Category: Fiction

By Peter Brandvold

Gideon Hawk follows one rule-justice.

Hawk's been requested to discover a cruel gang chief known as Knife-Hand. considered one of his fingers has been changed with a Mojave awl. yet Hawk has anything mightier in his artillery-a own vendetta.

By Garrett Cook

In a urban ridden with prostitute furries, cannibal law enforcement officials and warehouse-sized mob bosses, I've obtained my paintings reduce out for me. My identify is Jimmy Plush. I'm a personal detective. I'm additionally a teddy undergo. it began whilst the unique Jimmy Plush entered my existence, delivering to take my playing money owed away if I agreed to change our bodies with him. yet I didn't comprehend that being a three-foot-high plush toy will be this kind of residing hell, particularly now that everybody on the town wishes a section of me. All I've gotten out of this deal is a loyal chinese language chauffeur, a customized teddybear .45, and a female friend who won't take off the fox go well with she turns tips in. Now I've acquired to maintain this city fresh and check out to trace down the genuine Jimmy Plush with out wasting my stuffing for strong. just one factor is evidently: lifestyles is tough whilst you're tender. Jimmy Plush, Teddy endure Detective is a excessive octane pulp satire. within the culture of Sam Spade, The Shadow, Dick Tracy, Hellboy and Howard the Duck comes a brand new type of hero, a hero that reminds us that the degree of a guy is in his guts and his gun.

By Tami Hoag

#1 New York Times bestselling writer Tami Hoag brings again her fan-favorite Minneapolis investigators Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska within the haunting new mystery The ninth Girl.

"Kovac had noticeable extra lifeless our bodies than he may perhaps count number: males, ladies, youngsters; sufferers of shootings, stabbings, strangulations, beatings; clean corpses and our bodies that have been left for days within the trunks of autos within the lifeless of summer time. yet he had by no means visible something rather like this . . . "
 
On a frigid New Year's Eve in Minneapolis a tender woman's brutalized physique falls from the trunk of a motor vehicle into the trail of oncoming site visitors. Questions as to if she used to be alive or lifeless whilst she hit the icy pavement lead to her macabre nickname, Zombie Doe. Unidentified and unidentifiable, she is the 9th anonymous woman sufferer of the 12 months, and murder detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska are charged with the duty of not just checking out who Zombie Doe is, yet who in her existence hated her sufficient to smash her. was once it own, or might it simply were against the law of chance? Their maximum worry is that not just is she their 9th Jane Doe of the yr, yet that she could be the 9th sufferer of a vicious temporary serial killer they've got come to name document Holiday.
 
Crisscrossing America's heartland, document vacation chooses his sufferers at random, snatching them in a single urban and leaving them in one other, continuously on a vacation. If Zombie Doe is certainly one of his, he has introduced his grotesque online game to a brand new and extra terrifying point. yet as Kovac and Liska start to discover the reality, they're going to locate that the monsters of their 9th girl's existence could have lived toward domestic. or even as one other younger lady disappears, they must ask the query: that's the larger evil--the satan you recognize or the satan you don't?
 

By Iain Rob Wright

FIRST humans received in poor health. THEN THEY bought VERY SICK..
Nick Adams is simply an ordinary man. He loves his kinfolk, appreciates his domestic, and covets his motor vehicle. yet he totally hates his activity. that is what makes it so tough that no longer a unmarried consumer has come by way of his shop this day. it sort of feels as if there’s a malicious program going round, anything that has pop out of nowhere and is preserving humans at domestic. nonetheless, it’s most likely not anything to fret approximately. humans fall ill all of the time.

And in addition to, issues are eventually commencing to lookup. Nick’s first consumer of the day has simply stumbled during the door…

HIS DAY is set TO GET WORSE..
It won’t be lengthy prior to Nick’s complete lifestyles is became the wrong way up, sending him on a frantic trip via a ravaged global that may eventually lead him 500 ft upwards to a hilltop leisure park. Is it the final secure position on the earth, or are the monsters on the best of the hill even worse than those below?

WELCOME TO RIPLEY HEIGHTS. the place the thrill by no means starts off.

By Rick Whitaker

Released as an interactive iBook in addition to a paperback and publication, Rick Whitaker’s semi-autobiographical novel, a decent Ghost, is composed totally of sentences appropriated from over 500 books. Whitaker constrained himself to utilizing three hundred phrases in line with ebook (in accordance with reasonable Use); by no means taking sentences jointly; and not making any adjustments, even to punctuation. within the iBook model, touching a sentence brings up its unique resource: a book’s identify, writer, and web page quantity. The event of acknowledging each one sentence as literary artifact, mixed with the imagined accretion of books that equipped a good Ghost, deftly mirrors the burgeoning nostalgia within the narrator’s voice and, fittingly, within the cautious reader’s middle.

By Robert Crais

After Joe Pike saves a man's lifestyles, the man's kinfolk turns out oddly envious. perhaps simply because they're no longer who they appear to be-including the seductive Dru. yet it's greater than a charade-it's a capture. And Pike's already been hooked...

By Adriana Trigiani

Milk Glass Moon, the 3rd e-book in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling large Stone hole sequence, keeps the lifestyles tale of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the demanding situations and alterations of motherhood along with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as abundant as these stumbled on at the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this tale takes turns that would shock and enthrall the reader.

Transporting us from Ave Maria's domestic within the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Italian Alps, from big apple urban to the Tuscan geographical region, Milk Glass Moon is the tale of a transferring mother-daughter courting, of a daughter's past love and a mother's heartbreak, of a permanent marriage that comprises its personal ongoing demanding situations, and of a group confronted with seismic change.

All of Trigiani's loved characters are again: Jack Mac, Ave Maria's real love, who's keen to gamble safety for the unknown; her ally and confidant, bandleader Theodore Tip-ton, who starts off a brand new lifestyles in long island urban; librarian and sexpert Iva Lou Wade Makin, who faces a life-or-death obstacle. in the meantime, surprises emerge within the blossoming of crusty cashier Fleeta Mullins, the maturing of mountain lady grew to become savvy businesswoman Pearl Grimes, and the go back of Pete Rutledge, the good-looking stranger who grew to become Ave Maria's international the wrong way up in gigantic Cherry Holler.

In this rollicking hayride of upheaval and alter, Ave Maria is ended in locations she by no means dreamed she might cross, and to those who input her existence and rock its beginning. As Ave Maria reaches into the prior to discover solutions to the current, readers will stick with her each step of how, rooting for the onetime city spinster who embraced love and made a kin. Milk Glass Moon is set the ability of affection and its abiding fact, and captures Trigiani at her so much lyrical and heartfelt.

By Dick Morris

What occurred to the team spirit that so blessed the US after 11th of September? the place did our experience of choice cross?
Our political, journalistic, and cultural leaders have fixed a crusade to oppose and hamper the struggle on terror that appeared so very important in that infrequent second of readability. This ebook is my own cri du coeur approximately deception in politics, journalism, and company -- in particular while it stops us from following via at the paintings Sep 11 has left for us all to do.
This booklet takes on a few beautiful sacred cows, yet it's approximately time they grew to become reasonable video game. --from the advent
Are you appalled via the antiwar tone the inside track media has taken because the struggle on terror begun -- in particular "objective" information shops just like the New York Times and the community information?
Are you pondering while liberal celebrities like Barbara Streisand, Sean Penn, and Susan Sarandon without notice grew to become geopolitical oracles whose recommendation we're imagined to worth above the knowledge of tenured specialists?
Are you at a loss to determine who has betrayed us extra outrageously: the French who deserted us in our time of want, or our personal elected officers, who tapped our 401(k) discounts and the tobacco-settlement providence with equivalent abandon?
In Off with Their Heads, syndicated columnist and Fox information Cannel political analyst Dick Morris issues an accusing finger on the some ways the general public has been lied to and misled, pickpocketed and endangered. even if it's invoice Clinton, who missed mounting proof of forthcoming terrorist disaster during the Nineteen Nineties, or the participants of Congress, who quietly bought our democracy down the river in trade for lifetime incumbency, Morris rips the canopy off the cowardly and duplicitous figures who've sacrificed America's pursuits for his or her personal.
From inner most corruption to public treachery, even longtime political buffs will surprise on the impressive habit Morris unearths at each point of society -- and at the way it threatens to compromise the yank lifestyle.

By Charles Bukowski

South of No North includes a few of Bukowski's most sensible paintings. one of the brief tales gathered within the publication are Love for $17.50, a few guy named Robert whose infatuation with a model in a junk store leads him first to shop for it, then make like to it, after which finally fall in love with "her," a lot to the consternation of his real-life female friend; Maja Thurup, a few South American tribesman with a tremendous penis who's dropped at la via the girl anthropologist who has "discovered" him and develop into his lover; and The satan is scorching, approximately an come upon with previous Nick at an entertainment pier in Santa Monica, the place Scratch himself is caged and on exhibit, fed merely peanut butter and dogfood, exploited by means of a cynical carnie.

The assortment additionally positive factors of Bukowski's most interesting and most famed brief tales: the entire Assholes on the earth Plus Mine, an autobiographical rumination at the therapy of his hemorrhoids, and Confessions of a guy Insane adequate to reside With Beasts. (The latter tale initially used to be released as a chapbook of 500 copies through Bensenville Mimeo Press in 1965.)

The brief tales gathered within the quantity are evocative of Bukowski at his top, whilst he was once one of many most well known brief tale writers nonetheless on the best of his expertise.

By Holly Jacobs

Sneaking in is the simple half. yet dwelling it down is hard . . .

One company purple slip and Morgan Miller is again in Pittsburgh bunking subsequent to her mom. but if Morgan consents to wait a fancy marriage ceremony reception for significant "Penny and Sam," she's appalled to benefit her invitation is way from legitimate.

Though her pals agree that get together crashing is a superlative solution to meet males, Morgan's existence is turning into thoroughly unmanageable. marriage ceremony photographer Conner Danning retains taking pictures her swoon-worthy glances and Morgan's ex is making an attempt to de-ex himself.

She can't wait to run domestic to San Diego, yet possibly residing existence as an "unofficial guest" is best than no invite in any respect!