Pleasure is the highest good: the Cyrenaics practised the principle until the death of one from an overdose and the apparent suicide of another. Sobered, the group went their several ways. One heads to Canada, another disappears and a third is believed to have committed suicide, at least until his body turns up two years later in the wreck of a car swept up on to the Solway mud flats. DI Marjory Fleming finds the case on her own patch, obstructed by the unpleasant and resentful Inspector she has been asked to direct, and DC Hepburn and DS Macdonald, still at loggerheads, don't make it any easier. Views: 11
Joanne Kilbourn is as feisty as ever in the 14th book of the series that bears her name. This time, Jo and Zack's young daughter Taylor's precocious talent as a painter has drawn the attention of people who may not be at all what they seem . . .Jo and Zack are both proud and a little concerned when their youngest daughter Taylor -- whose birth mother was a brilliant but notoriously promiscuous artist -- has two paintings chosen for a high-level fund-raising auction. One they've seen; the other, a portrait of a young male artist's model, Taylor has carefully guarded in her studio. Their concern grows when it becomes clear (and quite public) that the young man is the lover of the older socialite who organized the fund-raiser -- and whose husband is Zack's old friend.Soon, an ugly web of infidelity, addiction, and manipulation seems to be weaving itself around the Kilbourn-Shreve family. Jo and Zack are doing their best to keep everyone safe, but when one of the... Views: 11
Considered by many critics to be one of Brian Keene’s
best works, The Girl on the Glider has been long out of print-until
now!
The year is 2009, and the world’s financial and
publishing sectors are in chaos. In the midst of this disarray, a burned-out
horror writer finds himself haunted by a variety of ghosts, both real and
metaphorical. And as the ghosts increase their attacks, his struggle to make a
living quickly becomes a fight to hold on to his family-and his very
sanity.
This meta-fictional take on the traditional,
old-fashioned ghost story is a deft mix of M. R. James and Hunter S. Thompson,
and makes for one of Keene’s most personal and powerful novellas.
Cemetery Dance, 2008. Hardcover (limited to 537+52
copies), 102 pp. Views: 11
The first in a new middle-grade mystery series, in Andi Unexpected, twelve-year-old Andi Boggs, discovers evidence of her forgotten namesake, a missing relative, which leads her into a family mystery rooted in the Great Depression. Views: 11
