Watch the tangled mess a Kansas hairdresser gets herself into when she reports to the funeral home that the body she is to work on is not the same as in her reference photo. Is she being punished when the director accuses her of stealing a diamond ring? Will Hilde Higgins's former boyfriend help her unravel the issue or only bring more trouble to her life?
In this riveting thriller, a female police officer discovers that the serial killer she's tracking is a psychopath from her past--and she's next on his list. Absolutely gripping suspense.--Michael Connelly.
Despite advances in DNA testing, forensics, and the investigative skills used by police, hundreds of crimes remain unsolved across Canada. With every passing day trails grow colder and decades can pass before a new lead or witness comes forward if one comes forward. In Unsolved, Robert J. Hoshowsky examines twelve crimes that continue to haunt us. Some cases are well-known, while others have virtually disappeared from the public eye. All of the cases remain open, and many are being re-examined by police using the latest tools and technology. Hoshowsky takes the reader through all aspects of the crimes and how police are trying to solve them using three-dimensional facial reconstructions, DNA testing, age-enhanced drawings, original crime scene photos, and more. None of the individuals profiled in Unsolved deserved their fate, but their stories deserve to be told and their killers need to be brought to justice.
"A real gem... a page-turner!" — St. Albert Gazette ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ "Action-packed drama, mystery, and suspense that keeps you intrigued till the very end!" — Goodreads ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ — Big-hearted Mabel Davison runs a busy highway motel and diner owner serving coffee and pie in the small mountain town of Blue River. Hands full as a single parent to two rambunctious boys and her orphaned niece, she isn't looking for more investigating to do. But a call from a lawyer friend shatters the calm. A distraught single mother is going to jail for assaulting police officers who don't believe that a sinister man had abducted her drug-addicted daughter. As Mabel takes on the case, she lands in the crosshairs of the local drug lord, Karl Larson. Sheriff Dan Gibson warns her that with the Drug Enforcement Agency on the prowl, Larson can't afford anyone poking around. And with the town on Larson's payroll, the fragile truce built by turning a blind eye will descend into terrible violence. As pressure mounts to force Mabel off the case, her investigation quickly falters, and then her worst nightmares come true — her niece goes missing too. — Set in an atmospheric Pacific Northwest town in the 1980s, the second standalone installment of the captivating Mabel Davison historical mystery series is "just as enjoyable and unputdownable as the first." Everyone's favorite big-hearted, amateur sleuth is back.
“A brilliant, perceptive, and deeply moving fable.” —Boston Sunday Globe Publishers Weekly calls Gregory Maguire’s Lost “a deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story.” Brilliantly weaving together the literary threads of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and the Jack the Ripper stories, the bestselling author of The Wicked Years canon creates a captivating fairy tale for the modern world. With Lost, Maguire—who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Oz, and inspired the creation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway blockbuster Wicked—delivers a haunting tale of shadows and phantoms and things going bump in the night, confirming his reputation as “one of contemporary fiction’s most assured myth-makers” (Kirkus Reviews).
A GoodReads Reader's Choice Bridget Jones—one of the most beloved characters in modern literature (v.g.)—is back! In Helen Fielding's wildly funny, hotly anticipated new novel, Bridget faces a few rather pressing questions: What do you do when your girlfriend’s sixtieth birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s thirtieth? Is it better to die of Botox or die of loneliness because you’re so wrinkly? Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is it normal to be too vain to put on your reading glasses when checking your toy boy for head lice? Does the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant? Is it normal to get fewer followers the more you tweet? Is technology now the fifth element? Or is that wood? If you put lip plumper on your hands do you get plump hands? Is sleeping with someone after two dates and six weeks of texting the same as getting married after two meetings and six months of letter writing in Jane Austen’s day? Pondering these and other modern dilemmas, Bridget Jones stumbles through the challenges of loss, single motherhood, tweeting, texting, technology, and rediscovering her sexuality in—Warning! Bad, outdated phrase approaching!—middle age. In a triumphant return after fourteen years of silence, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is timely, tender, touching, page-turning, witty, wise, outrageous, and bloody hilarious. TODAY Book Club Selection