Tracker Aroostine Higgins and Special Agent Patton Banks, a criminal investigator with the National Park Services Investigative Services Branch, have a strained relationship. He doesn't trust her, and she doesn't agree with his by-the-book approach. They're far from an investigative dream team. But when Aroostine picks up the trail of a fugitive during a visit to Clingmans Dome, the pair is thrown into an investigation together. Alan Steven Reynolds is a notorious jewel thief. He and four accomplices pulled off the largest single heist in history. Three of the men went to prison, Reynolds went on the run, and the fifth finagled a non-guilty verdict. Now, Roo and Patton must comb the dense forests of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in search of the jewel thief—and the jewels. Reynolds isn't only running from the law, though. As the investigators track the wanted man, their every move is also being tracked by someone... Views: 640
She ran away to protect herself. Now she's back to save her family. Nina Oaks tried to forget Agent Cody Wyatt, but her old feelings come flooding back the moment she sees his face again. Now she's in danger—and so is Cody's daughter. He'll do anything to protect them both, even if that means confronting the most dangerous men in the Badlands. Views: 640
An illustrated wit-and-wisdom-style packaging of quotes and excerpts from the fiction and nonfiction of Edgar Allan Poe, organized by theme and presented in a lighter-than-Poe context. This book will collect several hundred quotes and aphorisms from Poe's poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Quotes will be organized in thematic chapter groupings, and each chapter will be prefaced with several introductory paragraphs that discuss Poe's preoccupation with their subject matter in a lighter vein. Chapter subjects will include such themes as "Madness," "Dreams," "Revenge," "Mortality," and "Premature Burial." Spot illustrations will be distributed through the text. Views: 640
Sleeping Dogs: The Awakening, a techno-political spy thriller, combines relentless action, crisp dialogue, fully drawn characters, and thought provoking plot twists. Part 1, a novella, establishes the story lines and introduces the principal characters, including Brendan Whelan—the leader of the Sleeping Dogs unit and the deadliest man on the planet.The President of the United States has been targeted for assassination—by his own party’s power structure. A national election is pending and the killing must look as if the opposition party is responsible. Desperate to prevent the crime and avoid an overwhelming defeat, the opposition turns to the only force that can stop it this late in the game—a mysterious hunter-killer team known only as the Sleeping Dogs. This blackest of black ops units was formed to carry out the wettest, most illegal missions. Later, a U.S. President, fearing discovery of the unit’s existence could spark an international crisis, ordered its members terminated with extreme prejudice. They escaped and went underground. Now, 20 years later, they are asked to leave the safety of their anonymity and risk their lives for their country one more time. A seemingly unconnected car crash rapidly escalates into a series of plot twists and rising body count involving Russian agents, crooked politicians, Ukrainian gangsters, a billionaire international arbitrageur, a secret society of individuals in the military and intelligence communities, the CIA, a doggedly determined FBI agent, and the six deadliest men on earth—the surviving Sleeping Dogs. Sleeping Dogs: The Awakening is a techno-political spy thriller that combines relentless action, crisp dialogue, fully drawn characters, and thought provoking plot twists. Squarely on the same page with David Baldacci, Brad Thor, Lee Child and other best-selling thriller writers.Part 1, a novella, establishes the story lines and introduces the principal characters, including Brendan Whelan—the leader of the Sleeping Dogs unit and the deadliest man on the planet. Views: 640
Off in a distance stood a dark desolate castle in north-western Ireland full of mystery and macabre known as Castle Drac Von Stoller. Anyone that would dare talk bad about the castle would later come up missing without a trace. Legend has it that Count Drac Von Stoller was cursed to remain in the castle's mirror for impaling the great wizard Estavon unless someone could break the curse.Off in a distance stood a dark desolate castle in north-western Ireland full of mystery and macabre known as Castle Drac Von Stoller. Anyone that would dare talk bad about the castle would later come up missing without a trace. Costume parties were held at the castle where ballroom dancing would also take place. Legend has it that Count Drac Von Stoller impaled the great Wizard Estavan and just as the Count was about to sink his teeth into the Wizard's neck the Wizard pulled his magic wand out of his cloak and a beam of light shot through the wand into the mirror standing in the corner. Estavan the Wizard said as he was gasping his last breathe on the impaling stake. "Count for what you've done to me I curse you to the mirror where you will remain for all eternity unless you can find thirteen virgin maiden's impale them and suck every drop of their precious blood from their bodies. If you fail the mirror will be your final resting place, you only have one chance to lift the curse.” Views: 639
When a group of couple friends leave their suburban lives to go away together on a vacation to an exclusive resort, their partying gets out of control - and someone ends up dead. As Jessie digs deep into their lives and begins to unearth their secrets, she quickly realizes that their perfect lives are not what they seem - and that a murderer may be amongst them. Views: 639
Carrie Singleton and Evelyn the ghost sleuth the slayings of a starlet and a star-crossed psychic in Agatha Award nominee Allison Brook's fourth Haunted Library mystery.Daphne Marriott strolls into Clover Ridge and informs librarian Carrie Singleton that she's a psychic. But had she foreseen what fate awaited her, Daphne would have steered clear of the quaint Connecticut town. Evelyn, the library ghost, tells Carrie that there's more to Daphne than she lets on. The mysterious woman grew up in Clover Ridge with her no-good dad, who apparently met his end at the hands of Daphne's brother, Billy. Still, Daphne proves a welcome distraction when Carrie's overbearing mother hits town. Mom's much younger husband, Tom, is in a movie that's lensing locally, and she's there to keep an eye on him: Tom's costar, sultry Ilana Reingold, is also his ex-fiancée, and there's no denying the chemistry is still there. Soon after mingling with the moviemakers at a... Views: 639
It's not what he was trained for!
Former Navy SEAL Martin Billings thought he was through with special ops, but when he gets word that his brother is in jail in Venezuela, charged with killing a fisherman he knows he is the only one who can do anything about it. Arriving he finds that the Venezuelan police, a mysterious and gorgeous woman lawyer, a vicious gringo called Highball, a seemingly affable drug lord, and a guy named Raul would all much rather Martin just turned around and went home.
When trying to investigate the crime gets him implicated in another murder, Martin realizes that his SEAL training, and experience as a freighter captain, have uses, but limits.
It’s a good thing Ugly Bill is on his way. Views: 639
Catching a killer is dangerous—especially if he lives next door
From the hugely talented author of The Kind Worth Killing
comes an exquisitely chilling tale of a young suburban wife with a
history of psychological instability whose fears about her new neighbor
could lead them both to murder . . .
Hen and her husband Lloyd have settled into a quiet life in a new
house outside of Boston, Massachusetts. Hen (short for Henrietta) is an
illustrator and works out of a studio nearby, and has found the right
meds to control her bipolar disorder. Finally, she’s found some
stability and peace.
But when they meet the neighbors next door, that calm begins to erode
as she spots a familiar object displayed on the husband’s office shelf.
The sports trophy looks exactly like one that went missing from the
home of a young man who was killed two years ago. Hen knows because
she’s long had a fascination with this unsolved murder—an obsession she
doesn’t talk about anymore, but can’t fully shake either.
Could her neighbor, Matthew, be a killer? Or is this the beginning of
another psychotic episode like the one she suffered back in college,
when she became so consumed with proving a fellow student guilty that
she ended up hurting a classmate?
The more Hen observes Matthew, the more she suspects he’s planning
something truly terrifying. Yet no one will believe her. Then one night,
when she comes face to face with Matthew in a dark parking lot, she
realizes that he knows she’s been watching him, that she’s really on to
him. And that this is the beginning of a horrifying nightmare she may
not live to escape. . .
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Inspector de Silva’s peaceful evening is disrupted when he is called up to the Royal Nuala Golf Club where a wealthy member has been found brutally murdered.
Is this a bungled robbery, a private feud, or does the killer have another motive that will cause them to strike again?
With the help of his resourceful wife, Jane, and a new and unexpected ally, de Silva must navigate his way into the heart of the privileged British establishment to find the answer, and there’s no time to lose.
Rough Time in Nuala is another colourful and exciting mystery in this series set in the exotic location of 1930s Ceylon.
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