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Nicole Glover delivers the second book in her exciting Murder & Magic series of historical fantasy novels featuring Hetty Rhodes and her husband, Benjy, magic practitioners and detectives living in post–Civil War Philadelphia Nothing bothers Hetty and Benjy Rhodes more than a case where the...

"The dead can't hurt you. Only the living can." Effie Jones, a former slave who escaped to the Union side as a child, knows the truth of her words. Taken in by an army surgeon and his wife during the War, she learned to read and write, to tolerate the sight of blood and broken bodies - and to forget what is too painful to bear. Now a young freedwoman, she has returned south to New Orleans and earns her living as an embalmer, her steady hand and skillful incisions compensating for her white employer's shortcomings.

The rural town of Old Hickory. Tennessee was a quiet, picturesque community...until the O'Sheas came to town. Becoming the new proprietors of the town's only funeral parlor, with the help of their charming patriarch, Square McManus, the Irish family was wholeheartedly accepted by the local town folk. The thing began to happen. Strange things...horrible, unspeakable things...in the dead of night. The sighting of wolfish beasts congregating around an open grave in the town cemetery.

If we are to believe many modern commentators, science has squeezed God into a corner, killed and then buried him with its all-embracing explanations. Atheism, we are told, is the only intellectually tenable position, and any attempt to reintroduce God is likely to impede the progress of science. In this audiobook, John Lennox invites us to consider such claims very carefully. Is it really true, he asks, that everything in science points towards atheism? Has science buried God? God's Undertaker is an invaluable contribution to the debate about science's relationship to religion.

Unmasking the Kremlin's Secrets: A High-Stakes Game in London Chauncey Brightspeed isn't your average London cabbie. Beneath the veneer of a nocturnal driver lies "The Undertaker," a CIA spy catcher on loan to MI5 from the CIA.. Fluent in Russian and armed with a photographic memory, Chauncey buries secrets and threats to national security. His current mission? Unearthing a deeply embedded Russian spy ring in the heart of London. In the thrilling opening chapter of The Undertaker: Kremlin's Spy Ring in London, Chauncey navigates the rain-slicked streets, chauffeuring suspected double agents...

I’m a ghost. A specter, some would say. A spirit. A shade, the hallucination of a compromised mind. Whatever moniker you prefer, that’s me. Excepting that last one. Uncle MortonI ran freight and wagon trains for years from Missouri to Santa Fe. Courted death from arrows to snake bites, drowning to dysentery, each and every trip. Came through all that only to be dealt a bad hand in Deadwood. Got myself killed.

Welcome to Stevens’ Funeral Home—where the flowers are fresh, the coffins are polished, and the drama is very much alive. Adam Stevens never planned to return to his sleepy hometown, let alone run the family funeral business. But between eccentric clients, nosy neighbors, and a stray dog that’s claimed the funeral home as its own, the dearly departed are quickly becoming the least of his worries. With a sarcastic best friend, a matchmaking father, and a stunning new hire who sees right through his defenses, Adam is about to discover that life after loss can be unexpectedly full of ...

For three decades, The Undertaker stood as a titan of professional wrestling, a supernatural force who captured the imagination of fans worldwide. This book chronicles the unparalleled career of the Deadman, offering an in-depth look at the matches, the moments, and the mythos that created a legend. From his most glorious triumphs to his most baffling creative directions, this is the definitive story of one of wrestling's most enduring icons. Explore the most celebrated achievement in WWE history: The Undertaker's legendary undefeated streak at Wrestlemania. Relive every victory, from his ...

What if eternity was just the beginning? Tim Thompson is a young man waiting only to join his entire family in the grave. But when he is hired by a mysterious undertaker business, he learns that many things other than death can happen to him, from meeting and falling for Cyril the outlaw vampire, to being reunited with his relatives after they too emerge from the grave! Undead life is anything but simple, especially when you are the son of an ultra-dominant vampire, and your troublesome little sister has both love and murder on her mind! Opium traffickers, vampire hunters, Japanese ghosts: ...

Judge Richard Quinn is young, idealistic, and honest to a fault. That's why he's handed the most sensational homicide case in Oregon history. Locked in a race for the U.S. Senate, Ellen Crease gunned down the intruder who murdered her wealthy husband. In a single, brutal instant she became a widow, a victim, and a hero. Yet disturbing questions remain. What secrets did the man who started his fortune running mortuaries keep that might have cost him his life?

Deadwood, late 1876. A rowdy and reckless undertaker’s delight. What better place for a killer to blend in? Enter undertaker Clementine Johanssen, tall and deadly with a hot temper and short fuse, hired to clean up Deadwood’s dead...and the “other” problem. She’s hell-bent on poking, sticking, or stabbing anyone who steps out of line. But when a couple Santa Fe sidewinders ride into town searching for their missing uncle, they land neck deep in lethal gunplay, nasty cutthroats, and endless stinkin’ snow.

Will Fiona's clan finally settle down? Not quite yet... Ready to settle down at last in Rouen, Tim and Cyril adopt a demon girl, but Fiona is not ready to accept this potentially dangerous creature in her home. Unemployed and faced with the necessity of providing for his new family, Tim becomes a Freemason and discovers the demonic side of this peaceful city. Meanwhile in America, when Joe meets the blue-eyed transgender dancer Andre, it's a stormy love at first sight! Both fearing rejection, they internalize this love and refuse to discuss it, despite their obvious attraction to each other...

Fiona's clan prepares to fight... but not only Heath Thompson! Nothing seems right anymore in Rouen as Lan finds herself increasingly attracted to Belial and suspects Shen of cheating on her with a female demon hired by Murasaki to separate them. Meanwhile, Joe accompanies Andre to a transgender vampire meeting where they make new friends, and the demon Astaroth offers Andre to give him a male body in exchange for his soul. Torn between his desire for a quick and painless transition and his desire to belong to Joe, Andre hesitates. The couple argues and Andre finds out that Astaroth is a ...

A thrilling novel from #1 international bestselling author Sara Blaedel, author of The Forgotten Girls "One of the best I've come across." -- Michael Connelly "Sara Blaedel is a force to be reckoned with. She's a remarkable crime writer who time and again delivers a solid, engaging story that...

Things get chilling and scary in this thriller where the secret life of an assassin is about to be revealed. Caring and loving family man Jarmo Kivi lives a slow life in the suburbs where he works for a funeral home and actively takes part in his kids' lives and their activities. But Kivi has...

Nothing covers up a big secret faster than a fresh grave. Someone with a scalpel and embalming table is planting bodies under other people’s names. Pete Talbott, a harried Boston computer wonk, is still grieving over the death of his wife, when he finds himself at the wrong end of Gino Parini’s .45 reading his own obituary torn from the morning newspaper. Talbott figures it’s all a big mistake, until Parini shows him his wife’s obituary too; and that’s a mystery that Pete Talbott can’t leave well-enough alone.

Can these rebellious vampires enjoy a peaceful life now away from the court of England? Certainly not! In this second book of the Undertakers Inc. series, Cyril dives into the exciting but treacherous gay nightlife of Montmartre and meets a handsome and mysterious libertine. Meanwhile, a string of recent murders of children occurs by a man calling himself the "Mad Hatter". Could it be Joe? Or Maurice? In Hong Kong, Shen abandons Holly to return with his mistress, but the feisty young woman won't let him get away with it. After training as a martial artist, Holly—now going by Lan—returns...

Nada oculta un secreto más rápido que una tumba recién cavada. Alguien con un bisturí y una mesa de embalsamamiento está enterrando cadáveres bajo otros nombres, y Pete Talbott y Sandy Kasmarek son los siguientes en la lista del enterrador. ¡Excelentes nuevas traducciones! Pete es un informático de Boston que todavía está de luto por su esposa cuando el sicario de la mafia Gino Parini le pone una pistola del calibre 45 y el periódico Columbus Ohio de esa mañana en la cara, abierto por la página de obituarios. El de Pete está ahí, en primer plano, y el de su esposa está al ...

Rien ne cache mieux un secret qu'une tombe fraîchement creusée. Quelqu'un muni d'un scalpel et d'une table d'embaumement enterre des cadavres sous le nom d'autres personnes, et Pete Talbott et Sandy Kasmarek sont les prochains sur la liste du croque-mort. Une nouvelle traduction passionnante ! Pete est un geek informatique de Boston qui pleure encore sa femme lorsque Gino Parini, un tueur à gages de la mafia, lui met sous le nez un calibre 45 et le journal du matin de Columbus, dans l'Ohio, ouvert à la page des nécrologies. Celle de Pete est là, en première page, et celle de sa femme...

In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.