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The Voice of the Spirits: A Commandant Michel de Palma Investigation
by Xavier-Marie BonnotCommandant Michel de Palma follows an anonymous tip-off to a gated mansion by the coast and finds a body whose face is obscured by a fearsome tribal mask. Beneath it is a mysterious wound that could not have been caused by a bullet. Surrounded by scores of masks and painted skulls, de Palma hears the haunting strains of a primal flute from the floors above. With few leads to go on, de Palma delves into an account of the murdered doctor's voyage to Papua New Guinea seventy years earlier. But when his chief suspect is found dead, killed by the same method as Delorme, he begins to wonder whether the bodies on his hands are not the victims of spirits intent on revenge.
The Voice of the Spirits: A Commandant Michel de Palma Investigation
by Xavier-Marie BonnotCommandant Michel de Palma follows an anonymous tip-off to a gated mansion by the coast and finds a body whose face is obscured by a fearsome tribal mask. Beneath it is a mysterious wound that could not have been caused by a bullet. Surrounded by scores of masks and painted skulls, de Palma hears the haunting strains of a primal flute from the floors above. With few leads to go on, de Palma delves into an account of the murdered doctor's voyage to Papua New Guinea seventy years earlier. But when his chief suspect is found dead, killed by the same method as Delorme, he begins to wonder whether the bodies on his hands are not the victims of spirits intent on revenge.
The Voice of the Spirits: A Commandant de Palma Investigation
by Xavier-Marie BonnotThe rituals of Papuan warriors and headhunters form the intriguing backdrop to this subtle and compelling novel from one of France's most original and thought-provoking crime writers. When Commandant de Palma follows an anonymous tip-off to a gated mansion by the coast, he finds a body whose face is obscured by a fearsome tribal mask - beneath it lies a mysterious wound that could not have been caused by a bullet. Surrounded by scores of masks and painted skulls, de Palma hears the haunting strains of a primal flute from the floors above. With few leads to go on, de Palma delves into an account of the murdered doctor's voyage to Papua New Guinea seventy years earlier. But, when his leads starting dying in similarly mysterious circumstances, even de Palma begins to wonder whether the bodies on his hands are the victims of spirits intent on revenge.
The Voiceless (A Mulholland / Strand Magazine Short)
by Faye KellermanFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Theory of Death comes a short story set in an imaged future where computers speak for humans.This tale begins: "It was a time when the world, though filled with sound, was quiet." Technology has replaced the need to speak through texting but when a virus spreads across the entire world that leaves everyone blind. Doctors come together to fight the epidemic. But, as "The Voiceless" seeks to answer, what does the ability to speak mean without the desire to do so?"The Voiceless" by Faye Kellerman is one of 20 short stories within Mulholland Books's Strand Originals series, featuring thrilling stories by the biggest names in mystery from the Strand Magazine archives. View the full series list at mulhollandbooks.com and read them all!
The Voices
by F. R. TallisIn the scorching summer of 1976--the hottest since records began--Christopher Norton, his wife Laura and their young daughter Faye settle into their new home in north London. The faded glory of the Victorian house is the perfect place for Norton, a composer of film soundtracks, to build a recording studio of his own. But soon in the long, oppressively hot nights, Laura begins to hear something through the crackle of the baby monitor. First, a knocking sound. Then come the voices. For Norton, the voices mark an exciting opportunity. Putting his work to one side, he begins the project of a lifetime--a grand symphony incorporating the voices--and becomes increasingly obsessed with one voice in particular. Someone who is determined to make themselves heard...
The Void
by Timothy S. Johnston2403 ADIt would be easier to kill him than to trust him.Transporting a serial killer might seem like a simple job for CCF Homicide Investigator Kyle Tanner. After spending years apprehending murderers, he's ready to hang up his pistol. Babysitting a prisoner will bring him to Alpha Centauri, where he can search for a way to escape the CCF forever.If he makes it.When his ship breaks down in deep space and a CCF research vessel comes to his aid, Tanner realizes he's in terrible danger: the scientists on board have blocked his distress call. And when Tanner's prisoner escapes, he begins to suspect that the proximity of the research vessel had nothing to do with luck and everything to do with the CCF's relentless reach.Facing near-certain death by his own organization, Tanner must unravel a tangled skein of vengeance, duplicity and murder in deep space. But he's being held at the will of master puppeteers, and if he can't cut the strings, he'll dance straight to a gruesome, excruciating death....A Tanner Sequence Novel106,000 words
The Void (Truth Chasers)
by Mark MynheirThe Truth Chasers Book Three Someone’s trying to play God… and he’s turning Palm Bay into hell. Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agent Robbie Sanchez devotes her life to crime prevention, and it shows: She has no personal life and doesn’t know the meaning of a day off. After all, someone has to be around to clean up the mess crime leaves behind. So when Officer Brad Worthington is brutally murdered, Agent Sanchez is called to the scene along with Brad’s best friend, Detective Eric Casey. The two turn to Lifetex, the genetics lab near the scene, hoping their elaborate security system might have captured the crime outside. But what’s going on inside the lab is far worse: a renegade scientist is cloning humans! As Robbie and Eric pursue clues–and a growing attraction–they are caught in a deadly battle as the clones begin to act on their own volition…but this battle threatens to claim more than human life; the clones are vying for human souls. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Void Protocol: Panacea, The God Gene, The Void Protocol (The ICE Sequence #3)
by F. Paul WilsonIn The Void Protocol, New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson concludes his medical thriller trilogy featuring Rick Hayden and Laura Fanning as they confront the entities responsible for the supernatural events of Panacea and The God Gene.Something sits in a bunker lab buried fifty feet below the grounds of Lakehurst Naval Air Station.The product of the Lange-Tür technology confiscated from the Germans after World War II occupies a chamber of steel-reinforced ballistic glass. Despite experimentation for nearly three-quarters of a century, no one knows what it is, but illegal human research reveals what it can do. Humans with special abilities have been secretly collected—abilities that can only have come from whatever occupies the underground bunker in Lakehurst.And so it sits, sequestered on the edge of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, slowly changing the world.F. Paul Wilson is the winner of the Career Achievement in Thriller Fiction in the 2017 RT Reviewers' Choice Best Book AwardsThe ICE Sequence#1 Panacea#2 The God Gene#3 The Void ProtocolAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Void Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: The Dreaming Void, The Temporal Void, The Evolutionary Void (Commonwealth: The Void Trilogy)
by Peter F. HamiltonPeter F. Hamilton's extraordinary far-future epics recall the golden age of science fiction, as practiced by Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. Nowhere is that legacy more in evidence than in The Void Trilogy. Taking place twelve hundred years after the events of Hamilton's Commonwealth novels, The Dreaming Void, The Temporal Void, and The Evolutionary Void are Hamilton at his most ambitious and daringly imaginative--and now all three are together for the first time in this addictive eBook bundle. Contains an exhilarating preview of Peter F. Hamilton's highly anticipated novel, The Abyss Beyond Dreams, set in the same universe as The Void Trilogy. THE DREAMING VOID THE TEMPORAL VOID THE EVOLUTIONARY VOID The year is 3589. At the very heart of the galaxy is the Void, a self-contained microuniverse that cannot be stopped as it expands in all directions, consuming everything in its path. Even the oldest and most technologically advanced of the galaxy's sentient races, the Raiel, do not know its origin or its purpose. Then Inigo, an astrophysicist, begins having vivid dreams. Inside the Void, Inigo sees paradise. Thanks to the gaiafield, a neural entanglement wired into most humans, those dreams are shared by hundreds of millions--and a religion, the Living Dream, is born, with Inigo as its prophet. But then he vanishes. A new wave of dreams broadcast by an unknown Second Dreamer serves as the impetus for a massive Pilgrimage into the Void, which could trigger an accelerated devourment phase that will swallow up thousands of worlds. Thus begins a desperate race to find Inigo and avert catastrophe. Praise for The Void Trilogy The Dreaming Void "Peter F. Hamilton is the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction, author of immense, complex far-future sagas. The Dreaming Void is his best yet."--Ken Follett "A real spellbinder from a master storyteller . . . dozens of scenarios, a surprisingly well-delineated cast of thousands, plotting enough to delight the most Machiavellian of readers."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Amazing storytelling . . . Hamilton is the clear heir to Heinlein in my view."--Marc Andreessen, founder, Netscape The Temporal Void "Fusing elements of hard SF with adventure fantasy tropes, Hamilton has singlehandedly raised the bar for grand-scale speculative storytelling."--Publishers Weekly "A great, sprawling, ripping yarn reminiscent of Golden Age Science Fiction."--SF Crowsnest "A gripping story, with the fates of two universes at stake."--SF Site The Evolutionary Void "Satisfying and powerful . . . Space Opera doesn't get much more epic than Peter F. Hamilton, something proven in spades in The Evolutionary Void."--SFFWorld "Spiced with plenty of action and intrigue."--San Jose Mercury News "The author's mastery of the art of the 'big story' earns him a place among the leading authors of dynastic SF."--Library Journal
The Volcano of Doom (Accidental Detectives #1)
by Sigmund BrouwerON A VACATION IN PARADISE, WHAT CAN GO WRONG? RICKY KIDD'S family and his friends are in Hawaii for Easter break, and it promises to be the vacation of a lifetime. But when a shark-fishing trip turns into a hair-raising experience, Ricky isn't sure whom to trust. Mike's discovery of an ancient Japanese statue causes even more confusion. And then there is that white-haired guy who keeps showing up.... Meanwhile, other strange things keep happening, especially when their host, Norbert, disappears just a week before his wedding! The statue holds the key to unraveling the mystery, but when it is stolen from them, it seems their last clue has disappeared. Ricky and his friends need to solve this mystery soon--otherwise they may become shark bait! IS THERE A CONNECTION BETWEEN NORBERT AND THE WHITE-HAIRED GUY? IS THE JAPANESE STATUE REAL, OR JUST A CLEVER FAKE? WHAT SECRETS IS NORBERT HIDING? Juvenile Fiction Ages 8-13
The Voodoo Plot (Hardy Boys Mystery Stories #72)
by Franklin W. DixonFrom the back of the book: HARDY BOYS 72 FRANKLIN W. DIXON The Mardi Gras is in full swing, with Frank and Joe in New Orleans to enjoy the festivities. But they have little time to participate in the celebration. A clue to the rash of burglaries taking place in their home-town of Bayport has sent them to the exciting city, where they get involved in a deadly voodoo cult. When their adversaries harass the boys in an attempt to cover up their criminal activities, Frank, Joe. and Chet must use all of their skills to outwit the thieves and their elaborate scheme.
The Voter File
by David Pepper"Pepper comes through again with this clever tale of how cyber sabotage of elections, coupled with highly concentrated ownership of traditional media operations, can undermine American democracy."--President Bill ClintonA twisty, one-step-ahead-of-the-headlines political thriller featuring a rogue reporter who investigates election meddling of epic proportions written by the ultimate insider.Investigative reporter Jack Sharpe is down to his last chance. Fired from his high-profile gig with a national news channel, his only lead is a phone full of messages from a grad student named Tori Justice, who swears she's observed an impossible result in a local election. Sharpe is sure she's mistaken...but what if she isn't?Sharpe learns that the most important tool in any election is the voter file: the database that keeps track of all voters in a district, and shapes a campaign's game plan for victory. If one person were to gain control of an entire party's voter file, they could manipulate the outcome of virtually every election in America. Sharpe discovers this has happened--and that the person behind the hack is determined to turn American politics upside down.The more he digs, the more Sharpe is forced to question the values--and viability--of the country he loves and a president he admired. And soon it becomes clear that not just his career is in jeopardy...so is his life.
The Vows He Must Keep (The Avelar Family Scandals #1)
by Amanda CinelliA pledge to protect…That will be tested at the altar!After tragedy strikes, Daniela Avelar steps up as CEO to her brother’s global yacht empire. But to prevent corporate mutiny, she needs the help of his business partner, Valerio Marchesi. Little does Daniela know that Valerio has already sworn to keep her safe. And when the tycoon discovers she’s in grave danger, he insists she become his bride! He’ll risk the unavoidable chemistry that sparks every time they lock eyes. Because this engagement of convenience is anything but… It’s a red-hot fire burning out of control!
The Vows We Break (The Unconditional Series #2)
by Briana ColeThe divorce was just the beginning. . . Kimera Davis had a plan to jump start her life and land on easy street. But a disastrous marriage has her making amends and picking up the pieces. It’s a struggle to balance her new responsibilities and her ex, who keeps pressuring her for another chance. All of this has her family scandalized, and with her minister father’s health suffering, trying to do the right thing is pulling Kimera and the only man she’s ever really loved further and further apart . . . But as Kimera’s bad luck piles up, she senses there’s something more than faulty decisions at play. Someone’s playing a desperate, dangerous game with her life . . . and she’ll have to win if she wants to survive.
The Vows of Silence (Simon Serrailler #4)
by Susan Hill'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.' It is late October, and the inhabitants of the Cathedral town of Lafferton are getting ready for the Remembrance Day parade. This year will be grander than usual because of a VIP visitor. Leonard Cramm is preparing himself, as he always does; his grandfather was a hero of the First World War, his father a hero of the Battle of Britain. But then a couple walking their dogs go into a copse on the outskirts of the town, and one of them breaks an ankle after falling over something deep in the undergrowth. Remembrance takes on a different aspect, and Simon Serrailler - recently promoted to Detective Chief Superintendent - faces a terrifying situation, in which a great many lives are threatened, not least his own.
The Vows of Silence: A Simon Serrailler Mystery
by Susan HillAnother wrenching Simon Serrailler novel of love, loss, dreadful crimes, and terror. We met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. The Vows of Silence, the fourth crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Serrailler, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors. A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Laffterton. What, if anything, links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun? With the complexity and character study that earned raves for The Pure in Heart and the relentless pacing and plot twists of The Various Haunts of Men, The Vows of Silence is truly the work of a writer at the top of her form.
The Vows of Silence: A Simon Serrailler Mystery
by Susan HillAnother wrenching Simon Serrailler novel of love, loss, dreadful crimes, and terror. We met the enigmatic and brooding Simon Serrailler in The Various Haunts of Men and got to know him better in The Pure in Heart and The Risk of Darkness. The Vows of Silence, the fourth crime novel featuring Chief Inspector Serrailler, is perhaps even more compulsive and convincing than its predecessors. A gunman is terrorizing young women in the cathedral town of Laffterton. What, if anything, links the apparently random murders? Is the marksman with the rifle the same as the killer with the handgun? With the complexity and character study that earned raves for The Pure in Heart and the relentless pacing and plot twists of The Various Haunts of Men, The Vows of Silence is truly the work of a writer at the top of her form.
The Voxlightner Scandal (BJ Vinson Mystery #6)
by Don TravisA BJ Vinson MysteryNo good deed goes unpunished, as investigator BJ Vinson is about to discover. Writer John Pierce Belhaven was murdered before he could reveal the name of another killer—one connected to the biggest scandal to rock Albuquerque in years. Two of the city’s most prominent citizens—Barron Voxlightner and Dr. Walther Stabler—vanished in 2004, along with fifty million dollars looted from Voxlightner Precious Metals Recovery Corp. It only makes sense that poking into that disappearance cost Belhaven his life. But BJ isn’t so sure. He’s agreed to help novice detective Roy Guerra reopen the old case—which the wealthy and influential Voxlightner family doesn’t want dredged up. But Belhaven was part of their family, and that connection could’ve led to his murder. Or did the sixty-year-old author die because of a sordid sexual affair?
The Voyeur
by Richard Howard Alain Robbe-GrilletMathias, a timorous, ineffectual traveling salesman, returns to the island of his birth after a long absence. Two days later, a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilated. With eerie precision, Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime and takes us inside Mathias's mind, artfully enlisting us as detective hot on the trail of a homicidal maniac. A triumphant display of the techniques of the "new novel", The Voyeur achieves the impossible feat of keeping us utterly engrossed in the mystery of the child's murder while systematically raising doubts about whether it really occurred.
The Voyeur (Books That Changed the World)
by Alain Robbe-GrilletThe winner of the Prix des Critiques from the French avant-garde author of Jealousy.&“Robbe-Grillet is the forerunner of a revolution in the novel&” (Claude Mauriac, cultural critic for Le Figaro). Mathias, a timorous, ineffectual traveling salesman, returns to the island of his birth after a long absence. Two days later, a thirteen-year-old girl is found drowned and mutilated. With eerie precision, Robbe-Grillet puts us at the scene of the crime and takes us inside Mathias&’s mind, artfully enlisting us as detective hot on the trail of a homicidal maniac. A triumphant display of the techniques of the &“new novel,&” The Voyeur achieves the impossible feat of keeping us utterly engrossed in the mystery of the child&’s murder while systematically raising doubts about whether it really occurred. &“The suspense . . . keeps us on tenterhooks.&” —The New York Times Book Review &“I can think of no other writer who can render the banal so fearfully fantastic. In the subtlest, slyest, and most sheerly delightful way he persuades us to look anew at the commonplace.&” —Books and Bookmen Praise for Alain Robbe-Grillet &“Robbe-Grillet&’s theories constitute the most ambitious aesthetic program since Surrealism.&” —John Updike, Pulitzer Prize–winner &“Robbe-Grillet is important because he has attacked the last bastion of the traditional art of writing: the organization of literary space.&” —Roland Barthes, influential literary theorist &“Robbe-Grillet was a master at conveying human misunderstanding.&” —Bernard-Henri Lévy, public intellectual, author, and filmmaker &“I doubt that fiction as art can any longer be seriously discussed without Robbe-Grillet.&” —The New York Times
The Vulgar Boatman (The Brady Coyne Mysteries #6)
by William G. TapplyWhen a politician&’s son is suspected of murder, Boston lawyer Brady Coyne is dispatched to fix it—only to uncover a web of deceit: &“Tapply at his best&” (The New York Times). Running for governor on the Republican ticket, Tom Baron needs his image to be squeaky clean. He employs men like Brady Coyne, a compassionate Boston attorney, to keep problems far away from his campaign. But when his son doesn&’t come home one night, Tom&’s political strategy becomes a criminal matter. His son&’s girlfriend has been murdered, and the boy has no alibi. To protect his friend&’s political ambitions, Brady digs into the investigation, finding a trail of drugs and corruption that stretches far across the Eastern seaboard. Tom Baron may be his friend, but Brady Coyne will stomach no cover-up. If the son is guilty and Tom is involved, Brady will come down on the would-be governor with a fury that will make Boston politics look like a student council election.
The Vulture
by Gil Scott-HeronThe legendary poet and musician’s debut novel is “an impressively crafted urban noir . . . like an early forerunner of The Wire” (The Independent). Known as the “godfather of rap” and an innovator of spoken-word soul music with songs like The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Gil Scott-Heron wrote his first novel, The Vulture, while he was still a student at Lincoln University. First published to critical acclaim in 1970, it offers “a fascinating portrait of late 60s New York” with the same heart, wit, and urgent social commentary expressed in his music (Mojo). The Vulture is a hip and fast-moving thriller, set in lower Manhattan. It relates the strange story of the murder of a teenage boy called John Lee—told through the words of four men who knew him when he was just another kid working after school, hanging out, waiting for something to happen. “A tense and intriguing murder mystery.” —Mojo “An artist who has crafted witty but crucial insights for Black America.” —The Washington Post
The Vulture Fund
by Stephen W. FreyMace McLain is the hottest young gun at Wall Street's last great independent banking firm. Now he's just been named co-manager of a multi-billion-dollar "vulture fund," an ultra-risky real estate scheme preying on naive investors. The powerful senior partner is willing to bet the bank on it. So is Kathleen Hunt, a gorgeous investment banker with high-level contacts. What do they know that he doesn't? With the help of a beautiful graduate student named Rachel Sommers, McLain follows a bizarre trail that stretches from the jungles of Latin America to Washington and the secret councils of the CIA ... where deception shadows his every move--and where even the most irrefutable evidence can't diminish his deadly risk. ...
The Vulture Fund: A Novel
by Stephen W. Frey&“A fast-paced thriller—action, adventure, romance, even a morality tale. Frey touches all the bases in this fast-paced thriller that combines Robert Ludlum with Barbarians at the Gate.&”—Newark Star-Ledger&“Ruthless financial terror.&”—Chicago TribuneMace McLain is the hottest young gun at Wall Street's last great independent baking firm. Now he's just been named co-manager of a multibillion-dollar "vulture fund," an ultra-risky real estate scheme preying on naïve investors. The powerful senior partner is willing to bet the bank on it. So is Kathleen Hunt, a gorgeous investment banker with high-level contacts. What do they know that he doesn't?With the help of a beautiful graduate student named Rachel Sommers, McLain follows a bizarre trail that stretches from the jungles of Latin America to Washington and the secret councils of the CIA . . . where deception shadows his ever move—and where even the most irrefutable evidence can't diminish his deadly risk. . . .
The Vulture and the Phoenix: Neurosurgeon, Garven Wilsonhulme, the final great fight
by Carl DouglassArthur Koestler, the notable twentieth century playwright said, Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion." Carl Douglass, neurosurgeon turned author, writes with gripping realism about the point in Garven Wilsonhulme, M.D., F.A.C.S's life when he turns the hopes and aspirations of his family, friends, colleagues, and opponents into illusions. In so doing, he realizes that he has become both The Vulture and The Phoenix in his own life. He scrambles to the heights of fame, prestige, riches, and cruelty. There, he meets a wall of opposition and begins the final great fight of his complicated life and career. What he does will surprise and amaze you. This is the finale of the successful Saga of a Neurosurgeon series."