Bill Conlon’s Jesuit vocation got trumped by his lust for a high school girl. It caught him a stretch at Graterford Prison and led to his kid brother’s suicide. When Bill saw his young friend Mikey get shanked in the yard of Graterford, Bill’s guilt came into high relief. Getting Mikey’s killer would make everything right. Or would it?
After his release, Bill stalks Deadly Eddie, a former fellow inmate Bill suspects of killing Mikey. But like a late afternoon shadow, trouble is glued to Bill’s shoes.
Bodies piling up, and the discovery of a prison food scam, get Detective Sam Lanza’s attention. Lanza puts the heat on Bill for the murders while Bill is tracking Deadly Eddie and trying to find his missing girlfriend, Louise.
But Eddie knows who’s behind the scam and the killings. He snatches Louise and tortures her to get Bill’s help with his scheme to blackmail the perps.
Can Bill find Louise before she is damaged beyond repair, and finger the real killers before Lanza takes him down for crimes he didn’t commit? Views: 28
After centuries of searching, Mouse now has everything she's ever wanted within her reach—a normal life, a lover, a brother. What will she risk to keep them?Cherished by a Father, coveted by a king, loved by an almost-priest; tormented by demons, tortured by a madman, hunted by a cult, hounded by her father. Mouse has survived it all. But then, she was never just a girl.Despite Mouse's power, her father always wanted a son—and now, at long last, he has him. And Mouse has a brother, someone else in the world just like her. Though she's never met him, the hope of what they might mean for each other tugs at her soul, even as it terrifies her lover, Angelo.Hiding among a tribe of the Martu in the isolation of the Australian outback near the edges of Lake Disappointment, Mouse and Angelo have seemingly evaded at least one of the predators hunting them. Carefully dropping bogus breadcrumbs across Europe, they misdirect the Novus Rishi, a... Views: 28
Set in the insular, genteel world of an all-boys prep school, this tense and electrifying Edgar-nominated classic surrounding an all-too-deadly production of Othello is now back in print.In New York City, a young man is found murdered in a dingy Times Square sex theater—his neck gruesomely snapped—and the only clue is a torn receipt from the Montpelier School for Boys bookstore.Christmas break is just a couple of weeks away when Montpelier student Russell Phillips fetches up dead. Headmaster Lane, preferring to view Phillips's death as a suicide, decides to keep the school open for the remainder of the term. But as the nights grow longer and colder—and more corpses begin to surface in connection with the rehearsals for Othello, the winter play—it becomes all too clear that the students and faculty are being stalked by a cool and calculating killer.The local police and school administrators find themselves out of their depth.... Views: 28
The Red Ghost is terrorizing the countryside. Could Pearl be its next victim?Pearl Stout Is Angry.Her parents put her on a train to the Arizona frontier to marry a man she's never met and didn't agree to marry. Feeling betrayed and alone, she goes along with their plan. But something happens along the way that surprises everyone.The Red Ghost Attacks.A local legend, spoken of only in hushed tones by miners and farmers alike, they say the cloven-hooved Red Ghost is thirty feet high, carries a ghoulish rider on its distended back, tramples women to death and devours bears with its ferociously sharp teeth. When Pearl encounters the ghost again, and only just escapes with her life, she decides it's time to find out what, or who, this ghost really is.Pearl's intended is Hilton Pullman, a local reporter for the Tucson Gazette. He's tired of being alone - his parents died when he was young, and his older brother abandoned him after losing his own fiancée. But when that trouble-making brother, Hank, returns right before the wedding, Hilton’s carefully laid plans are thrown into question.Will Pearl marry her intended? And will she discover the secret behind the legend of the Red Ghost?Read this final installment in the historical Cowboys & Debutantes series from a bestselling author, and learn once and for all the fate of our fallen-from-grace debutantes. Views: 28
When the body of a young mother is found washed up on the banks of the Mataura River, a small rural community is rocked by her tragic suicide. But all is not what it seems.Sam Shephard, sole-charge police constable in Mataura, soon discovers the death was no suicide and has to face the realisation that there is a killer in town. To complicate the situation, the murdered woman was the wife of her former lover. When Sam finds herself on the list of suspects and suspended from duty, she must cast aside her personal feelings and take matters into her own hands.To find the murderer ... and clear her name.A taut, atmospheric and page-turning thriller, Overkill marks the start of an unputdownable and unforgettable series from one of New Zealand's finest crime writers.'Vanda Symon is part of a new wave of Kiwi crime writers ... her talent for creating well-rounded characters permeates throughout' Crimewatch'A sassy heroine, fabulous sense of place, and... Views: 28
