Jason Culp
1) Yondering
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Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Where there's fighting -- The dancing Kate -- Glorious! -- Dead-end drift -- Old Doc Yak -- Survival -- Thicker than blood -- The admiral -- Shanghai not without gestures -- The man who stole Shakespeare -- A friend of the general -- Author's tea -- A moon of the trees broken by snow : a Christmas story -- Let me forget.
Author
Language
English
Description
The award-winning master of psychological suspense is in top form in this collection of diverse and diabolically clever stories - including one never-before-published novella. These brilliantly crafted stories of deception, murder, dangerous games, and love gone wrong - irrefutable evidence that Laura Lippman's riveting fiction will more than satisfy any crime reader.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the title story of "Walk Between the Raindrops," a woman sits down next to a man at a bar and claims she has ESP. In "Thirteen Days," passengers on a cruise line are quarantined, to horrifying and hilarious effect. And "Hyena" begins simply: "That was the day the hyena came for him, and never mind that there were no hyenas in the South of France, and especially not in Pont-Saint-Esprit--it was there and it came for him.
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Language
English
Description
In "Mastiff," a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and gratitude. "Sex with Camel" explores how a sixteen-year-old boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmother--and how vulnerable those feelings make him. Fearful that that her husband is "disappearing" from their life, a woman becomes obsessed with keeping him in her sight in "The Disappearing." "A book of martyrs" reveals how the end of a pregnancy brings...