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How would you feel if you opened your eyes one day to discover you were a prisoner in your own home? It doesn't seem possible. You would have seen it coming and taken steps to avoid the dire consequences. But that just means you haven't met Daniel yet.<br><br>Barry has, and if you value your ideals and your freedom, you'd best read his account of what happened to him and his friends when a likeable, charismatic young man arrived on their doorstep one night....
| Автор | Kathy Sampson |
Five hundred years can confuse identity. An old chalk drawing of a girl, Maria, the daughter of a Chianti vintner leaves a Swiss art collector, Claude Beauvin entangled in a Renaissance love story from the past. The drawing is currently owned by a reclusive young widow, Andrea Garibaldi-Chase, who puts the drawing up for auction. With smoldering rumors that Leonardo da Vinci is the artist of the portrait, history is set on fire by a New York art dealer, an art history professor, and an...
| Автор | Richard Heket |
The Fourth Postman by Craig Rice, the first mystery writer to be featured on the cover of Time magazine.<br><br>"Mass murder of postmen in a posh Chicago suburb interests lawyer Malone, Jake and Helene Justus, and other well-remembered Riceomaniacs.<br><br>Plot and people as wacky as ever, with busted Malone and chicken-poxed Justuses supplying plenty of comedy and, surprisingly, much intriguing sleuthing. Verdict: Fun"—Saturday Review of...
| Автор | Craig Inc. Rice |
Martin and Jenny Johnson chose to do something different with their vacation and went with a team to an orphanage in Southern Ukraine. Once there, the childless couple fell in love with a little girl, Oksana, and made steps to adopt her. But they soon met with mysterious resistance to the adoption and the child went missing for the rest of their time working at the orphanage. Martin made plans to stay behind a few days longer to learn more about Oksana's situation. Then days turned to...
| Автор | Mark Graham |
Legally she was Sarah Develin Capritzo but very few people knew the truth. It really didn't matter since both Sarah's husbands were dead; the first of a heart attack; the second … well, he was murdered. That's a truth too and no one knew it better than Sarah herself since she was the one who killed him. Twenty-one years of age with two young sons, she was mistress of Cavendish Hall and fabulously wealthy. The thought of marrying again never occurred to her until she met...
| Автор | L. M. Ollie |
It's good versus evil when an apparition summons a team to The Gull Cottage Motel in Seaside, Oregon in order to destroy the evil Oscar Shay. As the members of The Team prepare to save the small beach town, they discover they are battling their own personal demons as well.<br><br>Lulu Bean, owner of The Mystic Muffins Bakery, is forced to face the afternoon her mother was killed before it destroys her and the small coastal town she's come to...
| Автор | Honey Perkel |
Are family members who have passed on still watching over us? To an apparition named Bernard, family is everything, and he will do whatever is necessary to keep his own family safe.<br><br>Four women. Four secrets. Elizabeth Windsor is a painter. Terminally ill and needing her family, she moves to the small costal town of Seaside, Oregon. Tilly Jacobs, a local realtor, wonders if the pain of losing her son will ever end. Iris Grayson, a woman who lives in the make-believe world of...
| Автор | Honey Perkel |
You're driving along a lonely outback road when suddenly a kangaroo leaps out in front of you. Your car is wrecked and then things rapidly go downhill from there as you find yourself under attack from a pack of wild dogs. Having survived that, you cross bloody paths with a pair of violent criminals who've murdered two people on a remote Aboriginal community.<br> <br>And then things go REALLY pear-shaped as you find yourself caught up on a rollercoaster of bloody...
| Автор | Anthony Maguire |
Lost is the way to the skyland. Our souls wander forlornly in the land of ghosts. Our spirits become their play things; our bodies their food, to be ripped apart, and our gnawed bones are scattered. We are in despair; we are sickening unto death; we call to be healed. Anxiously we wait for our mapan, the Master of the Ghost Dreaming to deliver us.<br /> <br />In the first years of the 19th century a small Aboriginal tribe reels under the threat of white invasion of their ancestral...
| Автор | Mudrooroo |