Editora: Legend Press
Mark Rowley is the former head of UK Counter-Terrorism and has continued involvement in the national policy debate. Mark drew on his experience of major police investigations, COBRA meetings and encounters with cabinet ministers and the PM.
Mason Sharpe has some lethal skills. In this little town, he’s going to need them. On a dark Alabama highway, army veteran Mason Sharpe witnesses a terrible accident. As he fights to rescue a woman from the burning vehicle he notices one of her eyes is bright blue, the other deep brown. Then, she vanishes. Gone without a trace. When Mason describes her to local police, they’re stunned. His description matches one Delia Crawford, famed for her unusual eyes. But Delia disappeared as a child, eleven years prior. How could she possibly show up in a car accident now? But Mason knows what he saw. His gut tells him something deeply sinister is going down, and Delia Crawford is somehow involved. Why will none of the locals talk about Delia? Why is one mining company still turning big profits in a town crippled by the industry’s decline? And why is Mason being followed by two shady characters in a pitch black pickup truck? Like a hunting dog on the scent, he digs deep to uncover the grim truth — and comes to the attention of some very violent men. They want him gone, but he’s not going anywhere. Push Mason into a corner, and he’ll push right back. All the way to the End Game.Ver livro
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the last of the twelve collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in June 1892.Violet Hunter visits Holmes, asking whether she should accept a job as governess; a job with very strange conditions. She is enticed by the phenomenal salary which, as originally offered, is £100 a year, later increased to £120 when Miss Hunter baulks at having to cut her long hair short (her previous position paid £48 a year). This is only one of many peculiar provisos to which she must agree. The employer, Jephro Rucastle, seems pleasant enough, yet Miss Hunter obviously has her suspicions.She announces to Holmes, after the raised salary offer, that she will take the job, and Holmes suggests that if he is needed, a telegram will bring him to Hampshire, where Mr Rucastle's country estate, the Copper Beeches, is situated.After a fortnight, Holmes receives such a message, beseeching him to come and see her in Winchester. Miss Hunter tells them one of the most singular stories that they have ever heard. Mr. Rucastle would sometimes have Miss Hunter wear a particular electric blue dress and sit in the front room reading, with her back to the front window. She began to suspect that she was not supposed to see something outside the window, and a small mirror shard hidden in her handkerchief showed her that she was right: there was a man standing there on the road looking towards the house.Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle's: "A Study in Scarlet", "Silver Blaze", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Yellow Face", "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed League", A Case of Identity", "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", "The Five Orange Pips", "The Man with the Twisted Lip", "The Blue Carbuncle", "The Speckled Band", "The Engineer's Thumb", "The Noble Bachelor", "The Beryl Coronet", "The Copper Beeches" and many more.Ver livro
🧵 Quilt shop owner and master quilter Penny Patchwork is preparing for the annual Quilt Show when the town's most competitive quilter is found dead in her shop—wrapped in a mysterious quilt that doesn't match any known pattern. The police suspect natural causes, but Penny recognizes the quilt as a rare "code quilt" used by the Underground Railroad and notices the stitching contains a hidden message. With her shop under suspicion and the quilting community in turmoil, Penny must piece together an investigation as complex as a double wedding ring pattern. Assisted by her quilting bee friends and the handsome textile historian researching local quilt codes, Penny uncovers a scheme involving stolen antique quilts, fabric forgery, and a secret quilt appraisal scam. From suspicious thread choices that reveal modern tampering to block patterns that form a treasure map, every stitch tells a story. But when Penny discovers the victim was blackmailing fellow quilters about their family secrets hidden in heirloom quilts, she realizes the killer is protecting a legacy more valuable than any antique textile. With the quilt show just days away and the real culprit still stitching deception, Penny must unravel this patchwork of lies before her own pattern is permanently cut short.Ver livro
A whisper on the wind tells of murderous intent. An assassin prepares in the highlands. Can new operative Kirsten Stewart hunt down the killer before they strike at the heart of Scotland’s democracy. Having left the Highlands murder team behind and joined the shadowy world of the secret services, former DC Kirsten Stewart overhears a plot that strikes to the very core of Scotland’s governance. As the stakes get higher and Kirsten becomes cut off from her superiors, can she stop the assassin before they eliminate their prime target. In her first solo mission, Kirsten Stewart finds herself in deep shadow and in receipt of disturbing news. Only by remaining incommunicado can she find out the intentions of a killer and stop the murder of Scotland’s top politician. Will former boss DI Macleod’s faith in her be justified or will she watch the deadliest attack on Scotland’s democracy happen on her watch? To work without a net, you must face the fear of falling!Ver livro
There are all kinds of crazy, but there's only one Yukon Madness. And Royal Mountie Tommy McKenna has seen the terror that follows in its wake... his partner murdered and fed to a pack of wolves. Bent on revenge, McKenna sets out to find the madman who did it, and there's only one way to get him — through his girlfriend. But whose side is she on? The trap has been set. The question is, who is the predator and who is the prey? Listen to the howling of wolves and feel the icy chill of fear as the audio version of Yukon Madness answers the real call of the wild.Ver livro
Billie Jo Higgins may be small, but she is a skilled burglar, using her craft to keep her and Toby, her addict twin brother, afloat in a hard world. It is a difficult life, but the two are surviving. They take care of each other. Then B.J. stumbles into the wrong house at the wrong time and sees something she shouldn't. The explosive secret she now holds is dangerous, and the person it threatens immediately pursues B.J. with the solitary intent of silencing her forever. Suddenly, "survival" takes on a whole new meaning... *Book #4 in the SpoCompton SeriesVer livro
