This case is leaving Longarm with a sour taste…U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long has been assigned to some strange cases in his time, but none stranger than the milk train holdups occurring outside the small town of Trinidad, Colorado. Instead of harming passengers and looting their belongings, the bandits only seem interested in keeping the train off its schedule so the milk delivery arrives late. Longarm can’t fathom what these pranksters are up to. But his investigation must be making someone nervous—nervous enough to use dynamite to try and kill him. And until Longarm can defuse the situation, the outlaws are going to keep spoiling things for the fine folks at Trinidad… Views: 177
Erotic Romance Serial Novel | ~17,000 words | Part 5 of 5
"There is more than one way to be strong, Julia. You know one of them, I can teach you the other."
Just when Julia Sharp thought that they were close to exposing Blake for the corrupt man that he is, a major wrench is thrown into their plan to save her company. Will she be able to make it to the courthouse in time to save Lynx and the jobs of all of her employees. If she does get her company back, will that solve all of the problems between her and Mark? Views: 177
Percy Westerman was a 20th century British writer best known for kids books, most of which are adventure stories involving naval or military themes. Views: 176
Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times bestselling author of American Wife and Prep, returns with a mesmerizing novel of family and identity, loyalty and deception, and the delicate line between truth and belief.
From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were born with peculiar “senses”—innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people’s secrets. Though Vi embraced her visions, Kate did her best to hide them.
Now, years later, their different paths have led them both back to their hometown of St. Louis. Vi has pursued an eccentric career as a psychic medium, while Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. But when a minor earthquake hits in the middle of the night, the normal life Kate has always wished for begins to shift. After Vi goes on television to share a premonition that another, more devastating earthquake will soon hit the St. Louis area, Kate is mortified. Equally troubling, however, is her fear that Vi may be right. As the date of the predicted earthquake quickly approaches, Kate is forced to reconcile her fraught relationship with her sister and to face truths about herself she’s long tried to deny.
Funny, haunting, and thought-provoking, Sisterland is a beautifully written novel of the obligation we have toward others, and the responsibility we take for ourselves. With her deep empathy, keen wisdom, and unerring talent for finding the extraordinary moments in our everyday lives, Curtis Sittenfeld is one of the most exceptional voices in literary fiction today. Views: 176
No one in the small Maine town of Birch Crossing knows where ex-military Harlan Shea goes when he disappears for months at a time, but whenever he reappears, his eyes are always haunted with trauma he will never share. When he returns to town for one last time, there is only one woman he wants to see, one woman he needs to connect with before he departs forever, one woman who can save what is left of his soul. Still healing from a brutal marriage she barely escaped, Emma Larson is damaged in ways she will never reveal, not to anyone...except the dangerous, sensual man who has haunted her dreams for years, a man she has barely spoken to, a man who has come back into her life for twenty-four intense hours. One moonlit night is all they have. But one night is not going to be enough. Not for him. Not for her. Not for the hearts they keep so tightly protected. But there is no future for them...or is there? They will have to become braver than they've ever been... Views: 176
Think you know about gargoyles? Think again. The beautiful winged race disappeared eight hundred years ago. Now they're back.Trapped in a harpy's lair, Chaos must choose between his freedom and the life of an innocent young girl. To save the girl, he must agree to a lifetime of captivity at the end of a monster's leash, a bleak existence that would crush his wild spirit and impetuous nature.Starved and abused by the same harpy, Torrie doesn't trust anyone, especially anyone with wings. She doesn't realize that the young gargoyle imprisoned with her is her only hope for survival. And when she finally discovers her mistake, it appears to be too late for amends. Views: 176
Yoshio Kita’s hopelessness and lack of faith in his future crystallizes into a decision to commit suicide by what he calls ‘capital punishment at free will’, meaning his only pressing problem now is how to spend both his remaining self-allocated seven days on earth and all his worldly money. From fine dining with a former porn actress to insuring his life, from pursuing an ex-girlfriend to an entanglement with an assassin, Yoshio’s last seven days on earth take on unexpected twists and turns in this darkly comic exploration of the cult of suicide in Japan and the culture that has created it. Views: 176
When Jack visits his grandparents, they tell him stories - each outdoing the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last. When Jack visits his grandparents, there's no television to entertain him. No internet, no mobile phone, no tablets. In fact, there's no technology or modern distractions at all. But he still likes to visit, because Grandad and Granny tell him stories - each trying to outdo the other with a tale taller and wilder than the last. Did you ever hear about the dragon of Waitemata harbour?Or the bridge between the North and South islands?Or why the Beehive is round in shape - and who REALLY made the Marlborough Sounds? And then there's the pumpkin larger than a garden shed, and a wheelbarrow that converts into a boat for a seasick kangaroo. There are lost false teeth, eels and the ingenious invention of the world's first rotary clothesline helicopter . . . and a flying train that touches down at the station in Nelson. With equally wild watercolour... Views: 175
Allison Shay was traveling home from the University of
Oregon with her new boyfriend, Rob Compton, when their car broke down near the
tiny rural town of Creekside, California. Soon after, Allison and Rob went
missing without a trace.
Whatever happened, it felt like something bad to the
Nameless Detective. Five days without a whisper of contact with the outside
world. Long past the inconsiderate-kids stage; long past the silly and the
harmless.
Kinsmen takes Bill Pronzini's classic private
investigator to California's northeast backwoods, where an isolated community is
determined to keep a deep, dark secret: why Allison Shay and Rob Compton really
vanished.
The real question facing the Nameless Detective: are they
still alive?
Cemetery Dance, 2013. Hardcover, 185 pp.
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From Kirkus Reviews (on Sentinels
(1996))
Though the publisher maintains a demure silence on the
point, this short novel is a lightly revised expansion of Pronzini's novella
"Kinsmen", first published, together with long stories by Marcia Muller and Ed
Gorman, in Criminal Intent 1 (1993). Here as there, the Nameless
Detective (Hardcase, 1995, etc.) is on the trail of a missing University
of Oregon student who vanished, together with the boyfriend she planned to bring
home to her mother outside Oakland, shortly after their car broke down in that
slice of God's country designated Creekside, Calif., pop. 112. Even readers new
to the material should be able to guess what happened to Allison McDowell and
her lover by the halfway point. Those with memories of "Kinsmen" will find more
words here, but not much else that's new. Views: 175
