Author: Dia Reeves
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Keywords: violet, bleeding
Number of Pages: 454
Published: 2010-01-05
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1416986189
ISBN-13: 9781416986188
Love can be a dangerous thing.... Hanna simply wants to be loved. With a head plagued by hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet stuffed with frilly, violet dresses, Hanna’s tired of being the outcast, the weird girl, the freak. So she runs away to Portero, Texas in search of a new home. But Portero is a stranger town than Hanna expects. As she tries to make a place for herself, she discovers dark secrets that would terrify any normal soul. Good thing for Hanna, she’s far from normal. As this crazy girl meets an even crazier town, only two things are cert
Author: Val McDermid
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, bleeding, beneath
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0061688975
ISBN-13: 9780061688973
Published in the U. S. for the first time The residents of Bradfield are devastated when their star midfielder dies, the victim of a bizarre, seemingly motiveless murder. In a hospital, recovering from injuries, criminal profiler and psychologist Dr. Tony Hill struggles to make sense of the fragments of information he can gather in order to help his ally, Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan, bring a killer to justice. Then an explosion rips through a soccer stadium, leaving dozens dead and many more injured, and Jordan finds herself pushed to the margins of the investigation by the intelli
Author: Ian Rankin
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: novel, hearts, bleeding
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-11-15
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0316009121
ISBN-13: 9780316009126
A page-turning novel of assassins and double-crossing from the master of modern mystery, Ian Rankin. Michael Weston is a gun for hire. He’s paid well to do his job and ask no questions. But after successfully assassinating a TV reporter, the cops are quickly on his tail. How did they know how to find him? And who is his anonymous employer? Why did he or she want the reporter dead in the first place? Was he set up to be caught and thrown in jail? The answers may lie with Hoffer, a private detective who has been hunting him for years--ever since Michael dispatched a bulle
Author: Geoff Nicholso
Publisher: Overlook TP
Keywords: london, bleeding
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0879518863
ISBN-13: 9780879518868
The city of London appears as a character in this humorous novel. It is portrayed almost like a human body, displaying signs of renewal and decay, with a clogged digestive tract, bottlenecks and congestion. It is a city of obsessives, of insouciant sadists, of innocents. It is bleeding London.
Author: Sara Paretsky
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Keywords: kansas, bleeding
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0399154051
ISBN-13: 9780399154058
Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery emigrants. Today, the Schapen family, terrified by the lawlessness of the 1970s-when Lawrence was the most violent college town in the nation-has turned to that old- time religion for security. The Schapens keep a close eye on all their neighbors, most especially the Grelliers. They maintain careful track of everyone’s misdeeds, printing the most egr
Author: Martha Powers
Publisher: Pocket Books
Keywords: heart, bleeding
Published: 2001-11
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0743211413
ISBN-13: 9780743211413
Author: Don DeLillo
Publisher: Dramatist’s Play Service
Keywords: bleeding, lies, love
Number of Pages: 43
Published: 2007-06-30
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0822222132
ISBN-13: 9780822222132
Alex Hauser left New York and gave up easel painting to live and create land art in the southwestern desert. Now seventy, he has had his second massive stroke. His young third wife Lia believes that somewhere deep inside his mind is still alive, but Alex’s ex-wife and son, Toinette and Sean, have come to this remote place to help him die. Scarlet four o’clock, terminal sedation, night blooming cereus, respiratory depression, sacred datura, persistent vegetative state, love-lies-bleeding, life long devotion: the names of desert flowers and the language of death are equally potent an
