Hook Line and Sinister

Author: T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 0881509795
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
Original short stories by best-selling mystery writers about their favorite pastime—fishing. Sixteen of America's favorite author-anglers spin tales of mystery and fishing in this collection. From the tragic to the comic with many stops in between, these stories reflect the authors' passions for both making stories and catching fish. Michael Connelly, Ridley Pearson, John Lescroart, Don Winslow, Melodie Johnson Howe, Victoria Houston, and others all share a mysterious affection for things piscatorial when not busy writing best-selling books. This collection of all-original short stories will entertain even the most discriminating mystery reader. Proceeds from this book will help support two charitable groups, Casting For Recovery, which helps women cancer survivors to heal body and soul through fly-fishing, and Project Healing Waters, which does the same for our returning veterans. Contributing authors include • Ridley Pearson • Mark T. Sullivan • Michael Connelly • John Lescoart • Andrew Winer • Dana Stabenow • Don Winslow • Melodie Johnson Howe • James W. Hall • C.J. Box • Victoria Houston • William Beall • Spring Warren • Brian M. Wiprud • William Tapply • T. Jefferson Parker

Casting into Mystery

Author: Robert Reid
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 0889848688
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
‘Every time I leave the world of work, family and community to wade into a river with fly rod in hand, I enter a sacred space that sometimes finds expression in the written word.’ In Casting into Mystery, writer Robert Reid and wood engraver Wesley W. Bates—avid anglers, both—put ink to paper in homage to the venerable sport of fly fishing. Through text and image, they recall with fondness the ‘company of rivers’ each is grateful to know, providing a glimpse inside a sporting culture teeming with literature, art and music. Part memoir, part objet d’art and part field guide, Casting into Mystery will delight passionate fly fishing practitioners and armchair anglers alike.

Silent Hunt

Author: John Lescroart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476788774
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31

Book Description
In this short story from the thrilling anthology FaceOff, John Lescroart and T. Jefferson Parker team up for the first time ever, along with their characters—Wyatt Hunt, hero of three of Lescorart’s Hunt Club thrillers; and Joe Trona from Parker’s Edgar Award–winning Silent Joe. What begins as a relaxing fishing vacation among friends quickly descends into chaos when Hunt and Trona are drawn into a local gang war in the heart of a tiny Mexican village. When an innocent family is taken hostage, Hunt and Trona have no choice but to set aside their fishing poles and set a trap for some much bigger prey. For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven stories in FaceOff!

The Roommate Risk

Author: Talia Hibbert
Publisher: Nixon House
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Two best friends. Seven years of pining. One explosive summer… Romance is weakness, and Jasmine Allen doesn’t have time for either. Lifelong cynic Jas is the queen of one-night things—until a plumbing disaster screws everything up and leaves her temporarily homeless. Luckily, she has someone to turn to: her best friend Rahul. For seven years, Rahul Khan has followed three simple rules. Don’t touch Jasmine if you can help it. Don’t look at her arse in that skirt. And don’t ever—ever—tell her you love her. He should’ve added another rule: Do not, under any circumstances, let Jas move into your house. Now Rahul is living with the friend he can’t have, and it’s decimating his control. He knows their shared dinners aren’t dates, their late-night kisses are a mistake, and the tenderness in Jasmine’s gaze is only temporary. One wrong word could send his skittish best friend running. So why is he tempted to risk it all?

FaceOff

Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476762074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
In this unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the world's favourite crime writers bring you original, co-written short stories featuring teir much loved series characters.

Shots Fired

Author: C. J. Box
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698170679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Joe Pickett series comes a thrilling collection of suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well—and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there... C. J. Box has been hailed for his brilliant storytelling, with a style rich in character, suspense, and sense of place. That same brilliance is exemplified in the ten riveting stories—three of them never before published—that make up Shots Fired. In “One-Car Bridge,” one of four Joe Pickett stories, Pickett goes up against a just plain mean landowner, with disastrous results. In “Shots Fired,” his investigation into a radio call nearly ends up being the last thing he ever does. “Pirates of Yellowstone,” features two Eastern European tough guys who find out what it means to be strangers in a strange land, and in “Le Sauvage Noble,” the stranger is a Lakota in Paris who enjoys playing the noble savage for the French women—until he meets Sophie. Then he discovers what savage really means.... Shots Fired is proof once again why “Box is a force to be reckoned with” (The Providence Journal-Bulletin).

Desperate Situation

Author: Kyle Ripton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483663175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
Based on actual events, Casey plots to murder her husband, a soldier, for more than insurance money with the help of family. Fighting for his life, Thomas battles the relentless hatred of not only a black widow woman, but also a hidden family of black widows. What other hidden secrets could be lye inside the belly of the beast? Action packed, this story, based on actual events will make it all too difficult to put this book down aside from turning your stomach upside down over its remarkable content. For generations, women have been depicted as a delicate flower, incapable of equaling a mans strong, secure, outer structure a womans desires. Fast forwarding into the modern age, the feminist movement have campaigned for reforms on issues such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage, sexual harassment, and sexual violence, all of which fall under the label of feminism. Now pushing for financial, social and cultural inequalities, men are still being subjected to the already well-known power women have had and harnessed for centuries. Over these centuries women have still maintained their focus on women's reproductive rights. Short of what this project is all about. I am focusing this campaign on what effects a mans outer glass shell, broken repeatedly as a result of unseen, unheard, or ignored pleas for equivalent laws that dramatically effect what happens to the male during divorce, domestic violence, abandonment of the male figure, and affecting the very core of his inner soul. As times change, little do the laws or the acknowledgement of men who are now coming forward with their own stories of sexual, verbal, emotional, and in many cases physical abuse by women, who remain the innocent ones. At the present time we are in post-production of the full-feature film based off this novel. Published in 2012, I feel this would be another amazing speaking point to those around the world who choose a visual experience over reading.

Michael Connelly

Author: Schatt, Stan
Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press
ISBN: 1681140624
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
"Michael Connelly: A Reader’s Guide": covers everything about Connelly including his novels, his short stories, the articles he published as a crime reporter, and even movie treatments of his novels. Over 40 million fans have purchased books by Michael Connelly. His fans storm his website to discuss his characters and plots. Their passion for his characters is obvious. It’s the same kind of enthusiasm now found among fans of the Harry Potter and Hunger Games series. Yet, while both those series have companion books that serve as readers’ guides, no such book exists on Connelly. What is unique about this book is that it shows how Connelly shaped his actual experiences as a crime reporter into his fiction. You will also find explanations of how Connelly fits into the mystery landscape.

Wanted

Author: Betsy Schow
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492636002
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description
Robin Hood's daughter, Rexi, must stop the Wicked Witch from finding Excalibur, come spell or high water in this exciting and wickedly funny sequel to Spelled, perfect for fans of the Villains series by Serena Valentino and Jen Calonita's Fairy Tale Reform School series Fairy-Tale Survival Rule #52: No matter how difficult the obstacles or all-powerful the evil villain, one can rest assured that the hero of the story never dies. The sidekicks though...they should be worried. Rexi Hood is proud to be an outlaw. After all, she's the daughter of the infamous Robin Hood. But sidekick? Accomplice? Sorry, that wasn't in her story description. Yeah, she and Princess Dorthea of Emerald have been inseparable since they teamed up to fight the wickedest witch. But if Rexi doesn't figure out how to break the curse that binds them, forget being overshadowed by the spirited princess, Rexi's going to become a Forgotten, wiped from the pages of Story and reduced to a puddle of ink. Not happening. No way in Spell. Rexi's plan? Steal the sword Excalibur and use its magic to write her own tale. But Gwenevere has opened a new Academy of Villains in Camelot and danger lurks behind every plot twist. And you know how it goes in Story: keep your friends close and your enemies closer... Fast-paced and delightfully unique, Wanted is perfect for readers looking for: a fresh and clever Wizard of Oz retelling a new take on Robin Hood and other timeless fairy tales young adult books with adventure, humor, and magic whimsical fantasy for tweens and teens dynamic and relatable heroines with snark The Storymakers Series: Spelled (Book 1) Wanted (Book 2) Banished (Book 3)

The Crime World of Michael Connelly

Author: David Geherin
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476687013
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220

Book Description
Since his first novel in 1992, Michael Connelly has become one of America’s most popular and critically acclaimed crime writers. He is best known as the author of a long-running series featuring LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, a compelling figure in contemporary crime fiction. He also created several additional series featuring a criminal defense attorney (Mickey Haller, known as the Lincoln Lawyer), an FBI profiler (Terry McCaleb), a newspaper reporter (Jack McEvoy), and an LAPD policewoman (Renée Ballard) who works the night shift. When he began incorporating all his characters into the Bosch megaseries, he expanded the notion of what a crime series can accomplish. This work takes an in-depth look at all of Connelly’s work, including the 34 novels that comprise the Bosch megaseries, the film adaptations of his books, the popular “Bosch” TV series, and his standalone novels, short stories and podcasts. It includes chapters on his novelistic artistry and his portraits of Los Angeles and its police department.