Portal Letting for Fun & Profit When Bobbie and Grayson head back to Plant City to help out some old friends, they run into a "hole" new set of problems.While investigating a rash of missing persons, it's not long before they get under each other's skin. What's making them all hot and bothered?Each other. In more ways than one.Bobbie's down-to-earth explanations for the missing men irritate Grayson, while his otherworldly theories have her itching for a sane solution.But when new, conflicting evidence emerges in the case, they soon realize they've only scratched the surface of the mystery at hand.Worm butts. BIMBO Mobiles. Mystery meatballs.It's enough to make someone break out in hives!Complicating matters, Grayson finally gets word on his Mothman scat samples—escalating their problems excrementally.This time, it looks like these Views: 408
A cop watches your hands; a magician shows you the wrong one.New Year's Eve is a time for new beginnings, but it's business as usual for Detective Erin O'Reilly and her K-9, Rolf. A midnight magic show on Broadway goes horribly wrong and a woman dies onstage. Is it a dreadful accident or an act of murderous sabotage? It's up to Erin to unravel the web of deception surrounding the death, even as her personal life threatens to spiral into chaos.She's caught the eye of Irish mobster Morton "Cars" Carlyle, and worse, she's beginning to like him back. It seems obvious that a relationship between a police officer and a criminal is a disaster waiting to happen. But as Erin is coming to discover, in the underworld and on the stage, things are rarely as they seem. Views: 408
The only complete edition of stories by the undisputed master of detective literature, collected here for the first time in one volume, including some stories that have been unavailable for decades.
When Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing stories in pulp magazines such as “Black Mask” before later writing his famous novels. These stories are where Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops, informers and extortionists, lethally predatory blondes and redheads, and crime, sex, gambling, and alcohol in abundance. In addition to his classic hard-boiled stories–in which his signature atmosphere of depravity and violence swirls around the cool, intuitive loners whose type culminated in the famous detective Philip Marlowe–Chandler also turned his hand to fantasy and even a gothic romance.
This rich treasury of twenty-five stories shows Chandler developing the terse, laconic, understated style that would serve him so well in his later masterpieces, and immerses the reader in the richly realized fictional universe that has become an enduring part of our literary landscape. Views: 408
When a shocking murder shatters the tranquility of a sleepy Oregon town, and a priceless sculpture turns up missing, all fingers soon start pointing at new resident Zack Anderson.Armed with a determination to clear his name, Zack sets out to solve the case with the help of a feisty canine companion with an uncanny ability to sniff out clues.With evidence mounting against him, can Zack identify the killer and locate the missing sculpture before he ends up in the doghouse? Views: 408
A Darcy Sweet Box Set Six: Books 22 to 24Book 22 - Count Your BlessingsWhat do you do when Thanksgiving is just around the corner and you're laid up with a broken leg? You get involved in another mystery, of course!Confined to the house, convalescing, Darcy Sweet has plenty of time to organize the family dinner she and Jon are hosting for Thanksgiving.It should be easy to stay out of trouble, right?Wrong!When the insurance rep handling Darcy's case visits her home to discuss her work place accident claim he unknowingly brings along a ghostly companion.A very angry ghostly companion!Will Darcy be able to work out why the ghost is so angry and what it is she wants before the Thanksgiving holiday is ruined?Count Your Blessings is the twenty-second book in the Darcy Sweet Cozy Mystery series. If you love cozy mysteries with paranormal, and a touch of romance you'll love the Darcy Sweet... Views: 408
If you listen you will hear the heartbeat of the Earth... Roz Hill is a woman unafraid of her passion. So when she meets a man who gives her a visceral reaction, she doesn't ignore it. One night leads to more... The discovery of her mate and finding her artifact. Altair Sagal has his own code. Roz intrigues him in ways no one has for years. As they learn to be mates, they get tossed into situations that very well may kill them both before their life together even begins. Views: 407
Ten years ago, fifteen-year-old Scarlett Rainsford vanished while on a family holiday in Greece. Was she abducted, or did she run away? Lou Smith worked the case as a police constable, and failing to find Scarlett has been one of the biggest regrets of her career. No one is more shocked than Lou to learn that Scarlett has unexpectedly been found during a Special Branch raid of a brothel in Briarstone.
Lou and her Major Crimes team are already stretched working two troubling cases: nineteen-year-old Ian Palmer was found badly beaten; soon after, bar owner Carl McVey was found half-buried in the woods, his Rolex and money gone. While Lou tries to establish the links between the two cases, DS Sam Hollands works with Special Branch to question Scarlett. What happened to her? Where has she been until now? And why is her family—with the exception of her emotionally fragile younger sister, Juliette—less than enthusiastic about her return?
When another brutal assault and homicide are linked to the McVey murder, Lou's cases collide, and the clues all point in one terrifying direction. As the pressure and the danger mount, it becomes clear that the silent, secretive Scarlett holds the key to everything. Views: 407
Retired Special Forces officer Brad Taylor's thrilling new short story sets Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill on a hunt for an ancient Mayan temple and reveals the origin of their archaeological company, the cover for their clandestine work with the Taskforce.Deep in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a huge protected tract of rain forest in northern Guatemala, lies the mythical Temple of Priests. Only one man knew of the temple's location, but he was killed before he could relay the coordinates. Now, newly reinstated Taskforce operator Pike Logan has the grid location of the ruins, and he's convinced Jennifer Cahill to travel to Guatemala in search of the Mayan temple her uncle died trying to find. But Pike and Jennifer are not the only ones heading into the rain forest in search of hidden treasure. A Canadian mining company is determined to explore the Biosphere for rare earth metals, even if it means destroying the way of life for local villagers. When they learn that Pike... Views: 407
