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laura-elvebak's picture
Jul.01.2010
Lost Witness is the story of murder, love and betrayal, and the child who will rip open the lives of a society matron, two feuding brothers, and threaten the future of Open Palms, a Houston teen shelter.
laura-elvebak's picture
Jul.01.2010
Lost Witness is the story of murder, love and betrayal, and the child who will rip open the lives of a society matron, two feuding brothers, and threaten the future of Open Palms, a Houston teen shelter.
tarquin-hall's picture
May.20.2010
From Publishers Weekly Vish Puri, the head of Delhi's Most Private Investigators Ltd., tackles a rather prosaic domestic case in this first of a projected series, the fiction debut of British author Hall (Salaam Brick Lane). Ajay Kasliwal, a lawyer who has brought cases against corrupt...
tarquin-hall's picture
May.20.2010
Murder is no laughing matter. Yet a prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles when a Hindu goddess appears from a mist and plunges a sword into his chest. The only one laughing now is the main suspect, a powerful guru named Maharaj Swami, who seems to have done away with his most...
ken-kuhlken's picture
May.06.2010
  In May of 1926, celebrity evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson went swimming at Ocean Park beach and vanished, presumed drowned. Millions mourned or prayed for her miraculous return. On June 23, she walked out of the Mexican desert and crossed the border into Douglas, Arizona. Though her kidnapped...
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Apr.29.2010
simon-wood's picture
Apr.24.2010
The road to crime begins with a single decision—the wrong one. Not every decision belongs to the criminally minded. Some belong to the ill-informed, the weak and the plain unlucky. In these tales, trouble isn't an indiscriminate force of nature. It's a manmade occurrence that comes when called upon...
simon-wood's picture
Apr.09.2010
Gwen Farris crossed the wrong coworker when she gave Stephen Tarbell a poor evaluation.  Tarbell blames Gwen for everything going wrong in his life.  She's the anticithis of everything wrong in the world and he sets out on a campaign of terror and intimidation, determined to destroy Gwen piece by...
simon-wood's picture
Apr.09.2010
James Straley might think his life is cursed, but it doesn't compare to what lies ahead of him on life's highway. He's on the run with the proceeds of a botched bank robbery. It's all he has. His crew is dead and his getaway car just died on him. He's on foot with the cash when he comes across a...