Fiction : Crime

E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Death in the Clouds; 2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot is almost ideally placed to observe his fellow air travelers on this short flight from Paris to London. Over to his right sits a pretty .. more...

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It took a while for Abby Cooper’s FBI agent boyfriend, Dutch Rivers, to accept her psychic gifts as. the real deal. But these days he knows better than to question Abby’s visions. So when his favorite. cousin Chase is kidnapped in Vegas, they both catch the next flight to Sin City. Abby’s inner eye insists. that Chase is still alive, but nothing else about the case adds up—especially Dutch’s reluctance to. involve his own Bureau. On top of everything, Dutch is battling a mysterious illness, and Abby keeps having disturbing dreams. that predict his death. Dutch wants Abby to promise that if the investigation goes south, she’ll head. home to safety. But when the chips are down, Abby won’t fold without a fight... more...

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In the night-still canyons of the Arizona desert, a girl is on the run. Alone but for her beloved red-tailed hawk, she flees from the dark shadows of her young life, the horror she has witnessed ... and the terror that now stalks her. New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance returns with her eighth novel in the highly acclaimed Joanna Brady mystery series. Set against the backdrop of the modern west, this gripping tale finds Sheriff Brady juggling a precarious overload in both her personal and professional lives. About to be married, Joanna's facing a daughter turning twelve and going on twenty, a meddlesome mother micro-managing her wedding, and new in-laws arriving any day. The sudden death of her much-loved neighbor and handyman, Clayton Rhodes, creates further turmoil, leaving Joanna shocked, saddened, and the target of Clayton's irate and irrational daughter, who accuses the Sheriff's Department of covering up a possible murder. more...

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Cadets that enter Starfleet Academy have two mantras drilled into them from their very first day. They must do their duty for the Federation and Starfleet, and they must strive to honor their oath as Starfleet officers. Among those who have best embodied these guiding principles and who have strived to live up to the coda ''to boldly go'' are those who once served aboard the Starship Enterprise under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. Who then, was better to guide the next generation of officers? After Kirk became an admiral, the officers of the Enterprise were promoted, and several became Academy instructors. Transformed from a ship of the line to a training vessel the Enterprise's days of active duty are behind her -- until a frantic message from a distant outpost interrupts a training exercise and pulls the ship back into action. more...

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E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Elephants Can Remember ; 2) "The Poirots": the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. "The Ravenscrofts didn’t seem that kind of person. They seemed well balanced and placid…" And yet, twelve years earlier, the husband had shot the wife, and then himself or perhaps it was the other way around, since sets of both of their fingerprints were on the gun, and the gun had fallen between them. more...

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