"She was a dangerous girl and people think she'll be a dangerous woman." Nonie Blake is back home from a mental institution where she has spent the last twenty years, and people in Jarrett Creek are worried. Maybe too worried, for within a week of her return, Nonie is murdered. Chief Samuel Craddock thinks the only possible suspects are members of her tight-lipped family. Ever since Nonie tried to kill her sister when she was fourteen and was sent away to the institution, the family has kept to itself. Clues are scarce and Craddock is stumped. So he checks with therapists at the mental hospital to see whether they can add anything useful to his investigation. But he discovers that she has not been there for ten years. Now Craddock has to find out where Nonie has been all this time. Soon Craddock finds himself dealing not only with murder, but layers of deception and secrets, and in the midst of it all--a new deputy, one Maria Trevino, sent by... Views: 46
A new case for expat private investigator Jayne Keeney.As Jayne and Rajiv holiday in Krabi, Jayne can't stop her mind straying to thoughts of the future: a successful business, perhaps even a honeymoon. Who would have thought she could be so content?But then their tour guide's body is found floating in the shallows and no one can explain the marks around her neck. Jayne and Rajiv are pulled into a case that the police have already decided isn't one: a case that will pull at the seams of their fledgling relationships and lead Jayne into grave danger.Angela Savage is a Melbourne-based crime writer, who has lived and travelled extensively in Asia. Her first novel, Behind the Night Bazaar, won the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript. She is a winner of the Scarlett Stiletto Award and has twice been shortlisted for Ned Kelly awards.'The Dying Beach is a detective story rich in Thai culture...Jayne, who... Views: 46
### Product Description Steve Pfister is a reticent polymer chemist who lives in the past, unable to let go of his military experience. His latest invention gets the attention of some high level government officials, leading to an opportunity to work on a top secret project with national security implications. Life couldn’t be more routine for computer programmer Bill Miller, until he stumbles on information that he shouldn’t have, including a bioterrorism plot. Unable to come forward with the information, he needs to find an ally to believe him before it’s too late. Views: 46
Criminal. Spoiled. Entirely out of control. Roman Avdonin has heard it all. None of it stops him from crossing the line one more time. Sent to Chicago to answer for his wrongs, he's an outsider beneath the cruel gazes of men who are nothing like his own. He should have minded his business and paid his dues—a better man would. But then he laid eyes on her. Karine Yazov. She's forbidden—already promised.Fragile in every way. And he just can't help himself. Agreements like these?They can't be undone. * The Agreement is book 1 in The Darkest Lies Trilogy. It is a standalone trilogy; the books should be read in order. Views: 46
Before he died, Saelig Zilch was a chef. Now, posthumously recruited by a shadowy agency for reasons still unknown, tasked with keeping the public safe from things that go bump in the night, he hunts monsters. Zilch scrabbles out of a North Carolina grave in someone else's body. Someone recently dead. He only has a few days to find his bearings and carry out his latest mission, before the precious few nanobugs in his corpse shell are exhausted and he's forced to start all over at the beginning. Little does he know he's been sent to the one place he flat-out refused to ever go back to—home. As he trudges down the main thoroughfare of his childhood hometown, he runs into Galavance. More accurately, she runs into him with her pink Chevy Cavalier.A case of unfortunate timing? Maybe not. Turns out the critter Zilch has been dispatched to dispatch of—a murderous were-frog—squelches uncomfortably close to the trailer Galavance calls home. And come to think of... Views: 46
RetailBlood of Others, Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award Winner for Best Novel."What exactly do you look for in a man?" – is this the way to redemption or death?The chilling disappearance of a shy, solitary San Francisco insurance clerk brings San Francisco Star crime reporter, Tom Reed and legendary Homicide Inspector Walt Sydowski together again. They take separate tracks in their pursuit of a brilliant and methodical cyber stalker who targets lonely women using the line …" What exactly do you look for in a man?" A master in the art of on-line seduction, he lures vulnerable women from their quiet worlds into his nightmare as he races the clock and travels the globe in search of the one woman who can forgive his monstrous sins – and redeem his soul.Blood of Others is a study of loneliness and human frailties. A story steeped in terrifying suspense that rockets to a heart-pounding conclusion. Views: 46
