Book Preview The Dirty Secrets Club Jo Beckett [1] Meg Gardiner Unknown publisher (2009) From Publishers Weekly An intelligent and stubborn heroine who’s just emotionally vulnerable enough to be empathetic lifts this novel from Gardiner (_China Lake_), a Californian now living in London making her U.S. debut. Dr. Jo Beckett, a forensic psychiatrist (or deadshrinker), … Read more
Book Preview “Simply put, the finest crime suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years . . . your basic can’t-put-’em-down thrill rides.” “Do me a favor, okay? Lay your hands on . . . China Lake. [It] had me at page one. Miss Gardiner makes it all work…. Amazingly entertaining.”—Stephen King “[An] … Read more
Book Preview Crosscut Evan Delaney [4] Meg Gardiner 2010 : USA Evan Delaney returns in the new thriller from Meg Gardiner. For Evan, China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But she didn’t realise just how tough until, returning to the desert military base for her high school reunion, she discovers that a … Read more
Book Preview ‘‘You’re going to think Meg Gardiner is a gift from heaven for thriller/mystery readers.’’—Stephen King ‘‘Do me a favor, okay? Lay your hands on . . . China Lake. [It] had me at page one. Miss Gardiner makes it all work. . . . Amazingly entertaining.’’ —Stephen King ‘‘[An] exciting mix. Great stuff.’’ … Read more
Book Preview ‘‘Simply put, the finest crime suspense series I’ve come across in the last twenty years . . . your basic can’t-put -’em-down thrill rides.’’ ‘‘[An] exciting mix. Great stuff.’’ —Independent on Sunday “Meg Gardiner makes it all work . . . amazingly entertaining. ” —Stephen King “With a colorful cast of richly delineated … Read more
Book Preview Mom, Dad, Jenny, and Kevin the Squid, I’m sorry I left and I’m sorry I can’t come back, and for everything I’m sure you’ve been through in the past however many years. I’m sorry you were given this note and know I was here but left without saying hello or good-bye. I was … Read more
Book Preview CHARACTER GUIDE Joey’s Team Joey Harker J/O HrKr—male, younger cyborg version of Joey. Jai—male, senior officer. Spiritual, likes big words. Jakon Haarkanen—female, wolflike. Jo—female, has white wings, can fly only on magic worlds. Josef—male, comes from a denser planet. Large and strong. Other Walkers of Note Jaya—female, red-gold hair, voice like a siren. … Read more
Book Preview Once I got lost in my own house. I guess it wasn’t quite as bad as it sounds. We had just built a new annex—added a hallway and a bedroom for the squid, aka Kevin, my really little brother—but still, the carpenters had left and the dust had settled over a month ago. … Read more
Book Preview ‘A very fine and imaginative writer’ The Sunday Times ‘Exhilarating and terrifying’ Independent ‘Urbane and sophisticated’ Time Out ‘A jaw-droppingly good, scary epic positively drenched in metaphors and symbols … As Gaiman is to literature, so Antoni Gaudi was to architecture’ Midweek ‘Neil Gaiman is a very good writer indeed’ Daily Telegraph ‘Exuberantly … Read more
Book Preview How Nobody Came to the Graveyard THERE WAS A HAND IN the darkness, and it held a knife. The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. If it sliced you, you might not even know you had been cut, not immediately. The knife … Read more
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Book Preview Snow, Glass, Apples Copyright (c) 1994 Neil Gaiman I do not know what manner of thing she is. None of us do. She killed her mother in the birthing, but that’s never enough to account for it. They call me wise, but I am far from wise, for all that I foresaw fragments … Read more
Book Preview HARPERCOLLINS E-BOOK SPECIAL FEATURE: Three stories not available in the print edition of this book But where there’s a monster there’s a miracle. READING THE ENTRAILS: A RONDEL They’ll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate… They do it with mirrors. It’s a cliché, of course, but it’s also… Mrs. Whitaker … Read more
Book Preview THERE WAS A BOY called Odd, and there was nothing strange or unusual about that, not in that time or place. Odd meant the tip of a blade, and it was a lucky name. He was odd, though. At least, the other villagers thought so. But if there was one thing that he … Read more
Book Preview BEFORE THE BEGINNING, AND AFTER YGGDRASIL AND THE NINE WORLDS MIMIR’S HEAD AND ODIN’S EYE THE TREASURES OF THE GODS FREYA’S UNUSUAL WEDDING THOR’S JOURNEY TO THE LAND OF THE GIANTS THE APPLES OF IMMORTALITY THE STORY OF GERD AND FREY HYMIR AND THOR’S FISHING EXPEDITION THE LAST DAYS OF LOKI RAGNAROK: THE … Read more
Book Preview The night before he went to London, Richard Mayhew was not enjoying himself. He had begun the evening by enjoying himself: he had enjoyed reading the good-bye cards, and receiving the hugs from several not entirely unattractive young ladies of his acquaintance; he had enjoyed the warnings about the evils and dangers of … Read more
Book Preview W HEN I WAS YOUNG, and it doesn’t really seem that long ago, I loved books of short stories. Short stories could be read from start to finish in the kind of times I had available for reading—morning break, or after-lunch nap, or on trains. They’d set up, they’d roll, and they’d take … Read more
Book Preview “I think…that I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.” The words turned up in a dream and I wrote them down upon waking, uncertain what they meant or to whom they applied. My original plan for this book of tales and imaginings, some eight years … Read more