Helen Eustis’s The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture. A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in the hot house atmosphere of an English department rife with talk of Freud and Kafka. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America's two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s, edited by Sarah Weinman. Views: 253
(Six romance short story collection)Praise for M. L.'s Delta Force series:"The contemporary standard bearer of military romance.""Top 10 Romance of the Year.""(For) a romantic adrenaline junkie."Discover tales of danger, adventure, and ever-lasting love with the top warriors anywhere.Don't miss the companion collection: The Complete Delta Force Shooters.(With exclusive intros by author—previously published as individual stories) Views: 253
In the romantic tradition of Dear John, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with the story of an injured Navy doctor — and two women whose secrets will change the course of his life.Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any.Tending to his grandfather's beloved beehives, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with a local . . . yet, from their very first encounter, Trevor feels a connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson that he can't ignore. But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she's hiding.Further complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in... Views: 253
A simple favor: Recover 23 stolen landmines filled with VX nerve gas and rescue a young Honduran girl, Dulce, from a band of murderous white supremacists. Most people would say no. Most people aren't THORN.From a Pacific Island base in the past, to the rough back roads of the Arizona-Mexico border, to a tiny town in Michigan called Bad Axe, Thorn follows a dangerous trail that leads to breathtaking suspense.To save the girl and thousands of innocent American lives, Thorn and Sugarman must infiltrate a terrorist cell far from Key Largo. They're way out of their element, but the big question is are they out of their league? If they fall short, the axe could finally fall in BAD AXE. Views: 253
ELIJAHLife outside the walls of my prison cell is far harder than the time I did inside.There, I had my misery to keep me company.Out here, I'm forced to face the reality of everything I've lost.Nothing can repair the gaping hole in my chest.Yet, a broken woman wrapped in chains threatens to unravel the tangle of excuses I use to keep everyone at arm's length.But letting Evangeline into my world means exposing her to the real threat.Me.And all the terrible things that come along with that. EVANGELINETaken.Enslaved.To be sold to the highest bidder.The monsters who stole me away from my life have no conscience.I'm not so sure the man who rescues me is any different.He's an ex-con and a pirate— not to be trusted.But the dark veil of anguish that shrouds him can't hide the truth of who he is at his core.Elijah isn't the... Views: 253
