Hyacinth’s boring (and lonely) life flips upside down the day her cat, Max, tricks her into travelling through a portal to another world.But in the whimsical land of LaWardia, he’s no feline—he’s a brawny pirate and he knows way more about her than he’s letting on.Hyacinth soon realizes she isn’t who she thought she was, thanks to a bag of magic marbles, a mysterious itch, an enchanted boat—oh, and a family that’s hunting her down.As she flees, travelling i...

Juan Artolabe is seventy, enormously wealthy, and one of Bizkaia's most powerful businessmen. More than a hundred guests have gathered at Bilbao's Hotel Carlton to celebrate him. Family. Friends. Business associates. The city's elite. Then Artolabe disappears from his own party. By the time he is found in the hotel's men's room, he is dead. For Subinspector Ana Larburu and the Ertzaintza's Criminal Investigation Unit, there is no shortage of suspects. The crime scene has been compromised. ...

Everyone always said Grace was weird. An albino abandoned at birth, anti-social, and selectively intelligent, she’s never had a friend. Now at 23, she lives alone and quietly runs a dojo in Toronto. But beneath her stony exterior, somehow she’s always known that something— or someone— was coming for her.The night she meets the quirky Tomiko, everything changes. As they meet three more women, (Julia, Hope and Paetra), one by one they awaken and uncover memories of Fieres, a breathta...

It's the year 1949. The second Worl War is over. Homicide Detective Johnny Vero has been promoted to Lieutenant as a result of capturing serial killer, Jean-Paul Vincent the previous year (from first in this series, Ten Cents a Dance). Now in this crime thriller, a one time freight ship captain, Griff, now smuggles opium and Chinese women into New York's Chinatown. Murders are mounting as suspicions include the Chinese factions, undercover detectives, and the Medical Examiner's office. In ...

Immigrating from Europe, and many years of hardship, Betsy did not want the struggles her parents endured running a bakery in NYC. After their death, Betsy sold the bakery, eventually saving enough money to be trained in Paris before becoming an accomplished culinary and pastry chef. She soon discovered that life gets in the way when you're making plans. Set in the 1940s, Betsy, tired of slinging Blue Plate specials at the Crosstown Diner, takes what she thinks is a vacation to pa...

Ten Cents a Dance takes us on a hunt for an obsessed serial killer with a strange biblical fascination. Homicide Detective, Johnny Vero, travels to France & workds with Interpol to hunt this serial killer that targets dance hall girls who charge ten cents for a 3 minute dance. The story takes a bizarre turn when it is discovered they are murdered in the Budapest Hotel in certain room numbers which have biblial meanings to the killer.

Homicide detective, Johnny Vero, hunts a serial killer who targets dance hall women who charge a fee of ten cents for a 3 minute spin on the dance floor. They are murdered in the Budapest Hotel in certain room numbers which have biblical meanings as to why the killer chooses these rooms. Detective Vero travels to France and works with Interpol to capture the killer.

Lester Caine, retired as a highly decorated New York City Lieutenant Detective after twenty-five-years is now in the Private Eye cop business settling in West Palm Beach Florida. He thought it was the perfect place for him, his Cadillac convertible and the tanned socialites of Palm Beach. The PI business drew Lester into the shadowy side of murder.With Gloria Saville, known as Scarecrow, they must help the Police solve the murder of Circuit Court Judge Desmond Vanderbilt, who was o...

The Sabre Blue Society (SASBO) is a fictitious arm of the NYPD created by author, fred berri. He created this as a specialized elite unit that deals far beyond the depths of the department's undercover and Internal Affairs brothers in blue. The mission of the Sabre Blue Society is to engage and address high-priority issues such as international organized crime, arms control, intelligence, and a broad range of criminal activities that affect the security of New York. Their jurisdiction reac...

The Dark Side of the MoonA Lester Caine Private Eye Novel--------------------------------------------fred berr's Lester Caine hard-boild noir fiction, finds the detective tracking another murderer. Someone hung the Silver Screen's top female box office attraction from the balcony of her Palm Beach mansion. Lester Caine and his associate, Scarecrow, must hunt a murderer from the Florida beaches to the glitter and sometimes sinister make-believe world of a foreign fil...

This is the eBook version of the printed book.This Element is an excerpt from Stumbling On Wins: Two Economists Expose the Pitfalls on the Road to Victory in Professional Sports (9780132357784) by David J. Berri and Martin B. Schmidt. Available in print and digital formats.Can sports decision-makers keep making the same mistakes for decades? Yes–and here’s the proof.In 1997, the Oakland A’s ranked toward the bottom in Major League Baseball, in both team pay...

Lester Caine, a highly decorated New York City Detective Lieutenant, retired after twenty-five years, now in the Private Eye cop business, is living in West Palm Beach Florida. He thought it was the prefect place for him, his Cadillac convertible and the tanned socialites of Palm Beach. The murder of Palm Beach Judge Desmond Vanderbilt (from book one, Lester Caine Private Eye-Murder on Palm Beach) drew Lester into the dark side of hunting a Nazi war criminal. With Gloria Saville, known as ...