Angie Amalfi is close to one of the biggest breaks of her rocky culinary career--a chance to co-write a cookbook with a famous chef. But as she scrambles to prepare for the impending interview, her realtor sister Cat is suddenly accused of a murder in a rich client's home. A priceless relic--an iron chain that was used to bind St. Peter while in a Roman prison--is missing from her wealthy client Marcello Piccoletti's home, and a murder was committed on the heels of the disappearance. The only person who can clear Cat's name is the client himself, and he's in Rome, tending to his restaurant, Da Vinci's. Heedless to Angie's stern warning, the always unpredictable Cat insists on traveling to Rome to confront Picoletti, and Angie must drop everything to accompany her sister. The Roman restaurateur has the chain with him in Rome, and exonerates Cat of the murder as well. Unfortunately, the police in the states still suspect Cat and now Picoletti, the only witness, has disappeared. Angie takes a job as a cook at Da Vinci's, hoping to get to the bottom of this complex mess. And when bodies start piling up like balls of fresh mozzarella at an Amalfi family picnic, it looks like Angie and Cat's trip to their homeland may spell arrivederci Amalfis. Views: 41
I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground. . . . The Pendleton stands on the summit of Shadow Hill at the highest point of an old heartland city, a Gilded Age palace built in the late 1800s as a tycoon's dream home. Almost from the beginning, its grandeur has been scarred by episodes of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse. But since its rechristening in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building, the Pendleton has been at peace. For its fortunate residents—among them a successful songwriter and her young son, a disgraced ex-senator, a widowed attorney, and a driven money manager—the Pendleton's magnificent quarters are a sanctuary, its dark past all but forgotten. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, elevators plunge into unknown depths. With each passing hour, a terrifying certainty grows: Whatever drove the Pendleton's past occupants to their unspeakable fates is at work again. Soon, all those within its boundaries will be engulfed by a dark tide from which few have escaped. Dean Koontz transcends all expectations as he takes readers on a gripping journey to a place where nightmare visions become real—and where a group of singular individuals hold the key to humanity's destiny. Welcome to 77 Shadow Street. Views: 41
The star of public television's top garden show, Louise Eldridge is something of a celebrity. But when a dead body is planted in her backyard, she's in for notoriety of a different kind...Summer is the season for disquiet in Louise's Sylvan Valley cul de sac, and the tradition continues when an uninvited guest crashes a neighborhood soiree. Five years ago, Louise identified Peter Hoffman as the "mulch murderer." Now he's been released from a Virginia state mental institution. Leaving the party doesn't put enough distance between Louise and Hoffman, who has a thing or two to say to her—and actually has the nerve to follow her home to air his grievances. Shaken by the incident, Louise and family decide to take a little R&R at the beach in the hope that Hoffman will have moved on by the time they return.When they get back from vacation, Hoffman's moved on all right—but not in quite the way Louise had hoped. He's been missing for seven days, and Louise is the one... Views: 41
In 1928, Rose Wilder
Lane—world traveler, journalist, much-published magazine writer—returned
from an Albanian sojourn to her parents’ Ozark farm. Almanzo Wilder was
71, Laura 61, and Rose felt obligated to stay and help. To make life
easier, she built them a new home, while she and Helen Boylston
transformed the farmhouse into a rural writing retreat and filled it
with visiting New Yorkers. Rose sold magazine stories to pay the bills
for both households, and despite the subterranean tension between mother
and daughter, life seemed good.Then came the Crash. Rose’s
money vanished, the magazine market dried up, and the Depression
darkened the nation. That’s when Laura wrote her autobiography, “Pioneer
Girl,” the story of growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, on the
Kansas prairie, and by the shores of Silver Lake. The rest—the eight
remarkable books that followed—is literary history.But it isn’t
the history we thought we knew. For the surprising truth is that Laura’s
stories were publishable only with Rose’s expert rewriting. Based on
Rose’s unpublished diaries and Laura’s letters, A Wilder Rose tells the
true story of the decade-long, intensive, and often troubled
collaboration that produced the Little House books—the collaboration
that Rose and Laura deliberately hid from their agent, editors,
reviewers, and readers.Why did the two women conceal their
writing partnership? What made them commit what amounts to one of the
longest-running deceptions in American literature? And what happened in
those years to change Rose from a left-leaning liberal to a passionate
Libertarian?In this impeccably researched novel and with a deep
insight into the book-writing business gained from her own experience as
an author and coauthor, Susan Wittig Albert follows the clues that take
us straight to the heart of this fascinating literary mystery. Views: 41
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Evil Under the Sun2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detectiveArlena Stuart, the famous actress, is enjoying—like our favorite Belgian detective Hercule Poirot—a summer holiday on Smugglers' Island, and will become a common enough sight, sunbathing on the hot sands. Then one azure morning her beautiful bronzed body is discovered in an isolated cove, in the shade. She is dead, strangled. And Poirot, as luckless as ever when he attempts some down-time, will learn in the course of his investigation that nearly all the guests of this exclusive resort have some connection to Arlena. But who had the capacity and the motive to kill her?Daily Telegraph: "Christie has never written anything better than Evil Under the Sun, which is detective story writing at its best." Views: 41
Book two of Ausma Zehanat Khan's powerful, unforgettable new series, The Khorasan Archives. Sides must be chosen.Truths must be told.Freedoms will be fought for. To battle the cruel and controlling patriarchal force named the Talisman, members of a resistance group, the Companions of Hira, risked their lives to procure the Bloodprint – a sacred text that holds the power to overthrow this terrifying regime. Though they harnessed the magic known as the Claim, their plans now lie in ashes and their number scattered – with the two women at the centre of the plot – Arian and Sinnia – left facing the most harrowing tortures. Yet hope flickers in the darkness. The Bloodprint survived, secreted to Ashfall, seat of the Black Khan. But the Khan's court is built upon shifting layers of intrigue and lethal conspiracy, with enemies whose motives are steeped in the shadows. Can the Khan guard the Bloodprint when treachery lurks in the wings and the Talisman gather at his door? The Companions of... Views: 41
Danger's afoot in Ashbrook, New Hampshire. People are dropping dead like flies ... and the local doctor's at the heart of the controversy. Members of a prominent local family keep dying and what at first seems like an unfortunate tragedy, starts seeming awfully suspicious to Beatrice Young and her good friend, the sheriff. Get ready to meet one of the most perplexing, twisted, and dangerous villains Beatrice Young and cats have ever seen. No one's safe from this happy-go-lucky murderer, for this person truly believes they're helping their patients—by delivering the kiss of death. Can Beatrice, Hamish, Lucky, and Petunia save their neighbors, without falling into this deadly poisoner's hands? The Paw-sitively Cheerful Poisoner is the seventh book in the Beatrice Young cozy cat mystery series. These books can be read in any order but are extra delightful when enjoyed in sequence. Views: 41
