SUMMARY: One missing person. One handsome adventurer. And one big case of mistaken identity: the detective's. Because Nadine Kimble isn't actually a private investigator—she's a receptionist. To prove herself, she's determined to solve her first case without everyone else at the Fox & Fisher Detective Agency or the distracting Patrick O'Neil—her client—finding out.Easier said than done, especially when it's clear she's going to have to traipse across the continent following clues. That's going to involve a lot of lying to her coworkers…and to Patrick, a man she's fast developing very unprofessional feelings for. But once she solves the case, she can come clean and finally act on those feelings. Well, if she solves the case… Views: 69
The Bridge to Cutter Gap: Christy Huddleston's dream is to teach poor mountain children. Join Christy as she crosses from the familiar world of parties and pretty things to the different world of Cutter Gap, located in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. There she meets the doctor who needs her help to save a life and the handsome minister who helps her face the challenges of teaching and loving the mountain people.Silent Superstitions: Strange things are happening in Cutter Gap and everybody is convinced that Christy is cursed. After all, who can explain Bob Allens' mysterious accident on his way to bring Christy to Cutter Gap? Or the lightning strike that sent a tree through the school window? Will fear and superstition triumph? Will Christy be driven out of Cutter Gap forever? Or will Christy overcome and win the hearts of the mountain people?The Angry Intruder: Headstrong and independent, Christy is determined to change the lives of the children in Cutter Gap. Yet it... Views: 69
Book 10 of the Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries by USA Today bestselling author Jamie Lee ScottCharles and Mimi at it again. On the trail of another killer. Only this time the alleged killer is in jail, and swears he's innocent.A known Mexican gang leader has been arrested for the murder of his fiancée but swears he didn't do it. He's hired Mimi and Charles to find the real killer.The Gotcha agents are on the case, and with Christmas looming, they'd like to prove their client's innocence or solidify his guilt. Either way, they want the right person behind bars.Lots of changes are coming to the agency, but you'll have to read this novel to find out what happens next.The Gotcha Detective Agency novels are a fun crime series, solving a murder mystery, and learning about the lives of private detectives, and homicide detectives. If you love mysteries, crime novels, murder mysteries,... Views: 69
WELCOME TO THE ALCHEMIC APARTHEID... For over one hundred years the Civic Order and the Alchemic Order have held a shaky truce, peppered by violence and mistrust. But when Koa, a Civilian-born insurgency, bombs an Alchemist summit, the truce is shattered. Now, Koa is rising. War is coming. And nothing stands between Civilians and extinction. Nothing except sixteen-year-old Zeika Anon. Views: 69
The eighth book in The Good Girlz series from national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley. Seniors rule the school . . . High school is coming to a close for the Good Girlz, and it couldn’t end on a better note: Camille, Angel, Alexis, and Jasmine are ecstatic to discover they’ve all been accepted to the same Texas university! Prairie View A&M, watch out: there will be four inseparable friends on campus come September, and between the cute guys, the Greek parties—oh, and the cool classes, of course—their good times will just be beginning. But college has all new rules. Just when things should be falling into place, there is more uncertainty—and more drama—than ever: Alexis passed up an Ivy League scholarship to go to PV, but a summer scandal may bar her from college entirely. Jasmine’s struggling to nail the final exams on which her future depends . . . and Angel stuns everyone with her plans to move... Views: 69
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Freshly promoted to the elite Major Crimes Unit Faraday is thrown into
the deep end with the investigation into the murder of prison officer
Paul Coughlin. Was the violent Coughlin killed by a recently released
con he brutalised in prison? Or is his death a legacy of a wider, more
savage violence from twenty years before? Coughlin was an ex petty
officer in the Royal Navy. He served on HMS Accolade, a Type 21 frigate
sunk during the Falklands war with the loss of 19 men. Could it be that
that tragedy has hidden the evidence of a crime that has waited 20 years
to be avenged? Portsmouth, the Royal Navy's major south coast base, has
thrived on the riches that war brings but it has also suffered; a city
and its people living with the long shadows of the terrible emotional
and physical price of conflict. In this novel Graham has focused on
Portsmouth's ambiguious relationship with the Royal Navy and, as Faraday
attempts to penetrate the wall of silence thrown up by the Navy,
presents a further rivetting chapter in the life of his uniquely
appealing hero. Graham Hurley has recreated Portsmouth as the obvious
locale for a series of gritty and impassioned crime novels Views: 69
Review"If there is a celebrity today who merits the spadework of an unauthorized Morton biography, it's Jolie, with a potential audience that includes just about anyone who has gone through a supermarket checkout line in the last decade, glanced at tabloid headlines about Angelina, say, open- mouth kissing her brother or swapping vials of blood with Billy Bob Thornton and wondered: "What was she thinking?"If there's anyone to blame here, according to this book, it's the parents, since the bitter relationship between actor Jon Voight and Marcia Lynne (later Marcheline) Bertrand runs as a subplot throughout. Her father left Bertrand for another woman when Angelina was 2, and her mother/manager is portrayed as vacillating between being a laissez-faire hippie mother and a pushy sort of stage mom who, according to Morton, tried — among other things — to push her daughter into a relationship with Mick Jagger. It's at this point [after Jolie and Brad Pitt come together] that the book seems to move into hyperdrive, with endless rounds of globe-trotting, location shooting, child-acquiring and philanthropic efforts. But the faster it seems to move, the harder it is to put down. Maybe that's because, like salt, we have a craving for explanation, for back story, and Morton's book offers a satisfying dose of both. While the healthier approach might be to limit the intake by vowing to pick it up occasionally and flip to the index for a snippet like: "Haven, James…relationship with" or "United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees," that's not likely to happen.Chances are you won't be able to put this book down until your mouth is dry and your blood pressure is racing." —*Los Angeles* TimesProduct Description"I like to collect knives," says Angelina Jolie, "but I also collect first edition books." At first glance, she might seem to be someone without any secrets, talking openly about her love life, sexual preferences, drug use, cutting, and tattoos--and why she kissed her brother on the lips in public. And yet mysteries remain: What was really going on in her brief, impulsive marriages to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, and what is going on in her partnership with Brad Pitt? What’s behind the oft-reported feud with her father, the Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight? What drove her to become a mother of six children in six years? And—perhaps most puzzling of all—what about the other side of Angelina: How did this talented but troubled young actress, barely 35 years old, become a respected Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations as well as the "most powerful celebrity in the world" (unseating Oprah Winfrey) on Forbes’ 2009 Celebrity 100 list? The answers that Andrew Morton has uncovered are astonishing, taking us deep inside Angelina’s world to show us what shaped her as a child, as an actress, and as a woman struggling to overcome personal demons that have never before been revealed. In this spellbinding biography, Andrew Morton draws upon far-reaching original interviews and research, accompanied by exclusive private photographs, to show us the true story behind both the wild excesses of Angelina’s youth and her remarkable work with children and victims of poverty and disaster today. Views: 69
