epub |eng | 2021-07-06 | Author:J. M. Taylor

Chapter 19 T he sheep and goats at Nephele Farms had been evicted from their pasture. Their angry bleats echoed in the great red barn, but no one heard them ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Marc Olden [Olden, Marc]

CHAPTER 14 PERAY SAT UP IN his hospital bed, listening to his interpreter. Silverstein the lawyer had come along too, and as usual sat calmly through the French conversation, asking ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-28 | Author:Jacob Ganani [Ganani, Jacob]

CHAPTER 25 Think fast. Think smart. Always be one step ahead of them. Assess all possible scenarios. Remember that nothing can be taken for granted. Destroy any ties and all ...

epub |eng | 2015-11-27 | Author:Paul Beattie [Beattie, Paul]

A couple of hours later Jasper and Elspeth were strolling up the street towards Jasper's flat. There were a couple of cars parked in the road but they belonged to ...

epub |eng | 1991-01-01 | Author:Robert Campbell [Campbell, Robert]

NINETEEN A married man whose wife is about to have a baby shouldn't be going over to Cicero on a Saturday night. Maybe nobody should be going. Cicero and Calumet ...

epub |eng | | Author:Dharma Kelleher [Kelleher, Dharma]

28 “Wake up, sleepyhead! Time to catch bad guys.” I opened my eyes to a Conor-shaped silhouette in front of a window. His eyes burned like lasers into my skull. ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-15 | Author:Joe Clifford

CHAPTER SIXTEEN I MADE AMY promise she’d rest up. I didn’t have much food in the fridge but said I’d fix that on the way back, hit Hank Miller’s grocery ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:John Dean [Dean, John]

Chapter nineteen By nine-thirty, Abbey Road Police Station had been taken over by the Regional Organised Crime Unit. Despite the escape of Ralph Cargill, there was still a sense of ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-23 | Author:Robin Roughley [Roughley, Robin]

64 After a few hours' sleep, the man was up and trawling the town in his car looking for the right target. The spring sun was back, warming the interior ...

epub |eng | 2018-02-05 | Author:John Dean [Dean, John]

Chapter fifteen As darkness fell over the scrapyard on the city’s east side, Morrie Raynor sat in the back office – the small heater failing to dispel the deepening chill ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-24 | Author:Irvine Welsh [Welsh, Irvine]

21 The basement flat in Albany Street in the New Town has its courtyard festooned with the obligatory potted plants, which give this area of Edinburgh much of its charm. ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Kate Aaron

“I love you. You’re my son, I just want you to be happy.” He frowned. “I wonder sometimes if we didn’t push you too hard. When you were fourteen, fifteen. ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Kate Aaron [Aaron, Kate]

*** Sunday morning dawned bright and clear, another beautiful day for playing tennis. The final promised to be an exciting spectacle, but I couldn’t find it in me to care. ...

epub |nld | 2011-11-02 | Author:George Simenon [Simenon, George]

hoofdstuk 6 Bijna drie uur lang had hij, nu eens dommelend, dan weer bijna helemaal helder, liggen luisteren naar de geluiden in huis, soms alsof het zijn eigen huis niet ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Kate Aaron [Aaron, Kate]

*** That night, I couldn’t get Lexi out of my head. I missed him. I’d grown accustomed, in only two short weeks, to having him beside me, to holding him ...