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Guilty as Cinnamon
by Leslie BudewitzMurder heats up Seattle's Pike Place Market in the next Spice Shop mystery from the national bestselling author of Assault and Pepper.Springtime in Seattle's Pike Place Market means tasty foods and wide-eyed tourists, and Pepper's Spice Shop is ready for the crowds. With flavorful combinations and a fresh approach, she's sure to win over the public. Even better, she's working with several local restaurants as their chief herb and spice supplier. Business is cooking, until one of Pepper's potential clients, a young chef named Tamara Langston, is found dead, her life extinguished by the dangerously hot ghost chili--a spice Pepper carries in her shop. Now stuck in the middle of a heated police investigation, Pepper must use all her senses to find out who wanted to keep Tamara's new café from opening--before someone else gets burned... INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!
Guilty as Sin
by Joseph Teller"I love the dry wit of Teller's work. Nelson Demille meets Turow or Grisham!"--Goodreads review of Overkill A Jaywalker Case: Book 4 (originally published in 2011) It was a court-appointed case, and Jaywalker knew going in that his client was guilty of the drug deal he'd been arrested for. But there are degrees of guilt, as Jaywalker knew all too well from personal experience. Sometimes people made the wrong move for the right reason, and it was the degree of Alonzo Barnett's guilt that would drive Jaywalker's defense strategy. If that strategy failed, Alonzo, an otherwise-redeemed ex-con, would be back in prison for years. And that was an outcome Jaywalker couldn't stomach, not when his belief in his client was unshakable and the right verdict could lead to redemption for them both. Don't miss a single one of Joseph Teller's award-winning Jaywalker novels: The Tenth Case Bronx Justice Depraved Indifference Guilty as Sin Overkill
Guilty as Sin: A Novel (Deer Lake #2)
by Tami HoagA cold-blooded kidnapper has been playing a twisted game with a terrified Minnesota town. Now a respected member of the community stands accused of a horrific act of evil. But when a second boy disappears, a frightened public demands to know: Have the police caught the wrong man? Is the nightmare continuing--or just beginning? Prosecutor Ellen North believes she's building a case against a guilty man--and that he has an accomplice in the shadows. As she prepares for the trial of her career, Ellen suddenly finds herself swept into a cruel contest of twisted wits, a dark dance of life and death . . . with an evil mind as guilty as sin.Praise for Tami Hoag and Guilty as Sin "Without a doubt . . . one of the most intense suspense writers around."--Chicago Tribune "A chilling study of evil that holds the reader until the shocking surprise ending."--New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin "The tangled relationships that lie just beneath the surface of Deer Lake are tantalizingly revealed."--The New York Times Book Review "Accomplished and scary."--Cosmopolitan From the Paperback edition.
Guilty by Definition: A Novel
by Susie DentAgatha Christie meets Countdown in the debut mystery novel from the genius of Dictionary Corner, Susie DentWord games can be murderWhen an anonymous letter is delivered to the offices of the Clarendon English Dictionary, it is immediately clear that this is not the usual lexicographical enquiry. Instead, the letter hints at secrets and lies linked to a particular year. For new senior editor Martha Thornhill, the date means only one thing: the summer her brilliant older sister, Charlie, went missing.After a decade abroad, Martha has returned home to the city whose ancient institutions have long defined her family. Have the ghosts she left behind been waiting for her return?When more letters arrive, and Martha and her team pull apart the complex clues within them, the mystery becomes even more insistent and troubling. It seems that Charlie had been keeping a powerful secret. Now someone is trying to lead the lexicographers toward the truth. But other forces are no less desperate to keep it well and truly buried.
Guilty!
by Ruth ThomasThere's been a spate of break-ins lately in the area and everyone in Kate's class is saying that the burglar is Desmond Locke's dad because he's just come out of prison. Everyone, that is, except Kate. She's sure that Mr Locke is innocent and turns to her Secret Seven books for inspiration - they always find the real thief. Kate and Desmond become detectives to find out the truth and prove Desmond's dad is innocent. But the truth isn't always what you would like it to be and Kate is horrified when she discovers who really is... GUILTY.
Guilty: A page-turning thriller full of suspense (Playaway Adult Fiction Ser.)
by Karen RobardsOne cold November night when Kate White was fifteen years old, her friends held up a store. One of them killed an off-duty cop. They got away with it.Thirteen years later, Kate has built a new life for herself as a mother and prosecutor. Until the nightmare morning in her courtroom when she comes face to face with the old friend, Mario, who killed that cop so many years ago.First it seems that Kate may have to pull some serious strings to keep her reputation intact, but then Mario is found dead in Kate's house, and with Kate's fingerprints on the pistol. Her life - and her son's - are in danger.'Robards is one terrific storyteller' Chicago Tribune
Guilty: pre-order the brand new novel by the legendary author
by Martina Cole'The stuff of legend' Mirror*Pre-order the heart-stopping new novel from queen of crime Martina Cole*It's time to confess their sins.Steph Barker can't forget her past. A single mother, Steph runs a women's shelter for local prostitutes while coming to terms with a tragic loss. And it's people like Joseph Potter, battling with his own grief, who keep her going.When Hennie, one of her friends from the shelter, goes missing, Steph's convinced Hennie's violent pimp Artie Rogers has something to do with it. Steph and Artie go way back, but his reign of terror throughout the Medway towns is out of control and even she can't do anything to stop him. Then another prostitute disappears and it's time to find out who's guilty.Everyone has their secrets - but one them is getting away with murder.'The queen of crime' Woman & Home'One of the best fiction authors around . . . spectacular' Closer'Martina Cole is back and back with an unapologetic bang' 5* reader review'Well worth the wait!' 5* reader review'Phenomenal' 5* reader reviewDue to health reasons, Martina Cole has chosen to continue her collaboration with writer Jacqui Rose for her upcoming novel Guilty.
Guilty: the brand new novel by the legendary author
by Martina Cole'The stuff of legend' MirrorThe heart-stopping new novel from queen of crime Martina Cole.It's time to confess their sins.Steph Barker can't forget her past. A single mother, Steph runs a women's shelter for local prostitutes while coming to terms with a tragic loss. And it's people like Joseph Potter, battling with his own grief, who keep her going.When Hennie, one of her friends from the shelter, goes missing, Steph's convinced Hennie's violent pimp Artie Rogers has something to do with it. Steph and Artie go way back, but his reign of terror throughout the Medway towns is out of control and even she can't do anything to stop him. Then another prostitute disappears and it's time to find out who's guilty.Everyone has their secrets - but one them is getting away with murder.'The queen of crime' Woman & Home'One of the best fiction authors around . . . spectacular' Closer'Martina Cole is back and back with an unapologetic bang' 5* reader review'Well worth the wait!' 5* reader review'Phenomenal' 5* reader reviewDue to health reasons, Martina Cole has chosen to continue her collaboration with writer Jacqui Rose for her novel Guilty.
Guilty: the brand new novel by the legendary author
by Martina Cole'The stuff of legend' MirrorThe heart-stopping new novel from queen of crime Martina Cole.It's time to confess their sins.Steph Barker can't forget her past. A single mother, Steph runs a women's shelter for local prostitutes while coming to terms with a tragic loss. And it's people like Joseph Potter, battling with his own grief, who keep her going.When Hennie, one of her friends from the shelter, goes missing, Steph's convinced Hennie's violent pimp Artie Rogers has something to do with it. Steph and Artie go way back, but his reign of terror throughout the Medway towns is out of control and even she can't do anything to stop him. Then another prostitute disappears and it's time to find out who's guilty.Everyone has their secrets - but one them is getting away with murder.'The queen of crime' Woman & Home'One of the best fiction authors around . . . spectacular' Closer'Martina Cole is back and back with an unapologetic bang' 5* reader review'Well worth the wait!' 5* reader review'Phenomenal' 5* reader reviewDue to health reasons, Martina Cole has chosen to continue her collaboration with writer Jacqui Rose for her novel Guilty.
Guilty: ‘Someone is watching. Someone knows…' A gripping Irish psychological suspense from the ebook-bestselling author
by Siobhan MacDonald'Meticulous and unsettling... a terrifyingly dark, twisty thriller, skilfully plotted and stylishly written' Irish Times THE PERFECT LIFEDoctor Luke Forde has the perfect life. A respected heart surgeon, he has a rewarding job, a successful wife, and a daughter, Nina. From their beautiful house overlooking Carberry Lough in County Clare, they present a portrait of family bliss. But over the course of a weekend, Luke's life spirals into chaos. A GUILTY SECRET It begins with the word 'GUILTY' painted on his boathouse one morning. Then he spots a chilling notice in the local newspaper. When this is followed by the delivery of a small coffin-shaped package, Luke is terrified. Someone knows the dark secret he is hiding. And someone is out to get him.SOMEBODY WANTS REVENGELuke begins to be plagued by horrifying anonymous messages, and it transpires that it's not only Luke the sender is intending to harm. With strange things happening in the operating theatre, Alison's political ambitions straining their marriage, and Nina's behaviour sparking all sorts of trouble, Luke turns to therapist Terence Black. Is the therapist the only one that can save Luke and his family from the horrendous secrets of the past?A twisty and compelling psychological suspense novel set in Ireland, from ebook-bestselling author Siobhan MacDonald. Perfect for fans of Dervla McTiernan and Andrea Carter.Praise for Siobhan MacDonald:'Dark and twisted' Alex Marwood, Edgar Award winning author of The Wicked Girls'A classy and cleverly plotted psychological thriller that grips from page one . . . delivering an absolute zinger of a twist' Irish Independent'An unsettling, suspenseful tale of heartbreak and revenge. I flew through it' Andrea Carter, author of the Inishowen mysteries'Gripping, surprising, and terrifically rewarding' Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats'Evocative and richly detailed' Kimberley McCreight, author of the New York Times bestseller Reconstructing Amelia and Where They Found Her'Explosive . . . studded with dark revelations' Kirkus Reviews'Skillfully wrought' Booklist'Masterly control of mood and scene' Chicago Tribune'This unusual psychological thriller concludes with a satisfying succession of twists' Morning Star'Will keep you up all night' Peterborough Telegraph
Guilty: ‘Someone is watching. Someone knows…' A gripping Irish psychological suspense from the ebook-bestselling author
by Siobhan MacDonald'Meticulous and unsettling... a terrifyingly dark, twisty thriller, skilfully plotted and stylishly written' Irish Times THE PERFECT LIFEDoctor Luke Forde has the perfect life. A respected heart surgeon, he has a rewarding job, a successful wife, and a daughter, Nina. From their beautiful house overlooking Carberry Lough in County Clare, they present a portrait of family bliss. But over the course of a weekend, Luke's life spirals into chaos. A GUILTY SECRET It begins with the word 'GUILTY' painted on his boathouse one morning. Then he spots a chilling notice in the local newspaper. When this is followed by the delivery of a small coffin-shaped package, Luke is terrified. Someone knows the dark secret he is hiding. And someone is out to get him.SOMEBODY WANTS REVENGELuke begins to be plagued by horrifying anonymous messages, and it transpires that it's not only Luke the sender is intending to harm. With strange things happening in the operating theatre, Alison's political ambitions straining their marriage, and Nina's behaviour sparking all sorts of trouble, Luke turns to therapist Terence Black. Is the therapist the only one that can save Luke and his family from the horrendous secrets of the past?A twisty and compelling psychological suspense novel set in Ireland, from ebook-bestselling author Siobhan MacDonald. Perfect for fans of Dervla McTiernan and Andrea Carter.Praise for Siobhan MacDonald:'Dark and twisted' Alex Marwood, Edgar Award winning author of The Wicked Girls'A classy and cleverly plotted psychological thriller that grips from page one . . . delivering an absolute zinger of a twist' Irish Independent'An unsettling, suspenseful tale of heartbreak and revenge. I flew through it' Andrea Carter, author of the Inishowen mysteries 'Gripping, surprising, and terrifically rewarding' Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats'Evocative and richly detailed' Kimberley McCreight, author of the New York Times bestseller Reconstructing Amelia and Where They Found Her'Explosive . . . studded with dark revelations' Kirkus Reviews'Skillfully wrought' Booklist'Masterly control of mood and scene' Chicago Tribune'This unusual psychological thriller concludes with a satisfying succession of twists' Morning Star'Will keep you up all night' Peterborough Telegraph
Guilty: ‘Someone is watching. Someone knows…' A gripping Irish psychological suspense from the ebook-bestselling author
by Siobhan MacDonald'Meticulous and unsettling... a terrifyingly dark, twisty thriller, skilfully plotted and stylishly written' Irish Times THE PERFECT LIFEDoctor Luke Forde has the perfect life. A respected heart surgeon, he has a rewarding job, a successful wife, and a daughter, Nina. From their beautiful house overlooking Carberry Lough in County Clare, they present a portrait of family bliss. But over the course of a weekend, Luke's life spirals into chaos. A GUILTY SECRET It begins with the word 'GUILTY' painted on his boathouse one morning. Then he spots a chilling notice in the local newspaper. When this is followed by the delivery of a small coffin-shaped package, Luke is terrified. Someone knows the dark secret he is hiding. And someone is out to get him.SOMEBODY WANTS REVENGELuke begins to be plagued by horrifying anonymous messages, and it transpires that it's not only Luke the sender is intending to harm. With strange things happening in the operating theatre, Alison's political ambitions straining their marriage, and Nina's behaviour sparking all sorts of trouble, Luke turns to therapist Terence Black. Is the therapist the only one that can save Luke and his family from the horrendous secrets of the past?A twisty and compelling psychological suspense novel set in Ireland, from ebook-bestselling author Siobhan MacDonald. Perfect for fans of Dervla McTiernan and Andrea Carter.Praise for Siobhan MacDonald:'Dark and twisted' Alex Marwood, Edgar Award winning author of The Wicked Girls'A classy and cleverly plotted psychological thriller that grips from page one . . . delivering an absolute zinger of a twist' Irish Independent'An unsettling, suspenseful tale of heartbreak and revenge. I flew through it' Andrea Carter, author of the Inishowen mysteries 'Gripping, surprising, and terrifically rewarding' Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author of The Expats'Evocative and richly detailed' Kimberley McCreight, author of the New York Times bestseller Reconstructing Amelia and Where They Found Her'Explosive . . . studded with dark revelations' Kirkus Reviews'Skillfully wrought' Booklist'Masterly control of mood and scene' Chicago Tribune
Guitarra Jaguar
by Erick De KerpelLa odisea contemporánea de un antihéroe obstinado en resolver el mito de Cobain. Tobías Goldstein persigue el sueño de convertirse en una leyenda del rock. Derrotado después de una tocada fallida, ahoga sus penas en un bar, donde un cantinero le da una pista que lo puede llevar a encontrar la mítica guitarra Fender Jaguar, año 65, que perteneció a Kurt Cobain, vocalista de Nirvana. Para Tobías esta revelación es predestinada. Él está convencido que este "santo Grial" le dará poderes y lo llevará a reivindicarse con el mundo. Así que se obsesiona con la hazaña a pesar de todo y de todos. Familia, reglas y convenciones sociales quedan en segundo plano cuando se trata de conseguir la Guitarra Jaguar. Una historia de búsqueda en la que Tobías terminará por encontrarse a sí mismo entre estaciones de metro, trabajos de mierda y mucho, mucho rocanrol.
Gulag
by Sean FlanneryKGB Colonel Rotislav Okulov is shot dead by his own agents while passing a deadly Soviet secret to the Americans. Now CIA agent Tony Bertonelli is the only one who knows what the colonel revealed with his dying breath. But in order to bring the information back home, Bertonelli must escape KGB operatives determined to keep the truth from the world—at any cost.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Gull Island: A Novel
by Anna PorterA haunting psychological suspense novel about a young woman who visits her remote family cottage seeking answers to a murky past—for fans of Catherine McKenzie and Amber Cowie.When her estranged father goes missing, Jude is persuaded by her mother to find his will. She travels to the family cottage on remote Gull Island, glad to be away from the city and to have the chance to sort through old memories, but is unsettled by what she finds there. While contending with the neglected cottage and encroaching wild animals, Jude looks not only for her father&’s will, but also for photographs of herself as a baby, desperate for proof that she was loved as a child. However, loneliness and terrifying dreams soon wear on her, bringing back frightening memories. Thoughts of her distant mother and intimidating father, her jealous sister, and her mother&’s mysterious friend infest Jude&’s increasingly clouded mind. Then a fierce storm sweeps away her boat and severs her from the outside world. Forced to reckon with long-buried truths and filled with the terrible sense that the cottage may be haunted by more than the past, Jude begins to fear for her sanity—and her life.
Gulliver Quick: A Novel
by Maureen EarlGulliver Quick begins with the title character's death. Immediately thereafter, five women present at the scene claim to be the sole murderer, thus establishing the exciting backdrop to a detailed chronological account of Quick's colorful, turbulent life as a prominent artist whose appetites are strong, whose achievements are great, and whose adventures, carefully tied to actual 20th-century events, span four centuries.
Gummy Bears & Grenades (THIRDS #10)
by Charlie CochetA THIRDS NovellaTHIRDS agent Dexter J. Daley can’t wait to marry his fiancé, Team Leader Sloane Brodie, but first he’s looking forward to celebrating his bachelor party—which he intends to be a shenanigans-free evening of getting his groove on with family and friends. Of course events don’t work out as planned, but for Dex that’s nothing new. One thing is for sure, dodging drug dealers and hired thugs amid booze, dancing—and even a bear costume—will guarantee it’s a night Dex will never forget. Now he just needs to survive all the fun. Enjoy this bonus story from the THIRDS universe. These events occur between Darkest Hour Before Dawn and Tried & True in the series timeline. While reading this story would enhance your experience of the THIRDS series, it is not essential to read before Tried & True.
Gumption & Gumshoes
by Alex KidwellAugust Adahy Mendez would rather be buried in the world of his detective novels or a good film noir movie than in real life. He's overweight, undermotivated, and stuck in a dead-end job. As a Chincha, he's part of a long line of chinchilla shifters, but the greatest accomplishment in his life so far has been moving an hour away from his close-knit herd. That all changes when August's grandfather leaves him enough cash to pursue his dream: becoming a detective himself. Sam Ewing is a bitter divorcé who enjoys watching football and being alone. It's easier when his only interaction with people is when he collects rent from his office building tenants. Then August rents space from him to set up his new detective agency, and Sam is drawn to him despite his misgivings. Sam soon finds himself involved with one of August's cases, and the men join forces to catch their criminal. The greater challenges they face, however, are how August makes Sam want to give love a second try and how Sam makes August believe that real life might be even better than fiction.
Gumshoe (The Mortimer Angel Series #2)
by Rob LeiningerUSA Today best-selling authorFor nine long days, the mayor and district attorney of Reno, Nevada, have been missing. Vanished without a trace. Their vehicles were found parked side-by-side at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. Did they fly somewhere together? They aren’t on any flight manifest. Did the two of them take off with a big pile of the city’s money? If so, the city accountants can’t find it. Were they murdered? There’s no sign of foul play. Their disappearances have finally made national news. Enter Mortimer Angel, who’d just quit a thankless job as an IRS agent. Mort is Reno’s newest gumshoe, a private-eye-in-training at his nephew’s detective agency. Just four hours into his new career, Mort finds the mayor—make that, the mayor’s head—in the trunk of Mort’s ex-wife’s Mercedes. The news-hungry media speculates: Did Mort kill the mayor? Did Mort’s ex? As events begin to spin out of control, Mort realizes things have been out of control since the night before he started his new career, the night he found the unknown naked blonde in his bed.
Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
by Sean MccannIn Gumshoe America Sean McCann offers a bold new account of the hard-boiled crime story and its literary and political significance. Illuminating a previously unnoticed set of concerns at the heart of the fiction, he contends that mid-twentieth-century American crime writers used the genre to confront and wrestle with many of the paradoxes and disappointments of New Deal liberalism. For these authors, the same contradictions inherent in liberal democracy were present within the changing literary marketplace of the mid-twentieth-century United States: the competing claims of the elite versus the popular, the demands of market capitalism versus conceptions of quality, and the individual versus a homogenized society. Gumshoe America traces the way those problems surfaced in hard-boiled crime fiction from the1920s through the 1960s. Beginning by using a forum on the KKK in the pulp magazine Black Mask to describe both the economic and political culture of pulp fiction in the early twenties, McCann locates the origins of the hard-boiled crime story in the genre's conflict with the racist antiliberalism prominent at the time. Turning his focus to Dashiell Hammett's career, McCann shows how Hammett's writings in the late 1920s and early 1930s moved detective fiction away from its founding fables of social compact to the cultural alienation triggered by a burgeoning administrative state. He then examines how Raymond Chandler's fiction, unlike Hammett's, idealized sentimental fraternity, echoing the communitarian appeals of the late New Deal. Two of the first crime writers to publish original fiction in paperback--Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford--are examined next in juxtaposition to the popularity enjoyed by their contemporaries Mickey Spillane and Ross Macdonald. The stories of the former two, claims McCann, portray the decline of the New Deal and the emergence of the rights-based liberalism of the postwar years and reveal new attitudes toward government: individual alienation, frustration with bureaucratic institutions, and dissatisfaction with the growing vision of America as a meritocracy. Before concluding, McCann turns to the work of Chester Himes, who, in producing revolutionary hard-boiled novels, used the genre to explore the changing political significance of race that accompanied the rise of the Civil Rights movement in the late 1950s and the 1960s. Combining a striking reinterpretation of the hard-boiled crime story with a fresh view of the political complications and cultural legacies of the New Deal, Gumshoe America will interest students and fans of the genre, and scholars of American history, culture, and government.
Gumshoe Gang Cracks The Case (Rourke's Mystery Chapter)
by Kyla SteinkrausIn Gumshoe Gang Cracks the Case, readers will help discover who destroyed Alex's science project before the Science Fair happens. Rourke's Mystery Chapter Books introduce intermediate students to the genre of mystery. Each 64-page title offers a different mystery that students solve through clues about the setting and characters. With longer text, few illustrations, and a more complex story structure, students strengthen reading comprehension skills all while having fun.
Gumshoe Rock (The Mortimer Angel Series)
by Rob LeiningerUSA Today best-selling author“Mortimer Angel is my favorite private eye.”—John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling authorEarly in July, northern Nevada’s senior Internal Revenue Service agent, Ronald Soranden—disliked by every agent in the Reno IRS office—vanished without a trace. In September, he makes a dramatic reappearance, of sorts. His skull—stripped clean and white—is dropped through the slashed top of a Mustang convertible. The vehicle belongs to Lucy Landry, PI Mortimer Angel’s gorgeous young assistant now working with him on a seemingly unrelated embezzlement case. But Mort is a former IRS field agent in Reno. He’d done his time during the tyrannical reign of Soranden, quitting, he says, “when I discovered I have a soul.” Now that his former boss’s head has appeared, he and Lucy find them themselves under the annoying surveillance of a pair of IRS enforcement agents.When the FBI are brought in to investigate the murder, Mort and Lucy realize shocking details about their own case—primarily Soranden’s involvement. It becomes evident that events and suspects of the embezzlement case and Soranden’s murder are heavily entangled with those enmeshed in an ugly case of blackmail. Mort and Lucy are roped tighter and tighter into the Soranden investigation while they grapple with the deadliest situation of their PI careers. Mortimer Angel has been in harrowing, lethal situations before and has suffered incalculable losses, but none more horrifying than the trap embedded in Gumshoe Rock.
Gumshoe for Two (The Mortimer Angel Series #2)
by Rob LeiningerUSA Today best-selling author"Smart, sexy, and un-put-downable." —John LescroartIn the style of Dashiell Hammett, ex-IRS agent turned gumshoe-in-training, Mortimer Angel, is approached by a beautiful hooker, Holiday, in a casino bar in Reno. Mort first met Holiday two months ago, but now learns that she's not really a hooker. She's a college engineering student, searching for her younger sister, Allie, who disappeared three months ago. Having seen Mort in the news, Holiday knows he's a PI who finds missing persons. While in the bar with Mort, Holiday gets an unexpected phone call from Allie, who says she's in Gerlach, a small town in Nevada. The call is cut off. Holiday hires Mort on the spot, dragging him off to Gerlach. When Mort finds a connection between Allie and US Senator Harry "Liar" Reinhart, a presidential candidate who vanished without a trace three days ago, things quickly turn deadly ... very deadly.
Gumshoe in the Dark (The Mortimer Angel Series #5)
by Rob LeiningerUSA Today Best-Selling AuthorBlackmail, murder, and a pretty girl on the run Nevada's attorney general is missing. At dusk on a deserted Nevada highway in a thunderstorm, ex-IRS agent and PI-in-training Mortimer Angel comes across a pretty, scantily-clad girl—Harper Leland. She's cold and alone, thirty miles from the nearest town. When Mort offers her a ride, she orders him out of his truck at gunpoint. She tries to take off, but he cuts the valve stem on the rear tire. Realizing she's in trouble, he wants to help—but with no spare tire, he devises a creative way to get them out of the hills—slowly, precariously balanced on three tires. On their way down, a rough-looking man stops and asks Mort if he has "seen anyone up in the hills." Mort realizes the guy is after Harper, who is hiding in the truck. Thus begins a cat-and-mouse chase in northeast Nevada that continues even after Mort finds the attorney general—Harper's mother—dead in the trunk of a car. In time, Mort's wife, Lucy, is also pulled into the case, which becomes the deadliest of Mort's career.The perfect mix of John Sanford, Randy Wayne White, and Carl Hiaasen While all of the novels in the Mortimer Angel Gumshoe Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is:Gumshoe Gumshoe for Two Gumshoe on the Loose Gumshoe Rock Gumshoe in the Dark
Gumshoe on the Loose (The Mortimer Angel Series #3)
by Rob LeiningerUSA Today best-selling author "Rob Leininger captures the voice and heart of the classic PI mystery and manages to make it completely original at the same time—Mortimer Angel is my new favorite Private Eye."—John Lescroart, New York Times best-selling authorIRS agent-turned-PI Mortimer Angel is relaxing in a hole-in-the-wall bar in a Reno casino when an attractive young girl hires him to find out who left her a cryptic message demanding a million dollars. At the girl's house, Mort finds the body of missing rapper Jonnie Xenon—Jo-X to his legions of fans—hanging from the rafters with two bullet holes in him. Mort is shocked when he learns the identity of the girl's father—and even more shocked when the father hires him to investigate the murder. Mort, being Mort, accumulates a few felonies as he follows the clues to Las Vegas. And along the way, he picks up an alluring young assistant who changes his life—in every conceivable way.