Dead Man’s Chest: A Novel Views: 10
Maggie Gardiner, forensics expert for the Cleveland police department, and Jack Renner, a homicide detective with a killer secret, return in bestselling author Lisa Black's new thriller as they confront the darkest threat yet to their careers—and their lives. The body of fifteen-year-old Rachael Donahue—abandoned by society, raised in foster homes, and violently unapproachable—has been discovered at the bottom of a stairwell at Firebird, the secure facility for juvenile offenders in Cleveland. For Maggie and Jack, Rachael's death comes with a disturbing twist—the girl may have been involved with a much older man. But Rachael's not the only resident at the center to come to a dead end. Firebird's ten-year-old "wild child" has overdosed in the infirmary—back-to-back tragedies that appear to be terrible accidents. As a forensic investigator, Maggie knows appearances can be deceiving. And Jack knows all about deceit.... Views: 10
A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions — the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vásquez.The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. A man is arrested at a museum in Colombia for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of an assassin. The incident barely makes the news though the political murder this assassin committed years before set off riots that ushered in a decade of bloody civil war in the country — "La Violencia" — a time that still echos throughout Colombia. Soon this theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular obsessions with conspiracy theories and the truth; and it haunts the people who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings.This novel explores the darkest moments of a country's past and brings to life the hidden characters who have... Views: 10
The first-ever book to tell Nelson Mandela's life through the eyes of a child who was raised by him, chronicling Ndaba Mandela's life living with, and learning from, one of the greatest leaders and humanitarians the world has ever known. In a story that has never been told, Going to the Mountain tells the tale of how Nelson Mandela steered his grandson Ndaba from his reckless youth (shirking school, fighting in gangs) to his maturation into a fully realized and principled adulthood—all as an often-single parent in his years after political imprisonment and through his landmark presidency of South Africa. On a scale both intimate and epic, the book will detail the gripping arc of Ndaba's own extraordinary journey, which mirrors that of South Africa's, from the segregated Soweto ghettos into which he was born, to the presidential mansion in which he grew up, and the challenged times in which he lives now. Embedded deeply throughout are the... Views: 10
From acclaimed storyteller Charles G. West comes a thrilling new chapter in the saga of John Hawk, an army scout with a tracker's eye, a cowboy's grit—and his own brand of justice . . . Three desperate women. One deranged killer. No way in hell is John Hawk going to sit back and let the innocent get slaughtered. He first meets the three lovely ladies as they're fleeing in a wagon—alone—through Blackfoot country. What's their rush? They're being pursued by a wanted outlaw who wants them dead. Their only chance is to reach the Last Chance Saloon in Helena—and John Hawk is their last hope... Hawk can track down a low-life like nobody's business. But this time he has to stay two steps ahead, keeping the ladies safe and sound until they get to the saloon. There's just one problem: the outlaw got there first. He's the notorious Zach Dubose. He's waiting for Hawk and his girls. And he's ordering them a round vengeance with a bullet... Views: 10
It made him famous, and he hated every moment.
After the Delktian Wars, Galeron Triste was happy to leave a life of spying behind him, but when his former liege lady arrives in town and demands his help, he has to answer the call. A foreign princess has been brutally murdered, and it looks like one of Galeron’s old friends did the deed.
Now her father, the king of Raya, calls for blood and threatens to plunge two battle-scarred countries into war. Galeron has three days to solve the crime, but even if he can find the killer, it may not matter. Someone at court already knows the truth, and he is determined to keep his secrets hidden. Views: 10
