page-turner that will take readers back to the days when a good book meant you stayed up all night under the covers with a flashlight. . . . Screenwriter Angsten’s tall tale is for grown-up boys who lust for swashbuckling literary adventure set in tropical climes. Extra batteries for that flashlight are recommended.”
--Publishers Weekly
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Beware!
Dangerous secrets lie between the pages of this book.
OK, I warned you. But if you think I'll give anything away, or tell you that this is the sequel to my first literary endeavor, The Name of This Book is Secret, you're wrong.
I'm not going to remind you of how we last left our heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest, as they awaited intiation into the mysterious Terces Society, or the ongoing fight against the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais. I certainly won't be telling you about how the kids stumble upon the Museum of Magic, where they finally meet the amazing Pietro!
Oh, blast! I've done it again. Well, at least I didn't tell you about the missing Sound Prism, the nefarious Lord Pharaoh, or the mysterious creature born in a bottle over 500 years ago, the key to the biggest secret of all.
I really can't help myself, now can I? Let's face it---if you're reading this, it's too late. Views: 461
