ePub version. Government Projects in which the Sloan gets involved with the Kiel Canal, the EU, murder, and retribution. John Putnam Thatcher cuts through the emotions to solve the murder based on money motives. The usual witty, informative, lovely Emma Lathen cast of characters from the Sloan. Views: 35
A double dose of happily-ever-after...
Speech therapist Daphne's neat, orderly life takes a turn for the dramatic when she's kidnapped and spirited away to a hideout deep in the Colorado mountains. Her captors? Gorgeous men—all escaped from a secret laboratory designed to build perfect supersoldiers.
Trauma associated with his engineering left Benjy mute, and Ari thinks Daphne's just the girl to help him recover. Held against her will, Daphne will be damned before she helps any of them—regardless of how electrifying she finds their touches.
But as Daphne's hunger for Benjy and Ari grows, so does her empathy for the other soldiers hiding out at the lodge. With danger from her own past threatening to resurface and an overeager FBI agent sniffing around, she needs to free herself, her men and the others. Views: 35
An old woman asks eccentric sleuth Nero Wolfe to uncover the mysterious source of her husband's money. When the case leads Wolfe to a confrontation with a racketeer, he resigns from the job and goes into hiding. His wise-guy assistant, Archie, must solve the case without help. Wolfe's career seems to have ended in disgrace. Or has it? Views: 35
By all appearances, Coralie Cabot seems to have it all. Pedigree? Check. Money? Check. The right boyfriend, a ‘nice’ guy hand-picked by her father? Check. Everything is going along according to plan. There’s only one problem. It’s not her plan. Coralie’s safe, predictable life has all but been decided for her, and that leaves her itching to take a walk on the wild side. Enter Devlin Masters, an elite male escort whose sole purpose is giving Coralie whatever her heart desires. As though he knows her down to her core, Devlin says and does all the right things—far better than her so-called Mr. Right back home. Hello, Mr. Wrong! For a price, she can sow her wilder oats with this sexy ‘bad boy,’ no strings attached. Pretty soon the question isn’t, “Should a good girl have sex with a naughty hottie for hire . . .” It’s, “Will she ever want to stop?” Views: 35
Does all human passion, all memory, all imagination come merely from the chemistry in our brains, like the movements of a clock follow from the arrangement of its cogs and wheels?Are we just clockwork dolls? Or is there an organizing principle at work, something we can ask for answers to the important questions of existence... something that might answer? Dave Burns has asked. Now he, and his friends, might not live long enough to understand the reply. Views: 35
Nine months ago, a massive solar flare completely wiped out America's electrical grid. A loving mom and her ex-boyfriend embark on a dangerous journey across the U.S. for supplies and answers, but will they make it to their destination alive? Views: 35
LAWRENCE BLOCK'S FIRST CRIME NOVEL — LOST FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS!To escape punishment for a murder he didn't mean to commit, insurance man Don Barshter has to take on a new identity: Nathaniel Crowley, ferocious up-and-comer in the New York mob. But can he find safety in the skin of another man...a worse man...a sinner man...? Views: 35
Judith McMonigle Flynn has her hands full with unexpected family ties and a dead body in the backyard in this delightfully zany mystery in Mary Daheim's popular Bed-and-Breakfast series.Rodney Schmuck and his wife, Cleo, Hillside Manor's latest guests, seem completely ordinary—well, except for that last name. Judith McMonigle Flynn is touched to hear that the forty-something couple is in town to visit family. Rodney has come to visit his mother—who, he claims, is none other than Judith herself! Shocked to meet a son she's certain she never had, she insists he's made a mistake. Then Rodney shows her proof: a birth certificate from Norway General Hospital listing Judith Anne Grover as his mother. The father's name is Unknown.Judith doesn't know Rodney and she doesn't care that a piece of paper says he's hers. But she's got an even bigger problem on her hands when one of the B&B's own guests turns up dead. To Judith's surprise, Joe is willing to help... Views: 35
SUMMARY: A contract killer is carving his way through North London's criminal underworld, leaving a bloody X on his victims' backs and taking Billy Ryan's gang down one thug at a time. Detective Inspector Tom Thorne and his team know there's a turf war going on, but who's attempting to take over Ryan's racket isn't quite clear. When DCI Carol Chamberlin comes out of retirement to work on the cold case squad and asks Thorne for help solving an old murder, the past and present catch up in what looks like a continuation of a twenty-year-old gang war. And when someone carves an X in Thorne's door, a fuse is lit that stretches from the eponymous burning girl of the title--Chamberlin's old case--to the gang war that's lighting up the London sky. It's a clunky plot that relies on telling more than showing, slowing down the pace and makeing it difficult for the reader to care about any of the principals involved--either the victims or those who seek justic for them. Billingham has written better thrillers (Lazybones, Scaredy Cat), but this one doesn't live up to their promises. --Jane Adams Views: 35
