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The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing: A Novel by Mira Jacob
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Mira Jacob [Jacob, Mira]

Half the village of Corrales and most of the OR staff of Presbyterian Hospital turned out for the Bukowsky wedding the following Saturday night. Just-shined cowboy boots escorted broom-skirted ankles ...
( Category: Domestic Life July 6,2014 )
The Only Boy For Me by Gil McNeil
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-08-25 | Author:Gil McNeil [McNeil, Gil]

Chapter Seven It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To Charlie comes home from school clutching an invitation to a birthday party, and is already wildly excited because ...
( Category: Contemporary July 6,2014 )
The Emperor Waltz by Philip Hensher
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-08 | Author:Philip Hensher [Philip Hensher]

4. That night, the merchant’s daughter had a dream. The dream was about her dead brother. He came to her, and they were in a hot, dry place. He was ...
( Category: Contemporary July 6,2014 )
[11] The Old Contemptibles by Grimes Martha
mobi |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Grimes, Martha [Grimes, Martha]

23 Which he did, after tea, when she was feeding hounds. As the cage of the kennel clicked shut behind, the raucous outcry he’d heard in the distance had died; ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives July 6,2014 )
[07] Help the Poor Struggler by Martha Grimes
mobi |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Martha Grimes

VI The End of the Tunnel SIXTEEN JESSICA stood in the doorway of the drawing room that morning, refusing to put her foot over the sill, as if she hoped ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives July 6,2014 )
[04] The Dirty Duck by Martha Grimes
mobi |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Martha Grimes

19 When Jenny Kennington opened the door of the narrow little house in Ryland Street in the old part of Stratford, Jury felt a small jolt, not because she had ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives July 6,2014 )
[09] The Five Bells and Bladebone by Martha Grimes
mobi |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Martha Grimes

Seventeen FIONA CLINGMORE sat at her desk wearing a mask of brown goo that hid everything but her eyes and lips, turning the pages of Harrods magazine with a wetted ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives July 6,2014 )
[13] Rainbow's End by Martha Grimes
mobi |eng | 2014-03-09 | Author:Martha Grimes

Abruptly, Jury snapped it shut, eliding the next words in that act. He did not want to read about lost innocence. Or roses turned to dust. Or dry fountains. What ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives July 6,2014 )
[10] The Old Silent by Martha Grimes
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Martha Grimes

23 "It were a dreadful thing, but there's no way to help you, I can see," said Mrs. Holt, irritation flickering across her broad features. "It were painful enough at ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives July 6,2014 )
[06] The Deer Leap by Martha Grimes
mobi |eng | 2014-02-06 | Author:Martha Grimes

It had once been an arbor, now bricked in, ivy-bound, and moss-encrusted. The stone mason had done rather a sloppy job of it: there were cracks, some of them stuffed ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives July 6,2014 )
[05] Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes
mobi |eng | 2014-02-14 | Author:Martha Grimes

2 TEA was a singular affair that could have sustained anyone but Agatha for days: smoked salmon sandwiches, partridge pâté, something imprisoning truffles, and, of course, the cake plate, which ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives July 6,2014 )
[21] Dust by Martha Grimes
mobi |eng | 2014-02-01 | Author:Martha Grimes

TWENTY-SEVEN They were stuffed into a smallish booth at a Happy Eater, whose bright carrot colors were enough to make the blind see. Wiggins had complained that they had not ...
( Category: International Mystery & Crime July 6,2014 )
White Gardenia by Belinda Alexandra
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Belinda Alexandra

It was dark when the convoy of buses came to a stop outside a barricade. The camp guard stepped out of his box and lifted the post for us to ...
( Category: Contemporary July 6,2014 )
The Bed I Made by Lucie Whitehouse
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lucie Whitehouse [Whitehouse, Lucie]

When she hung up, I put my head on the steering wheel and let them come, the images which I had fled here across the Solent to escape. They crowded ...
( Category: Contemporary July 6,2014 )
Secret Asset by Stella Rimington
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-06-18 | Author:Stella Rimington

31 Liam O’Phelan had an extremely low tolerance of ambiguity. This made him notoriously impatient with students who dithered or didn’t know quite what they thought, and now it made ...
( Category: Espionage July 5,2014 )

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