![]() ![]() So, these people live in a small (emphasis on SMALL) town in Colorado but there seems to be an awful lot of murder going on and every one of the victims is known by one of the main characters in the book. I bought the first one then all of the rest and listened to every one of them, one after another, until here and now I'm done. I was hooked on this series until I got to this one. ![]() As a towering blaze races across the ridge, Cole and Robo search desperately for her - but time is running out. Could Mattie become the next victim in the murderer's deadly game?Ī deranged killer torments Mattie with a litany of dark secrets that call into question her very identity. Joined by local veterinarian, Cole Walker, the pair scours the mountaintop for evidence and makes another gruesome discovery: the skeletonized remains of two adults and a child. ![]() But this is no ordinary crime - and it soon becomes clear Mattie has a close personal connection to the dead man. When a charred body is discovered in a shallow grave on the ridge, officer Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner, Robo, are called in to spearhead the investigation. On a rugged Colorado mountain ridge, Mattie Cobb and her police-dog partner, Robo, make a grisly discovery - and become the targets of a ruthless killer.Ĭolorado's Redstone Ridge is a place of extraordinary beauty, but this rugged mountain wilderness harbors a horrifying secret. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As we follow the loves and adventures of Cristo and experience the colorful splendor and barbarism of the era, a vanished culture is brought to life in all its magnificence. A novel by Robert Gleason, Gary Jennings and Junius Podrug Never less than spellbinding, this golden tale is third in a series (after Aztec Autumn) and follows the exploits of a mestizo boy (half Aztec, half Spanish) in 16th-century New Spain, struggling for survival against Spanish nobles in league with the Inquisition. In this colourful and exciting era of swords and cloaks, upheaval and revolution, a young beggar boy, in whose blood runs that of both Spanish and Aztec royalty, must claim his birthright.įrom the torrid streets of the City of the Dead along the Veracruz Coast to the ageless glory of Seville in Old Spain, Cristo the Bastard connives, fights, and loves as he seeks the truthwithout knowing that he will be the founder of a proud new people. The Spanish lords rule as kings, treating Indian men as work animals and Indian women as their personal property. The former Aztec Empire is now a colony called New Spain in which the Indians are enslaved to great estates that are actually feudal domains. The former Aztec Empire is now a colony called. The Aztec people have been conquered and a bloody revolt of the Indians put down. Gary Jennings Macmillan, Aug 18, 2001- Fiction- 525 pages 3Reviews The Aztec people have been conquered and a bloody revolt of the Indians put down. ![]() ![]() The third volume in Gary Jennings' historical epic that began with the Aztec and Aztec Autumn. ![]() ![]() The Mercer Corporation controls most of space. That’s exactly what Once & Future, the first installment in a new duology co-written by partners Cori McCarthy ( The Color of Rain, Now A Major Motion Picture) and Amy Rose Capetta ( Echo After Echo, The Brilliant Death), does with its Arthurian retelling. And I can’t recall ever before seeing an Arthur story in a science fictional universe that saw your spaceships and interstellar corporations, and raised you Excalibur, magic, reincarnation, and fate. I’ve seldom seen an unapologetically Arthurian story – with an Arthur, a Merlin, and a Guinevere, all called by their Arthurian names or a very close analogue and occupying Arthurian roles – set in an unapologetically science fictional universe, though. ![]() Like Shakespeare, the Matter of Britain and the Arthurian mythos is a vein that speculative fiction has delved deeply into over the years – it could be said, too deeply. ![]() Once & Future, Amy Rose Capetta & Cori McCarthy ( Jimmy Patterson 978-7-1, $18.99, 336pp, hc) March 2019. ![]() ![]() His biographies of Te Puea Herangi and Whina Cooper, and his prize-winning Maori: a Photographic and Social History, were published during those years. For 10 years he concentrated mainly on writing Maori history in partnership with Maori, becoming the first professional historian to work in this field. His television documentary series Tangata Whenua went to air in 1974 and won a Feltex Award in 1975. His first book, a collaboration with Marti Friedlander on Maori tattooing, was published in 1972. ![]() He left Hamilton to teach journalism at Wellington Polytechnic in 1972 and became a full-time writer in 1975. He then moved to Hamilton to work for the Waikato Times and to study for an MA at the University of Waikato. ![]() He majored in history and English at Victoria University and graduated with a BA in 1967. He grew up on the Pauatahanui arm of Porirua Harbour and was educated at Catholic schools in Plimmerton, Auckland and the Hutt Valley. Michael King was born in Wellington on December 15, 1945. 8.55am Historian, journalist, teacher and author Michael King died with his wife Maria Jungowska in a fiery car crash near Maramarua,south of Auckland, yesterday. ![]() |