Free books: Graphic Novels & Comics
Mad about Max (2000)
The Next Thing on My List (2007)
This is not a great thinker book, but that's okay. Sometimes you need a lighter read between reading Dostoevsky and the book on Math given to you by your son at Christmas. This was one of those books that, while pointing in the Chick Lit direction, actually has a little more thought and scope tha...
Mariner's Compass (2000)
Benni hat geerbt - und keine Ahnung, wer dieser mysteriöse Jacob Chandler ist, der ihr einfach so sein Haus und sein ganzes Hab und Gut vermacht hat. Sein Haus in Marino Bay, nur wenige Kilometer von San Celina entfernt, scheint viel wert zu sein, doch die Erbschaft ist mit einer Bedingung verknü...
Holy Disorders (2006)
Originally published on my blog here in January 2000.Summoned by a telegram sent by his old friend Gervase Fen asking him to take over temporarily from the incapacitated organist at Tolnbridge Cathedral, Geoffrey Vintner finds himself involved in a strange plot: several attempts are made to preve...
The Mind Pool (1993)
Hôtel Transylvania (2015)
(As posted on my blog, see "Book Blog" dated July 8, 2011)In this novel, Yarbro has taken a historical person, Count of Saint Germain, and written him as a heroic vampire. Hôtel Transylvania is also a real place. As Yarbro writes in her notes at the end of the novel, "Built in the reign of Loius ...
The Last Pleasure Garden: Desire. Death. Corruption...The Dark Heart of Victorian London... (2006)
'The Last Pleasure Garden' of the book's title is Cremorne Gardens, a Victorian version of the notorious Vauxhall Gardens of Regency infamy. All sorts of things happen in the Gardens, including a mad man who is cutting a lock from young women's hair and slashing dresses, using a frighteningly lar...
Ex's and Oh's (2006)
Kill Zone (1991)
I ran across this series starring Peter Macklin while looking at an Estleman bibliography. Such a multi-faceted/talented author who manages to write excellent, well-written stories in multiple genres: detective, western, and thriller.Apparently this was the first in a series of Macklin novels. Wh...
The Paperwhite Narcissus (2005)
This is one of the few MP3 audio books my library has and so it was the inaugural read on my iPod. The series has an interesting premise (92-year old reporter) however, with the exception of the occasional reference to antiquated equipment like typewriters, age has almost nothing to do with the ...
Bride of the Beast (2003)
Sir Marmaduke Strongbow was one of my favorite characters in Devil in a Kilt. I was delighted when I saw that he also had his own story.Lady Caterine Keith was in need of a man, no a champion. She needs protection from Sir Hugh who was not content with only taking her livestock but also wanted th...