Witnessing an apparent murder-suicide during a job, professional house-sitter Lila Emerson is recruited by the alleged perpetrator's brother, talented artist Ashton Archer, to help uncover what really happened.
The class of degraded penwrights so often alluded to by Fielding, the ferocious quarrels recorded of and by Pope and Johnson with critics and publishers, are phases of literary life, which, if not extinct, have become essentially ...
The stories are all, first and foremost, just that - stories, from ELT authors well known for their ability to craft original and engaging narratives to entertain and educate.
" - Michael Wilding - Publisher, critic, and author of Academia Nuts and numerous other works. "This is as fanciful an Australian story as you will ever read, with eccentric characters, mystery, and a compelling, whimsical plot.
The Collector
In both South Carolina and Bermuda, Matthew Berkeley pits his skills against the collector of priceless artifacts. The target is the solid gold casting of the Great Seal of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina.
Book collecting looks like an innocents enough hobby, but looks can be deceiving. Some books are so valuable that a collector might kill for them, others are even more exotic. Some books are bound in human skin. Ah, but whose skin?
This tale of obsessive love--the story of a lonely clerk who collects butterflies and of the beautiful young art student who is his ultimate quarry--remains unparalleled in its power to startle and mesmerize. "A bravura first novel.
This tale of obsessive love--the story of a lonely clerk who collects butterflies and of the beautiful young art student who is his ultimate quarry--remains unparalleled in its power to startle and mesmerize. "A bravura first novel.
A spooky doll story filled with thrills and chills, for fans of Mary Downing Hahn and Neil Gaiman.
Far from the auction halls of the elite, The Collector seeks out rare and mysterious artifacts across the world.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes a novel about a woman who needs nothing, a man who sees everything, and the web of deceit, greed and danger that brings them together—and could tear them apart.
Because Howley’s endgame has a terrifying twist—one that will not only change his fate, but the fate of everyone Fitzroy is risking her life to protect. “With a creepy and menacing undertone and one of the scariest antagonists ever, ...
'Trust me - Cummins is a keeper' Lee Child Jakey escaped with his life and moved to a new town.
A butterfly collector wins a lottery and, thus, acquires a remote cottage where he imprisons a young woman.
This is the first English-language biography of Sergei Shchukin, written by art historian Natalya Semenova and adapted by Shchukin's grandson André Delocque.
Set against the backdrop of late 19th-century colonialism, The Collector is a delightful, swashbuckling adventure by a master of European comic books - Sergio Toppi!
Is this where Lukas is? Heloise is ordered to drop her current article, a controversial investigation into soldiers with PTSD, to cover the story of the missing boy.
For fans of Katrine Engberg and Lars Kepler, the second chilling novel in Anne Mette Hancock’s #1 bestselling Danish crime series is a psychological whirlwind that explores the nature of truth and what it means when we can no longer trust ...
The Dante Walker series is best enjoyed in order. Reading Order: Book #1 The Collector Book #2 The Liberator Book #3 The Warrior