Love You More
- Author: Lisa Gardner
- Genre: Detective and mystery stories, American
In our life there are a lot of question that needs the answers. For example: have you got a person that you love, how far would you go in your love, maybe to save him or her? You should answer on these question before you will get into a situation when you need to do something, not to think and discourse do you real love this person. WHO DO YOU LOVE? Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter? AND HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO . . . As the homicide investigation ratchets into a frantic statewide search for a missing child, D. D. Warren must partner with former lover Bobby Dodge to break through the blue wall of police brotherhood, seeking to understand the inner workings of a trooper’s mind while also unearthing family secrets. Would a trained police officer truly shoot her own husband? And would a mother harm her own child? . . . TO SAVE HER? For Tessa Leoni, the worst has not yet happened. She is walking a tightrope, with nowhere to turn, no one to trust, as the clock ticks down to a terrifying deadline. She has one goal in sight, and she will use every ounce of her training, every trick at her disposal, to do what must be done..
Numbers
- Author: Rachel Ward
- Genre: Fantasy fiction
Ever since she was child, Jem has kept a secret: Whenever she meets someone new, no matter who, as soon as she looks into their eyes, a number pops into her head. That number is a date: the date they will die. Burdened with such awful awareness, Jem avoids relationships. Until she meets Spider, another outsider, and takes a chance. The two plan a trip to the city. But while waiting to ride the Eye ferris wheel, Jem is terrified to see that all the other tourists in line flash the same number. Today's number. Today's date. Terrorists are going to attack London. Jem's world is about to explode!
Sahih Al-Bukhari
- Author: Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari
- Genre: Islam
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (Arabic: صحيح البخاري), as it is commonly referred to, is one of the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam. These prophetic traditions, or hadith, were collected by the Persian Muslim scholar Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari.
The Blue Sword
- Author: Robin McKinley
- Genre: Adventure fiction
When Harry Crewe's father dies, she leaves her Homeland to travel east, to Istan, the last outpost of the Homelander empire, where her elder brother is stationed. Harry is drawn to the bleak landscape of the northeast frontier, so unlike the green hills of her Homeland. The desert she stares across was once a part of the great kingdom of Damar, before the Homelanders came from over the seas. Harry wishes she might cross the sands and climb the dark mountains where no Homelander has ever set foot, where the last of the old Damarians, the Free Hillfolk, still live. She hears stories that the Free Hillfolk possess strange powers -- that they work magic -- that it is because of this that they remain free of the Homelander sway. When the king of the Free Hillfolk comes to Istan to ask that the Homelanders and the Hillfolk set their enmity aside to fight a common foe, the Homelanders are reluctant to trust his word, and even more reluctant to believe his tales of the Northerners: that they are demonkind, not human. Harry's destiny lies in the far mountains that she once wished to climb, and she will ride to the battle with the North in the Hill-king's army, bearing the Blue Sword, Gonturan, the chiefest treasure of the Hill-king's house and the subject of many legends of magic and mystery.
A Marked Man
- Author: Barbara Hamilton
- Genre: Detective and mystery stories
Abigail Adams, wife of attorney John Adams-who is deeply involved with the Sons of Liberty-is shocked when one of the Sons is accused of murder. Did the crime arise from the romantic competition for the daughter of a prominent Royalist-or was it politically motivated? Abigail and John believe the accused is innocent, though the evidence against him is strong. While John works to clear his client's name, Abigail begins her own investigation, and soon learns several unpleasant facts about the dead man, things that greatly increase the number of possible suspects. But as she pursues the truth, the killer pursues her- threatening not only Abigail but her vulnerable family.
A Marked Man
- Author: Barbara Hamilton
- Genre: Detective and mystery stories
Abigail Adams, wife of attorney John Adams-who is deeply involved with the Sons of Liberty-is shocked when one of the Sons is accused of murder. Did the crime arise from the romantic competition for the daughter of a prominent Royalist-or was it politically motivated? Abigail and John believe the accused is innocent, though the evidence against him is strong. While John works to clear his client's name, Abigail begins her own investigation, and soon learns several unpleasant facts about the dead man, things that greatly increase the number of possible suspects. But as she pursues the truth, the killer pursues her- threatening not only Abigail but her vulnerable family.
The Ninth Daughter
- Author: Barbara Hamilton
- Genre: Detective and mystery stories
Abigail is shocked when she visits her friend and fellow patriot Rebecca Malvern, only to find a dead woman in the kitchen and Rebecca missing. The gruesome crime was seemingly perpetrated to obtain a secret Sons of Liberty document -- and there are many who would benefit from seeing John accused of murder...Abigail searches for clues that will clear her husband's good name and help her find their compatriot. And while the lieutenant assigned to the case believes that John is guilty, Abigail soon makes him an unlikely ally. As the Great Awakening sweeps the colony, Abby must uncover a conspiracy that could cost them all their freedom -- and their lives.
Dead Witch Walking
- Author: Kim Harrison
- Genre: Detective and mystery stories
Rachel Morgan is a witch who works as a "runner" for the supernatural equivalent of the FBI. She's gotten nothing but deadbeat jobs for a year or more, and she has a feeling that her boss is just giving her these jobs in the hope that she quits. Well, after nabbing a leprechaun for tax evasion, she's decided she'd done with it and resigns, taking a vampire runner--Ivy-- and a pixie--Janx--with her. Because Ivy is one of Inderlander Security's greatest employees, the IS is furious with Rachel and put a death warrant out on her. It's with this setting that Rachel, Ivy, and Janx start their own private investigation firm, taking leads on a readily available case.
murder@maggody.com
- Author: Joan Hess
- Genre: Detective and mystery stories
It's a rather fun way to pass the time, but don't feel like "must reads" the way her Claire books do. Arly Hanks went off to the big city, got educated, and returned to be sheriff in her rural hometown of Maggody, Arkansas after her marriage crashed and burned. The tongue-in-cheek verbosity that is so well-suited to Claire (a bookstore owner in a college town) makes Arly a bit less sympathetic, as though she feels superior to her rural roots. This is perfectly understandable, given the stereotypical redneck hick neighbors (especially the Buchanons, an inbred clan featuring a moonshiner with a pet sow).
Death Dines Out
- Author: Claudia Bishop
- Genre: Fantasy fiction
This book of 16 “culinary capers” from bestselling authors with recipes and author interviews has been a lot of fun to read. Edited by one of my favorite murder mystery authors, Claudia Bishop, the stories are fun, short, and exciting.