Zips along.' Daily Mail, Debut Fiction After finding herself innocently at the centre of a school scandal, teacher and poet Judith Hay decides there is really only one thing she can do, and that is leave Britain. The small village of Vevey in the Languedoc near Montpellier seems the perfect answer: life is still very cheap and the views are pretty. Judith soon finds, however, that despite her attraction to the charming bookseller Gerard, not all is quite as it seems in Vevey. The sunny climate and rural location are magnets for people with things to hide. She is thrust into the role of a modern-day Miss Marple to uncover a terrible secret... Views: 26
TERMINATE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE A dying terrorist makes a last desperate bid for bloody glory on a luxury cruise ship. But what begins as a savage terrorist attack could end in a biological holocaust spawned by a KGB virus. The men of the Surgical Strike team explode into action. Babcock. Hughes. Cross. It's a reunion of the world's deadliest fighting force. Now the lives of hundreds of passengers... and five downwind nations depend on them, as the fate of the world is decided on a swaying deck, slick with blood. Views: 26
Murder is committed for its own sake in the three fictional episodes of The Book of Destruction. In 'The Gardener', the narrator learns from the thug Seshadri that he has been selected for assassination for no reason but the pure purpose of killing. A discotheque is bombed out of existence in 'The Hotelier and the Traveller'. In the third episode, leading the narrator to an elaborately staged orgy and sacrifice, stitched clothes escape from a tailor's shop and soar down the streets to take over bodies. The cruelty of killers and the wretchedness of victims are shifted to the margins as the novel focuses on the act of murder. In his inimitable style, Anand takes the mesmerized reader on a journey of three stages—the practice of killing, the sacrifice of the victim and the sacrifice of the sacrificer—before bringing the story of destruction to its finale. Views: 26
An absorbing tale of the strength and heartbreak of family ties - Winter, 1940. Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth and she is left with twin baby sisters. Anna is a gifted child, with a warm personality to match, but not so her sisters – and as, through the years, their pranks turn to stealing, bullying and worse, Anna must learn to cope with them if she is ever to find happiness of her own. Views: 26
Short stories about Mick Murphy's adventures in Key West, with his usual eclectic cast of friends and enemies. The stories appear in the order they were written and include the Shamus nominated Vampire Slayer Murdered in Key West. There is a footnote after each story, giving a little history of how it was written or some other interesting fact.About the AuthorMichael Haskins the writer of seven Mick Murphy Mysteries, four of them set in Key West, Florida. He lives and writers in the Florida Keys. Views: 26
Mary Joseph's family is going through a financial crisis and now she's forced to finish out senior year at the local public school. In an effort to erase her Catholic school girl image, she joins a rock band, gets a makeover from her best friend, and changes her name to Raven.Ian, the hottest guy in school, notices her and she's plunged into a world she never expected to enter. His kisses are as steamy as his body, but Raven doesn't know if he's telling her the truth about his bizarre family or if he's just saying anything to convince her to go all the way.When disaster hits Raven's family, she has to make a decision: ignore Ian's wild claims or take a leap of faith.On Raven's Wings is the first episode in a series of five novelettes (10,000 - 15,000 words) releasing every two weeks starting October 23rd. Due to sex and language, this is recommended for readers 17 and up. Views: 26
A critically acclaimed, Booker long-listed novel that is reminiscent of Pat Barker's 'Regeneration Trilogy'. Clarice Pike and Vic Warren are from completely different backgrounds. An impossible affair has already driven them thousands of miles apart. 1939 finds Clarice in Malaya where her father is an obscure company doctor, and Vic in East London, an unemployed shipwright badly married to Phylis, Clarice's cousin. As their feelings conspire to draw the lovers back together, the world erupts with a terrible violence. It is the relentlessness of male brutality that forces Vic to grope towards what real manhood might be. 'If the Invader Comes' combines themes from Derek Beaven's previously acclaimed 'Newton's Niece' and 'Acts of Mutiny' to portray a wartime England where human relationships are threatened as much from within the family as from occupied Europe. Exciting, moving and ultimately optimistic, Derek Beaven's new novel represents... Views: 26
