Human remains are recovered from the bottom of the River Clyde. Not an unusual occurrence, but these have been sleeping the deep, dark sleep for eighteen years. Suddenly Glasgow's underworld is buzzing with the news that the dredged up bones belong to Gentleman Joe Strachan, Glasgow's most successful and ruthless armed robber.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 17 December 2011
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The Bones of Avalon
A country divided. A newly crowned, desperately vulnerable young queen. Can one man uncover the secret that will save her throne? It is 1560, and Elizabeth Tudor has been on the throne for a year. Dr. John Dee, at 32 already acclaimed throughout Europe, is her astrologer and consultant in the hidden arts… a controversial appointment in these days of superstition and religious strife.
Like any big-city paramedic, Shaw Chandler had probably seen a thousand suicides in Miami. But he knows a murder when he sees one--and this time it's his own father. Suddenly he's got a metal cannister marked "US NAVY" in his hands, and he's dragged back to the crazed, coral shores of Key West to explain it. There he comes face-to-face with a deranged killer--and a psychotic mastermind. Soon to be a major motion picture.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 8 September 2011
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A Morbid Taste for Bones
In the remote Welsh mountain village of Gwytherin lies the grave of Saint Winifred. Now, in 1137, the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the sacred remains for his Benedictine order. Native Welshman Brother Cadfael is sent on the expedition to translate and finds the rustic villagers of Gwytherin passionately divided by the Benedictine's offer for the saint's relics. Canny, wise, and all too wordly, he isn't surprised when this taste for bones leads to bloody murder.
This story begins with a murder on modern-day Fifth Avenue in New York and reaches back across the centuries to an equally ruthless Old Testament world. Through the hero, Azriel, it explores the pogroms, the diaspora, arcane mysteries of the Kabbalah, the Fall, and the nature of good and evil.