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Mayhem at the Orient Express (League of Literary Ladies #1)
by Kylie LoganAt a local Chinese restaurant, it's the owner who gets taken out... Most folks aren't forced by court order to attend a library-book discussion group, but that's just what happens to B and B proprietor and ex-Manhattanite Bea Cartwright, hippy cat lover Chandra Morrisey, and winery owner Kate Wilder after a small-town magistrate has had enough of their squabbling. South Bass, an island on Lake Erie, is home to an idyllic summer resort, but these three ladies keep disturbing the peace. The initial book choice is Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, and that sets their mouths to watering. The Orient Express is the island's newest Chinese restaurant. They might not agree about much, but the ladies all love the orange chicken on the menu. But their meal is spoiled when the restaurant's owner, Peter Chan, has the bad fortune of getting murdered. Now, with Christie as their inspiration, the League of Literary Ladies has a real mystery to solve...if they can somehow catch a killer without killing each other first.
Mayhem in Miami (Aly&AJ's Rock 'n' Roll Mystery #2)
by Tracey West Katherine NollAly & AJ are in Miami for their next sizzling concert performance! While they're in town, a hot new fashion designer asks the girls to model clothes for the Miami Rocks! benefit fashion show, featuring designers who create clothes exclusively for rock musicians. As the girls prepare to make their debut on the catwalk, someone cuts the lights and ruins the show! Can Aly & AJ find the culprit?
Mayhem: Mayhem and Murder Book I
by Sarah PinboroughFrom the Number One bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes. Delve into a gaslit London, where Jack the Ripper is making headlines, but another, much more dangerous, madman is on the loose.When a rotting torso is discovered in the vault of New Scotland Yard, it doesn't take Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, long to realise that there is a second killer at work in the city where, only a few days before, Jack the Ripper brutally murdered two women in one night. This is the hand of a colder killer, one who lacks Jack's emotion. And, as more headless and limbless torsos find their way into the Thames, Dr Bond becomes obsessed with finding the killer. As his investigations lead him into an unholy alliance, he starts to wonder: Is it a man who has brought mayhem to the streets of London, or a monster?'A compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller' Guardian
Mayhem: Mayhem and Murder Book I (Mayhem and Murder #1)
by Sarah PinboroughFrom the Number One bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes. Delve into a gaslit London, where Jack the Ripper is making headlines, but another, much more dangerous, madman is on the loose.When a rotting torso is discovered in the vault of New Scotland Yard, it doesn't take Dr Thomas Bond, Police Surgeon, long to realise that there is a second killer at work in the city where, only a few days before, Jack the Ripper brutally murdered two women in one night. This is the hand of a colder killer, one who lacks Jack's emotion. And, as more headless and limbless torsos find their way into the Thames, Dr Bond becomes obsessed with finding the killer. As his investigations lead him into an unholy alliance, he starts to wonder: Is it a man who has brought mayhem to the streets of London, or a monster?'A compulsively readable story that starts as a conventional murder mystery and morphs, by degrees, into a horrifying supernatural thriller' Guardian
Maynard's House
by Herman Raucher“Told with icy precision of eye and ear and a wink of wicked humor . . . First-rate haunted-house creepiness” from the bestselling author of Summer of ’42(Kirkus Reviews). Austin Fletcher, a disturbed young Vietnam War vet, is willed a small house deep in the woods of northern Maine. He comes to own it by the generosity of a brother-in-arms—a fellow soldier and confidante, Maynard Whittier, killed in action by a wayward mortar shell. The rugged landscape of Maine is an intoxicating blend of claustrophobic interiors and endless frozen wastelands. Little by little, the mysterious force in the house asserts itself until Austin isn’t exactly sure what is in his mind and what is real. And just when our hero’s had enough and is ready to quit the place, a blizzard arrives and the real haunting begins. “An unsettling experience . . . Confounding, touching and well-written.” —The New York Times Book Review
Maze
by Larry CollinsWhile the CIA is doing its research into psychic powers - aided in their experiments by a woman who has the uncanny ability to locate the co-ordinates of Soviet submarines - the Russians have an altogether bigger and more sinister project in mind: developing a device that uses electromagnetic waves to trigger responses in the brains of unsuspecting victims. In the most deadly and secret struggle of the new cold war, the Russians set their sights on the US President and attempt to manipulate fanatical Islamic terrorists to play a role in their ambitious scheme. Only one man can stop them and avert a tragedy of terrifying proportions - CIA officer Art Bennington.
Maze Master: A Thriller
by Kathleen O'Neal GearNew York Times bestselling author Kathleen Gear's new apocalyptic thriller Maze Master shows the world ending not in fire nor in ice but in science.Kathleen Gear, who often co-writes with her husband W. Michael Gear, has authored 42 books which have been New York Times, USA Today and international bestsellers. Translated into 29 languages, there are around 17 million copies of her books in print worldwide.LucentB is a retrovirus that’s inevitable, unstoppable, and utterly catastrophic for humanity. The US government believes the only person who can find the cure is the geneticist who tried to warn them about it and then disappeared: James Hakari. They assign the task of finding him to his former student Anna Asher, who in turn recruits paleographer and religious studies scholar Dr. Martin Nadai.The brilliant but insane geneticist is leaving clues for Anna and Martin to follow, showing he’s truly earned his students’ nickname for him: the Maze Master. The search takes Anna and Martin around the world and into a warzone they never imagined.Maze Master's LucentB is based off of the real retrovirus HERV-K, which has caused several plagues over the past 75,000 years, almost wiping out Neandertals 50,000 years ago, and maybe 30,000 years ago. Modern geneticists consider HERV-K not to be extinct, but rather to be waiting for some trigger to come alive again.With its scientific and archaeological authenticity and suspenseful clues, Maze Master will have readers rushing through its intricate maze to find out the fate of the world in this thrilling adventure.
Mazebook
by Jeff LemireFrom New York Times bestselling and Eisner award-winning Black Hammer creator Jeff Lemire comes this ambitious and haunting graphic novel about family, mourning, and reality. A lonely building inspector still grieving the loss of his puzzle-loving daughter receives a mysterious phone call one night from a girl claiming it&’s her and that she&’s trapped in the middle of a labyrinth. Convinced that this child is contacting him from beyond this world, he uses an unfinished maze from one of her journals and a map of the city to trace an intricate path through a different plane of reality on an intense and melancholy adventure to bring his daughter back home. Collects issues #1-5 of The Mazebook and featuring a sketchbook section and pinups by Andrea Sorrentino, Dustin Nguyen, Dean Ormston, Matt Kindt, and Gabriel Hernández Walta!
Mazes and Monsters
by Rona JaffePart thriller, part love story, Mazes and Monsters is a spellbinding novel about a group of college students in the 1980s who use a fantasy game as refuge from their personal, emotional, and social problems. Based loosely on the "steam tunnel incidents" of the 1970s, the four friends--Kate, Jay Jay, Daniel, and Robbie--eventually take their game too far when they decide to live-action role-play in the caverns near their college campus. What follows is terrifying and unexpected, as each character dives deep into the darkest part of their mind, those forbidden places where our most menacing truths lie.
Mazurka (The Frank Pagan Novels #2)
by Campbell ArmstrongIn international bestselling author Campbell Armstrong&’s page-turning thriller, counterterrorism agent Frank Pagan races against the clock to defuse a confrontation with the Russians that might change the map of Europe Escorting a hard-drinking, fun-loving, probably-former-KGB Russian &“envoy&” to Edinburgh would appear to be one of the more relaxing jobs in Frank Pagan&’s career. But in the flash of a gunshot everything changes. Now Frank&’s got a Russian official with a bullet lodged in his heart, his bosses at Scotland Yard wondering if Frank missed a step, and countless politicians and secret service agencies screaming bloody murder. With spies from the KGB, MI6, and the CIA dogging his every move, Pagan has to find the men behind the deadly shooting. From the Baltic émigré community, where he meets a beautiful woman who might provide answers, to the United States to the Soviet Union, Pagan unravels a chilling plot that will have devastating worldwide repercussions.Mazurka is the 2nd book in the Frank Pagan Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Mazzocco
by HugoItaly, The Roaring Twenties... Suffering a shock defeat in the trial of the year, a young lawyer returns home to a town ravaged by luxury and excess. Caught between the failure that hangs over him and the pressure of his family's expectations, will he be able to make sense of his life once more? Through grit and ambition, a bereft Cuban immigrant brings growth and prosperity to the small town that elected him mayor. But with the wolves of the Fascist Party baying and his Socialist values under threat, is there a more sinister reason for the clash between his daughter and his best friend? Hounded by a violent, deranged stalker, will a successful art collector manage to escape the terrible fate looming over him? After months with no news, will a desperate father manage to track down the son he almost lost to the Great War? In Italy to expand their jewellery empire, will a wealthy, influential Indian family find their troubled daughter the help she needs? And through it all, will the murder of a beloved doctor bring fractured families together, or widen the rifts between them beyond repair? With people dropping around him like flies, join young Mario as he gives free rein to his analytical curiosity and cuts his investigative teeth on the mystery of the year. Get ready to laugh, sigh, gasp, and get caught up in a murky, tangled web of intrigue, murder, and suspense. Buy Mazzocco now!
Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí
by Javier MaríasUna intensa narración sobre asuntos que nos atañen a todos: sobre el ocultamiento, los hechos y las intenciones; sobre el actuar sin saber y la voluntad que casi nunca se cumple; sobre la negación de las personas que una vez quisimos y el olvido y la indecisión; sobre la despedida, y también sobre el engaño. La hechizante primera frase de esta novela ya dice mucho, quizá demasiado: «Nadie piensa nunca que pueda ir a encontrarse con una muerta entre los brazos y que ya no verá más su rostro cuyo nombre recuerda». Esto es lo que ocurre al narrador, Víctor Francés, guionista de televisión y «negro» o «escritor fantasma», encargado de redactar los discursos de la gente importante e ignorante. Recientemente divorciado, es invitado a cenar a su casa por Marta Téllez, mujer casada cuyo marido está de viaje y madre de un niño de dos años. Tras la cena galante, el hombre y la mujer pasan al dormitorio donde, «aún medio vestidos y medio desvestidos», ella empieza a sentirse mal hasta que agoniza y muere en una escena sobrecogedora. Esa infidelidad no consumada se convierte así en una especie de «encantamiento», con problemas bien reales e inmediatos: qué hacer con el cadáver, avisar o no avisar, qué hacer respecto al marido, qué hacer con el niño dormido, qué diferencia hay entre la vida y la muerte. Reseñas:«Quien tiene la fortuna de entrar en las páginas de Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí ya no vuelve a salir... De no perdérsela en modo alguno.»Corriere della Sera «Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí es decididamente el libro más hermoso compuesto por un autor contemporáneo.»Pietro Citati, La Repubblica «Provocativa y hermosamente escrita.»Booklist «La narración fluye como un thriller psicológico con interludios cómicos y macabros: el narrador lo maneja como un maestro de habilidad y de ambigüedad.»The Independent on Sunday «Una historia seductora... Un thriller metafísico.»The Observer «Pone de manifiesto la madurez y la maestría de un novelista que ha creado un mundo propio al otro lado de lo biográfico.»Süddeutsche Zeitung
Mañana, al amanecer (Bilogía Killmarnock #Volumen 2)
by Nieves HidalgoSi te enamoraste de Dargo en Lo que dure la eternidad, no puedes dejar de conocer la historia de Derry McCann. El amor le había hecho traspasar la frontera de lo permitido. Solo el amor de una mujer nacida durante Samhain podría devolverle lo que le arrebataron. Una pasión en los límites de la inmortalidad.Alba Cánovas está pasando unos días en el castillo de Killmarnock junto a sus amigos Cristina y Dargo. Lejos está de imaginar que, al aceptar trabajar para el inesperado amigo del conde, un hombre tan fascinante como misterioso, se va a ver envuelta en una aventura que la llevará a la locura. Derry McCann había cometido el delito más grande que se le podía imputar. Se había atrevido a rebasar la frontera, la delgada línea divisoria que separa las dos orillas, atrayendo hacia sí la mano apretada del amigo, del hermano de sangre, con la salvaje y loca decisión de no dejarlo partir. Para liberarse debe reunir las siete dagas de los druidas y encontrar a una mujer que pueda amarlo y haya nacido durante el Samhain. ¿Será el amor de Alba capaz de salvar al hombre del que se acaba enamorando? ¿Qué misterio encierra el panteón de ese monasterio sobre el acantilado? No te pierdas la última novela de Nieves Hidalgo, una fantástica historia de pasión, suspense y romance ambientada en Irlanda.
Mañana... Capuchinos, bikinis #love
by Agnès RuizCassie Gauthier y su mejor amiga se van a las Baleares. En sus maletas hay todo lo necesario para unas vacaciones de ensueño. Bikinis, protección solar, gafas de sol... ¿Encontrárán el amor bajo las palmeras? ¿Quizá delante de un capuchino? Pero no hay que fiarse de las apariencias... Agnès Ruiz es la autora de varios best seller de los que se han vendido más de 370.000 ejemplares. Ha tenido un enorme éxito con su primera novela, "Ma vie assassinée". Ha escrito literatura tanto para adultos como para jóvenes. Sus noticias sobre las investigaciones de la detective Rachel Toury también han tenido un gran éxito tanto en Europa como al otro lado del Atlántico. Hay disponibles varias traducciones de sus obras. Es originaria de Normandía (Francia) y ha vivido casi 20 años en Canadá. Está casada y tiene tres hijos
Mañana: A Novel
by William HjortsbergWilliam Hjortsberg, author of the acclaimed occult thriller Falling Angel, the basis for the hit film Angel Heart, takes readers on a mind-bending ride through Mexico after the Summer of Love, when an American hippie's life is upended by a gang of ex-cons All Tod remembers when he wakes up next to a dead prostitute is that he had his first shot of heroin the night before. He and his wife, Linda, were partying with their new neighbors, a trio of parole violators who fled to Mexico after robbing a Beverly Hills jewelry store. Now the place is empty, stripped clean except for Tod's hunting knife, which is covered in blood. Did he kill the woman, or was he left behind as the fall guy? Convinced that his junkie friends abducted Linda to keep her from talking to the police, Tod buys a gun and prepares to do whatever it takes to get his wife back before he makes a run for the border. ture and the dark recesses of the human mind and heart.
McCone and Friends
by Marcia MullerCreator of the modern female private eye story, Marcia Muller has been writing novels and short stories about Sharon McCone for decades. Now McCone's colleagues get a chance to offer their viewpoints on some cases. McCone and Friends contains three stories told by McCone herself, as well as two stories narrated by the agency's investigator Rae Kelleher; a story from the viewpoint of its office manager Ted Smalley; an investigation conducted by McCone's nephew Mick Savage; and one by her long-term lover Hy Ripinsky. The settings range from small planes to a sweatshop which puts Asian women into virtual slavery, and the mysteries surround a 1950's jukebox in a rundown hotel, a sculpture welded together by a long-missing and now very-dead artist. In perhaps the most moving story of all, a teenage girl has vanished leaving as a clue only a collage on her wall.
McCrary’s Justice: A Murder Mystery Thriller (Carlos McCrary, PI #6)
by Dallas GorhamInside the Gangs and Outside the Law in McCrary’s Justice, a Murder Mystery Thriller from Dallas GorhamWhen a Nebraska farmer’s daughter is trafficked by a South Florida sex slave ring, her cryptic texts point to a foreign diplomat. The police—their hands tied by diplomatic immunity—direct the distraught father to Carlos McCrary, PI, for the kind of justice only McCrary can deliver.McCrary soon uncovers a network of sexual slavery and drug trafficking stretching from the Caribbean to Switzerland, including South Florida.But, as McCrary closes in on the ruthless criminal network, the case becomes personal with the abduction of his fiancée. Forced to fight for his life and that of his fiancée in the gator-infested swamps of the Florida everglades, he risks everything in a deadly quest for survival and justice.Publisher’s Note: Dallas Gorham combines murder, mystery, and mayhem with a touch of humor—all with a PG-13 rating. Readers of hard-boiled detective and crime novels will not want to miss this hard-hitting, pulse-pounding series. The Carlos McCrary, Private Investigator, Mystery Thriller Series can be read and enjoyed in any order.The Carlos McCrary Murder Mystery SeriesSix Murders Too ManyDouble FakeQuarterback TrapDangerous FriendsDay of the TigerMcCrary’s JusticeYesterday’s TroubleFour Years GoneDebt of HonorSometimes You Lose
McCullen's Secret Son
by Rita HerronHIS CHILD'S LIFE WAS ON THE LINE-AND TIME WAS RUNNING OUT... Sexy-as-sin rodeo star Brett McCullen is Willow James Howard's past. But when her estranged husband is killed and her son kidnapped, she's forced to accept help from the man who broke her heart. Little does Brett know that the very child he's trying to rescue is his own flesh and blood-the result of a fling years earlier. He can't deny his rising desire at Willow's reappearance...even as he struggles to forgive her secret. But with the ransom deadline looming, Brett must go to extremes to save the family he never knew he wanted...
McGarvey: A Kirk McGarvey Novel (McGarvey #25)
by David Hagberg“The grand master of the contemporary thriller.” —Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author When Kirk McGarvey investigates the mysterious death of his parents so many years ago, he uncovers long-buried secrets that put him head to head and mano a mano with . . . Vladimir Putin. After Mac calls Putin out, the Russian dictator decides he wants him dead. Battling Russian hit squads as well as enemies at home, McGarvey must fight like the devil to save the himself, his friends, and the US of A in this engrossing international thriller from David Hagberg.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
McGlue: A Novella (The\fence Modern Prize In Prose Ser.)
by Ottessa MoshfeghThe debut novella from one of contemporary fiction's most exciting young voices, now in a new edition.Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.They said I've done something wrong? . . . And they've just left me down here to starve. They'll see this inanition and be so damned they'll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . . : the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I'll pat their heads and nod. I'll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.
McHugh (Linford Mystery Library)
by Jay FlynnDEADLIER THAN MIKE HAMMER, SEXIER THAN JAMES BOND—MEET MCHUGH.THE SEARCH WAS ONand McHugh was right in the middle—between the mob and the FBI.The quarry was Johnny Stover, an electronics expert who suddenly turned up missing. Johnny’s socialite girlfriend put McHugh on his trail, but he soon found an odd assortment of people joining in the hunt. First the FBI warned him to keep off. Then the mob issued its own warning, enforced by muscle men. But McHugh never turned down a challenge—or disappointed a lady.He was out to find Johnny Stover, even if it killed him. And it looked as though it would.
McIntire County: The Complete Series (Mcintire County Ser. #1)
by Winter AustinWhen the going gets tough, these women get even tougher. Murder and mayhem plague a Midwestern small town as the McIntire County PD and friends dodge bullets—and their feelings. Fans of Suzanne Brockmann’s Troubleshooters will love this action-packed romantic suspense series.Atonement: A rash of unexplained suicides in the sleepy town of Eider, Iowa, draws McIntire County deputy Nicolette Rivers into a devious killer’s twisted plot. A former marine sniper suffering from PTSD, she hides her own deadly secrets from everyone but detective Con O’Hanlon, who is more than willing to help cover up the fallout. But is he too late to prevent Nic’s dark, downward spiral? Or is Con the one man stronger than her demons? Born to Die: FBI agent Boyce Hunt abandoned Deputy Cassy Rivers to protect her from the blackmail he faces from his mother’s criminal enterprise. But when the ex-lovers reluctantly partner up to capture a modern Bonnie and Clyde terrorizing McIntire County, their attraction flames to life once more, dividing Boyce’s loyalties. Will he continue to run from what scares him most? Sins of the Father: Deputy Jolie Murdoch’s first big assignment leads to a corpse and a prime suspect caught red-handed. But why would local bartender Xavier Hartmann bludgeon a man to death? A former marine, Xavier is barely coping with a traumatic brain injury, and he has no memory of what happened at the crime scene. To make matters worse, as the mystery deepens, he and Jolie find themselves drawn to each other. Will Jolie do her sworn duty or buck the status quo to give their newfound passion a chance? Liar, Liar: Returning to Eider wasn’t on FBI agent Liza Bartholomew’s map, but that’s where the trail of her latest case leads, so with her career on the line, she heads south. Between the fallout over his recent close re-election, two gruesome homicides, a rash of arsons, and personal grief weighing on his soul, the last thing Sheriff Shane Hamilton has time for is a determined FBI agent. But if they want to solve their cases, they must share their deepest secrets—before a cold-blooded killer snatches everything they love, including each other. Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors
McKee of Centre Street
by Helen ReillyA speakeasy performer is murdered in this pioneering mystery from the mother of the police procedural. When one of New York’s favorite dancers is killed in a crowded high-tone speakeasy, everyone present becomes a suspect—and those that may have eluded questioning as well. It’s up to Inspector McKee of the NYPD to sift through the witness statements, separate fact from fiction, and put together a picture of the crime as it happened in order to discover what’s missing from the official narrative. And in the process, he’ll uncover a story that leads back into the past, with blackmail and stolen emeralds lurking in the shadows.… As McKee’s case comes into focus, a rich and confounding mystery plot is revealed, which will take all of the inspector’s resources to solve. Along the way, the inner workings of the New York City police department in the 1930s is on full display, including the line-ups, the radio room, the morgue, and the fingerprinting office—technologies that were at the cutting edge of the era’s fight against crime. Reissued for the first time eighty years, McKee of Centre Street is one of the first police procedurals ever written by a woman. The novel’s realistic New York setting and insightful view of police work was an instant hit with fans and its lead character went on to star in over thirty books.
McKettrick's Choice: A Western Romance (The McKettricks #No. 4)
by Linda Lael MillerFrom a New York Times–bestselling author, &“intrigue, danger, and greed are up against integrity, kindness, and love in this engrossing western romance&” (Booklist). When news arrived that there was trouble back in Texas, Holt McKettrick left a mail-order bride and his family on the spot. And he never looked back. He just prayed he&’d be in time to save the man who had raised him as a son and keep his best friend from the gallows. He knew he&’d encounter rustlers, scoundrels and thieves, but he&’d never expected to find a woman like Lorelei Fellows. Setting fire to her wedding dress in the town square probably wasn&’t the best way to stand her ground. But Lorelei had had enough. She was sick of men and their schemes. All she wanted was to stake her claim on her own little piece of Texas. And with Holt McKettrick as a neighbor, things were beginning to look up. The man was a straight shooter with a strong will, a steady aim and a hungry heart. &“Highly enjoyable. . . . Strong characterization and a vivid western setting make for a fine historical romance.&” —Publishers Weekly
McKettricks of Texas: Tate (McKettricks of Texas #2)
by Linda Lael MillerThis McKettrick man is about to meet his match… Don’t miss this reader favorite McKettrick tale from #1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller.There aren’t enough hours in the day for everything divorced dad Tate McKettrick has to do: run the Silver Spur Ranch, do the suit-and-tie thing for his business and ride herd on his adorable six-year-old twin girls. But then Libby Remington returns to Blue River, Texas, and suddenly…time seems to stand still. They were high school sweethearts, Tate and Libby, but he was never able to convince Libby that he loved her. He still loves her and wants to try again. Nothing—not even cattle rustlers, a killer stallion and a vindictive ex-wife—can keep him from the attempt. Libby has her hands full taking care of her mother and running the Perk Up Coffee Shop. Caffeine, she needs. Tate McKettrick, not so much. Oh, heck—yes. But can they really hope for a second chance?Title originally published in 2010