Editorial Content for Misery Bay: An Alex McKnight Novel
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Steve Hamilton is yet another author who has been a solid wordsmith, producing journeyman's work in the grammar mine from the beginning of his career, and suddenly has taken a quantum leap forward over the course of his last couple of books. THE LOCK ARTIST, his previous effort, was a very different work for him, winning him some overdue critical and commercial acclaim. With MISERY BAY, Hamilton returns to the world of Alex McKnight with a new invigoration that results in what is arguably not only his best work to date, but also one of the best books of the year. Read More
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Alex McKnight knows all about evil, having faced down a madman who killed his partner and left a bullet next to his heart. But nothing could have prepared him for the darkness he’s about to face, when a simple quest to find a few answers about a suicide turn into a nightmare of sudden violence, bloody revenge, and a race against time to catch a ruthless killer.
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Alex McKnight knows all about evil, having faced down a madman who killed his partner and left a bullet next to his heart. But nothing could have prepared him for the darkness he’s about to face, when a simple quest to find a few answers about a suicide turn into a nightmare of sudden violence, bloody revenge, and a race against time to catch a ruthless killer.
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Alex McKnight knows all about evil, having faced down a madman who killed his partner and left a bullet next to his heart. But nothing could have prepared him for the darkness he’s about to face, when a simple quest to find a few answers about a suicide turn into a nightmare of sudden violence, bloody revenge, and a race against time to catch a ruthless killer.
Editorial Content for Children and Fire
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Fifteen years have passed since Ursula Hegi's bestseller, STONES FROM THE RIVER, depicted life in Burgdorf, Germany prior to World War II. Hegi's dwarf, Trudi Montag from STONES, lives in CHILDREN AND FIRE as a reference point for the fictional town's reality to the reader.
CHILDREN AND FIRE is both a statement of history and a warning to all who teach young minds.
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So much has changed for Thekla Jansen and the people of Burgdorf, Germany, in the year since the parliament building burned. Thekla’s lover is sure the Nazis did it to frame the communists. But Thekla believes that the communists set the fire, and encourages her 10-year-old students to join the “Hitler-Jugend” with its hikes, songs and bonfires.
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So much has changed for Thekla Jansen and the people of Burgdorf, Germany, in the year since the parliament building burned. Thekla’s lover is sure the Nazis did it to frame the communists. But Thekla believes that the communists set the fire, and encourages her 10-year-old students to join the “Hitler-Jugend” with its hikes, songs and bonfires.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Music is the universal language of mankind.
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Editorial Content for Now You See Me
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A highly regarded author internationally in the United States, her native England and elsewhere, S. J. Bolton revisits one of history's most confounding and baffling series of murders in a contemporary setting, with a number of unexpected twists and turns thrown in for good measure. Presented in the form of a first-person narrative told by someone who knows much more than she's telling, NOW YOU SEE ME will keep you guessing and leave you thinking. Read More
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One night, Lacey Flint, a young detective constable, stumbles onto a woman brutally stabbed in a building’s darkened parking lot. Within 24 hours, a reporter receives an anonymous letter that points out alarming similarities between the murder and Jack the Ripper’s first murder.
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One night, Lacey Flint, a young detective constable, stumbles onto a woman brutally stabbed in a building’s darkened parking lot. Within 24 hours, a reporter receives an anonymous letter that points out alarming similarities between the murder and Jack the Ripper’s first murder.
Editorial Content for East on Sunset: A Crime Novel
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EAST ON SUNSET is Ken Mercer's much-anticipated sequel to SLOW FIRE, which introduced former L.A. cop Will Magowan to the annals of noir crime fiction. It brings Magowan back to his familiar Los Angeles environs, though a step or three down from where he had been career-wise. Magowan and his wife Laurie, recently reconciled and very pregnant, are awaiting the birth of their child and trying to put their past behind them. Magowan is underemployed and overqualified, but dealing with it when his past life comes back to haunt him in a totally unexpected manner. Read More
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In this follow-up to the critically acclaimed SLOW FIRE, hero cop Will MacGowen returns to battle the evils of his past when a killer is released from jail at the worst possible moment.
George Carlin
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
