Cops can make mistakes, even when they’re not rookies. If anyone knows that it’s Cass Raines, who took a bullet two years ago after an incompetent colleague screwed up a tense confrontation with an armed suspect. Deeply traumatized by the incident, Cass resigned from the Chicago… A compelling and original book....This outstanding first book...has launched a medieval historian of tremendous promise." I’ve always been fascinated by our creative urges and ambitions, and by what makes us who we are and why we make the choices we do. While I’m interested in many aspects of human experience and psychology, from the mundane to the murderous, I’m especially drawn to narratives that probe our deeper psyches and look, particularly with a grain of humor, at our efforts to expand our understanding and create great works—or simply to become wiser and more enlightened beings. What is our place in the universe? Why are we here? Who are we? The books I’ve listed explore some of these matters in ways both heartfelt and humorous. Guang Ze Jiu Shi: Shang Hua Pian | 2009 | Zheng Yue, Ran Qinghuan | transmigration, historical, political, xianxia

Wu Wuran, Wu Gonghai (No Pollution, No Public Nuisance) (Chai TL:Completed) | 2018 | Gan Qing, Yu Lanchuan | modern wuxia However, he was not able to publish any novel until 2013. Then he began working on the John Milton series, which opened the floodgates of his fame and allowed him to publish multiple novels in a period two years. Along with that, he was able to publish novels of other thriller series’ as well. Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it’s up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose . . . Stepping away felt like stepping onto shards of glass, and I couldn’t help myself, she was so wide-eyed and so open to my love, and it was instinct more than anything else that led to trace a small cross on her forehead. Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has slipped into Venice for a much-needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the…When I started writing mysteries, beginning with St. Martin’s Malice Award-winning Southern Fried , I wanted to get the medical, investigative, and courtroom details right. What better resource than good first-hand accounts from professionals who do those things every day? I love traditional, play-fair mysteries and the puzzles they present. But I also love writers who get the technical details right while also writing engaging novels I can get lost in. Nothing better than curling up with a good mystery. Whatever happens after this, I just want you to know that this was worth it. You were worth it. You were worth everything.”

As the bruising dark of Samhain approaches, so does the fate of our circle, of Thornchapel and the village and the valley beyond it. And I must don the crown, because one thing is still true, even if I must face it alone. To save the life of a friend, he pledges himself to a path for which he is ill-prepared: guiding a blind priest on a quest to retrieve a sacred relic that only he can find.They say that every tragic hero has a fatal flaw, a secret sin, a tiny stitch sewn into his future since birth. And here I am. Jin Se Completed: (Wattpad TL: Ch 1 onwards) (Chrysanthemum Garden TL: Ch 8 - end) | 2011 | Shi Wuduan, Bai Li | xianxia This group is not for regular ficti A group for people who enjoy reading and talking about adult historical romance books between a man and woman.

Scrublands is another crime novel that took me to faraway places, this time to a remote Australian town during a relentless drought.

Publication Order of Atticus Priest Books

But vows or not, I know in my heart that it would take more than a good and holy monk to resist Elijah Iverson right now. It would take a saint.

Any issues with the book list you are seeing? Or is there an author or series we don’t have? Let me know! So when the gorgeous, brilliant Zenny Iverson asks me to teach her about sex, I want to say yes, I really do. Unfortunately, there are several reasons to say no--reasons that even a very bad man like myself can't ignore.Zandy Lynch never planned on going to grad school a virgin. So when her professor father finds her a job abroad as a research assistant the summer before she starts her master’s program, she sees her chance. The stories of Aitor and Jacob, two priests selected to help rebuild the world following a nuclear apocalypse, are interwoven with those of Talik and Ziek, friends exiled from a city of mutants after Ziek exhibits symptoms of the dreaded Burdening disease. The plot of the novel opens with the depiction of John Milton as a state-sanctioned killer and thinks that he is done with his profession. He seems to be troubled by nightmares and ghosts, who frequently torment him in his dreams.