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Mermaids on the Golf Course: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics #187)
by Patricia HighsmithBy the bestselling author of The Talented Mr Ripley, Carol and Strangers on a Train'One of the exhilarating effects of reading Highsmith's stories . . . is their surehandednes, their amazing breadth and abundance . . . they compel attention and they add significantly to her already formidable presence' Washington PostThe stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course, first published in 1985, are among Patricia Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. Published in the latter part of her career, these stories reveal Highsmith's mastery of the short story form. Moving between locales as various as France, Mexico, Zurich, and New York, Highsmith transforms the mundane features of everyday life into an eerie backdrop for her penetrating stories of violence, secrecy, and madness.In 'The Stuff of Madness', Christopher Waggoner, increasingly dismayed by his wife's habit of preserving dead pets in their garden, enacts a devious revenge by adding a bizarre new exhibit to their collection; in the title story, a eminent economist's brush with death endows his once-familiar desires with tragic consequences; and in 'A Shot from Nowhere', a young painter who witnesses a gruesome death on a vacant Mexican Street becomes trapped in an unimaginable nightmare.In these piercing stories, Highsmith creates a world all the more frightening because we recognise it as our own...
Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories
by Patricia HighsmithThe great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature, psychologically penetrating works. As in the title story, in which a man's brush with death endows his everyday desires with tragic consequences, the warm familiarities of middle-class life become the eerie setting for Highsmith's chilling portrayals of violence, secrecy, and madness.
Merry Christmas, Alex Cross (Alex Cross #19)
by James PattersonIt's Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross has been called out to catch someone who's robbing his church's poor box. That mission behind him, Alex returns home to celebrate with Bree, Nana, and his children. The tree decorating is barely underway before his phone rings again--a horrific hostage situation is quickly spiraling out of control. Away from his own family on the most precious of days, Alex calls upon every ounce of his training, creativity, and daring to save another family. Alex risks everything--and he may not make it back alive on this most sacred of family days. Alex Cross is a hero for our time, and never more so than in this story of family, action, and the deepest moral choices. MERRY CHRISTMAS, ALEX CROSS will be a holiday classic for years to come.
Merry Market Murder
by Paige SheltonBailey's Farmers' Market is this season's go-to holiday destination, but not all the vendors are feeling the Christmas spirit... Jam and preserve maker Becca Robins is excited about the extra business that the Ridgeway Christmas Tree Farm is bringing to the market this holiday season. But when a competing tree farmer, Reggie Stuckey, arrives with a truck full of trees, angrily barking that he has exclusive selling rights at the market, Becca finds herself pining for more goodwill toward men. After Reggie is found with a tree stake in his chest, she wonders when the Christmas tree business turned so deadly. Now Becca has to use the only clues she has to the killer's identity--mysterious ornaments that begin to show up in her stall--to hook a sinister Scrooge who will go to any lengths to drive home a point...
Merry Market Murder
by Paige SheltonBailey's Farmers' Market is this season's go-to holiday destination, but not all the vendors are feeling the Christmas spirit...Jam and preserve maker Becca Robins is excited about the extra business that the Ridgeway Christmas Tree Farm is bringing to the market this holiday season. But when a competing tree farmer, Reggie Stuckey, arrives with a truck full of trees, angrily barking that he has exclusive selling rights at the market, Becca finds herself pining for more goodwill toward men.After Reggie is found with a tree stake in his chest, she wonders when the Christmas tree business turned so deadly. Now Becca has to use the only clues she has to the killer's identity--mysterious ornaments that begin to show up in her stall--to hook a sinister Scrooge who will go to any lengths to drive home a point...
Merry Mysteries: The Christmas Quilt
by Kelly Ann RileyAs Christmas approaches, Sarah 'Hart is looking for ways to make the holiday special, when she comes across directions for a Christmas mystery quilt. She doesn't know what the finished keepsake will look like because each week a set of instructions will be posted online. Sarah tries to focus on the project, but she notices some odd typos throughout the instructions and begins to suspect that not everything is as it seems. And when a string of thefts plagues the merchants of her quiet town of Maple Hill and a group of teenage girls, including Sarah's twin granddaughters, are suspected, she starts investigating and discovers that there's a pattern to the crimes. Could there be a connection to the quilt that no one else sees?
Merry, Merry Ghost
by Carolyn HartBeing dead can't put a damper on spirited, holiday-loving Bailey Ruth Raeburn. Christmas is a time for family and giving, and a wealthy woman in Adelaide, Oklahoma, is about to embrace both. Discovering that she has a young grandson, the dowager decides to change her will to leave the bulk of her fortune to the young boy--an alteration that stuns the rest of her family. But a scrooge of a determined heir makes sure she never signs the new document. When she is found dead, it's up to that irrepressible spirit Bailey Ruth, on assignment from Wiggins and Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, to protect a little boy, foil a murderer, and save Christmas. There's only one teeny hitch: how can Bailey Ruth figure out which family member was desperate enough to kill when everyone has a motive?
Mesmerized
by Gayle LyndsAfter a heart transplant saves brilliant Washington attorney Beth Convey, she inexplicably acquires new tastes and abilities, and finds herself haunted by strange dreams-or are they memories? Her search for answers leads Beth to former FBI agent turned reporter Jeff Hammond. Together they hunt down the truth and discover top-secret information that could reignite the Cold War. Gayle Lynds delivers a modern-day spy story of passion and treachery, packed with authentic detail, politics, history, and romance. From the corridors of the FBI's Hoover building to the dangerous streets of the new Moscow, MESMERIZED will take you on the roller-coaster ride of a lifetime, climaxing in a great showdown at the home of American democracy itself.
Mesopotamia
by Arthur Nersesian&“Thoroughly entertaining, with an offbeat sense of humor . . . There&’s a solid mystery here, underneath the goofiness&” (Booklist). Things have not been going well for journalist Sandy Bloomgarten. Her job went down the drain and her marriage quickly followed. After a lengthy bender, she awakens one morning to the stark realization that she is flat broke. Nonetheless, she&’s still a crack reporter, and when a tabloid offers her a freelance assignment in Memphis—just a stone&’s throw from her childhood home in Mesopotamia, Tennessee—she takes it. Though sent there for one story, she winds up tracking down another: someone is killing Elvis impersonators who perform at the annual Sing-the-King festival. The few available clues lead her to several unlikely characters: a cheating local minister constantly on the make, a strange band of misfits who only cover Elvis tunes, and a small-town private eye who blew himself up along with his crystal meth lab. As Sandy&’s investigation closes, she realizes that she is sitting on what could be the story of the century. The only problem is she can never reveal what she has found . . . &“The immortal shadow of Elvis Presley gyrates wildly through this satiric exploration of America&’s fascination with tabloid journalism.&” —Publishers Weekly
Mesozoic Murder (Ansel Phoenix Mysteries #1)
by Christine Gentry"Gentry's appealing heroine, who gets ample opportunity to display her resourcefulness and fortitude, and the intriguing milieu in which she operates, should ensure both a warm reception and a speedy encore."—Publishers WeeklyAnsel Phoenix draws dinosaurs for magazines, books, and museum displays. But one morning, digging with students out in the field, she unearths the body of colleague and ex-lover Nick Capos. Shocked and grieved over the murder, and not trusting the Big Toe police who've an axe to grind with her father, Ansel decides to investigate what Capos had been doing during the last few months of his life. She soon suspects he was working on a secret, possibly illegal project worth killing for. Her list of possible suspects grows by the hour as someone starts stalking her across the Montana landscape—a master predator who will stop at nothing. Why is Nick's fossil collection missing and why had he developed a recent interest in Baltic amber?Ansel must also deal with the challenges of her own half-Anglo, half-Blackfoot heritage; with her ranching family and the changes threatening their rural community; and with more than one Mesozoic mystery....
Message From Malaga
by Helen MacinnesWith a true interpretation of Spanish life, the people and the culture the tale begins set in a café's patio in Malaga. Ian Ferrier is on holiday visiting his friend Jeff Reid - who is more than just a wine merchant. Ian discovers that he is a member of the CIA, illegally smuggling Cubans into Spain. A high powered refugee arrives and Ferrier soon realizes he is also mixed up in the happenings of Jeff Reid's life having been given full responsibility for the new arrivals safety.
Message in a Bottle: A Julie Mystery (American Girls Mysteries)
by Kathryn ReissWhen Julie visits Gold Moon Ranch, a farming commune in California's gold rush country, the back-to-the-land lifestyle seems idyllic at first. But peculiar problems keep cropping up - almost as if someone was trying to shut down the commune! Then, on a secret trip to an abandoned gold mine, Julie stumbles on a mysterious message that hints at long-lost treasure. Julie is desperate to find it - before danger closes in on Gold Moon Ranch.
Message to Adolf, Part 1
by Osamu TezukaIt is 1936 in Berlin, Nazi Germany. A Japanese reporter named Sohei Tohge is covering the Berlin Olympic Games for the Japanese press. As he sits in the Japanese press box watching the many track and field events of the day, he receives a call from his younger brother Isao, who has been studying in Germany as an international student. The two make plans to meet as Isao mentions he has something of importance to share with his sibling. While Sohei initially thinks his little brother may have found a young frau, Isao's tone is clearly that of one who is troubled by topics much heavier than romance.When Sohei arrives at Berlin University, he finds his brother's room has been through some sort of violent ordeal. A mysterious message was left on a note pad and a window was left wide open. And tangled in the branches of a tree directly below Isao's window rested his dead body. Isao was murdered.Sohei would immediately launch an investigation to the murder, but almost instantly all traces of information regarding his younger brother's study in Germany has vanished. The police were of no help. Isao's room was also cleared and rented out to another person. Even his building manager feigned ignorance. It was as if he had never existed.Investigating the matter, it is later learned that this murder is connected to a document he mailed to Japan with information regarding Adolf Hitler. As events progress, the lives of three Adolfs, each from distinct origins, intertwine and become more and more tangled as Sohei Toge searches for his brother's murderer.
Message to Adolf, Part 2
by Osamu TezukaIn this second and concluding part, the comics master's late masterpiece takes the tale of the three Adolfs beyond the Axis defeat—for the war's damage does not end with it—to the Middle East.
Messenger
by Craig JohnsonSheriff Walt Longmire comes face to face with an otherworldy messenger in this hilarious short story from the New York Times bestselling author of As the Crow Flies and The Cold Dish Sheriff Walt Longmire, his long-time friend Henry Standing Bear, and his undersheriff Victoria Moretti are returning from a fishing trip in the Bighorn Mountains when Walt receives a distress call from Crazy Woman Canyon. Forest service ranger Chuck Coon is in trouble. Walt, the Bear, and Vic arrive to find Coon and a young woman up a tree, so to speak. The unlikley duo are fending off three very real bears from the top of a Porta Potty and tell a mystifying story of another dangerous creature inside the "convenience." When Walt, Henry, and Vic face the creature what they find may be a Messenger from the Camp of the Dead, with a very personal tie to Walt himself. A must-have for every Longmire and Craig Johnson fan, Messenger also includes a teaser chapter from Johnson's new novel, A Serpent's Tooth.
Messenger from Mystery: A Novel (Story River Bks.)
by Deno TrakasA young academic becomes embroiled in the Iranian hostage crisis in this historical novel of romance, geopolitics, and clashing cultures.It’s 1979 and Jason “Jay” Nichols is just making the transition from student to teacher when he faces a nearly impossible challenge. While teaching a group of students from Iran, more than fifty Americans are taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Iran. As the situation holds all of America spellbound, one of Jay’s students, the enchanting Azadeh “Azi” Ghotbzadeh, is suddenly in danger. A cousin of Iran’s foreign minister, Azi finds herself in an increasingly hostile country. Even as she and Jay fall in love, she is beckoned home to safety by her family. But when the U.S. government learns of Jay’s relationship with someone in the Ayatollah’s orbit, he becomes involved in a mission that could avert a global catastrophe or put Azi in mortal peril. Messenger from Mystery vividly depicts the human heart in conflict with itself while offering a thoughtful critique of U.S.–Middle East relations while also vividly depicting the human heart in conflict with itself.Foreword by Robert Penn Warren Award–winning author Elizabeth Cox
Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs #4)
by Jacqueline WinspearOn the night before the opening of his new and much-anticipated exhibition at a famed Mayfair gallery, Nicholas Bassington-Hope falls to his death. The police declare it an accident, but the dead man's twin sister, Georgina, isn't convinced. When the authorities refuse to conduct further investigations and instead close the case, Georgina takes matters into her own hands, seeking out a fellow graduate from Girton College: Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. The case soon takes Maisie to the desolate beaches of Dungeness in Kent, and through the sinister underbelly of the city's art world. But to solve the mystery of the artist's death, she will have to remain steady as the forces behind his fall come out of the shadows to silence her. Messenger of Truth is another vivid, thrilling, and utterly unique episode in the life of Maisie Dobbs.
Messenger's Angel: Lost Angels Book 2 (Lost Angels)
by Heather Killough-WaldenFor fans of J. R. Ward, Nalini Singh and Charlaine Harris, the second novel in The Lost Angels from New York Times bestselling author Heather Killough-Walden. Are you ready to meet the angels of your dreams?Gabriel has always called Scotland his true home. Nevertheless, he is stunned when his archess suddenly appears in the land closest to his heart.Juliette Andersen's encounter with the gorgeous silver-eyed stranger changes their worlds for ever. But even as they find each other, enemies surround them. With danger closing in, they will have one chance to fulfil a destiny written for them in the stars...The Lost Angels will compell you into a world of desire, danger and devastation. Read the whole series: Always Angel, Avenger's Angel, Messenger's Angel, Death's Angel, Warrior's Angel and Samael.
Messengers of Evil (The Fantômas Novels #3)
by Marcel Allain Pierre SouvestreFantômas strikes again in this third installment in the intoxicating crime series On Rue Norvins, the police find a famous heiress poisoned to death in the studio of a ceramics painter. The artist, in a state of partial paralysis, remembers nothing. These bare and baffling facts will lead newspaperman Jérôme Fandor from the magnificent ballrooms of the aristocracy to the scrubby pubs of the Parisian underworld as his search for the truth uncovers ruined fortunes, desperate suicides, mistaken identities, and even romance. Never far from such evil and outrageous doings is a villain so mysterious, so extraordinary, so clever and cruel that he can only have one name: Fantômas! This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Messiah
by Boris StarlingLondon is in the grip of a heatwave: airless days, strange steamy nights and a killer walking the streets. Wealthy men are being murdered to some mysterious pattern, with no clues left behind, only corpses with silver spoons in place of their tongues.
Messiah
by Gore VidalWhen a mortician appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Gore Vidal's deft and daring blend of satire and prophecy, first published in 1954, eerily anticipates the excesses of Jim Jones, David Koresh, and the Heaven's Gate suicide cult.
Messianic Reveal: A Clayton Haley Novel (The Clayton Haley Novels)
by Ethan T. BurroughsA unique thriller that dives deeply into Sunni and Shia Islam from a political perspective, taking readers behind the scenes in the Middle East.Messianic Reveal intelligently and compassionately, and at times humorously, narrates the story of an unexceptional young man of integrity who seeks simply to serve his country, and in so doing follows his instincts into a labyrinth of conspiracies. The novellaunches from and connects to real events and real people: the 1979 siege of Mecca, Osama Bin Laden’s brother, Ayatollah Khomeini’s temporary residences in France and Iraq, and so on.The most extraordinary and compelling parts of this fictional account are true or otherwise widely believed in the Middle East, and largely come from Ethan T. Burroughs’ personal experiences and relationships with locals there. Throughout Messianic Reveal, readers are taken behind the scenes into the government’s bureaucratic and policy machinations, and the West’s grappling with Islam’s political influence.
Mestre O (Parte Um - Atenção e Obsessão)
by Violet Haze Andrea MoreiraA Parte Um inclui os volumes Mestre O - Atenção e Mestre O - Obsessão. Leia depois Obscuro. ATENÇÃO: Owen Chandler, um homem com segredos, está intrigado com a sua nova bartender, uma mulher que ele suspeita que esconde alguns segredos por trás de um sorriso bonito. Incapaz de se livrar da sensação de conexão entre eles, ele não quer nada mais do que se tornar íntimo dela, estimulando um interesse mútuo, que ele está mais do que contente em satisfazer. Só que nada é tão simples como parece, e se deixar levar pela atração é o começo de algo que nenhum dos dois está pronto para lidar. OBSESSÃO: Ramona pode não saber por que Owen está com raiva, mas não irá desistir sem antes lutar. Owen se esforça para fazer a coisa certa ao tentar descobrir se sua prisioneira está dizendo a verdade ou não. Será que a sua decepção inicial o manterá de ceder ao seu desejo mais uma vez? ~158 páginas
MetaWars: Book 1
by Jeff NortonJonah Delacroix can't stand the real world - so he lives most of his life inside a global computer-based virtual world called the Metasphere, where everyone is represented by an avatar. When he discovers the avatar of his dead father, and assumes his online identity, a series of events are unleashed that compel Jonah to race across the real world with a secret society to protect the freedom of all mankind...
Metais Pesados
by Margo Bond CollinsConheça Blaze Silver, uma caçadora de monstros e uma maga da terra muito mal humorada que acabou sendo amaldiçoada por um demônio e que enfrenta lobisomens, demônios, vampiros e muitas outras criaturas nessa coleção de romances e contos de fantasia. Silver & Selvagens Blaize e sua prima Grace enfrentam lobisomens em Tombstone no Arizona, e ficam cara a cara com um problema muito maior do que esse! Sinos de Prata do Inferno Blaize e seu mais novo companheiro Lobo, seguem o Chamado até uma pequena cidade nas montanhas de San Juan no Colorado, onde há um segredo mortal escondido na neve. Resoluções Blaize e Lobo conhecem MaddieAnne Honeycutt e descobrem que ela pode ser a mais nova caçadora! Prata e Feitiçaria Blaize e Lobo vão parar em um rancho abandonado e acabam em uma batalha com um inimigo inusitado. Inclui também a história de Ruby Silver: "Presentes Indesejados"! Conheça como a ancestral de Blaze Silver acabou amaldiçoada com alergia à prata e com uma compulsão por caçar monstros.