When a different kind of justice is needed-swift, effective, and personal-a new type of avenger must take action. VENGEANCE features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, and Karin Slaughter, as well as some of today's brightest rising talents. The heroes in these stories include a cop who's seen too much, a woman who has been pushed too far, or just an ordinary person doing what the law will not. Some call them vigilantes, others claim they are just another brand of criminal.Edited and with an introduction by Lee Child, these stories reveal the shocking consequences when men and women take the law into their own hands. Views: 43
New Year. New World. New
Species.
In the depths of the bayous lives a secret race of puma shifters. The creation
of a powerful magic, they have lived in peace until the threat of extinction
drives them to seek the world beyond their homelands. Now the Pantera must
discover the answer to their dying magic and halt an ancient enemy before it
can destroy them all.
Book 7: SEBASTIAN
Sebastian Duval has devoted his life to ensuring the survival of his people.
He’ll do whatever is necessary to protect the Wildlands, even if it means
working with the human FBI. Reny Smith refuses to allow her amnesia to ruin her life. She’s created a new
identity and is determined to become a successful FBI agent. Unfortunately,
she’ll have to choose whether to run from the man who threatens to strip away
her defenses, or listen to her heart and become the woman she was always meant
to be.
Book 8: ARISTIDE
Gorgeous Nurturer Aristide, is a rare male. He wants to be mated, wants love
and a family. But Aristide must decide between the abiding want of his puma
heart and the vow he’s made to his shifter species. Reporter Katherine Burke lives for one thing. Her five-year-old son, Noah. She
will do anything to protect him, including writing heinous lies about a group
of puma shifters she doesn’t even believe exist.
Book 9: LIAN
The Hunter:
Lian isn’t a happy puma. He’s a lethal Hunter who should be out fighting the
enemy, not babysitting a human scholar. Still, he’ll do whatever necessary to
rid the world of the evil goddess, Shakpi. The Scholar:
Dr. Sage Parker has always known she’s different. Not only because she’s a
genius with languages, but because she has a weird ability to see auras around
people. Then Lian charges into her life, dragging her out of the safety of her
home and she must translate the ancient Pantera scrolls before Shakpi destroys
the male she loves.
Book 10: ROCH
Brilliant Diplomat Roch is devoted to his work. The sexy, blond male wants
nothing more than to keep his life just as it is. But when he falls ill, he’s
forced to find help in the human world. Attorney Lydia Page has not only been fired from her job for being pregnant,
but the clinic where she was inseminated wants her to end the pregnancy because
she’s carrying an ‘animal.’ She loves her unborn child, and soon realizes that
the only way to keep herself and her baby safe is to accept the help of a
mysterious and very handsome puma shifter.
Book 11: HAKAN
Hakan never apologizes for being a lethal, barely civilized Hunter, but he
understands that he has to be careful when it comes to his future mate, Payton.
When he discovers she’s been captured, however, he’s done waiting. Payton understands that there’s nothing more important than discovering why
their newest enemies are targeting the Pantera. Does she listen to her pride,
or give in to the urgings of her fragile heart?
Book 12: SÉVERIN
Séverin has lived the last ten years of his life in his puma form. He is feral,
predatory and angry at the human world. When he comes upon a human female
running scared through his Wildlands domain, he wants nothing more than to get
her back to the border. But as she finds shelter with him in his rustic
treehouse, the male inside him starts to emerge, threatening his still-caged
heart. Running from her abusive ex, Taylor is desperate for a place to hide. Luckily,
there is one Pantera who might want the beautiful teacher to stay. Can they
both listen to their hearts and allow the first real love of their lives in? hat
burns between them.
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From New York Times bestselling author A. Manette Ansay comes an unforgettable story of two families united by tragedy -- and one woman's deeply emotional journey toward a choice she'd never thought possible. On an ordinary morning in Fox Harbor, Wisconsin, Meg and Rex Van Dorn's lives are irrevocably altered when a drunk driver -- Meg's onetime best friend, Cindy Ann Kreisler -- slams into the Van Dorns' car, killing their six-year-old son, Evan. As Meg recovers from her own injuries, she and Rex are shocked when Cindy Ann receives a mere slap on the wrist. In their rage and grief, they buy a boat to sail around the world, hoping to put as much distance as possible between themselves and Cindy Ann. But when Meg returns to Fox Harbor for a family wedding, she's forced to face the complex ties that bind her to the woman who has destroyed her peace. Views: 43
From the world's #1 bestselling author comes the newest book in the blockbuster PRIVATE series...Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest investigation agency, needs him back. Jack is setting up a new office in Delhi, and Santosh is the only person he can trust.Still battling his demons, Santosh accepts, and it's not long before the agency takes on a case that could make or break them. Plastic barrels containing dissolved human remains have been found in the basement of a house in an upmarket area of South Delhi. But this isn't just any house, this property belongs to the state government. With the crime scene in lockdown and information suppressed by the authorities, delving too deep could make Santosh a target to be eliminated. Views: 43
Few authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo Pérez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiction as the perfect blend of suspense and literary ambition. A global bestseller, he is one of the most admired and widely read authors in the world. And his stunning new novel is his best yet. A remarkable tale, The Queen of the South spans continents, from the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco, to Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar. A sweeping story set to the irresistible beat of the drug smugglers' ballads, it encompasses sensuality and cruelty, love and betrayal, as its heroine's story unfolds. Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business, life can be short, and Teresa even has a special cell... Views: 43
When an author as successful as Rankin has been with his tough and
idiomatic Scottish thrillers, a problem sets in after several books: how
to keep the formula fresh. Rankin has delivered a powerful series of
books featuring his beleaguered Detective Inspector John Rebus, and
while never less than gripping, a certain tiredness seemed to be setting
in. Thankfully, Dead Souls is a resounding return to form, with a
plot as enjoyably labyrinthine as any Rankin enthusiast could wish for,
and pithy dialogue that fairly leaps off the page. Stalking the streets
of Edinburgh on the trail of a poisoner, Rebus hits upon a freed
pedophile and his subsequent outing of the man leaves him with very
mixed feelings. But another problem develops for Rebus: a convicted
murderer has him in his sights for some lethal games. And the tabloid
press lionizing of Rebus won't help him in this situation. As
always, Rankin is perfectly ready to tackle contentious
issues--precisely the thing that gives his books their powerful sense of
veracity. And Rebus, no longer in danger of having a soap opera-like
accumulation of personal problems, seems as fresh and well-observed a
character as in those first exhilarating books. Rankin has caught his
form again, with even more assurance. Views: 43
BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Anne Perry's Treason at Lisson Grove and Execution Dock.A young bridegroom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancée, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxurious Bayswater mansion. Monk soon finds the coach in which Miriam fled and, nearby, the murdered body of the coachman, but there is no trace of the young passenger. What strange compulsion could have driven the beautiful widow to abandon the prospect of a loving marriage and financial abundance? Monk and clever nurse Hester Latterly, themselves now newlyweds, desperately pursue the elusive truth--and an unknown killer whose malign brilliance they have scarcely begun to fathom. Views: 43
A new novel from the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli writer ('One of the greatest writers of the age' -The Guardian), a haunting, heartbreaking story of love and loss. The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hates what she has done to her life, and night after night Hugo sits in her closet and listens uncomprehendingly as she battles with the Nazi soldiers who come and go. When she's not mired in self-loathing, Mariana is fiercely protective of the bewildered, painfully polite young boy. And Hugo becomes protective of Mariana, too, trying to make her laugh when she is depressed, soothing her physical and mental agony with cold compresses. As the memories of his family and friends grow dim, Hugo falls in love with Mariana. And as her life spirals downward, Mariana reaches out for consolation to the adoring boy who is on the cusp of manhood. The arrival of the Russian army sends the prostitutes fleeing. But Mariana is too well known, and she is arrested as a Nazi collaborator for having slept with the Germans. As the novel moves toward its heartrending conclusion, Aharon Appelfeld once again crafts out of the depths of unfathomable tragedy a renewal of life and a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. Views: 43
It is the late-14th century, a time beset by war and plague. Nicholas Barber, a young cleric, abandons his post in the church and joins a troupe of travelling performers. The players re-enact the murder of a young boy, but as they rehearse they discover the truth has yet to be revealed Views: 43
Against Nature is the perfect illustration of Oscar Wilde's famous paradox that life imitates art, and not the other way around. First published in Paris in 1884 when the Naturalistic school - of which Huysmans himself was a major figure - was at its height, it delivered a body-blow to Zola's brand of literary realism, and almost single-handedly redefined the literary and artistic canon of the nineteenth century in the process. To a rising generation of readers, writers and artists across Europe, Huysmans' novel was the instruction manual of a movement that was to become emblematic of fin-de-siecle France: Decadence. The novel tells the story of its decadent aristocratic anti-hero, Jean Floressas des Esseintes, who, bored by the aesthetic and carnal pleasures the Parisian beau monde has to offer, decides to sell up and move to an isolated house in the suburbs. There he constructs a world of artifice that exactly minors his super-subtle, perverse and painfully neurotic sensibility. The result is one of the most bizarre, intriguing and influential books of the period. Whether read as an existential fable, psychological analysis, style manual, cultural critique or social satire, the novel remains as audacious and original today as when first published. Views: 43
