Blood Lines (Anna Travis, #7) (Anna Travis Mysteries)
by Lynda La Plante and Plante La, Lynda
Under the watchful eye of DCS James Langton, DCI Anna Travis takes charge of an investigation for the first time. But is it purely a missing person's case - or a full blown murder enquiry? An ominous pool of blood and no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details, Langton fears that she is losing control. They still have no body and Anna is under increasing pressure to make an arrest...
Imagine seeing your loving husband on a dating app. Now imagine that’s the best thing that happens to you all week … When Charlie sees a man who is the spitting image of her husband Oliver on a dating app, her heart stops. Her first desperate instinct is to tell herself she must be mistaken – after all, she only caught a glimpse from a distance as her friends laughingly swiped through the men on offer. But no matter how much she tries to push her fears aside, she can’t let it go. Because sh...
The Pot Thief Who Studied Escoffier (The Pot Thief Mysteries, #4) (Pot Thief)
by J. Michael Orenduff
The pot thief discovers that archaeology is not nearly as cutthroat as the restaurant business A treasure hunter, pottery dealer, and occasional manufacturer of imitation American Indian artifacts, Albuquerque's Hubie Schuze knows quite a bit about throwing clay. But ancient Native American pottery is not really intended for dining, so he is puzzled when a restaurateur comes to him asking for dinner plates. The job sounds boring, but the fee does not: $25,000 for one hundred plates for a new Au...
This story begins where Patrick O'Brian's devoted fans would want it to, with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. But the time is the 1930s, and the protagonist a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just died. In the company of his rough seafaring uncle and an elderly English cousin, an eminent archaeologist, Derrick sets off in search of ancient treasures in central Asia. Along the way they encounter a charismatic Chinese bandit and a host of bad...
The stakes are too high! Attorney Gray Baron has come to Las Vegas on a mission to find a woman -- Dawn Lincoln Kittredge -- the long-lost grandchild of his uncle Jonas Baron. But single mom Dawn is not about to make it easy for him. On the run from an abusive ex-husband, she is understandably wary of strangers. Even gorgeous, sexy ones like Gray. But mutual suspicion doesn't stop an undeniable passion from igniting between them. If only they could risk telling each other the truth! Gray, tha...
BIRDS OF A FEATHER? Tao Tandy can't wait to flee her sleepy life (safe fiance, dead-end job) and migrate to the big city to find fame and fortune as a food photographer. First, however, she has to find somewhere to live.... Luck is on her side when she's offered rent-free accommodation in a beautiful London mansion-in exchange for-baby-sitting a parrot! Not just any old parrot. Sir Galahad is incredibly rare, not to mention worryingly clever. How hard...