Download or read book A Killing Secret written by Robert E. Dunn and published by Lyrical Underground. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a rising country star is found dead in the Missouri Ozarks, sheriff's detective Katrina “Hurricane” Williams must confront the possibility that the man she loves is involved... Called to investigate the theft of valuable timber, Katrina finds the dead body of young singer Sharon Rose lying in the snow, shot execution style. When Sheriff Billy Blevins arrives at the crime scene, his strong reaction to seeing the victim is as baffling as a pretty corpse surrounded by tree stumps . . . Until Katrina learns that Billy was involved with Rose. The sheriff's refusal to confide in her, coupled with his erratic behavior, not only puts a strain on their already complicated relationship, it hobbles her homicide investigation. With Billy going rogue, Katrina can’t rely on anyone but herself. Secrets and suspects abound, even in the singer’s own family, and the key to the murder may lie in the lyrics of what is now her swan song . . . Praise for Robert E. Dunn “This tale of deceit, corruption and betrayal from Dunn is long on violent action . . . Fans of Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti westerns will find a lot to like.” —Publishers Weekly on Dead Man’s Badge "Brutal, vivid, and unforgettable . . . a modern-day western morality tale in crime-novel wrapping with a blood-red bow. This one will haunt you."—Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on Dead Man’s Badge “This is hardboiled fiction at its best. We’re talking Elmore Leonard territory. A fantastic read and I hope there’s more to come.” —Hunter Shea on A Living Grave

Download or read book Sorry but I Love You written by Tommy Bell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorry but I Love You is the story of the one that got awayafter you hooked it! Its the tale of love lost and how one gay man survived turbulent seas and frothy fun. Tim Forner knew it was a very good day when he met Danny Starling. Tight-muscular with white-blond hair, Danny had a smile to light up a room. He was a golden boy of the over thirty-five set, a center of attention at the pool on weekends at the Full Sun Resort. Tim loved every minute with him. Too bad he had a lover. But that came later. Too bad he had scruples. That came later too. Or did it? Tim had a lot to figure out, voted off the island. A handsome singing bodybuilder with New York connections and lots of lively friends add to the show. See you at the Cabana bar!

Download or read book The Way of the Shadow Wolves written by Steven Seagal and published by 5th Palace Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Action adventure about a tribal police officer in Arizona who stumbles onto a crime involving international covert operations.

Download or read book Get Shorty written by Elmore Leonard and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Hollywood hit….Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard.” —Detroit News The Chicago Tribune has dubbed Elmore Leonard, “the coolest, hottest writer in America.” In the same league as the legendary great ones—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain—the “King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) demonstrates his remarkable mastery with Get Shorty, one of the most adored of his forty-plus novels. The basis of the hit movie starring John Travolta and Danny DeVito, Get Shorty chronicles the over-the-top, sometimes violent Hollywood misadventures of a Florida mob loan shark who chases a deadbeat client all the way to Tinseltown and decides to stick around and make movies. Get Shorty’s shylock protagonist, Chili Palmer, is a truly inspired creation—as memorable as another unforgettable Leonard hero, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified—and readers will relish his moves and countermoves in this electrifying, funny, bullet train-paced winner from “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” (New York Times Book Review)

Download or read book Just One of Those Things written by Sarah Perrier and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Perrier turns a world-weary and tender gaze toward the unruly carnival we all love. In these poems, the inherent estrangement, deception, and screwball comedy of romance is revealed and savoured.

Download or read book TheLawlessLand written by Rex Mumford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-10-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They entered the valley, harsh yet beautiful. With danger around every hill. Where only a fast gun and quick thinking can save a person, and even then only with luck. A lot of luck. Rex Mumford brings to life in this western novel much of the suspense, action, and surprise of the traditional old west. Follow the lives of those portrayed in this novel during a time when men and women wanted little more than some land and to live peacefully. Yet when faced with difficult challenges they could and would meet them head on. Often they were the judge and jury with little time to decide the fate of those that wronged them. When someone draws on you, you only have two choices, be faster or die in: The Lawless Land Brown's Hole, one of the stops along the outlaw trail. A beautiful valley for ranching, but also a haven for those hiding from the law with no were else to run. More often than not, they possessed only a fast horse, and even faster gun hand. It was fight or die. Most fought, some died. Two deputy marshals, leaving their badges and authority behind, and a girl with a different agenda, all enter the valley known as Brown's Hole. Two looking for answers, one looking for revenge. Faced with challenges and odds never before faced, each will find what they are looking for and a whole lot more than they bargained for. The only problem is surviving.

Download or read book The Demands written by Mark Billingham and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crime The customers in a London convenience store are taken captive. Among them is young mother, Detective Helen Weeks. She is told her life depends on the co-operation of one of her colleagues - detective Tom Thorne. The Demand Akhtar is desperate to know what really happened to his beloved son, who died a year before in prison. He is convinced the death was not an accident and forces the one man who knows more about the case than any other, Thorne, to re-investigate. The Twist What Thorne discovers will upend everything he thought he knew about the fate of those he's put away...but will it be enough to fulfill the wishes of a grieving and potentially violent father?

Download or read book The Tenth Child written by Julianna Withey and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful story of Julianna, the tenth child of poor Hungarian peasants, whose life spread through the most challenging and tragic historical milestones of twentieth century Europe: Second World War, Nazi occupation of Hungary, Communist Crackdown, and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Julianna's courage and determination will inspire and touch the hearts of the readers as she shares with them the wonderful, fascinating details of her life which was completely different from those of most Americans. She conveys those historical events through her own experiences, the way they had affected and altered her childhood and eventually her entire life. Through her voice the reader will find Julianna's heart and soul that endured all the explosions of bombs, hunger and nerve-breaking fright when Hungary became the battleground between withdrawing Nazis and the Red Army. Her courage was really put to the test when after the Russian tanks brutally crushed the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 she crawled through a minefield in the dark, then on her stomach inched across a bridge, and under a hail of border guards' bullets ran for her life to reach Austria, and finally the land of her childhood dream, America.

Download or read book Lacy Eye written by Jessica Treadway and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting, evocative novel about a woman who might have to face the disturbing truth about her own daughter. Hanna and Joe send their awkward daughter Dawn off to college hoping that she will finally "come into her own." When she brings her new boyfriend, Rud, to her sister's wedding, her parents try to suppress their troubling impressions of him for Dawn's sake. Not long after, Hanna and Joe suffer a savage attack at home, resulting in Joe's death and Hanna's severe injury and memory loss. Rud is convicted of the crime, and the community speculates that Dawn may also have been involved. When Rud wins an appeal and Dawn returns to live in the family home, Hanna resolves to recall that traumatic night so she can testify in the retrial, exonerate her daughter, and keep her husband's murderer in jail. But as those memories resurface, Hanna faces the question of whether she knows her own daughter-and whether she ever did.

Download or read book So 5 Minutes Ago written by Hilary De Vries and published by Villard. This book was released on 2004-02-10 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a celebrity publicist at a Los Angeles PR firm isn’t the glamour job Alex Davidson thought it would be. Her love life is zilch, her newest client—an actor fresh out of rehab—keeps hitting on her, and all she has in her refrigerator is a half-empty bottle of Pinot Grigio. But her wisecracking gay assistant and her spark plug of a best friend give her reasons for crawling out of bed in the morning (well, most of the time). Everything changes the day her firm is bought out by a rival agency and Alex finds her once secure job of wanly ministering to a roster of B-list celebrities suddenly at stake. It looks like Suzanne, Alex’s old boss and mentor, is being shown the door. And G, her new boss, wants bigger clients and more exposure. But certain things just don’t add up: Why did G refuse to help Suzanne when a big client—a hot Latina singer/actress hell-bent on world domination—decided to bolt from the firm? And why is he being so nice to Alex all of a sudden? Knowing that in Hollywood there are always strings attached, Alex does a little digging and uncovers a dirty scheme that, if brought to light, will rock the entertainment industry. Will the temptation to betray Suzanne and accept a lucrative offer from G be too powerful for Alex to ignore? Or can she save her job, keep her soul, and score a victory for women in Hollywood? So 5 Minutes Ago is a laugh-out-loud novel about one young woman’s attempt to make it in the shark-infested waters of Hollywood. Set in the sun-drenched L.A. of celebrity-magazine photo shoots, velvet-roped VIP parties, and red-carpet events, Hilary de Vries’s debut novel takes us on a wildly entertaining romp with enough juicy behind-the-scenes action to satisfy even the most insatiable celebraholic.

Download or read book Thank You For Joining the Algorithm written by Alex Woodroe and published by Tenebrous Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEATH TO THE ROBOTS! This Zero Issue of Tenebrous' upcoming quarterly magazine has arrived to wrest the controls of artistic endeavor from the clutches of A.I. thieves and restore it to the rightful hands of human creators. This collection of Sci-Horror short fiction, comics, poems, and art celebrates the connection between humanity and creativity in the face of ever-increasing pressure to submit to the inevitability of algorithmic dominion. **Profits from sales of THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM go to the Algorithmic Justice League and the European Guild of Artificial Intelligence Regulation.** Table of Contents: SHORT FICTION: “The Android & Esmel” by Marcy Arlin “Chimera” by Edward Barnfield “TELL ME ABOUT YOUR SYMPTOMS” by Caleb Bethea “Please Rate Your Experience From 1-10” by Michael Boulerice “Filtered” by Koji A. Dae ”The Grid” by Beth Dawkins “Philanderer” by Monica Joyce Evans “Wound Together” by gaast “The Grin of the Ministry” by Colin Hinckley “Schroedinger's Head” by Joe Koch “The Price of Pancakes” by Michael A. Reed “Iago v2.0” by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez “I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm” by Jill Tew “Requiem Shark” by Kay Vaindal “The Bodiless” by Carson Winter POETRY & WEIRD FORMS: “Rent-A-Baby: Content Without the Commitment” by Lyndsey Croal “do not trust the poet what has the poet ever done for you” by luna rey hall “CyberBerry” by Eva Papasoulioti “A Face-Eating Oracle Envisions Your Future” by Simo Srinivas COMICS: “I’m not a robot” by Aster Fialla “Spare Parts” by Caitlin Marceau ADDITIONAL ART: Janice Blaine Jonathan La Mantia Samir Sirk Morató Helen Whistberry Plus a LOGIC PUZZLE created by Arkylie Killingstad. Cover art by Becca Snow. Edited by Cameron Howard. Editor in Chief: Alex Woodroe.

Download or read book Feral Fever written by Skhye Moncrief and published by Skhye Moncrief. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: epic-length novel (118,000 words or 480 pages if released in print) Blurb: Sometimes it pays to just give into the darkness… With the Blood Wars ended, were-assassin Marshals are called to serve throughout the universe in easing cultural tensions instigated by the transition of cultures from zombified to free-thinking societies… Earthling archaeologist Aisling Bjorn never really considered juggling multiple husbands for were-assassin duty on planet Luvk—a world of Tiger folk subjugated by winged aliens from another dimension, but something more like learning the lost history of the Tiger culture to understand how an extraterrestrial winged species divided and conquered the Tiger realms is more her cup of tea. However, she's in store for a greater challenge than helping the Luvks reclaim their independence. There's a shortage of marriageable females for the large broods of gorgeous Tiger princes. The friction caused by mating problems threatens her sanity as the warrior Lords vie for possession of not only a mate but a powerful political pawn—her, the Marshal whose beauty rivals that of the most marketable princess. And mates the Lords all wish to be. Alas, with every turn in life, we sacrifice a bit of our souls for the greater good. Even to the darkness…Blessed are those who just give into the darkness of Luvk, because there's no room for a woman's sanity when surrounded by Tiger Lords. Enormous. Muscled. Sexy leather pants. Their glorious striped bodies alone could incite riots on Earth. And they all want her. Who is strong enough not to succumb to Luvks' contagious FERAL FEVER? Warning: multiple heroes/partners

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Download or read book Miss Power s Great Adventure written by Janette Davies and published by Janette Davies. This book was released on with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Power's Great Adventure Book 1 When Carole Power agreed to give up her job as a teacher in a large Comprehensive School, in order to work in a bar in Southern Spain, little did she realise what she was letting herself in for. It isn't long before she dumps, Lyle, her two-timing boyfriend, gives in her notice at the bar run by his hen-pecked brother, Ben, and dippy sister in-law, Angi, and finds herself in desperate need of a job. When, Guillermo, a mysterious Spanish neighbour gets himself in a spot of bother, Carole, and new friend, Sarah-Jane, rush to the rescue: this is only the beginning of Carole's great Spanish adventure! Book 2 Has Carole found the man of her dreams? Will Guillermo be able to resist the scheming ways of a neighbour? Life on the Spanish Costa is good – well, that is until the arrival of Perky Perkins and his scatterbrain Project Manager, Angi Bailey. New residents for Apartamentos Paraiso - Ludo, a Belgian man who breeds pedigree Spitz dogs, and Magda, a soon to be divorced lady from the English Midlands, who is keen to re-invent herself. Two young Russian visitors disturb the tranquillity of Andreu and Luis, who live in the penthouse. Only after Babushka Ellena confides in another Paraiso resident, does peace resume - well, sort of! Drug dealing in a local bar, murder in a beauty spot, unexpected birth, death, and marriage combined with a most unusual inheritance, once again, bring romantic chaos to the Costa.

Download or read book Dark in the Limelight written by Horrified Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horror Anthology 'Dark in the Limelight'. Fame and fortune, success and celebrity - it's what we all aspire to. But should we? What is the price of fame? Is it all it seems? Or does something sinister lurk in the limelight?

Download or read book Just in Time Lovers in Time Series Book 2 written by Marilyn Campbell and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marilyn Campbell is at the top of her storytelling craft with this enticing time-travel romance. Be prepared for an all-night read . . ." ~Ellen G. Wulf, Verified Reviewer A Young 1950s War-Widow Time Travels to 2016 to Save a Stranger's Life At the Risk of Her Own in Marilyn Campbell's Paranormal Time-Travel Romance, JUST IN TIME -- 1950s to 2016 -- When Beverly Newcastle, a young 1950s war-widow, encounters a gypsy fortune teller with a magic potion, she's tossed 5 decades into the future and lands in the arms of Josh Colby, a half-Mohawk, Harley-riding bouncer. Desperate to clear his imprisoned grandfather of a murder he did not commit, Josh learns that Beverly holds the key. To turn that key, Beverly must travel back to her own time. But by the time he and Beverly figure out how to send her back, Beverly also holds the key to his heart. Publisher's Note: Readers who enjoy romance, sex and mystery as well as fans of Callie Langridge, Bethany Claire, Gillian Doyle and Barbara Longley will certainly enjoy Marilyn Campbell's fun romp through time. "If you're a time-travel fan, this is the book for you. . . . you almost believe it could really happen." ~Mona R. Anderson THE LOVERS IN TIME SERIES, in order Out of Time Just in Time Some Time Away It's About Time THE INNERWORLD AFFAIRS SERIES, in order Romulus Falcon Gallant Gabriel Logan Roman Blaze MARILYN CAMPBELL has been published in the genres of suspense, futuristic, time-travel, paranormal, erotic and lighthearted contemporary romances, non-fiction metaphysical works and has had a screenplay produced. A true thrill-junkie, she has jumped out of an airplane, raced around the Indy 500 track, driven solo throughout the United States and believes a labyrinth walk under the full moon can have magical results. Unfortunately, Marilyn has not yet figured out how to time-travel...except in her stories. She currently resides in western Massachusetts.

Download or read book We Have Always Lived in the Castle written by Shirley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.