This volume brings together a collection of 18 papers that look into the expression of modality in the grammars of natural languages, with an emphasis on its manifestations in naturally occurring discourse. Though the individual contributions reflect a diversity of languages, of synchronic and diachronic foci, and of theoretical orientations — all within the broad domain of functional linguistics — they nonetheless converge around a number of key issues: the relationship between 'mood' and 'modality'; the delineation of modal categories and their nomenclature; 

Every Dead Thing by John Connolly

Tormented and racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to track down a missing girl.  It is a search that will lead him into an abyss of evil.  At the same time, he gets warned by an old woman that 'The Travelling Man' is about to strike again.  Multiple strands converge with a horrific confrontation in which hunter and hunted are intimately connected by guilt.