Beer, Redheads, And Politics... Jackson Quick Should Have Known Better. First, He Trusted A Texas Politician. Then He Fell For A Leggy Woman. Worst Of All, He Drank A Beer That Tasted Funny. Now He’s Running For His Life, Trying To Piece Together How He Fell Into A Battle Over Something So Small It Takes A High-Powered Microscope To See It. Views: 14
Critically acclaimed author of The Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick takes her new Dark Passages series to an alternative Victorian London where Emma Lindsay continues to wade through blurred realities now that she has lost everything: her way, her reality, her friends. In this London, Emma will find alternative versions of her friends from the White Space and even Arthur Conan Doyle.Emma Lindsay finds herself with nowhere to go, no place to call home. Her friends are dead. Eric, the perfect boy she wrote into being, and his brother, Casey, are lost to the Dark Passages. With no way of knowing where she belongs, she commands the cynosure, a beacon and lens that allows for safe passage between the Many Worlds, to put her where she might find her friends--find Eric--again. What she never anticipated was waking up in the body of Little Lizzie, all grown up--or that, in this alternative London, Elizabeth McDermott is mad. In this London, Tony and Rima are "rats," teens who... Views: 14
From Jeffery Deaver — the New York Times bestselling author of the upcoming Lincoln Rhyme novel THE KILL ROOM (on sale June 4, 2013) — comes an original short story featuring Rhyme. When a young woman is found brutally murdered in a parking garage, with a veritable mountain of potential evidence to sift through, it may be the most challenging case former NYPD detective Lincoln Rhyme has ever taken on. Views: 14
Jeffery Deaver's Short Stories Views: 14
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Lincoln Rhyme is back, on the trail of a killer whose weapon of choice cripples New York City with fear. **The weapon is invisible and omnipresent. Without it, modern society grinds to a halt. It is electricity. The killer harnesses and steers huge arc flashes with voltage so high and heat so searing that steel melts and his victims are set afire. When the first explosion occurs in broad daylight, reducing a city bus to a pile of molten, shrapnel-riddled metal, officials fear terrorism. Rhyme, a world-class forensic criminologist known for his successful apprehension of the most devious criminals, is immediately tapped for the investigation. Long a quadriplegic, he assembles NYPD detective Amelia Sachs and officer Ron Pulaski as his eyes, ears and legs on crime sites, and FBI agent Fred Dellray as his undercover man on the street. As the attacks continue across the city at a sickening pace, and terrifying demand letters begin appearing, the team works desperately against time and with maddeningly little forensic evidence to try to find the killer. Or is it killers . . . ? Meanwhile, Rhyme is consulting on another high-profile investigation in Mexico with a most coveted quarry in his crosshairs: the hired killer known as the Watchmaker, one of the few criminals to have eluded Rhyme’s net. Juggling two massive investigations against a cruel ticking clock takes a toll on Rhyme’s health. Soon Rhyme is fighting on yet another front—and his determination to work despite his physical limitations threatens to drive away his closest allies when he needs them most . . . Views: 14
The KGB grooms a charming young American to run for president Although in the mid-1940s no one had ever heard of JFK, Jack Adams's mother insisted her new son be christened John Fitzgerald. Years after his parents' death, Jack learns the reason for his name: a packet of photos showing his mother in bed with young John Kennedy. As a student at Columbia University, Jack demonstrates that he inherited more than JFK's good looks. His irresistible charisma and political instinct make him a natural campus leader, but he has his sights set on something bigger than the student council. Young Jack Adams wants to be president of the United States, and the Soviet Union is prepared to help. A KGB spy named Dmitri recruits Jack, promising him the presidency in exchange for treason. Dmitri guides Jack for decades, putting him in a position to become the largest intelligence coup in history—unless the candidate's libido derails him first. Views: 14
Seven signs warned them. Now it's time for Carbon County to fight back. In End Times, Daphne lost herself in love with Owen, only to discover the dark secret that puts Carbon County at ground zero for the end of days. . . . All thirteen of the Children of Earth have arrived and taken root in town. Together at last, they can perform the series of rituals necessary to awaken their father, a wrathful entity known as the God of the Earth. Daphne protects their identities from Pastor Ted and the God-fearing locals out of love and allegiance to Owen. But when people start disappearing from town and Daphne begins receiving visions from God, her allegiance—and even her love—is brought into question in this astonishing companion novel to End Times. Views: 14
-a Delta Force romance story- Hal Waldman's next assignment: skydive through a storm into hostile territory. The mission's greatest risk? His own jump partner. Teresa Mann, on special assignment to assist Delta Force, must make a leap of faith. Nothing prepares them for when they both take a Lightning Strike to the Heart. Views: 14
She's empty inside...While celebrating her engagement with her fiancé in Africa, a bomb in a marketplace steals Kira's life away.Kira wakes from a coma with a steel plate in her head, and not a lot else. And it's too easy to let herself flow in the current of her mother's tender care. Her wedding plans go merrily on and she can't work up the least bit of entusiasm about it.In fact, she only starts to feel alive again in the presence of her gorgeous wedding planner.Eventually she goes in search of her old life and finds a wardrobe of denim and leather, and a small arsenal.Who was she, before the bombing? She asks it of her reflection. And suddenly there's a bad-ass version of herself looking back at her, and she wonders if she really wants to know."Maggie Shayne's books have a permanent spot on my keeper shelf. She writes wonderful stories with page-turning thrills, and I highly recommend her." —NY Times Bestselling Author, Karen Robards Views: 14