Literary Fiction
epub |eng | 1965-01-01 | Author:Hunter, Alan [Hunter, Alan]

CHAPTER EIGHT IT WAS AFTER nine when he garaged the Sceptre at 16 Elphinstone Road, but Mrs Jarvis, his ‘jewel’, had a mixed grill waiting for him on the hotplate. ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-11 | Author:James Lee Burke [Burke, James Lee]

* * * THE SKY WAS clear and blue and bright as silk when the bow of my boat clunked against the tupelo stump. The strip of cloth was gone, ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 1926-01-01 | Author:Sayers, Dorothy L. [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

9 GOYLES ‘ “and the moral of that is –” said the Duchess.’ ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND A PARTY of four were assembled next morning at a very late breakfast, ...
( Category: British & Irish September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:James Lee Burke [Burke, James Lee]

* * * AFTER THEY WERE gone, Smiley bathed in a claw-footed tub down the hall and dressed in clean underwear and an unpressed khaki shirt and green cargo pants ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Snodgrass, G. L. [Snodgrass, G. L.]

Chapter Sixteen Jack fought a dozen different emotions as he helped Abigail up into the carriage. Was she all right? It seemed wrong to be parting so soon, so easily. ...
( Category: Romance September 17,2024 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2024-07-24 | Author:Harris,Robert

Early the next day, he cycled back to Holyhead. It was a Sunday morning. The town was quiet, apart from the church bells. The only businesses open were a newsagent ...
( Category: British & Irish September 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-23 | Author:James Lee Burke [Burke, James Lee]

LOVE YOUNGER’S RANCH was located twenty miles west on the two-lane highway that gradually ascended over Lolo Pass into the Idaho wilderness. The countryside was riparian and lush and green ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense September 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-04-21 | Author:A.V. Shener [Shener, A.V.]

14 ANTHONY “You boys should go fishing,” Arthur said during dinner. “The weather’s perfect.” “Didn’t you hear, Dad? Fishing’s boring. It was all over the news.” Ethan scooped more rice ...
( Category: LGBTQ+ Literary Fiction September 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Charles McCarry [McCarry, Charles]

17 Almost as soon as he laid eyes on Thoughtful Pennock, Oliver realized that her father’s will had been a mistake. This strange girl who had the manners of an ...
( Category: Action & Adventure September 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2002-09-26 | Author:Self, Will [Self, Will]

12 Once they were in the street Baz wanted to make conversation, the way normal people do when they leave a dinner party, but Dorian was having none of this. ...
( Category: Psychological September 16,2024 )
epub |eng | 2008-01-01 | Author:Schlink, Bernhard [Schlink, Bernhard]

Ilse herself felt as if she were waking up from an anesthetic. That is my work, she wanted to make Jan think with his last glance into the bedroom, and ...
( Category: Historical September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-06 | Author:Snodgrass, G. L. [Snodgrass, G. L.]

Chapter Fourteen His Grace, the fourth Duke of Suffolk sighed heavily as he stepped past his butler, Jefferson. and into his London residence. That familiar smell of beeswax, brass polish, ...
( Category: Romance September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:Sittenfeld, Curtis [Sittenfeld, Curtis]

IN THE MORNING, there is the requisite debriefing, the repeated reenactment of the bear’s trajectory through their campsite. They pack up for the last time and paddle out. In the ...
( Category: Sagas September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Sittenfeld, Curtis [Sittenfeld, Curtis]

CINCINNATI WAS THE city where Liz and sex had made each other’s acquaintance—in a rather festive cliché, she had lost her virginity to her prom date, whose name was Phillip ...
( Category: Romance September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Coe, Jonathan [Coe, Jonathan]

‘Damn,’ said Gill, looking at her watch. ‘We’d better stop there.’ It was already six-thirty. Outside, it had been dark for almost two hours. The rush-hour traffic had started, swelled ...
( Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense September 14,2024 )