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When a fire burns down the historic Bartlett House, the body of young activist, Emmy d’Angelo is found inside, dressed in bondage gear. Her older lover, professor Will Adelhardt, is under suspicion, but the manner in which Emmy is found is incomprehensible to Adelhardt, who is devastated by her loss. Now he must take a dark voyage through the . . .
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In 1944, Willy Horvitz was a brilliant young physicist. Fervently anti-Nazi, he was coerced into leading a research and development effort to design and build a revolutionary new aircraft to turn the tide of the war. Adopted as an orphaned American boy by a wealthy German industrialist, Willy was haunted throughout his life by the tragic loss of his mother. . . .
overall 9 votes:
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Gare Marx has been a PI for all of five minutes when he discovers he sucks at it. The mob wants money he never borrowed, he’s suspected of murdering someone he hasn’t met, and he’s hired to find a woman who may be involved in some extremely shady business. That, and his secretary is an amoral jiu jitsu-loving sociopath. . . .
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Ride with Madness is set in the long hot summer of 1995. It opens with Helen Byrne, who yearns for personal freedom in her stifling marriage to the upwardly mobile Malcolm. Her compulsive involvement with ex-prostitute Carla and the flamboyant cult leader Addison threatens to tip all of them into the kind of madness where no one seems to have . . .
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Psychic Service of Investigation Agent Cassidy Parker dives toward potential futures to uncover crimes and prevent them. With her telepathic partner Rebecca, she stumbles upon a threat of massive proportions. Stopping it does not only involve investigating the situation but also a little arm-wrestling with PSI’s parent agency – the FBI – and a careful management of reader (telepaths and . . .
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Welcome to Crescent Manor. Where the rent is cheap and your neighbours are dead to the world.—The Landlord Mark and Nathan Connor are twins, but in name only. There is little to connect them, save their current residence in Crescent Manor, an old building situated in the centre of a mid-sized city. They are unaware the tenants of . . .
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All the time we are surrounded by coincidences. Some we pay a second thought to and then forget about. Some fill us with wonder. Some we never even notice. But there are some which can scare us. When Kieran Whyteleafe starts to see little coincidences happening around him he decides to investigate their meaning. The coincidences seem to centre . . .
overall 9 votes:
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When her parents died in a global pandemic, seventeen-year-old Cassie Thompson thought her biggest problem was finding her next meal. But “Telo” is a virally-transmitted genetic disease that targets adults, and no one is immune. Surviving to adulthood isn’t looking very good as her city succumbs to food shortages, sanitation problems, and gang violence. When Cassie accepts an invitation to . . .
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SIMON COLTRAINE is a professional songwriter and musician. His brother GILES, trader, rogue and amiable bully, is a crook. When Giles is killed in a car accident Simon returns to their childhood home to confront his memories and his own complicity in his brother’s schemes. . . .
“Bonne Femme” is a mystery/romance/suspense novel. Richard Carter, an ex-Marine must betray the trust of the woman he loves in order to save her from a former squadmate from Somalia that he believes has committed multiple murders. This is neither a “bodice ripper” nor a cozy, but a contemporary tale of psychological terror concerning post traumatic trust and the inability . . .
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Murder, money, shipwrecks, and storms. Chasing the big one means staying one step ahead of trouble. Bobby Rafferty escapes custody in Canada and goes on the run to Mexico, taking his young daughter with him. But he soon realizes he’s jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Homeless and broke, he leaves his daughter in the safety of . . .
Within the first paragraph of this novel I knew I was in the hands of a skillful, practised writer. The atmosphere is eerie and evocative as the main character, Kieran, wakes from a disturbing dream and looks out the window into the dark, wind tossed yard.
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Honest, believable fiction. The author is able to communicate an idea well, with a pleasing economy of words; the work is in plain English and does not try to find a thesaurus alternative for every fourth word. The pace moves along smoothly but without rushing, partly thanks to the choice of the first-person perspective for the protagonist.