Trapped In A Blizzard, Can He Complete His Rescue Mission?Private investigator Jude Trainor won't give up on finding a kidnapped little girl–even after the suspect runs him off a mountain road and sends bullets his way. But when Lacey Conrad steps in to help Jude, the criminal sets his sights on her. Can Jude and Lacey outlast a snowstorm and a person who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks? Views: 617
He refused to fight, until the fight came to him.Perry Wallace lives by the cowboy's code:1- care for your ranch, 2- love your family, and 3- defend justice. But ... when the law fails, you have to take justice into your own hands.When the wedding of a close friend falls under attack from unseen assailants, the bride is killed and the groom is crippled for life.Perry and his family barely escape. No one knows who is behind it or why, until the attacks continue. Rusty Taylor was born evil.His thirst for blood and murder cannot be quenched, and the more you scream, the more he smiles.His little brother was the same way, until Perry killed him while defending the honor of two young women.Now Rusty's ready to wage war.He does not forgive and forget.He murders and punishes.And... Views: 617
THE STUNNING FINAL INSTALMENT OF THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING DARK ICELAND SERIES ‘Jónasson is an automatic must-read for me … possibly the best Scandi writer working today' Lee Child ‘The best crime writer in the world today … truly a master of his genre' The Times 'The engaging Ari Thor returns in this darkly claustrophobic tale. Perfect mid-winter reading' Ann Cleeves ––––––––––––––––A blizzard is approaching Siglufjörður, and that can only mean one thing… When the body of a nineteen-year-old girl is found on the main street of Siglufjörður, Police Inspector Ari Thór battles a violent Icelandic storm in an increasingly dangerous hunt... Views: 617
Out in the Texas badlands, Yancey Bannerman was hunting a ruthless killer named Tallis. But his thoughts were really with his partner, Johnny Cato, who was back in Austin, undergoing multiple operations to fix his ruined gun-arm. If Johnny didn't regain the use of his arm, he was as good as finished.In the meantime, a young brother and sister facing financial ruin embarked upon an audacious plan to get rich quick. The only trouble was, it meant crossing a psychotic killer known as The Mad Major. Once that happened, there could be no going back. They might have settled their money worries, but there was no telling when the Major and his gang of cutthroats would finally track them down and take their revenge.Then Fate seemed to throw them a lifeline when Yancey rode into their lives. What they didn't know was that the Major and Yancey were enemies from way back, and the Major had a score to settle with him, as well ...In the end, the lives of everyone in that... Views: 617
In this epic conclusion to the Unraveled Kingdom trilogy that began with Torn and Fray, the magical seamstress Sophie Balstrade joins forces with her brother the revolutionary leader and her betrothed the Crown Prince in a deadly bid to change history.The civil war that the charm caster Sophie and the Crown Prince Theodor tried so desperately to avert has come to Galitha. While Theodor joins Sophie's brother and his Reformist comrades in battle, hoping to turn the tide against the better-supplied and better-trained Royalist army, Sophie leverages the only weapon she has: charm and curse casting. She weaves her signature magic into uniforms and supplies procured with the aid of unlikely foreign allies, but soon discovers that the challenges of a full-scale war are far greater than the entrepreneurial concerns of her small Galithan dress shop. The fractured leadership of the Reformist army must coalesce, the people of Galitha unite... Views: 617
A mind-blowing discovery. A deadly conspiracy. Caught off-guard when she receives an unexpected phone call from an old friend she hasn't seen in 20 years, Dr Sandy Jones gives Connie Pike a polite brush-off. A few days later, she learns that Connie has been killed in an explosion at her Princeton laboratory. Consumed by guilt, Jones heads to New Jersey, determined to find out the truth behind Connie's death - and exactly what Connie had been trying to tell her in that last anxious phone call. Having previously participated in Connie's and her lab partner, Paul Ruder's, life's work, the study of the human mind, Jones becomes convinced the pair had made a momentous scientific discovery shortly before the explosion, a discovery that could change the world as we know it. But who are the shadowy figures who are never far behind Jones as she continues her quest for the truth? As she gradually uncovers evidence of a terrifying global conspiracy, Sandy begins... Views: 617
The astonishing follow-up to 2018's Kolyma Stories.In 1936, Varlam Shalamov, a journalist and writer, was arrested for counterrevolutionary activities and sent to the Soviet Gulag. He survived fifteen years in the prison camps and returned from the Far North to write one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature, an epic array of short fictional tales reflecting the years he spent in the Gulag. Sketches of the Criminal World is the second of two volumes (the first, Kolyma Stories, was published by NYRB Classics in 2018) that together constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov’s stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text. In this second volume, Shalamov sets out to answer the fundamental moral questions that plagued him in the camps where he encountered firsthand the criminal world as a real place, far more evil than Dostoyevsky’s underground: “How... Views: 617
