The Death Wish by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, the author whom Raymond Chandler named "the top suspense writer of them all."<br><br>Everyone thought Bob and Rosalind Whitestone were happily married. But to Bob, a struggling artist, life with Rosalind was torment, for she had artfully destroyed his faith in himself. Then Elsa appeared, with her beauty and he impassioned eagerness, and suddenly Bob knew he needed to be f ...
The Big Midget Murders by Craig Rice, the first mystery writer to be featured on the cover of Time magazine.<br><br>The Big Midget is the hit of the show in Jake Justus's night club, until someone puts an abrupt end to the Midget. Why were eleven unmatched silk stockings used as a noose? Who conked Jake when he got on the killer's trail? John J. Malone finds all the answers with the energetic and hilarious assistance ...
The Coquille River is haunted. So the legend says.<br><br>When Nick and Sal see a ghost paddle wheeler, they're caught in a puzzling whirlpool that's historic and international. ...
Queens Wild is a murder mystery set on the borderland between the Golden State and the Silver State, a land of vistas – shifting sand, mirage and illusion. <br><br>It is 1993, with a millennium of new things looming on the horizon. New dreamers are out on old trails looking for something, prospecting.<br><br>But an abandoned Sierra gold mine is about to pay out more than expected to some greenhorns seeking a new ...
The floating exploration rig, Olympian, is drilling for oil. It has a crew of 80 tough, no-nonsense oilmen capable of handling anything . So they think. But Scott Reef #8 isn't just a jinx – it will prove to be one hole too many.<br><br>There's something down there apart from sea and mud that seems to think they're here for fun. The rules of Its game are simple – play or die; the prize for winning – Olympian.& ...
In Baby Bones, Author Donan Berg's latest, newly elected Sheriff Jonas McHugh dashes up the embankment to avoid contaminating the skeleton with his vomit. On the day the Silver County, Iowa, Auditor certified his special election victory, Jonas would've never envisioned, in all of his thirty-five years, the challenges—his K-9 partner eats poison; picket line violence strikes Jove Foods, a major employer; a Jove employee ...
A story of three different characters that somehow find themselves together. Yuzuki, a vicious vampire with barely a care for anyone's life, even her own. Sole, an immortal that finds himself as Yuzuki's pet… and likes it. Miranda, a vampire hunter that is too broke to afford… well anything. Hunting vampires doesn't pay the bills. ...
A group of powerful industrialists control key members of government agencies who disburse funds . <br><br>They handle any dissent through a network of psychiatric clinics around the country. Their solutions end in death.<br><br>Mrs. Hariett Piers, an older woman and a financial investigator catches on. She is incarcerated and killed in one of the clinics.<br><br>Her son, Gilbert Piers investigates and finding ...
Abbey Burning Love–Entertaining mystery, heartwarming romance. <br><br>Stunning beauty and stock car racer Melissa Malone debuts as MC to raise funds for The Abbey, a historical Western Illinois nunnery with a humiliating past. A murderous explosion rocks Melissa's world and she cheats death carried by unknown captor.<br><br>With multiple twists and turns, Melissa battles zoning staffer Rob Campbell and ...
