George: 988 books

Six murders, child porn, horse racing, drug smuggling, beautiful women, crooked police, crooked lawyers; it's all in a days work for Marvin Davis. When a young boy is gruesomely murdered in an apparent gang killing Marvin Davis is hired by the boy's family to clear his name. That is the starting...

Cocaine, murder and love. What else would you expect on a summer day? It is July in Dallas and hot. Then the fat man is murdered and everything gets hotter. Private detective Marv Davis is hired for an easy job, recover some stolen items. That "easy job" quickly leads him into in...

'WE go.' The lascar meditatively pressed his face, brown and begrimed with coal dust, streaked here and there with sweat, against the rope which formed the rough bulwark. His dark eyes were fixed on the shore near by, between which and the ship's side the water quivered quicker and quicker in little...

Nine previously published tales from sunny side up to over hard. Includes Agatha nominated short story of 2010.This collection includes the story nominated for an Agatha in 2010, a diet spoof, a Walmart people short short, and much more. These stories originally appeared in Hard Luck Stories, Mouth Full of Bullets, Mysterical-E and others.

Je ne suis point né d'hier, disait, en 1828, le père Étienne. Je suis venu en ce monde, autant que je peux croire, l'année 54 ou 55 du siècle passé. Mais, n'ayant pas grande souvenance de mes premiers ans, je ne vous parlerai de moi qu'à partir du temps de ma première communion, qui eut lieu...

Let me take you into an old-fashioned country house, built by architects of the early reign of James the First. It had all the peculiarities—I might almost say the oddities—of that particular epoch in the building art. Chimneys innumerable had it. Heaven only knows what rooms they ventilated;...

"VICTORY! It flies! I am master of the Powers of the Air at last!" They were strange words to be uttered, as they were, by a pale, haggard, half-starved looking young fellow in a dingy, comfortless room on the top floor of a South London tenement-house; and yet there was a triumphant ring...

These are the last words of Israel di Murska, known in the days of strife as Natas, the Master of the Terror, given to the Children of Deliverance dwelling in the land of Aeria, in the twenty-fifth year of the Peace, which, in the reckoning of the West, is the year nineteen hundred and thirty. MY...

She's the Grinch who hates Christmas. He's determined to make this the best holiday season ever. What they need is a Christmas miracle. What they have is a match made in candy cane hell… But when Faith and Blake are forced to work together to make Christmas dreams come true for a local kindergarten,...

He was a temptation she had to resist but her body had ideas of its own. Loving him was not an option but the attraction was making her weak with want. Erica Moles loved her job back on the Islands and would do anything to get ahead of it, even though she had a secret that could easily keep...

I was a real life Gorgi Porgi who was born kicking and screaming in 1942 in a small village in Anguilla in the Caribbean. Born into a world of war (World War 2), rationing,drought, famine, superstition, poverty and marital tension, my life was not off to a good start.However, as a boy growing...

Well-known to those who devour ghost stories, the North of England has a rich tapestry of tales relating to the paranormal and many are well known; Lady Gerrard of Darlington, the Screaming Skull of Burton Agnes Hall and so on. But some are not so well known and have languished in obscurity for decades. ...

A suspicious death occurs in the peaceful village of Hassman, New York. While the police and coroner write it off as a "natural causes" death, a retired English professor, who is also the village's self-appointed "amateur sleuth," thinks it just might be murder. The professor solves the lethal...

"Her graphically detailed pictures of tribal life make the novel memorable."—Chicago Tribune The Slave Girl follows the fortunes of Ogbanje Ojebeta, a Nigerian woman who is sold into slavery in her own land after disease and tragedy leave her orphaned as a child. In her fellow slaves, she...