“Ach, sorry, Mr. McKay. I was backing up and I didn't notice them by the door.” “Your boy should have warned you,” McKay said, just to show there were no hard feelings. “Still at it, then? Thought you'd finished before lunch.
Everett's hand flashed and a polar whiteness expanded inside Paul's skull. He gagged on his gumshield but got his gloves up; Everett's punches glanced off his elbows. “Keep your head down. You're holding it out there like a lantern in a ...
Two deadly, steel-grey eyes locked on to his with the menace of a Lee Metford or whatever blunderbusses those pre-Great War riflemen had used. Aware that he had said something deeply annoying, Rupert looked away, bit his lip and came to ...
Being an alcoholic, the sultan made his first stop at a tavern which, according to eighteenth-century English traveler John Ellis, he found full of “people getting drunk and singing songs of love.” His next stop was one of Istanbul's ...
Chong looked at me funny. “Why do you talk like you care about me?” A picture was becoming clearer in my mind. Chong may be a low-level criminal, but he was aware of kindness and how to be kind. I don't think Mei-ling was the same way.
Which iswhat I'm doingright ... The appointment the day beforewas listed as Mr. Lawson. He was also on the schedule the afternoon McBurney had ... “I can'tsay for certain itwas himI saw,or some fellow named Lawson wholooks like him.
... one of those porter's handcarts, the kind you see on railway stations, over to the doorway. He lifted the trolley through the doorway then, after he'd checked there was no one about; he manhandled the sack out into the night.
Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc finds herself caring for an abandoned infant while trying to track down the child’s missing mother Aimée Leduc is on a tight work deadline when an anonymous call leads her to an abandoned infant in her building ...
Seventeen-year-old honors student Coretta White’s Tumblr, Little White Lies—her witty thoughts on pretty much . . . everything—has gone viral.
Bath is a town layered in history: Roman, Medieval, Georgian. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is a bluff, old-fashioned policeman. When he is presented with a skeletal hand, dug up in...
Through The Seep, everything is connected. Capitalism falls, hierarchies and barriers are broken down; if something can be imagined, it is possible.
A surprisingly beautiful evocation of horror and brutality, The Roving Party is a meditation on the intricacies of human nature at its most raw.
A darkly comic novel about advertising, truth, single malt, Scottish hospitality—or lack thereof—and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
"You'd think it has been done before but it really hasn't—the perfectly crafted, haunting and heartbreaking, raw, funny, unblinking yet merciful art novel."—Marlon James Family secrets, sexual explorations, art world wealth, and ...
Master storyteller and crime fiction legend Gary Phillips has filled the pages of One-Shot Harry with fascinating historical cameos, wise-cracks, tenderness, and an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride of a plot with consequences far beyond one ...
The follow-up to Murder in Chianti finds ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle recruited by Italian authorities to investigate the murder of a prominent wine critic.
Her marriage to Ed is challenged by odd noises, petty squabbles, and the onset of blackouts with no medical source, Amanda accidentally recieves a book on possession, the arrival of which coincides with increasingly bizarre events.
One Book, One Minnesota Selection for Summer 2021 Introducing Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman whose visions and grit help solve a brutal murder in this award-winning debut. 1970s, Red River Valley between North Dakota and Minnesota: ...
This harrowing mystery, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, follows two Catholic priests on the hunt through Manila for a brutal serial killer Payatas, a 50-acre dump northeast of Manila’s Quezon City, is home to thousands of ...
"This book will make you cry, think, and then cry some more." —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything From the New York Times bestselling author of More Happy Than Not comes an explosive examination of ...