Agatha and James are the prime suspects in this, the fifth Agatha Raisin murder mystery. The morning of Agatha's marriage to James Lacey dawns bright and clear. But her luck runs out in the church when Jimmy, the husband she had believed long dead, turns up large as life and twice as ugly. Agatha has a go at strangling him. James breaks off the ( Read more... )

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The Seven Dials Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on January 24, 1929[1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.[2][3] In it, Christie brings back the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord ( Read more... )

Harry Dresden’s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory when you’re the only professional wizard in the Chicago area phone book ( Read more... )

Do you wish you understood the science of foods, but don't want to plow through dry technical books? "What Einstein Told His Cook" is like having a scientist at your side to answer your questions in plain, nontechnical terms. Chemistry professor and syndicated "Washington Post" food columnist Robert L. Wolke provides over 100 reliable and witty ( Read more... )

Following the success of his bestselling Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with another mélange of history and horror, Grahame-Smith inserts a grandiose and gratuitous struggle with vampires into Abraham Lincoln's life. Lincoln learns at an early age that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator. This provokes his bloody but curiously ( Read more... )

Amy Gallup is gifted, perhaps too gifted for her own good. Published at only twenty-two, she peaked early and found critical but not commercial success. Now her former life is gone, along with her writing career and beloved husband. A reclusive widow, her sole companion a dour, flatulent basset hound who barely tolerates her, her daily mantra Kill ( Read more... )

In this latest novel from bestselling author John Verdon, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney puts under the magnifying glass a notorious serial murder - one whose motives have been enshrined as law-enforcement dogma - and discovers that everyone has it wrong ( Read more... )

Al principio deeste año decidi hacer varias cosas: aprender a nadar, plantar menta, mudarme a una casa acogedora y blanca, leer un libro de Agatha Christie al mes, ... Pues bien, para lo demas taun tengo tiempo pero en cuanto a Christie lo voy cumpliendo religiosamente. empezare a subirlos a partir de este mes ( Read more... )