Mirage
10 best books like Mirage (F. Paul Wilson): Death at Sandringham House, Cape Breton Road, City of Ice, Dress Gray, Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II, The Rosetta Codex, Bodies Electric, The Red Fox, Back to Barbary Lane: The Tales of the City Omnibus, Vicious Circle
Author | C.C. Benison |
ISBN | 0553574779 |
Compelling contemporary mystery by local Canadian author, CC Benison.
Individual characterization and descriptive settings added to my interest in the action of the story. British euphemisms authenticate the dialogue adding to the humour of the scenarios and personalizing the characters....
Innis Corbett, a young man born into a highlander community in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, left his native country as a child to live with his parents in Boston. Emotionally troubled by his father's death and his mother's weakness for men and drinking, Innis gets involved in a series of car thefts and is...
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 | 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 | Colin Harrison |
ISBN | 0312979665 |
Jack Whitman is a powerful executive with a massive multimedia conglomerate. He is extremely well-paid, highly ambitious, and desperately lonely since his wife's murder. Then one night on a subway car, his eyes meet those of a woman he cannot forget.
Dolores Salcines is a ravaged beauty on...
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 | Anthony Bidulka |
ISBN | 1894663977 |
Charity Wiser, matriarch of the Wiser clan by virtue of her wealth and power, is an indomitable provocateur ... and private detective Russell Quant's newest employer. There is more than a single rotten apple on this family tree, and Quant has been hired to discover which one is intent on murdering his...
Author | Kevin Smith |
ISBN | 0802136796 |
One of the major hits of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, a film that proved too hot for Disney to handle, Kevin Smith's ribald, revolutionary new film Dogma is a comic theological fantasy that is sure to be one of this fall's most provocative offerings. Two fallen angels (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck), sentenced...
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 | Jay Quinn |
ISBN | 1555838596 |
They say true freedom arrives when all the kids are gone and the dog dies. With his family grown and his husband Zack having decided to become a middle-aged clichA(c) and marry his secretary, Chris Thayer is about to discover that starting life over at 48 is just as complicated, frustrating and thrilling...
Author | William Dietrich |
ISBN | 0446524573 |
Getting Back is a futuristic thriller, an eco-fable with a touch of Survivor, Mad Max, and Avatar. The world's population has doubled. Wilderness exists only in old movies. Every region on Earth has been explored, organized, and tamed. But in this brave new age one secret organization promises the...
Prisoners of The Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific
Author | Gavan Daws |
ISBN | 0688143709 |
Gavan Daws combined ten years of documentary research and hundreds of interviews with surrviving POWs to write this explosive, first-and-only account of the experiences of the Allied POWs of World War II. The Japanese Army took over 140,000 Allied prisoners, and one in four died the hands of their...
The new historical series from the bestselling author of the Outlaw Chronicles.
THE THRILLING NEW SERIES FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE 'OUTLAW CHRONICLES'. PERFECT FOR FANS OF BERNARD CORNWELL AND CONN IGGULDEN. AFTER THE TUDORS CAME THE STUARTS . . . London, Winter 1670. Holcroft Blood...
Author | Robin Gardiner |
ISBN | 1559723475 |
The Titanic Conspiracy raises many questions, including: Why was the ship's helmsman packed off to South Africa? And why did the ship's log go down with the ship? Why did Captain Smith accelerate into the ice field of which he had been warned many times? And why did he wait twenty-five minutes to start...