In Morgan, South Carolina, murder isn't supposed to happen.When small-town shopkeeper Amos Dunn is found dead in his convenience store, local police chalk it up to a robbery gone wrong. The headlines are brief, the public shrugs, and the town of Morgan slips back into the comforting quiet it knows so well.But Tillie James knows better.The sharp-eyed housekeeper for Professor Sidney Lake refuses to believe the official story. Something about the crim...

Genealogy and a treasure hunt can lead to... murder.The day had darkened, and when two children at the library hide under a table during a storm, they overhear something more ominous than the rumbling outside. Strangers talking about stealing treasure.What, exactly, had the children heard?Soon, people are murdered, and the connections start to become more defined between a centuries-old secret kept by a former slave and the killings happening today. But wha...

Accidents happen in the waters of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Professor Sidney Lake knows this and although he has regret for a life cut short, he doesn't think twice about George Reed's drowning. But his Gullah housekeeper, Tillie James, has other ideas. Insistent that this was no accident, and equally insistent that George's wife Becky is not to blame, she tells him something must be done.Tillie says that despite the coroner and the police declaring George's death as not suspi...

When Sidney Lake learned the author's copy of Anne Brontë's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall had been stolen, he firmly believed he would never see it again, much less hold it in his hands. But there it was. In the hands of an appraiser at the National Arts And Crafts Show. Could it be the same three-volume first edition of the book? He had to find out.Assembling his experienced team of investigators, they begin searching for the appraiser, who is believed to be from Savannah, Geor...

A fun, common sense approach to sports from the perspective of someone who LOVES it and wants it to be BETTER than it already is for everyone young and old. Written in hopes of bringing people together to discuss sports topics past, present, fun and serious. If you decide to read it, I can assure you that it will make you think whether you agree or disagree with what is written. I hope that you find a chapter or two in which you DON'T agree with me or the book wasn't worth writing. Most im...

Silly servant girl, no one cares about saving the villain.Blaise wasn't supposed to be the villain, but now Nox is gone, and Blaise will stop at nothing to get him back—even if that means betraying everyone she holds dear.Meanwhile, Asha can't shake the feeling that Az is closing in on her. After all, he's been two steps ahead of her and Kiran from the beginning. All she can do is hope he stays too focused on opening the Rip to learn the truth: Az ...

Auf einer Vortragsreise in Holland wird Professor Jean Duclos' Gastgeber Conrad Popinga erschossen, und ausgerechnet Duclos wurde mit der Tatwaffe in der Hand gesehen. Als Maigret in der Hafenstadt Delfzijl ankommt, muss er erst einmal einer Kuh beim Kalben helfen. Bei seinen Ermittlungen werden ihm einige Steine in den Weg gelegt: nicht nur von den niederländischen Kollegen, auch vom vermeintlichen Täter, der den Fall lieber selbst lösen möchte. Noch dazu Maigret der Landessprache nicht m...

Discover the nearly unbelievable true story of how a goofy catchphrase spoken by a coach's dying daughter inspired the 1992 Pittsburgh Pirates in game seven of the National League Championship Series and later became a sign from heaven to a grieving family at the end of game seven of the 1997 World Series.As a Major League Baseball coach, Rich Donnelly was dedicated, hardworking, and successful. But as a husband and father, he was distant, absent, and a failure. He...

The birth of an alliance that changed the course of history.From the bestselling author of Fortress Malta this is the second book in the Mediterranean war trilogy. This audiobook looks afresh at the conflict in Northern Africa, focusing for the first time on the involvement of the US and the way this early collaboration to defeat Rommel shaped the whole Anglo-American axis for the rest of the war in Europe.By June 1942, Britain had reached her lowest ebb. Her military comma...

Debauched, divorced, and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living in this bleak and violent glimpse into the psyche of a thoroughly ruined man. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father—comedian is the only title Schafer has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray knows the answer to the ques...

Die beiden jungen Wanderer Arthur Munro und sein Freund Jack Anderson aus Amerika bereisen Schottland, das Land der Ahnen der Munros. Da Schottland als Land von Sagen und Geschichten gilt, ist es nicht verwunderlich, dass ihnen in einem Wirtshaus der alte Sandy Magruder eine Spukgeschichte auftischt, die ihren Ursprung in der Ruine des benachbarten Bludmanton Castle hat. Jack ist entzückt. Er möchte unbedingt die Ruine erkunden und zeichnen, und auch Arthur hat nichts gegen eine kleine Unt...

Als sich an einem unbehaglichen Dezembertag des Jahres 1856 der Geschäftsmann und Reisende William Langford doch noch ärgerlicherweise ein schon für sich geglaubtes privates Abteil des Vier-Fünfzehn-Schnellzugs mit einem weitläufigen Bekannten teilen muss, ahnt er noch nicht, dass diese Begegnung ihn alsbald in ein unerklärliches Rätsel involvieren wird ... Ein Rätsel, an dem sich die englische Polizei bereits seit Monaten die Zähne ausbeißt ...