When a down-on-her-luck divorcee meets a determined-to-dominate detective, they find out that falling in love can be murder...
Nell Dysart's in trouble. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is sleepwalking through life until her best friend finagles a job for her with a shabby little detective agency that has lots of potential and a boss who looks easy to manage.
Gabe McKenna isn't doing too well, either. His detective agency is wasting time on a blackmail case, his partner has decided he hates watching cheating spouses for money, and his ex-wife has just dumped him...again. The only thing that's going his way is that his new secretary looks efficient, boring, and biddable.
But looks can be deceiving and soon Nell and Gabe are squaring off over embezzlement, business cards, vandalism, dog-napping, blackmail, Chinese food, unprofessional sex, and really ugly office furniture, all of which turn out to be the least of their problems. Because soon, somebody starts killing people. And shortly after that, they start falling in love... Views: 419
Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862 – March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet. Born in Rahway, New Jersey,[1] she was the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942 Wells had been married to Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing empire founded by Bernard Houghton. Wells also had an impressive collection of volumes of poetry by others. She bequeathed her collection of Walt Whitman poetry, said to be one of the most important of its kind for its completeness and rarity, to the Library of Congress. After finishing school she worked as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association. Her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), was a collection of charades. Her next publications were The Jingle Book and The Story of Betty (1899), followed by a book of verse entitled Idle Idyls (1900). After 1900, Wells wrote numerous novels and collections of poetry. Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor and children\'s books. According to her autobiography, The Rest of My Life (1937), it was around 1910 that she heard one of Anna Katherine Green\'s mystery novels being read aloud and was immediately captivated by the unravelling of the puzzle. From that point onward she devoted herself to the mystery genre. Among the most famous of her mystery novels were the Fleming Stone Detective Stories which. Views: 415
This short story introduces former college football star turned repo man Ruddy McCann, star of W. Bruce Cameron’s new novel The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man, and tells how Ruddy met his best friend Jake, a lazy but lovable basset hound, during a repo gone wrong.
Full of laugh-out-loud humor and thrilling adventure, The Midnight Dog of the Repo Man is a page-turning, delightful short story by the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling A Dog’s Purpose, A Dog’s Journey, and The Dogs of Christmas that shows us that unconditional love is just a tail wag away and can happen upon us when we least expect it.
At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied. Views: 414
ROYAL GHOULS is the second book in the Greek Ghouls series: a comedic mystery set in Greece and steeped in ouzo.Things are heating up for Allie Callas, owner of Finders Keepers, a service dedicated to finding doodads, secrets, and occasionally people. No, wait, that’s fire from the yacht that just slammed into the tiny Greek island of Merope. Plot twist: the passengers were already dead before the crash. Allie knows this because they’re infesting her apartment, schmoozing her dead cat, and hogging the television. The ghosts found one of Allie’s business cards tacked to a message board in the Afterlife, and now they expect her to figure out whodunit.Allie doesn’t solve murders. Well, okay, she solved one, but she doesn’t want to make it a habit—not when the delicious Detective Leo Samaras, who may or may not be a serial killer, lives upstairs. Leo desperately wants to discuss that date they had... Views: 414
A short story about a chance meeting with an old schoolfriend on a train. It's also about being alone with your thoughts. Or just about being alone.A Jewish family possesses an instrument that has been passed down for generations; it endures time and travels over the sea from the Middle East where it was first created. Once on American soil the family becomes successful and loses interest in the family loom and leaves it when they move to California. The person that finds the instrument sells it at an auction on EBay. The man Todd that wins the auction fell in love with the mosaic designs that were placed on the outside. After it sits in his garage for years he brings it out to show a friend, while examining the pieces to the mosaic he discovers a code, his friend a professor at UNC helps him with his connections at the University, to discover how to decipher a few of the many codes. Before they get started good, the black suits from the dept. of Homeland Security confiscate the instrument and Todd ends up in jail. Once out of jail Todd discovers that by stroking the strings on the instrument, he has heard Sacred notes that has triggered activation of dormant DNA. Which will prove to be a life changing event that will lead to him attending the school of Melchezidec during meditation? Upon which he will learn the Secrets of the Universe, which have been hid from mankind since ancient times. In the meantime he is instructed by Enoch an ancient one to stop eating meat, Todd begins hearing people’s thoughts and seeing in other dimensions, having visions and déjà vu. Which in most cases immediately following these, the visions happen in real life exactly as Todd had seen them. Once Todd hears a person’s thoughts he figures out that he has made a connection through a galactic energy source of sound and vibrations that have always been here. He then can hear that person speak or think at anytime he wishes, which will prove to be quite hard to adjust to. Join Todd as he starts the school of Melchezidec and learns the sacred knowledge, which will prove to be a true Pandora’s box in his life, as well as the United States Government that will end up putting Todd on a list “Public Enemy Number 1”. Because Todd refuses to work with them after they learn he has found what they presume is supernatural powers Views: 414
After being brutally ditched by his girlfriend, high school senior Seth decides to win back ex Lysandra by reinventing himself into the man he has always wanted to be by fulfilling his childhood dreams and wishesEVER BEEN DUMPED!?!After being brutally ditched by his girlfriend, high school senior Seth decides to win back ex Lysandra by reinventing himself into the man he has always wanted to be by fulfilling his childhood dreams and wishes. With the assistance of his, well, quirky best friend Russ and his platonic guy-girlfriend, Anna, his senior year becomes one of adventure and self-realization in this hilarious original screenplay by J. Richard Singleton. Views: 412
In this series opener, Koko Dodo the cookie chef has a big problem. Today is the day of the royal cookie contest, and someone has stolen his top-secret fudge sauce! Luckily, a spy enters the scene just in time (or rather, crashes in on her roller skates): Didi Dodo! This might be Didi's first case ever, but she has a daring plan to help Koko. Koko would prefer a safe, simple, sure-to-work plan, but without another option, he and the amateur sleuth take off on a wacky caper full of high-speed chases and big belly laughs that could only come from the mind of the inimitable Tom Angleberger. Each book in the series will focus on a food-related mystery. Views: 412
A hilarious middle-grade road-trip adventure from bestselling author, comedian, and presenter Danny Wallace, with illustrations throughout from Gemma Correll. Perfect for fans of Liz Pichon and David Baddiel! When ten-year-old Stella wakes up to discover a world full of BLANK screens, her family, town, and in fact the whole world seems to have been thrown into chaos. And what about poor Grandma who is stranded at the other end of the country? Cue a rollicking madcap road trip, full of driving disasters and family fallouts, as they set off on a rescue mission. And along the way Stella and her family discover that being away from screens might not be the Worst Thing Ever, and even though they might not be able to rely on technology anymore, they can rely on each other instead.Also by Danny Wallace:Hamish and WorldStoppers Hamish and the Neverpeople Hamish and the Gravity Burp Hamish and the Baby Boom Hamish and... Views: 410
It's a new school year at Hawley Lodge and this time Luke Brownlow is sure that everything will go smoothly.Of course there's the small matter of the ongoing feud between the Romans and the Vikings to resolve. And Benjamin Wharton is still being obnoxious. It's not all plain sailing in the romance department either. But at least he can count on Ned Kelly as a source of support. Or can he…?Bring On The War Mice is Book Three of the epic serial adventure series The Go-Kids by Amazon Top 100 science fiction writer Ryan Schneider.After surviving the worst attack on American soil in the nation’s history, only to be informed that his dad has been listed as Missing In Action, Parker is the victim of mistaken identity and kidnapping. He soon finds himself and his irrepressible friends in a Top Secret government facility confronted with technology the likes of which none of them has ever seen. But could it be a way for him to rescue his dad? Will Parker accept the mission? Will Sunny fall prey to Colby’s flirtations? Will Parker’s nightmares continue? Find out in Book Three of the ongoing serial adventure series, The Go-Kids.Though it is a story about kids, it is far more than just a kids' story. It is a story involving young protagonists dealing with universal themes of growing up, friendship, and making the right moral choices. Views: 409
Nola Sutton has been best friends and neighbors with the Swift boys for practically her whole life. There’s the youngest, Kevin, who never stops talking; the oldest, Brian, who’s always kind and calm; and then there’s Canaan, the ringleader and Nola’s best-best friend. Nola can’t imagine her life without the Swift boys — they’ll always be like this, always be friends.
But then everything changes overnight.
When the Swifts’ daddy leaves without even saying good-bye, it completely destroys the boys, and all Nola can do is watch. Kevin stops talking and Brian is never around. Even Canaan is drifting away from Nola — hanging out with the neighborhood bullies instead of her.
Nola just wants things to go back to the way they were — the way they’ve always been. She tries to pull the boys back to her, only the harder she pulls, the further away they seem. But it’s not just the Swifts whose family is changing, so is Nola’s, and she needs her best friends now more than ever. Can Nola and the Swift boys survive this summer with their friendships intact, or has everything fallen apart for good?
Nola’s struggle to save her friends, her unwavering hope, and her belief in the power of friendship make Kody Keplinger’s middle-grade debut a poignant story of loss and redemption. Views: 409
