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Dazzling
Elizabeth Hayley - 2016
To pay her bills in the meantime, she's the hostess at The Stone Room, a bar for the beautiful and the billionaires. She's fine with being on her own--until tech billionaire Derick takes her breath away.
A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle - 1906
They have been selected for entertainment of the modern reader by Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Sir Arthur. This fine collection includes A Study in Scarlet, in which Dr. Watson, the narrator, first meets the man who was to become his lodging-mate and friend; and The Hound of the Baskervilles, a novel generally considered to be the most baffling, most masterly of all. Rounding out this connoisseur’s volume are twenty-seven classic short stories, including The Adventure of the Dancing Men, The Five Orange Pips, The Musgrave Ritual and The Red-Headed League. It is a volume filled with delightful entertainment—spine-tingling stories forever imitated but never equaled.2 Novels:A Study in ScarletThe Hound of the Baskervilles27 Short Stories:The Red-Headed LeagueThe Adventure of the Six NapoleonsThe Final ProblemThe Five Orange PipsThe Adventure of the Dancing MenThe Adventure of the Dying DetectiveThe Adventure of the Blue CarbuncleThe Naval TreatyThe Adventure of the Beryl CoronetSilver BlazeThe Musgrave RitualThe Adventure of the Speckled BandThe Adventure of Black PeterThe Reigate PuzzleThe Adventure of Charles Augustus MilvertonThe Adventure of the Engineer's ThumbThe Adventure of the Second StainThe Adventure of the Abbey GrangeThe Adventure of the Mazarin StoneThe Problem of Thor BridgeThe Adventure of Shoscombe Old PlaceThe Adventure of the Devil's FootThe Greek InterpreterThe "Gloria Scott"The Adventure of the Priory SchoolThe Adventure of the Empty HouseHis Last Bow
Stakeout: A Case From The Dick Files
Roger Stelljes - 2017
Goodreads does not number novellas and short stories as full book numbers in series.THE CRIME SERIES WITH OVER 1.5 MILLION DOWNLOADS and 20,000+ REVIEWS - New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Mystery Series Download Now/Read Later Sale - STAKEOUT $.99 (reg. $2.99) and NEXT GIRL ON THE LIST - new release - on sale for a limited time! *** SHORT STORY *** In a daring and high stakes heist worth millions, one man narrowly escapes capture. Now his past could jeopardize his future as detectives piece together a web of clues. A rare coin collection worth millions was stolen and the thief is gone without a trace. Detective Mac McRyan and Detective Lich join forces to stakeout suspects and solve a few of Mac’s problems along the way. Dick is in rare form with his classic crude and obnoxious humor to work the case with Mac in... A Case From The Dick Files. MAC MCRYAN MYSTERY, THRILLER, SUSPENSE AND CRIME SERIES: (try it in audio) FIRST CASE: Murder Alley - Book 1 THE ST. PAUL CONSPIRACY - Book 2 - USA TODAY Bestseller DEADLY STILLWATER - Book 3 - Free on kindle FIRST DEADLY CONSPIRACY - Books 1-3 Boxset - New York Times & USA TODAY Bestseller ELECTING TO MURDER - Book 4 FATALLY BOUND - Book 5 - USA TODAY Bestseller BLOOD SILENCE - Book 6 - USA TODAY Bestseller NEXT GIRL ON THE LIST - Book 7 STAKEOUT - A Case From The Dick Files - McRyan Short Story BOOK #8 - available late 2017
The Tunnel
Scott Mariani - 2015
ONE MAN Christmas Eve, 2004. Ben Hope has quit the SAS, but now he's back in full swing and embarking on a deadly one-man operation in the remote winter wilderness of the Scottish Highlands. ONE MISSION His target: a man he once respected and served under. His purpose: to seek out the hidden truth about a black-ops mission so covert that not even the SAS knew about it . . . and a secret so shocking that it could never be revealed to the world. ONE CHANCE When you're up against the best in the business, there's no surrender, no room for compromise. If Ben's suspicions are proved right, he will have no option but to kill. That's if his enemies don't get him first.
The McCullagh Inn in Maine
Jen McLaughlin - 2016
. .Chelsea O'Kane escapes to Maine with a gun and fresh bruises. She's ready to begin anew-until she runs into her old flame, Jeremy Holland. As he helps to fix her inn, her heart heals and they rediscover what they once loved about each other. But as the two play house, it starts to seem too good to last. . . .
The Iron Duke
L. Ron Hubbard - 1940
Think Clark Gable with larceny in his heart and a price on his head. A price put there by the German Gestapo. But Blacky's always got an angle, and this time it s as audacious as they come. He'll hide in plain sight, impersonating the crowned head of a Balkan kingdom. He'll become The Iron Duke.Can he pull it off? Win the love of a country...and of a beautiful woman? All Blacky has to do is risk everything and, for once in his life, find a way to do the right thing. Get in on the deception as the audio version of The Iron Duke puts you in the middle of the royal con game.
"Filled with realistic sound effects...and a classic film noir atmosphere, this inspired and well-polished entertainment will immerse listeners."
—Publishers WeeklyHubbard and Gable were fast friends and fellow adventurers. While Hubbard was writing for Columbia Pictures in 1937, the studio often called upon him to doctor scripts for Gable—giving him a unique knowledge of the man and inspiration for characters like Blacky Lee.*An AudioFile Award Winner
The Abyss
Orson Scott Card - 1989
Foul play by the Soviets is suspected, and the world draws close to nuclear war. But the answer has nothing to do with human deeds.
A Bloody Storm
Richard Castle - 2012
These former agents have all faked their own deaths and now work for the CIA on a strictly secret basis, taking on dangerous and illegal jobs the agency may not officially carry out. They're headed to the Molguzar mountains to look for sixty-billion dollars worth of gold hidden by the KGB before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and taking a perilous detour to rescue FBI agent April Showers from a sociopath torturer. But Storm's loyalties are put to the test as the mission begins to unravel into a bloody mountaintop showdown, and he and Showers must find out the hard way that their assignment may not be what they thought it was.
Verona
Jeffery Deaver - 2019
When an underworld kingpin gets taken out, his prime turf is up for grabs. For Irish crime lord Brendon Nagle and archrival John Yung, head of a forty-man tong, it’s war. For Nagle’s son, Andrew, and Yung’s daughter, Loi, it’s love at first sight. But others are watching as their secret love unfolds. Surveilled, suspected of betrayal, and targets of their fathers’ ruthless greed, Andrew and Loi know this story well. They’re doomed. But they have plans of their own. Challenging the violent rules of the mob, they’re rushing headlong toward a fate that few can see coming.
Breathless
Dean Koontz - 2009
That night, through the trees, under the moon, a pair of singular animals will watch Grady's isolated home, waiting to make their approach. A few miles away, Camillia Rivers, a local veterinarian, begins to unravel the threads of a puzzle that will bring all the forces of a government in peril to her door. At a nearby farm, long-estranged identical twins come together to begin a descent into darkness…In Las Vegas, a specialist in chaos theory probes the boundaries of the unknowable…On a Seattle golf course, two men make matter-of-fact arrangements for murder…Along a highway by the sea, a vagrant scarred by the past begins a trek toward his destiny… In a novel that is at once wholly of our time and timeless, fearless and funny, Dean Koontz takes readers into the moment between one turn of the world and the next, across the border between knowing and mystery. It is a journey that will leave all who take it Breathless.
Tracker
James Rollins - 2012
The secret she holds will unlock a terrible treasure, one steeped in blood and treachery, tied to a crime going back to the fall of Nazi Germany and a heritage of suffering and pain that reaches out from the past to wreak havoc today. In a final showdown in the depths of a lost cemetery, truths will be unearthed, treasures exposed, and the fate of all will rest upon the shoulders of one man and a dog whose courage is beyond measure.Included within this thrilling story is a sneak peek at the opening chapters of Bloodline, in which the further exploits of Tucker and Kane will be revealed.