Mystery Books
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The FunhouseOnce there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate--and gave birth to a
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Kiss Me While I Sleep: A NovelIf you sense someone’s watching you from afar, or if you feel a shadow other than your own at your back, I might as well pack
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The HearingHardy's best friend, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky, has kept a secret from him...and everyone else. Hardy never knew that Abe had a
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The DiscipleTommy Carmellini and Jake Grafton have information that Iran's covert nuclear programme is nearing completion. The Iranian preside
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A Very Private Enterprise (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries)To his colleagues, co-workers and friends (did he have any real friends?), Hugo Frenchman was the consummate British civil servant
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In the Moon of Red Ponies: A Billy Bob Holland Novel (Billy Bob Boy Howdy)"James Lee Burke tells a story in a style all his own, in language that's alive, electric. He's a master at setting mood, layin
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Mystery Movies
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Flightplan (Widescreen Edition)Academy Award(R) winner Jodie Foster (Best Actress, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, 1991) gives an outstanding performance in the heart-
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OrphanThe tragic loss of their unborn child has devastated Kate and John, taking a toll on both their marriage and Kate's fragile psyche
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A Beautiful MindWinner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced b
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SolarisSuperstar George Clooney turns in a stellar performance in this "brilliant sci-fi movie" (New York Daily News) from Academy Award
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Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)During the presidential election of 1988, a teenager named Donnie Darko sleepwalks out of his house one night, and sees a giant, d
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Mystery Authors
Dick Francis biography
Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis was a British jockey and crime writer, many of whose novels centre around horse racing. Francis wrote more than 40 international bestsellers. His first book was his autobiography The Sport of Queens (1957) which led to him becoming the racing correspondent for London's Sunday Express newspaper, remaining in the job for 16 years. In 1962 he published his first thriller Dead Cert, set in the world of racing. Subsequently he regularly produced a novel a year for the next 38 years, missing only 1998 (during which he published a short-story collection). Although all his books were set against a background of horse racing, his male heroes held a variety of jobs from artist (In the Frame and To the Hilt) to private investigator (Odds Against, Whip Hand, Come to Grief, Under Orders-- all starring injured ex-jockey Sid Halley, one of only two heroes used more than once). All the novels are narrated by the hero, who in the course of the story discovers himself to be more resourceful, brave, tricky, than he had thought, and usually finds a certain salvation for himself as well as bestowing it on others. Details of other people's occupations fascinated Francis, and the reader finds him- or herself immersed in the mechanics of such things as photography, accountancy, the gemstone trade, restaurant service on trans-continental trains - but always in the interests of the plot. Disfunctional families were a subject which he exploited particularly well (Reflex, a baleful grandmother, Hot Money, a multi-millionaire father and serial ex-husband, Decider, the related co-owners of a racecourse).
Information source: wikipedia