The Desperate Deputy of Cougar Hill - format ePub

It’s an urgent assignment for Vernay?get control of the totalitarian government of Ujvila. Hard enough, but Vernay’s also got to do it before Galactic-Military solves the problem its own way: by slamming...

Zeno Zenobius, head computer programmer for Intra-Galactic Investigations, Inc., was having a peaceful, uneventful life. Then he awoke to find himself a citizen of Wooten Dorset in England - a most unusual...

Dr. Tandy Venner is an irreplaceable asset to the Charter Worlds Union. Much too valuable to go off on an unexpected vacation by herself. So Jano Kegan, an operative of Charter Worlds, went along on a...

Imagine a world without hunger. With clothing and shelter for everyone. A world that is never too warm or too cold. A world where there are no decisions to be made, because everything is decided upon...

Barr courched down to get out of the sea spray. The rock bulking over his head was wet and slick in the darkness, cold. But it was a measure of protection against the wind and the spray that lashed up...

Martin Zane thought he was all finished with his routine report on the freighter Temoc for Marine Mutual, but the lush blonde suddenly changed his mind. He just couldn’t say no to her delicious smile,...

A baby-faced sadist sprung from the death-house . . .Two trigger-happy hoods . . .A voluptuous redhead trying to outrun the vengeance of the Mob . . .Here was a carload of killers, ready to fight each...

“Lucky” Tom Blane’s luck as a private eye had run out when his crooked ex-partner, Enrico Pachuco, took off with his rep and his funds. So Rosanne Norton was like an angel from heaven when she offered...

Three lovely ladies provided Joe Coyle with his ticket to perdition.The first was a redhead: Ellie Lucas, who had a mind like a steel trap and had an insurance business that would require dirty work to...

They were laying for Clay Belden when he came out of the pass into the Wildhorse Valley. He didn’t see them. He didn’t know they’d be there. He didn’t think they would remember him.But they were waiting,...

The murder of his father had brought a cold violent anger to Matt that time had turned to ice but had not diminished. Eyes slanted sideways, the clerk said to Matt, ''Some say Jake Dill done it. Some...

There was room enough in the valley, but Ike Quarles didn’t think so. Now he and his hired killers had served notice on Brad—drift or die! “I’m about through drifting,” Brad said slowly. “I was thinking...

Carr Lindon was one of five ranchers whose lands surrounded the prize bunchgrass that made up the big Government graze in the center of the valley. Pat Tyler, Lindon’s closest fried and neighbor, was...

Cameron was his name. He looked like a lawman, he wore a tin badge, but the owl-hooters knew him as a bank robber who had turned traitor. And they set a trap to catch him with a band loaded with gold...

Jim Clane, arriving in Dunlop to clean up the town, found it teeming with crime, vice and political corruption. Clane started by instigating a near-riot at a political meeting, thus at once getting in...

Larry Flynn was a special investigator for hotels. And though the swanky Surfside Lodge was not in his bailiwick, he was willing to answer the call for help from the pretty widow that ran it.He’d owed...

The characters . . .Adeline O’Hara, ex-WAC and reporter for the Teneskium (Oregon) Pioneer, also country correspondent for the Portland Press, who tells the story. She is young, red-headed, and Irish....

When Special Investigator Jeff McKeon was called hurriedly back to the Puget City DA’s office, it marked the end of a beautiful vacation and the abrupt beginning of an ugly frame. For while Jeff’s back...

The first time insurance claims investigator Peter Durham’s friend Arne Rasmussen had a fire on one of his ships, Peter treated it as a routine accident. The second fire he called bad luck. But when the...

Malcolm Lowry had waited five long years for his revenge; he’d built up a lot of hate in that time. But now he was ready to strike back at the men who’d slain his wife and stolen his money. It had taken...

It is the smell of death …The Oxnan hotel stank with the stale odor of cheap whiskey, cheap two-bit racketeers, cheap unwashed women. But behind the rotting front, behind the peeling-plastered walls,...

A cool, slim, beautiful girl drove up to Mark Warren’s service station in the California desert and asked to have her gas tank filled so she might continue on her flight from some men who insisted on...

Paul Knox, secret agent for the U.S. Government, had been around. But never had he seen anything as vicious as this new twist in the blackmail racket. Wealthy and prominent people were being exposed to...

A Bodelan, Margil looks like a large upright cat?although she doesn’t always act like one. She’s moody, brilliant, and filled with furry intensity. A human, Endo Leduc is her tutor, responsible for her...

The crew of the Sunda Tiger is stranded on Research Colony 227C. They have no ship. No comms. And no choice but to work with their android hosts despite all their lingering doubts.Shaula wants to focus...

Beatrice Wren is mad. Or so her neighbours believe. An unmarried woman, living alone in Victorian London, and whispering to old trinkets she finds at the shore of the Thames.When a box of porcelain figurines...

A chiseler preys on the kind-hearted. But Jenna's vengeance? Bless his heart.Jenna didn't plan on chasing criminals when she inherited the Peach Blossom Retreat, but when a friend is attacked and left...

Although he left his position with the master of deceit, Dwight Lamar, well before the swindler vanishes, Matt Nelson is held accountable for serious construction deficiencies that have caused the deaths...

A NASA mission to Venus has a dark secret.Grace Parkowski has her dream job.Piloting remotely-controlled humanoid robots to explore Venus from an air-conditioned room in Los Angeles is the next best thing...

Ten twisty tales to give you goosebumps.  With a husband's questionable decision, a soul stealing tree, and a child who is not quite a child.  These stories might give you a fright, or check over your...

The Darkness of Thorne HouseBook One of The Maplewood HorrorsThe house is awake. The Ferryman is hunting. And the bloodline of witches is calling them home.For thirty years, the town of Maplewood, Maine,...

In the ruthless streets of New Jersey, where betrayal runs deeper than blood and survival is a game of strategy, Dishonorable Deeds introduces a new kind of hood thriller—one that doesn't play by the...

It was the perfect murder... almost. An elderly woman is found murdered in her apartment. Cause of death; a single gunshot wound to the chest. The only door is locked from the inside. There are no signs...

A young woman chosen to bear the children that will give a hidden person power. The thing is, this is something she never agreed to. She tries to save her children from the person's control. With her...

An ordinary couple, a quiet life, a cozy home… it's all about to come crashing downMeet Jon and Ian, a loving couple settled into a quiet life. Until Ian becomes the victim of a brutal hate crime that...

Our favorite team of Homicide Detectives are back with a case that hits close to home with Wyatt when a body washes up on a beach connected to his 'Ask Molly' column. How does his advice leave behind...

Scenes of Crime Officer Marcie Kelshaw didn't like her colleague, Ben Drummond.  Nobody else did, really, which suited Ben fine.  He didn't like anybody either - an attitude that proved fatal.Despite...

Erin Kealoha never set out to become a PI's sidekick, but after escaping from a cult, becoming an accidental drug mule—it wasn't her fault, honest—and then getting fired from a strip joint, she lucked...

Fifteen year old Christopher is about to embark on an investigation...Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them.It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying...

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE... YOU LIEThe bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once explores the dangers of obsession in this #1 bestselling suspense thriller. Six years...

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

‘Addictive. A first-class page-turner.’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me Can the past ever be forgotten? As soon as nurse Maura Lyle sets foot inside the foreboding Essen Grange,...

OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina...

The first thriller in the Mickey Bolitar series, now airing as an original series on Amazon Prime. Bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix show Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben brings us a shocking...

'It does everything you'd expect of a masterpiece - and it is one' Sunday Express'Hums and crackles with delicious unease' Independent'Captivating' The Sunday Times'An absorbing thriller' Mail on SundayNO...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Let there be spaces in your togetherness,And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.’...

When a struggling ad agency takes money from the wrong billionaire, things spiral fast.Marshal Burns and Jim Rabbitt are long-time partners in business, but when a slick investor offers them salvation,...

Murder. Religion. Sexual Abuse. Politics. Power.In 1960, as John F. Kennedy fights to become America's first Catholic president, the Church scrambles to cover up a dark secret—the rampant sexual abuse...

It's early summer 1983 and Navy Petty Officer Third Class Nicholas Price has left his ship in Okinawa after receiving a letter from his wife that he was not supposed to read. But at some point during...

The Flight Risk Spy SeriesAmanda Hopkins was born to fly. Her family called her a flight risk long before she took to the skies, earning her wings at just fifteen with a crop duster and a big dream. But...

Reborn in Shadows is a gripping tale of survival, identity, and second chances.Miriam Ryder—a sharp-witted, chain-smoking transgender woman and recent amputee—isn't looking for trouble. She's looking...