Winston Connery, a detective with psychic abilities, has seen too much and has suffered too much to go on. He parks across the road from Baird House one bitter cold winter's night and waits for death to release his tortured soul. But deep in the shadows of the infamous mansion, Deliah watches and waits. She believes her love for him is enough to save them both. Views: 24
Best friends Erin and Camie head for the New Mexico desert to search for a secret cave and a long-lost treasure. They’re not the only ones interested in the treasure, however, and they’ll face dangers from wild animals, wilder humans, and the wilderness itself. Fortunately Erin and Camie have help, in the form of one sexy helicopter pilot and a surprising orange cat. Views: 24
Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Her new book, Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, it has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all. An antidote to the high-minded, polemical 'How-to' baby manuals, Making Babies also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood. Anne Enright wrote the truth of it as it happened, because, for these months and years, it is impossible for a woman to lie. Views: 24
In a world controlled by a deadly virus, remaining survivors must band together to overcome the new dangers which only the fittest can survive, evolution is inevitable, each passing day shows new dangers and more obstacles in the way, the group must work together to survive the impossible to survive the darkest of days. Views: 24
The members of the Hook and Needle Club have made many exciting and adventurous road trips together through the years, but the opportunity to travel to Texas for a needlecraft convention is more than Annie Dawson and her friends can pass up.For Annie, it’s a trip back to her old stomping grounds from her days when she and her late husband, Wayne, ran an automobile dealership. It’s been more than three years since Wayne’s death and since Annie moved to Stony Point, Maine, to take possession of Grey Gables, her late grandmother’s old Victorian home.Now Annie returns to Texas, as Betsy is being honored at the convention for her ground- breaking work as a needlecrafter, and many of her works will be on display at a special exhibit.Accompanying Annie are three of her Hook and Needle Club friends: Mary Beth Brock, Kate Stevens, and Stella Brickson. Everything is going swimmingly until a death in Betsy’s exhibit throws a pall on the road trip, and doubly so when Annie and her friends become part of the short list of suspects.In her first mystery away from the friendly confines of Grey Gables and Stony Point, Annie is drawn into the unseemly incident, and she lends her considerable talent in solving riddles to the handsome police detective assigned to the case.Will the unlikely sleuths help nab a killer, or will they end up caught in the middle with no way to get out? Join Annie, Mary Beth, Kate, and Stella as they deal with death in Texas on this adventurous road trip! Views: 24
'Rachel Ingalls writes the kind of macabre, fantastic and haunting fiction called American Gothic... Its antecedents lie not in the hysterical 18th-century rebellion against reason, but in Jacobean tragedy, and in the complicated American relations with greed and Puritanism. Ingalls is one of the most brilliant practitioners of this Gothic since Poe... Black Diamond is a collection of five short stories, loosely linked by the theme of kinship. Ghoulish and gripping, they all begin in an atmosphere of unsophisticated tranquillity...' Amanda Craig, Independent'The stories in Black Diamond... wrap themselves insidiously around your curiosity, and draw you with them.' Sunday Times'[Ingalls'] vision evokes a world where psychosis and extreme violence stalk the American dream.' Time Out Views: 24
The young student Markus Hauser accepts a job with Selma Bruhns, an elderly Jewish lady who was able to escape the Nazis and the Holocaust only at a terrible cost. When Markus arrives at her decaying, darkened house infested by numerous cats, what unfolds is a story of risky gambles, desperate decisions, and unbearable regretThe task that Selma gives Markus is almost sisyphean: he has to arrange thousands of letters in chronological order, so that they can be burnt in that same order. For six days he works conscientiously. On his last day, Selma proposes a bargain: a game of cards that will change his life forever.Written in the style of a detective novel, The Game of Cards (Das Kartenspiel) pieces together the puzzle of life fractured by war, and plunges the reader, along with the characters, into a strange and troubling world.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 24
Erotica. 50956 words long. First published in 2012, 2012 Views: 24
