Bodies Electric
10 best books like Bodies Electric (Colin Harrison): Death at Windsor Castle, City of Ice, Dress Gray, Millroy the Magician, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, The Rosetta Codex, Mirage, The Red Fox, Back to Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus, Vicious Circle
| Author | C.C. Benison |
| ISBN | 0553574787 |
Housemaid Jane Bee's summer duties run to dusting the props for a week of pageantry at Windsor Castle, the Queen's favorite haunt. But the Investiture of the new Knights of the Garter ends up combining pomp with a extremely unpleasant circumstance.... Mild-mannered art curator Roger Pettibon is found...
| Author | John Farrow |
| ISBN | 0812991729 |
A college kid in a Santa Claus suit is tortured, murdered, and left hanging from a meat hook on Christmas Eve - a gift intended for one particular cop. This debut thriller set in bone-chilling midwinter Montreal features one of the most compelling new heroes to emerge in crime fiction: Sergeant-Detective...
| Author | Lucian K. Truscott IV |
| ISBN | 0451190475 |
This is a long novel, set in West Point during the Vietnam war years. There is much exposition and backstory. The gay stuff was handled with a tender mixture of disgust and wonderment. In his closing speech, our young hero seems to be saying that one could not draw the line between gayness and other facets...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0449911977 |
Fourteen-year-old Jilly Farina was mesmerized by Millroy the Magician at the Barnstable County Fair. After all, he once turned a girl from the audience into a glass of milk and drank her. But when Jilly stepped into the wickerwork coffin during a performance, she had no idea he would transform her dreary...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0553212427 |
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created.
Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan...
| Author | Richard Paul Russo |
| ISBN | 0441013899 |
This is the second book I've read by the author and, though it definitely isn't as good as Ship of Fools, I found myself enjoying it quite a lot. I'm fairly new to scifi, I know world building is suppose to be a huge element and there was some of that in the book, but I think Russo's main strength is in his writing...
| Author | F. Paul Wilson |
| ISBN | 0446604739 |
Julie Gordon, a leading research scientist at the age of 27, has created the most exciting virtual reality program ever--a computer-enhanced, 3D voyage into the mind. When she receives the news that her estranged twin sister Samantha is in a coma, she realizes that her sister is dying, and no one can...
| Author | Anthony Hyde |
| ISBN | 0140083987 |
In his widely acclaimed, intelligently written first novel, Anthony Hyde gives us the thrilling story of a search -- from Canada to Georgetown to Paris to Leningrad, and finally to an isolated Russian village -- for a missing man, a missing fortune, and the key to a tantalizing mystery half a century...
| Author | Armistead Maupin |
| ISBN | 0060166495 |
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels—the fourth, fifth and sixth of which are collected in this second omnibus volume—stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the...
| Author | Robert Littell |
| ISBN | 1585678554 |
An Israeli government minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Days later, Elihu, an aging and decorated Mossad officer, leads his final raid, killing a Hamas leader in his bed and barely escaping with his life.Out of this familiarly cyclical scenario emerges what is perhaps Robert Littell...
| Author | Joseph Wambaugh |
| ISBN | 0553263021 |
HRF Keating claims this as Wambaugh's finest work of fiction in his rundown of the best 100 works of crime and mystery; the former policeman turned author famed for his realistic portrait of the boys in blue as something less than heroic being something of a literary sensation in the 70s when coppers were...
| Author | Melodie Campbell |
| ISBN | 1459801253 |
Gina Gallo is a gemologist who would like nothing better than to run her little jewelry shop. Unfortunately she's also "the Goddaughter," and, as she tells her new friend Pete, "you don't get to choose your relatives." And you can't avoid them when you live in Hamilton and they more or less run the place....
| Author | T.R. Pearson |
| ISBN | 0141002166 |
This book was an utter revelation. There are two storylines here: one following cousin Ray who has just been hired as a sheriff deputy in a small town off the Appalachian trail and one following cousin Paul who lives in Virginia but travels to New York City to identify the body of his murdered son.
What...
| Author | Arthur C. Clarke |
| ISBN | 0575076240 |
It is 2010. In two years' time it will be the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. Two of the world's most powerful corporations race to raise the vessel but there are other powers at work, and chaos theory comes into play as plans progress - and six preserved bodies are found. This novel incorporates...
| Author | Lawrence Sanders |
| ISBN | 0425063291 |
I decided to reread this book. As a young adult, Lawrence Sanders was one of my favorite authors. His descriptions were beautiful, but at the same time, his plots and characters were exciting.
I found this book has not lost a thing in my eyes. Although there is some un-PC wording, one needs to remember...
| Author | A.J. Holt |
| ISBN | 0312959974 |
"I know who you are."
"No you don't."
"I'm coming after you."
"No you won't."
"Watch me."
Special FBI agent Jay Fletcher knows how to catch serial killers. She's developed a computer program that identifies the most vicious murderers in America.
But Jay's Washington...
| Author | Cass Tell |
| ISBN | 0975908200 |
The Online Game to Kill All Online Games
… and Your Neighbor
Welcome to Social Code, the online game where your deepest social and spiritual needs are creatively fulfilled and your preferences are monitored for your own advancement.
The story follows Doby, a curious and resourceful...
| Author | Clive Eaton |
| ISBN | 1477531033 |
For over four millennia the Great Pyramid of Giza has guarded a secret image; until NOW!
A prominent young Egyptologist is murdered by a colleague, deep within the bowels of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The authorities are keen to cover it up, but they know they can’t achieve total closure whilst...
| Author | Michael Dobbs |
| ISBN | 0006477097 |
FRANCIS URQUHART'S EVENTFUL CAREER AS PRIME MINISTER COMES TO A SPECTACULAR END IN THE FINAL VOLUME IN THE NO 1 BESTSELLING TRILOGY In a few months, Francis Urquhart will take his place in the history books as the longest-serving Prime Minister this century. And yet . . . the country appears to he tiring...
| Author | Chris Ryan |
| ISBN | 0712684115 |
When Robert Maxwell is assassinated by an unknown agency, conflicting interests in the arms trade threaten all-out war.
Ex-SAS Corporal Pete Slater is trying to make a new life for himself as a teacher, but when he is accidentally caught up in an attempt by terrorists to kidnap one of his pupils,...
