Vacationing with an old High School flame on his charter boat in the Caribbean, Nolan sets his hook into something he wishes he hadn't.The floating bag of stink hauls him into deeper and deeper waters until there's nowhere to go but down.Drew gets dragged from his home port in Key Largo to up the Florida Coast and into a crummy marina, then out to a posh resort on the island of Bimini, then across the Caribbean to the south Texas coast, then to a Colombian resort island whe...

The long and the short about "The Long and the short:"Entering any story for the first time is like walking through a doorway into a place you never knew existed. No matter its length, the world of the short story — when done right — provides a traveler with a visit that feels too short, though is really just right.Inside this book you'll visit old farms, suburban homes, laboratories of the future, familiar neighborhoods just like the one where your funny aunt lives.You'll ...

It begins: "Claude had a mother and two sisters, older, a grandmother — in his memories, a shadow — three angry aunts, (one married with children: a boy in diapers, another boy, and a girl who liked to tickle his testes on occasion) and, for a time, a father."And so it was... We live, we love, we marvel, we become the lost, we suffer loss, we seek our joys and reach for our potentials.Our lives, as was his, are made up of the people with whom — and because of whom — we grow...

Bechtel, a former newspaper publisher and weekly columnist, continued taking oblique looks at things most people took for granted or accepted at face value, and he came up with what he called the "unthoughted."In this book Bechtel explores topics ranging from the impact of a local soldier's death in Iraq on the town he lived in to the Occupy Wall Street fiasco, to the differences between "May" and "Can", and certainly to the comic behaviors of politicians trying to appeal to a publ...

In a dark hour after midnight in 1938 a volley of shots ring out and a number of Spanish men fall dead. For them, from then on, there are no consequences. But for the women left behind, wives, mothers, daughters and sons, the echo from those gun barrels repeat, repeat, and repeat.This is the story of the women in one of those affected families: Señora Dolores, a wife, a mother, and an untimely grandmother; her daughters, especially among them long-suffering Maria, ambitious and thw...

When is a love story not a romance?When the lives of strangers collide, as they do on a steam-hot August weekend.Don Burbage, the good-looking sheriff deeply in love with his wife Peggy, wrestles with what commitment means as he works out a bloody event that happened in cabin six at the Buena Vista Motel.Lyla, young, trapped in her youth and body, has to face what her youth and body have wrought upon her.And enter the stranger, a photojournalist passing thro...

Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you.That's what other people might think, but Nolan sees something in the half-eaten corpse lying on an outcrop to a Montana mountain that says differently. And what it says is, "Nolan, you've gotten yourself in some kind of mess… again."Follow Drew Nolan as he tries to figure out three things:Who's the dead guy, and why is he dead?Who are these mysterious women that seem to be in the middle of the ...

"An ill wind that bloweth no man to good."A pleasant afternoon: the sky is blue, the grass is green, the company — although to each of them Drew and June had been strangers — willing to share their good humor along with cole slaw, ears of corn and hamburgers, when suddenly the news arrives.And the news is not good.Somebody killed Willa Maes.Worse, the talented, young ballplayer had been lynched.Maybe the right place, wrong time, but Drew Nolan has la...

No Dead People...That's what June said right before she left Nolan. Did he listen? Noooo...Okay, so Drew had to meet a dead man before they went to Santa Anita Park to watch the ponies run. But it wasn't his fault.His sister Annigail made him go.Turned out, their fay at the races wasn't going to be the walk in the park they expected.Conmen, jockeys, horse thieves, killers, the FBI, people toting guns... and a gorgeous Latin woman in a black dress and...

Laura Heeley was just an average mother of two, but at the age of thirty-eight her life was swiftly taken from her, stabbed in the back on her way home from bingo. Colinette Jones was a popular, attractive and intelligent student, but she has been strangled, her body dumped on the roadside. What is the connection between the two victims? Detective Inspector Charlie Priest must solve the mystery, though with no clear motive and police movements constricted by foot-and-mouth disease, this pr...

A haunting tale of desire, death, and the power of the past.Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has suddenly died. Immersed in grief, he becomes obsessed with her youth and her life before they met. To satisfy his desperate need to uncover all the details of her previous existence, Anthony travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband, who retained an emotional hold over her that endured even as Anthony's and Lucy's marriage grew ...

Pre-order HIDE AND SEEK, the first standalone thriller from Chris Carter, coming July 2026!A thrilling eBook exclusive short story from Sunday Times bestselling author Chris Carter.Meet Robert Hunter, the youngest Homicide Detective the Los Angeles Police has ever recruited, on his first day. As a rookie, he is given a simple suicide investigation to cut his teeth on. But when he arrives a...