When Jessie Barnes parents are seriously injured in a car accident, she takes a leave of absence from her investigator job with the Chicago Police Department to help care for them in their home in Aiken, South Carolina. While in town, shes tapped to help the shorthanded local sheriffs department.Just a week after her arrival in the sleepy southern town, she is called to investigate a double homicide. Tom and Carol Lowe have been shot to death in their spacious home on Mulberry Stre...

Thirty-three-year-old William Bradford and his close friend, sixty-year-old Thomas Wingate, are disillusioned with the excessive expenditures of the federal government. They launch a website, www.SaveAmerica.com, to influence government and the voting populace. Bradford and Wingate offer a one million dollar reward to any person who can rid the federal government of the most fiscally irresponsible Congressmen.At intervals, the Save America team, based in Aiken, South Carolina, feat...

Greg’s town is going electronics-free. Can he survive without his gadgets—or will going “old school” drive him crazy?In book ten of Jeff Kinney’s #1 international bestselling series, Greg goes off the grid—no screens, no comforts, and no idea how he’ll survive.A laugh-filled read for kids ages 8–12 who laugh over tech trouble and retro adventures.Collect all the books in the #1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Diary of a...

**"An exciting first novel that echoes the best writing of Pete Hamill and George Pelecanos, mixed with bits of The Wire and True Detective."—The Miami HeraldThe electrifying first novel in a new crime series from a veteran Washington, D.C., reporter**Sarah Reese, the teenage daughter of a powerful Washington, D.C. judge, is dead, her body discovered in a slum in the shadow of the Capitol. Though the police promptly arrest three local black...

One of the major literary works by Andy Warhol, the subject of the new Netflix documentary The Andy Warhol Diaries, executive produced by Ryan MurphyConceptually unique, hilarious, and frightening, a: A Novel is the perfect literary manifestation of Andy Warhol's sensibility. In the late sixties, Warhol set out to turn a trade book into a piece of pop art, and the result was this astonishing account of the artists, superstars, addicts, and freaks ...

When thirty-eight-year-old advertising agency owner Brian McCarthy receives a letter from Merton Caldwell, an attorney in Cave Junction, Kentucky, he doesnt realize his life is about to change drastically. A former member of the Navy Special Forces, McCarthy operates McCarthy Communications in Los Angeles; as a teen, however, he spent two summers on his cousins farm in small Cave Junction, an area replete with limestone caves.Through a phone call to the attorney, McCarthy learns th...

Private Eye Ramone Ramone is approached one night by a mysterious woman offering him $10,000 to find a rare book. It seems her son has joined a cult and offered its guru a family heirloom: an original edition of The Corsican Dove. After accepting the case, Ramone discovers that the book is worth less than a carton of cigarettes. With the murders of five interested parties and death threats received by Ramone and his drug-dealing partner, he learns that there are some heavy hitters out there i...

Zippy Cosmo moves his wife and family from Baltimore to the Eastern Shore to escape the citys inhumanity and growing civil rights violence. The small provincial town they settle in is sleepy and remote; it seems ideal to raise their five children. But, a tattoo artist rents the old post office building and tattoos the wrong farmers daughter according to the local intel.The search for his killer and how it impacts this familys lives is what makes THE INK MASTER MURDER, a mystery by ...

In this humorous and honest poetry collection, ‘Princess of Hip Hop’ Ashanti shares her unique perspective on life and love.Bestselling recording artist Ashanti stormed the pop charts with her self-titled debut album, going all the way to #1 and staying there for 10 weeks, garnering legions of loyal fans, and earning herself the nickname the 'Princess of Hip Hop.' In Foolish/Unfoolish, Ashanti explores the same themes that make her music so real for her fa...

Robert E. Bailey’s Art Hardin became an instant mystery icon with the publication of his first novel, Private Heat, won the Josiah W. Bancroft Award at the Florida First Coast Writer's Festival in 1998 and was nominated for the 2003 Shamus Award, given by the Private Eye Writers of America.Now, in a new short story, Bailey gives readers a look into Hardin’s past and shows us a bit more of what made him the PI fans have come to admire.

Wendell Dell Hinton, sheriff of Castaway County, Maine, is happily sleeping when his phone rings in the middle of the night, alerting him to a multiple homicide at a local truck stop. As Dellwho has already solved a ten-year-old cold case during his first termcrawls out of bed, kisses his news anchor girlfriend goodbye, and leaves for the truck stop, he suspects a short night is about to turn into a very long day.When the sheriff arrives on the gruesome scene, he learns that a game...

Most people who pick up Suelyn Medeiros: A Memoir will search the Internet for Suelyn within fifteen minutes of reading her name. At first glance, they will see a gorgeous and successful young woman in skimpy clothesor none at all. But they wont really know her. They will not know the story of how she was raised by immigrant parents in New York, worked at a five-dollar-an-hour retail job, and was given the chance at one golden opportunity on a modeling gig that she turned into a m...