After endowing humankind with the ability to perceive life through another's mind, Jin Tsay is murdered, so the military can possess his technology. Retribution comes in the form of his widow, who races to share her husband's invention with the world, before the military exploit it. Wielding the power of Veil, Suren Tsay hunts for the elusive killer of the father of the New Veil World, Jin Tsay. Views: 67
Private investigators must pose as a married couple to solve a crime. Tension of solving the case isn't the only thing building. Will their attraction to each other interfere with their plans to root out a fertility doctor's scam? Harmony Hills Retirement Village - a nice quiet place to spend your days in the sunset of your life. But not if you're friends with Kay Powers, amateur sleuth. Join Kay and her friends in their daily antics-retirement style! A safe home where young women facing childbirth on their own can spend their days. Haven House seemed the perfect place. Until a secret from the owner's past is about to catch up with her and the home suddenly wasn't a haven after all. South Carolina...a state of beauty and tranquility. At least it was for one successful attorney whose life turns upside down when a ghost starts haunting her dreams. When the past and the present collide. A body, a gun, and a little black box... Suicide, homicide or accident? Or had the impossible... Views: 67
Madison Darby is back, this time serving as a judge on a panel for the Carl's Cove annual homebrewing competition. Also on the panel is Eli Campbell, a notorious celebrity chef with a foul mouth and a talent for insults.
When Chef Campbell drops stone dead away, right next to Madison, something definitely seems amiss, and Madison must don her sleuth hat once again to go straight to the core of the mystery. Meeting up with a cast of characters who give the word 'eccentric' a new meaning, she must sort through the eye-rolling craziness to discover just whodunit and why.
However, she soon finds she got more than she bargained for. Will she discover the terrible secrets that lie deeply hidden within the case?
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A man is about to kill a cow. He discusses life and death and his right to kill with the compliant animal. He begins to suspect he may be about to commit murder. But kills anyway... It began when the animal rights movement injected domestic animals with artificial intelligences in bid to have the status of animals realigned by the international court of human rights. But what is an animal that can talk? Where does its intelligence end at its machine intelligence begin? And where might its soul reside? As we place more and more pressure on the natural world and become more and more divorced, Adam Roberts' new novel posits a world where nature can talk back, and can question us and our beliefs. Adam Roberts is an award-winning author at the peak of his powers and each new novel charts an exciting new direction while maintaining a uniformly high level of literary achievement. Views: 67
Carrie Singleton is just about done with Clover Ridge, Connecticut until she's offered a job as the head of programs and events at the spooky local library, complete with its own librarian ghost. Her first major event is a program presented by a retired homicide detective, Al Buckley, who claims he knows who murdered Laura Foster, a much-loved part-time library aide who was bludgeoned to death fifteen years earlier. As he invites members of the audience to share stories about Laura, he suddenly keels over and dies.The medical examiner reveals that poison is what did him in and Carrie feels responsible for having surged forward with the program despite pushback from her director. Driven by guilt, Carrie's determined to discover who murdered the detective, convinced it's the same man who killed Laura all those years ago. Luckily for Carrie, she has a friendly, knowledgeable ghost by her side. But as she questions the shadows surrounding Laura's case, disturbing secrets come... Views: 67
How well do you know the lunch servers at your school? Sure, they seem like nice people, but what if secretly they are something much, much weirder? Best friends Carlos and Benny, who just saved their teacher from becoming a were-hyena, have been called upon to investigate the strange goings-on in the cafeteria. Why are the lunch ladies suddenly so grumpy? Why are the girls' meals different from the boys'? And what was that thing seen scuttling around the kitchen wearing an apron? It's going to require a lot of courage—and more than an industrial size can of Raid—for the boys to avoid extermination in this buggy adventure. Views: 67
Three top secret research scientists are presumed dead in a boating accident, but the kidnapping of their families the same day raises questions the FBI and local police can’t answer, leaving them waiting for a ransom demand that will never come. Central Intelligence Agency Analyst Chris Leroux stumbles upon the story, and finds a phone conversation that was never supposed to happen. When he reports it to his boss, the National Clandestine Services Chief, he is uncharacteristically reprimanded for conducting an unauthorized investigation and told to leave it to the FBI. But he can’t let it go. For he knows something the FBI doesn’t. One of the scientists is alive. Chris makes a call to his childhood friend, CIA Special Agent Dylan Kane, leading to a race across the globe to stop a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of political and corporate America, that if not stopped, could lead to war with an enemy armed with a weapon far worse than anything in the American arsenal, with the potential to not only destroy the world, but consume it. J. Robert Kennedy, the author of ten international best sellers, including the smash hit James Acton Thrillers, introduces Rogue Operator, the first installment of his newest series, The Special Agent Dylan Kane Thrillers, promising to bring all of the action and intrigue of the James Acton Thrillers with a hero who lives below the radar, waiting for his country to call when it most desperately needs him. Views: 67
The London of the late nineteenth century was home to both Arthur Conan Doyle and his famous detective - Sherlock Holmes. This book looks at some of the many locations in both central and outer London that have connections to one or both of these famous names. In addition to examining the history this book also looks at some of the theories that have been woven over the years around Holmes and these locations. Views: 67
It seems shop owner and newly appointed Whispering Falls Village President June Heal has it all: Beauty, wits, bewitching powers...Sheriff Oscar Park. Life is good, life in Whispering Falls is magical. When a member of the community is found dead on the steps of June's homeopathic cure shop, all the evidence points to her. June has to figure out who is framing her or she will be banned for life. Views: 67
