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Night Sins:
A young boy disappears. There are no witnesses, no clues - only a note, cleverly taunting, casually cruel. Has a cold-blooded kidnapper struck? Or is this a reawakening of a long-quiet serial killer?

A tough-minded investigator on her first make-or-break case . . . A local cop who fears that big city evils have come to stalk his small town home . . . Together they are hunting for a madman who knows no bounds, to protect a town that may never feel safe again.

Guilty as Sin:
A respected member of the community stands accused of a chilling act of evil. But when a second boy disappears, a frightened public demands to know: Have the police caught the wrong man? Is the nightmare continuing . . . Or just beginning?

Prosecutor Ellen North believes she's building a case against a guilty man - and that he has an accomplice in the shadows. As she prepares for the trial of her career, Ellen suddenly finds herself swept into a cruel contest of twisted wits, a dark game of life and death . . . With an evil mind as guilty as sin.
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SIN.. what would we do with out that arround to guide us.
good stories, great writer, excellent preformance (audio Book),
two excellent stories overlapping series. highly reccomended.

GREAT
TAMI HOAG NEVER DISSAPPOINTS ME! GREAT IDEA TO TAKEON A LONG TRIP-PASSES SEVERAL HOURS THAT WOULD OTHEWISE HAVE BEEN BORING. ... Read more

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Night Sins - when 8-year-old Josh Kirkwood disappears, the community of Deer Lake is stunned.Crime is just not something that happens in their neighbourhood.Worse still is the frightening possibility that Josh's disappearance was planned by a desperately warped mind, for all that is found at the crime scene is Josh's duffel bag and a note saying: 'Ignorance is not innocence but SIN'. Guilty as Sin - Even after the arrest of a suspect for Josh Kirkwood's kidnapping, fear maintains its grip on Deer Lake and unanswered questions linger.What happened to Josh at the hands of his kidnapper?Why has he not spoken a word since his return?Is the nightmare over, or is it just beginning?Then a second child is taken, while the prime suspect is in jail...A Thin Dark Line - Pamela Bichon's killer walked free, yet for Deputy Annie Broussard, still haunted by the sight of the mutilated body, the case is far from over.But pursuing the investigation means teaming up with Nick Fourcade, a man she doesn't trust.It means suffering vicious harassment from her colleagues, and getting close to a killer...and the closer she gets, the deadlier it becomes... ... Read more

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Pat Reilly, the hunk from Down Under, the movie star who made strong women tremble, had promised the eccentric Calamity Jayne Jordan that he'd come looking for her. She had denied her feelings for the rough and rowdy cowboy, but he longed to lose himself in the warm honey of Jayne's sweet soul. ... Read more

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Nine acclaimed novelists teamed up to answer the question: can golf save the world? When three down-on-their-luck golfers are invited by the richest man in the world to play in a golf tournament on a mysterious Scottish course, none can refuse. What they dont realize is that the fate of the world rests on the outcome.Amazon.com Review
There's a great tradition of golf fiction, stretching from P.G. Wodehouse'sEdwardian follies to JohnUpdike's narrative birdies andchip shots. The Putt at the End of the World is a worthyaddition to the canon, in spite of the fact (or because of the fact) thatit's a team effort. Nine authors, including such worthies as Dave Barry,Tami Hoag, Tim O'Brien, Lee K. Abbott, and Les Standiford, have contributedchapters to this farcical thriller. The premise, which is less wacky thanit initially seems, involves a software tycoon named Phillip Bates, who'sbuilt a deluxe golf course north of Edinburgh. To kick things off heconvenes a celebrity invitational, and draws not only a clutch ofworld-class hackers but several terrorists, counterterrorists, and whatappear to be counter-counterterrorists. Clearly there's more at stake here than a mere 18 holes.

Slapped together by one author after another, the crazy plot issurprisingly consistent. Yet the contributors have made no effort todisguise their individual styles, which range from Barry's potty-mouthedslapstick to Richard Bausch's tonier stuff to James Crumley's pulp fiction.Indeed, this shift in tone is one of the book's great pleasures. So is thesex and satire, if not necessarily in that order. Still, the ultimatereason to read The Putt at the End of the World is for itsstrange-but-true evocation of the game itself. Here's Tim O'Brien's take ona ball with a mind of its own:

For the first thirty feet, the old Titlist did not touch the earth,heading for orbit, engines roaring, but then suddenly the rain and wind andfog forced a scrubbed mission. Gravity reasserted itself. By pure chance--amiracle, some would call it--the ball dropped heavily onto the green, notfive feet from the cup.... It caught a sidehill slope. It wobbled off linefor a second, then straightened out and continued its erratic pilgrimagetoward destiny.

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Wha?
This group-written book has two things going for it:Colorful characters and a promising plot.But that's about it.Wading through several chapters to get to Dave Barry's part in this fiasco was a waste of time otherwise.While the characters are certainly vivid, NONE of them are likeable.At all.ZERO.To top it off there are more F-bombs here than a def jam hosted by Chris Rock, and not nearly as many laughs.The handoff from one writer to the next is sometimes fairly smooth, but the writing styles sometimes vary so wildly that one wonders if one is still reading the same book from one chapter to the next, and it's intended to tell one cohesive story, not be a collection of shorts.Pass on this.

A Fictitious Golf Classic Par Excellence.
Golf is not a team sport, but this book used ten different writers to come up with a murder mystery on a golf course full of celebrities.Each wrote a different segment, and sometimes the story line does not jell, but I'd say they had fun working on this silliness.

Golf used to be a man's game, and used to be called the "good walk" when the men used that means to exercise their bodies as much as their golf swings.Nowadays, they ride the golf carts and play at the game.They've actually started teaching golf in schools, and nine great values the game teaches for youth (sportsmanship, confidence, integrity, perseverance, respect, responsibility, judgment, courtesy, and honesty) ensures a future for the continuation of the game of golf.

Only one of the nine contributors was female who used such off-hand characters to pepper her chapter: Mr. Potato Head, Sensible Shoes, Book Bag Woman, 'Star Wars' star pilot, MacLout, and Cameron who directed the movei 'Titanic.'She laid out the sexual hijinks of the golfers at the castle in Scotland.Dave Barry had the middle to fill in so he used his usually raucous vocabulary as he led into an explouding golf ball made out of enough plastique to end the world as we know it.

Tim O'Brien, whose book IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS I enjoyed, wrote "On an adjacent putting green, also under umbrellas, mingled such notables as Tony Blair and Al Gore, both decked out in tweeds and starched golf shirts.Nearby, Mu'ammar Qaddafi was giving a now-or-never, sink-it-before-you-die putting lesson to Jack Lemmon, while only a few feet away Chi Chi Rodriguez did his best to adjust the clumsy, rather primitive one-handed putting stroke of former senator Robert Dole."These are just a few of the names; Fidel Castro was present as was Dan Rather and other important people.

The ending was written by the editor whoever he is, preferred to stay anonymous.The ending was explosive, to match the varied styles of writing the international language of golf.Other writers taking part in this project are Lee K. Abbott, Richard Bausch, James Crumley, James W. Hall, Ridley Pearson, Les Standiford, and Tami Hoag.How many are golfers, I wonder?

Know What You're Getting Into
I haven't read this book in a long time, but I thought it was great.I don't know why other readers gave it such a low score.I can only think that they didn't know what type of book they were getting into.If you want to laugh out loud, get this book!

The putt at the End of the World
This was a terrible book.Multiple authors were not able to successfully make the book flow from chapter to chapter.Character development was disjointed to say the least.Way tooooo much celebrity name dropping...it almost read like People Mag.Buy "The Greatest Player Who Never Lived" instead.

Bagger Vance Meets Monty Python
It is said that a camel is a horse designed by a committee.Since a camel is very efficient doing what camels are intended to do, then the remark must mean that a camel is a very funny looking horse.Well, in The Putt at the End of the World, a committee of nine individually popular writers has turned out a very funny golf story.
The Putt at the End of the World is apparently the brainchild of last-listed author Les Standiford, shown as editor and compiler.It also seems to be a salute, at least in part, to recently deceased British writer Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy series which includes The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.It is certainly reminiscent of Adam's work, with zany characters interacting amidst nefarious schemes, all centered around a golf tournament.But not just any golf tournament.Computer zillionaire Philip Bates has bought a Scottish castle and cleared original growth timber to construct the ultimate golf course-as well as rehabbing the castle into an exotic hideaway retreat.This infuriates both environmental terrorists and the last of the MacLout clan, who claims that the MacGregor sellers usurped his family's claim to the property and he should have gotten the money. Then Bates (no relation to this reviewer) scheduled a conference and golf tournament inviting all of the world's political leaders and top golf players.
One of the invitees is Billy Sprague, club pro from Squat Possum Golf Club in rural Ohio.Billy is a magnificent golfer, unless there is money involved in which case he can't even get the ball of the tee.Billy's mentor is the old retired family doctor whose life is golf, who build the Squat Possum Club and who dies immediately after giving Billy his invitation and telling him that he has to go to Scotland and play in order to lift the curse and "...save the world as we know it..."Then FBI and British Secret Service refugees from the Keystone Kops get involved because of the terrorist threat, and the rest is-not history, but hilarious.
Each of the nine authors wrote one of the chapters.They did a good job matching styles, and/or Standiford did a great job of editing, because the novel is seamless.It is a farce, but at the same time has a "Bagger Vance" note of paean to the wonder of golf.It reads fast, and it reads great. ... Read more

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Dead Sky
This book was previously published under a different title...Prior Bad Acts...which was'nt mention in the description of this book.Sorry I bought this cause I bought a double!!!! ... Read more

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Strange things are happening in Drake House... a compelling, haunting novel from a New York Times bestseller author When Rachel Lindquist returned home to care for her ageing mother, she found herself chasing a ghost. Addie Lindquist insisted apresence haunted Drake House and hired psychologist Bryan Hennessy to investigate. But Rachel knew better than to belive in whatshe couldn't see. Until a second, more sinister force began to stalk her, threatening to drive her from Drake House - a force that could be banishedonly by a man who believed in the power of magic... ... Read more

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ASHES TO ASHES:Known as The Cremator, the serial killer has already claimed three victims, and there's only one witness, who's not talking. As she battles with her own demons amidst the frenzy of media attention, ex-FBI agent Kate Conlan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer. She's got what it takes to stop him.And he wants her alone...DUST TO DUST: Andy Paxton's death is a potential political bomb for the Minneapolis Police Department. He'd been investigating a possiblethe brutal murder of an officer. But Andy's death looks like suicide, or an unfortunate accident, but Andy's ex-lover doesn't believe he killed himself, accidentally or otherwise. As Kovac investigates, he discovers it is looking very much like Paxton discovered something that got him killed. And he might not be the final victim...DARK HORSE: Elena's risk-taking has cost her dearly:her confidence, her career, and, most importantly, the life of a fellow cop. Now in retreat in Florida, Elena begins to find some peace. But then a visitor comes calling. Twelve-year-old Molly thinks something terrible has happened to her stepsister, Erin, who hasn't been seen for several days.Elena visits the show grounds where Erin worked. There, Elena discovers the dark side of a glamorous sport. She must find out what's happened to Erin before it's too late to save the girl - and herself. ... Read more