Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
The Shell Seekers
Set in England between World War II and the present, this epic novel details the connections that bind the Keeling family together over three generations and the family’s frailties, strengths, passions, and joys
Read MoreSeptember
A cast of memorable characters from Europe and America converges on the Scottish town of Strathcroy–ostensibly for a birthday celebration–where intertwining tales of romance, excess, and heartbreak unfold
Read MoreEast of Eden
In a technological civilization, people remain insecure and look to the government for protection. In exchange they sacrifice their creativity and independence. A copper tycoon and an inventor reject this philosophy and fight for the individualist.
Read MorePrivate London
Private goes on the hunt for London’s most feared killer since Jack the Ripper. For Hannah Shapiro, a young American student, the nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when the owner of Private–the world’s most exclusive detective agency–saved her from a horrific death. Now, after eight years, the terror follows her to London.…
Read MoreBehind Her Eyes
Only two can keep a secret if one of them is dead. David and Adele seem like the ideal pair. He’s a successful psychiatrist, she is his picture-perfect wife who adores him. But why is he so controlling? And why is she keeping things hidden?As Louise, David’s new secretary, is drawn into their orbit, she…
Read MoreSweet Tooth
Serena Frome, the beautiful mathematician daughter of an Anglican bishop, has a brief affair with an older man during her final year at Cambridge, and finds herself being groomed for the Intelligence Service. The year is 1972: Britain, confronting economic disaster, is being torn apart by industrial unrest and Irish terrorism and faces its fifth…
Read MoreSaturday
Recounts the events of one Saturday in the life of Henry Perowne, a successful neurosurgeon. A minor accident in his car brings him into a confrontation with a small-time thug called Baxter. Baxter believes the surgeon has humiliated him, and visits the Perowne home that evening, during a family reunion.
Read MoreFifteen Dogs
A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old ‘dog’ ways, and those who embrace…
Read MoreThe Walking Dead Descent
Lilly Caul struggles to rebuild Woodbury after the Governor’s shocking demise in a stunning and horrifying last act in Robert Kirkman’s THE WALKING DEAD: DESCENT Out of the ashes of its dark past, Woodbury, Georgia, becomes an oasis of safety amidst the plague of the walking dead, a town reborn in the wake of its…
Read MoreThe Gray Man
When legendary covert agent and assassin Court Gentry, aka the The Gray Man, is no longer considered useful, he must prove that, for him, there is no gray area between killing for a living and killing to stay alive. Original.
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