Obviously, they all decide to get while the getting’s good – who wants to hang around on an island with a corpse, especially when all the living souls there with you know your darkest secret? The thing is, a terrible storm blows up, preventing any boats from traveling to or from the mainland. By the time they’ve stopped reeling from the announcement, one of the guests is dead. Specifically, each one of them has committed (or contributed to) a murder. On the first evening, while they’re all finishing up dinner, a recorded voice piped into the room by gramophone accuses them all of having a guilty secret. All were brought there under similar false pretenses: an invitation from an old friend, a job offer from an agency, and so forth. Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion. (Christie herself also declared it to be the “most difficult” book she ever wrote, by the way.) (If you use an affiliate link on this page, I’ll earn a small commission – and then there were $!)
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The scream started in Rachel’s gut and felt like it traveled up her lungs and out her mouth, piercing the whole room. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Will the arrival of the new babies bring a new understanding? Or harden forever the anger that’s dividing them? but as these expectant moms do battle, hostilities erupt into a drama unlike anything Zion Hill has ever seen! Something has to give, and while Rachel contemplates everything from transferring her lifelong church membership to packing up and leaving Lester, she knows deep down God is calling her to forgiveness. After all, where can an unmarried mother-to-be go but to the Lord? Rachel has a few choice answers for exactly where Mary can go. Her baby may or may not be Lester’s, but Mary’s doing all she can to win sympathy and turn her fellow churchgoers against Rachel-even threatening to blackmail Pastor Adams with a paternity agreement. The spirited Houston congregation featured in ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s Let the Church Say Amen and Everybody Say Amen has a major scandal unfolding-and, as always, the outspoken Rachel Jackson Adams is at the heart of the drama.Īs the First Lady of Zion Hill, Rachel is not only Pastor Lester Adams’ wife-she’s currently his eight-months- pregnant wife, who’s going toe-to-toe with Lester’s onetime mistress, congregant Mary Richardson, also pregnant. To save her, Ethan will have to dodge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise. His brothers have tried to bring Ethan into the KGI fold, tried to break through the barriers he's built around himself, but Ethan refuses to respond.until he receives an anonymous phone call claiming Rachel is alive. Overwhelmed by grief and guilt over his failures as a husband, Ethan shuts himself off from everything and everyone. 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In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it – from behind their own lines.ĭespite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find. The book behind the BBC series ‘SAS: Rogue Warriors’įrom the secret SAS archives, and acclaimed author Ben Macintyre: the first ever authorized history of the SAS Lizzie Pickering – Author Signing and Talk.A Year in Books – Reading Subscriptions.Reading Together – Books for Book Clubs. 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It turns out that she’s a descendant of HP Lovecraft himself, and Carter’s a descendant of someone everyone thought was a fictional character of Lovecraft’s, and when things get weird and people start dying, Carter and Lovecraft have to work together to figure out what’s going on. It’s being run by Hill’s niece, who is very startled to learn that the store was left to a stranger and not to her. He drives to Providence to see the property the mystery man left to him, and is surprised to find out it’s a bookstore. One problem: he’s never heard of Alfred Hill. He’s settling into the Keith Mars life when an attorney shows up at his office, telling him he’s been named as the sole beneficiary of Alfred Hill, who’s been missing for seven years and was just legally declared dead. We read the Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories for the December meeting (Lovecraft was not a great person or a great writer – so many flowery adjectives! – but I was glad to know the backstory behind the beastie that’s taken over the internet), so this was a nice companion piece.ĭan Carter is a cop, but retires to become a PI when a child kidnapping case goes wrong, leading to the death of the bad guy and also Carter’s partner. I never would have picked this up on my own, but it was the January pick for my library sci-fi book club, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Books like this are why I like book clubs. Amy Jo, or AJ as she calls herself now, is one of his little sister Keely’s best friends. His ex-wife is long gone, and he’s been alone since then. And yes, it was often difficult to keep the one-syllable characters (the actual ones, not the joke ones) distinct from one another, especially when they were part of a “all holes filled with hard cock” scene.īut let’s discuss the Cowgirl and her ride, shall we?Ĭord, the hero of this novel, is a divorced single dad who helps run the family ranch. I’m not sure if I can handle the multi-partner sex scene between Crap, Clap, Crud, and Kock. Kale and Corn might both be in the closet for one another, and Kern is definitely a cowboy-cum-computer-programmer, but we’ll have to see what happens in the next few books. I have it on good authority that the following names will appear in the next Lorelei James cowboy erotica novel, seeing as Cody, Cade, Kane, and Colt are all taken: Publication Info: Sam Hain Publishing 2008 The tree bears fruit only when she whispers a lie to it. In pursuit of justice and revenge, Faith hunts through her father's possessions and discovers a strange tree. And she knows, when her father is discovered dead shortly thereafter, that he was murdered. She knows that her family moved to the close-knit island of Vane because her famous scientist father was fleeing a reputation-destroying scandal. She knows secrets no one suspects her of knowing. But inside, Faith is full of questions and curiosity, and she cannot resist mysteries: an unattended envelope, an unlocked door. To most people, she is reliable, dull, trustworthy - a proper young lady who knows her place as inferior to men. Listen to this thought-provoking, critically acclaimed novel from Frances Hardinge, winner of the Costa Book of the Year and Costa Children's Book Awards.įaith Sunderly leads a double life. 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Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. /rebates/2f97804340092132fLong-Dark-Tea-Time-Soul-Adams-04340092102fplp&. “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "as pretty as an airport". |