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The Wimbledon Poisoner by Nigel Williams
epub |eng | | Author:Nigel Williams

23 Often, as October, sunny and cold, starved the leaves along Maple Drive, Henry Farr thought about not poisoning his wife. He thought about not poisoning her as much as ...
( Category: British & Irish August 23,2017 )
Entanglement by Gregg Braden
epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Gregg Braden

CHAPTER 6 * * * It took more than half an hour for the traffic caused by the accident to clear so that Jack could finally move again. He couldn’t ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2017 )
Masquerade by Gayle Lynds
epub |eng | 2004-08-23 | Author:Gayle Lynds

At lunchtime Hughes Bremner was eating from a plate of Brie, Gala apples, and water crackers at his Langley desk when his telephone rang. It was a trusted computer operator ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense August 23,2017 )
Once Upon a Winter's Heart by Melody Carlson
epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Melody Carlson

Chapter 9 On Saturday morning, Anne called at ten and asked Emma if she could get Tristan over to the bookstore by eleven. “I totally forgot it’s his Big Brother ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 23,2017 )
Saratoga by David Garland
epub |eng | 2005-06-04 | Author:David Garland [Garland, David]

"Do you know where Captain Skoyles is?" asked Elizabeth Rainham. "On his way to Fort Anne." She was dismayed. "Fort Anne? Is he involved in an attack?" "No, Miss Rainham," ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2017 )
Tamarack River Ghost by Jerry Apps
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry Apps [Jerry Apps]

23. Fred and Oscar Damn, it’s cold this morning. Colder’n a witch’s tit,” said Fred when he joined Oscar at Christo’s for coffee the Wednesday after the Winter Festival. Fred ...
( Category: Genre Fiction August 23,2017 )
Gilgamesh by John Gardner
epub |eng | 2012-01-27 | Author:John Gardner [Gardner, John]

TABLET IV Column i At twenty leagues they broke off a morsel. 1(?) At thirty leagues they prepared for the night. At fifty leagues they walked all day. The distance ...
( Category: History & Criticism August 23,2017 )
Cafe Scheherazade by Arnold Zable
epub |eng | 2003-03-31 | Author:Arnold Zable

Even as we sit and drink and argue and talk at the tables of Scheherazade, even as I continue to listen to their tales, they are moving on, the old ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2017 )
The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre & Frank Wynne
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Pierre Lemaitre & Frank Wynne

Patriotic Memories Memorials, statues, stelae in commemoration of our heroes & in celebration of a victorious France Catalog “You want to sell war memorials?” Yes. That’s right. Édouard is thrilled ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2017 )
Jenny Alone by Katie Flynn
epub |eng | 2014-03-13 | Author:Katie Flynn [Katie Flynn]

CHAPTER EIGHT ‘JENNY, WHERE ON earth have you been? Some man’s been ringing you, he wouldn’t leave his name, and of course I said you’d be in around four, because ...
( Category: Contemporary August 23,2017 )
The Sea Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Jane Howard [Howard, Elizabeth Jane]

4 LILLIAN CONTRAST – opposites – extremes – how I am fed by them! New York in the early evening of early summer, shrugging with a moonstone mist, chilled, subdued, ...
( Category: Contemporary August 22,2017 )
Why Girls Are Weird by Pamela Ribon
epub |eng | 2003-08-22 | Author:Pamela Ribon

000040. I didn’t know just how solitary my family could be until that first day home without Dad. We walked in the house and tossed our luggage in different corners ...
( Category: Contemporary August 22,2017 )
Odd Girl Out by Elizabeth Jane Howard
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Jane Howard [Howard, Elizabeth Jane]

PART FOUR THE next morning was hot and bright and fresh, but Edmund woke feeling only the first of these things, and this, he realized, was because Anne, breathing heavily ...
( Category: Contemporary August 22,2017 )
Keep Me Alive by Natasha Cooper
epub |eng | 2004-10-08 | Author:Natasha Cooper [Cooper, Natasha]

Antony was moody on the walk between chambers and court. Trish thought about cajoling him out of the sullens, then decided he was a grown-up and ought to be able ...
( Category: Contemporary August 22,2017 )
Going in Circles by Pamela Ribon
epub |eng | 2010-08-22 | Author:Pamela Ribon

23. I’m having a hard time with transitions. Yes: ha, ha, ha, that’s quite the understatement, Charlotte. But transitions mean something different in roller derby. A transition is when you ...
( Category: Women's Fiction August 22,2017 )

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