In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness. Throughout, there is always O'Brien's voice—wondrous, despairing, moving—examining passionate subjects that lay bare the desire and needs that can be hidden in a woman's heart. Views: 613
Where the sixth Spookie Town Murder Mystery was more Abby's and Frank's stories, their mysteries to deal with, solve and remain alive through; this seventh book is old Myrtle's story. Two mysteries, one from her far distant past of over seventy-years ago; and one for the future, a dire prediction (only a prediction as I didn't want to venture into the actual time of the pandemic because we are living through it and that has been difficult enough) of a pandemic from her grandniece, Glinda, the psychic, that will affect not only Spookie and its inhabitants, but the whole world. Mysterious bones are unearthed in the ground behind Luke's Hardware Store, and Frank and the sheriff are determined to find out whose bones they are, and how the victim died...even though whatever happened occurred over seventy years ago. This seventh novel also revisits some of Spookie's best loved characters and catches the readers up on what they've been up to recently. Then again, the town and its... Views: 613
Evil potions, black magic, and hex signs signal adventure for a grizzly shifter and a farm girl all alone in the corporate world. Can they work together to shine a light in the darkness and end the evil before it takes hold? With her life in danger, and evil stalking them, sparks of attraction and desire fly between them, and passion rises. Can they defeat the enemy before it devours them? Views: 613
'When the Devil laughs the whole damn world laughs with Him'A mind-bending thriller blending hard-boiled detective fiction, supernatural horror, and metaphysical noir that takes readers on a macabre journey into the occult, from the East Coast to Paris to the Vatican, as private investigator Harry Angel, seeking both answers about his true identity and revenge, hunts down Satan himself. Here is the stunning sequel to the Edgar-nominated novel Falling Angel, the basis for the classic cult film Angel Heart, which also stands alone as a masterwork of noir suspense fiction.Praise for Falling Angel'A terrific book...I've never read anything remotely like it. Trying to imagine what might have happened if Raymond Chandler had written the Exorcist is as close as I can come' - Stephen King'Brilliant and frightening' - Thomas McGuane'Masterfully shocking' - Observer'One of the... Views: 613
If it bleeds...it leads!Golf writer Hacker is now TV golf broadcaster Hacker with a sweet new gig on a national network. He has to learn the ins and outs of televising golf, and how to deal with the hyper-intense executive producer and director, Ben 'the Assassin' Oswald, as they get ready to broadcast the PGA Championship, staged at international developer Conrad Gold's luxury club in upstate New York. And then the bodies begin to pile up. First is a fellow announcer on the crew, then the assistant to Oswald in the control room. So as Hacker trades quips in the booth with Billy Joe 'the Boz' Bosworth, he's gotta figure out who's killing the network guys, one by one. It's another golf-crazy mystery from the author Golfweek Magazine calls "the Dick Francis of golf." Views: 613
