Due to one giant judicial misstep, Richard Handcock, a violent, repetitive, criminal, and spousal abuser was sent home on an electronic monitor to murder his wife. He had learned how to manipulate the system from another inmate while incarcerated! This story draws the reader into a web of lies and infidelities, and ...*Role-playing sex games*Drug addiction and drug dealing*A story of devil worship and sacrifices*A top police lieutenant gone bad*A lying informant who is framing another*Eerie telephone death threats*Graphic self-mutilations*Kidnapping*An attempted rape*Paranoia*A possible drowning and*And a botched police investigation

Managing the challenges of an early blizzard, Sheriff Tony Abernathy searches for the body of a missing charter plane passenger before learning that a local woman has been found murdered in the wake of the theft of a priceless quilt.

Nobody talks to the cops. Everybody talks to the bartender.And Avalon Nash is a hell of a bartender.On a cool June night at the Battened Hatch, Avalon is the last to see an Olympic medalist before his mysterious demise. Her superpower is collecting people's stories, and she soon discovers that the Olympian's death connects to an unsolved kidnap/murder of a teenaged girl from her bedroom 25 years before. As more murders come to light, it's clear that the perp is looking to silence anyone getting close to the truth.Settling into her new home in Tranquility, New York, Avalon must figure out who is worth trusting as she seeks to be vulnerable again-while tracking and outwitting a dangerous murderer. The second book in the Bartender's Guide to Murder series offers scares, humor, and 30 more of the best drink recipes ever imbibed.

Gravity in our myths -- Gravity in motion -- Gravity as a fiction -- Gravity as a fact -- Gravity as an equal -- Gravity in excelsis -- Gravity in our bones.

From a legendary music journalist with four decades of unprecedented access, an insider’s behind-the-scenes look at the major personalities of rock and roll. Lisa Robinson has interviewed the biggest names in music—including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon, Patti Smith, U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Jay Z, and Kanye West. She visited the teenage Michael Jackson many times at his Encino home. She spent hours talking to John Lennon at his Dakota apartment—and in recording studios just weeks before his murder. She introduced David Bowie to Lou Reed at a private dinner in a Manhattan restaurant, helped the Clash and Elvis Costello get their record deals, was with the Rolling Stones on their jet during a frightening storm, and was mid-flight with Led Zeppelin when their tour manager pulled out a gun. A pioneering female journalist in an exclusive boys’ club, Lisa Robinson is a preeminent authority on the personalities and influences that have shaped the music world; she has been recognized as rock journalism’s ultimate insider. A keenly observed and lovingly recounted look back on years spent with countless musicians backstage, after-hours, and on the road, There Goes Gravity documents a lifetime of riveting stories, told together here for the first time.

No one talks to the cops. Everyone talks to the bartender. On the run from her life in L.A., Avalon Nash has a drink while waiting to change trains in the Olympic town of Tranquility, NY, when she discovers the freshly-murdered bartender at MacTavish's. A bartender herself, she's offered the position with the warning he wasn't the first MacTavish's bartender to meet a violent end. Death in Tranquility offers chills, laughs, and 30 of the best drink recipes ever imbibed.

“[An] absorbing novel that will appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell.” —Booklist “A poignant and carefully crafted story.” —School Library Journal “A gorgeous, sad, funny, and wise book about letting go and finding your place in the world.” —Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces Parker struggles to reconnect with her twin brother, Charlie—who’s recovering from cancer—as she tries to deal with her anxiety about the future in this powerful new novel. Twins Parker and Charlie are polar opposites. Where Charlie is fearless, Parker is careful. Charlie is confident while Parker aims to please. Charlie is outgoing and outspoken; Parker is introverted and reserved. And of course, there’s the one other major difference: Charlie got cancer. Parker didn’t. But now that Charlie is officially in remission, life couldn’t be going better for Parker. She’s landed a prestigious summer internship at the hospital and is headed to Harvard in the fall to study pediatric oncology—which is why the anxiety she’s felt since her Harvard acceptance is so unsettling. And it doesn’t help that her relationship with Charlie has been on the rocks since his diagnosis. Enter Finn, a boy who’s been leaving strange graffiti messages all over town. Parker can’t stop thinking about those messages, or about Finn, who makes her feel free for the first time: free to doubt, free to make mistakes, and free to confront the truth that Parker has been hiding from for a long time. That she keeps trying to save Charlie, when the person who really needs saving is herself.