Professional psychic Abigail Cooper is about to discover that some cold cases are better off dead... As the FBI's newest Civilian Profiler, Abby Cooper is using her powers of intuition to help solve a backlog of the bureau's cold cases. But when she's the only one who's convinced that several separate cold cases are related, she'll have to call on every intuitive bone in her body before she's the one put on ice...
Mrs. Bell, housekeeper at Mount Eden, is found murdered and little Linda Bell, seven years old, is missing. Ole Fren Yorky is suspected of the killing and the kidnapping. Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is seconded to investigate the crime on behalf of the South Australian Police. He spends much time talking with the local aborigines because he is convinced that they know more about the case than they are saying. When he discovers that old Chief Canute has been promised Meena and that Charlie is in love with her, he buys Meena for forty plugs of tobacco and tells Charlie that he will give him Meena if he will help him.
When the bones of a woman are discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery, Dr Temperance Brennan of the Laboratoire de Medecine Legale in Montreal is convinced that a serial killer is at work. The detective in charge of the case disagrees with her, but he is forced to revise his opinion.
Added by: ninasimeo | Karma: 4370.39 | Fiction literature | 28 April 2010
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The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins
Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock: the revelation that her husband has been on trial for poisoning his first wife.
Added by: Cheramie | Karma: 275.78 | Fiction literature | 19 January 2010
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Not Another Bad Date by Rachel Gibson
14 years ago Adele Harris gave her heart and virginity to Zach Zematis, up and coming football star. He took both, and then returned her heart broken. She left college mid term, unwilling to face him day after day. She got over him, eventually, but unfortunately she has been unlucky in love ever since. For the past three years she has gone on dates that start off good than turn to just plain bizarre. Convinced she is cursed to make all potential suitors nutty, she has sort of given up on love.
