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The House That Jack Built: The House That Jack Built by Guy Adams
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-07-09 | Author:Guy Adams

FOURTEEN Gwen was getting all motherly, tugging the blanket tighter around Ianto as he shivered. 'What did you see?' she asked him. 'Not much to be honest,' he admitted, staring ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
A Taste for Death by P. D. James
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:P. D. James [James, P. D.]

BOOK FOUR Devices and Desires one The Black Swan, despite its name, didn’t derive from a riverside pub but from an elegant two-storey villa built at the turn of the ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
Thunder Moon by Lori Handeland
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Lori Handeland [Handeland, Lori]

I decided to leave the autopsy news until last. Some people tended to get pissy when you ordered knives and saws applied to their relatives. In case Barbara was one ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Beloved by Toni Morrison
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2007-03-24 | Author:Toni Morrison

WHEN THE four horsemen came—schoolteacher, one nephew, one slave catcher and a sheriff—the house on Bluestone Road was so quiet they thought they were too late. Three of them dismounted, ...
( Category: African American March 25,2014 )
The Color of Blood by Declan Hughes
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-18 | Author:Declan Hughes [Hughes, Declan]

Fifteen WE FOLLOWED THE BLUE MERC UP TOWARD WOODPARK, but then they swung right and drove toward the city for a while. I called Shane Howard and told him we ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 25,2014 )
Lady of Fortune by Putney Mary Jo
mobi |eng | 1988-09-06 | Author:Putney, Mary Jo [Putney, Mary Jo]

Lord Radcliffe gave up the chase after a quarter-hour in the back alleys where scurrilous residents eyed him measuringly. He was following a mirage. This particular phantom was not Christa—he ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
epub, mobi, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-07-27 | Author:Joyce Maynard [Maynard, Joyce]

BACK AT THE HOUSE, FRANK AND my mother were getting ready to paint the storm windows. I wouldn’t have thought this would be the kind of job two people who ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-06 | Author:E. Annie Proulx [Proulx, E. Annie]

21 Poetic Navigation “Fog ... The warm water of the Gulf Stream penetrating high latitudes is productive of fog, especially in the vicinity of the Grand Banks where the cold ...
( Category: Domestic Life March 25,2014 )
The Deadhouse by Linda Fairstein
epub, mobi |eng | 2001-10-18 | Author:Linda Fairstein [Fairstein, Linda]

"But how can you do that?" "Maybe we won't be able to. But we'll start with the bartender. We'll see if there's a desk clerk at the hotel who saw ...
( Category: Legal March 25,2014 )
Your Heart Belongs to Me by Dean Koontz
mobi, epub |pt | 2010-06-10 | Author:Dean Koontz

Your Heart Belongs to Me THIRTY-ONE Ryan walked in yellow radiance, and yellow crunched under his shoes, and the melting yellow warmth of an autumn sun buttered his skin. In ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
The Kills by Linda Fairstein
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-12-27 | Author:Linda Fairstein [Fairstein, Linda]

Of course, I remembered. After Farouk had lost interest in Queenie, he had sired a son with his young second wife. "The boy was only a teenager, so he would ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
Blood Ties by Hayes Sam
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Hayes, Sam [Hayes, Sam]

CHAPTER 9 The sun streamed brightly in the Baron's room through the arched windows of the high tower. The mist had disappeared early and the view from the window was ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
Cat & Mouse by James Patterson
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-01-31 | Author:James Patterson [PATTERSON, JAMES]

CHAPTER 69 FIFTH STREET was blocked off and completely barricaded to traffic! John Sampson abandoned his black Nissan and ran the rest of the way to Alex’s house. Police cruiser ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
The Road (2006) by Cormac McCarthy
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cormac McCarthy [McCarthy, Cormac]

They sat side by side and ate the can of pears. Then they ate a can of peaches. They licked the spoons and tipped the bowls and drank the rich ...
( Category: Contemporary March 25,2014 )
The Riptide Ultra-Glide by Tim Dorsey
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-01 | Author:Tim Dorsey

BROWARD COUNTY An early evening on U.S. Highway 1. Modest traffic. But along one block just below the county line, an untypical amount of honking horns, even for South Florida. ...
( Category: Crime March 25,2014 )

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