Cherrys natural curiosity leads her to discover a secret room in the reconstructed chAEoeteau now used as a girls boarding school. There she finds a formula that when reconstructed to its exact specifications produces a perfume that saves the school from bankruptcy.
Munin, a former political prisoner, runs Blitar Magic Garage in Setiabudi, a makeshift settlement in central Jakarta. When whispers of redevelopment threaten Setiabudi's fragile balance, Munin and his neighbours are forced to confront a dark web of corruption, greed and political manoeuvring. While they grapple with their pasts and futures, ......
On a late summer night in 2007, Phil and Beth Porter celebrated their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary with their wealthy Greenwich, CT friends. Then, they went home and made love with the passion of two people connected on a nearly cellular level. After which, Beth gave Phil a cocktail of drugs that killed him and then called the police to let ......
A Novel of Mind Control, Altered States, and Music
It's 2052. Sergeant Juanita Carbajal of the Columbia Police Department in Missouri is assigned the job of tracking down the latest incarnation of Elvis Presley, who is haunting the local countryside. Lincoln Koufax, a pop music reporter for Philadelphia-based tabloid Deep-Fried America, has flown into the region to interview a woman claiming to ......
Over the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore his canon in religious contexts, in political and historical contexts, in mythic-specifically Jungian-contexts, in Gothic/horror (especially ......
"It's really a very simple story. What happened was this: I met this girl and did a very stupid thing. I fell in love. Hard. I know that to some people that makes me an idiot and a loser. What can I say? They're right. I did some extremely foolish things; I'm the first to say it. And they've left me in jail and alone."So begins one of the most ......
Amateur sleuths Nora Barnes and Toby Sandler find themselves caught up in a labyrinth of speculation when they arrive at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for Nora's faculty exchange. Campus police are baffled by the discovery of human remains in the attic of the university's administration building. Nora connects the bones to the Vietnam-era ......
With Door County caught in the grip of a fierce winter storm, Sheriff Dave Cubiak agrees to a seemingly simple favor: checking in on an affluent widow with a questionable new suitor. His initial disquiet is easily dismissed-until she is found dead the next morning in her home. Lying at the bottom of a flight of stairs, clutching a valuable bronze ......
Just when longtime Michigan conservation officer Grady Service is certain that he's seen it all, he learns once again that he hasn't. After so many decades protecting his state's natural resources, here he still is, undercover yet again--not in a case he's developed, but dumped into a case by the Feds (with his governor's approval). And as time ......
