Literary
epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:Ware, Ruth [Ware, Ruth]

CHAPTER 24 * * * “So, in view of all that, it looks like we are stuck until Monday,” Harding said wearily, slumping back on the drawing room sofa. He ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-25 | Author:Weeks, Brent [Weeks, Brent]

Chapter 57 “I’ve figured out something really exciting,” Quentin said. He was standing on the table in the restricted library. His hair was askew, and he had a few days’ ...
( Category: Fantasy February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-16 | Author:Fallada, Hans [Fallada, Hans]

Chapter 39 INSPECTOR ZOTT Inspector Zott, a little man with a goatee beard and beer belly, might have sprung from an E.T.A. Hoffmann story. He was a creature compounded of ...
( Category: Historical February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-30 | Author:John Sandford [Sandford, John]

12 THE PAIN PUSHED THROUGH THE SLEEP like an arrow, and he rose to the surface and tried to sit up and stretch his right leg, but the cramp held ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 1999-01-01 | Author:John Sandford [Sandford, John]

RINKER HAD a room on the seventh floor. Inside, Rinker opened the mini-bar, took out two cans of Special Export. “I got glasses,” she said. “Can’s fine,” Carmel said, popping ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-20 | Author:John Le Carré [Carré, John Le]

A Perfect Spy. 10 Once again a willed brightness was overtaking Pym as he listened to the many voices in his mind. To be king, he repeated to himself. To ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2005-04-24 | Author:John Connolly [Connolly, John]

“No,” said the King. “Uh-uh. I got one of those letters too, and I threw it in the trash.” Mark Hall knew that times had changed, even if Larry Crane ...
( Category: Thrillers & Suspense February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-14 | Author:The Siege of Macindaw [Macindaw, The Siege of]

23 MacHaddish looked up quickly, suspicion mixed with fear on his face as he heard the terms. He had expected something else from the wizard – a demand for riches ...
( Category: Action & Adventure February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:See, Lisa [See, Lisa]

* * * When I enter my apartment, I find a note from Teacher Guo, asking me to visit him immediately. He breaks away from dinner with his family to ...
( Category: United States February 13,2019 )
epub | | 2010-02-06 | Author:John Grisham [Grisham, John]

“That’s a long time.” “Yes. Do you have someone?” “No. I’ve never had a serious girlfriend. Lots of girls, but nothing serious.” “Why not?” “Hard to say. I’ve enjoyed being ...
( Category: Genre Fiction February 13,2019 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-23 | Author:Ranger's Apprentice 07 - Erak's Ransom (v5)

27 THE BITTER COLD OF THE DESERT NIGHT WOKE HIM. HE WAS FACEDOWN, shivering violently as the heat leached from his body. It wasn’t fair, he thought. The blinding heat ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Buckley, Christopher [Buckley, Christopher]

– CHAPTER 29 – Doctor Pell Mrs. Pell answered the door. She stared at the three bedraggled people before her. Then, squinting at Huncks, his shirt caked stiff with blood, ...
( Category: Humor & Satire February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

The door was opened to Miss Marple by “Gladdie,” looking more depressed than Miss Marple had ever thought possible. In the sitting room (a quarter of the late drawing room, ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-22 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

Thirteen BLACK AND RED CHECK I Mrs. Sandbourne returned just as the party was sitting down to lunch. Her news was not good. Miss Temple was still unconscious. She certainly ...
( Category: Mystery February 13,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Christie, Agatha [Christie, Agatha]

A month later Jane died. It was influenza, followed by pneumonia. She made Alan Everard her executor and left all she had to Winnie. But it wasn’t very much. It ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies February 13,2019 )