Author: Tim Galbraith
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039170242
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Dylan Davis is a funny guy, but his regular standup gig at the Carney Chop Shop doesn’t pay for more than a crummy car and a crummier apartment, and the club owner Dimitri is always telling him he’s not that good. So Dylan tends to forget about his worries by drinking, gambling, and going to strip clubs, which he knows can get a guy into trouble. In fact, he’s already about fifty grand in debt to the mob from a backroom poker game. But bad as that is, Dylan has never dreamed how much worse it could get. One night, he steps into save a stripper he’s got a crush on from a thug who’s harassing her, and what happens next makes him wonder if it might actually be wrong to do the right thing. In very short order, Dylan finds himself a reluctant mob killer, which sounds terrible but it pays really well. And suddenly he’s got a cool car, a great girl, a cute dog, a club of his own...and a whole lot of people out to get him. A witty, sexy mob comedy for the ages, What’s So Bloody Funny? explores the great dichotomy between making the right decision for the wrong reasons and making the wrong decision for the right reasons.
Author: Simon Mawer
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316073792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Rob Ross is driving home when he hears that his childhood friend Jim Matthewson has fallen to his death in a climbing accident. Rob's decision to turn his car around and make the journey to comfort Jim's widow is the beginning of a journey into the past, back to Rob's youth before he made the pivotal choices that now come back to haunt him. Simon Mawer skillfully unveils the delicate layers of history in the lives of a group of people connected over the years by camaraderie, love, competition, and lust. In the shadow of an old love triangle lies the story of another, and as we follow the characters from London during the Blitz to the mountain ranges of the Alps and back to present-day Wales, Mawer reveals how the agonies of the past impinge upon the present. This is an intelligent, thought-provoking love story by a brilliant, masterful novelist.
Author: K. Mareet
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499018088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Peregrine Evans life goes from bliss to shit when the man she marries gives her to his 'Gentlemen's Club' to gain membership. Too bad it's run by arseholes and deviates with a penchant for debauchery and torture. She escapes only to be captured by more magic-wielding madmen on a bloody quest. Between getting knocked down, knocked up, kidnapped (again), rescued and ranted at by dragons, life's a laugh a frigging minute. Evans's don't give up or give in so she can either sit on her arse and bitch about it or get up and go kick some.
Author: Ben Westerham
Publisher: Close9 Publishing
ISBN: 1911085271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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An old-fashioned festival where someone’s idea of fun proves nothing short of deadly. As their cosy little weekend of fun and frivolity is blown out of the water by a violent murder, Inspector Leslie Dykeman and Sergeant Stanley Shapes find themselves faced with a plethora of possibilities and few obvious suspects amongst a group of friends staying at the upmarket Marlborough Hotel. Except, that is, they’re about to discover that even the best of friends have secrets they prefer to keep hidden and with good reason. Unhappily for Dykeman, he is also about to find himself facing competition for the attentions of the woman he has belatedly come to realise means more to him than just mere friendship. But how is he to fight his corner when there’s a murder to be solved? The Hobby Horse Murder is the third book in a classic murder mystery series set in the Oxfordshire town of Banbury in the early 1960s by British author Ben Westerham. If you like classic murder mysteries with a touch of romance and a streak of humour, then you’ll love these. Buy The Hobby Horse Murder now to find out for yourself if Dykeman is about to lose his grip on both his latest case and the woman he can’t imagine ever doing without.
Author: Karen Campbell
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1848945388
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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PERFECT FOR FANS OF SUSIE STEINER You are a police officer. This is what you do. You speak for the dead, and the desperate living. Anna Cameron is a new Sergeant in the Flexi Unit. On her first day in the new job she discovers she'll be working with her ex, Jamie. In at the deep end emotionally, she's also plunged headlong into the violent underworld of Glasgow's notorious Drag - the haunt of working girls, drug dealers and sad, seedy men. Cath Worth, Jamie's wife, watches jealously from the sidelines, having given up police work to raise their child. Anna's life could have been hers; hers could have been Anna's. When Cath attempts to get involved in a situation she is no longer equipped or entitled to tackle, the consequences for both women could be far-reaching.. Atmospheric, affecting and beautifully written, THE TWILIGHT TIME is a stunning crime debut from a remarkably talented new writer. Praise for Karen Campbell 'Gritty as all hell, shot through with black humour and with enough pace and atmosphere to give the likes of Denise Mina a run for their money. All this and the chutzpah to create a seedy and unpleasant superintendent named Rankin!' font size="+1">Mark Billingham/font 'The plot is wonderful, the characterisation of a family in crisis is both sharp and sympathetic, and the author does not shy away from examining the less palatable aspects of relations between the police and the public' Guardian 'I loved it . . . Anna is a great, original character and Karen Campbell has a great way with images' Kate Atkinson 'Karen Campbell deserves to be admitted to membership of what's becoming a very large club - Scottish crime writers of excellence . . . As to be expected from a former police officer, Campbell portrays her milieu with harsh authenticity, and Anna Cameron is wholly believable in her unheroic role. Glasgow and its citizens are described with vivid passion' The Times
Author: Kuldeep Saluja
Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 141
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Welcome to the world of Billoo Badshah, the Badshah of Laughter. Billoo Badshah, a series compiliation of best jokes of the world, is for laughter moments, for love moments, for high moments, for lonely moments, for funny moments, for friendly moments, for happy moments and for all the moments. Be happy and cheerful with this book full of abudant joy, laughter and satire.
Author: Amy Schoeman
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9991687890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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In This is not a flowerpot, author Amy Schoeman - with keen observation and an enduring sense of irony - chronicles Lizelle's journey from being a woman with no clear idea of what she wants to one who chooses personal freedom and control over her life. Sometimes shocking, often funny, this wry account of an imprudent marriage is abidingly entertaining. Above all it carries the torch for the abused woman.
Author: Claire Rayner
Publisher: MP Publishing
ISBN: 1849820600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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The Crimean war is raging a world away from London. Martha Lackland, Abel Lackland’s daughter, astonishes her family and friends by announcing her intention to go to the Crimea to work amongst the British soldiers. After the initial shock, her family rally round to help her raise money for food and medicines. Once in Scutari, Martha meets Florence Nightingale. She also meets a surgeon – the dashing Alexander Laurence and love grows between them amidst the devastation of war.
Author: S.D. Breen
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 146789169X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Cuckoos are parasites; they can't help themselves. It's their nature, and their fate. Slyly abandoned in another birds nest, the cuckoo chick is an outrageous impostor. Its survival depends on the ruthless elimination of its siblings, frequently - and heedlessly - working its unsuspecting foster-parents to death. Growing up in Highbury in the early 90s, Pat feels monstrous and out of place. A decade earlier, three-year-old nephew Liam drowned in the bath. No one knows exactly what happened. Pat, a few months older than Liam, was in the bath with him but cant remember a thing. Indeed, when you carry on playing with your nephew long after the incident, its hard to believe they are even dead until someone points to the gravestone. And when you find out that your parents werent who you thought they were, the connection to the cuckoo seems complete. But theres worse to come: villainy, prostitution, murder, madness and moving to Spurs turf. CUCKOO is the dark and funny story of a young person coming to terms with a truly terrible legacy.
Author: Pieter J. Neill
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462878717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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Peter Neèl stood on the farmhouse veranda, his back to the wall. Before him lay his parents, in a pool of blood. They had been slain by a gang of War Veterans led by Nheva Moyo, a childhood friend who had grown up on the farm with him. Pete's life hung in the balance. The War Veterans advanced toward him. Instinctively, he fired a shot, fatally wounding one of them. The gang continued their advance, unabashed. He fired again and again. Two more men fell. Then they slowly retreated from the veranda, shambolic. Keeping his Parabellum aimed at them, he made for the Land Rover, which stood under a wild fig tree. Hysterically, he emptied his firearm into the gang, killing another six men, then sped down the gravel road and fled the farm and his beloved country of birth to South Africa. A decade later, he returned to the farm after the Mugabe regime had been ousted. He took advantage of the recovering tourist industry and built a Safari Lodge as well as a cheetah and rhino conservation and breeding centre on the farm, living out his dream. But Nheva Moyo had other plans. He had a score to settle with Pete
