Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671015575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A collection of eleven wonderfully imaginative tales that both chill the spine and warm the heart. Each tale features a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak.
The Plot Thickens
Author: Lawrence Block
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671015575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A collection of eleven wonderfully imaginative tales that both chill the spine and warm the heart. Each tale features a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671015575
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A collection of eleven wonderfully imaginative tales that both chill the spine and warm the heart. Each tale features a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak.
Mary Higgins Clark Presents The Plot Thickens
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781585470488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Plot Thickens came about because Mary Higgins Clark decided to do something about illiteracy in America. She asked ten of her fellow mystery writers to donate a story for this collection. They could write anything they wished, with only one requirement: each story had to contain: A thick fog ... a thick book ... and a thick steak. In this superior anthology, contibutors Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Edna Buchanan, Walter Mosley, Nancy Pickard, Nelson and Lauren DeMille, Donald E. Westlake, Janet Evanovich, Carol Higgins Clark and Ann Rule have created imaginative tales that chill the spine and warm the heart.
Publisher: Center Point
ISBN: 9781585470488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Plot Thickens came about because Mary Higgins Clark decided to do something about illiteracy in America. She asked ten of her fellow mystery writers to donate a story for this collection. They could write anything they wished, with only one requirement: each story had to contain: A thick fog ... a thick book ... and a thick steak. In this superior anthology, contibutors Mary Higgins Clark, Lawrence Block, Edna Buchanan, Walter Mosley, Nancy Pickard, Nelson and Lauren DeMille, Donald E. Westlake, Janet Evanovich, Carol Higgins Clark and Ann Rule have created imaginative tales that chill the spine and warm the heart.
The Plot Thickens
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: GuildAmerica Books
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Each story in this anthology includes a mystery featuring a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak.
Publisher: GuildAmerica Books
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Each story in this anthology includes a mystery featuring a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak.
Remember Me
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847395503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Unable to forgive herself for the death of her two-year-old son Bobby in a car accident, Menley Nichols' marriage to Adam starts to fall apart- until the birth of their daughter Hannah. Determined to rebuild a life together around their precious baby, Menley and Adam decide to rent a house on Cape Cod for a month, confidant that the tranquility of the place will be ideal for Menley and little Hannah. But the peace they crave is disturbed when strange things start to happen- incidents which make Menley relive the horror of the accident in which she lost Bobby. . . incidents which make her fear for Hannah. And step by step, Menley and Adam are drawn into a dark and sinister web of events whcih threatens their marriage, their child and ultimately Menley's sanity.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847395503
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Unable to forgive herself for the death of her two-year-old son Bobby in a car accident, Menley Nichols' marriage to Adam starts to fall apart- until the birth of their daughter Hannah. Determined to rebuild a life together around their precious baby, Menley and Adam decide to rent a house on Cape Cod for a month, confidant that the tranquility of the place will be ideal for Menley and little Hannah. But the peace they crave is disturbed when strange things start to happen- incidents which make Menley relive the horror of the accident in which she lost Bobby. . . incidents which make her fear for Hannah. And step by step, Menley and Adam are drawn into a dark and sinister web of events whcih threatens their marriage, their child and ultimately Menley's sanity.
Dead Serious
Author: Susannah Stacey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671001183
Category : Bone, Robert (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Biddinghurst, a reputedly haunted village in Kent, seems to be home to a serial killer. Superintendent Robert Bone steps in to investigate, and instinctively tosses out the obvious--suggesting an unlikely, but terribly convincing, scenario for the crimes. Featured in "A Pocket Full of Crime" mystery newsletter.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671001183
Category : Bone, Robert (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Biddinghurst, a reputedly haunted village in Kent, seems to be home to a serial killer. Superintendent Robert Bone steps in to investigate, and instinctively tosses out the obvious--suggesting an unlikely, but terribly convincing, scenario for the crimes. Featured in "A Pocket Full of Crime" mystery newsletter.
Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction
Author: John Lennard
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN: 1847601715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Taking up where the author's book Of Modern Dragons (2007) left off, these essays continue Lennard's investigation of the praxis of serial reading and the best genre fiction of recent decades, including work by Bill James, Walter Mosley, Lois Mcmaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin. There are groundbreaking studies of contemporary paranormal romance, and of Hornblower's transition to space, while the final essay deals with the phenomenon and explosive growth of fanfiction, and with the increasingly empowered status of the reader in a digital world. There is an extensive bibliography of genre and critical work, with eight illustrations and many hyperlinks.
Publisher: Humanities-Ebooks
ISBN: 1847601715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Taking up where the author's book Of Modern Dragons (2007) left off, these essays continue Lennard's investigation of the praxis of serial reading and the best genre fiction of recent decades, including work by Bill James, Walter Mosley, Lois Mcmaster Bujold, and Ursula K. Le Guin. There are groundbreaking studies of contemporary paranormal romance, and of Hornblower's transition to space, while the final essay deals with the phenomenon and explosive growth of fanfiction, and with the increasingly empowered status of the reader in a digital world. There is an extensive bibliography of genre and critical work, with eight illustrations and many hyperlinks.
The Mystery Readers' Advisory
Author: John Charles
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838908112
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Three librarians from Scottsdale, Arizona provide library staff with an introduction to the mystery genre and offer tips and techniques for providing advice to mystery readers in the library. They include some of their own bibliographies, but refer readers elsewhere for fuller ones. They also include a brief history of the genre to pass on to readers new to it.
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838908112
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Three librarians from Scottsdale, Arizona provide library staff with an introduction to the mystery genre and offer tips and techniques for providing advice to mystery readers in the library. They include some of their own bibliographies, but refer readers elsewhere for fuller ones. They also include a brief history of the genre to pass on to readers new to it.
The Empty Chair
Author: Jeffery Deaver
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668034654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Reowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is pitted against Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protegee, as they disagree on the analysis of a crime they began working together.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1668034654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Reowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is pitted against Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protegee, as they disagree on the analysis of a crime they began working together.
Thanksgiving LP
Author: Janet Evanovich
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061379727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
When Megan Murphy discovers a floppy-eared rabbit gnawing on the hem of her skirt, she means to give its careless owner a piece of her mind, but Dr. Patrick Hunter is too attractive to stay mad at for long. As for Patrick, he wants nothing more than to play house with Maggie—and make Thanksgiving dinner for their families. But Megan has wept over one failed love, and she's afraid to risk her heart again. Can the good doctor help heal her heart?
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061379727
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
When Megan Murphy discovers a floppy-eared rabbit gnawing on the hem of her skirt, she means to give its careless owner a piece of her mind, but Dr. Patrick Hunter is too attractive to stay mad at for long. As for Patrick, he wants nothing more than to play house with Maggie—and make Thanksgiving dinner for their families. But Megan has wept over one failed love, and she's afraid to risk her heart again. Can the good doctor help heal her heart?
The Last Mona Lisa
Author: Jonathan Santlofer
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728240778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER! "Unstoppable what-happens-next momentum."—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A deliciously tense read."—Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author From award-winning crime writer and celebrated artist Jonathan Santlofer comes an enthralling tale about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, the forgeries that appeared in its wake, and the present-day underbelly of the art world. August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now returned to the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: Art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar but curiously helpful woman. Soon, Luke tumbles deep into the world of art and forgery, a land of obsession and danger. The Last Mona Lisa is a suspenseful and seductive tale, perfect for fans of the Netflix documentaries This Is A Robbery and Made You Look and readers obsessed with the world of art heists and forgeries.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728240778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER! "Unstoppable what-happens-next momentum."—Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A deliciously tense read."—Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author From award-winning crime writer and celebrated artist Jonathan Santlofer comes an enthralling tale about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre, the forgeries that appeared in its wake, and the present-day underbelly of the art world. August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now returned to the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: Art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts an Interpol detective with something to prove and an unfamiliar but curiously helpful woman. Soon, Luke tumbles deep into the world of art and forgery, a land of obsession and danger. The Last Mona Lisa is a suspenseful and seductive tale, perfect for fans of the Netflix documentaries This Is A Robbery and Made You Look and readers obsessed with the world of art heists and forgeries.