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The Blue Place (Aud Torvingen)

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 0374539197
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Place (Aud Torvingen) written by Nicola Griffith and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 2025-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of Nicola Griffith’s beloved Aud Torvingen crime series. It would be so easy—a step, a smile, swift whirl and grab, and snap: done. I even knew how she would fall, what a tiny sound her last sigh would be, how she would fold onto the pavement. Eight seconds. Aud Torvingen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the color of cement and the tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway, a land of ice and snow, she now lives in Atlanta, luxuriating in the lush heat and brashness of the New South, gliding easily between the worlds of the elegant elite and the criminal underbelly, beautiful and functional as a folded razor. On an April evening between thunderstorms, Aud turns a corner and collides with a running woman. She catches the scent of clean, rain-wet hair, thinks, Today, you are lucky, and moves on—and behind her the house explodes in a tiger lily of flames. When Aud turns back, the woman is gone. But the woman, Julia, returns, seeking Aud’s protection in a deadly international game of art forgery, drugs, money laundering, and murder. But Aud knows danger. When danger sits opposite and offers you the dice, you should walk away. Danger loads the dice, it cheats. But for Julia, Aud will play—and risk losing herself in that cool blue place where everything slows to crystal clarity and violence is bliss . . . Nicola Griffith’s The Blue Place reshapes the noir suspense novel into something refreshing, and excitingly new.

Stay

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 1400075610
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stay written by Nicola Griffith and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2003-06-10 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aud (it rhymes with "shroud" ) Torvingen is six feet tall with blond hair and blue eyes. She can restore a log cabin with antique tools or put a man in a coma with her bare hands. As imagined by Nicola Griffith in this ferocious masterpiece of literary noir, Aud is a hero who combines the tortured complexity with moral authority. In the aftermath of her lover's murder, the last thing a grieving Aud wants is another case. Against her better judgment she agrees to track down an old friend's runaway fiancée--and finds herself up against both a sociopath so artful that the law can't touch him, and the terrible specters of loss and guilt. As stylish as this year's Prada and as arresting as a razor at the throat, Stay places Nicola Griffith in the first rank of new-wave crime writers. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Spear

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250819334
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Spear written by Nicola Griffith and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Spectacular—I've been waiting years for this book to exist.” —Maria Dahvana Headley, author of Beowulf: A New Translation "If Le Guin wrote a Camelot story, I imagine it would feel like Spear: humane, intelligent, and deeply beautiful. It's a new story with very old bones, a strange place that feels like home." —Alix E. Harrow, author of A Spindle Splintered She left all she knew to find who she could be . . . She grows up in the wild wood, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake drift to her on the spring breeze, scented with promise. And when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she decides her future lies at his court. So, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she breaks her covenant with her mother and sets out on her bony gelding for Caer Leon. With her stolen hunting spear and mended armour, she is an unlikely hero, not a chosen one, but one who forges her own bright path. Aflame with determination, she begins a journey of magic and mystery, love, lust and fights to death. On her adventures, she will steal the hearts of beautiful women, fight warriors and sorcerers, and make a place to call home. The legendary author of Hild returns with an unforgettable hero and a queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era. Nicola Griffith’s Spear is a spellbinding vision of the Camelot we've longed for, a Camelot that belongs to us all. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Hild

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374280878
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Hild written by Nicola Griffith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daughter of a poisoned prince and a crafty noblewoman, quiet, bright-minded Hild arrives at the court of King Edwin of Northumbria, where the six-year-old takes on the role of seer/consiglieri for a monarch troubled by shifting allegiances and Roman emissaries attempting to spread their new religion.

Always

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440629714
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Always written by Nicola Griffith and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From cult phenomenon to award-winning literary sensation, "the sexiest action figure since James Bond" (Seattle Weekly) returns in an exhilarating new thriller. It doesn't matter how well trained you are, how big, how fast, how strong; there will always be someone out there bigger or faster or stronger. Always. That's what Aud Torvingen teaches the students in her self-defense class. But the question is whether Aud really believes this lesson herself-and if not, what it will take for her to learn it. Aud has trained herself to achieve a fierce, machine-like precision, in hand-to-hand combat as well as life. But in Always she is abruptly confronted with the limits of her own power. Her self-defense classes spin violently out of her grasp and, still reeling from the consequences, she embarks on a seemingly simple investigation of Seattle real estate fraud that pulls her into something far more complicated and dangerous than she had imagined.

Ammonite

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345452399
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Ammonite written by Nicola Griffith and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2002-04-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lambda and Tiptree Awards • “A knockout . . . Strong, likable characters, a compelling story, and a very interesting take on gender.”—Ursula K. Le Guin Change or die. These are the only options available on planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep—and its forces find themselves fighting for their lives. Terrified of spreading the virus, the company abandons its employees, leaving them afraid and isolated from the natives. In the face of this crisis, anthropologist Marghe Taishan arrives to test a new vaccine. As she risks death to uncover the women’s biological secret, she finds that she too is changing—and realizes that not only has she found a home on Jeep, but that she alone carries the seeds of its destruction. . . . Ammonite is an unforgettable novel that questions the very meanings of gender and humanity. As readers share in Marghe’s journey through an alien world, they too embark on a parallel journey of fascinating self-exploration. “A powerful story of connection, allegiance, and obligation. Read Nicola Griffith’s book—and keep an eye out for her name in the future.”—Vonda N. McIntyre “A marvelous blend of high adventure and mind-boggling social speculation.”—Kim Stanley Robinson

Slow River

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345464486
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Slow River written by Nicola Griffith and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicola Griffith, winner of the Tiptree Award and the Lambda Award for her widely acclaimed first novel Ammonite, now turns her attention closer to the present in Slow River, the dark and intensely involving story of a young woman's struggle for survival and independence on the gritty underside of a near-future Europe. She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van de Oest was the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families...and now she was nobody. Then out of the rain walked Spanner, an expert data pirate who took her in, cared for her wounds, and gave her the freedom to reinvent herself again and again. No one could find Lore if she didn't want to be found: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had escaped...but she paid for her newfound freedom in crime, deception, and degradation--over and over again. Lore had a choice: She could stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner...and risk losing herself forever. Or she could leave Spanner and find herself again by becoming someone else: stealing the identity implant of a dead woman, taking over her life, and inventing her future. But to start again, Lore required Spanner's talents--Spanner, who needed her and hated her, and who always had a price. And even as Lore agreed to play Spanner's games one final time, she found that there was still the price of being a Van de Oest to be paid. Only by confronting her past, her family, and her own demons could Lore meld together who she had once been, who she had become, and the person she intended to be.... In Slow River, Nicola Griffith skillfully takes us deep into the mind and heart of her complex protagonist, where the past must be reconciled with the present if the future is ever to offer solid ground. Slow River poses a question we all hope never to need to answer: Who are you when you have nothing left?

So Lucky

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : MCD x FSG Originals
ISBN 13 : 0374718342
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book So Lucky written by Nicola Griffith and published by MCD x FSG Originals. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical novel about a woman facing down a formidable foe So Lucky is the sharp, surprising new novel by Nicola Griffith—the profoundly personal and emphatically political story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving new reality when in the space of a single week her wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, she is a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock. She can’t rely on family, her body is letting her down, and friends and colleagues are turning away—they treat her like a victim. She needs to break that narrative: build her own community, learn new strengths, and fight. But what do you do when you find out that the story you’ve been told, the story you’ve told yourself, is not true? How can you fight if you can’t trust your body? Who can you rely on if those around you don’t have your best interests at heart, and the systems designed to help do more harm than good? Mara makes a decision and acts, but her actions unleash monsters aimed squarely at the heart of her new community. This is fiction from the front lines, incandescent and urgent, a narrative juggernaut that rips through sentiment to expose the savagery of America’s treatment of the disabled and chronically ill. But So Lucky also blazes with hope and a ferocious love of self, of the life that becomes possible when we stop believing lies.

And Now We are Going to Have a Party

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book And Now We are Going to Have a Party written by Nicola Griffith and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Becoming Quinn

Author : Brett Battles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781497482807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Quinn written by Brett Battles and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most careers begin with an interview and a handshake. Others require a little ... something more.Meet Jake Oliver. The day will come when he's one of the best cleaners in the business, a man skilled at making bodies disappear. At the moment, however, he's a twenty-two year old rookie cop, unaware his life is about to change.In a burning barn a body is found--and the fire isn't the cause of death. The detectives working the case have a pretty good idea about what went down. But Officer Oliver thinks it's something else entirely, and pursues a truth others would prefer remain hidden--others who will go to extreme lengths to keep him quiet.Every identity has an origin. This is Quinn's.

Collateral Damage

Author : Michael Bowen
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429923024
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Collateral Damage written by Michael Bowen and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dead body is discovered in a locked room in a country house in the affluent Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Nine people were present in the house at the time, nine people who saw nothing they'd like to report and did nothing they're willing to confess to. A document that might relate to a CIA scandal in the recent past--or to a presidential election in the near future--is missing, and much sought after. No one will know exactly what it means until it's found. But would someone be willing to kill for it? The key to this complicated puzzle lies with two sisters, two young women who don't quite fit into Washington's high-stakes political arena. Retired Foreign Service agent Richard Michaelson and his friend Marjorie Randolph find themselves at the middle of this whirlwind of political and personal intrigue, and must do more than sort clues. For the most challenging locked room you're likely to encounter in Washington, D.C., is your own mind.

Hardscrabble Road

Author : Jane Haddam
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429904968
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Hardscrabble Road written by Jane Haddam and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a local Philadelphia radio host known for his incendiary right-wing tirades is arrested for possession of illegal prescription drugs, the incident sets into motion a series of events that leads ultimately to the death of a homeless man. In the complicated mix is the local Benedictine monastery, a Nobel-prize-winning leftist academic, and a homeless advocacy group, among others. Now Gregor Demarkian, a retired F.B.I. agent, is hired by a local legal project to look into the circumstances surrounding the death of their former client--a task that leads Demarkian through a mirror-maze of motives and actors as he struggles to unravel a most complex puzzle before the killer strikes again.

The Broken Kingdoms

Author : N. K. Jemisin
Publisher : Orbit
ISBN 13 : 0316075981
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Broken Kingdoms written by N. K. Jemisin and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2010-11-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man with no memory of his past and a struggling, blind street artist will face off against the will of the gods as the secrets of this stranger's past are revealed in the sequel to The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, the debut novel of NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. In the city of Shadow, beneath the World Tree, alleyways shimmer with magic and godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Oree Shoth, a blind artist, takes in a strange homeless man on an impulse. This act of kindness engulfs Oree in a nightmarish conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings, leaving their desecrated bodies all over the city. And Oree's guest is at the heart of it. . .

Southwesterly Wind

Author : Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312424541
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Southwesterly Wind written by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in the author's Brazilian crime series follows the mystery surrounding a man who had just been told by a psychic that he will kill someone and faces accusations of murder when two bodies turn up in the Copacabana precinct.

Rizzo's Fire

Author : Lou Manfredo
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429966173
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Rizzo's Fire written by Lou Manfredo and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As twenty-year NYPD veteran Joe Rizzo edges closer to retirement, things only seem to get harder: a new partner, a promise to his wife to quit smoking, and the most baffling case of his career—a murder investigation. The victim, Robert Lauria, was practically a hermit and was dead ten days before anyone found him. Fired from his job as a shoe salesman weeks ago, he rarely left his apartment and had no visitors except his cousin, who says she hardly knew him. So who strangled him late one night as he made tea in his kitchen? And could there be a connection to the headline-grabbing murder of a Broadway producer a day earlier? Armed with more street smarts than the FBI agents assigned to the more glamorous case, Rizzo and his new partner, Priscilla Jackson, are tasked with navigating the twin labyrinths of the case and NYPD politics in order to find the killer and bring him to justice. Full of the sounds and sights of walking the beat in Bensonhurst, Rizzo's Fire comes on the heels of Lou Manfredo's acclaimed debut, Rizzo's War, and brings the streets of Brooklyn to life in a way that no New York City crime novel has before. Rizzo's Fire is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Mysteries title.

Cold Wind

Author : Nicola Griffith
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466871342
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Cold Wind written by Nicola Griffith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cold Wind", by Nicola Griffith, is a dark fantasy tale about a woman who enters a Seattle bar on a cold wintry night in the midst of the Christmas holidays, searching for something...or someone. "Rich description here. One thing about a writer like Griffith, I can read an opening like this with complete confidence there won’t be a glittery vampire in the bathroom."--Locus At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Big Boom

Author : Domenic Stansberry
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429909218
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Big Boom written by Domenic Stansberry and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award--winning author Domenic Stansberry is known for his intensity---his dark thrillers, thick with suspense, in which the differences between good and evil are not so easy to decipher. The Big Boom is just such a novel: set in San Francisco, at the peak of the high-tech frenzy, just before the technology markets and the California economy all go bust. The Big Boom features the return of Dante Mancuso, the hero of Stansberry's Chasing the Dragon, an obsessive private investigator working the streets of his San Francisco neighborhood. He is a dark-eyed, complex figure---melancholic, tender, with fierce, aquiline good looks---known to neighborhood familiars by his nickname: the Pelican. Dante's nickname---like the demons that haunt his personal life---comes from his family on account of his tenacity, and his large, Sicilian nose. Now Dante has settled into a new apartment in North Beach, hoping to put those demons behind him and patch together a life with his longtime lover, Marilyn Visconte, but before long he is approached by an old North Beach family in hopes that he will find their missing daughter---a young woman, a former sweetheart, with whom Dante had been involved years before---and his newfound peace is shattered. Dante's search for Angela Antonelli, though, has hardly begun when the corpse of a young woman is dredged from the bay. He soldiers on in his investigation, fearful that the missing woman and the corpse are one and the same. His search for the missing woman---even after he has been called off the case---becomes an obsession that alienates his current lover, but Dante follows the ghostly trail anyway into the heart of the financial district and the underside of the dot-com revolution. It is a quest rendered in the staccato prose of the genre, a style that---in Stansberry's hands---takes on a dreamlike cast, hallucinatory at times, blurring the lines between reality and Dante's own dark nostalgia. The Big Boom is a tightrope of a novel, a taut story about familial duplicity, personal greed, and the desperate pull of love even across the divide of memory.