Trading Mystery

Zren Janin has friends in high places. Through accident and adventure he knows Ngahuru of the West Islands, Miyamoto Suki, a diplomat of Vikland, Bima Ritwik the Softfoot, Solkka Ulani, a man who is more than the son of a coffee farmer, and Vikland’s prolific inventor and firemaster, Chul Swyler. Zren is loyal to those he calls his family at Manumina. He respects the talents of the Wrens, who came to fight for a chance at a better future than Kerek City would offer, and he understands those who just want a place to belong. But not all of them will survive. Some will carry scars that will ...

Natalie Sinclair has dedicated her life to animal rescue. From lost dogs and cats to lab rabbits and pigs, Nat and her team of volunteers at All Creatures Great and Small will do almost anything to keep animals out of harm's way. When a freak accident results in the death of her beloved horse, and the man responsible ends up murdered, Nat is a natural suspect. Worse, she has caught the attention of the dead man's brother, whose wealth and unsavory connections run deep, including a link to a dangerous ring of criminals trafficking in wild animals.

『四人の誓い』事件後、結婚し医院を開業したワトソンのもとをホームズが訪れた。依頼人とともにバーミンガムまで同行してほしいと言う。その依頼人は、若いロンドンっ子で、株の仲買人。失業後、才能が買われ勤めることになった会社はとても厚遇してくれるのだが、何かがおかしい…。ホームズとワトソンは一大事件に関わることに!『株式仲買人』(原題: THE STOCK-BROKER'S CLERK)は、『株式仲買店員』『株屋の店員』などの邦題で知られている。(1893年3月初出)/「シャーロック・ホームズの記憶」よりFirst published in the Strand Magazine, March. 1893

-The Adored is a story rich in character, as seven wealthy best-friends come of age. But a problem lingers: one of them committed a murder as a teenager and an innocent young black man is serving time for it. - Along the way these seven men from the 1% have starkly different lives but remain connected by an umbilical cord stretching back to the privileged life that began in preschool. -Santa Alba, the beauty queen of Coamo, Puerto Rico has stolen Eddie Wheelwright from Valerie McGuire, the brilliant Wall Street analyst, -Curtis Strong is innocent of the murder he has been convicted of, ...

Bristol in 1787 is booming, from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole, a small dockside trader, is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection, Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar, rum and slaves.

Il fût un temps où cette ville était au centre du monde. Un temps où sa puissance se nourrissait du sang et du fer. Mais aujourd'hui elle n'est plus que rouille et elle attend la ruine. C'est un territoire parfait pour Willie Flambeaux et Randi Wade. Lui est agent de recouvrement, elle, détective. Mais lorsqu'une série de meurtres particulièrement atroces ensanglante cette ville qu'ils croyaient si bien connaître, ce n'est plus dans dans le labyrinthe des rues qu'ils auront à mener l'enquête, mais dans les recoins les plus sombres de leurs propres passés.

One rainy night, Gerry Brady discovers a beautiful woman with heartbreaking eyes hiding in his garage. The moment he sees her, he is struck by an involuntary thought he does not understand: I've found you. She is a woman in danger. He does not understand why he feels so powerfully drawn to her, but he feels compelled to help her, even though doing so puts his life and the lives of his friends in jeopardy. Gerry's relationship with Kendra draws him into a conspiracy too horrifying to believe...a conspiracy rooted in his own past.

The city of Vukovar, situated on Croatia's easternmost periphery, across the Danube River from Serbia, was the site of some of the worst violence in the wars that rocked ex-Yugoslavia in the early '90s. It is referred to only as "the city" throughout this taut political thriller from one of Europe's most celebrated young writers.

Virtual reality is the technology of the future, and Mark Fairfax’s brother Richard runs the leading company in the field worldwide. He has also been murdered. Mark is a City trader: sharp, young, ambitious. He is left to pick up the pieces at his brother’s company in Scotland’s 'Silicon Glen'. Struggling to keep the business in the black, and with corporate predators closing in, Mark must learn fast and trust no one. With his brother’s killer on the loose, bankruptcy may prove to be the least of his problems.

Cisco Suarez versus an entire Caribbean drug cartel. Round one. Fight. Okay, not exactly the most even championship match, but it's the one I drew. If you told me months ago I'd be robbing drug dealers, I would've committed you myself. Who needs that kind of trouble, right? The good news is I'm only after one man: Connor Hatch. The bad news is he's the new Pablo Escobar, a primal being, and all but untouchable.

Small candles nestled in a silver candelabrum are ceremoniously lit to announce the start of a medieval auction. Sadly, however, we are not in the middle ages but in the first decade of this century. The auction is a nightly event somewhere in Eastern Europe. On the block are naked teenage girls, the latest casualties of the global flesh market. These sex slaves are not fiction: "Natasha girls" already number over a million, an atrocity that has joined weapons smuggling and drug trafficking as one of the largest and most lucrative criminal activities on earth.

Dawn Cryo, the world’s first cryogenics company is about to be floated on the exchanges. Finally, those who thought they faced certain death can be frozen until a cure is found—for a price. When two bankers close to the Dawn Cryo deal are found dead, DI Anne Perry is sent to investigate. Apparent suicides—all Anne Perry’s instincts tell her they were murdered. Dawn Cryo...what is it about this deal that kills those that get too close?

Rogue assassin Josh Thane is an artist in murder. His next target is a British microbiologist suspected of creating devastating chemical weapons. Breaking into her house, he discovers someone has beaten him to it - she’s already dead. In a moment of weakness, he saves the life of her son. A single mistake that destroys everything he’s worked for and puts him and the boy in immediate danger. When Josh embarks on an international quest to find the real killer, he uncovers a criminal conspiracy with truly terrifying consequences.

Six months after the murder of his uncle, Sean is trying to get his life together. He's stopped drinking, he's taking better care of himself, and he's working hard to keep a fledgling security business afloat. At a blood plasma bank Sean frequents to earn extra income, he meets the distraught relative of Andrew Carson, a man who went missing weeks earlier on the other side of the state, with a pool of blood in the snowy driveway of his home as the only clue to the man's fate.

Hollis Morgan has come a long way since serving time for her ex-husband’s white-collar crimes. After receiving a state pardon, she is now a probate attorney at the Bay Area firm, where she began as a paralegal. In a case close to home, her manager, George Ravel, inherits a fortune from his newly found birth mother, but her dead husband’s heirs are overcome with greed, not grief. They are determined to discredit her will and deny her natural son even one cent of the millions they believe should belong to their father’s estate.

An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can’t stand the thought of his country owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate, he doesn’t know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the “Prime Minister’s private army” to come up with a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon, who thinks there just might be a way to bring it off.

A mystery/adventure book set in New York and South Africa during the early 20th century. Experience a captivating blend of suspense, deception, and thrilling adventure with an undertone of a heartfelt love story, crafted against a backdrop of international intrigue. A riveting journey with Michael Smith, a successful financier from New York's upscale Gramercy Park, and Sarah, his loving wife. Their luxurious life takes a turbulent turn when news of a colossal diamond discovery in South Africa reaches them. This discovery prompts a cross-continental adventure filled with danger and ...

She’s searching for answers ... Under the guise as a journalist learning the ginseng trade, Moira Dawson is determined to learn the truth about her brother’s death. Someone knows the secret of how he died, and she’s sure it’s murder. He’s determined to protect what’s his … Beau Johnstone looks like a rugged mountain man, and he hates diggers who tear down his fences and destroy his property to dig the coveted roots, and he’s not afraid to run them off with a loaded shotgun. When Moira meets Beau at the end of that shotgun, he’s the last person she plans to trust. Can they ...

When Nick gets his first assignment from the shadowy Japanese intelligence agency he joined after fleeing the UK, it seems easy enough. All he has to do is play the babysitter and escort a retired MI6 agent to a safe house. But when Nick discovers why the agent needs help, the game changes. What was done secretly 20 years ago still has the power to ruin lives. But there’s no one else left alive who knows anything about it.

Deeply grieving, Oscar feels his life slipping out of his control. A seemingly innocuous one-night stand with a woman named Dawn becomes volatile when, on the first day of classes, he realizes she is his student and later learns that she is a fledgling campus drug lord. To make matters worse, his family is in debt, having lost their modest savings to a self-help guru who had indoctrinated Oscar's mother by preying on her depression. Desperate to help his family, Oscar breaks with his academic personality - he agrees to help Dawn with a drug run.