![]() ![]() These four principals are admirably done the slut's transgression is not treated in the routine manner that might have been expected and the final, violent settlement of accounts by Spenser is first-rate. finds two couples - a blackmailer and his parasite and a man and wife (the ballplayer ménage) with whom he becomes friendly. "Despite appearances at the beginning, this tense and well-plotted story is not about baseball. ![]() ![]() Spenser explains that he can talk to Susan about hard problems in a way that he can't with Brenda. Fetch a Pail of Murder (Were Not Dead Yet Club Book 1) Constance Barker (76) Kindle Edition 2.99 2 Wedding Bells and Death Knells (Were Not Dead Yet Club Book 2) Constance Barker (14) Kindle Edition 4.99 3 Murder or Bust (Were Not Dead Yet Club Book 3) Constance Barker (21) Kindle Edition 4. This book explains why Susan Silverman became his primary love interest instead of Brenda Loring. Spenser must deal with the shylock, Frank Doerr, and his huge bodyguard before he can deal with the actual blackmailer (which turns out to be the Red Sox broadcaster, Bucky Maynard). Marty Rabb's wife, Linda Rabb, lived a secret life as a prostitute and made a pornographic film that is the backbone of the blackmail issue. The investigation quickly takes him into a deeper, and more dangerous, blackmail plot involving pimps, a high class madam, and a vicious shylock. The story centers on the Boston private eye being hired by the Red Sox to find out if their lead pitcher, Marty Rabb, is on the take. Mortal Stakes is the third Spenser novel by Robert B. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sam Jones is back! Lauren Henderson’s sexy, streetwise artist detective returns in Freeze My Margarita, the sequel to her enormously popular Black Rubber Dress.A chance meeting in a fetish club with an old friend from art school leads to a new sculpting job for Sam: creating a series of mobiles for an avant garde production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She needs to get to the bottom of it all before she turns up dead herself. By the end of the week even the usually tough as nails Sam is running scared. Our rubber clad hero*ine hardly suspects that in a few days she ll be embroiled in a hot affair with a BMW driving, Kensington dwelling stockbroker the shame of it!Forced to hang out with a pair of spoiled, anorexic rich girls and their unsavory entourage of friends as she unravels the facts behind the murder, Sam finds herself unwillingly pulled into a twisted world of drugs, blackmail, and trust funds one that seems to spell disaster for high society’s darlings. From there, events take a distinctly dangerous turn. ![]() When her sculpture Thing III is unveiled at a swank reception in the atrium of a London bank, a dead body crashes the party. Denver Rocky Mountain NewsSexy, savvy sculptor turned sleuth Sam Jones attracts trouble like she does men. New York Times Book Review Sharply intelligent… PRAISE FOR LAUREN HENDERSON AND THE SAM JONES SERIES Wickedly funny… ![]() ![]() ![]() And the tomboy Viveka is just beginning to suspect that her teenage infatuation with her P.E. Devika plays the perfect housewife, but her covert fury spills over into the desire to control every aspect of her daughters’ lives. Valmiki poses as a serial adulterer, seducing his willing female patients while secretly conducting woodland trysts with Saul, a working-class hunting buddy. And Valmiki’s oldest daughter, Viveka, deplores her own inability to be fully herself within the double strictures of Trinidad’s conservative society and her family’s Brahmin caste.Įveryone’s hiding something. Valmiki’s wife, Devika, mourns the sham of her marriage, and the death in childhood of her only son. Valmiki Krishnu is a successful doctor, a ladies’ man, and a devoted father-but he still pines for the male love of his life, a fellow medical student he dumped after finishing his degree. ![]() Anansi, 398 pp, $29.95, hardcoverĮverybody hurts, and in this Trinidadian family drama everybody hurts all the time. ![]() ![]() As the intrigue deepens, it becomes clear that John Gower, a man with secrets of his own, may hold the key to saving the king, and England itself. ![]() ![]() Gower discovers that the book and incriminating evidence about its author have fallen into the unwitting hands of innocents, who will be drawn into a conspiracy that reaches from the king's court to London's slums and stews - and potentially implicates Gower's own son. To find the manuscript, wily bureaucrat Geoffrey Chaucer turns to fellow poet John Gower, a professional trader in information with connections high and low. Only a few powerful men know that the cryptic lines derive from a "burnable book", a seditious work that threatens the stability of the realm. Songs are heard across London - catchy verses said to originate from an ancient book that prophesies the ends of England's kings - and among the book's predictions is Richard's assassination. ![]() London, 1385: Surrounded by ruthless courtiers - including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt's artful mistress, Katherine Swynford - England's young king, Richard II, is in mortal peril. ![]() In Chaucer's London, betrayal, murder, and intrigue swirl around the existence of a prophetic book that foretells the deaths of England's kings. ![]() ![]() "The suspenseful first installment in Sigler’s Generations trilogy lives up to its hype, packing plenty of thrills into its 300-plus pages. General fiction, Suspense/thriller, Fantasy/science fiction, Juvenile fiction, Horror, Suspense, ThrillerĮNTERTAINMENT WEEKLY for ALIVE by Scott Sigler ![]() Rates: Scott is available for seminars, classes or private consultations about fiction and non-fiction podcasting. ![]() He lives in San Diego, CA, with his wee little dog Reesie. He has been covered in Time Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, io9, Wired, The Huffington Post, Business Week and Fangoria.Ī former newspaper reporter, Scott is the co-founder of Empty Set Entertainment, which publishes his Galactic Football League YA series. His loyal fans, who named themselves “Junkies,” have downloaded over 50,000,000 individual episodes. A decade later, he still gives his stories away - for free - every Sunday at. In 2005, Scott built a large online following by releasing his audiobooks as serialized podcasts. Scott has the world's longest-running fiction podcast. His works are available from Crown Publishing and Del Rey Books. ![]() #1 New York Times best-selling author Scott Sigler is the creator of fifteen novels, six novellas and dozens of short stories. ![]() ![]() Hansel and Gretel long for good parents who wouldn’t cut off the heads of their children, and Jack and Jill are ashamed of something, and are looking for a new home and life. These extremely scary and gory tales capture their journeys. Both pairs of characters long for something different in their lives. There were other details details that were not told in the original short version. Hope you like the review AND the fanart and polls at the bottom! Hansel and Gretel is not just breadcrumbs and evil witches. ![]() ![]() Hey guys! Here is my double fairy tale feature: A Tale Dark & Grimm AND In A Glass Grimmly by Adam Gidwitz! Also, if you don’t know my blog know has a Facebook page! Check in the side bar for a like box! NOTE: It is managed, controlled and registered by/to my mom. ![]() ![]() But Zoey has found sanctuary on the Isle of Skye and is being groomed by Queen Sgiach to take over for her there. How far will the bonds of friendship stretch? How strong are the ties that bind one girl’s heart?Įxonerated by the Vampyre High Council and returned to her position of High Priestess at Tulsa’s House of Night, Neferet has sworn vengeance on Zoey. ![]() Reviewed by Georgia Summary (from the book jacket) ![]() ![]() ![]() Liam demands everything from her, accepting nothing less. Refusing to take “no” as an answer, he sweeps her into a passionate affair, pushing her to her erotic limits. A man who knows what he wants and goes after it. On a plane, struggling to face the devastation of losing everything again and starting over, Amy meets Liam Stone, a darkly entrancing recluse billionaire, who is also a brilliant, and famous, prodigy architect. But just when she lets down her guard, the ghosts of her past are quick to punish her, forcing her back on the run. ![]() Now years later, with a new identity as Amy, she’s finally dared to believe she is forgotten–even if she cannot forget. But how do I not when he is the reason I breathe? He is what I need.Īt the young age of eighteen, tragedy and a dark secret force Lara to flee all she has known and loves to start a new life. His touch spirals through me, warm and sweet, wicked and hot. Infinite possibilities….Infinite passion….Infinite danger…. ![]() Published by Julie Patra Publishing on July 22, 2013 This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received a complimentary copy of the book from the author in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead she lives in her car, and gets her water from a gas station (eye roll).Īs you can probably guess, shit goes down, they get nasty, the sex is hot.but what we can't seem to get on board with is that Daisy calls him "Daddy". She's in town to find out why he gave her mother that kind of money and until she does she refuses to spend a dime. Why you ask? Well she received a large trust fund of 1 million dollars when her mother passed, and the name on the money is Ronan's. ![]() A 21 year old bartender at Salacious Players Club, has come into town to find none other then Ronan. He isn't interested in love, just fun.ĭaisy. His wife and son were killed many years ago, and his summer love from 9 years ago Shannon, only wanted a fling so she left. He likes to attend the club's auctions and bid on girls for a night of fun. We meet Ronan, a rich, 56 year old silver fox, who is an investor in the Salacious Players Club. ![]() What is the appropriate gap to be considered ok? Or is age just a number? Enter Higgest Bidder. ![]() ![]() ![]() She’s been one of the artistic directors at ACE Teatro do Bolhão since 2003, and she’s been teaching movement at ACE School of Arts since 1995. In1989 she completed her degree at the Higher School of Dance of Lisbon with a grant by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She started studying classical dance with Fernanda Canossa. Joana Providência was born in Braga in 1965. ![]() We will jump from poem to poem, and fly between tiny stories that will leave us perplexed, and all of this because words never cease to surprise us. This is exactly how it’s going to be: we will travel from word to word, to discover the story of the little girl who never wanted to sleep and of the word who wanted to get married, of the five fingers that are the hand’s sons, and of the word that made a particular boy terribly happy. ![]() |