By Marcia Muller and Bill Prozini
When bicycling through Golden Gate Park ends with the revelation of threatening letters and a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate attention. The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel are easy. The hard part is the dead courier, murdered in a locked room within a locked room, creating a trail that will take Quincannon through San Francisco’s less savory places and end with a riverboat trip that is anything but a relaxing cruise.
Former president Jake Cazalet is taking it easy in the Virgin Islands after helping series star Sean Dillon block an Al Qaeda operation in London. Not that Al Qaeda is squelched altogether and that may or may not have something to do with Washington, DC, hit-and-run death of a woman who’s assistant to the head of the hush-hush White House department known as the Basement.
The menacing woods of Grizzly Falls, Montana, are not for the faint of heart. but for some, they’re the perfect setting for partying and pranks. They don’t know there’s a rapt audience amid the tangled trees, a killer with a different kind of game in mind, for whom the woods are dark and deep-and perfectly deadly…
From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club–a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily lives.
Set during the Cold War, two WACs are kidnapped in 1946 Munich by four Soviet NKGB agents. Three of the agents soon end up dead, with the fourth badly bloodied; one of their victims, the charmingly named Claudette Colbert, works for the Directorate of Central Intelligence and knows her stuff when it comes to defense. Now, however, there are far-reaching consequences for the newly formed directorate.
As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. While searching through Irish history for clues that will lead them to the final star and the mysterious Island of Glass, Riley must fight her practical nature and admit her sudden attraction to Doyle is more than just a fling. For it is his strength that will sustain her and give her the power to run towards love-and save them all.
On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining, independent science-fiction film opened in thirty-two American movie theatres. Conceived, written, and directed by a little-known filmaker named George Lucas, Star Wars reinvented the cinematic landscape, ushering in a new way for movies to be made.
Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club cafe’s success, so Suzanne doesn’t mind going out to Mike Mullen’s dairy farm to pick up some wheels of cheese. She’s looking forward to a nice visit with the mild-mannered farmer before heading back to their hectic kitchen. But when she arrives, Mike’s nowhere to be found. The moaning of his cows leads her to look in the barn, where she discovers a bloodcurdling sight.
The litle-known true story of the unexpected and remarkable contributions to astronomy made by this group of women working in the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-1900s.
J.R. Ward returns with an all-new tale of paranormal passion in the world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.
