This is the fourth book in the seriously addictive series, A Chet and Bernie Mystery. These fascinating stories focus on Chet and his constant companion, Private Detective Bernie Little. As you might imagine, Bernie and Chet are hired as a team to solve crimes, yet the beloved dog, Chet, is the true leader of this daring duo.
They live among us, abhorred, marginalised, despised. They are vampires, known politely as Sunless. The job of policing their community falls to the men and women of the Sunless Housing and Disclosure Executive SHADE. Captain John Redlaw is London’s most feared and respected SHADE officer.
PHILIPPA GREGORY and her fellow historians describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins’ War books: Jacquetta, Duchess of Bedford; Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward IV; and Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.
Uneven, at times taut and engrossing thriller, which needs a firm editor’s hand.
Merete Lynggaard has a quiet life. She gets rid of anyone and anything that does not help her keep her private life private: secretaries, men, outsiders. She is also on the rise in her political party and may someday be Prime Minister—until she goes missing and is presumed suicide.
Titles That Grab Readers by the Collar by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro September 2011 "If you want to get a book read, it’s got to have a compelling title. " —Shapiro Oh, to have an editor like the famous Sol Stein! In Stein on Writing, (St....
The amazingly brilliant novel, The Magicians, introduced readers to a truly stunning fairy-tale world, and a boy by the name of Quentin Coldwater. Quentin had always been able to escape the life he hated by opening the pages of the books he so loved and entering the land of Fillory. Upon growing up, he escaped the miserable life he had by passing the exam to get into the secret, exclusive college called Brakebills – a college that taught magic. And, once Quentin had graduated Brakebills, he found out that Fillory actually existed.
A story within a story that fails to deliver more than passing interest.
Edward, Susan’s first husband, has sent her his novel, Nocturnal Animals, to read before he comes to visit. Susan, a little at loose ends with her husband in New York at a conference, reads the manuscript and is caught up in Tony’s dilemma. Is there more to the story or is Susan reading too much into it?
Lucky-that’s how Jennifer would describe herself. She had a successful law career, met the love of her life in Doug, married him, had an apartment in New York City, a house in the Hamptons, two beautiful children, and was still madly in love after nearly seven years of marriage. Jennifer was living the kind of idyllic life that cliches are made of.
Bristly, sensitive, and meat-hungry Pip is a robust young whelp, an orphan born under a full moon. Between hunting escaped convicts alongside zombified soldiers, trying not to become one of the hunted himself, and hiding his hairy hands from the supernaturally beautiful and haughty Estella, whose devilish moods keep him chomping at the bit, Pip is sure he will die penniless or a convict like the rest of his commonly uncommon kind.
Haunting and violent tale of lust and loss.
When your wife and your boss, who have been carrying on an affair, conspire to destroy your career, a flirtation begins and ends in scandal, your daughter despises you and will not see you, and reporters hound you no matter where you are, what do you do? Fly to Paris and start over.
