Beginning Operations

8 best books like Beginning Operations (James White): The Art of Theft, More Than Human, Taming Demons for Beginners, Miles, Mystery, and Mayhem, Shadow of Doubt, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Shadow Magic, Swing Shift

The Art of Theft
AuthorSherry Thomas
ISBN0451492471
Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, is back solving new cases in the Victorian-set mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of The Hollow of Fear.

As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never...
AuthorTheodore Sturgeon
ISBN0375703713
There's Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people's thoughts and make a man blow his brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and there are the teleporting twins, who can travel ten feet or ten miles. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine...
Taming Demons for Beginners
AuthorAnnette Marie
ISBN1988153360
Rule one: Don't look at the demon.

When I arrived at my uncle's house, I expected my relatives to be like me—outcast sorcerers who don't practice magic. I was right about the sorcery, but wrong about everything else.

Rule two: Don't listen to the demon.

My uncle chose a far...
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
ISBN0671318586
Contains:
Cetaganda
Ethan of Athos
Labyrinth.

Diplomat, soldier, spy - Lieutenant Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan of the Barrayarayan Empire, a.k.a. Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries, is a young man of many parts.

Miles and his handsome cousin Ivan...
Shadow of Doubt
AuthorHailey Edwards
Hadley Whitaker is a liar, a killer, and a chocoholic, but she’s getting better about the first two. Or maybe she’s just getting better at them.

Some days it’s hard for her to tell fact from fiction, but only one truth matters. Goddess willing, she’s going to be the next Potentate of Atlanta....
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
AuthorErnest Hemingway
4★
“No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now.”

Harry’s dying. Gangrene. He’s not happy about it, but he’s resigned to it...
Shadow Magic
AuthorNazri Noor
The gods are dying. But for one man, death is only the beginning.

Murdered as a ritual sacrifice, amateur thief and professional charmer Dustin Graves mysteriously survives, finding himself gifted with strange, dark magic. Then more dead bodies turn up. Some are human, but one is a god of the...
Swing Shift
AuthorWilliam D. Arand
Reports to write, forms to fill, coffee to drink, leads to run down.

Gus’s life was a tedium and boredom he’d grown comfortable with. One that he sought out after he’d come back from his tour of duty.

A Detective in the Paranormal Investigations Department. A job he could work...
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