Irrational Numbers
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Had just about all the excitement I can stand for a while.
The slow trudge from the plane reminded her of the procession she endured at the Saved by the Blood Pentecostal Tabernacle not five hours ago. Five hours and a lifetime ago.
As she approached the baggage claim, Bonnie scanned the waiting crowd for a familiar face. When she saw no sign, she tried to rationalize her disappointment.
Makes no sense for him to park his car and come all the way into the concourse. He’ll probably be waiting by the passenger pick-up.
Then a white-bearded figure stood. The man had been stooped either picking something up or possibly tying his shoe. He was carrying a gigantic bouquet of yellow roses, her favorite. Armen Callahan’s face lit up as their eyes met.
Now that’s what I’m talking about. Passenger pick-up, my sagging derriere.
She waved, feeling like she might possibly be a girl of fifteen reconnecting with her boyfriend after being on vacation with her folks. It felt good. Hell, more than good, it felt right.
Forget the fact the man had lost his mind and bought her plane ticket without consulting her. They’d work through that hiccup.
Bonnie had no idea what she planned to do at the end of this couple of days. She would have to go back to Colorado. That was a given. There were the dogs to consider. Would she return to live in the big house with Armen and his dad? That was a harder one to pin down. She owed Lloyd a decision as quickly as possible so he could hire a new math teacher, if that was necessary. Right now, she didn’t want to think of any of that.
I’ll cross that bridge and who knows, maybe blow it up behind me.
Armen drew close, wrapped his strong arms around her. The flowers tickled the back of her head, but she didn’t care. Feel-good endorphins were exploding all across her synapses. As far as she was concerned, they could stand here like this until the next plane came in. After an eternity she pulled back.
“Take me home, Mister Mouse.”
THE WITCH OF AGNESI
ROBERT SPILLER
Bonnie Pinkwater is a teacher, a good one. She cares about her students. So when Peyton Newlin, a thirteen-year-old math genius, disappears, Bonnie starts nosing around.
One by one, students who were competing with the young genius start turning up dead and Bonnie suspects Peyton may be narrowing the field. Then Peyton himself turns up murdered. Bonnie’s investigation ratchets up.
What she discovers is a coven of witches, a teenage comic book magnate, a skinhead Neanderthal with violent propensities, an abusive father, an amorous science teacher, and a mistranslated medieval mathematics manuscript. Somehow, all the pieces have intersected at the tragically brief life of her math protégé.
As the body count mounts, Bonnie realizes she may have bitten off more than she can chew. Because whoever is eliminating her beloved students, has now decided East Plains, Colorado would be better off without one aging math teacher.
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A CALCULATED DEMISE
THE HYPATIA MURDERS
Robert Spiller
Bonnie Pinkwater, a veteran teacher with a knack for finding trouble, is at it again.
This time sadistic wrestling coach Luther Devereaux is found murdered, and her mentally challenged aide, Matt, is found with blood on his hands. She enlists the help of Greg Hansen, student council president, to pursue her investigation and exonerate Matt … and then Greg’s marijuana-dealing brother and father are killed as well. And it looks like Matt’s dwarfish brother Simon is the culprit. That is, until Simon is shot and killed by an amorous millionaire rancher pursuing Bonnie. Can it get any worse?
Oh yes. The rancher’s son is now the prime suspect. And Superintendent Xavier Divine, AKA The Divine Pain in the Ass, demands Bonnie cease her investigation or lose her job.
Maybe Bonnie should have listened to him. Because things are about to get a whole lot worse. The murderer has now kidnapped Bonnie’s beloved dog, and unless she wants to see him alive again, well …
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“Fast, engaging – a fine debut.” —Lee Child
NY Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
GUNS
PHIL BOWIE
Sam Bass is tall and lanky, loves old western movies, wears cowboy boots and drives a beat-up Jeep Wrangler. He has a gorgeous girlfriend, Valerie, a Cherokee widow with a young son, and he’s a hot shot pilot. A hot shot pilot with a past. And when Sam makes a daring and dangerous rescue of a couple lost at sea in a storm, he gets publicity he definitely doesn’t need.
The Cowboy, as he’s known in certain circles, has finally been located and a hit team is dispatched to take care of unfinished business. A bomb is planted in the beat-up Jeep. But it isn’t Sam who drives it that day.
Grief stricken, Sam visits Valerie’s grandfather in the North Carolina mountains to tell him he plans to avenge Valerie in the ancient Native American way of members of a wronged family seeking justice —with no help from the law. With only the old man’s help, Sam trains his mind and body for the task ahead. And then the bloody hunt is on …
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1985, a year before the Chernobyl disaster. Hidden away in a wine cellar in the western Ukraine, Chernobyl engineer Mihaly Horvath, brother of a Kiev Militia detective Lazlo Horvath, reveals details of unnecessary risks being taken at the Chernobyl plant. Concerned for his brother and family, Lazlo investigates—irritating superiors, drawing the attention of a CIA operative, raising the hackles of an old school KGB major, and discovering his brother’s secret affair with Juli Popovics, a Chernobyl technician.
When the Chernobyl plant explodes scores of lives are changed forever. As Lazlo questions his brother’s death in the blast, Juli arrives in Kiev to tell the detective she carries his brother’s child. If their lives aren’t complicated enough, KGB major Grigor Komarov enters the fray, reawakening a hard-line past to manipulate deadly resources.
Now the Ukraine is not only blanketed with deadly radiation, but becomes a killing ground involving pre-perestroika factions in disarray, a Soviet government on its last legs, and madmen hungry for power as they eye Gorbachev’s changes.
With a poisoned environment at their backs and a killer snapping at their heels, Lazlo and Juli flee for their lives—and their love—toward the Western frontier.
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MICHELLE PERRY
PAINT IT BLACK
DEA agent Necie Bramhall thinks she knows a thing or two about revenge. She’s devoted her life to bringing down the drug lord father who abandoned her. When she finally captures him, she thinks she’ll be able to put her painful past behind her. What she doesn’t realize is that she’s created a brand new enemy. A deadly enemy.
Maria Barnes is beautiful, ruthless, and driven by a lifelong jealousy of the half-sister she’s never known—the daughter their father could never forget. Her hatred for Necie spirals out of control following their father’s arrest, and Maria vows to destroy everything Necie holds dear … starting with her marriage and her family.
When her daughter is kidnapped, new revelations reveal the man she always perceived as her greatest enemy might be the only one who can save her from her half-sister’s wrath. And now her father is behind bars …
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