It's up to reporter and bridge player Wendy Winchester Rierson to finesse a homicide investigation where the killer holds a master hand . . . King Kohl, scion of the Kohl and Son real estate firm, has a reputation for loving three things: the ladies, closing on properties, and playing bridge. Still, when he invites Wendy, the president of the Rosalie, Mississippi, Country Club Bridge Bunch, to a small, exclusive bridge party, her investigative instincts as a reporter for the Rosalie Citizen are on the alert. In fact, King means to use the occasion to make a surprising announcement to his selected guests. But before he can lay his cards on the table, tragedy strikes. After receiving a mysterious message to hurry to King's home, Wendy almost collides with the man's real-estate rival, running out the front door insisting he found King dead when he arrived. Not just dead, it turns out, but murdered—crowned with one of his own award... Views: 186
Jon Drayton has no idea of the power lying dormant inside him. He had lived an ordinary life, but everything changes the night of the accident. His sister’s car is demolished by a drunk driver, leaving her paralyzed from the neck down. But with simply the touch of his hand, Drayton heals her. He has no idea how he did it, and soon everyone is calling it a miracle. Less than a week later, someone attempts to murder Drayton. Confused and trying to deal with what’s happening to him, Drayton spends the next several years on the run, moving from town to town, working odd jobs, barely staying one step ahead of the Unknowns, a mysterious, powerful group who wants him dead. Unwilling to remain hidden in the shadows, Drayton cures a woman of cancer, and the Unknowns come for him again. Drayton is critically wounded in the attack, and only his supernatural ability to heal himself allows his escape. A mysterious voice from the past sends Drayton on a desperate journey to the ruins of King’s Shadow, a 17th century plantation house in Virginia that was once the home of Henry King, the wealthiest and most powerful man in North America and who has now been lost to time. There, Drayton meets the beautiful archaeologist Laura Girard, who has discovered a 400-year-old manuscript in the ruins. For Drayton, this partial journal written by a slave may somehow hold the answers to his life’s mysteries. Together, Drayton and Laura desperately search for the remaining pages of the manuscript, hoping they can also survive the vicious attacks of the Unknowns. Along the way, Drayton discovers his abilities are far more remarkable than he ever imagined. Views: 185
Summer, 1940: western Europe has been conquered, and all that stands between Hitler and the invasion of England is the matter of air supremacy. And the RAF... Hitler's top-secret Directive No. 16, July 1940: 'The English air force must be beaten down to such an extent, that it can no longer muster any power of attack worth mentioning against the German advance.' 'Fighter' is Len Deighton's thrilling history of the ensuing Battle of Britain -- the aerial combat between the RAF and the Luftwaffe that was fought over the summer of 1940. Ex-RAF pilot Deighton has written a balanced study of strategies and tactics that also expertly recounts the development of the aeroplanes that fought each other in the skies -- the Spitfires and Messerschmitts -- and of radar. Behind the strategies and tactics, and in the cockpits of the aeroplanes, are the men brought vividly to life by Deighton's skill as a novelist. Views: 185
Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York’s preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he’s defending but his career as well.
Eager to get closer to this handsome, brilliant, and very private man, Taylor signs on...only to find that as she delves deeper and deeper into what goes on behind closed doors at Hubbard, White & Willis, she uncovers more than she wants to know--including a plentitude of secrets damaging enough to smash careers and dangerous enough to push someone to commit murder. Yet who is capable of going to that extreme? With her life on the line, Taylor is about to learn the lethal answer....
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The LeGarde Mysteries Boxed Set
contains the first four books in Aaron Paul Lazar's award-winning Gus LeGarde
mystery series.
Book 1. Double Forté - Gus
LeGarde's life essentially ended four years ago, when his beloved wife leapt to
her death. Today, Gus lavishes love on his family, trying to bury the pain. But
trouble arrives when his arrogant son-in-law's business partner goes missing,
and Gus's innocent friend is set up to take the fall.
Book 2. Upstaged - When Gus
LeGarde agrees to play piano for the high school drama club's production of
"Spirit Me Away," a sixties-style musical he wrote in college, he
doesn't expect to face a barrage of menacing pranks played on his fiancée
Camille and the drama club. Who's sabotaging the show? And what do they have
against Camille? Gus must unravel the mystery before the backstage saboteur
stakes his final, deadly claim.
Book 3. Mazurka - Join Gus
LeGarde in this European rollercoaster ride where he unearths a scandalous
family secret linked to a nineteenth century composer. When brother-in-law
Siegfried is framed for a neo-Nazi’s murder, they’re plunged into a sizzling
cat-and-mouse game where the stakes are lethal.
Book 4. FireSong - What would you do if your country church was hit by
a rogue tornado during services? What if the shrieking winds unearthed the
bones of a missing parishioner in a nearby wheat field? Now add the discovery
of heroin in your elderly minister's bloodstream. When Gus LeGarde is thrown
into the middle of the mess, he knows life has finally gone berserk in East
Goodland, New York. Join Gus as he's lured into a bizarre network of
underground tunnels to expose the most shocking discovery ever to rock the
Genesee Valley.
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