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Dreamland Court: A Novel
by Dale HerdSet in the blighted industrial landscape of the Los Angeles basin, Dreamland Court is an underground love story.Just out of prison, Johnny Dalton returns home to find his wife Jackie, the mother of his two small children, passionately involved with one of his good friends. Doing everything in his power to win her back, Johnny blunders his way through one criminal enterprise after another. When the cops pick him up for being the only adult present at a wild teenage party, he&’s sent back to jail. The strange thing is, as far as Jackie is concerned, Johnny&’s maneuvers actually work. Reminiscent of the pathos in Hubert Selby&’s Last Exit to Brooklyn, and the comedy of John Synge&’s The Playboy of the Western World, Dale Herd focuses his astute gaze on lives that are ordinarily invisible, while turning the conventional love story on its head. &“...and I like Dale Herd for prose.&” Allen Ginsberg, Poetry Flash &“No one writes American better than Dale Herd. His writing is like some bastard offspring of a liaison between Charles Bukowski and Joan Didion—unflinching and streetwise as Bukowski, but with Joan Didion &’s unfailing clarity and intelligence.&” Lewis MacAdams, Wet Magazine, a Journal of the Avant-Garde &“Herd has an acute sense of what people say as against what they mean. This creates the tension in the prose: that something emotionally unbearable is being spilled out into completely bearable talk.&” Keith Abbott, on Wild Cherries, San Francisco Review of Books &“Known for his brilliant short prose pieces as published in the books, Early Morning Wind, Wild Cherries, Diamonds, and Empty Pockets, Dale Herd is a meticulous recorder of the language we move around in, and he possesses the skill and guts to take it all the way. His underground novel Dreamland Court is simply a masterpiece.&” Kevin Opstedal, Blue Press Books
Dreamless
by Michael GandyA strange elderly neighbor to a graduate student in the Mississippi college town of Adeline (also featured in “Chain”) turns out to hold the keys to mysteries of the assassination of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dreamless: A Novel (Odd Singsaker #2)
by Jorgen BrekkeA promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered—her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully atop her body, playing a mysterious lullaby that sounds familiar, but that no one can quite place. Chief Inspector Odd Singsaker, of the Trondheim Police Department, still recovering from brain surgery, is called in to investigate.Singsaker, now married to Felicia Stone, the American detective he met while tracking down a serial killer, fears the worst when another young girl, also known for her melodic singing voice, suddenly goes missing while on a walk with her dog one night. As the Trondheim police follow the trail of this deadly killer, it becomes clear that both cases are somehow connected to a centuries-old ballad called "The Golden Peace," written by a mysterious composer called Jon Blund, in the seventeenth century. This lullaby promises the most sound, sweet sleep to the listener—and as time ticks by, the elusive killer seems as if he will stop at nothing to get his hands on this perfect lullaby. Jorgen Brekke returns at the top of his game in this nonstop thrill ride through place—and time.
Dreamquake: Book Two Of The Dreamhunter Duet (The Dreamhunter Duet #2)
by Elizabeth KnoxThe dreamhunting began as a beautiful thing, when Tziga Hame discovered that he could enter the Place and share the dreams he found there with other people. But Tziga Hame has disappeared and Laura, his daughter, knows that the art of projecting dreams has turned sour. On St. Lazarus's Eve, when elite citizens gather at the Rainbow Opera to experience the sweet dream of Homecoming, Laura, determined to show them the truth, plunges them into the nightmare used to control the convict workers. The event marks the first blow in the battle for control of the Place, the source of dreams. Then, when Laura's cousin, Rose, uncovers evidence that the government has been building a secret rail line deep into the Place, Laura follows it to find out what lies at its end. As she struggles to counter the government's sinister plans, a deeper mystery surfaces, a puzzle only Laura can unravel, a puzzle having to do with the very nature of the Place. What is the Place, after all? And what does it want from her?Inventive and richly imagined, Elizabeth Knox's Dreamquake, dramatic conclusion to the Dreamhunter Duet, will satisfy readers – whether or not they've read Book One."It is like nothing else I've ever read." -- Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga
Dreams Come to Life (Bendy And The Ink Machine Ser.)
by Adrienne KressSeventeen-year-old Buddy has spent most of his life trying to escape the Lower East Side slums of New York City. Working as a delivery boy to support his family, Buddy wants to become an artist, a dream he's sure will never be realized. But that all changes when a delivery job puts him face-to-face with Mister Joey Drew, the eccentric owner of an animation studio.Mister Drew takes Buddy under his wing as an apprentice, thrusting him into a world unlike anything Buddy has ever seen before. There's the colorful cast of the studio, from the cranky, yet driven composer Sammy Lawrence to Dot, the writing intern and Buddy's counterpart. Working for Mister Drew, Buddy starts to think that maybe it's really as simple as Mister Drew says: Dreams do come true. But not everything at the studio is as picture-perfect as it seems . . .Something is going bump in the night at Joey Drew Studios, something that leaves behind trails of thick, dark ink. While the studio frantically works toward their latest deadline, Buddy and Dot team up to find out just what is tormenting the studio after-hours, even if it means tracking the trail to Mister Drew himself.Don't miss this official, original, pulse-pounding story from award-winning author Adrienne Kress, developed with theMeatly, Mike Mood, and Bookpast!
Dreams Die First
by Harold RobbinsHe lived in a world that other men could only fantasize. His fantasies created a whole world in his image... Casinos, clubs, resorts, hotels, highly paid photographers, beautiful models and multimedia exposure -total hedonism that made sex and money almost indistinguishable-he wanted everything and had it all. But still his fate was dominated by a secret to which all his wealth and influence could not buy the answer. NOTE: some strong language; descriptions of sex.
Dreams for Dead Bodies
by Miriam Michelle RobinsonDreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction offers new arguments about the origins of detective fiction in the United States, tracing the lineage of the genre back to unexpected texts and uncovering how authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, and Rudolph Fisher made use of the genre's puzzle-elements to explore the shifting dynamics of race and labor in America. The author constructs an interracial genealogy of detective fiction to create a nuanced picture of the ways that black and white authors appropriated and cultivated literary conventions that coalesced in a recognizable genre at the turn of the twentieth century. These authors tinkered with detective fiction's puzzle-elements to address a variety of historical contexts, including the exigencies of chattel slavery, the erosion of working-class solidarities by racial and ethnic competition, and accelerated mass production.Dreams for Dead Bodies demonstrates that nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature was broadly engaged with detective fiction, and that authors rehearsed and refined its formal elements in literary works typically relegated to the margins of the genre. By looking at these margins, the book argues, we can better understand the origins and cultural functions of American detective fiction.
Dreams of Falling
by Karen WhiteOne of PureWow's "Best Beach Reads of Summer 2018"New York Times bestselling author Karen White crafts evocative relationships in this contemporary women's fiction novel, set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, about lifelong friends who share a devastating secret.On the banks of the North Santee River stands a moss-draped oak that was once entrusted with the dreams of three young girls. Into the tree's trunk, they placed their greatest hopes, written on ribbons, for safekeeping--including the most important one: Friends forever, come what may.But life can waylay the best of intentions....Nine years ago, a humiliated Larkin Lanier fled Georgetown, South Carolina, knowing she could never go back. But when she finds out that her mother has disappeared, she realizes she has no choice but to return to the place she both loves and dreads--and to the family and friends who never stopped wishing for her to come home.Ivy, Larkin's mother, is discovered badly injured and unconscious in the burned-out wreckage of her ancestral plantation home. No one knows why Ivy was there, but as Larkin digs for answers, she uncovers secrets kept for nearly fifty years--whispers of love, sacrifice, and betrayal--that lead back to three girls on the brink of womanhood who found their friendship tested in the most heartbreaking ways.
Dreams of Justice
by Dick AdlerDick Adler reviews mysteries and thrillers every other week in his Crime Watch column for the Chicago Tribune. He is the co-author, with the late Edmund G. (Pat) Brown, of Public Justice, Private Mercy: A Governor's Education On Death Row. Anthony Lewis in the New York Times Book Review called it "a compelling and important book," and Jonathan Kirsch in the Los Angeles Times said, "Some of the most fascinating passages are the dozen or so case histories of the men and women themselves, the stuff of hard-boiled detective fiction come to life." Adler has also written Sleeping with Moscow, an account of the Richard Miller FBI espionage case. His mystery novel, The Mozart Code, was published in May, 1999, as an electronic book and was a Frankfurt eBook Award nominee in 2000.
Dreams of Origami
by Elenor GillA missing person brings together an eclectic group of people in this haunting novel of supernatural suspense from the author of The Moon Spun Round. Psychic researcher Gideon Wakefield dreams of hands folding white paper, and as his origami dreams become more urgent, he discovers that ghosts real and perceived are never far away, and that something powerful is coming for him. In the wake of Matthew Caxton’s disappearance, Gideon and an unlikely collection of individuals are thrust into a series of events that will force them all to question everything they believe, and everyone they trust. Unseasonal storms rage, violence and sudden death strike, and ancient mysteries, buried long ago, will split the surface with devastating consequences. “Dreams of Origami is the perfect companion when snuggling indoors on cold winter days and nights. . . . You won’t be able to put it down.” —CoffeeGroup.org
Dreams of the Dead
by Perri O'ShaughnessyIn a spellbinding new thriller, New York Times bestselling author Perri O&’Shaughnessy plunges the audacious yet all-too-human Nina Reilly back into the center of a murderous family game and reawakens a very real nightmare she had every reason to believe was dead…and buried. In addition to coping with her demanding, sometimes creepy clients, Nina Reilly is dealing with prickly personal issues involving her sixteen-year-old son, Bob, his estranged father, and her investigator, confidante, and sometimes lover, Paul van Wagoner. Then, in walks disaster. The millionaire owner of a Tahoe ski resort, Philip Strong, is the father of Jim Strong: a sociopath who devastated many innocent lives, including Nina&’s when she defended Jim again charges of murder two years earlier. He shattered her life, then vanished. Paul van Wagoner made sure of that. Now in negotiations to sell his ski resort, Philip has received a letter purportedly from his fugitive son in extradition-free Brazil, demanding his share of the profits. Nina is certain it&’s a con, but to prove that means exposing the secrets of someone very close to her. But when two local women are murdered, Nina begins to question their links to her client and the truth about Jim Strong&’s sudden disappearance. As Nina&’s worst fears flood back, with time running out, she&’s about to discover that the dreams of the dead can still destroy the living. With its breakneck pace, pulsing human drama, and serpentine twists, Dreams of the Dead once again establishes why O&’Shaughnessy has been hailed as &“a master of the legal thriller&” (Vincent Bugliosi).
Dreamspinner Press Year Eight Greatest Hits
by Sjd Peterson J. H. Knight Renae Kaye S. E. Harmon Brandon WittEnjoy a selection of the greatest hits of gay romance published by Dreamspinner Press combined into one exclusive volume: by J.H. Knight: The Last Thing He Needs, the story of a tentative relationship facing daily challenges and tragedy; by S.E. Harmon: Stay With Me, where a PI finds the man of his dreams in his newest client; by Renae Kaye: The Blinding Light, a romance pairing a smartmouth housekeeper and his rude, fussy client; by SJD Peterson: BAMF, with its self-proclaimed protector who wants to be a hero for a mild-mannered librarian; and by Brandon Witt: Then the Stars Fall, in which life has other plans for a widower rancher and the vet trying to push life away.
Dreamspinner Press Year Six Greatest Hits (Dreamspinner Press Greatest Hits #5)
by Mary Calmes R. Cooper Lisa M. Owens Xavier Mayne Jd RuskinEnjoy a selection of the greatest hits of gay romance published by Dreamspinner Press combined into one exclusive volume: by Mary Calmes: Frog, in which one man must convince his love that the home the other's been searching for has always been right there, with him; by R. Cooper: A Boy and His Dragon, a romantic fantasy featuring a man in dragon form falling for his archivist employer; by Lisa M. Owens: Worth the Coming Home, two men's romance threatened when their secrets and fears are exposed; by Xavier Mayne: Frat House Troopers, the story of an undercover operation forcing state trooper partners out of their comfort zone and into each other's heart; and by JD Ruskin: When One Door Opens, in which one man's heart can't make him stay away from his client despite their individual host of problems.
Dreamspinner Press Years One & Two Greatest Hits (Dreamspinner Press Greatest Hits #1)
by Bethany Brown Zahra Owens Isabelle Rowan Ashlyn Kane Jane Seville J. M. ColailEnjoy a selection of the greatest hits of gay romance published by Dreamspinner Press combined into one exclusive volume: By Zahra Owens: Diplomacy, the struggle of two men's desperate attraction and an impossible relationship conducted in the diplomatic world; by J.M. Colail: Wes & Toren, the tale of angsty teenage romance that reminded readers that love can conquer all; by Bethany Brown and Ashlyn Kane: True North, showing the struggle to build a relationship despite one man's reluctance to be open about his sexuality and the other's shattered confidence; by Isabelle Rowan: A Note in the Margin, the tearjerker with a happy ending after two men reevaluate life, love, and what is wanted from both; and by Jane Seville: Zero at the Bone, a high-octane adventure featuring a weary hitman who stole readers' hearts when he spared an innocent life and fell in love.
Dreg: Una novela de terror
by Terry M. WestUn policía psíquico enfermo persigue un asesino serial, quien es más que humano. Aclamada como una mezcla entre Deliverance (Amada pesadilla en español) y Silent of the Lambs (El silencio de los inocentes), Dreg es un monstruo que no olvidarás pronto. Sin importar cuánto lo intentes. Nueva Orleans. 1940. La locura prospera en los pantanos y un legado oscuro es abrazado. Un niño pantanoso es bautizado con sangre de la ciudad y una manada tan vieja como el tiempo sube de los pantanos. Un hombre bestia escapa de sus grilletes y comienza la caza, una caza que durará por décadas. Una caza alimentada por la luna. Porque cuando hay luna llena, la bestia se levanta. Y la sangre fluye. Houston, Texas. 1999. Lucas Glover es un psíquico local que asiste a la policía. Las habilidades psíquicas de Lucas están vacilando y su salud ha sido extremadamente afectada por su don. Él es llamado por el comisionario de la policía para ayudar a encontrar y rastrear al Asesino del Recuerdo. El Asesino del Recuerdo es un homicida que ha eludido a la policía por décadas. Lucas se une a William Harlson, un duro como uñas, un detective de homicidios escéptico y enfermo terminal, quien ve el hecho de frenar al asesino como su último "hurrah". A medida que progresa la investigación, Lucas es plagado por sueños extraños y desarrolla una conexión con el asesino. Lucas descubre que está tratando con una fuerza principal de la naturaleza mucho más peligrosa que cualquier asesino serial humano. Y cuando el Asesino del Recuerdo ataca cerca de casa, Lucas debe empujar sus habilidades más lejos de lo que jamás lo ha hecho.
Dregs
by Jorn Lier HorstChief Inspector William Wisting is an experienced policeman familiar with the dark side of human nature. He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world. Dregs begins with a police report giving the place and time of the discovery of a training shoe washed up on the sand, containing a severed foot. Soon a second shoe is washed up, but it is another left foot. What is the explanation for this? Has there been some kind of terrible accident at sea? Does it indicate the killing and dismembering of two victims? Is there a link with the unsolved mystery of a number of disappearances in the Larvik area in recent months? In this gripping police procedural, Wisting gradually gets to the bottom of the mystery with the help of his all too human colleagues and his journalist daughter, Line.
Drei Wochen im letzten Frühjahr
by Victoria HowardFriday Harbor, eine malerische Kleinstadt im pazifischen Nordwesten, ist ein Zufluchtsort für Fischer und Segler. Für Skye Dunbar ist es ein Ort, an dem sie den Schmerz eines gebrochenen Herzens überwinden und ihr Leben wieder in den Griff bekommen kann. Als sie eine Hütte an der Küste mietet, ist das Letzte, womit sie rechnet, dass sie des Computer-Hackings beschuldigt wird. Jedediah Walker untersucht die toten Meeresbewohner, die an den Stränden der Insel angespült wurden. Als er entdeckt, dass die Fische eine hohe Konzentration giftiger Chemikalien enthalten, vermutet er, dass jemand sie absichtlich in den Puget Sound entsorgt hat. Schnell zieht er voreilige Schlüsse und vermutet, dass die rothaarige Frau, die seine Hütte gemietet hat, etwas damit zu tun hat. Skye versucht, ihn zu ignorieren, aber die Not bringt sie zusammen, als sie versuchen, die Verantwortlichen für diese Umweltkatastrophe zu finden.
Dress Code Mess
by Sarah St. AntoineMy name is Lenni and this is my rap about me, a new teacher, and a dress code flap. This teacher says, "You only get three tries. No blue jeans, no T-shirts.". She says I have to start dressing like a lady. If she keeps it up she'll drive me crazy.
Dress Gray
by Lucian K. Truscott IVThis New York Times–bestselling novel about a crime and cover-up at West Point offers &“a compelling portrait of the military academy&” (The New York Times). Ry Slaight is a young cadet at the United States Military Academy, walking punishment tours in May 1968, when he hears that the body of a plebe has been found floating in Lake Popolopen. Supposedly, it was an accident—but it&’s not long before Slaight learns details about the autopsy suggesting a much darker story. Slaight&’s personal quest to uncover the truth—and the authorities&’ efforts to keep it from him—will reveal both heroes and villains within the Long Gray Line in this &“frightening novel about &‘a secret cult headquartered on the Hudson behind a stone façade.&’ . . . The author mounts an attack on his alma mater with brilliance and fury&” (Newsday).
Dress Her in Indigo: A Travis McGee Novel (Travis McGee #11)
by John D. Macdonald"To diggers a thousand years from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen."Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.A wealthy old man laid up in the hospital is desperate to understand the last months of his daughter's life before she was killed in a car crash in Mexico. It was puzzling. She'd cleaned out her considerable bank account, left Miami and hadn't been heard from again. Travis McGee ventures into the steep hills and strange backwoods of Oaxaca through a bizarre world of dropouts, drug freaks, and kinky rich people--and begins to suspect the beautiful girl's death was no accident....
Dressed To Kill (A Tourist Trap Mystery #4)
by Lynn CahoonJill Gardner--owner of Coffee, Books, and More in the tucked-away town of South Cove, California--is not particularly thrilled to be portraying a twenties flapper for the dinner theater murder mystery. Though it is for charity...Of course everyone is expecting a "dead" body at the dress rehearsal...but this one isn't acting! It turns out the main suspect is the late actor's conniving girlfriend Sherry...who also happens to be the ex-wife of Jill's main squeeze. Sherry is definitely a master manipulator...but is she a killer? Jill may discover the truth only when the curtain comes up on the final act...and by then, it may be far too late.
Dressed Up 4 Murder (Sophie Kimball Mystery #6)
by J.C. EatonA Mystery Tribune&’s Best Books of the MonthLast one standing is the winner . . . The holiday season has arrived and bookkeeper/amateur sleuth, Sophie &“Phee&” Kimball, would love nothing more than to enjoy the comforts of her new home with her detective boyfriend near Arizona&’s Sun City West. Instead, her mother Harriet wants to showcase her chiweenie-chihuahua-dachshund Streetman in the Precious Pooches Holiday Extravaganza costume events. The festivities begin in October and end on St. Patrick&’s Day—with the winner starring in the St. Pat&’s Day parade. But things quickly turn an awful shade of green when Streetman uncovers a dead body under a tarp-covered grill in the neighbor&’s yard. The victim is Cameron Tully, a seafood distributor working out of Phoenix, who died from ingesting a toxic sago palm leaf. Before the police can even find a motive and suspect, another Precious Pooch owner nearly dies from the same poison. With Harriet believing someone&’s targeting her and Streetman because of the costume contests, Phee will need a potful of Irish luck to sniff out a killer . . . Praise for the Sophie Kimball Mysteries &“An eclectic cast of entertaining characters that will keep you wondering whodunit!&”—USA Today Bestselling Author Nicole Leiren, on Staged 4 Murder &“A thoroughly entertaining series debut, with enjoyable, yet realistic characters and enough plot twists—and dead ends—to appeal from beginning to end.&” —Booklist STARRED REVIEW on Booked 4 Murder
Dressed for Death (A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery #3)
by Donna LeonThe New York Times–bestselling series and its Italian detective explore the seedy underworld of Venice: &“Procedural writing at its best&” (The Washington Post). Commissario Guido Brunetti&’s hopes for a refreshing family holiday in the mountains are once again dashed when a gruesome discovery is made in Marghera—a body so badly beaten the face is completely unrecognizable. Brunetti searches Venice for someone who can identify the corpse but is met with a wall of silence. He then receives a telephone call from a contact who promises some tantalizing information. And before the night is out, Brunetti is confronting yet another appalling, and apparently senseless, death. &“[One of] the real charms of this series [is] the endearing character of Brunetti and his compassionate insights into the heart of Venice and the soul of its people. . . . Truly, a refreshing hero.&” —The New York Times Book Review &“Despite the gruesome way in which this murder, and subsequent ones, take place, it&’s really a cheery, breezy mystery, filled with good humor and adventure. The ending can only leave the reader waiting avidly for the next time we meet Brunetti and his lively friends and cohorts.&” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette &“Leon delivers her plot in an unassuming, graceful and beautifully paced prose that hides its measured elegance.&” —The Washington Post &“One of the most appealing of recent detectives, Brunetti stars in a case that brings out his canniness and his compassion—and shows his creator spreading her wings more powerfully than ever.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“Richly evocative. . . . Venice takes on a deep noir tint in Leon&’s latest well-crafted work.&” —Publishers Weekly
Dressed for Death in Burgundy: A Mystery (The French Village Mysteries #2)
by Susan C. Shea"Not since my first visit to Louise Penny's Three Pines, have I encountered a more beguiling fictional world than Susan Shea's Reigny-Sur-Cannes. With an engaging cast, the rare realistic depiction of a good, modern marriage, a sideways look at a budding mystery-writer, and a real head-scratcher of a murder plot, Dressed for Death in Burgundy is a box of delights!" -Catriona McPherson, award-winning author of the Dandy Gilver seriesAfter finding herself mixed up in a murder investigation the previous Summer, Katherine Goff’s life simply has not been the same. Her husband has been in the US recording a new album, the Burgundy region locals are finally starting to see her as a real neighbor, and Katherine has even started helping out with “tourist” excursions. It seems she’s finally found her place in the small community of Reigny-sur-Canne.But when Katherine stumbles across a body in the local museum during a tour, she finds herself caught up once again in a whirlwind of gossip and speculation. When the police zero in on her friend Pippa as a suspect, Pippa and Katherine team up to find the real killer and clear her name. However, the more clues they discover, the more the real killer wants them off the trail. When Katherine and Pippa start receiving threats, they must decide what they are more afraid of—the police getting it wrong, or possibly becoming the killer’s next targets.Find out what happens next in the second installment in the French countryside murder mystery series The New York Times calls “a pleasant getaway.”
Dressed to Confess
by Diane VallereCostume shop owner Margo Tamblyn faces a deadly conspiracy when a small-town festival turns into big-time trouble.It’s no secret around Proper City, Nevada, that the Sagebrush Festival, the town’s annual family-friendly event, is the place to be. This year’s theme of board games has everything from Conspiracy to Clue. Margo Tamblyn’s costume shop, Disguise DeLimit, has been tasked with providing costumes for the festival headliner, the Domino Divas. But on the night of the performance, one fallen Domino threatens to bring down the whole show when head dancer Ronnie Cass is found in her dressing room, unmasked, unprepared, and very, very dead. As the police investigate, Margo learns that Don Digby, her father's best friend, is the prime suspect, tied to the victim by an unsolved robbery connected to Proper City’s past. As conspiracies abound and theories are debunked, Margo seeks to unmask the real killer before her dad's buddy winds up in a costume made with prison stripes.INCLUDES RECIPES AND COSTUME IDEAS!