![]() ![]() ![]() Boundaries begin to blur between Cassie's real and undercover identities.Ĭassie Maddox was a character in French's 2007 In the Woods. She forms deep bonds with the dead girl’s four housemates, who are suspects in the murder. A senior police officer, Frank Mackey, convinces Cassie to impersonate the dead woman to investigate her death and to discover who she really was.Īs the investigation proceeds, Cassie becomes consumed by her impersonation of the murder victim. The dead woman not only resembles Cassie but also was living under an alias the detective used in an earlier undercover assignment. The story follows the efforts of detective Cassie Maddox to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of Lexie Madison, a young woman who is her doppelgänger. The Likeness and In the Woods, the first book of the series, are the inspiration for the BBC and Starz's 2019 Dublin Murders, an eight-episode series. Set in Ireland, it is the second volume in French's Dublin Murder Squad series. The Likeness is a 2008 mystery novel by Tana French. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But first Annajane must find out what she's really made of, and what really matters most. Happiness could be hers for the taking.and the life she once had with Mason could be in her future. Second chances But there are secrets afoot in this small Southern town, and soon Annajane discovers that change can bring out the worst in people-even her own friends and neighbors-and uncover family scandals. ![]() And maybe, just maybe, she wants Mason back. But when fate intervenes and the wedding is called to a halt as the bride is walking down the aisle, Annajane begins to realize that maybe this happened for a reason. She is so over Mason that she has absolutely no problem attending his wedding. They've been divorced for four years, she's engaged to a terrific new guy, and she's ready to leave the small North Carolina town where she and Mason had so much history. First husbands Annajane truly believes she is over her ex-husband, Mason. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, although Smiley swears he has admitted to all of the maps he stole, libraries claim he stole hundreds more-and offer intriguing clues to prove it. Though pieces of the map theft story have been written before, Blanding is the first reporter to explore the story in full-and had the rare privilege of having access to Smiley himself after he’d gone silent in the wake of his crimes. The Map Thief delves into the untold history of this fascinating high-stakes criminal and the inside story of the industry that consumed him.Īcclaimed reporter Michael Blanding has interviewed all the key players in this stranger-than-fiction story, and shares the fascinating histories of maps that charted the New World, and how they went from being practical instruments to quirky heirlooms to highly coveted objects. Forbes Smiley spent years doubling as a map thief -until he was finally arrested slipping maps out of books in the Yale University library. ![]() Once considered a respectable antiquarian map dealer, E. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects. ![]() Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers-both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. The story of an infamous crime, a revered map dealer with an unsavory secret, and the ruthless subculture that consumed him ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2008, he was nominated for an Emmy Award for Justice League: The New Frontier in the category of outstanding animated program, for programming one hour or more.Ĭooke died May 14, 2016, in Florida. Additionally, he contributed as a writer to the series Justice League and Cartoon Superheroes Abridged. ![]() He also contributed to television, as a title designer on Batman Beyond a character designer for Superman and a storyboard artist on The New Batman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Superman, Men in Black: The Series (for which he also served as the director), Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and Batman: Black and White. Lex Luthor, the Batman, - Available at 2014 February 20 - 22 Vintage. He worked on the series for a year, and re-established The Spirit as a viable DC character. Darwyn Cooke Justice League The New Frontier Special 1 Original Art (DC, 2008). The reimagining of the Justice League won multiple Eisner, Harvey and Shuster Awards and was adapted into an animated movie on which Cooke worked as a consultant, titled Justice League: The New Frontier.įollowing The New Frontier, Cooke took on the task of reviving Will Eisner’s 1940s hero The Spirit. His big breakthrough came several years later, in 2004, while working on DC: The New Frontier. ![]() ![]() Darwyn Cooke was a DC comic book writer and artist best known for his work on the comic books The Spirit and DC: The New Frontier.Ĭooke came to prominence in the comic book community in 1999, when working on Batman: Ego and a revival of Catwoman with writer Ed Brubaker. ![]() ![]() Ellison is the winner of eight Hugo Awards, four Nebula Awards, five Bram Stoker Awards, and many other honors and accolades. He later helped adapt his story “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” into a videogame of the same name, providing the voice of AM. Over his six-decade career, Ellison wrote more than 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, and essays, including a controversial Star Trek episode, “The City on the Edge of Forever.” Ellison was involved in multiple lawsuits against directors and movie studios he believed had ripped off his work. Famously combative, Ellison is just as notorious for his personality as he is for his prolific writing career. After being fired from Walt Disney Studios on his first day for making an inappropriate joke, Ellison continued to publish fiction and nonfiction pieces, and his work gradually gained a cult following. Before he made a name as a fiction writer, Ellison was a Hollywood screenwriter. ![]() Ellison worked an eclectic series of odd jobs as a young man, including a lithographer, a personal bodyguard, and a nitroglycerine truck driver. Born to Jewish parents, Ellison and his older sister, Beverly, were raised in Cleveland and Painesville, Ohio. ![]() ![]() Her fists at the ready, she's prepared to punch and get punched, however long it takes and however many limbs she might have to regrow.Ī story I've started writing now quite a while ago. The grand quest? Well, she might figure that out someday but for now, a new world with new food is prize enough. Sounds good? Well, for Ilea it didn't come quite as expected as for some other protagonists, nor was there a king or god to welcome her. Next to the published book on Amazon, I only post Azarinth content on Royalroad, Scribblehub, and Patreon.Ī new world with nearly unlimited possibilities. Due to exclusivity for the infinite money glitch that is Kindle Unlimited, the heavily edited section of the story will be exclusive to Amazon but a small cut of each sale goes to Royalroad.įind Book One here (Chapters 1-74): Book One - Ebook/Kindle UnlimitedAudio: Book One - Audio narrated by Andrea ParsneauFind Book Two here (Chapters 75-151): Book Two - Ebook/Kindle UnlimitedAudio: Book Two - Audio narrated by Andrea Parsneau The heavily edited version of the story will slowly be published through Kindle and Kindle Unlimited (there will be Audiobooks too). ![]() ![]() ![]() Against this background, Daphne Manners, a young English girl, is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens. World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self-rule lobby is gaining many supporters. Volume 1 contains The Jewel in the Crown and The day of the Scorpion.Jewel in the Crown -India 1942- everything is in flux. ![]() The racism, brutality and hatred launched upon the head of her young Indian lover echo the dreadful violence perpetrated on Daphne and rev. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The townspeople, unaware of their history, call for Bathsheba to hire the heroic Gabriel as a shepherd, to which she assents. The barn coincidentally belongs to Bathsheba, who has inherited her uncle’s farm. ![]() Spotting a barn on fire, he leaps to work to save it. Some months later, he is travelling to look for work when he finds himself in Weatherbury. ![]() Shortly thereafter, Gabriel’s sheepdog in training mistakenly drives his entire flock over a cliff, bankrupting Gabriel. He quickly falls in love and asks her to marry him however, she rejects his proposal and soon moves away to nearby Weatherbury. One day, he makes the acquaintance of Bathsheba Everdene, who is staying with her aunt nearby, when she saves him from accidental suffocation. The novel begins in the town of Norcombe, where Gabriel Oak is a young farmer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Something's gotta a give, but whichever ball Mika drops means losing someone she loves. And despite Mika's protests, she is roped into caring for a person that seems impossible to have compassion for.Īnd if that wasn't hard enough, Mika must train the new guy at her pet shop job who wants to be anywhere else, and help a friend through her own family crisis. ![]() While Mika's family would rather not deal with Grandma Betty, they don't have much choice. My edition: Paperback, published on 5 February 2015 by Hot Key Books, 322 pages.ĭescription: Mika Arlington was supposed to spend the summer after her junior year shadowing her marine biologist parents at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but when her estranged grandmother randomly shows up on the doorstep one day, those plans are derailed.īecause Grandma Betty isn't here to play nice-she is cranky, intolerant of Mika's mixed-race-couple parents, and oh yeah she has Alzheimer's and is out of money. ![]() ![]() He was on horseback in a rural area when it happened. A European landowner was ambushed, shot and killed on his way back from a bank. The book is structured around a trial loosely based on a real incident. ![]() There’s a funny line when the main character returns from Oxford and his mother, disappointed with his choice of degree, says to him “All that money squandered on you at Oxford. Sometimes he is aware, as when he states that at Oxford “I knew very well that in order to be their equal I should have to prove myself their superior.” Of course, the Sinhalese themselves screwed the lower-class Tamils even more so after independence. Most of the time he seems oblivious to his skin color and native status despite many warning signs, such as a European piano teacher who catches him handling one of her knickknacks and screams at him about his 'black hands' touching her property. He is so sold on the ideals and benefits of British colonialism that all his life he uses the phrase “We Edwardians.” ![]() He is a young Black man, a native Sinhalese, who goes to Oxford to become a lawyer. ![]() The main character is Sam (after his initials). The Hamilton Case is set in Sri Lanka (then the British colony of Ceylon) around the early 1900s. ![]() |