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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 |
Set during the Gold Rush days, The Promised Land concludes Mudrooroo's fantastical voyage through the history of Australia around the time of its colonisation by the British. This is satire at its most cutting, and entertaining.<br /> <br />Sir George Augustus returns to the Great South Land with his young wife, Lady Lucy, intending to establish a mission to educate and 'Christianise' the native people. When he hears that gold has been found on the land, his missionary...
| Автор | Mudrooroo |
The Poet ' is a tale of obsession, art, and the thresholds between day and night. Manfred is a nondescript insurance clerk, inflexibly honest and imbued with a profound sense of order. He is also a prolific poet, but has never tried to publish – until now. The novella traces the events and experiences that befall Manfred in the wake of a single moment's carelessness, a mistake that will change his life. He enters a maze he must negotiate, between action and paralysis, inspiration and...
| Автор | Alex Skovron |
By the firelight, a mysterious storyteller weaves a captivating tale of sea journeys, vampire women, and Aboriginal Dreaming. Around the campfire the gold diggers listen and journey with George as he plunges underground to rescue his ship's captain from the horrific and mesmerising vampire woman.<br /> <br />Jangamuttuk, the Master of the Ghost Dreaming, sends his son, George, to rescue Wadawaka from the 'ghost' vampire woman who has taken him as her 'Dark...
| Автор | Mudrooroo |
