Tombs of Endearment (A Pepper Martin Mystery, #3)
by Casey Daniels
“An exceptional, fast-paced thriller featuring a tech-empowered assassin whose pattern and objective you’ve never seen before, chased by a heroine with tenacious grit.”—David Brin, author of The Postman and Existence Quinn Mitchell is a nine-to-five spy—an intelligence analyst for the CIA during the day, and a suburban wife and mother on evenings and weekends. After her young daughter is killed in a tragic accident, sending her life into a tailspin, Quinn hopes to find a new start in her latest...
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Mystery A selection in Parade’s roundup of “25 Hottest Books of Summer 2018” A Paste Magazine’s Most Anticipated 25 books of 2018 pick A Medium’s Books pick for We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018 list From debut author Claire O’Dell, comes a fresh re-imagination of Sherlock Holmes, in which Dr. Janet Watson and covert agent Sarah Holmes, two black and queer women, must discover who is murdering veterans from America's New Civil War using espionage,...
Marcus King, ruthless entrepreneur and commercial giant, was a man obsessed. His obsession-staying alive! He used his millions to buy life from the bodies of others. Then someone devised a highly scientific plan to kill him-only for King to survive the attack, and plan his revenge. But who was the mastermind behind the assassination attempt?Dale Markham, chief of local police, is quickly on the crime scene. But the case is so bizarre, with far-reaching international implications, that Security...
All Systems Red by Martha Wells begins The Murderbot Diaries, a new science fiction action and adventure series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. It appeals to fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or lain M. Banks' Culture novels. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans. In a corporate dominated s pa...
Sherlock Holmes' The Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
by Arthur Conan Doyle
First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the `suicide' that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room... a million dollar bond robbery... the curse of a pharoah's tomb... a jewel robbery by the sea... the abduction of a Prime Minister... the disappearance of a banker... a phone call from a dying man... and, finally, the mystery of the missing willl. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilli...
Gods of Mars (Martian Tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, #2) (Barsoom, #2)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars -- an Eden from which none ever escaped alive.
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (Best Novel Classics, #54)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge: An enjoyable treat for all fans of world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is called upon to solve a murder which takes place at Wisteria Lodge. Along with his associate Dr. Watson, he investigates the crime with amazing dexterity and panache. A definite page-turner!
If a chimpanzee drifted across the galaxy clutching a suitcase what would it contain? Is it ever a good idea to synthesise narcotics? Do things that glow in the dark glow in daylight? Reluctant musician and reality freak Steven has been banished to a mediaeval farmhouse. It's cold, it's wet, and it's Candlemas. Somewhere in the darkness there's a rave and two buses with stove pipe chimneys. Steven's fairly confident he's sussed the first question, the second's multi-choice, his girlfriend will e...
The Enigma Strain (Harvey Bennett Mysteries, #1) (Harvey Bennett Thrillers, #1)
by Nick Thacker
Two Graves (Agent Pendergast, #12)
by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York apartment and shuts out the world.But when a string of bizarre murders erupts across several Manhattan hotels - perpetrated by a boy who seems to have an almost psychic ability to elude capture - NYPD Lieuten...
The Iron Heel (American Classics) (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
by Jack London
The novel is based on the fictional "Everhard Manuscript" written by Avis Everhard which she hid and which was subsequently found centuries later. In addition, this novel has an introduction and series of (often lengthy) footnotes written from the perspective of scholar Anthony Meredith.