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  The Last Sixty Minutes - A...

  Susan Glaspell

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  Susan Keating Glaspell was born on July 1st, 1876 in Davenport, Iowa.  
   
  Glaspell, a precocious child, was an active student at Davenport High School.  By 18 she was earning a salary at the local newspaper as a journalist, and by 20 she was the author of a weekly 'Society' column.  
   
  At 21 she enrolled for Philosophy at Drake University, in Des Moines, where she excelled in debate competitions, and represented them at the state tournament.  
   
  After graduation, Glaspell again worked as a reporter, still a rare position for a woman, and assigned to cover the state legislature and murder cases. 
   
  At 24, after covering the conviction of a woman accused of murdering her abusive husband, Glaspell abruptly resigned and returned to Davenport, and a career writing fiction.  Her stories were published by periodicals, including Harper's and Munsey's.  
   
  In 1909, moving to Chicago she wrote her debut novel, ‘The Glory of the Conquered’. It was a best-seller. So too her 2nd and 3rd and to glowing reviews. 
   
  With her husband Glaspell founded the Provincetown Playhouse for plays that reflected contemporary issues. Her first play, ‘Trifles’ (1916), was based on the murder trial she covered as a young reporter and later adapted as the short story ‘A Jury of Her Peers’.  She wrote 12 plays over 7 years for the company. By 1918 Glaspell was considered one of America's most significant new playwrights. Despite its success theatre work did not make financial sense and she continued to submit short stories in order to support her and her husband during their years with the theater.  
   
  In 1931 her play, ‘Alison's House’, received the Pulitzer Prize.  She continued to write and now with themes increasingly based on her surroundings, on family life, and on theistic questions. 
   
  Susan Keating Glaspell died of viral pneumonia in Provincetown, Massachusetts on 28th July 1948.

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  The Lady in the Park

  David Reynolds

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  Clever, humane, affectionate and realistic crime writing at its best.  Maxim Jakubowski.  Introducing a unique and unorthodox crime solving duo - ex Met DI Jim Domino, and his inquisitive six-year-old grandson, Danny.  When a woman is found unconscious on a ping-pong table in Peckham's Warwick Gardens, it looks like a case of mistaken identity. Why would anyone want to injure this popular local mum of six? But Jim Domino, retired CID detective turned private eye, keeps asking questions. As the crime escalates to murder, Domino's investigations take him to the leafy Thames Valley, and plunge him into a dark world of ruthless people-traffickers and drug dealers. How might these sinister activities be linked to the Peckham murder? Assisted by sharp observations from his six-year-old grandson, Danny, Domino finds that important clues can come from unexpected sources.  The Lady in the Park is about the good in most people, and about love, grief and childhood. The first in an exciting new crime fiction series, it weaves a diverse cast of characters into a twisty immersive plot that will leave readers craving for more investigations featuring the inimitable Jim Domino and his young sidekick, Danny.

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  The Hunted

  Gabriel Bergmoser

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  Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide - an electrifying, heartpounding, truly unputdownable thriller - a bestselling debut from talented newcomer, Gabriel Bergmoser. 
    
  'A truly terrifying, breathlessly exciting novel. It gut punches you in the first few pages and doesn't let you recover until the final, thrilling climax. An extraordinary book.' M W Craven 
  'An original and high-octane read, it makes Deliverance look like Picnic at Hanging Rock.' The Times/Sunday Times Crime Club 
  Frank is a service station owner on a little-used highway who just wants a quiet life. His granddaughter has been sent to stay with him to fix her attitude, but they don't talk a lot. 
  When a badly injured young woman arrives at Frank's service station with several cars in pursuit, Frank and a handful of unsuspecting customers are thrust into a life-or-death standoff. 
  But who are this group of men and women who will go to any lengths for revenge? And what do they want? Other than no survivors ...? 
  A ferociously fast-paced, filmic, visceral, tense and utterly electric novel, unlike anything you've read before. Set on a lonely, deserted highway, deep in the Australian badlands, The Hunted is white-knuckle suspense matched to the fast-paced adrenaline of a Jack Reacher novel and the creeping menace of Wake in Fright. This is unmissable reading. 
  'This slice of outback noir is .... at once exhilarating, gleefully vicious and totally, race-to-the-finish-line unputdownable' Observer 
  'An audacious walk on the wildest side of outback noir ... a vivid thriller.' Sydney Morning Herald 
  'A perfectly paced, thrilling read with an unrelenting sense of dread and menace ...building suspense at every turn of the page. Crime and thriller readers will love this savage Rottweiler of a novel that will clamp its jaws around their throat and shake them to the end.' Bookseller+Publisher 
  'Tough, violent, suspenseful and peopled with great characters,The Hunted could well be the Australian thriller of the year. This is Jack Reacher for adults.' Canberra Weekly

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  The Cask of Amontillado - A...

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  REVENGE HAS A VOICE—AND IT’S CALLING YOUR NAME! Welcome to the world of The Cask of Amontillado—a bone-chilling tale of deception, terror, and cold-blooded vengeance. Step into the twisted mind of Montresor, a man consumed by hatred, whose thirst for revenge will leave you breathless. FEEL your pulse quicken as he lures his unsuspecting victim INTO THE DARK, suffocating catacombs, where the air thickens with every breath. The walls close in as the tension builds—each step drawing you closer to an UNIMAGINABLE FATE. With every sentence, Poe’s genius will send chills down your spine, pulling you deeper into a nightmare of his creation. The haunting imagery, the merciless suspense— it’s a rollercoaster of pure fear. LISTEN NOW, and let the terror of The Cask of Amontillado grip you, DRAGGING YOU DEEPER into a world of cold, calculated horror. This is NO ordinary story—it’s a descent into madness that WILL haunt you long after the final word. DARE YOU FACE THE DARKNESS?

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  As You Look

  Verónica Gutiérrez

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  Former LAPD cop turned private investigator Yolanda Ávila blames herself for her mother's death. If she'd only followed her cop instincts instead of the juju—her random prophetic dreams—the perpetrator would have been off the streets and her mother would still be alive. The only salve against her guilt is Yolanda's vow to reject that juju crap, and to solve cases using only good solid detective work. 
   
   
   
  But when her godson is kidnapped and his parents are suspected of murder, Yolanda finds herself caught between what she feels and what she knows. And with the escalation of the case comes the escalation of her dreams. Until she can no longer ignore their importance. 
   
   
   
  If she wants to overcome the guilt and deal with her pent-up grief, Yolanda must confront the juju and learn to trust its place in her life. If she doesn't, she risks losing yet another loved one. And she can't possibly let that happen.

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  Who Am I Kitten

  Corrine Winters

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  When a killer cold as ice is on the loose, there will be no quarter kitten . . . 
   
   
   
  Fortysomething witch Ruby Diamond and her big-mouthed feline pal Rumpus return for another midlife magic and mayhem mystery. Ruby's just trying to live her best life in her cozy coastal town in Connecticut—and make time with the handsome merman Chief of Police John Miller—when she gets a little extra protein with her fresh cod . . . 
   
   
   
  A severed human finger. 
   
   
   
  Ruby, John, and Rumpus must search for the cold-blooded killer while being embroiled in hot-blooded scandal. The upper crust of Fiddler's Cove have secrets they want to protect . . . 
   
   
   
  But are those secrets worth killing for? 
   
   
   
  Meanwhile, Ruby must contend with a rebellious teen apprentice, her burgeoning feelings for John, and the machinations of a stubborn foe who just doesn't know how to stay dead. Will Ruby and her familiar Rumpus solve the case and catch the killer in time? What can we say . . . 
   
   
   
  It's all up to the powers cat be . . .

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