![]() ![]() We learn aboaut FBI profiling, DNA printing, and how agencies work for and against each other. We go with Scarpetta into the autopsy room and look through the microscope. It's here that Postmortem leaves other crime novels behind. With three women already dead the murderer strikes again and Scarpetta, chief medical examiner for Virginia, fears that still more victims may follow unless she can come up with some new scientific evidence. A serial killer is on the loose in Richmond. Otherwise dustjacket is bright with the number 15988 on the back. ![]() Dust jacket has edge chipping, wear, small creases and wrinkles, and some tears 1/4 inch or less. Three initials on back of front board and two small initials on opposite endpaper. Two lightly bumped corners, a small dent on bottom of back cover, some very light corner and spine edge wear. ![]() Black cloth spine stamped in gold and red paper-covered boards. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Although I was fond of Geraldine McEwan’s portrayal, Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple is growing on me. Jonathan CakeMaybe it was my own relaxed state of mind when I was watching the show, but I had the sense that the cast were enjoying themselves on this one. Miss Marple is fun, and this mystery-even with its added characters and plot changes-is a goody. ![]() But in the case of “The Pale Horse,” I was willing to go along for the ride and I suggest you do, too. Normally, I’m a stickler for accuracy and I don’t approve of screenwriters taking too many liberties with the original text, especially if they’re messing with a master like Dame Agatha. For, if you’ve read the book, you know that Miss Marple isn’t in it. But you probably already guessed that when you saw that “The Pale Horse” was a Miss Marple episode. Miss Marple at The Pale Horse from Masterpiece MysteryPurists take warning: If you’re looking for a faithful adaptation of Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse, this week’s Masterpiece Mystery wasn’t it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm truly looking forward to knowing what happens next, but I will have to be patient as the second book isn't out yet. It is a page-turner, one I couldn't put down, especially after the first third or so. The characterization is flawless, the ambiance great, the setting excellent, the plot well constructed. The story is wonderfully written, so much so that I struggled to believe this was a debut novel. She is then forced to go live with her mother's employer and his family, where she gets to know their son, the dying Gauthier. And, as the blurb says, something that causes her to accidentallly put her mother in a coma. 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Howard, Jack Vance, and Tannith Lee, all informed by McNaughton's voice and vision. The stories read like a meld of Clark Ashton Smith, H. Brian McNaughton's World Fantasy Award-winning collection of mordant epic horror tales, The Throne of Bones (1997), is set in a world of decadent cities like Crotalorn (home of the Dreamers’ Hill necropolis), Sythiphore (home of piscine eroticists), and Fandragord (home of evil) where aristocrats, scholars, cultists, poets, prostitutes, barbarians, necromancers, the undead, ghouls, and the like pursue love, art, life, and death. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hatred of America seems a prevailing sentiment in this country. ![]() ![]() Toll’s book is very nautically detailed, but it also includes thorough treatments of the Founders, the political parties, the leading issues facing the young republic such as Barbary piracy and French and British impressment of sailors (which seems to approach kidnapping and slavery in its straightforwardness), as well as quaint customs like dueling.Īmong Six Frigates’ panorama of the early nineteenth century appears this account of British anti-Americanism, which I read as evidence of the social reaction that came to dominate thought by century’s end: The story of the founding and early institutional history of the United States is easily as enthralling as any novel. Although I read mostly novels these days, it’s good every once in a while to check in with an amazing history book, of which Six Frigates is a superb example. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as usual in "Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake," the gender inversion itself creates opportunity both explicit and implicit commentary on gender roles, but it appropriately takes a back seat to Allegri's plotting and fun dialogue. He has an outsize sense of drama, inherent in how Allegri introduces him with a stark page of ornate text as LSP explains to the reader, "To be on the cusp of IMPOSSIBLE BEAUTY has been my curse since the day I was born." Unlike Prince Gumball or Marshall Lee, however, LSP's preening male vanity is accompanied by greed and haplessness instead of talents or concern for others. However, Lumpy Space Prince is a hilarious personality, and that compensates for a lot. In particular, the absence of Cake was startling, since her friendship with Fionna is the heart of the series. ![]() While Fionna is a delightful character by herself, Cake the Cat, Prince Gumball and Marshall Lee the Vampire King were such an important part of the humor, plot and dialogue in previous issues of "Fionna and Cake" that I missed their presence in this issue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, Newport gives us a name for this quiet movement and makes a case for its urgency in our tech-saturated world. They can have fun with friends and family and eat out at restaurants without the obsessive urge to document the experience. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. ![]() In this timely and enlightening book, Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives.ĭigital minimalists are all around us. 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Exploring issues including morals, manners, self-indulgence, malevolence, and social machinations, the relatively short novel is sure to fascinate with its atypical form.Ĭomprised of forty-one letters, the novel introduces Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful recent widow in her thirties, who is allowed to stay with her brother-in -law Charles Vernon and his wife Catherine in their family home. Disregarding anything but her own selfish goals, Susan employs her charms to lure men and draw them into her web of deceit, no matter their age or status. ![]() ![]() The short novel focuses on the self-serving eponymous anti-heroine, as she cunningly maneuvers her way through society in search of a wealthy husband for both her daughter and herself. An epistolary novel, Lady Susan is an early work by Austen that was posthumously published in 1871. ![]() ![]() Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Excalibur Curse. ![]() Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. To undo the mistakes of the past.even if it means destroying herself. The Excalibur Curse - Ebook written by Kiersten White. Guinevere is determined to set things right, whatever the cost. Hey guysIm back with another book review. When Guinevere makes an agonizing discovery about who she is and how she came to be, she finds herself with an impossible choice: fix a terrible crime, or help prevent war. ![]() Vowing to unravel the truth of her past with or without Merlin's help, Guinevere joins forces with the sorceress Morgana and her son, Mordred-and faces the confusing, forbidden feelings she still harbors for him. ![]() But the greatest danger isn't what lies ahead of Guinevere-it's what's been buried inside her. Behind her are Lancelot, trapped on the other side of the magical barrier they created to protect Camelot, and Arthur, who has been led away from his kingdom, chasing after false promises. (Available on December 14, 2021)The gripping conclusion to the acclaimed Arthurian fantasy trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White. While journeying north toward the Dark Queen, Guinevere falls into the hands of her enemies. The gripping conclusion to the acclaimed Arthurian fantasy trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White finds Guinevere questioning everything-friends and enemies, good and evil, and, most of all, herself. ![]() ![]() The New York Times Book Review calls Stephanie Plum “a Jersey girl with Bette Middler’s mouth and Cher’s fashion sense.” In Stephanie Plum, Evanovich has created a resourceful and humorous character who stands apart from the pack of gritty female detectives. With pride and rent money on the line, Plum plunges headlong into her first case, one that pits her against ruthless adversaries - people who’d rather kill than lose. She goes after Joe Morelli, a disgraced former vice cop who is also the man who took Stephanie’s virginity at age 16 and then wrote details on a bathroom wall. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter, you go after the big money. What do you do? If you’re Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. ![]() You’ve lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car’s been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month’s rent. Books by Janet Evanovich (Author of One for the Money) Books by Janet Evanovich Janet Evanovich Average rating 4. ![]() |