Jack McCormac delivers his signature wit in a new Sketching Detective mystery. This time, Jack McKay and his wife Fiona are headed to Edisto Island, South Carolina. As always, mystery and murder follow them to the delightful beach community. Jack has the strong opinion that the Edisto Beach officials should place the following sign at the entrance to the island. WARNING DANGER The United States Government warns people visiting this area of the danger of theft. This island may very well ste...

The Sketching Detective, by Jack McCormac, is a detective novel for the twenty-first century, full of surprises, wit, and intelligence. Jack McKay, a university professor, is going to put his unlikely detective skills to use once again after solving the case of the murdered showgirland almost ending his marriage. This time, the doubting police chief, Fat Joe, asks for Jacks help in uncovering the murderer of Sam Campbell, a grouchy, miserly neighbor of Jacks. Jack wants to refuse to help t...

Upon arriving at his university office one morning, Jack MacKay finds the body of a former boyfriend of his wife, Fiona, lying on his desk with a bullet hole in his back. The murdered man was Billy Bell, the owner of the Bell Bond Company and a former professional football player. Eventually, Jack and Fiona overcame the polices suspicion that Jack was involved in the murder. They learn that the computer theft of bitcoins is in some way involved in the death. Together with Billys wife, who ...

The Witches’ Tree continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin mystery series—now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.Cotswolds inhabitants are used to inclement weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Devere, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They strain to see the road ahead—and then suddenly brake, screeching to a halt. Right in fro...

New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads Mary Kay Andrews delivers her next blockbuster, Hello Summer.It’s a new season...Conley Hawkins left her family’s small town newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position in Washington, D.C. Or so she thinks....

New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—now the star of a hit T.V. show—is back on the case again in Beating About the Bush.She won’t let any moss grow under her feet…When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers ...

This thrilling basketball story from New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers is a strong choice for independent reading and sharing in the classroom. Thought-provoking and packed with court action, Game is a winner!Drew Lawson is all about basketball. Everyone in his life knows that his game is taking him places. (It has to, because his grades certainly won’t.) Drew knows how hard it is to make it big, but even with the long odds, he is good enough to h...

Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hit T.V. series—is back on the case again in Down the Hatch.Private detective Agatha Raisin, having recently taken up power-walking, is striding along a path in Mircester Park during her lunch break when she hears a cry for help. Rushing over, she finds an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Swinburn, in the middle of the green—with the body of an old man ly...

A classic tale of eccentric adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Woodpecker“This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon“Even Cowgirls Get the Blues comes as a magical gift, a brilliant affirmation of private visions and private wishes and their power to transform life and death.”—The Nation...

She yearns to sing a new tune. He wants to mute the past. Can a secret baby bring them into harmony.Xavier Ramos was always a smooth talker. As an army communications specialist, his gift of gab loosened the lips of informants and helped gain needed intelligence. But the collateral damage of his actions left scars inside and out. He battles his demons with a joking attitude and forced smiles, but gets tongue tied when he meets the daughter he never knew he...

Joe has a big date that goes sideways; Sam and Joe expose a crooked judge; Mia tricks Joe financially; little Billy needs a birthday party; Billy Ray wants to kill a dead guy; Luke thinks outside the box, again; an illegal alien goes missing; CHIPs hires a new employee; Jimmy is on a mission; Frank and the Gee boys learn to dance; Mrs. F earns a new nickname; Another crazy romp in paradise!

A searching and at times harrowing re-appraisal of the life of Evel Knievel, the seventies American icon and the greatest daredevil motorcyclist that ever lived. The story of the last few years of his life and his death in 2007.Stuart Barker's definitive biography captures the super-star status that Knievel held and also examines the marketing phenomenon of a man who once boasted he ‘made $60 million and blew $63 million’.Born in the town of Butte, Montana in 1938, Robert C...