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Miss Silver attempts to save a young girl from her murderous husband Maud Silver, demure private eye, hardly has time to finish one adventure before another demands her attention. She is making her way back to London when, with a terrible jerk, her train thrusts a young woman into her compartment—a beautiful woman in a state of shock. She is Lisle Jerningham, a newlywed with money—which may be about to get her killed. Lisle fled her home in a hurry when she overheard a sinister conversation through the bushes. Her new husband’s first wife died of an accident, and the resultant infusion of cash saved his family home. Now broke again, he may be trying to engineer a second convenient mishap. Lisle has already survived one attempt on her life, but only Miss Silver can help her make it through the next. Views: 62
A missing boy forces Detroit PI Amos Walker to investigate a long-cold caseIt is hardly unusual for an elderly woman to ask Amos Walker to search for her grandchild. As a private detective in one of the country's roughest cities, tracking missing persons is the way he makes most of his money. But Martha Evancek's grandson Michael has been missing for nearly twenty years, having disappeared in the aftermath of a murder.When Michael's father was laid off from the Chrysler plant, he quarreled with his wife and then reached for his shotgun, killing her, his daughter, and finally himself. An eleven-year-old Michael was left to find the bodies, and he vanished soon after. Now, for the old woman's sake, Amos Walker takes up a cold scent. He expects to find nothing, but he's in for an unpleasant surprise.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author's personal collection. Views: 62
What started as a vision for the Olifants River Game Reserve [in South Africa] has become the story of a game ranger's life. With a naturalist's eye for detail as well as the bigger picture of managing a fragile ecosystem through years of drought and plenty, Mario Cesare brings a storyteller's delight - and a dash of Italian passion - to sharing his world. Life-and-death encounters with lion, elephant and buffalo are balanced by rescues and interventions as these giants of the lowveld suffer the effects of human interference in their ecosystem. There are problems with poachers and with rapacious neighbours; then the delights of success - and in the case of the elephant population, the conundrums of too much success. Mario Cesare's career has taken him from Timbavati and Mala Mala to Olifants River and beyond - and he delights in sharing his good fortune. His latest task: to develop and nurture the Olifants River Game Reserve as the fences of the Greater Kruger National Park area... Views: 62
Deep within the Tasmanian wilderness lies Boolool Kiambram – Dead Tree Forest. To the local Aborigines, Boolool Kiambram means death. A curse was placed over the forest more than a century ago, and the locals know that once you enter the vast expanse of leafless trees and ash-like soil, you're never to return.To others, Dead Tree Forest is a legend. Some are attracted to the adventure and mystery of the fabled forest of dead trees; others, such as Ray Lambert, are drawn to the legend of the girl murdered in the forest and the treasure she took with her to her grave – a treasure that supposedly contains incredible powers.When Ray travels to Dead Tree Forest in the hope of finding the buried treasure, what he and his friends find is the restless spirit of the murdered girl, and a curse that won't let them leave until blood has been spilled and the wrongs of the past have been avenged. Views: 62
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nice Jewish widower must be in want of a wife.Jane Austen centered her classic novels of manners around "three or four families in a country village." So does Paula Marantz Cohen in her novel, a witty twist on Pride and Prejudice—except this time, the "village" is Boca Raton, Florida. Eligible men, especially ones in possession of a good fortune and country club privileges, are scarce. When goodhearted meddler Carol Newman learns that the wealthy Norman Grafstein has lost his wife, she resolves to marryhim off to her lonely mother-in-law, May.The novel charts the progress of May's love life as well as that of her two closest friends: the strong-minded former librarian Flo Kliman and the flamboyant Lila Katz. If there weren't confusion enough, Flo's great-niece Amy, a film student at NYU, suddenly arrives with a camera crew determined to get it... Views: 62
Donovans of the Delta Series, Book Four Home for the wedding of her twin sister, Hannah Donovan expected to reunite with her large, boisterous family and take long soaks in a bathtub, a luxury her small cabin in Alaska didn’t afford. She never expected to be confronted by an investigative reporter whose rugged, sexy appeal threatened to topple her hard-won dedication to research of the humpback whale. Too many people wanted Jim Roman dead. For his own safety, he’d been sent to the backside of nowhere to cover a society wedding. He’d expected to pass the time writing about a sweet, old-fashioned girl in white – his kind of girl – and passing along a greeting from his mother to her former college roommate, Anna Donovan, mother of the bride. What he hadn’t expected was the fiercely independent Hannah, who threatened to topple every one of his notions about his dream girl. Could they stop fighting destiny and each other long enough to bridge their separate worlds? This five-book romantic comedy series, originally published by Loveswept, was considered the definitive family series. Higher Than Eagles is the sequel to Any Thursday Views: 62
NOWHERE TO TURN Lost, alone, desperate, Carly Jamison had returned to the Colorado high country, and to the only man she had ever loved--a man she had walked away from years before .... Rafe Kellard's secluded ranch was a place of healing and comfort, for her and her young son. But there was danger here, too, in the temptation of a passion that had never died--and a secret that could never be revealed .... For what would this proud, solitary man do if he knew that the boy she'd brought into his home was the son he'd never known he had? Views: 62
A woman without a past…After a tragic accident left her with no memory, Kate Alexander struggled to fit in with a husband and world that didn’t feel right. She’s had no reason to question what friends and family have told her, not until her husband is suddenly killed and she finds a photo of a young girl in his office. A girl who can’t be anyone but a daughter Kate didn’t know she had.A man desperate for a reason to live…Ryan Harrison lost his wife in a plane crash five years ago. To cope with the pain of her loss, he dedicated himself to his job and to raising their daughter. Now a successful pharmaceutical executive, Ryan has everything a man could want—money, fame and power—but he’d give it all up in a heartbeat for just one more day with the woman he still loves.Two lives about to converge.As Kate begins to dig into a past she doesn’t remember, evidence leads her to San Francisco and puts her on the path toward Ryan, a man who sees in her the woman he loved and lost. Kate feels a draw to Ryan, one she can’t explain, but is that feeling enough to convince her this is where she’s supposed to be? As Ryan and Kate search for answers, they uncover lies long buried, a passion hotter than either expected and a danger that threatens…even now…when the second chance they’ve both been searching for is finally within reach. Views: 62
Devil stories are always fascinating, entertaining and disturbing. These twenty tales, re-told by one of Scotland's master storytellers, are a fascinating insight into Traveller beliefs about evil, temptation and suffering in which the Devil exists not to punish, but to outwit you in a contest of intelligence and knowledge. This collection is an expanded edition of Duncan Williamson's best-selling May the Devil Walk Behind Ye!, originally published by Canongate. Views: 62
BLOOD & GRISTLE is a collection of twenty screwed up stories paired with twenty exquisite illustrations. It's about detachable children, and self worth, and hungry, hungry, garbage disposals. It's about boxes that shape destiny and Magic Eightballs that don't. It's about drugs and devils and everlasting, gnashing teeth. It's about a crack addicted cardiologist looking for love and a nasty basilisk with a taste for kindergarteners. It's about life and death, sorrow and fear, madness, faith, and all of the squishy, complicated stuff in between. So brace yourself, unplug the goopy gray of your brain, and get ready...things are about to get very, very messy. Views: 62
She'd been underlake when the sound of his voice drew her up from the cold and the dark, up into the moonlight, bobbing in the white-capped waves; listening, swallowing that golden sound of strings and voice, and he so handsome and all alone on the shore. This modern take on Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid reveals the aching beauty and peril of falling in love. A finalist for the 1992 World Fantasy Award, this novella was originally published as a limited edition chapbook by Axolotl Press (1991), and later appeared in de Lint's acclaimed first Newford collection, Dreams Underfoot (1993). Charles de Lint is the modern master of urban fantasy. Folktale, myth, fairy tale, dreams, urban legend—all of it adds up to pure magic in de Lint's vivid, original world. No one does it better. —Alice Hoffman Charles de Lint writes like a magician. He draws out the strange inside our own world, weaving stories that feel... Views: 62
