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Can't Look Away: A Novel
by Carola Lovering"Lovering delivers another winner...a propulsive page-turner about young love and second chances. You won’t be able to put this down." —Laura Dave, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Told Me"Fans of Gillian Flynn and Paula Hawkins will enjoy this one." —Publishers WeeklyIn 2013, twenty-three-year old Molly Diamond is a barista, dreaming of becoming a writer. One night at a concert in East Williamsburg, she locks eyes with the lead singer, Jake Danner, and can’t look away. Molly and Jake fall quickly and deeply in love, especially after he writes a hit song about her that puts his band on the map.Nearly a decade later, Molly has given up writing and is living in Flynn Cove, Connecticut with her young daughter and her husband Hunter—who is decidedly not Jake Danner. Their life looks picture-perfect, but Molly is lonely; she feels out of place with the other women in their wealthy suburb, and is struggling to conceive their second child. When Sabrina, a newcomer in town, walks into the yoga studio where Molly teaches and confesses her own fertility struggles, Molly believes she's finally found a friend.But Sabrina has her own reasons for moving to Flynn Cove and befriending Molly. And as Sabrina’s secrets are slowly unspooled, her connection to Molly becomes clearer––as do secrets of Molly's own, which she’s worked hard to keep buried.Meanwhile, a new version of Jake's hit song is on the radio, forcing Molly to confront her past and ask the ultimate questions: What happens when life turns out nothing like we thought it would, when we were young and dreaming big? Does growing up mean choosing with your head, rather than your heart? And do we ever truly get over our first love?
Can't Run, Can't Hide: The gripping and terrifying new novel for fans of Stephen King (The Black Ice)
by Yrsa SigurdardottirOn a cold winter evening in a secluded fjord in Iceland, a neighbour visits the house of a family that has not been seen in a week. No one comes to the door when he knocks. After breaking down the back door, his worst fears are realised. Their home is now an horrific crime scene.Policeman Týr and forensic pathologist Iðunn are called to the house to investigate. As the case advances, harrowing secrets about the family are revealed. Along with a young policeman Karó, the investigative team quickly realise that the case forces them to face their own suppressed past and opens a Pandora's box to much darker crimes.Can't Run, Can't Hide is a masterclass in tension from one of the world's finest crime writers.
Can't Run, Can't Hide: The gripping and terrifying new novel for fans of Stephen King (The Black Ice)
by Yrsa SigurdardottirOn a cold winter evening in a secluded fjord in Iceland, a neighbour visits the house of a family that has not been seen in a week. No one comes to the door when he knocks. After breaking down the back door, his worst fears are realised. Their home is now an horrific crime scene.Policeman Týr and forensic pathologist Iðunn are called to the house to investigate. As the case advances, harrowing secrets about the family are revealed. Along with a young policeman Karó, the investigative team quickly realise that the case forces them to face their own suppressed past and opens a Pandora's box to much darker crimes.Can't Run, Can't Hide is a masterclass in tension from one of the world's finest crime writers.
Can't Run, Can't Hide: The gripping and terrifying new novel for fans of Stephen King (The Black Ice)
by Yrsa SigurdardottirOn a cold winter evening in a secluded fjord in Iceland, a neighbour visits the house of a family that has not been seen in a week. No one comes to the door when he knocks. After breaking down the back door, his worst fears are realised. Their home is now an horrific crime scene.Policeman Týr and forensic pathologist Iðunn are called to the house to investigate. As the case advances, harrowing secrets about the family are revealed. Along with a young policeman Karó, the investigative team quickly realise that the case forces them to face their own suppressed past and opens a Pandora's box to much darker crimes.Can't Run, Can't Hide is a masterclass in tension from one of the world's finest crime writers.
Can't Stand the Heat (Will Cook for Love #3)
by Peggy JaegerIn Peggy Jaeger’s delectable series, delicious food is just an appetizer for life’s main course: the kind of love that feeds your soul. With three successful TV series under her belt, including her cousin Kandy’s, executive producer Stacy Peters is ready to helm her own show. But to make that happen, she has to do her network boss one favor first—spend two months on a ranch in Montana wrangling the notoriously difficult director of Beef Battles. Apparently, he eats producers for breakfast. Yet all Stacy can think when she meets the lean, rugged man is how hungry he makes her . . . Dominic Stamp—Nikko to his very few friends—has had enough interference from TV newbies. And when Stacy climbs out of the car in Montana, he’s not convinced she’s even old enough to drive, much less produce his show. But he can’t deny that the long-legged blonde with the stubborn will and the dazzling smile whets his appetite. And as Stacy proves her talent with the crew and the budget alike, Nikko vows to prove to her that love is on the menu for both of them . . . Look for exclusive recipes in each book!
Can't Stand the Heat?
by Margaret WatsonJust the sight of Walker Barnes in her kitchen is enough to panic Jen Summers. Those feelings she once had that seemed like cold ashes for so many years are turning out to be hot, hot coals. Walker's sudden appearance is fanning all sorts of flames. Her guilt, her shame, her deep regret for what she'd done to him. But this isn't the awkward geek she'd hurt back in high school. This is a brand-new Walker--hardened, wickedly successful, brilliant, confident, sexy. And he hasn't forgotten how she used him. Or forgiven her. In fact, he seems bent on payback. Of all the times to fall for a guy!
Canadian Crisis (The Executioner #24)
by Don PendletonWith the help of a Canadian operative, the Executioner defends Montreal In a grimy bistro on the north side of Buffalo, a few American mobsters are dining with a Canadian contact when death bursts through the door. His eyes icy, his clothes pitch black, Mack Bolan takes out every American at the table but lets the Canadian live. Andre Chebleu is an undercover operative who has come across the border to infiltrate the American syndicate, and Mack Bolan will need his help if he is going to save Canada from the mob. His endless war against the forces of the Mafia have made most of America unsafe for organized crime, so Bolan&’s enemies have set their sights on Quebec, where radical separatists have destabilized the local government. Only Bolan and Chebleu can rescue Montreal from chaos and save the Great White North from becoming a living hell. Canadian Crisis is the 24th book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Canadian Wolf
by Linda O. JohnstonHe's the one man she can never trust... Sergeant Major Owen Dewirter lives every day with the guilt of having let a shifter hurt one of his own. Now he's being forced to work beside Alpha Force newcomer Selena to train a new covert unit of shifters for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and stop a rash of serial kidnappings. Can Owen ignore his prejudices-and his fantasies-about his sexy new partner and do his job? When their passion ignites in the remote Canadian woods, the tension between Owen and Selena puts the joint mission in jeopardy. Can they learn to trust each other while tracking the enemy? Or will a cunning foe lure them into a dark and deadly endgame?
Canal Dreams
by Iain BanksHisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmosphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on her cello...CANAL DREAMS is a novel of deceptive simplicity and dark, original power: stark psychological insights mesh with vividly realised scenarios in an ominous projection of global realpolitik. The result is yet another major landmark in the quite remarkable career of an outstanding modern novelist.
Canal Dreams
by Iain BanksHisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics are as volatile as the local freedom fighters. When Hisako's ship is captured, it is not long before the atmosphere is as flammable as an oxy-acetylene torch, and the tension as sharp as the spike on her cello...CANAL DREAMS is a novel of deceptive simplicity and dark, original power: stark psychological insights mesh with vividly realised scenarios in an ominous projection of global realpolitik. The result is yet another major landmark in the quite remarkable career of an outstanding modern novelist.
Canapés for the Kitties (The Brimful Coffers Mysteries #1)
by Marian BabsonAgatha Award–Winning Author: When a book critic dies in an English village, a mystery-writing sleuth smells a rat. A number of mystery authors, including Lorinda Lucas, call the village of Brimful Coffers home. Occasionally, there is a violent death . . . for example, the demise of a hapless rat, done in by Lorinda&’s two kitties. But when the victims are book critic Plantagenet Sutton and a visiting writer, Lorinda finds the case much more difficult to solve—in &“another humorous charmer&” by the award-winning author (Library Journal). &“[A] charming morsel of a mystery.&” —Publishers Weekly Praise for Marian Babson &“What can a reviewer say about Marian Babson? If you haven&’t read at least one of her books, you have definitely missed the boat. She is consistently witty.&” —Mystery News
Canary
by Duane SwierczynskiEvery student needs a part-time job. Hers is hunting criminals. Sarie Holland is a good kid. An Honors student. She doesn't even drink.So when a narcotics cop busts her while she's doing a favour for a friend, she has a lot to lose. Desperate to avoid destroying her future, Sarie agrees to become a CI - a confidential informant. Armed only with a notebook, she turns out to be as good at catching criminals as she is at passing tests. But it's going to take more than one nineteen-year-old to clean up Philadelphia. Soon Sarie is caught in the middle of a power struggle between corrupt cops and warring gangs, with nothing on her side but stubbornness and smarts. Which is bad news for both the police and the underworld. Because when it comes to payback, CI #137 turns out to be a very fast learner...
Canary
by Duane SwierczynskiIt's dangerous enough when an ordinary college girl turns confidential informant. Even more dangerous when she's smarter than the killer, kingpins, and cops who control her.Honors student Sarie Holland is busted by the local police while doing a favor for her boyfriend. Unwilling to betray him but desperate to avoid destroying her future, Sarie has no choice but to become a "CI"--a confidential informant.Philly narcotics cop Ben Wildey is hungry for a career-making bust. The detective thinks he's found the key in Sarie: her boyfriend scores from a mid-level dealer with alleged ties to the major drug gangs.Sarie turns out to be the perfect CI: a quick study with a shockingly keen understanding of the criminal mind. But Wildey, desperate for results, pushes too hard and inadvertently sends the nineteen-year-old into a death trap, leaving Sarie hunted by crooked cops and killers alike with nothing to save her--except what she's learned during her harrowing weeks as an informant.Which is bad news for the police and the underworld. Because when it comes to payback, CI #1373 turns out to be a very quick study...
Canary: A Daniel Valentine And Clarisse Lovelace Mystery (Valentine & Lovelace #4)
by Nathan AldyneA gay bar&’s business is getting killed—along with its clientele—in the final novel of this beloved mystery series set in early-eighties Boston. Daniel Valentine is Boston&’s most fabulous gay bartender. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight—yet glorious—pal and business partner. Together they run Lovelace&’s bar. And also, when necessary, solve the occasional murder. Lovelace&’s bar, once the darling of Boston&’s gay brigade, is losing money like crazy—mostly because someone keeps leaving dead bodies around. The cops are, unsurprisingly, not interested in the gay community&’s problems. Good thing Valentine and Lovelace know a thing or two about catching killers.
Cancans, Croissants, and Caskets (A Happy Hoofers Mystery #3)
by Mary Mchugh"A huge treat for mystery fans." --Peggy EhrhartYou can't tiptoe when murder's afoot...It's Bastille Day in Paris. The Happy Hoofers--Tina, Janice, Pat, Mary Louise, and Gini--are all set to kick off the fete by dancing the cancan on a beautiful sightseeing cruise down the Seine. As the leggy ladies soak in the magic of the city of lights, everything is magnifique...until a very important patron goes belly-up on the top deck. On the heels of their French debut, murder takes center stage. The five daring dancers will need to step lively to stop the crafty killer fast...or their grand finale will turn out far more explosive than the fireworks over the Eiffel Tower...Includes Fashion Tips And Tasty Recipes
Cancel All Our Vows
by John D. MacdonaldFletcher Wyant and his wife Jane had been married for fifteen years. They had built the perfect marriage - two wonderful kids, a warm beautiful home, and their own private never-ending love affair. Fletcher thought he knew Jane completely. No dark secrets. No hidden past. Then one hot summer week everything changed. And suddenly, brutally, Jane became a cold stranger.
Cancel All Our Vows (Murder Room #95)
by John D. MacDonaldFletcher Wyant and his wife Jane had been married for fifteen years. They had built the perfect marriage - two wonderful kids, a warm beautiful home, and their own private never-ending love affair.Fletcher thought he knew Jane completely. No dark secrets. No hidden past. Then one hot summer week everything changed. And suddenly, brutally, Jane became a cold stranger.
Cancelled by Murder (Postmistress #2)
by Jean FlowersSecond in the Postmistress Mystery series by Jean Flowers, following Death Takes Priority..."MAKE THIS MYSTERY SERIES YOUR PRIORITY."--Janet Cantrell, national bestselling author of the Fat Cat mysteries Cassie Miller returned to her sleepy hometown in the Berkshires to start over as the new postmistress. But she soon finds that dead letters are nothing compared to murder victims...With a massive storm about to hit North Ashcot, Massachusetts, threatening floods and widespread wind damage, Cassie is forced to close up the post office along with the rest of the local business owners and residents, who are battening down the hatches and bracing themselves for the worst. Although the storm proves not to be as bad as predicted, fabric shop owner Daisy Harmon is found dead, seemingly killed by a fallen branch. But the police quickly determine that her death had nothing to do with foul weather and everything to do with foul play. After Daisy's widowed husband approaches her to help solve his wife's murder, Cassie vows to find the killer before another innocent victim is taken by storm.
Canción de Coyote
by Renee Benzaim Elisa Pedraz GonzalezExiste una profecía en el clan Sierra de los indios Miwok que habla de que una mujer se convertirá en chamán del clan y conseguirá unir de nuevo a todos los Miwok haciéndoles fuertes una vez más. Al principio muchos de ellos creían esa profecía, pero a medida que pasaban los años, cada vez menos Miwok la recordaban, dejándola en el olvido para las nuevas generaciones; pero no para todas. Unos pocos, aún la recordaban y seguían esperando; entre ellos se encontraba el viejo Chamán. Sin embargo, un día salió hacia las montañas y nunca lo volvieron a ver. Todos estaban convencidos de que había ido a reunirse con sus antepasados. Después de eso el clan se redujo. Seguían teniendo un poderoso y fuerte jefe pero los jóvenes terminaron por marcharse, especialmente aquellos que vivían en la aislada ciudad de montaña conocida como West Point en California, donde no les quedaba ningún motivo para quedarse. Fue entonces, un día de 1989, cuando una pequeña niña Miwok desapareció del jardín de su casa en la reserva.
Canción de cuna
by Barbara WoodSegún los médicos, Mary McFarland de 17 años está embarazada.Sin embargo, la muchacha asegura ser virgen. Una absorbente novela de misterio sobre una joven atrapada entre las posibilidades de la ciencia y los misterios de la fe . En Estados Unidos, en plena década de los 60, lo peor que podía sucederle a una mujer era quedarse embarazada fuera del matrimonio. Por ello, cuando se corre la voz sobre el embarazo de la joven Mary McFarland, una chica católica, estudiante de secundaria, se convierte automáticamente en un escándalo. Rechazada y condenada al ostracismo por familia y amigos, e incluso por su pastor, Mary insiste en su inocencia, pero nadie la cree. Un médico llega a plantearse si la tenaz insistencia de Mary sobre su virginidad podría ser cierta, de modo que decide investigar su caso. Pero la teoría científica que el doctor termina desarrollando para explicar el embarazo de Mary es tan bizarra y se basa en hechos médicos tan improbables que sabe que tanto la familia McFarland como la iglesia y, en definitiva, todo el mundo, se negarán a creerla. Aunque, si él está en lo cierto... ¿qué criatura lleva Mary en sus entrañas? La crítica ha dicho...«Barbara Wood consigue que su ficción cobre vida a través de una narración escrupulosa y unos personajes memorables.»Booklist
Canción de tumba
by Julián HerbertCanción de tumba narra la azarosa vida de Guadalupe Chávez, prostituta y madre del narrador que, a lo largo del libro, se encamina hacia la muerte, víctima de la leucemia. La enfermedad de Guadalupe impone al protagonista un ejercicio autobiográfico que le llevará a sumergirse en su infancia y su juventud, al tiempo que indaga en la compleja relación con su madre, con sus propios hijos y con su país, México, asolado por la corrupción, la violencia y la destrucción.Pero, a pesar de lo autobiográfico, Canción de tumba trasciende lo autorreferencial gracias a que hay en ella una clara preocupación por el método de escritura, la verdadera ciencia secreta de la literatura. Por otro lado, son varias y muy destacadas las novelas de autores españoles e hispanoamericanos publicadas recientemente y señaladas por la crítica que tratan de padres e hijos, o más bien de la relación de los hijos con sus padres en un determinado contexto.La novela de Julián Herbert saca esqueletos del armario, crea una voz narrativa genuina y febril, dibuja un México desalmado poblado por personajes que ya forman parte de lo mejor de la literatura en español. Canción de tumba es poesía, música y una lectura inagotable."Es la suya una escritura áspera y hermosa al mismo tiempo, una épica sin héroes que hace añicos el tejado de vidrio de la hipocresía."Iván de la Nuez, Babelia
Candle Flame: Being The Thirteenth Of The Sorrowful Mysteries Of Brother Athelstan
by Paul DohertyAn intriguing medieval mystery featuring Brother Athelstan February, 1381. London lies frozen in the grip of one of the bitterest winters on record. The ever-rising taxes demanded by the Regent, John of Gaunt, are causing increasing resentment among the city's poor. When the seething unrest boils over into a bloody massacre at a splendid Southwark tavern, The Candle Flame, in which nine people, including Gaunt's tax collectors, their military escort and the prostitutes entertaining them, are brutally murdered, the furious Regent orders Brother Athelstan to get to the bottom of the matter. For not only has Gaunt's treasure trove been stolen, he has reason to believe a French spy is active along the Thames, carefully recording for his masters in the Louvre the state of English war cogs. And a professional assassin, Beowulf, who has sworn vengeance against Gaunt and his minions, also stalks the shadows. Once again, Athelstan must enter the murky world of murder, where the darkness constantly shifts and no one is who or what they seem.
Candle for a Corpse (Mitchell & Markby 8): A classic English village murder mystery
by Ann GrangerSecrets won't stay buried... Only now, twelve years after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl, will Mitchell & Markby begin to unravel the mystery in Candle for a Corpse, Ann Granger's eighth cosy Cotwolds crime novel in the Mitchell & Markby series. The perfect read for fans of Hamish McBeth, Agatha Christie and ITV's Midsomer Murders.'Enjoyable crime featuring credible characters in a recognisably real world' - Belfast Telegraph On an unseasonably chilly summer's day a macabre discovery is made in Bamford's ancient churchyard. A body, dead some twelve years, is unearthed in the Gresham family plot, too shallowly buried to be a legitimate interment, too recent to be the last Gresham officially laid to rest. Superintendent Alan Markby cannot resist the challenge to solve this twelve-year-old crime and suddenly his long-planned canal-barge holiday with Meredith Mitchell is in serious jeopardy. When the remains are identified as those of a local teenager, Kimberley Oates, reported missing at the time of the mysterious burial, his mind is made up. Her holiday postponed, to her secret relief, Meredith finds herself with more time than usual for village chat - and for a dinner party with the local MP that reveals more than either he or his formidable mother would like about his connection with the dead girl...What readers are saying about Candle for a Corpse:'If you like low key crime with plenty of humour and interesting characters and plot then you will enjoy this series!''Brilliant writer and a brilliant book''I feel like I know the heroine personally'
Candle for a Corpse (Mitchell & Markby 8): A classic English village murder mystery
by Ann GrangerSecrets won't stay buried... Only now, twelve years after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl, will Mitchell & Markby begin to unravel the mystery in Candle for a Corpse, Ann Granger's eighth cosy Cotwolds crime novel in the Mitchell & Markby series. The perfect read for fans of Hamish McBeth, Agatha Christie and ITV's Midsomer Murders.'Enjoyable crime featuring credible characters in a recognisably real world' - Belfast Telegraph On an unseasonably chilly summer's day a macabre discovery is made in Bamford's ancient churchyard. A body, dead some twelve years, is unearthed in the Gresham family plot, too shallowly buried to be a legitimate interment, too recent to be the last Gresham officially laid to rest. Superintendent Alan Markby cannot resist the challenge to solve this twelve-year-old crime and suddenly his long-planned canal-barge holiday with Meredith Mitchell is in serious jeopardy. When the remains are identified as those of a local teenager, Kimberley Oates, reported missing at the time of the mysterious burial, his mind is made up. Her holiday postponed, to her secret relief, Meredith finds herself with more time than usual for village chat - and for a dinner party with the local MP that reveals more than either he or his formidable mother would like about his connection with the dead girl...What readers are saying about Candle for a Corpse:'If you like low key crime with plenty of humourand interesting charactersand plot then you will enjoy this series!''Brilliant writer and a brilliant book''I feel like I know the heroine personally'
Candleland (The Stephen Larkin Mysteries #3)
by Martyn WaitesA reporter combs London&’s underworld in search of a missing addictA hard-hitting series of anti-corruption articles and a new girlfriend mean that, for the first time since his wife and child were murdered, investigative reporter Stephen Larkin is happy in Newcastle. It&’s a shame, then, that his work is about to take him south. A friend of his, police inspector Henry Moir, has lost his youngest daughter, an HIV-positive heroin addict named Karen. Her last known location was London, which Larkin once called home, so Moir asks the reporter to act as tour guide to the capital&’s hellish underworld. They travel south together: a man whose life is coming together and one whose life is fraying apart. Karen lies deep within London&’s shadow world. To find her, they must descend to depths from which good men may never return.