The smash hit No. 1 bestselling author takes you on the ride of your life in the seventh Stephanie Plum adventure. Stephanie thinks she’s going after an easy FTA: a senior citizen charged with smuggling contraband cigarettes. But when she and Lula show up at his house, they get more than they bargained for – a corpse in the woodshed and an old man on the lam. Stephanie’s mind is on other matters, however, because she has two proposals to consider: vice cop Joe Morelli is proposing marriage, and fellow bounty hunter Ranger is proposing a single perfect night... 作者简介 Janet Evanovich grew up in New Jersey.She has won major crime fiction awards for her Stephanie Plum novels:ONE FOR THE MONEY was presented with the Crime Writers' Association Hohn Creasey Award and the Dilys AWard,TWO FOR THE DOUGH won the CWA Last Laugh Award and THREE TO GET DEADLY was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger for 1997.
"Once upon a time, long, long ago, where the forest runs down to the ocean, a hunter lived all alone in a house made of logs he had chopped for himself and shingles he had split for himself." These words ease the reader into the elegant, dreamlike world of Randall Jarrell's Newbery Honor book The Animal Family. One night, the lonely hunter hears the singing of a mermaid, and because "he himself was as patient as an animal," the mermaid learns to trust him, speaking to him in a voice like the water. In time they teach each other their languages, with many amusing exchanges occurring as the hunter tries to teach his new friend terrestrial words and concepts. The hunter explains, "The house is a big wooden thing ... that you stay inside at night or when it rains." "Why?" she asks. "To keep from getting wet." "To keep from getting wet?" the mermaid says despairingly. The mermaid and the hunter become a family when the hunter takes a bear cub from its mother to live with them as a son. "The bear's table man
Candyland is as ivnentive and explosive,stylish and perceptive as its creator.The novel beaing as a fever-pitched search for identity,told in calssic Evan Hunter style. Alone in New York City on business,Benjamin Thorpe-a successful Los Angeles architect and family man -spends his empty nithts on a compulsive quest for female companionship.His dizzying descent leads to a confrontation in a midtown bordello and a searing self-revelation…… And suddenly we are in Ed McBain territory. Emma Boyle of the Speciai Victims Unit is assigned to the case of a young prostitute's murder.As the foggy evens of the night in question come into focus,Benjamin Thorpe becomes a viable suspect,The excruciating suspense is classic McBain-and the combined impact of both halves of CANDYLAND is unforgettable.
In 1920s Munich, homicide detective Axel Berg is called to the scene of a grisly homicide, the victim being a young society wife. Soon, a second body is uncovered; the discovery of a third indicates that Berg is dealing with an unimaginably evil killer. In the Germany of the time, the investigation cannot be straightforward. Hitler's power is growing, and the Nazis are a strong civic force in the city of Munich. Berg has always considered himself apolitical, and as an outsider living a routine life he's been of no interest to those with power. But this high-profile case changes all that, as senior officers work to their own agendas. Berg is alone as never before, with the imminent threat at all times of making a mistake with deadly consequences.
