The murder of a brokenhearted woman… The body of Bernice Hogan, a troubled young former nursing student with a tragic past, is found in a shallow grave near a forest creek. …and the chilling disappearance of her friend… Jolene Peller, a single mom struggling to build a new life with her little boy, vanishes the night she tries to find Bernice. …raise questions about their ties to a respected detective… Hero cop Karl Styebeck is beloved by his community, but privately police are uneasy with the answers he gives to protect the life—and the lie—he's lived. …and lead to one journalist's obsession to find the truth… The case haunts Jack Gannon, a gritty, blue-collar reporter whose own sister ran away from their family years ago. Gannon risks more than his job to pursue the story behind Styebeck's dark secret, his link to the women, and the mysterious big rig roaming America's loneliest highways on its descent into eternal darkness.** Views: 15
Double Exposure A wildlife photographer’s camera traps capture the frame by frame commission of a crime. Now’s he’s running for his life deep in the river swamp. Lyrical, literary, told in poetic, photographic impressions, DOUBLE EXPOSURE is a page-turner with a soul. Includes a special Introduction by Michael Connelly!“DOUBLE EXPOSURE is absolutely riveting! Elegiac prose, insightful characterization and a wonderfully ingenious plot.” Michael ConnellyA Florida Book Award-winner, soon to be a major motion picture.Following his dad's death, Remington James returns to the small North Florida town where he grew up to assume his father's life — taking care of his dying mother and running the local gun and pawn shop.Picking up a camera again after a long hiatus, Remington returns to his first love, pursuing in earnest his lifelong dream of becoming a wildlife photographer.One fateful... Views: 15
Emily Hoffman, Ashland Falls' beautiful and reclusive antique shop owner, has been haunted for years by horrifying nightmares that won't go away. These all too real dreams involve a cast of Emily's long deceased family members including her recently departed and abusive father, Charles Hoffman. Emily's plight becomes a hellish ordeal that has all but consumed her when she suddenly meets Lenny Williams, a struggling New York freelance photographer. The mystery surrounding her family's scandalous past begins to unravel as Emily and Lenny join forces but eventually discover that the couple's chance meeting was anything but mere coincidence! Views: 15
From Publishers Weekly The war between the Catholic Church and the Gnostic insurgency drags on in this ponderous Da Vinci Code knockoff. The latest skirmish erupts when horsemen dressed as knights raid New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, lopping off heads and firing Uzis as they go. Their trail leads FBI agent Sean Ryan and fetching archeologist Tess Chaykin to the medieval crusading order of the Knights Templars. Anachronistic Gnostic champions of feminism and tolerance against Roman hierarchy and obscurantism, the Templars, they learn, discovered proof that Catholic dogma is a "hoax" and were planning to use it to unite all religions under a rationalist creed that would usher in world peace. Screenwriter and first-time novelist Khoury spices up the doctrinal revisionism with Da Vinci–style thriller flourishes, including secret codes, gratuitous but workmanlike action scenes and a priest–hit man sent out by the Vatican to kill anyone who knows anything. The narrative pauses periodically for believers-vs.-agnostics debates and tutorials on everything from the Gospel of Thomas to alchemy. Though long-winded and sophomoric, these seminars are a relief from Tess and Sean's tedious romance, which proceeds from awkward flirtations as they listen to Sean's mix CD to hackneyed intimacies about childhood traumas. The novel's religious history is as dubious as its conspiracy plot, but anti-clericalists—and Catholics taking a break from the church's real headaches—could unwind with it. Views: 15
"An elegant snake of a book, twisting and turning, delighting the reader on every page. Sophie Hannah is a prodigious talent – I can't wait to see what she does next." – Laura Lippman Ruth Bussey knows what it means to be in the wrong – and to be wronged. She once did something she regrets, and was punished excessively for it. Now Ruth is trying to rebuild her life and has found a love she doesn't believe she deserves. Aidan Seed is a passionate, intense man who has also been damaged by his past. Desperate to connect with the woman he loves, he confides his secret: he killed a woman called Mary Trelease. Through her shock, Ruth recognises the name. And when she's realised why it's familiar, her fear and revulsion deepen. The Mary Trelease that Ruth knows is very much alive… Views: 15
When Hazel Wong's beloved
grandfather passes away, Daisy Wells is all too happy to accompany her
friend (and Detective Society Vice President) to Hazel's family estate
in beautiful, bustling Hong Kong. But when they arrive they
discover something they didn't expect: there's a new member of the Wong
family. Daisy and Hazel think baby Teddy is enough to deal with, but as
always the girls are never far from a mystery. Tragedy strikes very
close to home, and this time Hazel isn't just the detective. She's been
framed for murder! The girls must work together like never
before, confronting dangerous gangs, mysterious suspects and sinister
private detectives to solve the murder and clear Hazel's name - before
it's too late . . . Views: 15
With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the President was forced to establish his own clandestine group-Covert-One-only activated as a last resort, when the threat is on a global scale and time is running out. In northern Uganda, an American special forces team is decimated by a group of normally peaceful farmers. Video of the attack shows even women and children possessing almost supernatural speed and strength, consumed with a rage that makes them immune to pain, fear, and all but the most devastating injuries. Covert-One's top operative, army microbiologist Colonel Jon Smith, is sent to investigate the attack and finds evidence of a parasitic infection that for centuries has been causing violent insanity and then going dormant. This time, though, it's different. The parasite had been purposely kept alive and crudely transmitted in acts of terrorism. Now the director of Iranian Intelligence is in Uganda trying to obtain this biological weapon to unleash it on the West. Smith and his team are ambushed and cut off from all outside support just as they begin to suspect that forces much more powerful than the Iranians are in play-forces that can be traced to Washington itself. Views: 15
Sometimes doing a favour ain't such a great idea. The private eyes of Chase Investigations take on the case of a young cop accused of assault. With some heavy political interference and a drug-fuelled fixer involved, plus Dan Crowley's old enemy DI Kennedy leading the charge, this is a case they quickly wish they had never taken on. Views: 15
The world is in economic meltdown but a mining town on the edge of nowhere is booming. With the town's population exploding, it's easy enough to hide a crime - or a dirty past. Banished to the stock squad after the fallout from a police frame-up, Detective Senior Sergeant Cato Kwong is brought in from the cold to solve the case of a torso washed up on the wild shores of the Great Southern Ocean. But Kwong faces powerful opposition when his investigation lifts the lid on the exploitation of migrant workers and disturbs an even darker criminal mind. Views: 15
"If you love Westerns, and can stand just a Little Sci-Fi or Steampunk, Then You'll Love This Series!" 5-Star Reader Review"I can promise the most unusual Wild West romp you've ever experienced," 5-Star Reader ReviewCombining the best of gritty westerns like Tombstone and The Wild Bunch with the sci-fi inventiveness of Firefly and Star Wars, Bernard Schaffer's Guns of Seneca 6 series is an Old West romp on a remote planet where gunslingers, outlaws and lawmen battle over the frontier. In this short-story prequel, fan-favorite Sheriff Sam Clayton returns, and readers will finally learn the details of what happened to Zeke, the accused child-molester, on the day Sam took him out to the desert. Zeke is about to take a short walk off a long cliff unless he can somehow manage to convince the Sheriff that it was all a big misunderstanding. Sam Clayton's brand of justice is swift and permanent, especially when it comes to people hurting children, so Zeke better do some fast talking if he wants to survive. Seneca 6 is a world where legends like Doc Holliday and Jesse James would all feel comfortable in. Readers will too. The Guns of Seneca 6 series blends the best of the Old West and science fiction for all-out adventure. Sheriff Sam Clayton chewed and spat and wiped off his mouth. He chewed again and spat again. He started to chew once more, then stopped and said, "Prepare the prisoner for transport to Seneca 5 to see the judge." Tom Masters looked up at him, not moving until the Sheriff looked back at him. "Yes, sir," Tom said. The deputy walked into the office and pointed at Zeke, "Get your hands up against that wall." "I'm going to tell that judge what you been treating me like," Zeke said, turning around and sticking his hands against the bricks above the cot. Tom stuck the iron key into the door's lock and turned it. "You stay like that until I say otherwise, else I'll shoot you in the spine and leave you pissing in a bag for the rest of your life." Zeke giggled, "I bet you'd like that. We'll see how tough you are after I see that judge." Tom snatched Zeke's wrists and pulled them behind his back and slapped cuffs on them. He leaned close to Zeke's ear and said, "There ain't no judge at Seneca 5, stupid." Old-Time Lawmen is a short-story prequel to Guns of Seneca 6. For readers of Cowboys and Indians books who love old west outlaws and old west fiction. This scifi western is reminiscent of the old west stories about Doc Holliday, Jesse James and Wyatt Earp, while being a new kind of gunslinger kindle book completely. Views: 15
