Ron Connors, Washington State’s attorney general, has called in J. P. “Beau” Beaumont and his wife and partner, Mel Soames, to investigate what appears to be a murder. The possible suspect is Governor Marsha Longmire’s step grandson, Josh Deeson, a teenager living with the governor and her husband, Gerry Willis, who has just had heart bypass surgery.
Dwight is a manager of a sporting goods store in California, far from the scene of a fatal accident. After twelve years of prison and losing his family and position, he is still running, living a half-life that is respectable but nothing compared to what he had before the accident that changed his life.
Meena Harper is stuck in a very odd world. It used to be semi-normal; being an out-of-work soap opera scriptwriter with a Pomeranian named Jack Bauer who likes to save the world in a day, and the ability to never be able to find that perfect boyfriend. The slightly strange things about Meena include her “gift” – which is her ability to see the future. Which, of course, is why she finds herself in such a strange predicament; sitting beside her ex-boyfriend and trying to find a way to tell him that she has “seen” his death.
Jacob Marlowe has been a werewolf for one hundred sixty-seven years and is about two hundred years old. He has made his mark, accumulated a vast fortune, and has no wish to continue the allotted four hundred years of a werewolf’s life.
For any reader who has already had the pleasure of reading Spencer Quinn’s books, they will know that Chet – a dog – has a great deal to say in each and every one of them. In fact, he’s one of the very best narrators in fiction today. Chet is owned by Private Investigator Bernie Little and, as more than one reader has acknowledged, “You don’t have to be a dog lover to enjoy this deliciously addictive series.” Truer words have never been spoken!
A few days before his wedding, Scott Chadwick goes to the top of a hotel his company is building and commits suicide. That is what the police tell Toni Matthews, and what her friends assure her was true. Scott, the man she knew so well and had planned a life with, was so despondent over the potential failure of his business that he took his own life. Toni does not believe them and she is determined to find out who killed Scott.
Grass Roots is a no-nonsense instruction manual that explains exactly what you can do. Scott Hennen-host and founder of the innovative Common Sense Club radio program-hows how everyday Americans just like you are making a difference for our country’s future. This down-to-earth handbook gives you clear, practical, effective actions you can take to preserve the American dream for your children and grandchildren.
Fifteen years earlier. Jasper College is buzzing with the news that famed literature professor Richard Aldiss will be teaching a special night class called Unraveling a Literary Mystery-from a video feed in his prison cell. In 1982, Aldiss was convicted of the murders of two female grad students; the women were killed with axe blows and their bodies decorated with the novels of notoriously reclusive author Paul Fallows.
Beginning in 1943, in Meteora Greece, readers are taken into a monastery where a certain monk resides. This particular man was a well-known killer/soldier/warrior at one point in his life, but has since renounced his past faith and decided to live out a quiet existence in Greece.
Lloyd Jassin How Free eBooks Can Save Local Book Retailing Lloyd Jassin, Authorlink Guest Columnist July 2011 In the mid- to late-19th Century the custom in England was to publish novels in three volumes which were affectionately known as "triple deckers."...
