epub |eng | | Author:Judika Illes

CASE OF THE VEIL OF ISIS Sax Rohmer Sax Rohmer (1883–1959) was the pen name of Arthur Henry Ward, born in Birmingham, England, to Irish immigrant parents. He is most ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:HelenKay Dimon

Chapter Eleven Did her laughter have an edge of hysteria to it? Had his admission struck her too hard? Cooper studied her face for signs of distress. But he saw ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cecilia Peartree

Chapter 14 Oliver – Summer emergency Flora’s portrait wasn’t going quite the way I expected. I knew she would be horrified if I let her see it. The sketches I ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-08 | Author:Laura Lippman

BALTIMORE BORN, BRED AND BUTTERED She has been called Baltimore’s best-known private detective, Baltimore’s hungriest private detective and, just once, Baltimore’s most eligible private detective. (Her father went behind her ...

epub |eng | | Author:Connie Shelton

Chapter 20 For a woman of eighty-seven, Elsa’s memory is amazing. I followed her into the living room where she cleared a few items off the top of an old ...

epub |eng | | Author:Anne R. Tan [Tan, Anne R]

Raina pulled out her cell phone and texted Lucille to ask if she was done with her break. A couple seconds later, Lucille replied she needed ten more minutes. This ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

26. I Receive a Letter Table of Contents “My Friend: “You will know all when you get this. Nothing that I can say will move Bella. She has gone out ...

epub |eng | | Author:Stephen D. Rogers

Back to TOC ONE-EYED JACKS “Deal already.” “Shaddup.” “Guys, let’s just cool it.” “Not even Mike’s deal.” Mike continued to shuffle with certain hands. “It’s my turn. Dealer’s choice.” Ned ...

epub |eng | 2022-05-04 | Author:Samantha Silver [Silver, Samantha]

Chapter 11 “So, what’s new with you apart from this case?” Andy asked when we were seated at a local bistro. We had ordered at the counter and were waiting ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-21 | Author:Karin Kaufman [Kaufman, Karin]

CHAPTER 9 I had wondered if Justin Miller and Jenny Hannaford were having an affair, and if that was why Justin had changed the menu at the Porter Grill, but ...

epub |eng | 2022-03-28 | Author:Audrey Walker [Walker, Audrey]

Chapter Nine “He has been dead at least for the last twenty-four hours,” Robin said, kneeling near the dead body. She wasn’t a coroner, and her knowledge of such things ...

epub |eng | 2022-03-14 | Author:Audrey Walker [Walker, Audrey]

Robin looked down at the chalk outline on the street where the dead woman had lain. The forensic team had cleared up all the evidence that could be found, but ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-07 | Author:Zara Stark [Stark, Zara]

He yanked me closer to him like he expected me to run. I breathed in his scent, so much sharper, more beastly than I remembered it to be. I wondered ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-09 | Author:Joyce Carol Oates [Oates, Joyce Carol]

6. Voices inside. Unmistakable. And when I turned the doorknob, the door was locked. “Harvey? It’s—me...” The voices continued, punctuated by laughter. A sharp staccato series of barks—Dargo? “...it’s Lydia, ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-24 | Author:April Fernsby [Fernsby, April]