This book of poems is compiled by "Akshay Sonthalia". Different writers from around the globe have sent their entities based on global pandemic CORONA, exploring the emotions and politics of locking down, fearing & dancing with death, the choices left before us, and the emerging revelations, and many more things. They write out their dread, their fear, their boredom, their adventure, their confusion, and their contentment.The quality of these poems and the absolute originality of t...

The Charleston streets are dressed for the holidays in sophisticated Southern style: topiaries adorned with red ribbons, garland entwined with white lights, and poinsettias potted in gold planters. The high class bordello in a stately historic home is certainly no exception. When Private Investigator Liz Talbot’s dear friend Olivia swears she saw a dead body in the parlor of this bordello, one Olivia accidentally co-owns, Liz promptly comes to her aid. With her wedding back home on Stella ...

Where is Kent Heyward?The twenty-three-year-old heiress from one of Charleston’s oldest families vanished a month ago. When her father hires private investigator Liz Talbot, Liz suspects the most difficult part of her job will be convincing the patriarch his daughter is tired of his overbearing nature and left town. That’s what the Charleston Police Department believes.But behind the garden walls South of Broad, family secrets pop up like weeds in the azaleas. The neighbors...

Is it coincidence or Deadly Destiny?Private Investigator Liz Talbot thinks she’s seen another ghost when she meets Calista McQueen. She’s the spitting image of Marilyn Monroe. Born exactly fifty years after the iconic bombshell, Calista's life is a déjà vu of Hollywood tragedy. And with the anniversary of Marilyn's death looming, Calista fears she's next in line for a tragic finale.As Liz investigates, suspicious characters swarm around Calista lik...

It’s Christmas on Stella Maris, and Liz Talbot and her partner Nate Andrews have hung up their PI shingles—at Mamma’s insistence. Carolyn Talbot has made it abundantly clear that her daughter and son-in-law’s investigative days are behind them.That is, until someone discovers human remains in the marsh at low tide—bones that have been hidden for thirty-five years.The victim is Paul Miller, a surfer with a shadowy past who disappeared in 1988 after marrying into the Talbot f...

Christmas in the Islands… Nate Andrews whisked the entire Talbot clan off for a holiday adventure in the U.S. Virgin Islands. As they relax on the beach of sunny St. John, Liz Talbot grapples with the secret her husband has kept since the day she met him—he’s a very wealthy man. Will all that money change everything?Meanwhile, the wild donkeys on the island follow Daddy around like he’s their leader, and Mamma has made new friends. Beverly Baker and Frankie Summey ...

USA Today Bestseller and Agatha Award Winner for Best First Novel Turning up the heat Private Investigator Liz Talbot is a modern Southern belle. She blesses hearts and takes names. She carries her Sig 9 in her Kate Spade handbag, and her golden retriever, Rhett, rides shotgun in her hybrid Escape. When her grandmother is murdered, Liz hightails it back to her South Carolina island home to find the killer. She’s fit to be tied when her brother—the chief of police—shuts her out of the inves...

An album of lavish residuals, erros is a “somewhat song . . . in the last of the light, the disassembling light.” Schuldt’s rich play with language is always aware—painfully aware, erotically aware—of its mortal stakes. These are the poems Hopkins would have written were Hopkins a skeleton, a faint web of salt on a dirty stone, a “nakeshift,” a “sakesbelieve.” And with Hopkins’s sense of humor, too: such delight in the final turning of a phrase, a body, a breath. erros is, in Schuldt’s per...

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