It is the middle of the night and Harry finds himself on the bathroom floor with a hole in the back of his head. When he gets up off the floor, he faces an old man who seems very familiar and yet he cannot place how he knows the old man. One good thing about the old man is that he keeps a Tlingit woman from bashing in Harry’s skull. In order to explain why, Yeikoo.shk tells a story about her husband, a man who could transform into a bear.
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Don’t Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon
Phoebe heard about the little girl lost in the woods, supposedly the victim of the Fairy King. Something about the story intrigued and interested her. The town was near where she lived so she went to take a look, catching sight of a young boy looking out of the upstairs window at her. His eyes were so sad, so full of pain and loss, that she felt connected to him.
Prophecy by S. J. Parris
Dr. John Dee, astrologer and philosopher to Queen Elizabeth I, and Dr. Giordano Bruno, King Henri of France’s protégé, are absorbed by the coming Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the beginning of a new quadrant of the sky, the beginning of a new age that happens only once a millennium. Neither knows that murder, conspiracies involving Queen Elizabeth and Mary Stewart, once queen of Scotland, will bring them close to death for black magic.
These Dark Things by Jan Merete Weiss
Gina Francone, a bone cleaner and relative of a Camorra crime boss, finds a body lain out in a church crypt. Teresa Steiner, a student working on her doctorate, seemed to be a sweet, poor girl and it is Captain Natalia Monte’s job to find out who killed her.
Doc by Mary Doria Russell
Doc is a fantastic work of fiction that brings imagination, fact, and beauty together, in order to describe and “tell” each and every reader how overwhelming the life of Doc Holliday was.
Darkside by Belinda Bauer
In bleak midwinter, the people of Shipcott are shocked by the murder of an elderly woman in her bed. As snow cuts off the village, local policeman Jonas Holly is torn between catching a brutal killer and protecting his vulnerable wife, Lucy.
The Last Gunfight by Jeff Guinn
On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly shootout. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral shaped how future generations came to view the old West. Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons became the stuff of legends, symbolic of a West populated by good guys in white hats and villains in black ones, and where law enforcement largely consisted of sheriffs and outlaws facing off at high noon on the main streets of dusty, desolate towns where every man packed at least one six-shooter on his hips. It’s colorful stuffbut the truth is even better.
The Sixth Man by David Baldacci
One of the most fantastic writers on the planet has gone and done it again, creating a story that not only makes the reader not want to put the book down until the very end, but makes the reader actually feel the need to continue no matter what. The ‘pull’ of this novel is such a complete package of intelligence, perfect dialogue, edge-of-your-seat action, and a completely surprise ending.
The Lonely Writers Companion: Getting to the Desk
Photo by: K. Zimmerman The Lonely Writer’s Companion - Getting to the Desk by Lisa Lenard-Cook May, 2011 E. B. White circled his office, straightening the pictures on the wall until the work waiting on his desk demanded...
Leaving Van Gogh by Carol Wallace
It may have been Dr. Gachet’s painting or simply his name in conjunction with another painter that sparked Carol Wallace’s interest in Vincent Van Gogh’s last months in bucolic Auvers, but Dr. Gachet is imagined into existence. All of this seems to come from Van Gogh’s portrait of the psychiatrist who unofficially treated him.
