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  • 5 Minute Bedtime Classics synopsis, comments

    5 Minute Bedtime Classics

    Skyhorse Publishing

    Adorable stories that will have your child excited for bedtime. Dozens of fairy tales and animal stories are now in a fiveminute version perfect for bedtime! These adorable classic...

  • Slam the Big Door synopsis, comments

    Slam the Big Door

    John D. MacDonald

    When Mike Rodenska, a former journalist and recent widower, visits his old friend Troy Jamison in Florida, he's shocked at what he finds. For despite the parties, the shapely women...

  • Shock Wave synopsis, comments

    Shock Wave

    Clive Cussler

    A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily MailThe thirteenth adrenalinefilled Dirk Pitt classic from multimillioncopy king of the adventure novel, Clive Cussler.A hu...

  • The Wintringham Mystery synopsis, comments

    The Wintringham Mystery

    Anthony Berkeley

    Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn’t solv...

  • Border Town Girl synopsis, comments

    Border Town Girl

    John D. MacDonald

    Contains the two novellas Border Town Girl and Linda. Border Town GirlOnce, Lane Sanson had been a Somebody war correspondent and a bestselling author. Now he was a ...

  • The Perfect Distance synopsis, comments

    The Perfect Distance

    Pat Butcher

    The definitive, fully authorised story of the recordbreaking rivalry between London Olympics organiser Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett.Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe presided over the...

  • April Evil synopsis, comments

    April Evil

    John D. MacDonald

    The stage was set. Harry Mullin had hit town first. But he had just made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, and he was a little nervous about being seen. With him at the rented house ...

  • Deadly Welcome synopsis, comments

    Deadly Welcome

    John D. MacDonald

    Alex Doyle is a tough man on a tough assignment in Ramona Beach, Florida the kind of place that doesn't trust strangers and is policed by a sheriff who echoes the locals' sentimen...

  • The Beach Girls synopsis, comments

    The Beach Girls

    John D. MacDonald

    Leo Rice seems like a nice enough guy, but why does he have to choose their beach? He could head ten miles up the Florida strip and everyone could just live happily ever after no ...

  • You Live Once synopsis, comments

    You Live Once

    John D. MacDonald

    Clint Sewell knew there wasn't a wife within fifty miles who didn't have reason to murder Mary Olan because there wasn't a husband around who didn't think the grass was greener in...

  • Hurricane synopsis, comments

    Hurricane

    John D. MacDonald

    A hurricane of terrifying intensity is looming over Florida. Along a state highway, a handful of foolhardy souls trying to outrun the storm are forced to seek shelter in an abandon...

  • Pocket Full of Colors synopsis, comments

    Pocket Full of Colors

    Amy Guglielmo & Jacqueline Tourville

    Amy Guglielmo, Jacqueline Tourville, and Brigette Barrager team up to tell the joyful and unique story of the trailblazing Disney artist Mary Blair.Mary Blair lived her life in col...

  • One Monday We Killed Them All synopsis, comments

    One Monday We Killed Them All

    John D. MacDonald

    Step by step, Dwight McAran built a wall of vicious hate around himself. It was easy. He was a man who could slap one woman to death because she loved him, and hum a love song to a...

  • On the Run synopsis, comments

    On the Run

    John D. MacDonald

    Sid Shanley couldn't stay in one place very long. He had to keep on the run, changing towns, changing jobs, changing women. He worked out the perfect setup no attachments, no trai...

  • Soft Touch synopsis, comments

    Soft Touch

    John D. MacDonald

    Jerry Jamison wants out: out of a sloppy marriage, a dull job and the empty suburban rat race. Once Jerry had a beautiful bride and a good salary at her old man's successful busine...

  • The Good Old Stuff synopsis, comments

    The Good Old Stuff

    John D. MacDonald

    From the author of the worldfamous Travis McGee thrillers, thirteen of John D. MacDonald's earliest and best crime and mystery stories brought together in one volume.Written at the...

  • Please Write for Details synopsis, comments

    Please Write for Details

    John D. MacDonald

    American bachelor Miles Drummond, living in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and running out of money, halfheartedly places an ad in a few US newspapers announcing a summer art workshop. Much t...

  • The Neon Jungle synopsis, comments

    The Neon Jungle

    John D. MacDonald

    The Varaki family run the local grocery store, but tragedy hits the family hard. The sudden death of the matriarch of the clan is followed by the favourite son's death in Korea. Th...

  • Emigrants synopsis, comments

    Emigrants

    James Evans

    'Marvellously engaging' The Times'Brisk, informative and eyeopening' Daily TelegraphIn the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a ...

  • The Brass Cupcake synopsis, comments

    The Brass Cupcake

    John D. MacDonald

    In Flower City, a sleepy resort town on Florida's Gulf Coast, wealthy Elizabeth Stegman is murdered in a jewel heist gone bad her missing jewels insured for £750,000.It falls to h...

  • Murder for the Bride synopsis, comments

    Murder for the Bride

    John D. MacDonald

    Dillon Bryant, a successful engineer, is off on assignment after finishing his honeymoon. But news from home comes that his new bride, Laura, a beautiful woman whom he had met only...

  • Bodies from the Library 2 synopsis, comments

    Bodies from the Library 2

    Tony Medawar, Agatha Christie, Edmund Crispin, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham & John Rhode

    This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 15 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered...

  • Bodies from the Library 3 synopsis, comments

    Bodies from the Library 3

    Tony Medawar, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley & Nicholas Blake

    This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected storie...

  • Seven synopsis, comments

    Seven

    John D. MacDonald

    A choice collection of seven short stories by one of America's foremost storytellers and the author of the bestselling Travis McGee series.Featuring 'Dear Old Friend', 'The Annex',...

  • The Golden Arrow synopsis, comments

    The Golden Arrow

    Sr. Mary of St. Peter ( & Dorothy Scallan

    MAY the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified, in Heaven, on earth, and u...

  • A Key to the Suite synopsis, comments

    A Key to the Suite

    John D. MacDonald

    Corporate hatchetman Hubbard is on his way to an industry convention to carry out a termination a fancy way of saying he's about to toss a man and his family out in the street. Bu...

  • The Crossroads synopsis, comments

    The Crossroads

    John D. MacDonald

    More than half a century ago, Papa Drovek opened his small grocery store at the junction of two country roads. As he bought more and more land, the roads became highways, and now t...

  • The Drowner synopsis, comments

    The Drowner

    John D. MacDonald

    Lucille Hanson had rid herself of the wrong man her rich husband who lived casually and loved carelessly. Then she found another man she hoped would be right. She was putting toge...

  • Cancel All Our Vows synopsis, comments

    Cancel All Our Vows

    John D. MacDonald

    Fletcher Wyant and his wife Jane had been married for fifteen years. They had built the perfect marriage two wonderful kids, a warm beautiful home, and their own private neverendi...

  • Cry Hard, Cry Fast synopsis, comments

    Cry Hard, Cry Fast

    John D. MacDonald

    A gunman on the run, a seventeenyearold girl on a family vacation, a jaded working girl, a guiltstricken widower, an abandoned mistress. All heading fast down a route to sudden dea...

  • Ice Walker synopsis, comments

    Ice Walker

    James Raffan

    From bestselling author James Raffan comes an enlightening and original story about a polar bear’s precarious existence in the changing Arctic, reminiscent of John Vaillant’s The G...

  • Barrier Island synopsis, comments

    Barrier Island

    John D. MacDonald

    Tucker Loomis is a hard and dangerous man with a ruthlessness all West Bay fears and respects, and an improbable amount of money. Wade Rowley is a common man who aspires to honour ...

  • Thrones, Dominations synopsis, comments

    Thrones, Dominations

    Dorothy L. Sayers & Jill Paton Walsh

    Deemed "one of the greatest mystery writers of this century" by the Los Angeles Times, Dorothy L. Sayers first captivated readers nearly seventy years ago with her beloved sleuths ...

  • The Only Girl in the Game synopsis, comments

    The Only Girl in the Game

    John D. MacDonald

    Her employers are the high priests of Las Vegas and she is their handmaiden. Her job is to lead the lambs to the sacrifice, to keep them happy at the tables, where her partners sla...

  • The Last One Left synopsis, comments

    The Last One Left

    John D. MacDonald

    When a yacht explodes in the Bahamas, apparently killing six people, Sam Boyleston, an attorney from Texas and the brother of one of the victims, is compelled to investigate the ci...

  • No Deadly Drug synopsis, comments

    No Deadly Drug

    John D. MacDonald

    Indicted by the state of New Jersey for the murder of retired Colonel William Farber. Dr Carl Coppolino had been having an affair with Farber's wife, Marjorie.Did he kill Marjorie'...

  • Area of Suspicion synopsis, comments

    Area of Suspicion

    John D. MacDonald

    Four years ago Gevan Dean found his fiancée Niki Webb in his brother Ken's arms and fled his hometown for a peaceful life in the Florida sun. But now Ken is dead murdered by a thi...

  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes synopsis, comments

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    Arthur Conan Doyle9788026882244

    This carefully crafted ebook: "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Sherlock Holmes astonishes Dr....

  • The Peter Lawford Story synopsis, comments

    The Peter Lawford Story

    Patricia Lawford Stewart & Ted Schwarz

    As the brother in law to JFK and a member of the Rat Pack, Peter Lawford was one of America's most acclaimed movie stars.Lawford led an extraordinary life. His story, as told by th...

  • The Deceivers synopsis, comments

    The Deceivers

    John D. MacDonald

    Her name was Cindy, and she was his neighbour's wife the woman next door in the kind of suburbia that didn't make headlines. These were real people, nice people like Cindy and Car...

  • Hank and Jim synopsis, comments

    Hank and Jim

    Scott Eyman

    “[A] remarkably absorbing, supremely entertaining joint biography” (The New York Times) from bestselling author Scott Eyman about the remarkable friendship of Henry Fonda and James...

  • Clouds of Witness synopsis, comments

    Clouds of Witness

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    The second book in Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey series introduced by crime novelist Ruth Dudley Edwards a mustread for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham...

  • One More Sunday synopsis, comments

    One More Sunday

    John D. MacDonald

    Welcome to the Eternal Church of the Believer, where devout workers operate stateoftheart computer equipment to process the thousands of dollars that pour in daily and where hundre...

  • The Price of Murder synopsis, comments

    The Price of Murder

    John D. MacDonald

    On the surface, they seem like three very different people: Danny Bronson, a cunning excon struggling to go straight; his brother, Lee, a former Gridiron star turned college profes...

  • The Life of Crime synopsis, comments

    The Life of Crime

    Martin Edwards

    Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the A...

  • Contrary Pleasure synopsis, comments

    Contrary Pleasure

    John D. MacDonald

    For years the Delevan family image reflected only the best of everything wealth, position, influence, and the kind of expensive good looks that take generations to cultivate. No o...