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Corpse Collector: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Di YuShuShengto lead you into a humorous, yet frightening, story...
Corpse Collector: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Di YuShuShengto lead you into a humorous, yet frightening, story...
Corpse Collector: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Di YuShuShengto lead you into a humorous, yet frightening, story...
Corpse Collector: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Di YuShuShengto lead you into a humorous, yet frightening, story...
Corpse Collector: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Di YuShuShengto lead you into a humorous, yet frightening, story...
Corpse Collector: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Di YuShuShengto lead you into a humorous, yet frightening, story...
Corpse Collector: Volume 7 (Volume 7 #7)
by Di YuShuShengto lead you into a humorous, yet frightening, story...
Corpse Collector: Volume 8 (Volume 8 #8)
by Di YuShuShengto lead you into a humorous, yet frightening, story...
Looking Beyond
by Lin YutangWITH HUMOR AND COMMON SENSE A MODERN PHILOSOPHER SHOWS MANKIND A WAY TO THE GREATER ENJOYMENT OF LIVING…In the year 2004 the heroine, an anthropologist, lands on an unknown and isolated Pacific island. Her plane is destroyed, so the renamed Eurydice finds herself compelled to join the Ruined Earth Utopian islanders.In this gripping novel, which was first published in 1955, Chinese-U.S. author, essayist and academic Dr. Lin Yutang’s appears to formulate his conception of a world beyond the muddling of today in a world that has survived two more world wars, and inaugurated a new Democratic World Commonwealth, outside the limitations of national sovereignty. He makes the contact between this groping old world and an island community, dedicated to peace, isolation and immunity from world ills, exalting the virtues of culture, and surviving in a state of suspended animation with little or no government.
The Art of Possession
by Cari ZWhen a treasure-hunting black ops soldier and a disgraced, reckless archeologist team up in search of a priceless artifact, they might get more than they bargained for. Ever since leaving the Green Berets to work in private security, Alex Tucker has longed for some excitement—and he’s about to get his wish. Archeologist Malcolm Armstrong needs the chance to prove he isn’t a fraud. Along with Alex, he’s hired to track down and authenticate a valuable scepter, in a hunt that turns deadlier than either of them imagined as they search dangerous locations across three continents and try to stay ahead of the factions who want the treasure for themselves—and Malcolm and Alex dead. Just as they realize the feelings between them transcend convenience and the thrill of the chase, a rival reemerges, threatening everything.
A Blinded Mind
by Cari Z.Jonathan Hatcher has led an interesting life. Once the psychic protégé of Dr. Nelson Cagney of the Bureau of Psychological Corrections, he escaped and went on the run through post-World War Three Europe, scraping a living out of the ruins of civilization and avoiding the mindless vics: humans turned berserker by exposure to biological and chemical weapons. Once again at Cagney's mercy, Jonathan is stuck in PsyCo's high-security wing with no idea whether Sam, the man he thinks he may love, is alive or dead by his hand. Though at first he only plays along for news of Sam, soon Jonathan sees the conditions in the warring European Coalition are desperate. Sam and Jonathan must make a choice: make for France and a life together... or team up with their captors against a devastating new threat.
In Memoriam
by Cari Z.Lee Summers is past expecting to find love. He has a fulfilling career and a few human connections, and he's determined to be happy with those. When he meets Felix Clymenos during a vacation in Colorado, he doesn't expect to feel so passionate about him. Felix is intriguing, but when he starts to feature in Lee's dreams--and his slowly strengthening nightmares--Lee wonders if it wouldn't be a better idea to walk away. There's a mystery behind Felix's affections and somehow Lee feels like he's known Felix his whole life. Before they can be happy together, Lee has to know why that is... and what that means for their future.
Nadie es lo que parece (Los casos de Marina Altamirano #Volumen 1)
by Mar P. ZabalaPrimera entrega de esta serie trepidante, que no podrás dejar de leer. Los detectives Marina y Carlos se enfrentan a uno de los casos más emocionantes y complicados de sus carreras. ¿Conseguirán descubrir al asesino? «Una sombra se desliza con sigilo por el largo pasillo de la segunda planta. Todavía se puede escuchar el eco de un grito que se apaga en la negra noche sin luna. Las estrellas están ocultas tras las nubes, negándose a iluminar el sangriento escenario. La ciudad duerme. Los insomnes que velan su sueño ocupan su vigilia con libros y revistas, acurrucados en un sillón. A lo lejos, el silbato de un tren anunciando su llegada a la estación rompe el silencio de las calles vacías, que esperan el nuevo día para volver a la vida. Pero alguien no estará allí para verlo.» Marina y Carlos son una pareja de detectives de homicidios a los que sus compañeros y sus superiores no tienen en muy alta estima. Los casos que llegan a su mesa, son los que nadie quiere, los que quitan tiempo e impiden ascender en el escalafón. Pero eso cambia un día, cuando por casualidad deben investigar un asesinato en apariencia sencillo. A la primera muerte le siguen otra sembrando de terror y de confusión a la sociedad. Será Marina la que con su ingenio logre unir las muertes y encontrar la pieza del puzle que será la clave para encontrar al asesino.
Street Legal
by Rafi ZaborA righteously satisfying read of a thriller, metaphysical novel, and screwball comedy, from the author of The Bear Comes Home.With the twists, turns, and smash-ups of a thriller, the sudden depths of a metaphysical novel, and the fizz of a screwball comedy, Street Legal is high entertainment and a righteously satisfying read, from the author of the greatest novel ever written about a saxophone-playing bear.Street Legal features an old-time skunk dealer, sniffing the new breezes, wants to open an Old-Time Grass Business Theme Park with rides and a disco. His foot soldier, a strapping, confused kid who might be on the spectrum. A frustrated cop who isn't allowed to collar anyone important because the town needs the business who consoles himself by trying to make a last-chance bust and grab some of the action. A slick, unsettling stranger buying up properties under cover for a major tobacco company but really out for himself. A Tibetan Buddhist lama from New Jersey who sounds like Tony Soprano when discoursing on the dharma who finds his disciple, a wry, reticently sexy earth mother wracked with concern for the wayward young man who is her son.
...Cradle and All
by Fay Nedra ZacharyThe murders are grisly beyond description. Pregnant women, young mothers, toddlers, all slashed to death
Another Side of Midnight
by Mia ZacharyTwo months, two weeks and four days ago, Steele woke up alone in a hotel room. All Stone left was a note--and a lot of questions. He's back, and she wants answers--but he wants more. Smart-mouthed Vegas private eye Estella 'Steele' Mezzanotte is used to all kinds of trouble. She's nursing another black eye from her bartending sideline, her mom's dropping hints about nice Italian boys and Midnight Investigation Services is struggling. Otherwise, Steele would never have accepted her current gig--suspected adultery, maybe embezzlement. Possibly murder. Her ex, Cameron Stone, wants to partner. Steele wants to punish him for past misdemeanors. But she's got to trust him or risk facing another side of danger alone. . .
The Other Me
by Sarah Zachrich Jeng&“Black Mirror-esque rabbit hole.&”—PopSugarTwo lives. The one you wanted. The one that wanted you. Her birthday should be like any other night. One minute Kelly&’s a free-spirited artist in Chicago going to her best friend&’s art show. The next, she opens a door and mysteriously emerges in her Michigan hometown. Suddenly her life is unrecognizable: She's got twelve years of the wrong memories in her head and she's married to Eric, a man she barely knew in high school.Racing to get back to her old life, Kelly's search leads only to more questions. In this life, she loves Eric and wants to trust him, but everything she discovers about him—including a connection to a mysterious tech startup—tells her she shouldn't. And strange things keep happening. The tattoos she had when she was an artist briefly reappear on her skin, she remembers fights with Eric that he says never happened, and her relationships with loved ones both new and familiar seem to change without warning. But the closer Kelly gets to putting the pieces together, the more her reality seems to shift. And if she can't figure out what happened on her birthday, the next change could cost her everything...
When I'm Her
by Sarah Zachrich JengHow far would you go to get even with the woman who ruined your life?In this electrifying thriller, a young woman gets everything she&’s ever wanted—and everything she doesn&’t—when she swaps bodies with her sworn enemy.Though polar opposites, Mary and Elizabeth are as close as can be—until the night Elizabeth makes an irrevocable mistake and leaves Mary to take the blame. Years later, Elizabeth seems to have forgotten Mary exists.Mary hasn&’t forgotten her.She follows Elizabeth&’s every move online, obsessed with paying her back for the betrayal that cost Mary her dreams. Now Mary has found a way to switch bodies with Elizabeth, and she&’s got a plan to steal her charmed life. Her career. Her looks. Her husband. They do say living well is the best revenge.Or is it? The more Mary uncovers about Elizabeth&’s life, the more she realizes she may have made a deadly mistake. And she'll need the help of her worst enemy to stay alive.
All In (The Bod Squad Series #2)
by Gabra ZackmanDon't miss the second installment of Gabra Zackman's scorching new series."Stop the wedding!" No bride wants to hear those words, least of all Susannah "Legs" Carter, one of the Bod Squad's best agents. But when her colleague Jackson bursts in with news that her presumed-dead father may still be alive--and possibly a double agent--the vows are on hold and the Bod Squad hits the road. Jackson wants to help, but he's a little distracted by Cajun cutie Lisa Bee, his closest coworker. They've always been friends, but there's nothing like a little overseas danger to set sparks flying! As the two work to track a criminal mastermind, will they swap undercover work for under-the-covers play?
Double Down (The Bod Squad Series #3)
by Gabra ZackmanIt's Spy vs. Spy as a sassy Ocean's Eleven-style team of undercover operatives finds love and mayhem in the third Bod Squad adventure--part mystery, part romance, and totally, hilariously hot.Who would fall for an assassin...except another assassin? After a security breach is written in the sky--literally--the Bod Squad jumps back into action. An important member of the team has been assassinated by the mob, and the squad's public enemy #1, Baba Samka, is getting too close. Could his deadly work be an inside job? Only trained assassins Tyka and Mahmoud have the very particular set of skills the Bod Squad needs to solve this case. Neither of these dead sexy shooters is looking for a partner--but before they know it, the sparks are flying faster than bullets. Could true love be in their sights?
Game On (The Bod Squad Series #1)
by Gabra ZackmanPart caper, part romantic comedy, this hilariously entertaining book in the Bod Squad series features a sassy and sexy undercover operative, Susannah "Legs" Carter, and her Ocean's Eleven-style team of private investigators.From Washington, DC, to Paris, Legs is tailing Charles Oakley Palmer III, a white-collar criminal she's determined to bring to justice. But will romance or betrayal blossom along the way? Find out in the first in a sizzling new series about a team of highly skilled investigators who go undercover to catch criminals--while juggling romance, world travel, and danger around every corner.
Death in Durban
by Jon ZackonFrom an author with “a chilling insight into the mean streets of South Africa” comes a crime thriller set before and after the fall of Apartheid (Robert Foster, bestselling author of The Lunar Code). South Africa, 1961. Danny Waterman is a young and idealistic newspaper reporter when he clashes with the corrupt Afrikaner detective Koos van Blatter. Koos is determined to take his revenge, and Danny is forced to flee the country. But he leaves behind the woman he loves, alone and vulnerable. Will she be Koos’s next victim? South Africa, 1996. Two years into the fall of Apartheid, the country is transformed. Thirty-five years after he fled the country, Danny is determined to seek justice at last. And discover the truth about the woman he once loved. Across the bleak South African veldt, the prey becomes the hunter. And a crime is about to be avenged. But once a man acquires a taste for killing, it may never leave him.
Boy Nobody
by Allen ZadoffThey needed the perfect assassin.Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high school in a new town under a new name, makes a few friends, and doesn't stay long. Just long enough for someone in his new friend's family to die-of "natural causes." Mission accomplished, Boy Nobody disappears, moving on to the next target. But when he's assigned to the mayor of New York City, things change. The daughter is unlike anyone he has encountered before; the mayor reminds him of his father. And when memories and questions surface, his handlers at The Program are watching. Because somewhere deep inside, Boy Nobody is somebody: the kid he once was; the teen who wants normal things, like a real home and parents; a young man who wants out. And who just might want those things badly enough to sabotage The Program's mission.In this action-packed series debut, author Allen Zadoff pens a page-turning thriller that is as thought-provoking as it is gripping, introducing an utterly original and unforgettable antihero.
The Hit: Book 1 (Boy Nobody #1)
by Allen ZadoffThe explosive new thriller for fans of Jason Bourne, Robert Muchamore and Michael Grant, previously published under the title Boy Nobody.Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high school, in a new town, under a new name, makes few friends and doesn't stay long. Just long enough for someone in his new friend's family to die -- of "natural causes." Mission accomplished, Boy Nobody disappears, and moves on to the next target. When Boy Nobody was just eleven, he discovered his own parents had died of not-so-natural causes. He soon found himself under the control of The Program, a shadowy government organization that uses brainwashed kids as counter-espionage operatives. But somewhere, deep inside Boy Nobody, is somebody: the boy he once was, the boy who wants normal things (like a real home, his parents back), a boy who wants out. And he just might want those things badly enough to sabotage The Program's next mission.
I Am the Mission (The Unknown Assassin #2)
by Allen ZadoffHe was the perfect assassin.Boy Nobody: No name. No past. No remorse. At least until he began to ask questions and challenge his orders -- until he fell in love with his target. Now The Program is worried that its valuable soldier has become a liability. Boy Nobody, haunted by the outcome of his last assignment, is given a new mission. A test of sorts. A chance to show his loyalty. His objective: Take out Eugene Moore, the owner of a military training and indoctrination camp for teenagers. One target. Limited time frame. Public place. It sounds simple, but a previous operative couldn't do it. He lost the mission and is presumed dead. Boy Nobody is confident he can finish the job. Quickly.But when things go awry, Boy Nobody finds himself lost in a mission where nothing is as it seems: not The Program, his allegiances, or the truth.The riveting second book in The Unknown Assassin series by Allen Zadoff delivers heart-pounding action and thought-provoking characters, as well as a new, exotic setting; a new mission; and new secrets to be revealed.