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Cougar Mountain Ambush
by Kathie RidingsA shooter in pursuit… and nowhere left to hide. When Thad Hanson hears gunshots fired on his ranch, the last thing he expects to find is game warden Carrie Caldwell pinned down by an armed drone—and an unknown assailant closing in. Now Thad&’s determined to stay between Carrie and the threat at all times. But with the shooter following their every move, can Thad get Carrie to safety…without leading them both into a trap?From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Could I Have This Dance?
by Harry M. KrausThe story of Claire McCall, a surgical intern who is used to fighting back against the odds. After discovering her father has Huntington's Disease, Claire is afraid to test herself and possibly lose her internship at the hospital. While Claire moves from trying to win God's favor to a realization of his grace, her engagement dissolves, she fights a malpractice suit, and she finds that someone wants her dead.
Could You Be With Her Now
by Jen MichalskiThe title novella is a first-person account of a mentally challenged fourteen-year-old boy who accidentally kills a neighborhood girl and winds up running away and hitching a ride with a trucker who is not as trustworthy a companion as Jimmy believes him to be. Jen Michalski examines the dangers of living in a world while having a compromised reality in this beautiful and engaging story.Combined with a Press 53 award-winning novella, this duo shows Michalski's varying skills as a writer. Michalski also edits the online journal jmww, and runs a reading series in Baltimore, Maryland."In tandem, [the novellas] inform one another, their threads entangling, ultimately affording a more complete reading of the collection as a whole." - Nik Korpin, Electric Literature"The two very different styles in Could You Be With Her Now, not only make the case for the novellas as form, but also for Michalski as a wise writer and master stylist." - Baynard Woods, Baltimore City Paper"Jen is an astonishingly sensitive writer." - Adam Robinson, HTML Giant"Stewart O'Nan has written understandingly and movingly about the life of an older woman in Emily, Alone: A Novel. 'May-September' adds to the admittedly limited oeuvre with the inspiring story of a woman who can still come alive through love." - Celeste Sollod, Style Magazine"At the center of it all is Michalski's masterful hand, at once compassionate and unflinching, possessed of extraordinary, aesthetic restraint. What she has given us are two lean bodies of incredible depth and ambition."- Sara Lippmann, [Pank]"This is an admirable and original book. Michalski is a skilled storywriter." - Roman Gladstone, Chamber Four"Michalski is just a damned good writer, and her subject matter is, at the same time, the most common story there is: love. She handles it beautifully, revealing herself as one of the finest writers working today." - Cort Bledsoe, Ampersand Review"Could You Be With Her Now, a book of two novellsa, is one of the most writerly books I've come across in awhile. What I mean is, Michalski gave a lot of thought to how she wanted to write these stories and then executed them so beautifully that the result is a piece of art to be admired as it is absorbed." - Lindsey Silken, Hello Giggles"In both stories, Michalski explores what it means to be vulnerable in modern society, what it means to be invisible, powerless, voiceless-either from mental or physical fraility-but struggling to matter in the world just the same. How carelessness and resentments on part of the family members can inadvertently thrust their vulnerable loved ones into situations that bring unexpected, unwanted, painful consequences." - Rosalia Scalia, The Little Patuxent Review'While "Dinner" feels like a celebration of its form's nervous charms, "May-September" expands on its "state of grace" strengths, lending Now a certain comprehensive sweep; taken as a whole, the book feels like a tour de force statement on how - and why - novellas continue to be written." - Joseph Martin, Baltimore Fishbowl"Together, these works illustrate how so often, we fail to go any deeper than the surface of those around us. Both in Jimmy and Sandra's interactions with the world around them, there is a breakdown of communication, and a failing of those who are close." - Jennifer Ray Morell, Sundog Lit"Kudos to Michalski for giving me ALL THE EMOTIONS. Whether you fall into these two stories willingly, or struggle to catalog and exercise all of the demons you are dealing with as you make your way through, one thing is certain. Michalski will make you feel. And feeling... well, feeling anything feels good." - Lori Hettler, The Next Best
Could You Survive Midsomer? – A Winter's Murder: An Official Midsomer Murders Interactive Novel (Midsomer Murders #1)
by Simon Brew All3Media International LtdCan you survive the festivities of Midsomer?Halloween in the beautiful county of Midsomer finds itself overshadowed by a trick or treat that takes a nasty turn. Sara McLower answers the door, and finds her life ended by a pumpkin. When villagers gather a few weeks later for her funeral, there's an understandable sense of unease.Still, there's the festive lights switch-on to look forward to at The Windy Dog pub, overseen as always by longstanding landlady Betty Grainger. But when she flicks the light switch, it'd be fair to say that things go with a bit of a bang. It leaves not one but two serious crimes to investigate.Which is where you come in. Step into the shoes of a detective in Midsomer, and choose your own path through the investigation. Can you get to the bottom of just what's happened, or will you end up putting your own life in jeopardy?Your task, in this follow-up to the bestselling Could You Survive Midsomer? To solve what's gone on, arrest who needs arresting - and try to avoid coming a cropper yourself. Good luck, detective...An official Midsomer Murders Interactive novel set in ITV's most celebrated and murderous county.
Could You Survive Midsomer? – A Winter's Murder: An Official Midsomer Murders Interactive Novel (Midsomer Murders #1)
by Simon Brew All3Media International LtdCan you survive the festivities of Midsomer?Halloween in the beautiful county of Midsomer finds itself overshadowed by a trick or treat that takes a nasty turn. Sara McLower answers the door, and finds her life ended by a pumpkin. When villagers gather a few weeks later for her funeral, there's an understandable sense of unease.Still, there's the festive lights switch-on to look forward to at The Windy Dog pub, overseen as always by longstanding landlady Betty Grainger. But when she flicks the light switch, it'd be fair to say that things go with a bit of a bang. It leaves not one but two serious crimes to investigate.Which is where you come in. Step into the shoes of a detective in Midsomer, and choose your own path through the investigation. Can you get to the bottom of just what's happened, or will you end up putting your own life in jeopardy?Your task, in this follow-up to the bestselling Could You Survive Midsomer? To solve what's gone on, arrest who needs arresting - and try to avoid coming a cropper yourself. Good luck, detective...An official Midsomer Murders Interactive novel set in ITV's most celebrated and murderous county.
Council of Kings (Executioner #79)
by Don PendletonThe bloody trail of a loansharking operation in Oregon leads Mack Bolan to a massive shipload of illegal arms bound for Portland. Bolan refuses to consider the cost in innocent lives if the weapons fall into Mafia hands. He races against time to smash the smugglers, and his brother Johnny learns some big secrets about the Executioner.
Council: Helga Finnsdottir Book II
by Snorri Kristjansson'For Vikings done right, come to Snorri Kristjansson' Mark Lawrence, author of Red SisterAfter five years on the road, Helga has finally settled near King Eirik's court in Uppsala, where she's well-regarded as a healer. She's even in a relationship, of sorts.But life is about to get a bit more exciting, for King Eirik has summoned all those who owe him fealty to the King's Council and tempers are already flaring. The body of an unknown boy is found near the river, but with delegations from all over the country arriving and rumours of an imminent attack, there are more important things to attend to than the death of a nobody . . .Only Helga suspects murder, until a second body makes it clear that someone is intent on breaking up the King's Council - and that a traitor walks among them . . .
Council: Helga Finnsdottir Book II (The Helga Finnsdottir Mysteries #2)
by Snorri Kristjansson'For Vikings done right, come to Snorri Kristjansson' Mark Lawrence, author of Red SisterAfter five years on the road, Helga has finally settled near King Eirik's court in Uppsala, where she's well-regarded as a healer. She's even in a relationship, of sorts.But life is about to get a bit more exciting, for King Eirik has summoned all those who owe him fealty to the King's Council and tempers are already flaring. The body of an unknown boy is found near the river, but with delegations from all over the country arriving and rumours of an imminent attack, there are more important things to attend to than the death of a nobody . . .Only Helga suspects murder, until a second body makes it clear that someone is intent on breaking up the King's Council - and that a traitor walks among them . . .
Count All Her Bones
by April HenryApril Henry masterminds another edge-of-your-seat thriller in this much-anticipated sequel to Girl, Stolen.Six months ago, Griffin Sawyer meant to steal a car, but he never meant to steal the girl asleep in the backseat. Panicked, he took her home. His father, Roy, decided to hold Cheyenne—who is blind—for ransom. Griffin helped her escape, and now Roy is awaiting trial. As they prepare to testify, Griffin and Cheyenne reconnect and make plans to meet. But the plan goes wrong and Cheyenne gets captured by Roy’s henchmen—this time for the kill. Can Cheyenne free herself? And is Griffin a pawn or a player in this deadly chase?April Henry masterminds another edge-of-your-seat thriller in Count All Her Bones.A Christy Ottaviano Book
Count Luna
by Alexander Lernet-HoleniaAt once a chase novel, black comedy, and softly keening death song, Count Luna starts off at a gallop and accelerates into warp speed. At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat, heads a great Viennese shipping company. He detests the Nazis, and when his board of directors asks him to go along with confiscating a neighbor’s large parcel of land for their thriving wartime business, Jessiersky refuses. Yet, without his knowledge, the board succeeds in sending the owner of the land, a certain Count Luna, to a Nazi concentration camp on a trumped-up charge. Years later the war is over, but after a series of mysterious events, Jessiersky, deeply paranoid, becomes convinced that Count Luna has survived and seeks vengeance; driven to kill the source of his dread, he decides to hunt down Luna—and his years-long chase after the spectral count finally takes him deep into the catacombs of Rome… The nightmare logic of Count Luna comes from deep within Jessiersky’s festering fears and serves up his brooding, insanity-spiced, delicious disquisitions—on what the Etruscans knew, on cemeteries as originally “sleeping places”—before coming at last to death itself: “Well, well, well, thought Jessiersky, swallowing hard. So you do die after all. You refuse to believe that someday you will die but then you die. And you don’t even notice it. And yet the fact that you don’t is the best thing about dying...”
Count Me Out
by Russell JamesThe world of the traveling carnival is a colorful, rowdy, and mean one, but for Jet Heywood and his little girl, Stella, it is a refuge, a place to call home. Jet, though recovering from a massive head injury, is back where he came from, taking on all nightly challengers in the boxing ring to earn a precarious living and keep the social workers at bay. But a dangerous man named Gottfleisch has masterminded an armored van heist now gone badly wrong: Scott Heywood is on the run with two million pounds. Gottfleisch believes that Jet knows where his brother is, and he and his men will use any means necessary to get to Scott and the money starting with Jet, if they can find him. What Stella and Jet undergo together in this intense and terrifying novel brings forth unexpected reserves of love and strength. Russell James is rapidly emerging as one of England's finest writers in the hard-edged tradition by creating fiction The Face calls "an unholy cross between Len Deighton and the great American noir novelist David Goodis." Following the acclaimed Payback and Slaughter Music, Count Me Out enters unexplored territory to become his most striking work to date.
Count My Lies
by Sophie Stava&“The very definition of a page-turner! This smart, original, twisty story had me gripped from the first to the last page.&” —Liane Moriarty, New York Times bestselling author A read-in-one-night suspense thriller narrated by a compulsive liar whose little white lies allow her to enter into the life and comfort of a wealthy married couple who are harboring much darker secrets themselves. For the millions of us still chasing those gone girls, this is perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Lucy Foley, and Laura Dave.Sloane Caraway is a liar. Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting. So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can&’t help herself—she tells the girl&’s (very attractive) dad she&’s a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl&’s foot. With this lie, and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart. The perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island. But maybe Sloane isn&’t the only one lying, and all that&’s picture-perfect harbors a much more dangerous truth. To say anything more is to spoil the most exciting, twisty, and bitingly smart suspense novel to come out in years. The thing about lies is that they add up, form their own truth and a twisted prison of a world. And in Count My Lies, Sophie Stava spins a breakneck, unputdownable thriller about the secrets we keep, and the terrifying dangers that lurk just under the images we spend so much time trying to maintain. Careful what you lie for.
Count to Ten (Chicago Ser.)
by Karen RoseIn all his years in the Chicago Fire Department, Lieutenant Reed Solliday ahs never experienced anything like this recent outbreak of house fires - devastating, vicious and in one case, homicidal. He has another problem - his new partner, Detective Mia Mitchell. She's brash, bossy, and taking the case in a direction he never imagined. Mia's instincts tell her the arsonist is making this personal. And as the infernos become more deadly, one look at the victims' tortured faces convinces her and Reed that they must work closer to catch the killer. With each new blaze, the villain ups the ante, setting firetraps for the people Reed and Mia love. The truth is almost too hot to handle: This monster's desire for death and destruction is unquenchable ... and for Mia he's started the countdown to an early grave.
Count to Ten (Chicago Series #5)
by Karen RoseAn out-of-control arsonist seeking revenge. A fireman and a detective on his tail. COUNT TO TEN is a compulsive thriller, part of the Chicago series, by Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose. Abandoned years ago to the foster-care system, two young brothers end up in an unimaginable hell and when one dies, the other vows revenge on those responsible. Chicago Fire department veteran Reed Solliday immediately knows he needs help when an autopsy reveals that a young girl found in the wreckage of an explosion was raped and murdered before fire ripped through the house. Determined to bury herself in work after her partner is shot, Detective Mia Mitchell understands Solliday's case will be her most challenging to date. An arsonist who has escalated in this way is rare and they both know time to find him is running out....
Count to Ten (Chicago Series #5)
by Karen RoseAn out-of-control arsonist seeking revenge. A fireman and a detective on his tail. COUNT TO TEN is a compulsive thriller, part of the Chicago series, by Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose. Abandoned years ago to the foster-care system, two young brothers end up in an unimaginable hell and when one dies, the other vows revenge on those responsible. Chicago Fire department veteran Reed Solliday immediately knows he needs help when an autopsy reveals that a young girl found in the wreckage of an explosion was raped and murdered before fire ripped through the house. Determined to bury herself in work after her partner is shot, Detective Mia Mitchell understands Solliday's case will be her most challenging to date. An arsonist who has escalated in this way is rare and they both know time to find him is running out....(P)2018 Hachette Audio
Count to Ten: A Private Novel (Private #12)
by James Patterson Ashwin Sanghi<P>From the world's #1 bestselling author comes the newest book in the blockbuster PRIVATE series... <P>Santosh Wagh quit his job as head of Private India after harrowing events in Mumbai almost got him killed. But Jack Morgan, global head of the world's finest investigation agency, needs him back. Jack is setting up a new office in Delhi, and Santosh is the only person he can trust. <P>Still battling his demons, Santosh accepts, and it's not long before the agency takes on a case that could make or break them. Plastic barrels containing dissolved human remains have been found in the basement of a house in an upmarket area of South Delhi. <P>But this isn't just any house, this property belongs to the state government. With the crime scene in lockdown and information suppressed by the authorities, delving too deep could make Santosh a target to be eliminated. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Count-Down
by David HagbergWhen a U.S. submarine vanishes and a Pershing missile is hijacked, the CIA calls in Kirk McGarvey, who faces his toughest foe in a Russian agent bent on destroying glasnost.
Countdown
by Heather WoodhavenBORROWED TIME When Rachel Cooper witnesses the abduction of her neighbor's young twin sons, she springs into action to save them. But now the thwarted kidnappers are after her...and her only hope of survival is relying on their widowed single father, James McGuire. A weapon has been planted on a satellite James's company is ready to launch, and as the systems specialist, it's his job to stop it. But someone is set on keeping James from preventing the scheduled takeoff-and they'll use anyone close to him as leverage. Now he must find a way to protect his boys and the woman he's beginning to fall for...before the final countdown can even start.
Countdown (Eve Duncan #5)
by Iris JohansenWhen it reaches zero, you die. #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen sets her readers' pulses racing once again in this relentless psychological thriller of a young woman caught in a maze of secrets and stalked by a merciless killer. The countdown begins the moment you open this riveting novel that only grows more electrifying as the pages turn, more exciting as time runs out.
Countdown (Jesse Sutherlin Mysteries #2)
by Frederick RamsayIt's 1928, Jesse Sutherlin now has his own family and has made a success at the sawmill below Virginia's Buffalo Mountain working for JG Edwards. The country's economy is booming. And then David Privette, the sheriff who succeeded Dalton P. Franklin with whom Jesse had a run-in or two in Copper Kettle, arrives with surprising news - the body of Jesse's father has just been discovered in the pit at Smith's West Oxford Street ice house operation. How could this be? In 1918 a man had brought the family the news that Sutherlin, Sr., had died of the Spanish flu while seeking work up in Norfolk, Virginia. Sheriff Privette doesn't take a deep interest in this cold crime, but Jesse is not letting it go. The body has been found with a money belt fat with fifty dollars, a small fortune. Twenty of the seventy dollars that Sutherlin Sr. was carrying is missing. So is his heirloom watch given to him for "thirty years' service in the AM and O Railroad which is now the Norfolk and Western. It was gold and big as an onion." What happened to the money and to "the Onion"? Was all this the work of a thief? Who was the man who showed up at the Sutherlins' door? There's not much to work with. But that won't stop Jesse who investigates as the 1928 boom progresses relentlessly toward 1929. "Eight years after Copper Kettle we drop in on Jesse Sutherlin and his wife Serena, plagued by murders old and new beneath the advancing shadow of the Great Depression. Plot, characters, voice all still at that same gold standard Ramsay set from first book to this, his last." --Dana Stabenow, bestselling author of the Kate Shugak Series
Countdown (The Men of the Sisterhood #1)
by Fern MichaelsA secret team of modern-day Robin Hoods targets corrupt landlords in this spinoff from the New York Times-bestselling Sisterhood series… In the second episode of a spectacular three-part series from New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels, the men in the Sisterhood's lives join forces to protect the underdog and see justice served. . . It takes a special kind of man to love and be loved by one of the Sisterhood. The women's escapades have brought them worldwide fame and created a bond among their menfolk too. But now, Jack, Ted, Harry, Joe, Bert and Abner have formed a secret group of their own and they've got a project in mind—taking down some of Washington, D.C.'s most ruthless slum landlords. First step: making reparations to the tenants who've suffered. Second step: making sure the bad guys pay. Ted, Jack, and company must find a way to hit the villains where it hurts most. Good thing these modern-day Robin Hoods have learned from the best, and that the Sisterhood can always be counted on to help fight for what's right. . . &“The Men of the Sisterhood series has it all.&” —RT Book Reviews
Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II (The Last Policeman Trilogy #2)
by Ben WintersThe Last Policeman received the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original--along with plenty of glowing reviews. Now Detective Hank Palace returns in Countdown City, the second volume of the Last Policeman trilogy. There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detective Palace is out of a job. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the U.S. Justice Department, Hank's days of solving crimes are over...until a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband. Brett Cavatone disappeared without a trace--an easy feat in a world with no phones, no cars, and no way to tell whether someone's gone "bucket list" or just gone. With society falling to shambles, Hank pieces together what few clues he can, on a search that leads him from a college-campus-turned-anarchist-encampment to a crumbling coastal landscape where anti-immigrant militia fend off "impact zone" refugees. Countdown City presents another fascinating mystery set on brink of an apocalypse--and once again, Hank Palace confronts questions way beyond "whodunit." What do we as human beings owe to one another? And what does it mean to be civilized when civilization is collapsing all around you?
Countdown Zero (Codename Conspiracy #2)
by Chris RylanderFrom Chris Rylander, author of the breakout hit Fourth Stall saga, comes the second book in the Codename Conspiracy series, an incredibly funny and clever mash-up of middle grade school story and spy adventure.Ever since Carson Fender was let go by the secret agency that had enlisted his services to help foil a nefarious plot perpetrated by one of their former agents, he's been back to hanging with his friends, pulling pranks, and not having to lie to everyone about how he's spending his days. And that's for the best, isn't it?Of course, this was all before a note showed up in his school lunch, informing him that Agent Nineteen had three days left to live, and that there might still be someone inside the Agency working against them. Carson has always been able to rely on his friends--but what happens when there's no one left to trust?
Countdown in Cairo (The Russian Trilogy #3)
by Noel HyndWhen federal agent Alexandra LaDuca travels to Egypt to investigate the possible sighting of a former mentor, she is thrown into the deadliest game of double cross in her career. An American woman working alone, she must rely on her wits, her training, and her skill with lethal weapons not just to succeed, but also to survive. A CIA agent whom she believed to be dead appears to be alive; and why is he dressing like an Arab and speaking Russian? Tough, savvy, and cool under fire, Alex pushes herself to the limits as she puts her life on the line once again for her faith and her country—all while working with a mysterious new partner who may or may not be trustworthy. This fast-paced contemporary espionage thriller is exactly what Noel Hynd fans have been waiting for, the third and final installment of the Russian Trilogy. It will keep everyone turning pages and guessing from beginning to end.