Plunge into a day in the life of rookie prosecutor Dana Hargrove, central character in the legal mystery novels Thursday’s List and Homicide Chart. This is the story that introduced her to the world! Views: 44
New York is a walker's city. You can walk for hours. The streets slip by. There is so much to look at, so much to take in. I walk a lot. Especially when I am not writing... Lily Brett's love affair with New York began as an outsider in her late teens when she was posted on assignment there as a young Australian rock journalist. In her early forties she returned, together with her soul mate and three children, to start a new life. She has since called New York home for three decades. This witty, candid and moving collection of short pieces celebrates the city that's now part of her heartbeat. A compulsive walker, Brett takes us to her favourite places and introduces us to the characters of the city that has nurtured, perplexed and inspired her. She brings to life the delights of Chinatown, the majesty of Grand Central Station, the lure of spandex and sequins, and the peculiarity of canine couture. And she muses on the miracle of love in the Lodz ghetto, the... Views: 44
In the midst of the freezing Arctic winter, seventeen-year-old Lumikki Andersson walks into her school’s dark room and finds a stash of wet, crimson-colored money. Thousands of Euros left to dry—splattered with someone’s blood.Lumikki lives alone in a studio apartment far from her parents and the past she left behind. She transferred into a prestigious art school, and she’s singularly focused on studying and graduating. Lumikki ignores the cliques, the gossip, and the parties held by the school’s most popular and beautiful boys and girls.But finding the blood-stained money changes everything. Suddenly, Lumikki is swept into a whirlpool of events as she finds herself helping to trace the origins of the money. Events turn even more deadly when evidence points to dirty cops and a notorious drug kingpin best known for the brutality with which he runs his business.As Lumikki loses control of her carefully constructed world, she discovers that she’s been blind to the forces swirling around her—and she’s running out of time to set them right. When she sees the stark red of blood on snow, it may be too late to save her friends or herself.** Views: 44
Signal Bend, Missouri survived a war on its streets and has arrived at a period of growth and peace. The town and its guardians, the Night Horde MC, relax into this moment of hope, looking toward the future for the first time in decades. Everyone but Robert “Showdown” Ryan. Having suffered tremendous loss in that war, and taking on the burden of blame for it, Show has nothing left of himself. He is an empty husk of a man, drowning in grief and whiskey, seeking relief in numbness. Shannon Bannerman has come to Signal Bend to manage the new Keller Acres Bed & Breakfast. She has left a successful city life to start anew in this tiny town, trying to keep the door closed on the regrets of her past. Shannon is drawn to Show despite his stony detachment, and he is drawn to her despite his need to stay numb. But the pain in their pasts is deep and damaging. Only real love, like neither of them has ever known, could heal it. NOTE: explicit sex, limited violence. Views: 44
’Til Dragons Do Us Part By Lorenda Christensen Savannah Cavenaugh became a top art thief thanks to a secret ability—a dragonmorph, she can literally fly away from the scene of the crime. Next up: stealing a priceless painting out from under the snout of Lord Relobu, North America’s fearsome dragon ruler. True, she’s never had to work in the midst of Earth’s most polarizing nuptials before. Keeping her identity hidden will demand she get creative, to say the least. Cameron Shaw has one last chance to prove himself. As Lord Relobu’s interim security head, he’ll ensure the world’s first interspecies wedding happens without a hitch. That means keeping an extra close eye on the wedding planner’s pretty young assistant. She’s adorable, but something’s not quite right. Fumbling her way through bouquets and linens turns out to be the least of Savannah’s problems. Crushing on Relobu’s hottest human henchman was not part of the plan, and neither was revealing her—ahem—ferocious side. But when her archrival shows up to nab the very same painting she’s after, all bets are off... Don’t miss Never Deal with Dragons and Dancing with Dragons, available now! 71,800 words Views: 44
In the eighth novel of the acclaimed Lewis Cole series, award-winning
author Brendan DuBois returns once again to one of the most appealing
heroes in mystery fiction.Former Department of Defense analyst Lewis
Cole has traveled some dark roads before in his quest for justice. Days
after a violent anti-nuclear demonstration puts his best friend, police
detective Diane Woods, in a near-fatal coma, Cole abandons his job and
his home to find the man who nearly killed his friend. From the rural
towns of New Hampshire to the offices of power and influence in
Washington, D.C., Cole follows his gut and the flimsiest of clues to
track down the cold-blooded attacker who won’t hesitate to kill to keep
his identity and background secret. Aided by Felix Tinios, a security
consultant from Boston’s North End, Cole is shadowed by armed and dark
men with their own agenda to stop him from learning the truth about what
really happened the day his friend was attacked on the grounds of a
controversial nuclear power plant. Suffering loss, heartache, and
betrayal along the way, Cole is soon standing alone, facing his own
ultimate test in how far he will go to avenge a friend. In the eighth
novel of the acclaimed Lewis Cole series, award-winning author Brendan
DuBois returns once again to one of the most appealing heroes in mystery
fiction. Views: 44
Lon Thomas Williams (1890 - 1978) was an American author best known for publishing a large number of traditional and weird western stories in the pulp magazines. One of Williams' most popular series featured Deputy Marshal Lee Winters (a series of "weird westerns," containing fantastic or outre elements) which are collected in this volume. Included are: KING SOLOMON'S THRONE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH SATAN'S WOOL-MERCHANT MASTER OF INDECISION A DESERT HIPPOCRATES THE HAUNTED TOWN PHANTOM CARGO WIZARD OF FORLORN GAP A PORTION TO SEVEN MARK OF THE WAMPUS CAT GOLDEN CITY LONG LIVE THE KING LANTERN IN THE SKY THE SALT WAGONS THE HONEY JUG TRAIL OF PAINTED ROCKS THE CUCKOO'S NEST THE WATER CARRIERS THE STRANGE PIPER MEN BURNING BRUSH THE BANSHEE SINGER THE DANCING TREES THE DEADLY SLOWPOKE THE THREE FATES THE MAGIC GRINDSTONE And don't forget to search this ebook store for ʺWildside Megapackʺ to see more entries in this series, covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more! Views: 44
'To seek the beginning is to go back a long time ago, when the town in which I am writing was a little different and trees hung at the end of the town, trees hung obsessively, many trees, much green at the end of the street come summer, come the arrival of leaves and sun and buttercup blaze.' It is the late 1940s, and Sean and Liam, middle-class boys in a small West of Ireland town, share a powerful bond of love and rivalry: each long for the same women. At university together in Dublin, Sean and Liam's burgeoning sexuality leads them to a deeper, almost mystical level of involvement. They befriend Christine, rich, vulnerable and desperate for affection, and Sarah, glamorous, spoiled, intoxicating; her body is a seductive bridge between the pair, which they ultimately cross with painful and profound consequences. The Leaves on Grey is the story of Ireland, 'maker of wounds, tormentor of youth, ultimately breaker of all that was sensitive and enriched by sun, rain, wind'. Sean... Views: 44
