A hidden world, secrets, love, betrayal… and dragons. Sydney Miller: I'm an almost seventeen, unschooled world traveler until the you-know-what hit the fan. Reality? Gone... yanked out from under me like a cheap Ikea rug. Here are the doozies: Dragons exist in this whole other world! And bondmates exist. Yeah... I'm now bound to a heart-throb Prince to the Dragonborn-Ashe Carrick. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Ashe Carrick: I'm twenty-three, a Lieutenant...

'You've promised me a murder. Now go out and bring it in!' Stories of Crime & Detection Volume Eight contains a novel, a novelette and two short stories:Hard-Boiled Gangster Mike Flannery is out of jail and looking to expand his protection racket in West London. Crime reporter Julian Mendoza is on his trail, and must defend the owner of Kenley stadium from kidnapping, blackmail and murder.Hanging's Too Good Old Dan Riordan is worried about something...

Tokyo, ferne Gegenwart: Zwischen Wirklichkeit und virtueller Realität. Datendiebstahl ist an der Tagesordnung: Einem genialen greisen Wissenschaftler ist es gelungen, bei einer Gruppe professioneller Datenfälscher eine Gehirnwäsche durchzuführen. Er entnimmt ihnen Informationen, die er in Gehirne von unwissenden Versuchspersonen einspeist. Der 35-jährige Held und Ich-Erzähler ist der Einzige, der die Prozedur überlebt. Fortan versucht er, die...

Steadfast in fighting crime, but operating outside the police force-and sometimes even the law-is the private detective. Driven by his own moral code, he is a shadowy figure in a trench coat standing on a street corner, his face most likely obscured by a tilted fedora, a lit cigarette dangling from his hand. The hard-boiled detective is known by his dark past, private pain, and powers of deduction. He only asks questions-never answers them. In his...

Leonard Cassuto's cultural history links the testosterone-saturated heroes of American crime stories to the sensitive women of the nineteenth-century sentimental novel. From classics like The Big Sleep and The Talented Mr. Ripley to neglected paperback gems, Cassuto chronicles the dialogue; centered on the power of sympathy between these popular genres and the sweeping social changes of the twentieth century, ending with a surprising connection between...

Just before the Mother Gooseland Games, hard-boiled detective Joe Dumpty is called upon to solve the mystery of what made Jack and Jill fall down the hill--and who took Jack's prized crown after the fall.

Enter the imagination of multi award winning writer O'Hara Moon. Tough and explicit one moment, deliciously ironic and sexy the next, O'Hara Moon explores life and love in three beautifully written short stories that shift between real and imaginary worlds, revealing both the gritty reality of his characters' lives, and the hopes and fears of their dreams. Jellybabies (first published by Australian Penthouse): Louise is generous, sweet, and as sexy...

SUMMARY HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD BASED ON THE BOOK BY HARUKI MURAKAMI SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: SPEEDY LIBRARY CONTENT Parallel Worlds The Hard-Boiled Job Entering the End of the World Whispers of Connection The Shadow's Task Unraveling the Town's Secrets Confronting the Professor The Impending Winter and the Escape Convergence and Resolution (Without Revealing the End) General Analysis ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK Haruki...

WILL THE GRAVE SINS FROM YOUR PAST HAUNT YOU TO DEATH?Can you ever really bury the past?On a cold November evening back in 1982, real estate lawyer, Marty Finnegan and socialite, Tracy Reynolds, argued bitterly outside the dining room of the Wolforts Roost Country Club. Unbeknownst to them, three drunken teenage boys who attend the same prep school were witnessing their bitter exchange under the cover of darkness. When the boys decide to head out...