Publisher: Mushroom eBooks
John Newman’s family has a secret, a huge secret, with a responsibility that affects everyone. And when John takes control of the family business, his actions will have world spanning repercussions. Newman is an unusual and utterly enthralling family saga - a scathing but hopeful story of ordinary people caught up in both crime and political and governmental corruption.
A lawyer who was set up, imprisoned, and disbarred, only to be vindicated and reinstated, is determined to find out who set her up and cover their tracks with a trail of dead bodies. This program is read by Thérèse Plummer, winner of multiple Audie and Earphone awards.Defense Attorney Karen Wyatt exposed corruption in the police force and the district attorney's office while getting her client exonerated in court. But in doing so, she put a target on her back and she was set up on a fake drug charge, imprisoned and disbarred until the conspiracy unraveled and her innocence was proven. Now reinstated to the bar, Wyatt is still interested in finding out who ordered her to be framed, but the key figures were either killed or are in witness protection. In the meantime, Wyatt is a practicing defense attorney, whose current client is either guilty of a heinous murder or is a too-trusting patsy for a crime he didn't commit. It will take all of Wyatt's genius to defend her client successfully—but that's just one piece of an increasingly complex puzzle.With a deadly criminal drug gang, a powerful, corrupt figure hiding in the D.A.'s office, and a congressman who turned up with an unbelievable story after disappearing for days, False Witness is a twisty, breathtaking, unpredictable thriller."...a gripping audiobook read flawlessly by Thérèse Plummer. Plummer's ability to enhance author Phillip Margolin's characters and dialogue keeps the listener focused from start to finish." —AudioFile on Murder at Black Oaks (Earphones Award winner)JT - "[Thérèse] Plummer voices a wide range of multidimensional characters and infuses each one with nuanced distinctions and unique identifiers. Listeners will be hooked!" —AudioFile on A Matter of Life and DeathA Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur BooksShow book
Obsession is forever.When seventeen-year-old Ariana runs away from her foster home she finds herself living with the Willens family and looking after Daniel, their twelve-year-old son.Daniel is sensitive and brilliant—the most brilliant person Ariana has ever met. The two of them forge an extraordinary bond—and Ariana vows she will protect Daniel, now and forever.But then their lives are torn apart by a horrifying tragedy. Forcibly separated, they do not see each other for ten years.Now Daniel has come back into Ariana's life and the dark secrets they share begin to surface, threatening to destroy everything she has built for herself.Can Ariana escape the ghosts of the past? Or does Daniel's reappearance mean that deeds long buried must now play out to their terrifying conclusion—plunging her into a waking nightmare from which there may be no escape?Show book
Someone is killing fairy godmothers in Cinderella... Can Miss Clara Vale crack the case before the clock strikes twelve?1929, December: Snow is falling, and Miss Clara Vale is wrapped up against the cold as she braves the icy streets of Newcastle in her latest investigation.When a young actress from the touring pantomime of Cinderella arrives at her door, Clara isn't sure what to make of her request. Sybil Langford, the legendary fairy godmother in their production, has mysteriously vanished. Could Clara help track her down?But a few days into Clara's search, Sybil's body is pulled from an icy river, and Clara finds herself in the middle of yet another murder mystery.With scheming stepsisters waiting in the wings, handsome princes who aren't all they seem, and clues as elusive as glass slippers, Clara will need every one of her scientific skills to catch the killer...And when Sybil's replacement meets her own tragic end, Clara is in a race against time before the murderer sends a third cast member to their unhappily ever after...Show book
Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on 22nd May 1859. His childhood was blighted by his father’s heavy drinking which for some years broke up the family. Fortunately, wealthy uncles were willing to support them by paying for education and clothing. He was accepted at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine and also began to write short stories the first, ‘The Haunted Grange of Goresthorpe’, was published in Blackwood’s Magazine. Despite several other stories and some articles in the British Medical Journal his medical studies took priority. When these finished he was appointed as Doctor on the Greenland whaler ‘Hope of Peterhead’ in 1880 and then, after graduation, as ship’s surgeon on the SS Mayumba on its voyage to West Africa. 1882 saw a move to Plymouth and his own independent practice. With few patients he resumed writing and completed his first novel, ‘The Mystery of Cloomber’, although most of his output was short stories based on his experiences at sea. He married Louisa Hawkins in 1885. However, two years later he met and fell in love with Jean Elizabeth Leckie, though they remained platonic out of respect for, and loyalty to, his wife. His literary career suddenly burst into life in November 1886 with ‘A Study In Scarlet’, the first of the fabulously successful Sherlock Holmes stories. With two children to support he now revisited his haphazard commercial arrangements and curtailed everything save for commissions from the Strand Magazine. As a sportsman he was remarkably proficient. He was goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club and played ten first-class cricket matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club as well as captain of the Crowborough Beacon Golf Club in East Sussex. In 1891 tired of writing Holmes stories, he began a series of historical novels and even went so far as to apparently kill off Holmes in a lethal brawl with his arch-nemesis Moriarty. Despite heavy and sustained criticism he continued to write in support of the Boer War, a fact he thought contributed to his knighthood in 1902. The following year to great relief and acclaim he brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead in his first outing for a decade. Sadly, his wife Louisa died from TB in 1906 and, a year later, he at last married Jean. During the War and for several years after family deaths had left him depressed. In a search for solace and answers he alighted upon spiritualism and, such was his interest, that he wrote several books on the subject. On 7th July 1930 Conan Doyle was discovered in the hall of Windlesham Manor, his house in East Sussex, clutching his chest dying of a heart attack. He was 71.Show book
Lies, infidelity, and murder...what is a little mayhem among friends?Show book
WINNER: First Place 2023 Writer's Digest Independent E-Book Awards for for Science Fiction. Numbers don’t lie. But people do. Math genius Boogie Wu struggles to redeem her slandered reputation by pushing the boundaries of her mind in a Zen monastery until she unlocks the secret of an ancient mathematical conjecture. Little does she know that her groundbreaking solution becomes the key to her former employer Magenta Corporation's most disruptive technology: a job-taking AI service in the cloud that thinks by simulating connections of the human brain. When Boogie discovers whose brain Magenta is simulating, she must confront the ethical and spiritual consequences of a technology that doesn’t just think, but feels. As it becomes clear that profit is only the start of Magenta’s world-resetting ambition, to prevent them tipping the world into chaos that only an enhanced digital mind can resolve, she will have to solve a new kind of equation, one whose only solution equals danger. Selected Reader Reviews: ✭✭✭✭✭ "If ChatGPT had a villain origin story, this would be it" - Deborah N. ✭✭✭✭✭ "Crackling near-term, hard-SF dawn-of-AGI novel. More ideas per page than any book I've read in ages... Rather than worrying about whether AI understands in a way that would satisfy a philosopher, he asks whether they feel in a way that would terrify an ethicist." - Harry S. ✭✭✭✭✭ "This distinctly creative, imaginative, and profound debut novel will delight fans of sci-fi, thrillers/suspense stories, technothrillers, and cyberpunk". - Terri Stepek for Reader Views ✭✭✭✭✭ "Hits the zeitgeist in a big way." - Jennifer Hill for Reedsy DiscoveryShow book
