TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT……And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, features 20 stories of people dealing with not just the torrid weather, but all different kinds of heat. From a retired police chief pitching in on a missing dog report that leads to him solving a murder to...

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Tony Mandolin is back. So are the fae. And this time, what you eat could kill you.San Francisco's only supernatural private eye just wanted a quiet weekend, a bottle of decent beer, and maybe one night without the police trying to arrest him.Instead, he gets a case where someone is running a racket on the gourmet bistros in the city, where diners are dying at the tables.Now Tony has seventy-two hours to:Find the source of the poison and the poisoner

The Call of the South explores the complexities of life in the Southern United States during the early 20th century. The novel delves into themes of identity, tradition, and the changing social landscape of the South. It typically follows the life and experiences of its protagonist, who grapples with the region's cultural heritage and the evolving social dynamics.The story is set against the backdrop of the South's history and traditions, examining how these factors influence the character...

OFF COURSE: ROUNDABOUTS & DEVIATIONS is A. Robert Lee's newest collection that blends poetry and prose. Beneath the thoughtfully crafted and approachable exterior of Lee's writing lies a deep, intricate voice that intentionally challenges conventional literary boundaries. The collection offers unique perspectives on the peculiarities and often humorous aspects of everyday life. Infused with wit and a dark yet friendly humor, Lee's work aims to entertain while also provoking recognition. Wh...

Three thousand hours.Sixty-seven thousand in gross commission. Forty-one thousand net. About thirteen dollars and seventy-three cents an hour.Wade Roberts is at the end of year three in real estate, and that's what he has to show for it. His wife runs an ICU. His daughters are seven and five. His father - the hardest worker he ever knew - died eighteen months ago, and the line Wade can't get out of his head is the one his father always said: work can wait, family can't....

Six garden gnomes just walked onto Tony Mandolin's front porch and paid him in golf-ball-sized rubies. That alone should have been the first warning. The second warning should have been when the little red-hatted fellows admitted they'd "lost" their pet… a creature so cute it purrs, so cuddly it begs for belly rubs, and so illegal in every known dimension that even Odin personally banned it centuries ago.Meet the brugiti: part kitten, part nightmare, all appetite. When it gets hung...

War is in the wind.Twins and the last scions of the House of Labad, Charity, and Adam--each unaware that the other is alive--face the oncoming strife filling the land on opposite sides of the conflict.The wizard Milward, parted from Adam during an angry row yet continues to do his best to guide the siblings unawares as the wall between the worlds weakens.Adam has become the officer of the guard under the son of the mad Duke of the city-state Grisham and joins the ar...

In Oklahoma, one out of every six residents is poor. One in five children lives in poverty and faces food insecurity. In Hungry Oklahoma, native son and sociologist Robert Lee Maril follows in the tradition of the national bestsellers Nickel and Dimed and Evicted to illuminate the lived experience of poverty and food insecurity in communities across the state.Maril’s account is immediately personal. He begins with “guests,” as shoppers are called by volun...

This is a true American tale, the story of the Hamady Clan of Flint, Michigan, whose patriarch came to America from Lebanon in 1908 and built a family business that grew to over $100,000,000 in sales. Over three generations, this large Druze family--54 members at its peak in 1945--lived with its own code of ethics, its deep cultural divides, its dark secret. It is also the story of a prophecy made by that patriarch many years ago: "First generation founds the business, second generation bu...

Tribute is a small, Australian township blessed with ancient mountainous rainforest, waterfalls, clean pristine rivers and a filthy secret. Six young lives are brought together by a church orphanage as wards of the state then groomed and sold off at a tender age. Other than the jungle, their only comfort is each other, and Stirrup, a brave blue cattle dog. The only family they have ever known.Led by Cozy, wild, defiant and found in Tribute's rainforest as an infant, the youngsters ...

He is the last of the wizards.Milward survived the Magik Wars by the narrowest of margins. Just beginning his life among the magik users, his teacher was blasted into nonexistence by Gilgafed the Sorcerer during the fighting and he had to learn about this power on his own.As history has it, he became friendly with the enigmatic race of dragons, gigantic creatures able to smell magik, and, according to myth, once sailed the stars. Befriended by Labad, the last great Emperor,...