"Tortured and left for dead at sixteen, Evelyn Talbot turned her personal nightmare into her life's work, studying the disturbing psychopathy of some of the world's most vicious serial killers. Now a leading psychiatrist at Hanover House in a small Alaskan town, she tries to believe the past will never come back to haunt her--until a woman goes missing from a cabin nearby, and every clue points to the man who once brutalized her"--
El nuevo libro del aclamado autor de «Muerte con pingüino» Finalista en la categoría de traducciones del National Book Critics Circle Awards 2023 La conmovedora odisea de un apicultor entre dos bandos de la guerra, por Andréi Kurkov, «un Bulgákov contemporáneo. [...] Un Murakami ucraniano» (The Guardian), «un Kafka postsoviético» (Daily Telegraph), «todo un clásico» (El País) traducido en sesenta y cinco países. En Malaia Starogradovka, un pueblo de apenas tres calles en la zona gris de...
The second title in the 'Main Street' series. A blast from the past has deadly consequences for the small town of Sutherton... Fall arrives early in the High Country of North Carolina, but journalist AnnaLise Griggs is more concerned about one particular trio of visitors: Benjamin Rosewood, his wife Tanja, and their daughter, Suzanne, especially as AnnaLise and Ben have history. When two sudden and unexpected deaths occur, AnnaLise must protect herself and the place she loves as she is forced to...
The Diary of a Provincial Lady (VMC Designer Collection) (Prion humour classics)
by E. M. Delafield
Behind this rather prim title lies the hilarious fictional diary of a disaster-prone lady of the 1930s, and her attempts to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos: there's her husband Robert, who, when he's not snoozing behind The Times, does everything with grumbling recluctance; her gleefully troublesome children; and a succession of tricky sevants who invariably seem to gain the upper hand. And if her domestic trials are not enough, she must keep up appearances. Partic...
A fast-paced dystopian novel, about family bonds in the face of climate change, set in near-future Alberta after the glaciers have gone.In Watershed, water is now the most precious resource in Alberta. With the glaciers gone, the province's oil and gas pipelines are being converted to water pipelines. Tensions are high as 'water terrorists' threaten to violently cut off the water supply. Against this precarious backdrop, Willa desperately tries to keep her family’s failing goat farm afloat. But...
Old Moorhen's Shredded Sporran (The Belchester Chronicles, #4) (Belchester Chronicle)
by Andrea Frazer
Another tongue - in - cheek romp for our intrepid decrepit heroes. Lady Amanda Golightly and her housemate Hugo Cholmondeley - Crichton - Crump return from their visit to Scotland to find a letter informing them that Hugo's sister will be arriving the following day for a month's visit, which sours Lady A's mood as Tabitha constantly bullied her at school.Her manservant's announcement that he is now betrothed to Enid Tweedie, sort of friend and general gopher for his employer, has already unsettl...
Date with Death (The Dales Detective) (Samson and Delilah Mysteries, #1)
by Julia Chapman
"Samson O'Brien has been dismissed from the police force--quite unfairly, according to him. Now back in his home town of Bruncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales, Samson sets up the Dales Detective Agency while he fights to clear his name. However, the people of Bruncliffe aren't entirely welcoming to a man they see as trouble. Delilah Metcalfe, meanwhile, is struggling to keep her business, the Dales Dating Agency, afloat. When Samson gets his first case, investigating the supposed suicide of a local...
Compared by reviewers to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, and the work of Richard Russo, Dennis Lehane, and Flannery O'Connor, Tornado Weather is an affecting portrait of a complex and flawed cast of characters striving to find fulfillment in their lives. Daisy is missing. As the bus driver, Fikus, lowered the five-year-old's wheelchair to the ground and looked around, chaos erupted behind him. One child had an accident and the rest began to scr...
The Bridegroom's Vow (Harlequin Romance, #3693) (White Weddings, #8)
by Rebecca Winters
Dimitrios Pandakis has vowed that, unlike his older brother, he will never be trapped into marriage. And this millionaire businessman has been so true to his word that - despite his reputation as a heartbreaker - he has yet to take a woman to bed! But now his new secretary is sorely testing his resolve. Alexandra Hamilton, for all her plain-Jane appearance, has somehow worked her way under his skin. And Dimitrios knows only one thing will satisfy him -...
A stunning work of literary suspense by the the acclaimed author of All Things Cease to Appear. “The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun.” Lydia Haas is devoted to Jesus, her church, and her husband. Only recently, after it’s too late, has she understood how much she has sacrificed to all of them. Michael Knowles is a rising young doctor, an OB/gyn at a prominent hospital. A man committed to his principles, to rescues with uncertain outcomes; to his wife. The life they’ve mad...
Prince Of The Desert (Desert Brides, #9) (Mills & Boon Largeprint Penny Jordan)
by Penny Jordan
Gwynneth, the child of a promiscuous father, has vowed she will never become a slave to passion! But one hot night in the kingdom of Zuran has left her fevered and unsure: did she really share a night of unbridled lovemaking with a stranger from the desert? But Gwynneth doesn't realize she shared a bed with Sheikh Tariq bin Salud - and he is determined to claim her virginity...
Her Royal Husband (Silhouette Romance, #1600) (Silhouette Desire S., #1600)
by Cara Colter and Patricia Thayer
ONE DAY MY PRINCE WILL COME...BACK! Five years ago, all-American beauty Jordan Ashbury shared a long hot summer with Ben Prince-a handsome European with much to hide. Yet when autumn arrived, Ben returned home, leaving Jordan with only sweet memories and the child he didn't know she carried. But now, while catering a royal affair in Penwyck, Jordan ran into Ben Prince and discovered that her handsome summer Romeo was actually...Prince Owen of Penwyck! Yet Jordan couldn't imag...
A charity murder game at a Devon house turns into the real thing... Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith, Ariadne Oliver, the well known crime writer, agrees to organise their murder hunt. Despite weeks of meticulous planning, at the last minute Ariadne calls her friend Hercule Poirot for his expert assistance. Instinctively, she senses that something sinister is about to happen......
By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech, its bark scarred with the names and dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its branches. Under Junior Assistant Mistress Maddy Ross's careful gaze the children play, but out of school Maddy's gaze lingers where it shouldn't. Maura Brennan, a bundle of fun from the rough end of town, plays with her pals: leap year baby Eddie Barton, the apple of his mother's eye, and Nessa Ryan, who little realises as she carves his name at the roots...
An Apple From Eve (Betty Neels Collection, #53) (Lythway Large Print Books)
by Betty Neels
Considering that she didn't really like him very much, Doctor Tane ban Diederijk did seem to crop up in Euphemia's life rather a lot. Perhaps she was being a bit unfair to him - she hadn't wanted to let her family home to anyone, so she was bound to be prejudice about him living there instead of her. But then he asked her to go to Spain to act as companion to his fiancee Diana - and Euphemia's dislike grew. How could the doctor be so stupid as to see anything in such a spiteful girl as Diana, l...
Valley of Outlaws (Center Point Premier Western (Large Print)) ()
by Max Brand
An outlaw risks life and limb to return a stolen horse to its rightful owner in this classic Western thriller. Shannon, a mysterious outsider, arrived some time ago to the town of Lister and settled into a secluded valley far outside of town. During one of his trips to buy supplies, Shannon came across a horse, seemingly dying on his feet, with wounds and a frail body, who was struggling near death. Having a way with animals, and with patience and tender care, Shannon restored the horse to good...