Katharine Lawrence remembers the vicious burglars who shot her best friend, the terror she felt the night she nearly died. But there are things she doesn't remember at all. Like her lover's voice on the phone. Like her clothes in her luxurious Washington townhouse. Like the face in her mirror. Everything in her life feels utterly wrong, as if the trauma has given her some kind of amnesia. As Katharine acts on her instincts and runs for her life, she's rescued by Dan Howard, the handsome doct...
A Child of the Jago (Victorian, #106) (Academy Victorian Classic)
by Arthur Morrison
Morrison's descriptions of the fearful physical conditions are based directly on what he saw. He conjures up an extraordinarily vivid picture of a world which, even as he wrote, was about to vanish in one of the first of the slum clearance schemes.
Novela romantica y de misterio, que trata sobre la fraternidad entre un chico espanol y una chica otomana de finales del siglo XIX en Grecia. Los dos trataran de descubrir los misterios de muchas ruinas griegas que iran descubriendo poco a poco...hasta llegar a descubrir la Joya de Grecia...En esta novela he asegurado muchos misterios desde el primer capitulo hasta el ultimo.
Dr Anya Crichton, a pathologist and forensic physician, finds that work is sparse for the only female freelancer in the field. Between paying child support, a mortgage and struggling to get her business off the ground, Anya can't yet afford to fight her ex-husband for custody of their three-year-old son, Ben. When Anya is asked to look into the seemingly innocent suicide of a teenager, Anya notices similarities between the girl's death and several other cases she is working on with her friend...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ironweed explores an era of American innocene and corruption in the first novel in his Albany cycle. “The best novel about a criminal legend I've ever read.”—Hunter S. Thompson True to both life and legend, Legs brilliantly evokes the flamboyant career of gangster Jack “Legs” Diamond. Through the equivocal eyes of Diamond’s attorney, Marcus Gorman (who scraps a promising political career for the more elemental excitement of the criminal underworld), we watc...
'Clever, pacey, compulsive' Sunday Mirror********One family. One night. Ten years of lies.It's June 2008 and twenty-one-year-old Adam Lattimer vanishes, presumed dead. The strain of his disappearance breaks his already fragile family.Ten years later, with his mother deceased and siblings scattered across the globe, Adam turns up unannounced at the family home. His siblings return reluctantly to Spanish Cove, but Adam's reappearance poses more questions than answers. The past is a tangled web of...
Prayers for the Dead (Decker/Lazarus Novels, #9) (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus, #9)
by Faye Kellerman
Dr Azor Sparks is a genius. A famous surgeon set to transform the chances for heart transplant patients. He's also a pillar of the local church and a devoted family man. So who would want to murder him? The answer, Lt. Peter Decker concludes, is many people. Sparks was obsessed by religion and his medical crusades.Yet he had odd hobbies, like riding with a pack of bikers. His family, too, is not harmonious. The influence of Bram, the son who defied his Protestant father to become a Catholic prie...
Ireland, 1651. A country ravaged by Oliver Cromwell's Act of Settlement. Under it, Fergal O'Breslin, a young clan chief, and his fellow Irish citizens are forced to leave their ancestral lands and travel to the cramped, rocky province of Connacht. There, honest men become robbers, proud men must beg, and despair and privation become a way of life.Set against a panoramic backdrop of religious and political upheaval, Fergal and his clansmen struggle to wrest an existence out of a barren and inhosp...
The Case of the Missing Parts (Michaela McPherson Mysteries, #5)
by Judith Lucci
केशव ने अपने बेस्ट फ्रेंड, सौरभ के साथ एक इन्वेस्टिगेशन एजेंसी शुरू की। क्या दो नौसिखिये जासूस एक और केस सुलझा पाएंगे जिसका असर उनकी ज़िंदगी पर भी पड़ेगा? फिर उनकी दोस्ती का क्या होगा? 'प्रेरणा तुम्हारी हुई, लेकिन मेरा बेस्ट फ्रेंड मुझसे दूर चला गया’ यही बात मैंने सौरभ से कही थी। नमस्ते, मैं हूँ केशव, और मेरा बेस्ट फ्रेंड, फ्लैटमेट, कलीग और बिज़नेस पार्टनर, सौरभ तो मुझसे बात नहीं करेगा। क्योंकि मैंने उनका और उसकी मंगेतर का मज़ाक उड़ाया। जल्द ही सौरभ और प्रेरणा की शादी होगी। शादी परिवार की मर्ज़ी...
