The Completionist

The Completionist
Author: Siobhan Adcock
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501183494

One of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 prescient new feminist dystopias to read after The Handmaid’s Tale”; one of the “11 Best Summer Books Of 2018” by Women's Health; this “perfect beach book” (Entertainment Report) follows the search for a missing sister in a near-future world where infertility has produced a dangerous underground. “Find her. You need to keep looking, no matter what. I’m afraid of what might’ve happened to her. You be afraid too.” After months of disturbing behavior, Gardner Quinn has vanished. Her older sister Fredericka is desperate to find her, but Fred is also pregnant—miraculously so, in a near-future America struggling with infertility. So she entrusts the job to their brother, Carter. Carter, young but jaded, is in need of an assignment. Just home from war, his search for his sister is a welcome distraction from mysterious physical symptoms he can’t ignore, not to mention his increasing escape into the bottom of a glass. Carter’s efforts to find Gardner lead him into a desperate underworld, where he begins to grasp the risks she took on as a Nurse Completionist. But his investigation also leads back to their father, a veteran of a decades-long war just like Carter himself, who may be concealing a painful truth, one that neither Carter nor Fredericka is ready to face. “Fans of dystopian novels will love Siobhan Adcock’s disturbing speculation on just how bad things can get when resources are rare and personal lives are heavily policed” (Booklist). In the tradition of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Completionist is speculative fiction at its very best: it will “transport you to an entirely new world” (PopSugar) while revealing our own world in bold and unexpected ways.

Bentley Continental R

Bentley Continental R
Author: Ian Adcock
Publisher: Osprey Publishing Company
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1992
Genre: Bentley automobile
ISBN: 9781855322608

Bentley Continental RBy Ian Adcock.The definitive history of the most important Bentley since WWII. Detailed accounts of every stage ofthis remarkable, high-speed grand tourer covering testing, engineering, prototyping, manufacture, a nd all other aspects. Superb color photographs capture every nuance supported by previously unseen design sketches, renderings, engineering drawing and test photos. With unprecedented access to all key personnel involed in its development, Adcock reveals all the intricacies of this masterpiece. A deluxe limited edition. The only Roll-Royce approved account of this car. Leatherbound on high-qualityglossy art paper, 13 1/4"x 9 1/2", 192 pgs., 30 b&w, 150 color ill.

Sea of Green

Sea of Green
Author: Thomas Adcock
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504060032

The first in the “beautifully written” Edgar-winning series featuring an NYPD detective working the mean streets of Manhattan’s West Side (The Washington Post). Detective Neil Hockaday, a son of Hell’s Kitchen who grew up to join the NYPD, had a promising meeting scheduled with a snitch—until his informant turned up dead. Meanwhile, a prominent Harlem preacher with a lot of followers, and friends in high places, has been receiving death threats—and Hock’s assigned to keep Father Love alive and find out who’s after him. But Hock’s harrowing work life hits close to home when he discovers a dead body in his own bathtub and must untangle whether—and how—all these events are connected . . . “A satisfying narrative . . . Adcock’s picture of the Big Apple is not pretty, but it is gripping and effective.” —Publishers Weekly

Dark Maze

Dark Maze
Author: Thomas Adcock
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504060024

Edgar Award Winner: An NYPD detective navigates a lethal labyrinth in this entry in Adcock’s series of “gritty procedurals” (The New York Times Book Review). The old, shabbily dressed man who walks up to Neil Hockaday in the park one morning rambles on semicoherently, though he’s sharp enough to make Hockaday as a cop. He introduces himself as Picasso, makes snide comments about the policeman to an invisible companion—and issues a vague homicidal threat just before his bus leaves. Born and bred in Hell’s Kitchen and now an NYPD detective, Hockaday has been exposed to plenty of strange characters. But Picasso’s haunting words—and the killings that follow—soon have the officer searching the city for someone who considers murder his masterpiece . . .

Devil's Heaven

Devil's Heaven
Author: Thomas Adcock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780671770433

This is the fourth Neil Hockaday novel from the Edgar Award-winning author ofDark Maze.

Fleur Adcock

Fleur Adcock
Author: Janet Wilson
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0746310404

A study of Fleur Adcock as a poet of dual New Zealand and British nationality writing within the mainstream with the eye of an outsider.

The Barter

The Barter
Author: Siobhan Adcock
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0698161378

A heart-stopping tale as provocative as is suspenseful, about two conflicted women, separated by one hundred years, and bound by an unthinkable sacrifice. The Barter is a ghost story and a love story, a riveting emotional tale that also explores motherhood and work and feminism. Set in Texas, in present day, and at the turn of the twentieth century, the novel follows two young mothers at the turning point of their lives. Bridget has given up her career as an attorney to raise her daughter, joining a cadre of stay-at-home mothers seeking fulfillment in a quiet suburb. But for Bridget, some crucial part of the exchange is absent: Something she loves and needs. And now a terrifying presence has entered her home; only nobody but Bridget can feel it. On a farm in 1902, a young city bride takes a farmer husband. The marriage bed will become both crucible and anvil as Rebecca first allows, then negates, the powerful erotic connection between them. She turns her back on John to give all her love to their child. Much will occur in this cold house, none of it good. As Siobhan Adcock crosscuts these stories with mounting tension, each woman arrives at a terrible ordeal of her own making, tinged with love and fear and dread. What will they sacrifice to save their families—and themselves? Readers will slow down to enjoy the gorgeous language, then speed up to see what happens next in a plot that thrums with the weight of decision—and its explosive consequences.

The Index Library

The Index Library
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 562
Release: 1910
Genre: Court records
ISBN:

For list of publications see covers, pt. 28/30, April/June, 1890, p. x; pt. 82, December 1900, p. iii-iv.