Download or read book Whatever Happened to Betsy Blake written by David B Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betsy Blake has been missing for seventeen years; the case that gripped a nation all but a distant memory. But when her father, Gordon Blake, has to face make-or-break heart surgery, he hires local PI Lenny Moon to give the investigation one last try. Surely Lenny doesn't have what it takes to make a breakthrough in this cold case...or does he?

Download or read book The Tick Tock Trilogy Three Sensational Psychological Thrillers written by David B. Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This trilogy will blow you away" - RubinaReads "These books aren't just memorable. They're unforgettable" - BooksFromDuskTillDawn The Tick-Tock Trilogy is a series of psychological thrillers, all told in real time. Get inside the heads of four characters during the same morning (Midday), afternoon (Whatever Happened to Betsy Blake?) and night (The Suicide Pact) as clocks tick towards drastic deadlines. "Lyons is an outstanding craftsman in the thriller genre" - bestselling author Andrew Barrett MIDDAY Vincent Butler has five hours to steal eight million euro from the four bank branches he manages in Dublin's city centre. If he doesn't - his partner of ten years, who is being held captive, will be killed. Vincent doesn't have long. Only until midday. ...And the clock is ticking. ★★★★★ "Intense, addictive and incredibly clever" WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BETSY BLAKE? Private investigator Lenny Moon has five hours to find the answer to a question that has plagued grieving father Gordon Blake for decades: whatever happened to my daughter, Betsy? Lenny doesn't have long to investigate... only until Gordon is put under the knife for make-or-break heart surgery. ...And the clock is ticking. ★★★★★ "One of the most gripping reads ever" THE SUICIDE PACT Ex-detective Helen Brennan has five hours to stop two teenage girls from ending their own lives, just as her son Scot did twenty-two years ago. The problem is she doesn't know who the teenage girls are. Or where they are. She only knows she has until midnight to save them. ...And the clock is ticking. ★★★★★ "A heart-racing, palm-sweating, page turner" Each of the Tick-Tock Trilogy can be read as standalones, but do comprise cross-over characters and a unique race-against-time narrative. The Tick-Tock Trilogy is 900 pages of heart-thumping thriller drama. What the critics are saying about books in The Tick-Tock Trilogy "Gripping and high-octane" - Irish Mail on Sunday "Lyons' debut has a devastating twist in its tail" - Irish Independent "The best book of the year" - BooksFromDuskTillDawn "Really clever" - BookieWookie "My new favourite author" - RubinaReads "Lyons certainly knows how to nail a thriller" - Bestselling author Sharon Thompson "An outstanding craftsman in the thriller genre" - No. 1 Bestselling author Andrew Barrett "This year's must-read author" - Bestselling author Rob Enright.

Download or read book The Curious Case of Faith Grace written by David B Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRETTY... OR PRETTY TWISTED? Almost two years ago, Faith and Grace Tiddle arrived home from their Saturday morning dance class to find both of their parents lying face down in pools of blood. Five days later, the twins - only nine years old at the time - were arrested for the double homicide. And now, twenty months on, the entire country awaits with bated breath as the jury is dismissed to deliberate its verdict on a trial that has become a national obsession. But if Lead Detective Denis Quayle - the man who knows the case better than anybody else - isn't fully convinced of the twins' guilt... Can a twelve-person jury be? You won't know what to make of the Tiddle twins.

Download or read book The Trial Trilogy written by David B. Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your seat inside the jury room for the deliberations of three sensational courtroom mysteries. She Said, Three SaidIn a celebrity rape trial that has an entire nation gripped, the jury are finally released to deliberate their verdict.The problem is they don't know whether they should believe what she said, or what three said... ...will you?★★★★★"One of the most thought-provoking novels of the modern era"The Curious Case of Faith & GraceTwo years ago, Faith and Grace Tiddle arrived home from Saturday morning dance class to find both of their parents face down in pools of bloodFive days later, the twins - only nine years old at the time - were arrested for the double homicide. And now a jury is tasked with figuring out whether these inseparable twins are just pretty.... ...or pretty twisted...★★★★★"A thoroughly engrossing read"The CoincidenceJoy Stapleton is Ireland's most infamous prisoner.She is currently serving two life sentences after the bodies of her sons Oscar and Reese were found buried in the Dublin mountains.Joy claims she was only arrested due to a mere coincidence. But nobody believes her; not until new evidence emerges eight years into her stretch, and everyone - including her long suffering husband, Shay - is forced into a rethink.Take your seat on the front row for the retrial of the century.★★★★★"The best twist I've ever read"PRAISE FOR THE TRIAL TRILOGY★★★★★ "Incredibly clever" - The Writing Garnet★★★★★"Keep you guessing right until the end" - Mail On Sunday★★★★★"Simply outstanding" - The Book Magnet★★★★★"Impossible to put down" - The Book Literati★★★★★"Sensational" - The Book Review

Download or read book Undead and Unreturnable written by MaryJanice Davidson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As if she needed yet another reason to shop, Queen of the Vampires Betsy Taylor is in the middle of planning the perfect wedding to drop-dead gorgeous vamp Eric Sinclair. And she’s not about to let little things like death and blood-drinking get in her way. But all is not bouquets and bridal showers—Betsy is plagued by ghosts who demand her help in rectifying their past mistakes, and a serial killer is on the loose. With his victims all being tall, blond women, Betsy fits the profile exactly…

Download or read book Goodbye Days written by Jeff Zentner and published by Crown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-affirming.” —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything. Perfect for fans of Turtles All the Way Down,Thirteen Reasons Why, and Zentner's own The Serpent King, one of the most highly acclaimed YA novels of 2016, Goodbye Days asks what you would do if you could spend one last day with someone you lost. Where are you guys? Text me back. That's the last message Carver Briggs will ever send his three best friends, Mars, Eli, and Blake. He never thought that it would lead to their death. Now Carver can’t stop blaming himself for the accident and even worse, a powerful judge is pressuring the district attorney to open up a criminal investigation. Luckily, Carver has some unexpected allies: Eli’s girlfriend, the only person to stand by him at school; Dr. Mendez, his new therapist; and Blake’s grandmother, who asks Carver to spend a “goodbye day” together to share their memories and say a proper farewell. Soon the other families are asking for their own goodbye day with Carver—but he’s unsure of their motives. Will they all be able to make peace with their losses, or will these goodbye days bring Carver one step closer to a complete breakdown or—even worse—prison? "Jeff Zentner, you perfectly fill the John-Green-sized hole in our heart." —Justine Magazine “Evocative, heartbreaking, and beautifully written." —Buzzfeed "Masterful." —TeenVogue.com “Hold on to your heart: this book will wreck you, fix you, and most definitely change you.” —Becky Albertalli, Morris Award-winning author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Download or read book How You Ruined My Life written by Jeff Strand and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new hilarious novel from the author of The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever and Stranger Things Have Happened. Rod's life doesn't suck. If you ask him, it's pretty awesome. He may not be popular, but he and his best friends play in a band that has a standing gig. Yeah, it's Monday night and they don't get paid, but they can turn the volume up as loud as they want. And Rod's girlfriend is hot, smart, and believes in their band—believes in Rod. Aside from a winning lottery ticket, what more could he ask for? Answer: A different cousin. When Rod's scheming, two-faced cousin Blake moves in for the semester, Rod tries to keep calm. Blake seems to have everyone else fooled with good manners and suave smile, except Rod knows better. Blake is taking over his room, taking over his band, taking over his life! But Rod's not about to give up without a fight. Game on. May the best prankster win...

Download or read book The Coincidence written by David B Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy Stapleton is Ireland's most infamous prisoner. She was incarcerated for two life sentences, after the bodies of her two young sons were found buried in a shallow grave in the Dublin mountains. But she has always maintained her innocence, and argues the only reason she was ever arrested in the first place comes down to mere coincidence. But it's a coincidence that didn't convince detectives. A coincidence that didn't convince a jury. And a coincidence that hasn't impressed the inmates of Mountjoy prison. That is until eight years into her sentence, when new evidence emerges, and everybody - including Joy's long-suffering husband Shay - is forced into a rethink. Take your seat in the courtroom for the retrial of the century... and see just how wide you're willing to allow a coincidence stretch your beliefs...

Download or read book Gone Away Lake written by Elizabeth Enright and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portia and her cousin Julian discover adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.

Download or read book Just One Look written by Harlan Coben and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary snapshot causes a mother’s world to unravel in this shocking thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger. When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong-a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies it's him, he disappears that night, taking the photo with him. Now, to save her family from a fierce, silent killer who will stop at nothing to get the photo, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past....

Download or read book Dark Matter written by Blake Crouch and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • COMING SOON TO APPLE TV+ • A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves? From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.

Download or read book Midday written by David B Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing life-or-death surgery, Gordon Blake contacts a local private investigator in a last-ditch attempt to find out what truly happened to his daughter, Betsy. But after a seventeen-year search that turned up nothing, inexperienced PI Lenny Moon is hardly going to find out anything new before surgeons get their scalpel into Gordon. Or is he?

Download or read book She Said Three Said written by David B Lyons and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrity and his two best friends stand accused of raping a former model during a night out in Dublin. Twelve jurors must decide the faith of all four people involved. But after listening to the evidence over the course of a five-week trial that gripped an entire nation, they don't know who to believe... ...will you?

Download or read book The Spectator Bird written by Wallace Stegner and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary agent Joe Allston, the central character of Stegner's novel All the Little Live Things, is now retired and, in his own words, 'just killing time until time gets around to killing me.' His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator. A postcard from an old friend causes Allston to return to the journals of a trip he and his wife had taken years before, a journey to his mother's birthplace, where he'd sought a link with the past. The memories of that trip, both grotesque and poignant, move through layers of time and meaning, and reveal that Joe Allston isn't quite spectator enough. Wallace Stegner was the author of, among other works of fiction, Remembering Laughter (1973); The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943); Joe Hill (1950); All the Little Live Things (1967, Commonwealth Club Gold Medal); A Shooting Star (1961); Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize); Recapitulation (1979); Crossing to Safety (1987); and Collected Stories (1990). His nonfiction includes Beyond the Hundredth Meridian (1954); Wolf Willow (1963); The Sound of Mountain Water (essays, 1969); The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard deVoto (1964); American Places (with Page Stegner, 1981); and Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West (1992). Three short stories have won O.Henry prizes, and in 1980 he received the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times for his lifetime literary achievements.

Download or read book Ask a Manager written by Alison Green and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Download or read book Betsy Ross and the Making of America written by Marla R. Miller and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “first-rate” biography of the seamstress and patriot and a vivid portrait of life in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia: “Authoritative and engrossing” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Finalist, Cundill Prize in History Betsy Ross and the Making of America is the first comprehensively researched and elegantly written biography of one of America’s most captivating figures of the Revolutionary War. Drawing on new sources and bringing a fresh, keen eye to the fabled creation of “the first flag,” Marla R. Miller thoroughly reconstructs the life behind the legend. This authoritative work provides a close look at the famous seamstress while shedding new light on the lives of the artisan families who peopled the young nation and crafted its tools, ships, and homes. Betsy Ross occupies a sacred place in the American consciousness, and Miller’s winning narrative finally does her justice. This history of the ordinary craftspeople of the Revolutionary War and their most famous representative “reinvigorate[es] a timeworn American icon by placing her firmly into historical and social context [and] illuminates the significant role that ordinary citizens—especially women—played in the birth of the new nation” (Booklist). “An engaging biography.” —The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating.” —Cokie Roberts, New York Times–bestselling author of Founding Mothers “A stupendous literary achievement. It’s not easy to accurately write about a real folk legend. Miller does so with historical accuracy, vivid descriptive language, and an encyclopedic knowledge of her subject.” —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times–bestselling author of The Wilderness Warrior

Download or read book Written in My Own Heart s Blood written by Diana Gabaldon and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her now classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears . . . into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it “a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].” Now the story continues in Written in My Own Heart’s Blood. 1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington’s troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie’s wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces. The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family’s secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy . . . never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood is the brilliant next chapter in a masterpiece of the imagination unlike any other.