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Live Wire: A gripping thriller from the #1 bestselling creator of hit Netflix show Fool Me Once (Myron Bolitar)
by Harlan CobenSometimes the ugliest truth is better than the prettiest of lies... From the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of SIX YEARS.A beautiful woman walking into Myron Bolitar's office asking for help should have been a dream come true. Only this woman, Suzze T, is in tears - and eight months pregnant...Suzze's rock star husband has disappeared, and she fears the rumours questioning her baby's paternity have driven him away. For Myron, questions of fatherhood couldn't hit closer to home. His own father is clinging precariously to life, and the brother who abandoned the family years ago has resurfaced - with danger following close behind. Myron is soon forced to confront deep secrets in Suzze's past, his family's mortality - and his own...
Live and Let Chai: A Beachfront Cozy Mystery (Seaside Café Mysteries #1)
by Bree BakerA seaside café. A scandal steeped in suspicion. And a spirited sleuth with everything to prove.Bree Baker's bestselling debut kicks off the beloved Seaside Café Mysteries—a cozy mystery series brimming with Southern charm, small-town secrets, and the kind of heroine you'll want to sip tea with. Perfect for fans of Laura Childs, Ellie Alexander, or anyone who craves slow-burn romance and culinary cozies full of sweet surprises.Welcome to Charm, North Carolina—where the tea is sweet, the gossip salty, and the murder served hot. After a tough few years, Everly Swan returns to her coastal hometown to open Sun, Sand, and Tea, a breezy beachside café pouring her signature iced blends and fresh-baked pastries.But when a local councilman drops dead near her shop—with a jar of her chai at the scene—Everly finds herself steeped in scandal. As whispers swirl and her dream café teeters, Everly must clear her name, confront a maddeningly handsome detective, and solve a murder... before she's next to be served cold.Includes recipes straight from Everly's kitchen!Praise for Live and Let Chai:"Fun and intriguing, Live and Let Chai is filled to the brim with Southern charm." — Kirsten Weiss, author of A Pie Town Mystery seriesFast-paced, smartly plotted, and full of surprises, it's as refreshing as a day at the beach!" — Kylie Logan, bestselling author of French Fried
Live and Let Die
by Ian FlemingBritish Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to investigate the enigmatic Mr. Big, a mysterious criminal with ties to voodoo, who is believed to be a SMERSH operative helping to fund Soviet activity in New York. While on his mission, Bond falls for the beautiful Solitaire, Mr. Big's fortune-telling girlfriend. James Bond is one of the most iconic characters in 20th-century literature. In addition to the 12 novels and 9 short stories written by Ian Fleming, there have been over 40 novels and short stories written about the spy by other authors, and 26 films produced, starring actors such as Sean Connery and Daniel Craig as 007.Random House Canada is proud to bring you classic works of literature in ebook form, with the highest quality production values. Find more today and rediscover books you never knew you loved.
Live and Let Die (James Bond #2)
by Ian FlemingHe's Mr Big, the most powerful in the world...head of the Black Widow Voodoo Cult ... high-ranking member of the Soviet murder organization SMERSH. His base of operations stretches from Harlem to the West Indies. His henchmen are terror and fear. He must be destroyed. Only one man can do it, and that man is you, James Bond. If you succeed, you will break a crucial link in the Soviet spy chain. But we need not warn you that if you fail ... your penalty will be death--the most horrifying death the findishly clever Mr Big has ever devised.
Live and Let Die: A James Bond Novel (James Bond #2)
by Ian FlemingLEGENDARY AGENT JAMES BOND CONFRONTS AN ENEMY UNLIKE ANY HE’S FACED BEFOREJames Bond is not an easily intimidated man, but it’s hard not to feel unnerved in the presence of Mr. Big. A ruthless Harlem gangster who uses superstition and fear to control his vast criminal empire, he’s also one of SMERSH’s top American operatives.Mr. Big has been smuggling British pirate treasure to New York from a remote Jamaican island and funneling the proceeds to Moscow. With help from Solitaire, Mr. Big’s beautiful and enigmatic Creole fortune teller, and his old friend Felix Leiter of the CIA, 007 must locate the crime lord’s hideout, sabotage his operation, and reclaim the pirate hoard for England.
Live and Let Die: James Bond 007 (Macmillan Readers Ser. #2)
by Ian FlemingWhen 007 goes to Harlem, it’s not just for the jazz. For Harlem is the kingdom of Mr Big, black master of crime, voodoo baron, senior partner in SMERSH’s grim company of death.Those he cannot possess, he crushes;those who cross him will meet painful ends.Like his beautiful prisoner, Solitaire.And her lover, James Bond.Both are marked out as victims in a trail of terror, treachery and torture that leads from New York’s black underworld to the shark-infested island in the sun that Mr Bier calls his own…‘Speed…tremendous zest communicated excitement. Brrh! How wincingly well Mr Fleming writes ‘—JULIAN SYMONS, SUNDAY TIMES
Live and Let Fly
by Clover TateKite shop owner Emmy Adler becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation that could send her dreams crashing to the ground…With summer drawing to a close in Rock Point, Oregon, Emmy Adler hopes to beat the seasonal drop in business by winning the annual kite festival. What better way to garner publicity for the handmade kites sold in her shop, Strings Attached? In the days leading up to the festival, Emmy’s ambitions are soaring. Even an argument with reality TV star and contest judge Jasmine Normand can't bring her down. But when Jasmine is found dead the morning after their altercation, Emmy’s no longer flying high.When the police open an investigation into Jasmine’s death and deem it a murder, Emmy falls under suspicion. With a national tabloid reporter convinced that she is guilty and business at her shop at a standstill, Emmy has to trade kite making for crime solving—or find all of her ambitions blown off course.
Live and Let Grind (A Coffee Lover's Mystery #3)
by Tara LushDevil&’s Beach is percolating with a hot murder case, and reporter-turned-barista Lana Lewis could be the next to get beaned in Tara Lush&’s third Coffee Lover&’s mystery, perfect for fans of Cleo Coyle and Lucy Burdette.Laid-off journalist Lana Lewis is thriving as the proprietor of Perkatory, a coffee shop on quirky Devil&’s Beach island, Florida. She&’s juggling a relationship with police chief Noah Garcia, enjoying the company of her best friend, Erica, and relishing the companionship of her golden Shih Tzu, Stanley. Only problem is her neighbor, Gus, who incessantly uses his leaf blower, disturbing everyone in the neighborhood. Lana has learned to tune it out, but Erica&’s rage boils over and she confronts Gus. Then Gus is found dead, killed when his leaf blower explodes. Erica immediately becomes suspect number one. But there are plenty of other candidates as well: Gus&’s soon-to-be ex-wife, Honey Bailey, who thinks she&’ll be written out of his will; Mickey Dotson and Doug Beck, who were scalded financially after purchasing a pirate-themed tourist cruise business from Gus; and plenty of angry neighbors who&’ve had run-ins with him. As the clock ticks down will Lana get someone to spill the beans on the killer so she can clear her friend&’s name, or will Erica go to jail for a crime she didn&’t commit?
Live and Let Growl (A Melanie Travis Canine Mystery #19)
by Laurien BerensonA road trip to a Kentucky dog show leads to a race to find a killer, in this mystery by an Agatha Award finalist: &“A likable heroine.&”—Publishers Weekly For a dog lover like Melanie Travis, the opportunity to attend the Kentuckiana Dog Show Cluster is not to be missed. Fortunately, the timing coincides with her spring break from teaching, so she heads for central Kentucky with her sister-in-law and Aunt Peg, who&’s accepted a weeklong judging assignment. Once there, Aunt Peg reconnects with an old friend, Ellie Gates Wanamaker, a former Standard Poodle exhibitor and a member of a well-heeled Kentucky family. Miss Ellie has been out of the dog show world for more than a decade, but when Melanie invites her to spectate at the Louisville Kennel Club dog show, she's eager to accompany her. Miss Ellie&’s presence at the expo center, however, provokes mixed reactions from exhibitors she hasn&’t seen in years, including some outright animosity. The following day Melanie learns that Miss Ellie has suffered a fatal accident while exercising her dogs. Aunt Peg, however, suspects foul play. Wishing to avoid any scandal, Miss Ellie&’s pedigreed family prefers to let sleeping dogs lie, but as Melanie begins to sniff around, she discovers Miss Ellie had many secrets, both in the dog show world and amongst her Kentucky kin… &“If you like dogs, you&’ll love Laurien Berenson&’s Melanie Travis mysteries!&” —Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling author &“Fans of Miranda James&’ Cat in the Stacks series may also enjoy Berenson.&”—Booklist
Live and Let Pie: A Bakeshop Mystery (A Bakeshop Mystery #9)
by Ellie AlexanderEllie Alexander's Live and Let Pie is the most delicious installment yet in the fantastic Bakeshop Mysteries set in Ashland, OR! <P><P>Life is sweet once you step into Torte, everybody’s favorite small-town bakeshop. But what happens when it becomes the scene of a crime? <P><P>The heat is on for pastry chef, family business operator, and unlikely sleuth Jules Capshaw. Just when she thought she could enjoy some time away from the kitchen, Jules manages to discover a skull during a picnic by the lake. <P><P>As if unearthing remains that may be connected to a missing-persons case from the 1960s isn’t enough on her plate, Jules must contend with the unsolved matter of her own marriage while her estranged husband Carlos sails the open seas, awaiting a verdict. <P><P> Then there’s Jules’s bitter landlord Edgar, who is intent on making a sweet deal on a vacant lot down the block from Torte—until he turns up dead. If only Jules could find a recipe that would let her bake her cake and eat it, too…
Live and Let Shop: Live And Let Shop (Spy Goddess #1)
by Michael P. SpradlinAfter running into trouble with the law, a teenager with an attitude is sent to a boarding school with a big secretEven though it wasn&’t Rachel&’s idea to steal the car, she was happy to go along for the ride. But when her so-called friends bolt as soon as the cops show up, they leave Rachel to take the rap. In court, the judge takes pity on the Beverly Hills bad girl, and offers her a choice: thirty days in juvie, or a year at Blackthorn Academy. Rachel chooses the boarding school. After all, how bad could it be?Cut into the side of a Pennsylvania mountain, Blackthorn is weirder than Rachel could ever have imagined. The students take Tae Kwon Do instead of gym, there are guardhouses on the edge of campus, and there&’s a secret Top Floor that only certain students are allowed to access. Despite Blackthorn&’s mysteries, Rachel is starting to fit in. She likes her roommate and her classmates, and even the all-knowing headmaster, Mr. Kim. But when Mr. Kim disappears, Rachel learns a secret about Blackthorn Academy—and herself—that will change her life forever.
Live and Let Spy (Spy Girls #2)
by Elizabeth CageThe three fabulous femmes, aka the Spy Girls, are making their way around Eastern Europe, where a young ballerina has been kidnapped and replaced by a dangerous double. This dancing queen is downright deadly—and she won’t stop pirouetting until she kills the prime minister of Varokhastan! Can the Spy Girls stay on their toes long enough to save the peace-loving P.M. from a fatal pas de deux?
Live at 10:00, Dead at 10:15 (Sonya Iverson Novels)
by Elsa KlenschElsa Klensch, former host of CNN's "Style with Elsa Klensch," has an insider's knowledge of the fashion industry's most flamboyant personalities coupled with an outsider's sharp-eyed objectivity. In Live at 10, Dead at 10:15, Klensch brilliantly evokes the worlds of fashion and design through the eyes of Sonya Iverson, ambitious Midwesterner striving to succeed in New York City. As a producer for the network newsmagazine "The Donna Fuller Show," Sonya is frustrated at always having to work on "fluff"-but she never expected her big break to come in the middle of the annual American Fashion Awards dinner.Sonya steps into the elegant powder room of New York City's 42nd Street Library to discover a just-out-of-rehab supermodel clutching what appears to be a bloody dagger and standing over the body of the glamorous wife of a fashion industry mogul. Sonya's first call is to the newsroom; the police come second.The dead woman, Harriett Franklin, was widely admired for her charitable work but nearly universally disliked, Sonya discovers as she interviews clothing designers, models, fashion magazine editors, and industry bigwigs. Harriett was scheming and manipulative, determined to have her way in everything from naming the new perfume being developed by the House of Franklin to keeping her Down Syndrome son in a treatment facility far from the spotlight. Suspects abound. Was the killer the supermodel, whose comeback Harriett was threatening to derail? The internationally-renowned designer recently fired at Harriett's bidding? The fashion magazine editor Harriett first bribed and then blackmailed? Or even Harriett's long-suffering husband, who may have finally had all he could take of his shrewish wife?Eager to break this career-making story, Sonya quickly learns many dark secrets about the seamy underside of the fashion industry. Sonya's next interview might be her last . . . .At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Live by Night
by Dennis LehaneJoe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever.That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing, drama and pain. And it is a journey into the soul of prohibition-era America...A powerful, deeply moving novel, Live By Night is a tour-de-force by Dennis Lehane, writer on The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day.
Live by Night: A Novel (Joe Coughlin Ser. #2)
by Dennis LehaneJoe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever.That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, double-crossing, drama and pain. And it is a journey into the soul of prohibition-era America...A powerful, deeply moving novel, Live By Night is a tour-de-force by Dennis Lehane, writer on The Wire and author of modern classics such as Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and The Given Day.
Live by Night: A Novel (Joe Coughlin Series #1)
by Dennis LehaneA New York Times best-selling author with multiple awards to his name, Lehane sets his latest in Roaring Twenties Boston, Florida, and Cuba; its no surprise that the promotion brings up HBOs Boardwalk Empire. Youngest son of an upright Boston police sergeant, Joe Coughlin opts for the dark side, working his way to the top of organized crime but also setting himself up, inevitably, for betrayal and revenge.
Live from the Fifth Grade
by Colleen O'Shaughnessy MckennaRoger Friday loves to play tricks on Marsha Cessano, but when he investigates a robbery at school, he finds the best person for the job is Marsha.
Live to Regret
by Terence FahertyEx-seminarian turned sleuth Owen Keane has been hired to look into the strange behavior of his friend and former colleague, Harry Ohlman, whose wife, Mary, was tragically killed in an auto accident. While observing Harry during his retreat in a small seashore town, Owen can't resist the allure of Diana Lord, an enigmatic beauty obsessed by a death that had occurred there many years before. But as Owen gets closer to the truth about Harry, he is forced to confront his own feelings for Mary and his unsettled score with his friend-as crimes of the heart, past and present, unfold in Spring Lake and a town gives up its secrets.
Live to Tell (Detective D.D. Warren #4)
by Lisa GardnerThe fourth book in the Detective D.D. Warren series from The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES YOU'LL LIVE TO TELL WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN TO YOU? The Irish Independent says this novel 'could cause sleepless nights'. Are you ready?In one night of terrifying violence, four members of a family are brutally murdered, leaving the father - a possible suspect - clinging to life. When police detective D. D. Warren is called in, she's all too aware that it's a race against time. But there's more to the case than meets the eye...Twenty-five years ago, Nurse Danielle Burton's life was rent asunder by a horrifying family tragedy. Now working on a paediatric psychiatry ward, she's sure that the past is long-buried. Until D. D.'s questions bring it all flooding back.Victoria Oliver is a devoted mother, determined to protect her son, no matter the cost. But, like Danielle and D. D., she's soon to discover that the most devastating crimes can be those closest to home.
Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel (D.D. Warren #4)
by Lisa GardnerBONUS: This edition includes the full text of the novel plus the following content: -- Lisa Gardner on Detective D.D. Warren: Who was the inspiration for D.D. Warren? Find out in this essay. -- An excerpt from Lisa Gardner's Love You More.He knows everything about you--including the first place you'll hide. On a warm summer night in one of Boston's working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father--and possible suspect--now lies clinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran police detective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There's more to this case than meets the eye.Danielle Burton is a survivor, a dedicated nurse whose passion is to help children at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she remains haunted by a family tragedy that shattered her life nearly twenty-five years ago. The dark anniversary is approaching, and when D. D. Warren and her partner show up at the facility, Danielle immediately realizes: It has started again.A devoted mother, Victoria Oliver has a hard time remembering what normalcy is like. But she will do anything to ensure that her troubled son has some semblance of a childhood. She will love him no matter what. Nurture him. Keep him safe. Protect him. Even when the threat comes from within her own house. In New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner's most compelling work of suspense to date, the lives of these three women unfold and connect in unexpected ways, as sins from the past emerge--and stunning secrets reveal just how tightly blood ties can bind. Sometimes the most devastating crimes are the ones closest to home.
Live, Local, and Dead (A Vermont Radio Mystery)
by Nikki KnightDeath waits for snowman in Nikki Knight&’s new Vermont-based cozy series, perfect for fans of Connie Archer and Mary Kennedy.In a fit of anger, radio DJ Jaye Jordan blows a snowman&’s head off with a Revolutionary War-style musket. But the corpse that tumbles out is all too human. Jaye thought life would be quieter when she left New York City and bought a tiny Vermont radio station. But now, Edwin Anger—the ranting and raving radio talk show host who Jaye recently fired—lies dead in the snow. And the Edwin Anger fans who protested his dismissal are sure she killed him. To clear her name, Jaye must find the real killer, as if she doesn&’t have her hands full running the radio station, DJing her all-request love song show, and shuttling tween daughter Ryan to and from school. It doesn&’t make matters easier that the governor—Jaye&’s old crush—arrived on the scene before the musket smoke cleared. Fortunately, Jaye has allies…if you count the flatulent moose that lives in the transmitter shack, and Neptune, the giant gray cat that lives at the station. If Jaye can turn the tables on the devious killer, she and the governor may get to make some sweet, sweet music together. But if she can&’t, she&’ll be off the air…permanently.
Live-In Lover
by Lyn StoneIn ten years with the FBI, Damien Perry had posed as a drug lord, a terrorist, even a hit man. Now the thrill was gone. But what would he do if he quit? Maybe the answer was in the mail, on the card from Marian Olivia Jensen—Molly, as he remembered her. The earthy redhead who aroused unfamiliar fantasies of a wife and family in his jaded soul.Molly Jensen was finally safe from her menacing ex-husband—until he was released from jail. Now the threatening phone calls wouldn’t stop. Molly knew there was only one man who could help her: Damien Perry. His charade as her live-in lover was ingenious, but how long could she pretend to be pretending?
LiveCell: A Novel
by Eric GreenVisionary loner Jay Chevalier develops a revolutionary cell phone, pulsing with a living, biogenetic core, that offers free calls with untraceable privacy, completely negating established business models. LiveCell gobbles market share and initiates a grassroots movement of social change, but the pushback from the communications industry is swift and ruthless. Jay's invention will change the world--if he can stay alive. Nonstop action, ill-destined love, and a tragically relevant plea for social change will propel you through this thriller at neural-network speed.
Liver Let Die
by Liz LippermanJordan McAllister can't cook her way out of a macaroni & cheese box, but filling in for the culinary reporter at The Ranchero Globe is better than writing personal ads. Her first assignment to review the new steakhouse in town is a disaster that ends with her waiter murdered outside her door-with her name and number in his pocket. Now Jordan is the prime suspect, as well as the main course on the murder menu.
Lives In Smoke
by Enrica Aragona Luca Ducceschi Anthony MazzoranaLives in Smoke unfolds like a long story, hard and subtle at the same time, a jigsaw thriller that was able to earn 6th place for the 2013 Best Thriller Award, City of Cattolica.Enrica Aragona - previously published by us in the collection I Racconti del Laboratorio - and Luca Ducceschi, author of Un'anima devono prenderla comunque, published in the fourth installment of Knife magazine - combine their literary talents in crafting a dark story that won't fail to amaze even those with finer tastes. Inspector Moretti, while investigating a homicide, comes face to face with a series of clues that lead inexorably to people in his private life. But the pieces of the mosaic are not all in the proper order, and that which at a certain point presents itself as a terrible insight, will be only the prelude to a more bitter and disturbing truth.