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The Bastille - a Thriller

UNEXPLAINABLE EVIL When Zain Tamora, the worst mass murderer in Nevada's history, escapes from state custody, it sends shockwaves through the community. Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, Tamora is a mute killing machine. Special Agent Angela Listz with the Federal Bureau of Investigation is attacked and left for dead by Tamora. When her mentor and legendary special agent Mickey Parsons learns of the attack, he decides he must enter the mouth of madness again and find Tamora before he can kill anyone else. But Tamora is remorseless and brutal. Mickey knows Tamora had the chance to disappear but instead goes on a killing spree. Concluding Tamora is searching for someone, Mickey is on his trail. And as Tamora's motivations become clearer, Mickey knows one of them will not make it out of this alive. A short novel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Victor Methos is a former prosecutor and currently a criminal defense attorney in the Midwest. His more than 30 books have sold nearly half a million copies worldwide.
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Blood Count

At a time when gay communities were hidden worlds, Crang needs to root out a killer and do his best to right a grave wrong. At the height of the AIDS crisis in the early nineties, a close friend of Crang's, Alex Corcoran, loses his partner, Ian, to the disease. After Ian's death, Crang is enlisted by Alex to find the man who infected Ian. Crang searches for theman to prevent Alex from getting himself in trouble. However, when Alex is murdered, Crang owes it to his friends to find their killers. The case, which explores the gay scene in Toronto at a time when LGBT culture was still very much a hidden world and open persecution was commonplace, ends up involving a cabinet minister afraid of being exposed. A clever political mystery, Blood Count is also an emotional and moving story of a couple whose lives are devastated by AIDS and a community damaged by the prejudices of the world around them.
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Gold Fever

It s the spring of 1898, and thousands of people are flooding into the Yukon Territory in the pursuit of gold and the town of Dawson welcomes them all. The beautiful Fiona MacGillivray, owner of the Savoy dance hall, is happy to make as much money as possible, in as short a time as possible. When her twelve-year-old son Angus saves the life of a Native woman intent on suicide, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that offers his mother s arch-enemy the opportunity to destroy her dance hall. Meanwhile, an exotic cast of characters from the previous novel are busy with their own lives. All the while percentage girls and drunks, croupiers and gamblers, prostitutes and sourdoughs, and the infrequent respectable businessman walk, or fall, through the doors of the Savoy. Then a killer strikes and the Mounties are determined to get their man...or woman.From the Inside FlapIt's the spring of 1898 in the Yukon, and the beautiful Fiona MacGillivray, the owner of the Savoy dance hall, is happy to make as much money as possible. When her son saves the life of a woman intent on suicide, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that offers his mother's archenemy the opportunity to destroy her once and for all. About the AuthorVicki Delany is the author of Scare the Light Away, Burden of Memory, In the Shadow of the Glacier, Valley of the Lost and Winter of Secrets. Although Vicki majored in modern history at university, her interest lies more in the lives of ordinary people. The idea for her Klondike Gold Rush mysteries was born during a canoe trip when she regaled her trip mates with stories of the incredible hardships people experienced at that time. Gold Digger: A Klondike Mystery was published in 2009. Gold Fever is the second book in the series.
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Nasty Girls

Meet some of the most dangerous women master of psychological suspense Laura Lippman has ever created in works so dark that her husband observed that most of her short stories center on betrayals between men and women. These stories include a senior citizen porn star ("Femme Fatale"); two twenty-somethings deranged by calorie deprivation ("The Crack Cocaine Diet"); a petulant tourist deceived by love in Dublin ("Honor Bar"); and a mysterious Good Samaritan-hobbyist ("Dear Penthouse Forum" (A First Draft)). Available singly or as a collection.
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Just Remember to Breathe

Alex Thompson's life is following the script. A pre-law student at Columbia University, she's focused on her grades, her life and her future. The last thing she needs is to reconnect with the boy who broke her heart. Dylan Paris comes home from Afghanistan severely injured and knows that the one thing he cannot do is drag Alex into the mess he's made of his life. When Dylan and Alex are assigned to the same work study program and are forced to work side by side, they have to make new ground rules to keep from killing each other. The only problem is, they keep breaking the rules. The first rule is to never, ever talk about how they fell in love.
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