This award winning 6000 word short story, originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, features Konrath’s stalwart Homicide cop Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels (Whiskey Sour, Shaken) in a puzzler of a mystery.<\/p>\n A body is found in a man’s living room, the doors all locked from the inside. The victim had apparently been dropped from a great height.<\/p>\n How did he die? Who killed him?<\/p>\n Daniels and her partner, Herb Benedict, follow a trail of ingenious clues to solve this classic whodunnit. Are you clever enough to solve it first?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Could she out-play the player? Chess champ she may be, but a nervous nerd? No way! Lucas Alexander, the ninth Duke of Arlington, is a man who gets what he wants. So when he sees the alluring Miss Pippa Welby from across a crowded ballroom, he vows to make her his. But the bold and spirited Pippa has sworn never to marry into the haute ton. Now Lucas must win her the only way he knows how\u2014one wicked kiss at a time.<\/p>\n The daughter of a wealthy tradesman, Pippa has been sneered at by the upper echelons her entire life. So when the duke arrives on her doorstep with an invitation to her own engagement ball\u2014to him\u2014in ten days, Pippa hatches a daring plan. She must lose the duke before the ball, or risk losing her own heart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Trish Ackerly never expected to cross paths with Ian Rafferty again, but when she spots the former bully of her childhood years through her bakery window, she thinks she may just have been given the best Christmas gift ever: the opportunity to finally give Ian the comeuppance he deserves.<\/p>\n But clearly she does not have a knack for this whole revenge thing, because before she can make good on her plans, Trish gets inadvertently drawn into Ian\u2019s life in an unexpected way that lets her see just how different the man is from the boy he used to be. In fact, much to her astonishment, she actually starts to like the guy.<\/p>\n A lot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Victoria Armstrong believes less in psychology and more in hard work, and she\u2019s glad to cater for Leo\u2019s getaway at the historic Larch Luminary Hotel. Her business needs his business!<\/p>\n All is not what it seems, however, when Leo turns up dead! In the midst of the tragedy, a heavy snow storm hits the mountain. The road is impassable so no one can leave, and the RCMP can’t make it in. With tensions mounting and the killer on the loose, Victoria must solve the mystery.<\/p>\n Could it be the bull-like gym owner with his long-burning flame for Leo’s secretary? Or maybe it’s the seductive real estate agent with his flaring temper and recent business losses. Maybe it’s the dreamy secretary herself, with the anger that simmers under her air of helplessness?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Savannah Woods vows to never again have anything to do with Micah Reddington after he ruins her best friend’s career. Yet, when Savannah\u2019s niece is injured in a serious accident, the one man she can\u2019t trust is the one she needs.<\/p>\n Micah can barely contain his satisfaction when he sees Savannah\u2019s message pleading for him to come to her side. Her disloyalty nearly cost his career and he\u2019ll never forgive her for leaving him at the lowest point in his life.<\/p>\n Despite her efforts to remain aloof, Savannah keeps seeing glimpses of the Micah she once loved behind his cool exterior. Micah fights an ongoing battle to not succumb to the sweetness of the woman he once cared for beyond anything else. But Savannah and Micah\u2019s hearts remain sick with the pangs of betrayal. What, if anything, is the cure?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his family’s comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give up their materialistic lifestyles and return with him back to nature. To Gilbert, Conway’s mythical character challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be a modern man in America; he is a symbol of much we feel how our men should be, but rarely are.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n When Sylvia Barrett arrives at New York City\u2019s Calvin Coolidge High, she\u2019s fresh from earning literature degrees at Hunter College and eager to shape young minds. Instead, she encounters broken windows, a lack of supplies, a stifling bureaucracy, and students with no interest in Chaucer. Narrated in \u201can almost presciently postmodern style\u201d through interoffice memos, notes and doodles, lesson plans, suggestion-box insults, letters, and other dispatches from the front lines, Up the Down Staircase <\/i>stands as the seminal novel of a beleaguered American public school system perpetually redeemed by teachers who love to teach and students who long to be recognized (The New Yorker<\/i>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Sometimes a cat has to man up.<\/p>\n Tom has been mostly cat for a long time, but when the witch who enslaved him dies, he has one last chance to become a man again and maybe to find love, too. He just needs to tell Cassie, a sensible girl who knows nothing about the witchy business all around her, that he’s trapped in the body of the kitten she cuddles at night. But cats aren’t known for their conversational skills, and a powerful warlock is determined to take Cassie for himself. To make things worse, Tom is rapidly running out of lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Independent and sensitive, idealistic and hopeful, Emi Hennigan lives her life with optimism and an open mind. Between sharing a tiny Manhattan apartment with her fun-loving roommate and spending most of her free time with her heart-breaker friend, Emi\u2019s seen enough failed relationships to know what to avoid in her quest to find her true love. Not only that, but a single moment from her past lingers in her mind, setting high expectations for every man she dates.<\/p>\n Emi\u2019s best friend, artist and hopeless romantic Nate Wilson, has been her closest companion all of their adult lives. After swearing off love with Emi in a silly high school pact, Nate has been seeing other women in hopes of finding one that evokes stronger feelings than the ones he\u2019s been harboring for Emi since he was a teen. Over the span of a year, boundaries are crossed, feelings are confessed, and their unique friendship begins to blossom into something more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Don’t Look<\/p>\n At first, they struggle to escape. Then a torrent of blows rains down upon their bodies until their eyes cloud over in final agony. The killer shows no remorse–just a twisted need to witness each victim’s last terrified moments.<\/p>\n Don’t Speak<\/p>\n Public defender Rachel Wainwright is struggling to reopen a decades-old case, convinced that the wrong man is in prison. Homicide detective Deke Morgan doesn’t want to agree. But if Rachel’s hunch is correct, whoever fatally bludgeoned young, beautiful Annie Dawson thirty years ago could be the source of a new string of brutal slayings.<\/p>\n Just Prepare To Die<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In 2003, an independent film called The Room<\/i>\u2014starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit named Tommy Wiseau\u2014made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as \u201clike getting stabbed in the head,\u201d the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years later, it\u2019s an international cult phenomenon, whose legions of fans attend screenings featuring costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons.<\/p>\n Hailed by The Huffington Post<\/i> as \u201cpossibly the most important piece of literature ever printed,\u201d The Disaster Artist<\/i> is the hilarious, behind-the-scenes story of a deliciously awful cinematic phenomenon as well as the story of an odd and inspiring Hollywood friendship. Greg Sestero, Tommy\u2019s costar, recounts the film\u2019s bizarre journey to infamy, explaining how the movie\u2019s many nonsensical scenes and bits of dialogue came to be and unraveling the mystery of Tommy Wiseau himself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n This Cinderella didn\u2019t plan on a prince . . .<\/p>\n Kat MacTaggart is a girl who has a plan for everything\u2014including her holiday ski trip to Monterra with her best friend. Everything is going according to plan until she finds herself careening out of control down a mountainside and being rescued by a guy who looks like Superman\u2019s hotter Italian cousin.<\/p>\n HRH Prince Nico is intrigued by the woman he saved on the slopes and her refusal to date him. He offers Kat a deal\u2014let him show her his country and he\u2019ll pay her to write articles that will help Monterra\u2019s tourism industry. Kat agrees, but given her past and lingering distrust of men, she has one condition\u2014absolutely no kissing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another \u2013 from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball \u2013 imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence.<\/p>\n How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites<\/i>, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. 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\nWhen heart-breaker Nate targets her cousin as his next conquest, Ellie is determined to foil his schemes. Getting Nate to switch his attention to her seemed like a good plan, but she didn’t count on having to protect her own heart too!
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<\/a><\/p>\nGetaway to Murder: A Cozy Mystery in the Mountains (Book 3)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\nLeo Loams is a sensation. Gentle and loving, with a sharp eccentric air about him, he\u2019s got an army of followers who swear by his book on knowing oneself through psychology. He’s also got a multi-million dollar contract from a big four publisher, and a loyal group of devotees who owe him their success and their lives.<\/p>\nThe Cure<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Familiar: A Paranormal Romantic Comedy (Bad Tom Series Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nLost and Found: Book One of the Emi Lost & Found series<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nRoyal Date (The Royals of Monterra Book 1)<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nTwilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy<\/a><\/h3>\n
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