A memoir of heroism, comradeship, danger, and laughter aboard a Vietnam patrol craft, as a small crew grew into a seasoned combat team. Includes photos.During the Vietnam War, 3500 officers and men served in the Swift Boat program in a fleet of 130 boats with no armor plating. The boats patrolled the coast and rivers of South Vietnam, facing deadly combat, intense lightning firefights, storms, and many hidden dangers.This action-packed account by the Office...

An antiquarian book dealer spends his vacation investigating murder in this series opener from Agatha Christie's favorite American author.New York handwriting and rare book expert—and a gentleman sleuth—Henry Gamadge is vacationing in coastal Maine when the police there need his help. It's a strange case involving a seemingly natural death, a large inheritance, a mysterious nighttime rendezvous, and a troupe of summer stock actors who start dying off. Something is c...

An indecent proposal has fatal repercussions in this "hypnotic" thriller from the author of Keep Your Friends Close ( Kirkus Reviews).Roz has reached her breaking point. Her marriage and business have both failed. And with debts racking up, she's struggling to provide for her nine-year-old son, who is starting to misbehave in school.Then, at her sister's fortieth birthday party, a perfect—albeit indecent—opportunity presents itself. Scott ...

New York handwriting and rare book expert—and a gentleman sleuth—Henry Gamadge is vacationing in coastal Maine when the police there need his help. It’s a strange case involving a seemingly natural death, a large inheritance, a mysterious nighttime rendezvous, and a troupe of summer stock actors who start dying off. Something is clearly afoot, but nothing quite seems to fit. With an eye for frauds, Gamadge is just what the local detective needs to throw the book at a killer...

The first hard-boiled detective Race Williams, runs up against the Klan in his premiere adventure, which leads him to fast and tragic action. Plus two other early Daly hard-boiled classics: "The False Burton Combs" and "Dolly." Story #1 in the Race Williams series.Carroll John Daly (1889–1958) was the creator of the first hard-boiled private eye story, predating Dashiell Hammett's first Continental Op story by several months. Daly's classic character, Race Williams, was one of the ...

Never has spooning been more fun, sweet, or sexy! With winner characters like Abby, Laura and Meg, 3 strong, smart, funny, and sometimes sassy women. And Tom, Todd and Greg, the kind of guys we all want to take home home. The men are honest, smart and caring, their only vulnerability is the love they have for Abby, Laura, and Meg and the strong ties to family.It's a story of two families, two trees, and how their tales intertwine. It's about love and second chances. Of family and lo...

There are times when the truth invites evil, and there are times when the truth can get you killed."A fast reading suspense book that surprised me so much, I had to finish it in one sitting." - Alice de Sturler of the American Investigative Society Of Cold Cases"An epic thriller with a memorable, unorthodox main character... a riveting read..." - Colorado Country Life MagazineFew residents in the secluded mountain-town of Winston, ...

A new fast-paced, psychological thriller from the author of Just What Kind of Mother Are You? and Keep Your Friends Close.We all think we know who we are.What we're capable of.Roz is a single mother, a physiotherapist, a sister, a friend. She's also desperate.Her business has gone under, she's crippled by debt and she's just had to explain to her son why someone's taken all their furniture away.But now a stranger has ma...

Johnny Redfield gives a party and the guest of honor is his eccentric aunt, a lady given to sandals, loosely belted robes, and talk of astral planes and auras. Not until after she is murdered, does amateur sleuth Henry Gamadge learn that almost everyone present had a reason to want Josephine Malcom dead—and no one has an alibi.

Pine trunks in a double row started out of the mist as the headlights caught them, opened to receive the car, passed like an endless screen, and vanished. The girl on the back seat withdrew her head from the open window.“We’ll never get there at this rate,” she said. “We’re crawling.”The older woman sat far back in her corner, a figure of exhausted elegance. She said, keeping her voice low: “In this fog, I don’t think it would be safe to hurry.”“I should think it would...

Natty and Sean Wainwright are happily married. Rock solid, in fact. So when Natty’s oldest friend, Eve Dalladay, appears—just as their daughter collapses on a school trip in France—Natty has no qualms about leaving Eve with Sean to help out at home while she flies to France to see her daughter.When Natty returns two weeks later, Eve has slotted into family life a little too well. Natty’s husband has fallen in love with her friend. Sean’s sorry, he says, but their marriage is over. ...

A searing and sinister thriller for readers who liked Gone Girl.What if your best friend's child disappears? And it was all your fault.A searing and sinister thriller for readers who liked Gone Girl.What if your best friend's child disappears? And it was all your fault. This is exactly what happens to Lisa Kallisto, overwhelmed working mother of three, one freezing December in the English Lake District. She takes her eye off the ball for just a moment and her whole...