Shares insights from confidence men and swindlers on the schemes they used to cheat their victims. Views: 48
Everyday Psychokillers reaches to the edge of the psychoanalytical and jolts the reader back to daily life. The reader becomes the killer, the watcher, the person on the verge, hiding behind an everyday face. Views: 48
Did you know that humans share a third of their DNA with lettuces? That
cockroaches fart every fifteen minutes? And that the average person
spends six months of their life on the loo?Irresistably funny facts that
will make this book a surefire hit in the playground! Views: 48
Welcome to Wolf Creek.Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. Each author writes from the perspective of his or her own unique character, blended together into a single novel.In this volume -an anthology of stand-alone short stories:Marshal Sam Gardner confronts a notorious gunfighter who hates lawmen; Deputy Quint Croy learns the secrets of Asa Pepper's place; Billy Below learns to be a cowboy; Doc Logan contends with a specter from his past; Derrick McCain faces family secrets; Ben Tolliver gets the shock of his life; and strangers get caught up in the Danby Raid... Views: 48
Recently married, Charlie (Memories Can Be Murder) sees her firefighting husband off to a New Mexico site, then checks the private investigations office where she and her brother work as partners. An unpleasant woman practically forces an unusual case on her: to find her elderly and senile prospecting father-before the family's impending reunion. With very little searching, Charlie finds bizarre characters, a yellowing treasure map, a deserted mine, and a corpse (but is it of the right person?). Fans of Southwestern mysteries will find that Shelton's engaging story, likable heroine, and comfortable prose make this a good choice. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product DescriptionAn unpleasant female lawyer barges into Charlie's office and demands that the firm immediately drop everything and find her elderly father, who has gone missing-all because there is a big family reunion coming up. Charlie knows she's going to regret this, but she gives in. The hunt takes her on a wild chase when she learns that Willie McBride was an avid gold prospector. Praise for the Charlie Parker mystery series: "...a female sleuth with an original slant to her methods." -Small Press Magazine "Charlie is slick, appealing, and nobody's fool-just what readers want in an amateur sleuth." -Booklist "Charlie is a fabulous amateur sleuth." -Midwest Book Review "A good story and a challenging puzzle." -Robert O. Greer, National Public Radio "Down to earth and very readable." -Library Journal "Tension is fast-paced in this involving account." -Midwest Book Review Views: 48
Four friends gathered in a cold, dusty attic on Christmas day to make a solemn pact.“Our dreams for the future,” they whispered, placing tiny pieces of paper into a shimmering blue bottle.But that event happened in 1929, and it is decades later when local news reporter Brenna Delaney stumbles upon that bottle . . . and into the most meaningful story of her career.Life has taken those four girls’ dreams of love, fame, and faith on a path fraught with seduction, betrayal, and loss. Little has turned out as expected—and yet every choice, every tear has led each of them to a special place.Brenna’s search will uncover the secrets of that Blue Bottle Club . . . and her own life will never be the same.“A beautiful novel about friendship and the power of faith to renew our dreams.”—Angela Hunt, author of Magdalene Views: 48
The story centers around a renovated theater in Pennsylvania and is arranged in three acts, plus overture and curtain call. The tension in Act I heightens as the reader must decide if this is a murder mystery, psychodrama, horror or fantasy, with the author offering clues to support each possibility. Theaters have a history of ghosts and accidents, but as the number of deaths at the Venetian mounts, the police become less inclined to accept verdicts of "accident." Owner/actor Dennis Hamilton has nothing obvious to gain from the killings, nor could he have caused them, but his strange behavior makes others wonder if he might not have a double or another personality--or something else entirely--that does want the deaths. Mystery, suspense, drama and horror combine to make this one of Williamson's finest works. Views: 48
Two novellas: “A Match for the Season”—Lady Cecily has snared the heir to a dukedom, but it’s his cousin, a mere doctor, who makes her heart beat faster; “He Stoops to Conquer,” previously published as “The Christmas Party”—Lord Rusholme tries to win Prudence, an actress playing in She Stoops to Conquer for his father’s Christmas house party, by taking the role of the oafish Tony Lumpkin. Novellas originally published in Zebra collections A WINTER WEDDING and A CHRISTMAS COURTSHIP. Views: 48
From the Edgar Awardwinning author of The Janissary Treecomes the fourth and most captivating Investigator Yashim mystery yet! It takes a writer of prodigious talents to conjure the Istanbul of the Ottoman Empire in all its majesty. In three previous novels, Jason Goodwin has taken us on stylish, suspenseful, and vibrant excursions into its exotic territory. Now, in An Evil Eye, the mystery of Istanbul runs deeper than ever before. It's 1839, and the admiral of the Ottoman fleet has defected to the Egyptians. It's up to the intrepid Investigator Yashim to uncover the man's motives. Of course, Fevzi Ahmet is no stranger to Yashimit was Fevzi who taught the investigator his craft years ago. He's the only man whom Yashim has ever truly feared: ruthless, cruel, and unswervingly loyal to the sultan. So what could have led Yashim's former mentor to betray the Ottoman Empire? Yashim's search draws him into the sultan's seraglio, a well-appointed world with an undercurrent of fear, ambition, and deep-seated superstition. When the women of the sultan's orchestra begin inexplicably to grow ill and die, Yashim discovers that the admiral's defection may be rooted somewhere in the torturous strictures of the sultan's harem. No one knows more about the Ottoman Empire and Istanbul than Jason Goodwin, of whom Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times: "Mr. Goodwin uses rich historical detail to elevate the books in this series . . . far above the realm of everyday sleuthing." Views: 48
