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Thriller - Searching for a wealthy friend's yacht, Travis McGee puts himself square in the center of the international cocaine trade, and finds himself the target of some of the most ruthless villains he's ever met. Contemplating his own mortality for the first time, Travis McGee discovers amid all the danger the astonishing surprise behind the cat-shaped pipe cleaners someone is leaving at his door. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Review: "The "great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller. Stephen King My favorite novelist of all time . . . All I eve...

No one knows history quite like Peter Pike does. And that's ironic because the fictional sleuth shows little interest in annals of the past, his creator notes.  A figment of Columbia author Neal Fandek's substantial imagination, the detective put himself in the middle of American religious history and our national lust for treasure in Fandek's first novel, "Peter Pike and the Murderous Mormons."  For his next adventure, Pike inadvertently inserts himself into a debate over the sexuality of no less than Abraham Lincoln. "Peter Pike and the Lincoln Love Letters" finds Pike chasing down Linco...

Thrillers: Boston stars in Lisa Gardner's latest By Jon Land “Before She Disappeared” (Dutton, 336 pages, $27) is former Rhode Island resident Lisa Gardner’s first stand-alone thriller in years, and, boy, does it stand out as a masterpiece of post-modern noir in the vein of the great Dennis Lehane. Gardner is also at home in Lehane’s backyard of the working-class Boston neighborhoods, Mattapan in this case. The book introduces us to Frankie Elkin, a woman with more than her share of skeletons in the closet who’s dedicated to finding lost souls — literally in the form of often lon...

REVEALED: Off-duty cop arrested in Capitol riot is ALSO a corporal in Virginia National Guard [trunc] Posted on Full Title: REVEALED: Off-duty cop arrested in Capitol riot is ALSO a corporal in Virginia National Guard - making him first serving military member to be charged in the attack ...Robertson said he does not support the violence that happened inside the Capitol. 'Absolutely not,' he said. 'For it to go like that is absolutely ridiculous.' Robertson said he and Fracker went into the building at about 2 p.m. or 3 p.m. 'We were escorted in by the Capitol Police, shown around and tol...

Pixel Scroll 12/17/20 For He To-Day That Scrolls His Pixel With Me, Shall Be My Sibling; Be He Ne’er So File Posted on (1) INSIDE STORY. In “Why I Write”: Samuel R. Delany scrolls through the reasons. This conversation appears in the Winter 2020 print issue of   . … I remember sitting on the steps of the embalming room at the back of the chapel in my father’s Harlem funeral parlor, watching Freddy, my father’s embalmer, working on the corpse of a tan woman with reddish hair stretched on her back on the white enamel surgical table with its drain and clamps…