Contemporary
mobi |eng | 1978-11-15 | Author:Ed McBain

your father can hang another picture in his candy store." "Why do you needle me, Parker?" "Who? Me? I needle you?" "Why?" "I don't needle nobody," Parker said innocently. "I'm ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2007-12-03 | Author:Ed McBain

Leaning against the bulletin boards near the coat rack, Lieutenant J3yrnes watched Hawes with narrowed eyes. Of all the people in the room, Byrnes had been the only one to ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Ed McBain

Dr. Ferdinand Matthewson was an old man with a leonine mane of white hair, a long nose, and a gentle voice that issued sibilantly from between pursed lips. He wore ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2004-08-31 | Author:Ed McBain

'Is that what you think?' Eileen said nothing. 'That I'm waiting to pounce on you?' 'That's your job, isn't it? To take whatever I say and make a federal case ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Ed McBain

The new Lineup Room, or Showup Room as it was alternately called, was in the basement of the station house, adjacent to the holding cells where booked prisoners were kept ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 23,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-15 | Author:Paul Kitcatt [Kitcatt, Paul]

Margaret We’re all outside again, sitting in the sun, drinking tea. ‘I hear poor old Fred Johnson died last night,’ says Sylvia. ‘Yes,’ I reply. ‘Pneumonia, they say. At least ...
( Category: Contemporary December 22,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Stephen McCauley

15 A couple of hours later I felt an intense craving for a drink. A chill had entered the room, making it feel more like a cold-storage closet than ever. ...
( Category: LGBT Genre Fiction December 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-17 | Author:Lisa de Nikolits

9. AMELIA AND HENRY LATER THAT WEEK, AMELIA WENT to visit Henry in his mansion in Rosedale. She let herself into the house and found him in the living room, ...
( Category: Contemporary December 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-28 | Author:Allie York [York, Allie]

Chapter Thirteen Harris I was being one bold motherfucker, but I had the chance to wake up next to her, so I was going to take it, even if there ...
( Category: Memoirs December 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-02 | Author:Diana Palmer

CHAPTER NINE CORT HAD BEEN mooning around the ranch for days. Bart couldn’t figure out what was the matter with him. He wasn’t eating the way he had when he ...
( Category: Western December 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 1999-12-17 | Author:Evelyn Richardson [Richardson, Evelyn]

Chapter 18 Entering the Barford’s box at the opera the next evening, Isobel was grateful that Marthe’s sharp eyes were not there to observe her scanning the other boxes. She ...
( Category: Regency December 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-24 | Author:Diane Johnson

30 Out on Bail It took a week to return the shaken and furious Clara to her home on bail. A juge d‘instruction was assembling evidence for her eventual trial, ...
( Category: Satire December 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Cassandra Parkin

Pass that bottle, will ya? I notice you ain’t drinkin’ yours. Don’t worry on my account; I ain’t gonna lose it watching someone else drinking my booze. It may or ...
( Category: Contemporary December 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-16 | Author:Mark Porto [Mark, Porto]

The couple continues to date, well into the fall months. In early November, the couple decides to do their Christmas shopping early and spend time attending concerts. Subsequently, they received ...
( Category: Contemporary December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-16 | Author:Lisa de Nikolits

24. GRACE’S VIEWING BEATRICE HAS HER FEET UP on the desk and she stares at us. “Plead your case,” she says to Grace. Poor Grace’s botoxed, plastic face is expressionless ...
( Category: Contemporary December 17,2019 )