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Titanoboa
Victor Methos - 2014
On the small island of Kalou, Fiji, a rash of disappearances has the local police stumped. Men, women and children seem to disappear without a trace. Mark Whittaker is the island's sole private investigator. A former LAPD detective who moved to the island to get away from the violence of the city, he's now thrust into the middle of the disappearances when he's hired to find the brother of a mysterious client. As Mark digs into the disappearances, he discovers that something sinister and ancient has been awakened on the island. Something that kills without pity or remorse. And he fears his once island dream is about to be turned into a nightmare.
Rule Zero
Laurence Timms - 2013
Then an unexpected message leads him into what could become his greatest – and strangest – case yet, a case whose foundations are inextricably linked to his own past.Rule Zero is a darkly comic thriller packed with psychic spies, prescient journalists, contact clairvoyants, repressed supermen, a lethal cocktail waitress and a roving troupe of ape-like security guards.Britain will never be the same again.
Whiteout
Laurel Heidtman - 2016
Happy spring break! Mark Fuller’s world is falling apart. His marriage is on the rocks and his insurance business is on life-support. To top it off, he’s agreed to spend Easter weekend in a remote lake house with his overbearing business partner and his partner’s alcoholic wife. Mark thinks his life can’t get any worse, but when a freak spring storm brings nearly two feet of snow, the power goes, and two escaped federal prisoners show up on their doorstep, he realizes it's not only the weather that can kill!
Caliber Detective Agency - Legendary
Remington Kane - 2017
He attempts to locate a frightened man before the ex-con who threatened the man's life catches up with him.Jake Caliber the Fifth receives an honor.
Michael
Donald Wells - 2013
Jessica White and her husband travel to meet three men, one of whom may be the missing brother of the doctor's husband.As they try to solve that mystery, they also hunt The Times Square Stalker, a serial killer who has been murdering New York City's young women.Meanwhile, Summer Gray schemes to kill her ex-husband, Todd, before he can ruin her life by revealing the truth in a tell-all memoir.From REMINGTON KANE, the author of The TANNER SERIESTAKEN! - MICHAEL - Book 16 of the TAKEN! Series
Edge of Eternity: by Ken Follett (The Century Trilogy Book 3) Snapshot Summary Companion Book
Snapshot Books - 2015
The guide should be used with the novel, not instead of it, so please pick up a copy before buying this book if you haven’t already done so. Snapshot Books is meant to enhance the experience of fans as a refresher, and for use by book clubs. Inside you will discover: A book summary and analysis with commentary Character list A look at symbols, themes and motifs Commentary on the book as well as details on plot, settings and final thoughts Great for book club questions and discussion topics Snapshot Books introduces a companion to Edge of Eternity, by Ken Follett for fans and book clubs to enhance your reading experience.
Long Shadows
John Oakes - 2016
Winton Chevalier has lightning wits and surprising tenacity. He’s not a cop, but comes from a family of lawmen, and possesses a mind that’s as limber with evidence analysis as it is with a cutting joke. In many ways he’d be the perfect man for the job — but he has physical limitations and no experience investigating a kidnapping. Nevertheless, his dying father’s last wish propels him headlong into a sinister world where men kill for nothing. If he and his brother are to survive, Winton must harness old wounds and his indomitable will. In a world of shadows, he must cast the longest shadow of them all.
The Search
Vishal Anand - 2021
ACP Rathore is investigating the homicide. As the events begin to unleash Rathore digs upon secrets too dark and dangerous. As he proceeds, the question becomes more and more haunting - Who Killed Roger? Michael Rodriques, the Deputy Chief Minister of Goa? Shirley Fernandes, Roger's wife? One or more of the other artists? Or, an individual for whom Roger refused to perform? The Search is the most astonishingly impudent, ingenious and altogether a fast-paced murder mystery ever written by an Indian author.Note: This is an expanded version of the short story Who Killed Roger.
Storme Surge: Five Full Novels
W.L. Ripley - 2021
He reports violent incident confidentially to the local Sheriff…who is murdered the next day. Storme believes there’s a connection and starts asking questions, unraveling a deadly conspiracy of corruption, drug-trafficking and organized crime… and making himself someone that just about everybody wants dead.Storme FrontTo help a desperate friend, ex-footballer Wyatt Storme and his hard-charging buddy Chick Easton ride shotgun on an illegal gun shipment. Things go very wrong, putting Wyatt in the crosshairs of corrupt politicians, homicidal mobsters, and rogue CIA agents.Eye of the StormeA young co-ed is raped by a country music legend in Branson, the “NashVegas” of Missouri. Ignored by the police, she turns Wyatt for help.Storme WarningChick Easton, a hard-drinking, shockingly lethal ex-CIA agent, asks his buddy Storme for back-up when he's hired by the director of a big budget western to protect a bad-boy movie star who is getting well-deserved death threats.Thunder StormeWyatt and Chick are fishing on the Lake of the Ozarks when gunmen blow by them in a boat, chasing a determined woman seeking justice for her family...and are swept into a violent battle for control of a new casino and into the middle of a mob war.
The Lost world
Pranay Bhalerao - 2021
But decides to walk out of the place. He lands up in the deep dark jungleTribe:The jungle has a tribal civilization, surviving on its own, without any contact with the modern world. They capture Apoorav After he kills the mafia men near the tribal village.Mafia: The jungle is not only the home for tribes, it is home for the mafia camp as well. 100 kilometers from the tribal village, there is a mafia camp looking to expand the land area deep in the jungle. And they get confronted by the tribe and Apoorav. 1980:The Atman team, a non-profit NGO, established contact with the tribe after the killings of the government officials by the tribe. Just to introduce them to the modern world.1980, Satya: The underworld don in the city wants to set up the factory in the jungle to continue his illegal business away from the city, but the tribe has come in his way. It was the time when the mafia rule was at its peakAll of them are glued with one horrific incident which shakes humanity and exposes the greed of modern men.Witness the gripping tale of humanity and existence, the story of The Lost World
Fatal Fall (A Miranda and Parker Mystery Book 18)
Linsey Lanier - 2021
Meltdown
Christopher Nicole - 2018
The newest place on earth. An island, growing up out of the Atlantic. The tip of a volcano, forcing its way up from the ocean bed, the molten lava blasting out into the air, solidifying. A peak 200 feet high, 300 feet . . . Misreal, a magnet for scientists, the latest tourist attraction, circled by chartered ships, overflown by planes, the subject of programme after programme on TV. And then Misreal exploded, blew itself into dust and ash. And spread a pall of destruction across the world. Meltdown: a brilliantly researched story of environmental disaster and of people caught up by events utterly beyond human control. Praise for Christopher Nicole: “An exciting story… action-filled and unpredictable” - Publishers Weekly “Told with smooth authenticity” - Publishers Weekly “His action-packed war story will appeal to squadrons of readers” - Library Journal Christopher Nicole’s novels have been read by millions all over the world. Born and raised in Georgetown, Guyana, he later attended colleges in Guyana and in Barbados. In his long prolific career, Nicole has published over 200 novels and non-fiction works.
This Must Be the Place: Exclusive Chapter Sampler
Maggie O'Farrell - 2016
Meet Daniel Sullivan, a man with a complicated life. A New Yorker living in the wilds of Ireland, he has children he never sees in California, a father he loathes in Brooklyn and a wife, Claudette, who is a reclusive ex-film star given to shooting at anyone who ventures up their driveway.He is also about to find out something about a woman he lost touch with twenty years ago, and this discovery will send him off-course, far away from wife and home. Will his love for Claudette be enough to bring him back?Maggie O'Farrell's seventh novel is a dazzling, intimate epic about who we leave behind and who we become as we search for our place in the world.
My Mama Was Right About Yo Azz
Lady Lissa - 2020
Shannon had the perfect family, two great sons and two beautiful daughters. Everyone was striving in life and she enjoyed being around her children. How quickly things change! When her younger son Dominic meets Markeeta, he is instantly smitten with the young woman. Dom hasn't been in a relationship in over two years, so when Markeeta locks her claws into him, he quickly falls for her. When Dominic starts changing towards his family, Shannon knows exactly who is behind it. Markeeta isn't looking for anything but the next dude to give her everything she wants. When she realizes that Dominic could be her ticket to easy street, she quickly sinks her teeth into the inexperienced young man. When Dom's family tries to warn him about the woman he has so quickly given his heart to, he doesn't want to hear it. With a huge rift now drawn between the family and Dom, Shannon wonders if things will ever be the same. Will a mother be able to save her son from the likes of a chick who is all wrong for her son? Or will it be too late for him to be saved? Find out in the first installment of My Mama Was Right About Yo Azz...