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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. . . .
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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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Nikki Saxen would be really happy to go a week without having to return from the dead again. A kidnapped runaway trained as a killer, Nikki discovers that she might have a spark of humanity left in her after all when she befriends her latest target. The arrival of her mentor and master throws gasoline on that spark, and sets . . .
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As memories of her mother’s horrible death manifest themselves into reality, Elena, a candle-maker cursed with outlawed magic, is forced down a path that pits her against the most deadly men and magic in the land. Johan, her drunken, ex-hero of a husband chases after her but soon realizes that she will have to face this destiny alone, as he . . .
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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 . . .
The moon launch. The Challenger disaster. The Lewinsky scandal. And global warming. Someone’s behind it all, and it’s not for anything as mundane as corporate profits or political power. Join Jack Crowley and Jim Patterson as they race to stop the conspiracy before it’s too late. And maybe, just maybe, save the world. . . .
Ride With Madness—to date, at six chapters—is some very solidly-written literary fiction. The word that keeps coming to mind while I write this is "immaculate". With the exception of the opening few scenes, every word seems right—there’s nothing out of place.
The story begins when Helen, the taken-for-granted wife of a [more . . .]
It isn’t often that I get to leave a 5 star review, but what can I say? McLean and Poncy can write.
Bartlett House is ostensibly a murder mystery, but I have a feeling it is going to be much more than that. In these first eight chapters, we’ve met several [more . . .]