CWhile investigating the death of an American man in a remote Cambodian province, CIA Agent Andrew Shaw discovers a sinister plot that threatens all expatriates living in the Southeast Asian country. Andrew must stop a local warlord intent on purging the country of all 'Ch'kais' or foreign vermin. It's a race against time! Views: 34
The Monster In The Box is the latest addition to Ruth Rendell's classic and beguiling Inspector Wexford series. In this enthralling new book, Rendell, "the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world" (_Time_), takes Inspector Wexford back to his days as a young policeman, and to the man he has long suspected of murder -- serial murder.Outside the house where Wexford investigated his first murder case -- a woman found strangled in her bedroom -- he noticed a short, muscular man wearing a scarf and walking a dog. He gave Wexford an unnerving stare. Without any solid evidence, Wexford began to suspect that this man -- Eric Targo, he learned -- was the killer.Over the years there are more unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford continues to quietly suspect that the increasingly prosperous Targo -- van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover -- is behind them.Now, half a lifetime later, Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence. Wexford tells his longtime partner, Mike Burden, about his suspicions, but Burden dismisses them as fantasy. Meanwhile, Burden's wife, Jenny, has suspicions of her own. She believes that the Rahmans, a highly respectable immigrant family from Pakistan, may be forcing their daughter, Tamima, into an arranged marriage -- or worse.In The Monster in the Box, the twenty-second book in the Inspector Wexford series, fans will be thrilled to meet the now-aging inspector in the robust early days of his career. For new readers, no introduction to this spectacular writer and her compelling protagonist could be finer. Views: 34
Poor girls.Lydia is not used to working for her money. But having money? She's used to that--and lots of it. Now that she's in La-La Land, Lydia will do whatever it takes to maintain the L.A. lifestyle she was born to have. If it means she has to tell a few little lies to get there, well, a Hollywood girl's gotta do what a Hollywood girl's gotta do, right?Rich Boys.Being with Jonathan is playing with fuego. Everything about him spells trouble for Esme, from his trendy hybrid car to his expensive clothes to his so-called ex, Mackenzie. What's worse is it seems that he wants to keep Esme hidden away, a secret. Doesn't a guy who likes you want to show you off? Unless you're just being used.Richer Girls.Anyone who's anyone will be at Fab, the exclusive party that wraps up L.A.'s fashion week. That's why Platinum--neurotic music superstar and Kiley's new boss--is desperate to snag an invite. Kiley has the unlikely power to make it happen .... Views: 34
From the Sunday Times and ebook bestselling author of A Wartime Christmas comes a gritty saga about love, loss and keeping family together.June 4, 1940. Molly Swift, at 27, has already suffered the tragic loss of her two-year-old daughter Emily, to the flu outbreak of 1935. Now she waits for news of her shopkeeper husband Ted, who volunteered at the outbreak of war, for the British Expeditionary Forces. Molly is intent on running the general store with the help of her retired father, Bill Keen and ex-proprietor of the business. But after the building is hit during a bombing raid and Bill is severly injured, Molly faces difficult times. Alone in the hospital corridor as Bill is treated, Molly tries to keep positive. But the Blitz is well underway and she is forced to take shelter in the hospital's basement. It's here, as the bombs fall around docklands, that Molly meets Andy Miller and his two young children, Evie and Mark. An unlikely friendship... Views: 34
From internationally bestselling author Iain Pears comes the seventh in his Jonathan Argyll series -- an intriguing mystery of love, loss, and artistic license. For newlywed and Italian art theft squad head Flavia di Stefano, the honeymoon is over when a painting, borrowed from the Louvre and en route to a celebratory exhibition, is stolen. Desperate to avoid public embarrassment -- and to avoid paying a ransom -- the Italian prime minister leans hard on Flavia to get it back quickly and quietly. Across town, her husband, art historian Jonathan Argyll, begins an investigation of his own, tracing the past of a small Renaissance painting -- an Immaculate Conception -- owned by Flavia's mentor, retired general Taddeo Bottando. Soon both husband and wife uncover astonishing and chilling secrets, and Flavia's investigation takes a sudden turn from the search for an art thief to the hunt for a murderer.
From Publishers Weekly Jonathan Argyll, accompanied by his new wife, Flavia di Stefano, makes his seventh appearance in this confusing case of a stolen painting, murder and intrigue, following 1998's well-received An Instance of the Fingerpost. Antonio Sabauda, the Italian prime minister, asks Flavia, now acting head of the national art squad, to recover Claude Lorraine's Landscape with Cephalis and Procris, stolen from an Italian museum while on loan from the Louvre. Flavia, however, must not use public money for the requested ransom. As Flavia's former boss, Gen. Taddeo Bottando, has told her, "Prime ministers? Oh, they can ruin your life." She finds this is true on many levels. Meanwhile, Argyll, the art expert, is snooping into the provenance of a small painting owned by Bottando. Soon Argyll and Flavia find that almost everyone they talk to in their respective investigations has a hidden agenda. Who is behind all the shady goings-on in the art world? Is it Prime Minister Sabauda, General Bottando or another person with something to protect? Ultimately, as people's motives become clearer and one corpse after another turns up, Argyll and Flavia find that they have to make some very disturbing choices involving their own sense of morality. A personal secret that Flavia harbors until the end adds some intrigue. While the author nicely portrays the Italian art world, readers looking for a scintillating mystery will have to seek elsewhere. Views: 34
Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter. But in the streets of Castita's capital, where a wild religious festival is in full swing, a series of bizarre encounters - including his own repulsive doppelgänger (the son of a circus bird-woman) - and disturbing family revelations await Miles, who soon finds himself a willing victim of dynastic destiny.A darkly surreal comedy of dazzling linguistic inventiveness, MF is an outrageous tale of blood, lust and the machinations of fate. Views: 34
In Jonathan Kellerman’s
gripping novels, the city of Los Angeles is as much a living, breathing
character as the heroes and villains who roam its labyrinthine streets.
Sunny on the surface but shadowy beneath, this world of privilege and
pleasure has a dark core and a dangerous edge. In True Detectives,
Kellerman skillfully brings his renowned gifts for breathless suspense
and sharp psychological insight to a tale that resonates on every level
and satisfies at every turn.Bound by blood but divided by
troubles as old as Cain and Abel, Moses Reed and Aaron Fox were first
introduced in Kellerman’s bestselling Bones. They are sons of the same
strong-willed mother, and their respective fathers were cops, partners,
and friends. Their turbulent family history has set them at odds,
despite their shared calling. Moses—part Boy Scout, part bulldog, man of
few words—is a no-frills LAPD detective. Aaron, sharp dresser and
smooth operator, is an ex-cop turned high-end private eye. Usually they
go their separate ways. But the disappearance of Caitlin Frostig isn’t
usual. For Moses, it’s an ice-cold mystery he just can’t outrun, even
with the help of psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis.
For Aaron, it’s a billable-hours bonanza from his most lucrative client.
Like it or not, Moses and Aaron are in this one together–and the
rivalry that rules them won’t let either man quit till the case is
cracked.A straight-arrow, straight-A student from Malibu,
Caitlin has only two men in her life: her sullen single father and her
wholesome college sweetheart, who even the battling brothers agree seems
too downright upright to be true. Reluctantly tag-teaming in a
desperate search for fresh leads, Moses and Aaron zero in on Caitlin’s
white knight as their primary “person of interest,” hoping that, like
most people in L.A., he has a secret side.But they uncover more
than just a secret as they descend into the sinister, seamy side of the
City of Angels after dark, populated by a Hollywood Babylon cast of the
glamorous and the damned: a millionaire movie director turned
hatemongering eccentric; a desperate Beverly Hills housewife looking for
an exit from the fast lane; a heartthrob actor being eaten alive by
personal demons; a hooker who’s probably seen it all . . . and might
just know too much. And at the center, a dead young woman whose downward
spiral and brutal end loom over Moses and Aaron like an omen of what
may come to be if the dark end of the street claims another lost soul. Views: 34
Two of her four kids may be out of the nest, but Lucy Stone knows only too well that mothering is a lifetime commitment. At least she gets to kick back and enjoy a fancy Mother's Day brunch with her brood, that is, before the festivities are interrupted by a nasty scene courtesy of Barbara Hume and Tina Nowak. Opposites in every way, the only thing these mean moms have in common is the need to best each other at every turn, using their teenage daughters as pawns in elaborate games of oneups-manship.Even after witnessing the women's claw sharpening rituals, Lucy never expects to see actual blood spilled until Tina is shot dead on the public tennis court. Now Lucy is determined to unravel the closeknit knot of suspects. But when the threads threaten to entangle one of her own, Lucy will come face-to-face with a killer who has a thing or two to learn about motherly love..."As charming and enjoyable as ever."Romantic Times Views: 34
Newly discovered and lost stories written by Harlem Renaissance Icon Dorothy West. Many of these stories were locked away in the archives of the Library of Congress Views: 34
