A new Amos Walker mystery from award-winning author Loren D. Estleman!Amos Walker is hired by one Francis X. Lawes, a private-sector mover and shaker in Detroit politics, to prove that his wife, Paula, who disappeared under sinister circumstances shortly more than six years ago, is dead, so he can remarry without having to wait for the seven-year-declaration-of-death rule to kick in.Walker’s investigation is complicated by two facts: the police still consider Lawes the prim...

Poison, pits, and murder… the village vegetable competition is heating up!Merryfield's reigning vegetable-growing champion is found dead on his allotment.The police think it was an accident caused by the champion's advancing age.Diana Flowers, his allotment next door neighbour, isn't convinced.She knows someone has poisoned the dead man's prized pumpkin plant.And if the dead man dug the pit in which he met his doom, where did he leav...

They survived tragedy. They never stopped loving each other. Now, they have one chance to heal—together.Liv Arias has spent over a decade trying to outrun the trauma of a night that shattered her youth—and her heart. But when fate throws her back into the path of Finn Dorsey, the boy she loved and lost, she's forced to face everything she tried to bury. The hurt. The guilt. And the still-burning connection neither of them can deny.Now a man carrying his own...

ShawEver since we met two years ago, Eden Burkehammer has made everything better.The big defenseman sets me at ease. He’s a beast on the ice—brutal and physical—but when it’s the two of us, he turns to me with these unexpectedly soft brown eyes. This gravelly laugh that makes my whole body smile. And yeah, I might have thrown a glance his way a time or two in the steamed-up locker room showers—you know, just curious.But he’s my best friend....

High Notes is a collection of fun stories. Seen through the eyes of an agent, a manager, a fan and a friend, these stories are the varied, true experiences of one man’s coming of age in the music business from 1966 to 1981. Rock ‘n’ Roll icons of the 60s and 70s who inspired a generation were the author’s personal mentors, business partners, and friends. His experiences offer music and pop-culture lovers a reflective insider’s perspective on these amazing artists in one of the most compell...

Have you ever wanted to purchase a house plant but really don't know where to start? There are hundreds and hundreds to choose from, but if you aren't terribly knowledgeable about them, the decision making process can be confusing. A lot of people avoid having plants out of fear of killing them, but even if this does happen, it doesn't mean you shouldn't try. You may be surprised to find out that there are plants out there that are almost indestructible. Fantastic for those who have a tend...

A remarkable new antihero, mob hit man Peter Macklin must end a hostage crisis on a tour boat in Lake ErieSiegfried, a terrorist group made up of a killer, a bassist, an ex-marine, a demolitions expert, a Black Panther, a national guardsman, and a couple of spoiled teenagers, is about to become Detroit's worst nightmare. The motley gang boards a river cruise boat armed with M16s and enough explosives to burn the city down. They have eight hundred hostages, and if t...

As the most famous and important political leader in Athenian history, Pericles has featured prominently in descriptions and analysis of Athenian democracy from antiquity to the present day. Although contemporary historians have tended to treat him as representative of values like liberty and equality, Loren J. Samons, II demonstrates that the quest to make Athens the preeminent power in Greece served as the central theme of Pericles' career. More nationalist than humanist and less rationa...

In Loren D. Estelman's Murdock's Law, Special U.S. Deputy Page Murdock rides into Breen, Montana, on the trail of a menacing and elusive outlaw. But before he can scout the saloons for his man, he is made town marshal in a territory heating up for the ugliest range war this side of hell. The big ranchers want a gunslinger marshal, and the small ranchers have their own hired gun. But the badge on Murdock's chest means law, and he'll enforce it the best way he knows...with a gun.

"Radical, before it meant a person who advocates strong political reform, meant getting to the root of things, the origin. It comes from the Latin radix, radicis,, meaning radish, a root vegetable."—BK LorenThese meditative essays range in subjects from a transcendental encounter with a pack of coyotes ironically juxtaposed with her neighbor's claim that nature "has gone out of vogue," to Loren's mother's slow yet all–encompassing deterioration from Parkinson's, a...

Once, there was a world where the heroes were defined by their white clothing and the bad guys always wore black. The town sheriff always gunned down the wild gunslinger while the lady in distress cowered. The Indian was to be feared, not understood, and the white man always saved the day. This was the traditional Western.But times change, as did the Western. The evolving Western is told from the point of view of blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, Gentiles, Mormons, ...

Phoenix: Bad breakups happen. Sometimes, they hurt, and other times they're downright deadly. I spent the last year trying to keep my head above wave after wave of heartache. I focused on my band, my friends, and my cat. I wasn't living, but I was surviving without Eli.That all changed because he's back. And he's with someone else. As if seeing him with another person wasn't bad enough, he hasn't changed. He's still the same addict I fell in love with. I d...