Synopses & Reviews
In an isolated olive grove on the idyllic Aegean island of Tinos, revered by pilgrims around the world as the Lourdes of Greece, the remains of two bodies charred beyond recognition are discovered chained together amid bits and pieces of an incinerated Greek flag. An enraged press screams out for justice for the unknown victims, until the dead are identified as gypsies and the story simply falls off the face of the earth. Is it a gypsy clan war, a hate crime, or something else? With no one seeming to care, the government has no interest in resurrecting unwanted media attention by a search for answers to such ethnically charged questions and orders the investigation closed. But Andreas Kaldis, feared head of Greece’s special crimes division, has other plans. He presses on in his inimitable, impolitic style to unravel a mystery that yields more dead, a modern secret society rooted in two-hundred-year-old ways, and a nagging suspicion that his answers lay in the sudden influx of non-Greeks and gypsies to Tinos. It is there, on Tinos, Andreas learns of priceless hoards of gold, silver, art, and precious gems quietly amassed over centuries out of the offerings of grateful pilgrims. He has found a motive for murder and an irresistible inspiration for robbery. All that is left for Andreas to do is find the killers before more die, stop the robbery of the century, and get married in the process.
Review
“Target: Tinos is another of Jeffrey Siger’s thoughtful police procedurals set in picturesque but not untroubled Greek locales.” —The New York Times
"Mr. Siger is one of those rare writers whose finger is always on the pulse of modern day upheavals. He is never afraid to tackle and expose uncomfortable subjects—subjects most writers avoid...An authoritative and compelling voice, Mr. Siger is a master storyteller." —New York Journal Review of Books
"The author's best with so many changes of direction in the fast-paced, imaginative but very tightly plotted story that one did not know what would happen next...very gifted American author…the books are all...the best international police procedurals similar perhaps to those of Donna Leon…Highly recommended." —Eurocrime"A likable, compassionate lead; appealing Greek atmosphere; and a well-crafted plot help make this a winner." —Publshers Weekly, starred review
"Siger’s latest Inspector Kaldis Mystery throbs with the pulse of Greek culture...Make sure to suggest this engaging series to fans of Leighton Gage’s Mario Silva series." —Booklist
“A crisp style with a complex portrait of contemporary Greece to bolster another solid whodunit.”––Kirkus Reviews
"An interesting and highly entertaining police procedural for those who wish to read their way around the globe..."—Library Journal
"A fast paced thriller where the reality of modern Greece is jarred even further sideways by warring gypsy clans, a national outrage and a veteran detective told to just 'make it go away'. Andreas Kaldis is back to ruffle feathers, catch some killers and, maybe, have the happiest day of his life." —Cara Black, Author of the Aimee Leduc Investigations
"Thrilling, thought-provoking, and impossible to put down, Jeffrey Siger's Target: Tinos takes readers into the heart of modern Greece, and also into the profound mysteries of the relationship between the Greece of today and its incomparable past. Greece has been chronicled for centuries by fine writers, and Jeffrey Siger fits right into the tradition." —Timothy Hallinan, Author of the Poke Rafferty Thrillers
"Nobody writes Greece better than Jeffrey Siger." —Leighton Gage, Author of the Chief Inspector Mario Silva Investigations
Review
"...this intricate thriller from de Castrique (The Sandburg Connection, 2011, etc.) offers a good deal of interesting and timely information on the Federal Reserve." —Kirkus"This is a fine, action-packed thriller with a very timely theme. With terrorists, bankers, reporters, and the Secret Service involved, readers will trust no one—not even the reporters—and keep turning the pages." —Booklist
Synopsis
Notions medicales sur la rougeole, mises a la portee de tous / par le docteur G. Ollivier, ...
Date de l'edition originale: 1879
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Synopsis
Notions m dicales sur la rougeole, mises la port e de tous / par le docteur G. Ollivier, ...
Date de l' dition originale: 1879
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Synopsis
Lyndon B. Johnson is President,
Beatlemania is in overdrive and gasoline costs 30 cents a gallon
when Ned Parker retires as constable in Center Springs, Texas. But his plan to live a quiet life as a cotton farmer is torpedoed. A phone call leads Ned to a body in the Red River and into the urgent investigation headed by his nephew, the newly elected constable Cody Parker. Together they work to head off a multi-state killing spree that sets northeast Texas on fire. As the weeks pass, Ned’s grandchildren, ten-year-old Top and his tomboy cousin Pepper, struggle with personal issues resulting from their traumatic experiences at the Rock Hole only months before. They now find themselves in the middle of a nightmare for which no one can prepare. Cody and Deputy John Washington, the law south of the tracks, follow a lead from their small community to the long abandoned Cotton Exchange warehouse in Chisum. Stunned, they find the Exchange packed full of the town’s cast off garbage and riddled with booby-trapped passageways and dark burrows. Despite Ned’s warnings, Cody enters the building and finds himself relying on his recent military experiences to save both himself and Big John. Unfortunately, the trail doesn’t end there and the killing spree continues...
Synopsis
When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Russell Mullins quits the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a Washington D.C. private protection company and is assigned to guard Paul Luguire, a Federal Reserve executive and its chief liaison with the U.S. Treasury.
Mullins and Luguire form a strong friendship. So when a police detective calls in the middle of the night with word of Luguire’s suicide, Mullins doesn’t buy it. His doubts are reinforced by Amanda Church, a former Secret Service colleague now in the Federal Reserve’s cyber-security unit. She uncovered a suspicious financial transaction initiated by Luguire only days before his death. He authorized unrequested funds to be transferred from the Federal Reserve to a regional bank.
Even stranger, after Luguire’s suicide, Amanda finds the transaction has been erased from Federal Reserve records. The regional bank now shows the money wired from an offshore account in the name of Russell Mullins. Someone is setting Rusty up. And when the bank president is murdered, Mullins rockets to the top of the suspect list. As a tenacious reporter develops leads, Mullins follows a conspiratorial trail of killing and kidnapping that leads from a shadowy mastermind to the possible destruction of America’s financial system.
In an age of Wall Street meltdowns and downgrading of the U.S. credit rating, the secretive Federal Reserve has a pivotal role. Twelve targets are known. The clock is ticking. What, or who, is the thirteenth?
About the Author
As a boy, award-winning writer, Reavis Z. Wortham hunted and fished the river bottoms near Chicota, Texas, the inspiration for Center Springs. He is the author of Doreen’s 24 HR Eat Gas Now Café. Humor editor and frequent contributor for Texas Fish and Game Magazine, he writes on everything from fishing to deer hunting. In addition to several other magazines, his work has appeared in American Cowboy and Texas Sporting Journal. A retired educator of 35 years, he and wife Shana live in Frisco, Texas.