Mark De Castrique
Author
Series
Secret lives volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by botched attack on two law clerks leaving one dead and the other in a coma. The ensuing cover-up leaves a string of bodies and too many players at cross-purposes. It also leaves Chief Justice Clarissa Baxter with a target on her back. An off the grid hero with friends in high places is needed: enter retired FBI agent-turned-boardinghouse landlady Ethel Fiona Crestwater (legend)...
2) Secret lives
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everybody has something to hide At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underestimated. She looks like someone's grandma, though she's never married or had children; petite and a bit frail, she's not a threat to anyone. Or is she...? Ethel runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action-much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who has recently come to stay...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson love their investigations which always carry a thread from the past - and they love each other. An interracial couple in the new South, the Asheville, NC, pair has surrounded themselves with a terrific support team including an unorthodox lawyer and a veteran cop. They deploy humor both to bind them together and to deflect insults. Plus, it helps deal with the tragedies their work uncovers. Such a tragedy interrupts...
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A simple assignment for private investigator Sam Blackman and his partner Nakayla Robertson: follow Professor Janice Wainwright, who's suing a surgeon for malpractice, and catch her in activities that undercut her claim. When Wainwright visits Connemara, Carl Sandburg's home in Flat Rock, N.C., and climbs the arduous trail to the top of Glassy Mountain, Sam believes he has the evidence needed to expose her-- until he finds the woman semi-conscious...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton loans one of his caskets to the Jaycees' haunted house, but questions his decision when the body of the Jaycees' president is found in the coffin during a haunted house tour.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral director and part-time deputy sheriff Barry Clayton and his childhood nemesis, Archie Donovan, Jr., unite to create a fundraising float in Gainesboro's annual Apple Festival Parade, what could go wrong? With Archie involved - anything!"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital in Asheville, NC, as a bitter civilian without a job or a future. But when he solved a series of local murders, Sam not only brought the guilty to justice but found meaning for his life. Now he and his partner, Nakayla Robertson, are opening a detective agency. They have high hopes that the thriving mountain region will provide a steady stream of cases....
Author
Series
Sam Blackman mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When Asheville, NC, private eyes Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson are asked by an eighty-year-old client to investigate the suspicious death of her brother, they warn her there is little chance of success. Paul Weaver died nearly seventy years earlier. The only documentation she has is the sole surviving copy of a coroner's report stating his death was caused by an accidental fall while hiking. There's a red flag: local son Weaver knew every inch...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The Singularity-the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cognitive abilities, with consequences no one can foresee, and only a handful of people understand.Rusty Mullins, ex-Secret Service, has never heard of the Singularity. He only knows that after the deadly challenges of his last job for security firm Prime Protection, he swore he'd stop risking his life on assignments. Then his good friend Ted Lewison, head...
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