Tag: Fiction

Nov182019 by Free eBookNo Comments

Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister

Adult, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Mystery

Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister eBook DownloadFor the first female Pinkerton detective, respect is hard to come by. Danger, however, is not.In the tumultuous years of the Civil War, the streets of Chicago offer a woman mostly danger and ruin-unless that woman is Kate Warne, the first female Pinkerton detective and a desperate widow with a knack for manipulation.Descending into undercover operations, Kate is able to infiltrate the seedy side of the city in ways her fellow detectives can't. She's a seductress, an exotic foreign medium, or a rich train passenger, all depending on the day and the robber, thief, or murderer she's been assigned to nab.Inspired by the real story of Kate Warne, this spirited novel follows the detective's rise during one of the nation's grea...

Nov172019 by Free eBookNo Comments

The Lilac Bouquet by Carolyn Brown

Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Womens Fiction

The Lilac Bouquet by Carolyn Brown eBook DownloadCome hell or high water, Emmy Jo Massey will have a wedding. After three generations of Massey women with children out of wedlock, she wants the whole town of Hickory, Texas, to witness the legitimacy of her union with Logan Grady. But dream weddings aren’t cheap. So she accepts a highly lucrative stint as a home health assistant to retired realtor, and town recluse, Seth Thomas—a decision her great-grandmother Tandy is dead-set against.Seth isn’t happy about it, either. The eighty-two-year-old doesn’t want a “babysitter”—much less a Massey—something he makes clear when Emmy arrives at his house, an empty mansion built for the woman who broke his heart. But as Emmy stays and the two eventually open up to each other, she learns the

Nov172019 by Free eBookNo Comments

The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge

Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Horror, Literary Fiction, Mystery

The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge eBook DownloadFrom the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends--or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist, and she doesn't believe

Nov152019 by Free eBookNo Comments

Celine by Peter Heller

Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

Celine by Peter Heller eBook DownloadFrom the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Painter, a luminous, masterful novel of suspense--the story of Celine, an elegant, aristocratic private eye who specializes in reuniting families, trying to make amends for a loss in her own past.Working out of her jewel box of an apartment at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, Celine has made a career of tracking down missing persons, and she has a better record at it than the FBI. But when a young woman, Gabriela, asks for her help, a world of mystery and sorrow opens up. Gabriela's father was a photographer who went missing on the border of Montana and Wyoming. He was assumed to have died from a grizzly mauling, but his body was never found. Now, as Celine and her partner head to Yellowsto

Nov142019 by Free eBookNo Comments

The Book of Polly by Kathy Hepinstall

Fiction, Humor

The Book of Polly by Kathy Hepinstall eBook DownloadWillow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to shoot varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors and she sticks out like a sore thumb among the young modern mothers of their small conventional Texas town. She was in her late fifties when Willow was born, so Willow knows she's here by accident, a late-life afterthought. Willow's father died before she was born, her much older brother and sister are long grown and gone and failing elsewhere. It's just her and bigger-than-life Polly.Willow is desperately hungry for clues to the family life that preceded her, and especially Polly's life pre-Willow. Wh...

Nov132019 by Free eBookNo Comments

The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter by J.S. Drangsholt

Fiction, Humor, Womens Fiction

The Marvelous Misadventures of Ingrid Winter by J.S. Drangsholt eBook DownloadIngrid Winter is desperately trying to hold it all together. A neurotic Norwegian mother of three small children and an overworked literature professor with an overactive imagination, Ingrid feels like her life’s always on the brink of chaos.Her overzealous attempt to secure her dream house has strained her marriage. She’s repeatedly reprimanded for eye rolling in faculty meetings. Petulant PTA parents want to drag her into a war over teaching children to tie their shoes. And an alarmingly persistent salesman keeps warning her of the potential dangers of home intrusion.Clearly she needs to get away. But Russia? Forced to join an academic mission to Saint Petersburg to promote international cooperati

Nov112019 by Free eBookNo Comments

Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney

Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney eBook DownloadMy name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

Nov102019 by Free eBookNo Comments

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell

Contemporary, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace by Patty Yumi Cottrell eBook DownloadHelen Moran is thirty-two years old, single, childless, college-educated, and partially employed as a guardian of troubled young people in New York. She’s accepting a delivery from IKEA in her shared studio apartment when her uncle calls to break the news: Helen’s adoptive brother is dead.According to the internet, there are six possible reasons why her brother might have killed himself. But Helen knows better: she knows that six reasons is only shorthand for the abyss. Helen also knows that she alone is qualified to launch a serious investigation into his death, so she purchases a one-way ticket to Milwaukee. There, as she searches her childhood home and attempts to uncover why someone would choose to die, she will

Nov92019 by Free eBookNo Comments

In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear

Fiction, Historical, Historical Fiction, Mystery

In This Grave Hour by Jacqueline Winspear eBook Download"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie DobbsSunday September 3rd 1939. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain’s declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. Dr. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War.In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. And as Maisie delves deeper into the kill

Nov82019 by Free eBookNo Comments

The Black Book by James Patterson, David Ellis

Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

The Black Book by James Patterson, David Ellis eBook DownloadHow can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime?Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with double murder and desperate to clear his name, Billy retraces his steps to get to the bottom of what happened. When he discovers the existence of a little black book that everyone who's anyone in Chicago will s...

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