And the award goes to . . . . . . Dayna Anderson, the semi-famous actress turned PI who steps up her sleuthing swagger in this follow-up to breakout hit Hollywood Homicide, winner of the Lefty Award and the Agatha Award for Best First Novel! Tinseltown's awards season is in full swing, and everyone is obsessed with dressing up, scoring free swag, and getting invited to the biggest awards shows of the year. But when celebrity publicist Lyla Davis is killed, the festive mood comes to an abrupt halt. Apprentice private eye Dayna Anderson thinks she's uncovered the killer. Unfortunately, what starts as an open-and-shut case turns out to be anything but. Diving deeper into the investigation, Dayna gets a backstage look at gossip blogging, Hollywood royalty, and one of entertainment's most respected awards shows—all while trying to avoid her own Hollywood ending. Praise for Hollywood Ending: "Day's... Views: 8
Inspired by real-life serial killer Ted Bundy, an exhilarating thriller in which FBI profiler Caitlin Hendrix faces off against a charming, merciless serial killerIn southern Texas, on Saturday nights, women are disappearing. One vanishes from a movie theater. Another is ripped from her car at a stoplight. Another vanishes from her home while checking on her baby. Rookie FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix, newly assigned to the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, fears that a serial killer is roaming the dark roads outside Austin.Caitlin and the FBI's serial crime unit discover the first victim's body in the woods. She's laid out in a bloodstained, white baby-doll nightgown. A second victim in a white nightie lies deeper in the forest's darkness. Both bodies are surrounded by Polaroid photos, stuck in the earth like headstones. Each photo pictures a woman in a white negligee, wrists slashed, suicide-style—posed like Snow White awaiting her prince's kiss. To... Views: 8
“Immersive, involving, suspenseful, and intriguing, with a main
character you’ll love.” —Lee Child, #1 internationally bestselling
author of the Jack Reacher novels “When a master of her craft offers to tell you a story, let her. The results are dazzling.” —Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series. The beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, the inspiration for HBO’s True Blood, and the Midnight Crossroad trilogy adapted for NBC’s Midnight, Texas, has written a taut new thriller—the first in the Gunnie Rose series—centered on a young gunslinging mercenary, Lizbeth Rose. Set
in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as
Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially
by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the
border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian
wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose
has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they’re at a desperate
crossroad, even if they won’t admit it. They’re searching through the
small border towns near Mexico, trying to locate a low-level magic
practitioner, Oleg Karkarov. The wizards believe Oleg is a direct
descendant of Grigori Rasputin, and that Oleg’s blood can save the young
tsar’s life. As the trio journey through an altered America,
shattered into several countries by the assassination of Franklin
Roosevelt and the Great Depression, they’re set on by enemies. It’s
clear that a powerful force does not want them to succeed in their
mission. Lizbeth Rose is a gunnie who has never failed a client, but her
oath will test all of her skills and resolve to get them all out alive.
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A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950s England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of ChartresSylvia Blackwell, a young woman in her twenties, moves to East Mole, a quaint market town in middle England, to start a new job as a children's librarian. But the apparently pleasant town is not all it seems. Sylvia falls in love with an older man - but it's her connectionto his precocious young daughter and her neighbours' son which will change her life and put them, the library and her job under threat.How does the library alter the young children's lives and how do the children fare as a result of the books Sylvia introduces them to? Views: 8
I wanted a family with Cash.
We had dreams –building a house, kids, a dog, and, yes, even the white picket fence.
Or so I’m told.
I don’t remember anything about my husband. Not the wedding or the vows we shared.
The past ten years were erased and with time, they’re supposed to come back.
But this isn’t your typical case of amnesia.
What if I’m not supposed to remember?
What if I was meant to forget?
Maybe I don’t want my old life back.
Because if the accident hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have uncovered the truth.
Losing my memory wasn’t tragic.
Losing my memory was fate. Views: 8
From the New York Times bestselling author of DOWN A DARK ROAD comes IN DARK COMPANY: a short story about an injured young woman with amnesia who seeks Chief of Police Kate Burkholder’s help to remember her identity—and her attacker.
It’s the middle of the night in Painters Mill, and Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called to a scene where a mysterious young woman, battered and terrified, has sought shelter at an Amish farmhouse. She can’t remember her name or where she’s from, but she knows one thing: someone was trying to kill her. Kate suspects that “Jane Doe” remembers more than she’s letting on, but when Jane is attacked again on Kate’s watch, Kate resolves to find the truth. As Jane’s memories start flooding back and Kate dives deeper into her murky past, they must race to discover what Jane was running from—and who is still pursuing her.
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Marie is a child with a dark past - a secret family history that her guardian protects her from. She's not sure what the dark secret is: was her father a criminal, a Nazi, both?Unpleasant lawyer Brickville seems to hold all the cards, until she meets a kindly American, Felix Middleburg. When her life takes a turn for the worse, he steps in to look after her. But he knows more about her her than he should and exercises a control she finds opressive.Where does his wealth come from? What has happened to her family? Who, in fact, is Marie? And can she ever escape her protectors? Views: 8
Jake's continuing adventures take him into even more incidents and situations along the way. The alliance continues to face ongoing dangers and thought their advanced weapons would save them from the Silka; they were wrong! There are many occupied alliance worlds, not one could be considered a safe refuge. Not only that, the Silka fleet outnumber the alliance and with skirmishes on the increase, is there going to be an all-out invasion? Views: 8
