Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish author who found fame writing about the detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was a prolific writer who also wrote science fiction, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and non-fiction. Robert McIntyre and his sister Laura have fallen on hard times. The family has retreated to a house in the country, living on a small bequest from other relatives. Changes come with the arrival of Raffles Haw, a new neighbor both exceedingly rich and exceedingly eccentric. His generosity is unquestioned. His motives are another matter!!! A great read with a very satisfying ending..... Views: 655
A new investigation threatens to unearth skeletons from Rebus's past in this "must-read" (Tana French) mystery.Rebus' retirement is disrupted once again when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing over a decade earlier. The remains, found in a rusted car in the East Lothian woods, not far from Edinburgh, quickly turn into a cold case murder investigation. Rebus' old friend, Siobhan Clarke is assigned to the case, but neither of them could have predicted what buried secrets the investigation will uncover. Rebus remembers the original case—a shady land deal—all too well. After the investigation stalled, the family of the missing man complained that there was a police cover-up. As Clarke and her team investigate the cold case murder, she soon learns a different side of her mentor, a side he would prefer to keep in the past. A gripping story of corruption and consequences, this new novel... Views: 653
Period 5 ReadingElderly gentleman Mister Lawrence is grief stricken by the death of his mother. While reminiscing about the good times he had with her, Mister Lawrence could not get over what he regretted most about his relationship with his mom. He wished that he could remember what his mom looks like. He has always had a sense of what she is like from his youth before going blind, but no mental image to hold on to. Not being able to actually know what she looks like is keeping him from getting over her death. Later on, he begins to have this strange dream that allows him to notice where things are. What he experiences in his dream also begins happening while he is awake and causes him a lot of trouble with his day to day activities and with those around him. Many believe that he is going crazy but some believe otherwise. Find out what is going on with Mister Lawrence. Is he losing his mind or is his mind trying to show him something? Views: 651
William is a bright young boy who gets drawn into an alternate universe, within which; he is the only hope of a GoddessDignity and Reason have suffered much stress and misery because of their cousin Guiles, his daughter Prevarica, and the rest of the Leasing family. Now Guiles leaves Dignity the responsibility for bankrupt and neglected Founders Grove park, and it will take miracles—and a really good lawyer—to get him out of this. As for the Leasings, when they land in terrible trouble, old Ambassador Grace advises Dignity and Reason to try to save them, and he offers the prospect of help from Heavenite secret agent Patience Orchard. The question is, would the cousins rather just be rid of the Leasings? Views: 651
Jodie is a perfectly happy average teenage vampire. Well she was perfectly happy until everything wemt wrongStephen is an analyst for the CIA. He discovers a plot by the President of the United States, whose aspirations would take him to a higher world leadership position at the detriment of America. The President's agenda involves the leader of a Middle Eastern country, a financier for the President's agenda, a U.N. professor, and a terrorist leader. Can the President be arrested for treason? Can Stephen stop the President's Agenda? Views: 651
This is the fifth in a series of short stories based in the same world as the book series A Life in After World. Instead of telling the life story of one character, these stories tell the story of one day in the life of a person in After World.She does not have a name. She is programmed to serve one purpose. She is a clone and her purpose is to live an interesting and full life and hope that when the time comes, Mother will select her to merge with so that she can live on forever.But she has been ordered terminated by Mother and now she has no purpose. She must find a way to get away from her people a live a life of her own. With the help of a rogue AI, can she get away? Views: 650
WARNING: ViolenceA man that dedicates his life to helping an underprivileged neighborhood learns very violently that this neighborhood has no problem devouring him and his son.Sarah James was a normal taxpaying law abiding citizen until she was late for her train. Snatched into a world she's only read about life her once mundane life becomes more chaotic than she could have ever imagined when three masked men strap a bomb to her chest.The rules are simple and specific. If she follows the instructions they've given her, Sarah James' family will live. If Sarah fails, those she loves most will suffer in the worst ways imaginable before they are murdered. And it's those words she keeps in mind as she walks towards the TRAM with a bomb strapped to her chest.As if the bomb wasn't bad enough, Sarah's also been given a time limit. She's got thirty minutes to do exactly what she was ordered to do, or her family will suffer the consequences.So the question is, how much do you love your family? Is it enough to sentence hundreds of innocent strangers to death or injury? That is just one of the many questions Sarah will have to answer as her timer ticks down. She'll have minutes to make decisions that determines the fates of hundreds of strangers, her family, and even her own life. Views: 650
The police believe they have uncovered a ritualistic murder when they find a wooden disc in the mouth of a murder victim. When another victim is discovered, it’s up to DS Mackinnon and the team to find the killer before anymore blood is shed.
Jack is back and this time it’s deadly...
Deadly Ritual is a British Police Procedural. It is the fifth book in the Detective Sergeant Jack Mackinnon series, perfect for fans of the Roy Grace series by Peter James. Views: 649
The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone in New Iberia, Louisiana, can remember. So why are they now being forced from their homes? And what does the murder of Della Landry--the girlfriend of New Orleans fixer Sonny Boy Marsallus--have to do with it?
Marsallus's secrets seem tied to those of the Fontenots. But can Detective Dave Robicheaux make sense of it all before there is more bloodshed? In James Lee Burke's intense and powerful new bestseller, Robicheux digs deep into the bad blood and dirty secrets of Louisiana's past--while having to confront a rag-tag alliance of local mobsters and hired assassin. Views: 649
