epub |eng | 2017-10-29 | Author:Connelly, Michael [Connelly, Michael]

Part Two The South Side of Nowhere 22 Bosch stood in front of the counter with his eyes down. A man sat there reading a newspaper printed in a foreign ...

epub |eng | 2020-08-16 | Author:Peter Boon [Boon, Peter]

23 ‘It’s not right! Edward, it’s not right!’ Mum paced up and down the pub floor for what must have been the two-hundredth time. To say she was panicking was ...

epub |eng | 2021-02-16 | Author:Charles Todd [Todd, Charles]

Again they walked in silence, taking the right fork of the road to a cottage that was just out of sight of the stone bridge. “My surgery,” Shepherd said wryly, ...

azw3 |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Lauren Elliott

Chapter 17 This was the second time in as many days that Marc had treated her like a child, sending her from the room for a time-out. Addie leaned forward ...

epub |eng | 2021-02-02 | Author:Walter Mosley

24 There was a hotel called the Pink Palace on the Venice boardwalk back then. It was run by Esther Maron, a woman who had once been married to a ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Michael Kurland

THE CASE OF VAMBERRY THE WINE MERCHANT, by Jack Grochot Our visitor at Baker Street this crisp, sunny autumn afternoon was overcome with anxiety, pacing back and forth in front ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-23 | Author:Kirsten Fullmer [Fullmer, Kirsten]

Mayor Winslow peeked out the door of his office to make sure Rachel had gone to lunch, then returned to his desk. Looking over his shoulder, he released a latch ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-04 | Author:Mildred A. Wirt & Roy Snell

azw3 |eng | 2015-05-18 | Author:John Roeburt & Stephen Marlowe & Lacy, & Michael McCretton [Roeburt, John]

“Prospect Park it is,” Barrett said. “In the old days they used to hide packages down in Flatlands,” Puggie told him. He wasn’t complaining, but offering an item of information. ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-30 | Author:Evelyn James [James, Evelyn]

Chapter Fourteen Monday morning dawned and Clara found herself regretting the previous day’s adventures. Her foot was extremely sore and just hobbling downstairs was agony. Her plan to head to ...

epub |eng | 2020-11-17 | Author:Ellery Lloyd

Chapter Ten Dan There are some days when everything just seems to go wrong from the start. Take this morning. For some reason, completely out of character, Bear decides to ...

epub |eng | 2007-06-25 | Author:Charles Finch [Finch, Charles]

Chapter 25 Charles, Charles, Charles!” said Lady Jane, rushing to the door to meet him. “Oh, Kirk, call Lucy, won’t you?” She took his hand and led him to the ...

epub |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Charles Finch [Finch, Charles]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Lenox went to sleep not long afterward, his stream of consciousness racing but muddied by drink. The next morning he woke with a single, clarified thought: Might Jacob ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-22 | Author:James R. Benn

Chapter Twenty-One The next morning, Yeoman Howe kept my coffee cup filled as I pecked away at a typewriter outside Captain Ritchie’s office. Which was fortunate, since the bourbon and ...

epub |eng | 2020-10-06 | Author:Kate Young [Young, Kate]

Chapter Twenty-One The next day, while at the office, Mel and I were having a cup of coffee and biscotti between her shifts at Smart Cookie. I’d contacted Judge Timms ...