THE RIMLEY RENDEZOUS was a back-street bistro where a tired businessman could drop in for a pick-up, no questions asked.The cover charge was steep, Blackmail was the major part of the tab. It was a lucrative business—until a murderer cut into the profits...and left his weapon in Donald Lam's car.The famous team of COOL and LAM at their fast-moving, quick-thinking best."Many enthusiasts like Erle Stanley Gardner even better in his disguise as A. A. Fair"

“My last secretary was thirty-five,” old M. said gloomily, “and no more sense than a child of ten. Or else she wasn’t all there. You all there?” he asked suddenly, giving Maud a searching look. “No banging your head on the table? No throwing the china at me? Hey?”Young Maud has made her escape from an overbearing stepmother and come to stay with her cousin Alice and Alice’s companion Miss Conway in the countryside. Alice and “Con” have arranged a job for her as secretary t...

An extremely well-written, compassionate guide for the millions of people who come face to face with a death in their own familiesWhen a brother or sister dies, surviving siblings often receive little support or recognition of their pain. But their grief is real, and there is a way to recover from it. Through intimate, true stories and interviews with brothers and sisters who have lost a sibling, expert-on-grief Katherine Fair Donnelly provides valuable insight on h...

A motivation book to help build inner confidence, While learning new ways to look at situitions,

Joshua always thought he'd stay in the military for life. Months after leaving his last enlistment and still young, he can't adjust to the civilian life he never wanted. When a simple search-and-rescue request spirals into an investigation around a missing person and the only witness is in a coma, Joshua finds himself paired up with the interminable Meyer. Meyer just won't leave Joshua alone... and soon Joshua is hoping Meyer never leaves at all. How can he reconcile wanting this man with ...

Victor Kazakovich—the youngest offspring of the Fangs, the outcast bloodline—emerges in a village replaced with shallow graves and his father's grinning face. Upon witnessing his father's grim actions, he grows uncertain of his family's true fate and embarks down a bloody path in search of their whereabouts. His path of destruction and vengeance only leads him to his childhood best friend, Leon D'Amate. Heartbroken and betrayed, Victor explodes into a bloody siege, still determined to secu...

She wondered how Lady Masters got her old parlour maid to carry the coffee right across the lawn. But, of course, Lady Masters got things simply by always having had them and by taking it for granted that she always would have them.In Bramton Wick, the setting of Elizabeth Fair’s cheerful debut novel, tensions and resentments—not to mention romance—roil beneath the polite interactions of its charming and eccentric residents.There’s upper crust Lady Masters, taking ...

Lee Carter has spent a lifetime running from echoes.Once a gifted songwriter with a voice full of ache and truth, Lee now lives in silence at the edge of the Tennessee woods—surrounded by dust, regret, and memories he can’t outrun. But when a pull from deep within urges him to write one final song, Lee begins a journey he never expected—not toward fame or forgiveness, but toward something far more sacred: honesty.As old wounds resurface and long-silenced truths come to ligh...

Perhaps you've been to counseling for years – or maybe you've never sought outside help. Either way, you know there are fears, insecurities, emotional blockages that have kept you from living truly free. You're tired of it and want more. Congratulations! You hold in your hands a guide to help you on your path to true freedom, a path that can lead you safely into true emotional wholeness. You experience unresolved pain and multiple layers of self-protection called defense mechanisms, that l...

An extremely well-written, compassionate guide for the millions of people who come face to face with a death in their own familiesLosing a parent is a traumatic blow, and the grief can seem unbearable. But you are not alone, and you can get through this. In this first book dedicated to the experience of adults who have lost a parent, expert-on-grief Katherine Fair Donnelly shares intimate, telling interviews with surviving sons and daughters, and presents practical ...

At the end of the war, Mrs. Midge stayed on. While the war lasted Mrs. Custance had accepted her as part of the war-effort; it was only in the past year or two that Mrs. Midge had been transferred to the category which Mrs. Custance described as “people we could manage without.”Elizabeth Fair’s rollicking second novel takes place in Little Mallin, where village life is largely dominated by preparations for the August Festival. Out of such ordinary material Fair weaves a ta...

Looking back she could not remember when she had settled down to mere existence, no longer expecting any changes in the pattern-let alone something as extraordinary as Mrs. Gamalion's legacy.Charlotte Moley, long brow-beaten by her rather stodgy grown daughter Alison and very traditional mother, has been brought to the coastal town of Nything by an unexpected inheritance. The flamboyantly larger-than-life Mrs. Gamalion, who many years before had swept into the newly-widowe...