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A richly textured, deeply atmospheric, and engaging novel set in a small Louisiana town in the 1950s, The Cajuns tells a captivating tale of love, life, death, and intrigue in a wonderfully bizarre yet corrupt culture.The descendants of French Canadians who migrated to southern Louisiana in the mid-eighteenth century, Cajuns are known for their fiery and passionate dispositions. In his remarkably moving new novel, Louisiana native Gus Weill presents an affectionate yet unstinting look at Cajun culture in the small town of Richelieu — a world in which the mix of promiscuity, ribald humor, extreme violence, and devout Catholicism is a way of life.Bobby Boudreaux is the sheriff of Richelieu, where the only laws people respect are those that dictate how much pepper goes into the stew and, of course, the edicts of the Catholic Church. It was not a job Bobby wanted — in fact, once out of school, his dream had been to escape into the larger world as fast as he … More >>

The Cajuns: A Novel

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Opera singer. Adventuress. American abroad. Irene Adler is all of this…and is also the only woman to ever have outwitted the great man, Sherlock Holmes.

After numerous adventures Irene has finally come home, not out of loyalty to her native shores but because of a baffling puzzle, and the one thing that haunts her. Irene has no real memory of her childhood and has spent most of her life creating a persona to fit her passions. When Daredevil reporter Nelly Bly lures Irene to America by hinting that she knows of Irene’s parentage, Irene takes the bait and in doing so, embarks upon a pursuit of the most notorious woman of the nineteenth century.

Before the intrigue-ridden quest is over, Irene will uncover murderous international political conspiracies, lost treasure, and finally . . . the full, shocking secret of her birth.
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Spider Dance: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes

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In this alternative reality novel, Jacob focuses on his goal, while the world goes mad around him in this novel of alternative reality. Jacob sees only his own goal, while Isleen, the representative of the drug company that wants to buy his formula warns him the “endtime” the time for the second coming of Christ is near. One world leader proclaims himself the messiah. But he may be the anti-Christ? While people on all continents suffer from grave natural disasters, and Jacob stays focused on his goal, the leader of the new world government prepares to lead the world population into a new era of peace and prosperity. Or so he would have them believe. Mystery, suspense, and intrigue intertwine with horror to form a powerful novel…. More >>

Jacob’s Demon: A Novel of Alternative Reality

• ISBN13: 9780375425448
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A chilling, internationally acclaimed political thriller, Red April is a grand achievement in contemporary Latin American fiction, written by the youngest winner ever of the Alfaguara Prize–one of the most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world–and translated from the Spanish by one of our most celebrated literary translators, Edith Grossman. It evokes Holy Week during a cruel, bloody, and terrifying time in Peru’s history, shocking for its corrosive mix of assassination, bribery, intrigue, torture, and enforced disappearance–a war between grim, ideologically-driven terrorism and morally bankrupt government counterinsurgency.

Mother-haunted, wife-abandoned, literature-loving, quietly eccentric Felix Chacaltana Saldivar is a hapless, by-the-book, unambitious prosecutor living in Lima. Until now he has lived a life in which nothing exceptionally good or bad has ever happened to him. But, inexplicably, he has been put in charge of a bizarre … More >>

Red April: A Novel

• ISBN13: 9780812576078
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A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel by the bestselling author of Irish Love

Nuala Anne McGrail, the enthralling heroine of Irish Love, returns, along with her devoted husband Dermot, to lend her second sight and irrepressible personality to another savory concoction made up of equal parts of love, humor, and intrigue.

You’d think Nuala and Dermot would have enough to worry about, what with their brand-new baby daughter being born three months premature, but Nuala’s fey gifts aren’t about to go on maternity leave just because little Socra Marie needs more care and loving attention than the average newborn. Soon enough Nuala, and therefore Dermot, find themselves steered toward no less than two unresolved mysteries:

Someone is trying to kill Seamus Costelloe, a bigshot lawyer from the South Side of Chicago. Nuala already sees the mark of death upon Seamus. Can she and Dermot somehow find a way to avert her fatal premonition?

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Irish Stew!: A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel

• ISBN13: 9781416590903
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Acclaimed and beloved historical novelist Norah Lofts brings to life the danger, romance, and intrigue of the Tudor court that forever altered the course of English history. The king first noticed Anne Boleyn as a heartbroken sixteen-year-old, sullen and beautiful after a thwarted romance with the son of the Earl of Northumberland. “All eyes and hair,” a courtier had said disparagingly of her, but when King Henry VIII fell for young Anne, nothing could keep him from what he desired. Against common sense and the urgings of his most trusted advisors, Henry defied all, blindly following his passion for Anne, using the power he held over the bodies and souls of all who reside in his realm and beyond. Anne’s ascent to the throne elevates her from lady-in-waiting to the highest position a woman could attain, but her life spirals out of control when Henry is driven to desperate acts of betrayal and violence. The consequences of Anne’s rise to power and eventual d… More >>

The Concubine: A Novel

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Smokescreen is the gripping tale of a political conspiracy to incapacitate the President of the United States, Clint Walker, who we meet in the opening scene as he is stricken with a torturous headache and is quickly consumed by confusion, memory loss and dementia. He collapses on the floor in convulsions. The Secret Service rushes him to the hospital in a race against death. Caught in the middle of the conspiracy is Eloy Cordova-Santiago, a brilliant young neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health, whose cutting-edge research in molecular genetics has inadvertently placed his life and the life of the President in mortal danger. From his naive beginnings in Venezuela as an apprentice to the local medicine man to his recognition as a world-class scientific investigator in Washington, Eloy’s life is filled with conflict-especially the conflict of his love for two women and the conflict of his Indian-Latino culture with the culture o… More >>

Smokescreen: A Novel of Medical Intrigue

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Peak Experience: A Novel — First Place Winner 2009 Best Popular Fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. From the moment Trip Price is hired by a charismatic financial firm, danger, intrigue, romance and murder accompany him on a lavish journey sweeping the principal ports of the world. Corrupt double-dealers, pay-for-play, passionate desires, and life-threatening encounters permeate this non-stop thriller as the urgency of survival binds and drives our characters into volcanic relationships. But how will one man, entrapped by insidious evil, conquer crippling fears in time to stop a deception imminently intended to annihilate our way of life? The thriller Peak Experience will rivet you spellbound as a financial monstrosity and the tentacles of international subterfuge become as plausible as the lead stories on today’s headline news. This novel is also available on Amazon’s Kindle for a special, low introductory price…. More >>

Peak Experience: A Novel

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From the acclaimed author of How to Be Lost comes a gorgeous new novel about love, memory, and motherhood.

Nadine Morgan travels the world as a journalist, covering important events, following dangerous leads, and running from anything that might tie her down. Since an assignment in Cape Town ended in tragedy and regret, Nadine has not returned to South Africa, or opened her heart–until she hears the story of Jason Irving.

Jason, an American student, was beaten to death by angry local youths at the height of the apartheid era. Years later, his mother is told that Jason’s killers have applied for amnesty. Jason’s parents pack their bags and fly from Nantucket to Cape Town. Filled with rage, Jason’s mother resolves to fight the murderers’ pleas for forgiveness.

As Nadine follows the Irvings to beautiful, ghost-filled South Africa, she is flooded with memories of a time when the pull toward adventure and intrigue left he… More >>

Forgive Me: A Novel

• ISBN13: 9780345487575
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Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid has found himself smack in the middle of more than a few controversies and deadly predicaments–and the unexpected leap from his modest Tulsa law offices to Washington, D.C.’s Senate chamber hasn’t taken the edge off Ben’s knack for stepping into the line of fire. Now the idealistic junior senator is plunged into the thick of lethal intrigue when a shocking campaign of terror against key government officials rocks the nation’s capital.

The nightmare begins with the abduction and murder of the director of Homeland Security; escalates with the killing of the Senate minority leader, who is felled in his office by an envelope laced with weaponized poison; and comes to a shattering climax at the site of the Oklahoma City Memorial, where a fusillade of sniper fire meant for the president claims unintended victims. In all, twelve people perish in the melee, while Ben himself narrowly escapes a car-bomb blast t… More >>

Capitol Conspiracy: A Novel of Suspense