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Under Orders / The Saddlemaker's Wife / The Angels of Morgan Hill / Echo Park (Reader's Digest Select Editions 2007 Vol 2)
Under Orders / The Saddlemaker's Wife / The Angels of Morgan Hill / Echo Park - Reader's Digest Select Editions 2007 Vol 2 Author:Dick Francis, Earlene Fowler, Donna VanLiere, Michael Connelly UNDER ORDERS-DICK FRANCIS — Grand master of crime fiction Dick Francis is back! And his hero, jockey-turned-detective Sid Halley, is at the center of the action when a murder takes place at Cheltenham Racecourse. Could the crime be part of a larger race-fixing scheme? An investigation into the dark side of the riding game takes Sid from the track... more » and training stables all the way to the House of Lords--putting his own life at risk along the way. "Dick Francis is a genius." -Los Angeles Times
THE SADDLEMAKER'S WIFE-EARLENE FOWLER
After the death of her husband, Ruby McGavin is shocked to learn that she has inherited part of a large cattle ranch in the rustic hills of Tokopah County,California. Ruby is even more shocked to discover that the family he'd claimed had died years ago in a car accident is very much alive. The last thing Ruby needs now is to be stuck in the middle of family feud--yet that's just where a secret visit to her new property puts her. "An emotionally powerful ride."-Publishers Weekly
THE ANGELS OF MORGAN HILL--DONNA VANLIERE
During the summer of 1947,young Jane Gable meets Milo Turner and his sharecropper family--the first black folks to settle in Morgan Hill,Tennessee. Soon a troubling incident upsets everyone's fate, and Jane's family makes a decision that tears them apart--until the "angels" of Morgan Hill come to their rescue. A rich mix of warmth, humor, and family unity. "[VanLiere's novels are] full of precious gifts for all of us."--The Washington Times
ECHO PARK-MICHAEL CONNELLY
LAPD detective extraordinaire Harry Bosch is in trouble again. This time, and unsolved case from 1993 comes back to haunt him:he may have made a mistake that cost nine lives. Now that the killer has made a confession, Bosch must cope with a searing inner crisis of guilt. Yet something doesn't feel quite right. Could there be more to this case than meets the eye? "Superior crime fiction."--Booklist (starred review)« less