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1991

Train Girl On a train ride home to visit her sister, Marley Walker encounters a haunting old man who reveals a dark premonition

Playing Bunco may be fun&hellip,but murder proves a game-changer. Octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover has never heard of the dice game Bunco. Regardless, she steps in as her daughter-in-law&rsquo,s sub and reluctantly puts her game face on. Bunco turns out to be child&rsquo,s play. But when a body is discovered, Myrtle realizes another game is afoot. Before long, she&rsquo,s playing cat and mouse with the killer. Can she track down the murderer before the game is up? Or, with the killer playing hard to get, will it end up being &ldquo,no dice?&rdquo,_,

The first 3 books of Shojai',s dark, female-driven domestic thriller series featuring pet-centric plots. LOST AND FOUND, BOOK 1

Scuba diving off the Galá,pagos Islands, wildlife biologist and freelance writer Summer ",Sam", Westin is not only out of her element--she',s plunged right into a dangerous conflict between fishermen

Silver Honoree in the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards, eBook category. Named one of the top 5 mysteries in Publisher',s ,Weekly BookLife 2016 Prize in Fiction.  , A missing comic book genius. An all-powerful hallucinogenic designer drug. Max Bowman is haunted by both of them &ndash, and he just might lose his mind as a result. When Max takes on the mission to find the long-lost creator of cult superhero Blue Fire, he ends up getting dosed with a chemical that upends his sanity just when he needs it the most. Now he&rsquo,s got to contend with zombies on the Upper East Side, a cult run by a clueless pawn, a hipster rapist who knows her way around a sword, a secret CIA spook program left over from the Cold War and powerful old enemies who are out to destroy him &ndash, all while trying to keep his mind from crashing and burning for good. Blue Fire&rsquo,s mantra in the old comic books was, &ldquo,For good to be purged of evil&hellip,Blue Fire must endure.&rdquo, But now it&rsquo,s Max Bowman who must endure &ndash, and he&rsquo,s as far from a superhero as you can get._,

In Ted Oswald&rsquo,s Because We Are, ten-year old Haitian orphan Libè,te and her best friend Jak embarked upon solving a profound mystery that changed them forever. Now, in There is a Land, Libè,te must flee her home and all she knows, carrying a deadly secret she does not understand but cannot dare force upon another. Whisking between her beloved Cité, Soleil, the color-splashed seaside town of Jacmel, and desolate mountain ranges of northern Haiti, her life and those of her friends depend on her assuming a new identity. A spectacular mystery that builds to a startling climax, There is a Land speaks to the powerful bonds that give us hope to strive for a better world. _,

DIG MY GRAVE DEEP  , Daniel Port works for Stoker as his number two man, the brains behind all the crooked deals that&rsquo,s kept Stoker&rsquo,s gang going for years. But there&rsquo,s a new set-up in town, a supposed reform party led by Bellamy. Trouble is, Bellamy&rsquo,s worse than Stoker and Port wants out of the whole rotten mess. But Stoker needs him and won&rsquo,t let him go, and Bellamy is putting a lot of pressure on Port to force him to join his side. All Port wants is a ticket out of town, with Shelly by his side. What he&rsquo,s got to do to make it happen is put together one more deal for Stoker. First though, he&rsquo,s got to get around George and Kirby, Bellamy&rsquo,s bully boys, and Fries, Stoker&rsquo,s fiercely loyal heir apparent. Then there&rsquo,s Ramon, Shelly&rsquo,s kid brother, who wants to be a big shot. Port&rsquo,s got a lot riding on this deal&mdash,it could just be the deal of his life.  , THE OUT IS DEATH  , Abe Dalton has been in the joint too long. Now that he&rsquo,s out, the aging safecracker wants to stay out. But Dicky Corday has other plans. Holding an old job over his head, Corday forces Dalton to help him plan a robbery at the Newton plant. Dalton is desperate, and calls on his old friend, Dan Port, to help him get out of the deal. Port comes to town and sets up a meeting with Corday. But Corday&rsquo,s obsessed and this job is going to happen no matter what. Corday won&rsquo,t be stopped&mdash,not by Port, meddling in Corday&rsquo,s business, not Dalton, trying to work his way out of his promise, and not his woman, Letty, who finds a certain sympathy with Port, who treats her better than Corday ever has. Port soon gets more than he bargained for with Corday&mdash,behind his bullying lurks the promise of madness.  , IT&rsquo,S MY FUNERAL  , Turning his back on his past, Port heads to Los Angeles where no one knows him. O

In the second novel of the Mother Trucker Book Series, Jack Mathews is furious that his beautiful wife Shelby won&rsquo,t give up her career as an eighteen-wheel truck driver, even after the attempts on her life. , Shelby not only has to watch her back, as Betty, an angry ex-co-worker murders, steals and lies her way back into Shelby&rsquo,s life, and waits for an opening to kill her but she is forcibly faced with her family falling apart, making it painfully obvious to her that trucking might be at the root of all her personal problems. , , , ,_,

Now that Samantha Sweet has a contract to provide her special handmade chocolates for the wealthy jet-set clients of Book It Travel, Sweet&rsquo,s Sweets bakery is taking on a whole new dimension. , Only problem, Sam isn&rsquo,t ready. It&rsquo,s almost Halloween, her pastry shop is bursting at the seams and she needs extra employees but there is no place to put them.  , Right before the witching day, she comes upon a large Victorian house she can adapt for the business, and it seems her problem is solved. But is it? The mysterious, spooky noises at night are way more than the normal creaks and groans of an old building. Something else is going on and Sam suspects it may be related to her husband&rsquo,s newest case, investigating where an abandoned duffle bag crammed full of cash came from. Beau is dealing with a greedy reward-seeker, a robbery with no leads, and a waif who appears and vanishes. Sam&rsquo,s mystery has her watching for ghosts and working almost around the clock. Is she relying on magic?&mdash,well, occasionally.  , &ldquo,Shelton again has done a superb job in bringing New Mexico to life.&rdquo, &mdash,Albuquerque Journal  , &ldquo,Connie Shelton gets better with every book she writes.&rdquo,&mdash,The Midwest Book Review  , &ldquo,Just reading about Samantha Sweet and friends at her pastry shop will leave you drooling in anticipation of delicious treats.&rdquo, Joanne K, 5-star review_,

CORNERED!  , Ann Rodick is a witness to murder. Now on death row, the murderer appoints his brother, Billy Quirter, to avenge him. So Ann goes into hiding, changes her name, her looks, and gets married. Now she is Ann Burley of Arrow Junction. But Quirter is still on her tail. But so is Bob Saywell, the local merchant who makes everybody else his business, particularly such a pretty woman as Ann. No matter that she&rsquo,s married to momma&rsquo,s boy, Ted. Or that the town doctor, Hugh Stewart, is also showing an interest. Saywell knows how to get what he wants. But when Quirter hits town one snowy night, all bets are suddenly off.  , THE LONG RIDE  , Harry Wells set up the bank heist with military precision. But what he hadn',t figured on was the panic of his young accomplice. He didn',t figure on newlywed Allan Garwith being in the right place and the right time and snatching the bag right out from under him. So when he finds out that Garwith and his young wife have suddenly answered an ad to join a carpool to San Francisco, he answers the ad as well. But so does John Benson, an F.B.I agent with a very good hunch on the stolen money. And Margaret Moore, recently divorced and anxious to get away from it all. And Miss Kennicot, man-hungry librarian out for a little adventure. This is one cross country trip that none of them will forget._,

LADY&mdash,HERE&rsquo,S YOUR WREATH  , As Vessi is heading toward the gas chamber, a mysterious phone voice offers newspaperman Nick Mason $10,000 to find the real killer. Vessi&rsquo,s dying words are &ldquo,Lu Spencer pulled it,&rdquo, but Spencer&rsquo,s organization is not a group you want to tangle with&mdash,shareholders include most of the men who run the city. When Mason decides to check it out anyway, he meets Mardi, Spencer&rsquo,s secretary, a sweet dish with the largest brown eyes. But Mason&rsquo,s also got a gunman on his tail. And the cold-hearted Blondie, who has a knack for turning up when she&rsquo,s least expected. Not to mention the mysterious person who keeps insisting he investigate Spencer. One of them is bound to be wearing a wreath before this game is over&hellip,  ,  , MISS CALLAGHAN COMES TO GRIEF  , St. Louis is ripe for a change. Gang boss Mendetta is getting old and careless, so it&rsquo,s a cinch for Raven to step in and take over. The first thing he changes is the prostitution racket. Raven feels that too much of the profit is going to the girls. So he rounds them up, takes them off the street, puts them in new houses and rakes off all the profit for himself. And when fresh girls are needed, he simply has them kidnapped. Newspaperman Jay Ellinger senses something is amiss when he hears about a husband whose wife has gone missing. But Sadie is missing for a different reason&mdash,she saw Raven leave Mendetta&rsquo,s apartment, and can put the finger on him. Sadie is now a valuable pawn, able to bring the whole racket down. If only Jay can find her&hellip,_,

SHANGHAI FLAME  , Alex Cloud knows he&rsquo,s being followed. He only has a short period of time to find Flame and bring her back to the ship in order to leave Shanghai alive. China has turned Red, and an American newspaperman&rsquo,s life has turned worthless. Dodging from one risky situation to the next, Cloud runs into Haigmann, a canny middle-man who seems to think Cloud has something of value. Eventually Cloud finds Flame, but she wants nothing to do with him. Undaunted, he&rsquo,s sworn to get her out of Shanghai, but now finds himself carrying a lethal pack of cards with a microfilm of names glued into them. Now they&rsquo,re both on the run, trying to stay one step ahead of the spies and thieves who want that film&mdash,ready and willing to kill anyone to get it.  , COUNTERSPY EXPRESS  , ",Don',t get ... mixed up with a woman. My mistake...", The dying words of Jim Cabot&rsquo,s European contact ring in his ears as finds himself being trailed by one woman and tempted by another. His mission is to locate Borsilov, a defected Russian scientist. His predecessor, Max Becker, died trying. And already Cabot has been knocked senseless and his life threatened by two gunmen as he tries to track down the missing scientist. Behind the threats is an Italian Red named Major Racasoli. Pitted against them all is an English opportunist, Sydney Jardine, who wants to sell Borsilov to the highest bidder. But those dying words of warning mean nothing to Cabot now, because he has met Pia--and all bets are off._,

Everybody&rsquo,s out to get Johnny Porno!  , It&rsquo,s the New York City in the 1970&rsquo,s and John Albano is trying to get by. But they&rsquo,ve taken his union card and work is hard to come by. He&rsquo,s hired to pick up the cash at showings of the recently banned Deep Throat, which is how he meets Eddie Vento, the local mobster in charge of distribution, who wants him to go to work for him. And Nick Santorra, Vento&rsquo,s loud-mouthed driver, who just loves to ride Albano every chance he gets, and knows how to hold a grudge.  , And then there&rsquo,s his ex-wife Nancy, now re-married for the third time, still demanding her child support. Nancy is also still seeing her first husband, Louis, a hustler who looks a lot like Duane Allman. But Louis has got a new girlfriend, Holly, and this drives Nancy crazy, which she naturally takes out on Albano.  , Albano even has a problem he doesn&rsquo,t know about, a drugged out ex-cop named Billy Hastings. Convinced that John is trying to put the make on his wife at a bar one evening, Hastings takes a swing at Albano but John drops him. Hastings is caught on tape starting the fight and he&rsquo,s forced into retirement, but he knows who&rsquo,s to blame for everything&mdash,and Albano is going to pay.  , At the same time, they&rsquo,re all being watched by detectives Neil Levin and Steven Brice from Internal Affairs, who may or may not be on the same side. And Special Agent Darrel Stebenow, who is watching out for Brigit Malone, Vento&rsquo,s undercover girlfriend. And Lt. Det. Sean Kelly, who is watching out for himself.  , At the center of it all is Johnny Porno&mdash,god, how he hates that name!&mdash,a guy who&rsquo,s just trying to stay ahead of the hustle and make a living. Just trying to stay alive.  ,_,

Dr. Kikki Mack lives a contented life as a tenured math professor at a college in a small, southern town. She s happy in her half of a cozy duplex with her good friend Leon living in the other half, and she has a love interest, Calvin Zambrano, though he doesn t know it yet. Yes, life equals normality until the day a friend and colleague goes missing, and Kikki tries to prove murder when the police rule it a suicide. Can Kikki solve this real life equation in her ever-so-logical manner, or will a murderer go free?_,

** Awarded Silver in the 2012 WishingShelfAwards ** Dangerous Waters is the first of The Guernsey Novels, linked but standalone stories, which will appeal to fans of ,The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Tragedy seems to follow Jeanne Le Page around . . . Can she really go through it again and survive? She is lucky to be alive &hellip, at sixteen Jeanne was almost killed in a boating accident which brought heart-breaking family ,tragedy. Now, fifteen years later, Jeanne returns reluctantly to the island of ,Guernsey ,following the death of her beloved grandmother. Struggling for breath as the ferry nears the island, she is overwhelmed by a dark foreboding as hazy memories of that terrible day resurface&hellip, Only returning to sell her inheritance - her grandmother&rsquo,s old cottage - Jeanne has no intention of picking up her old life. But the cottage holds a ,secret, dating back to ,World War II ,and the German Occupation, and Jeanne becomes drawn into discovering more. Then, soon after her arrival, a chance meeting with an old teenage crush leads her to thoughts of ,love. Jeanne is forced to face her demons, reliving the tragedy as her lost memory returns. When the ,truth ,is finally revealed, her life is endangered for the second time&hellip,_,

JACK O&rsquo,JUDGMENT  , Colonel Dan Boundary runs a very efficient gang of London blackmailers. They find a business owner&rsquo,s weakness&mdash,clandestine lover letters, a compromised situation--and demand to buy him out for a pittance. It&rsquo,s all quite legal&mdash,money changes hands, a business moves from one name to another. And Boundary&rsquo,s gang grows a little bit richer. Pinto Silva, Swell Crewe and Lollie Marsh--Boundary&rsquo,s trusted accomplices--do their job well. Until the death of gang member Snow Gregory from an apparent drug overdose puts them in the spotlight. Until the disappearance of Boundary&rsquo,s trusted partner, Solomon White, sparks the interest of Stafford King of Scotland Yard. And that&rsquo,s when the mysterious Jack o&rsquo,Judgment first makes his appearance, interrupting a Boundary meeting with fearless bravado. Who could this masked character be? A friend to the law, or a new foe, even more lawless than the Boundary Gang? ,  ,  , CAPTAINS OF SOULS  , Ambrose Sault has lived a rough life. He himself admits to being in a Caledonia jail for murder when he was rescued years ago by his partner, Moropulos. But inside him resides the gentle soul of a poet and philosopher. This is what draws to him the disparate lives of Christina Colebrook, cynical invalid of his landlady, and Beryl Merville, the esteemed doctor&rsquo,s daughter, now under the sway of the ruthless Jan Steppe. Moropulos works for Steppe, and so too the young cad, Ronald Morelle. Steppe&rsquo,s group have been manipulating the market, compromising Dr. Merville. When Christina&rsquo,s sister Evie comes to the dishonorable attention of Ronnie, their lives intersect, and soon Beryl is pulled into the compromise. Will Evie allow her reputation to be ruined? Can Sault save Beryl from the callous intentions of both Steppe and Morelle? And whose life will become forfeit when a clash of wills c

SPEAK OF THE DEVIL  , When Karen Peterson first meets Mr. Fernandez on the cruise ship, he is so charming. , Still, when he offers her a job as hostess at his new island hotel, she accepts with a great deal of reluctance. , After all, charm can hide a multitude of flaws. , And when she meets her predecessor, the very young and headstrong Cecily, Miss Peterson is sure that she seems more than a mere employee. , Even the guests have their secrets&mdash,Mrs. Fish tells her that she is looking for her husband&rsquo,s murderer at the hotel.  , But that first night Cecily surprises them all by announcing that she has just killed a man who had attacked her in Mr. Fernandez&rsquo,s room. , Later, one of the clerks tells Miss Peterson that he had seen the devil that night, stalking the hotel halls. , Then Mrs. Fish shows Karen a photo of her dead husband&mdash,who looks like the devil himself! , But nothing prepares Miss Peterson for murder, and that, of course, is just what comes next.  , THE OBSTINATE MURDERER  , Emilia Swan calls Van Cleef at his club and begs him to come to her aid. , Someone is blackmailing her. , Though he&rsquo,d rather have another drink, he agrees to visit her. , But before he can leave he runs into the son of an old friend. , Russell Blackman, a supercilious young man with a gifted intellect, has the unfortunate habit of alienating everyone around him. , But he has always idolized Van Cleef, and agrees to drive him to Emilia&rsquo,s country home if he can tag along.  , When they arrive, they walk into a house filled with tension. , Since the death of her husband&mdash,some say suicide&mdash,Emilia has let out rooms in her house. , Staying with her are Major Bramwell, an irascible old gent who demands that they leave immediately, Annie and Harry Downes, neither of whom seem to like their host

The Face of the Earth &, Other Imaginings  , Those who are acquainted with Blackwood&rsquo,s work will know that he did not write simple ghost stories. From his childhood Blackwood had a love for the natural world and for much of his life, whenever he could, he would escape the city and the town and take himself into the remotest corners of the world, there to commune not simply with Nature, but with the very Spirit of the Earth.  , Blackwood firmly believed that the human race had become too civilized, its senses and its soul dulled by the modern world, with all its conveniences and technological progress. It was only by returning to Nature that our senses would be reawakened and become more aware of the full scale of the world about us.  ,  , The stories and essays included in this book are the products of his most imaginative years. And so this collection came together, a blend of eighteen short stories, most of them previously uncollected, and twelve essays, none of which has been reprinted&mdash,the whole seeking to show the range of Blackwood&rsquo,s early work and the source of his inspiration

Book Description On a college field trip to caverns near the remote Mexican village of Bustamante, the daughter of a U.S. senator is murdered and the blood drained from her body. Detective Artemas Salcido, a Harvard-educated, illegitimate son of a Mexican governor and a Yaqui Indian girl, is responsible for the investigation. Handsome and cosmopolitan, Artemas was banished to Bustamante because of his ill-advised propensity for solving politically sensitive crimes, and now he finds himself in the middle of yet another. The international press, two FBI agents, and a brutal squad of federales with orders from the President of Mexico to make the problem go away, descend on the village. Among the reporters is Laffi Rendn, an old flame of Artemas from Harvard. As more grisly killings occur, Artemas discovers a secret cabal, Grupo Vampiro, which leads him to a labyrinth of rituals and crimes stretching from mediaeval Eastern Europe to Mexico s most powerful people. Publishers Comment