Tragedy on the Branch Line

Tragedy on the Branch Line
Author: Edward Marston
Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2021-04-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 074902609X

When Robert Pomeroy, a young undergraduate at Corpus Christi College, finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours of a rainy day, he flies into a panic. Hastily readying himself and dashing off a few lines for the porter to summon his friend Nicholas Thorpe, he hurries to the railway station. But he doesn't reach his destination alive. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are called upon to investigate this tragedy on the railway. It soon becomes apparent that Cambridge's hopes of success in the forthcoming Boat Race rested on Pomeroy's shoulders. With academic disputes, romantic interests and a sporting rivalry with Oxford in play, the Railway Detective will have his work cut out to disentangle the threads of Pomeroy's life in order to answer the truth of his death.

Mount Terminus

Mount Terminus
Author: David Grand
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2014-03-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374280886

"A novel set in Los Angeles at the turn of the 20th century that explores early Hollywood, the advent of the motion picture studio, pre-cinematic technology,and the Jewish diaspora"

The Terminal List

The Terminal List
Author: Jack Carr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2022-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 198219734X

An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader. ​

The Fold

The Fold
Author: Peter Clines
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0553418300

A page-turning science-fiction thriller from the author of Paradox Bound and the Ex-Heroes series. Step into the fold. It's perfectly safe. The folks in Mike Erikson's small New England town would say he's just your average, everyday guy. And that's exactly how Mike likes it. Sure, the life he's chosen isn’t much of a challenge to someone with his unique gifts, but he’s content with his quiet and peaceful existence. That is, until an old friend presents him with an irresistible mystery, one that Mike is uniquely qualified to solve: far out in the California desert, a team of DARPA scientists has invented a device they affectionately call the Albuquerque Door. Using a cryptic computer equation and magnetic fields to “fold” dimensions, it shrinks distances so that a traveler can travel hundreds of feet with a single step. The invention promises to make mankind’s dreams of teleportation a reality. And, the scientists insist, traveling through the Door is completely safe. Yet evidence is mounting that this miraculous machine isn’t quite what it seems—and that its creators are harboring a dangerous secret. As his investigations draw him deeper into the puzzle, Mike begins to fear there’s only one answer that makes sense. And if he’s right, it may only be a matter of time before the project destroys…everything. A cunningly inventive mystery featuring a hero worthy of Sherlock Holmes and a terrifying final twist you’ll never see coming, The Fold is that rarest of things: a genuinely page-turning science-fiction thriller.

Quietus

Quietus
Author: Tristan Palmgren
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0857667432

A transdimensional anthropologist can’t keep herself from interfering with Earth’s darkest period of history in this brilliant science fiction debut Niccolucio, a young Florentine Carthusian monk, leads a devout life until the Black Death kills all of his brothers, leaving him alone and filled with doubt. Habidah, an anthropologist from another universe racked by plague, is overwhelmed by the suffering. Unable to maintain her observer neutrality, she saves Niccolucio from the brink of death. Habidah discovers that neither her home's plague nor her assignment on Niccolucio's world are as she's been led to believe. Suddenly the pair are drawn into a worlds-spanning conspiracy to topple an empire larger than the human imagination can contain. File Under: Science Fiction

Timetable of Death

Timetable of Death
Author: Edward Marston
Publisher: Allison & Busby
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2015-06-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0749018127

1859. St Mary's Church, Spondon. A little girl playing hide-and-seek jumps into a freshly-dug grave to find a dead man already occupying it. It is the body of Cedric Norton, a senior director of the Midland Railway. Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming travel to Derbyshire to investigate.

The Gone World

The Gone World
Author: Tom Sweterlitsch
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425278905

Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind.... “I promise you have never read a story like this.”—Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family—and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence. Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection from her own past, Moss travels ahead in time to explore possible versions of the future, seeking evidence to crack the present-day case. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work, for what she witnesses rising over time's horizon and hurtling toward the present is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself. Luminous and unsettling, The Gone World bristles with world-shattering ideas yet remains at its heart an intensely human story.

Aurora Terminus

Aurora Terminus
Author: S. Fanetti
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2018-04-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781986589116

The end of the world came quietly, in a breathtaking display of light and color, while everyone stopped and watched, entranced. And then the lights went out, and death and chaos took over. A woman went up, high above the fray, and tried to build a life alone from what was left of the world that had been. A man stayed down, in the midst of the turmoil, and tried to find a home in the world that had become. But neither life nor home is possible until there is family, until love and trust and hope return. Until then, there is only survival.

Duck, Death and the Tulip

Duck, Death and the Tulip
Author: Wolf Erlbruch
Publisher: Gecko Press (Tm)
Total Pages: 18
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1877467146

In a strangely heart-warming story, a duck strikes up an unlikely friendship with Death. Death, Duck and the Tulip will intrigue, haunt and enchant readers of all ages. Simple, warm, and witty, this book deals with a difficult subject in a way that is elegant, straightforward, and life-affirming.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death
Author: Ben Bradley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2015
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190271450

This Handbook consists of 21 new essays on the nature and value of death, the relevance of the metaphysics of time and personal identity for questions about death, the desirability of immortality, and the wrongness of killing.