DETECTIVE ACCUSED

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DEATH IN HAWAII.

A FORBES and STRONG DETECTIVE MYSTERY

Daniel Forbes and Amy Strong form as spectacular and unlikely a detective combination as can be found in the world today. In this story the pair are called upon to give some simple, straightforward protection to a seductive young widow in Hawaii - which of course means an on the spot investigation.

The lure of a soft, relaxing and lucrative job for the agency swiftly escalates - protection turns into blackmail and blackmail into murder.

Amy with her steam-roller, money-loving skills and Daniel with his brains, good looks and sex-appeal, are suddenly faced with one of their most exciting, intriguing and complex cases yet when they start to investigate who caused the DEATH IN HAWAII...

A story with another neat little twist in its tail. The hallmark of a good Brookes book.

When his old friend and former fencing instructor dies suspiciously, Agent Henry Bride uncovers a string of deaths connected only by a piece of software. Clue after clue puts Bride closer to an intricate network of death that includes a major assassination as only its first step. With the clock running out, Bride is faced with a villain no one has heard of, a killer who isn’t exactly human, and a plot that will require every ounce of his strength and cunning to survive, as Agent Bride must prove there is nothing mightier than the sword.

“Kristine Kathryn Rusch ventures into (darker than) Zenna Henderson territory in her effective and atmospheric two-track story ‘The End of the World.’”
—SF Site

Small-town detective Becca Keller must struggle with her own demons when her ex-husband calls her to help with a mass grave unearthed at the site of his resort-restoration project in the Oregon desert. Her investigation unearths more questions than answers—about the bones and about the past.

Winner of the UPC Special Award, The End of The World explores the complexities and range of the human condition.

International bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has won two Hugo awards, a World Fantasy Award, and six Asimov’s Readers Choice Awards. Her latest science fiction novel is Blowback, the next novel in her Retrieval Artist series. She also writes mysteries under the name Kris Nelscott. For more information about her work, please go to kristinekathrynrusch.com.

This Element is an excerpt from Crossing the Energy Divide (ISBN: 9780137015443) by Robert U. Ayres and Edward H. Ayres. Available in print and digital formats.

Why biofuels won’t work--except for gigantic agribusinesses and their lobbyists.

If the entire U.S. corn crop were converted to ethanol, the aggregate reduction in total fossil fuel (gasoline) energy consumption would be just 2.4%. Considering that we still want our corn flakes, pork chops (corn feeds hogs), and cooking oil, any realistic level of crop consumption for fuels would do virtually nothing to end U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

This funny, exuberant novel captures the reader with the grand sweep of seven-foot-tall David “Lizard” Hochmeyer’s larger-than-life quest to unravel the mystery surrounding his parents’ deaths. It’s a journey laden with pro football stars, a master chef and his beautiful transvestite lover, a world-famous ballerina and her English rocker husband, and a sister who’s as brilliant as she is unstable. A wildly entertaining, plot-twisting novel of murder, seduction, and revenge—rich in incident, expansive in character, and lavish in setting—Life Among Giants is an exhilarating adventure. 

Editors’ pick for Amazon’s Best of 2012 

Shelf Awareness Top Ten Best Fiction of 2012 

Columbus Dispatch’s Top Books of 2012