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Ten-year-old Hollis finds a strange medallion that turns out to be a powerful Navajo talisman the U.S. government has been searching for since WWII. Shady government agents are in pursuit, and are willing to kill to reclaim the Nilch'i.
Childhood friends, reunited after thirty years, reopen the cold case of their murdered friend. Against the backdrop of a beautiful but cold New Hampshire winter, they uncover secrets about their neighbors that have festered for thirty years.
Off Island imagines the painter Gauguin ran away to a different island, a rugged outpost off the coast of Maine. A hundred years later, another Maine painter struggles with loyalty-to his art, his family, and his home.
Was Harold Dumphy killed to cover up something at the nuclear power plant where he was the head of security?This is what Harold's widow asks Goff Langdon, private detective, to find out.
The Power of Poison-is a tale of espionage, love, and loyalty, all meeting at the "intersection of obligation and conscience." And as always, Dr. Lily Robinson is "dressed to kill."
Four years after the end of World War II, Eli Rico is back to work as a Homicide Detective in New York city.Rico's world is a bleak and dark place as he suffers scars from the war that influence his life and his job in homicide.
Rasmussen Carter is grooming Lily Miller, a young jazz singer, to be a star. She's singing at the Greenwood-the new incarnation of the Esposito-now owned and managed by Baron Loftus, the nephew of Sweetie Bogan, an aging jazz diva. The night Lily debuts, Carter is stabbed in a fight by Sweetie Bogan's lover, Alfonso Deal-Jones. Lily then abandons Rasmussen Carter for Edward Dare, who promises to make her a real star.Carter is killed in the hospital, and Marina asks Elder Darrow, now retired from the bar business, to investigate-since his pal and Marina's soon-to-be husband, Boston Police detective Dan Burton, is still jealous of Carter and Marina's brief fling. Deal-Jones is found beaten to death, and Burton discovers Alfonso was setting up a cocaine deal with Edward Dare, the lieutenant to a major New Orleans gangster, who also happens to be "death" on drug dealing.On their own time, Elder and Burton must solve the murders of the low-rent impressario and the New Orleans gangster's right-hand man. Burton is sure there's a connection. And in the process, Elder discovers he may not be cut out for a life of leisure just yet . . .
When Sir Agravain leads a dozen knights to arrest Lancelot in the queen's chamber, he kills them all in his own defense-all except the villainous Mordred, who pushes the king to make war on the escaped Lancelot, and to burn the queen for treason. On the morning of the queen's execution, Lancelot leads an army of his supporters to scatter King Arthur's knights and rescue Guinevere from the flames, leaving several of Arthur's knights dead in their wake, including Sir Gawain's favorite brother Gareth. Gawain, chief of what is left of the Round Table knights, insists that the king besiege Lancelot and Guinevere at the castle of Joyous Gard, goading Lancelot to come and fight him in single combat.However, Merlin, examining the bodies on the battlefield, realizes that Gareth and three other knights were killed not by Lancelot's mounted army but by someone on the ground who attacked them from behind during the melee. Once again it is up to Merlin and Gildas to find the real killer of Sir Gareth before Arthur's reign is brought down completely by the warring knights, and by the machinations of Mordred, who has been left behind to rule in the king's stead.
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