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One more Sunday
Par John MacDonald. 1984
A complex novel about the legacy of an influential and charismatic television preacher, Rev. John Tinker Meadows, a man in…
the high-stakes, high-profit business of saving souls. The religious and economic empire of the Meadows family comes under scrutiny with the disappearance of an investigative journalist on assignment from New York. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1984Cobra pose (Yoga Mat Mysteries #02)
Par Susan Rogers. 2023
Australia is a surfers' paradise ... but this nefarious surfing is on the 'net' ... and will destroy the global…
financial system. It's not just a rippling 'scam' job. Has Australia been infiltrated at levels they've never known? Elaina Williams uses a Cobra Pose in her Yoga studio to boost her energy - she will need it! Elaina's father, Edward, is in trouble. He's disappeared. As a solicitor and now yoga instructor, Elaina drags Ric, a man she's fallen for, into the bursting web of techno-thrilling intrigue. Ric Peters has just returned from a disastrous trip to Indonesia. Ric bills himself as a photojournalist. Elaina suspects he shoots more than just photographs. Ric has insight into the journey he and Elaina must take. He knows Elaina isn't ready for what's going to happen. There are too many moving parts for him to control. Time is running out before The Cobra and The Wolf strike with their heist. They are extending their fangs towards Australia's 'golden coastline' to bite into and destabilise financial institutions worldwide. The sparkling sub-tropical city of Brisbane, Queensland, is the epicentre of this hacking tsunami of the century! But these hackers are good at hiding. They make a living out of it. They are submerged Phantoms leaving no tracks. Can the burgeoning amateur sleuth Elaina piece this puzzle together before her father's fate is sealed? How far is Ric willing to go in deciding to save Elaina ... or Australia? Cobra Pose is the suspense-thriller and second novel in the Yoga Mat Mysteries series. This book is filled with a snappy plot, dynamic prose, witty dialogue, and slow-burn chemistry. You'll love Susan Rogers and John Roosen's atmospheric whodunit. Click Cobra Pose to stretch your sense of adventure today! Dead Man's Pose , is available online. Tree Pose is coming soon!The murder wheel: A locked-room mystery (Joseph Spector #2)
Par Tom Mead. 2023
In London, 1938, young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs is trying to find any shred of evidence that his client…
Carla Dean wasn't the one who shot her husband dead at the top of a Ferris Wheel. But the deeper he digs, the more complex the case becomes, and Edmund soon finds himself drawn into a nightmarish web of conspiracy and murder. Before long he himself is implicated in not one but two seemingly impossible crimes. First, a corpse appears out of thin air during a performance by famed illusionist "Professor Paolini" in front of a packed auditorium at the Pomegranate Theatre. Then a second victim is shot dead in a locked dressing room along one of the theatre's winding backstage corridors. Edmund is in exactly the wrong place at the wrong time, and attracts the suspicion of Scotland Yard inspector George Flint. Luckily, conjuror-turned-detective Joseph Spector is on the scene. Only Spector's uniquely logical perspective can pierce the veil of deceit in a world of illusion and misdirection, where seeing is not always believing. Tom Mead continues to pay homage to the locked room mysteries of the Golden Age in this second Joseph Spector novelPerfect little lives: A novel
Par Amber and Danielle Brown. 2023
"A dark and riveting page-turner with an intelligent twist." —Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw Man, on Someone Had to…
Do It ON ASHER LANE, SOME SECRETS ARE WORTH KILLING FOR... Simone's mother was murdered when she was thirteen. When her father was convicted, everything changed. Overnight, Simone went from living in a wealthy white neighborhood to scraping by. Ten years later, Simone has given up on her dreams and lives a quiet life, writing book reviews and getting serious with her boyfriend. But with a true crime documentarian hounding her for a scoop and a surprise encounter with her childhood next-door neighbor, Hunter, the past seems set on haunting her. And after Hunter reveals that his father and her mother had a years-long affair, Simone is determined to find out who really killed her mother. Simone is convinced that all evidence points to Hunter's father, a renowned judge who had everything to lose if his affair—and his nascent love child—came to light. Playing the game from all sides, Simone enlists Hunter's help in her investigation into his family—whether he realizes it or not. But is she so desperate for closure that she'll risk imploding her carefully rebuilt life?Manner of death (Jack Stapleton / Laurie Montgomery #14)
Par Robin Cook. 2023
In the new fast-paced medical thriller from bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are inadvertently drawn into…
a dangerous vortex of a series of homocides that have been cleverly staged as suicides. After Dr. Jack Stapleton’s near-death confrontation with a medical serial killer, his wife, NYC Chief Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery, is carrying the load both at work and at home. When Laurie insists that Dr. Ryan Sullivan—an underperforming senior pathology resident who is spending his required month at the medical examiner's office but who truly detests doing forensic autopsies—assist her on a suicide autopsy in hopes of stimulating his interest in the field, the last thing she expects is to be unwittingly drawn into a major conspiracy that puts her own life in jeopardy. Desperate to avoid performing as many forensic autopsies as possible, Dr. Ryan Sullivan offers to participate in a research project on a series of suicides put together by one of the medical legal investigators. These suicides, like the case Ryan analyzes with Laurie, hint at some bothersome questions about their "manner of death." Although the project was more of a ruse than a serious study, Ryan surprises himself by immediately uncovering unexpected shared commonalities. Most astonishing of all, Ryan's inquiries eventually put him and Laurie at risk by leading to a nefarious cancer diagnostics company that promotes the very latest, groundbreaking cancer screening technology in a shockingly self-serving and fraudulent fashionDeath and the conjuror (Joseph Spector #1)
Par Tom Mead. 2022
A magician-turned-sleuth in pre-war London solves three impossible crimes In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in…
his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician-turned-part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. For who better to make sense of the impossible than one who traffics in illusions? Spector has a knack for explaining the inexplicable, but even he finds that there is more to this mystery than meets the eye. As he and the Inspector interview the colorful cast of suspects among the psychiatrist's patients and household, they uncover no shortage of dark secrets-or motives for murder. When the investigation dovetails into that of an apparently-impossible theft, the detectives consider the possibility that the two transgressions are related. And when a second murder occurs, this time in an impenetrable elevator, they realize that the crime wave will become even more deadly unless they can catch the culprit soonWhile drowning in the desert (Neal Carey Mystery)
Par Don Winslow. 2023
30th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author Shamus Award winner and Edgar Award nominee Don Winslow combines…
breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal is assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Silver home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Natty, once a burlesque top banana, has a nonstop barrage of corny jokes, an eye for an aging cocktail waitress, and a chronic disappearing act. When Neal catches up with him, he can see why Natty doesn't want to go home. Sole witness to a crime, he's now the quarry of hard-faced suits, a fascist con artist, and a career-track assassin. And bodyguard Neal, scorching through the trackless desert at eighty miles per hour, brooding on his inner child by freezing starlight, and looking down the barrel of one gun too many, is soon dodging vultures and on the brink of a surprise watery graveShot with crimson (Josephine Tey #11)
Par Nicola Upson. 2023
Violence finds its way to old Hollywood in the eleventh Josephine Tey mystery, perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and…
Jacqueline Winspear. September 1939, and the worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca. Then a shocking act of violence reawakens the shadows of the past, with consequences on both sides of the Atlantic, and Josephine and DCI Archie Penrose find themselves on a trail leading back to the house that inspired a young Daphne du Maurier—a trail that echoes Rebecca's timeless themes of obsession, jealousy, and murderCity of betrayal (Counterfeit Lady #7)
Par Victoria Thompson. 2023
Elizabeth Bates's latest con just might change the course of history in an all-new Counterfeit Lady Novel from USA Today…
bestselling author Victoria Thompson. A year has passed since Elizabeth Bates ran her last con. Life has been simpler, although not nearly as exciting, but she has thrown herself into working to get the 19th Amendment ratified by thirty-six states to become the law of the land. Since every other Southern state has already rejected the amendment, it seems unlikely Tennessee will be an exception ... but it's their only hope, so the suffragists descend on Tennessee for the final battle. Elizabeth's ability to interact with difficult men and to persuasively explain all the advantages of allowing women to vote-all skills she perfected as a grifter-have made her a valuable member of the team. But she would never have expected the lengths to which some would go to keep the vote out of women's hands. She'll need to devise the perfect con or the suffragists' life's work could all be for nothingThe couple in the photo
Par Helen Cooper. 2023
A LibraryReads Pick Be careful who you sleep with...They've already made their bed. Lucy and her husband, Adam, have been…
best friends with another couple, Cora and Scott, for years. The four are practically family—they vacation together, co-own a beach cottage, and their children are inseparable. So Lucy is devastated when, while looking at a colleague’s photos of a trip to the Maldives, she spots a picture of Scott, apparently on vacation with another woman. Then she learns that the woman in the photo has gone missing. Lucy can’t help but fear that Scott was involved. But searching for answers might uncover secrets about Scott, Cora, and even her own husband that could destroy the picture-perfect lives they have built together. Or maybe she was never part of the picture at all. Is it possible everyone knows more than they are letting on? If so, what are the consequences of exposing the truth?The curse of penryth hall
Par Jess Armstrong. 2023
After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian…
employer and house mate in Exeter. She's always avoided dwelling on the past, even before the war, but it always has a way of finding her. When Ruby is forced to deliver a box of books to a folk healer living deep in the Cornish countryside, she is brought back to the one place she swore she'd never return. A more sensible soul would have delivered the package and left without rehashing old wounds. But no one has ever accused Ruby of being sensible. Thus begins her visit to Penryth Hall. A foreboding fortress, Penryth Hall is home to Ruby's once dearest friend, Tamsyn, and her husband, Sir Edward Chenowyth. It's an unsettling place, and after a more unsettling evening, Ruby is eager to depart. But her plans change when Penryth's bells ring for the first time in thirty years. Edward is dead; he met a gruesome end in the orchard, and with his death brings whispers of a returned curse. It also brings Ruan Kivell, the person whose books brought her to Cornwall, the one the locals call a Pellar, the man they believe can break the curse. Ruby doesn't believe in curses?or Pellars?but this is Cornwall and to these villagers the curse is anything but lore, and they believe it will soon claim its next victim: Tamsyn. To protect her friend, Ruby must work alongside the Pellar to find out what really happened in the orchard that nightThe fourth rule: A novel (Riley Wolfe #4)
Par Jeff Lindsay. 2023
THE BIGGEST HEIST. THE MOST DANGEROUS ADVERSARY. FROM THE MASTER OF THE GENRE. OH, AND EXPLOSIONS. Impossible doesn’t belong in…
Riley Wolfe’s vocabulary. He’s a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures. Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless collector, the Cobra, has a personal vendetta against Riley . . . No matter—with the aid of his new partner, Caitlin, Riley prepares to take on the most powerful cultural institution in the world and bring home the supposedly unstealable Rosetta Stone. With the Cobra waiting for the right moment to strike, Riley is put to the ultimate test as he faces this most venomous villain—and tries to make it out alive. Packed with Jeff Lindsay’s trademark style of intricately plotted twists, stunning global settings, and thrilling action, The Fourth Rule is a relentlessly suspenseful and delicious escapist thriller that will leave you shocked, breathless, and endlessly entertainedThe butterfly collector
Par Tea Cooper. 2023
A botanical illustration of a butterfly, a missing baby, and a twisty mystery fifty years in the making. 1868, Morpeth.…
Theodora Breckenridge, still in mourning after the loss of her parents and brother at sea, is more interested in working quietly on her art at the family's country estate than she is in finding a husband in Sydney society, even if her elder sister Florence has other ideas. Theodora seeks to emulate prestigious nature illustrators, the Scott sisters, who lived nearby. She cannot believe her luck when she discovers a butterfly never before seen in Australia. With the help of her maid Clarrie and her beautiful drawings, Theodora is poised to make a scientific discovery that will put her name on the map. Then Clarrie's newborn son goes missing and everything changes. 1922, Sydney. When would-be journalist Verity Binks is sent an anonymous parcel containing a spectacular butterfly costume along with an invitation to the Sydney Artists Masquerade Ball the same day she loses her job at The Arrow, she is both baffled and determined to attend. Her late grandfather, Sid, an esteemed newspaperman, would expect no less of her. At the ball, she lands a juicy commission to write the history of the Treadwell Foundation, an institution that supports disgraced young women and their babies. As she begins to dig, her research quickly leads her to an increasingly dark and complex mystery—a mystery fifty years in the making. Can she solve it? And will anyone believe her if she does? The Butterfly Collector is USA TODAY bestselling author Tea Cooper at her best. Historical mystery set in Australia in the late 1800s and early 1900s Stand-alone novel featuring two strong female leads Also by Tea Cooper: The Fossil Hunter, The Cartographer's Secret, The Girl in the Painting, and The Woman in the Green Dress'A twisty plot and plenty of red herrings. I was hooked from page one!... 5/5 Stars!' Reader review 5 stars…
Someone is killing fairy godmothers in Cinderella ... Can Miss Clara Vale crack the case before the clock strikes twelve? 1929, December: Snow is falling, and Miss Clara Vale is wrapped up against the cold as she braves the icy streets of Newcastle in her latest investigation. When a young actress from the touring pantomime of Cinderella arrives at her door, Clara isn't sure what to make of her request. Sybil Langford , the legendary fairy godmother in their production, has mysteriously vanished. Could Clara help track her down? But a few days into Clara's search, Sybil's body is pulled from an icy river, and Clara finds herself in the middle of yet another murder mystery. With scheming stepsisters waiting in the wings, handsome princes who aren't all they seem, and clues as elusive as glass slippers, Clara will need every one of her scientific skills to catch the killer... And when Sybil's replacement meets her own tragic end, Clara is in a race against time before the murderer sends a third cast member to their unhappily ever after... The perfect Golden Age mystery to curl up with by the fire. Fans of Agatha Christie, Helena Dixon and Verity Bright will be gripped by this historical crime novel from the very first page. Readers love this festive cosy mystery: ' Delightful 1920s cosy mystery ... to put you in the mood for the festive season... Sophisticated style and cosy, comforting feel that I hoped for ... felt myself escaping into the story ' Reader review 5 stars ' Recommended! ... I most appreciate about this series is the accuracy of the 1929 world-building ... If you like historical mysteries, give this one a try! ' Reader review 5 starsDead man's pose (Yoga Mat Mysteries #01)
Par Susan Rogers. 2023
Dead Man's Pose is a tension-reliever in yoga. Not this time! The relaxation goes further than expected. One of Elaina…
Williams's yoga students dies in her class. Was the victim helped into Dead Man's Pose? Behind the scenes, a coverup threatens to unravel Elaina's tranquil life. It turns out her favourite student was targeted, and that strikes at her very core. What was the message that Mario so desperately wanted to give her? Elaina needs to know what's happening. But there are no easy answers. She teams up with Ric, a mysterious dark horse, and they navigate the back streets, landmarks and sleazy haunts of Sydney, Australia. From a darkened saloon to a starlit casino, Elaina and Ric's trail tumbles into a gummy web of intrigue. It's a city life they thought they knew. Instead, Sydney is hiding pockets of controversial history and a basketful of crime, chaos and quirky characters. Using unconventional crime-solving methods and coffee-fuelled discoveries, Elaina and Ric reveal that corruption runs deep. But their attraction to each other runs even deeper. Things start 'hotting up'. As each moment becomes more perilous, Elaina must overcome her fears. If she continues, she risks being the next victim. The stakes are high. With several close calls and the body count racking up, will Elaina and Ric resolve this mystery before time runs out? Dead Man's Pose is presented in a stylish noir mystery wrapper. It arrives with doses of romance, laugh-out-loud humour and suspense tucked into shadowy corners. But the layers that make a celebration of what is Australia don't always end with 'she'll be right'. Your Dead Man's Pose eBook and audiobook is just a click away. Hungry for more? Dead Man's Pose is first in the Yoga Mat Mysteries' line-up. The Cobra Pose is now available with the audiobook - coming soon!Unnatural death (Kay Scarpetta #27)
Par Patricia Cornwell. 2023
Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta's career. In this thrilling new…
installment of Patricia Cornwell's #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement. The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint. After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and whyLa femme trop tard (Collection Focus)
Par Jean-Jacques Pelletier. 2012
Rejoignant son amant à la sortie de l'avion, Claudia voit la tête de celui-ci exploser entre ses mains. Dès lors,…
son univers bascule: harcelée, terrorisée, elle se retrouve au milieu d'une intrigue internationale où, entre autres, un groupe mystérieux fait chanter plusieurs multinationales. Quel complot se cache derrière ces menaces?Les mystères du Québec: roman (L'affaire Henry Cross #1)
Par René Vézina. 2023
"Un meurtre sordide est commis dans un cimetière de l'est du Québec en mai 2019. Une lettre anonyme lie ce…
crime aux conspirations irlandaises du XIXe siècle. Il n'en faut pas plus à Rivière Valois, journaliste à la recherche d'une histoire sensationnelle, pour se rendre à Saint-Jean-Port-Joli et enquêter. Il constatera toutefois que ce mystère en cache un autre: un émissaire irlandais serait venu au Québec en 1840, investi d'une mission ultra-secrète qui irait jusqu'à mettre en cause les Patriotes. Il a disparu sans laisser de traces. Que s'est-il passé? Rivière tentera de le savoir et de découvrir qui est cet énigmatique Henry Cross à l'origine de toute l'affaire."Domaine Lilium (Noir)
Par Michael Blum. 2023
Dan Katz, historien de l'architecture, se rend à Drancy pour étudier la Cité de la Muette, qui fut tour à…
tour habitat social moderne, camp d'internement sous l'occupation nazie, caserne de gendarmes puis HLM. Lorsqu'il découvre que ses grands-parents y ont été enfermés et torturés avant d'être envoyés à Auschwitz, ses recherches prennent un tour sombre. Car si le gardien responsable des sévices, est décédé, son petit-fils, candidat du Parti de la France, a hérité de ses opinions politiques, à l'extrême droite du spectre. Katz se met en tête de le traquer et de lui faire payer les crimes de son aïeul. Il s'enfonce alors dans une quête dangereuse qui le mènera de la Bretagne à la GaspésieDelafield (Kate Delafield Mystery #10)
Par Katherine Forrest. 2022
The most celebrated detective in lesbian literature returns in the most fateful case of her career . . . Four…
years retired, Kate Delafield has a twenty-year-old case roaring back on her, a case from which she had recoiled, withdrawn herself. A homophobic homicide far too reminiscent of a recent, haunting, life-changing investigation of the murder of a young lesbian at the Nightwood Bar. Now she suffers in secret, knowing she is personally culpable for the mishandling of evidence. The key decisions about the conduct of her life and her police career that have brought her directly to this time, this place in the high desert where she has taken herself. All she can do now, she resolves, is protect as best she can the people she loves most, especially Aimee, from this threat. And, until her time runs out, she can go back and investigate, determine who actually ended the life of fifteen-year-old April Shuster. But events, people, intervene. New people in her present life, some from her past. And they will take her in the most unexpected of directions