Russell's ebook Library
Careless in Red
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [15]: He found the body on the forty-third day of his walk... Devastated by the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and ru...
The Carhullan Army
Sarah Hall
The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US for food and energy - is run by an omnipresent dictatorship known simply as The Authority. Assets and weapons have been seized, and women are ...
A Caribbean Mystery
Agatha Christie
Miss Marple [9]: As Jane Marple sat basking in the tropical sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened.Then a question was put to her by a stranger: ‘Would you li...
Carlucci's Edge
Richard Paul Russo
Lt. Frank Carlucci [2]: In the political network of the twenty-first century, some things never change...The future of crime is now.A small-time drug dealer is murdered. The mayor’s nephew is found dead. On the surface they are unrelated. But that su...
Carlucci's Heart
Richard Paul Russo
Lt. Frank Carlucci [3]: In the burned-out streets of 21st century San Francisco, Lt. Frank Carlucci is drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of his daughter's friend - a dying man who was carried off mysteriously. It's one kidnapp...
Carnelians
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [14]: Two galactic emperors attempt to end a multi-generation war of the stars without both getting assassinated in the process. The leaders of the Eubian empire and Skolian Imperialate have survived political intrigue, military coups...
Carpe Jugulum
Terry Pratchett
Discworld [23]: Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to Lancre for a simple ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches.There's Young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything. Ma...
The Carpet People
Terry Pratchett
In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet... That's the old story everyone knows and loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes and peoples and there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray,...
Carson of Venus
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Venus [3]: Carson of Venus is the third book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs.It was serialized in Argosy in 1938 and published in book form a year later.The novel, which was written c...
The Caryatids
Bruce Sterling
Alongside William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, Bruce Sterling stands at the forefront of a select group of writers whose pitch-perfect grasp of the cultural and scientific zeitgeist endows their works of speculative near-future fiction with uncanny ve...
Case Studies e-CF 3.0
CEN
To support e-CF application within multiple environments, 15 illustrative case studies provide examples, benefits and hints of how to make best use of the e-CF.They relate to practical e-CF application experiences and have been elaborated together wi...
A Case of Conscience
James Blish
Father Ruiz-Sanchez is a dedicated man - a priest who is also a scientist, and a scientist who is also a human being. He has found no insoluble conflicts in his beliefs or his ethics... until he is sent to Lithia. There he comes upon a race of aliens...
Casebook of the Black Widowers
Isaac Asimov
Black Widowers [3]: Chronicles the adventures of a club of men, the Black Widowers, who meet once a month for dinner at the Milano restaurant and attempt to solve a series of puzzles.The Cross of LorraineThe Family ManThe Sports PageSecond BestThe Mi...
The Cassandra Project
Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick
Formerly a cynical, ambitious PR man, Jerry Culpepper finally found a client he could believe in when he was hired as NASA's public affairs director.Proud of the Agency's history and sure of its destiny, he was thrilled to be a part of its future. Bu...
The Castle of the Demon
Reginald Hill
A woman on the run from her husband encounters danger in a seaside townEmily Salter is once again using her maiden name, living with her dog in a town along northern England's coast that she remembers fondly from childhood holidays. Her intention was...
Castles Made of Sand
Gwyneth Jones
Bold as Love [2]: Ax Preston, Sage Pender and Fiorinda, charismatic leaders of the Rock 'n' Roll Reich, have beaten the cascade of disasters that followed the collapse of the former United Kingdom.Now they have to find some resolution to the impossib...
Cat Among the Pigeons
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [79]: Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder!Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among t...
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Robert A. Heinlein
As the old guard of SF ages, we are getting more novels of nostalgia. Heinlein is less sentimental than many of his generation but his new book resembles both the latest Bradbury, in making the author the protagonist, and the latest Asimov, in return...
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle, one of Vonnegut's most entertaining novels, is filled with scientists and G-men and even ordinary folks caught up in the game. These assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous subst...
Catch the Lightning
Catherine Asaro
Skolian Empire [2]: In the distant future, the Skolian empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all.For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light across t...
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is one of this century's greatest works of American literature. First published m 1961, Joseph Heller's profound and compelling novel has appeared on nearly every list of must read fiction. It is a classic in every sense of the word.Catch-22...
Catface
Clifford D. Simak
Asa Steele's dog finds dinosaur bones in his backyard, and down in the orchard they find strange metals. Asa then makes contact with a catfaced alien who holds the key to the mystery - a break in the fabric of time.
Cauldron
Jack McDevitt
Engines of God [6]: Chosen as One of the Five Best SF Novels of the Year by Library Journal.When a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, veteran star pilot Priscilla ?Hutch? Hutchins finds herself...
The Causal Angel
Hannu Rajaniemi
Jean le Flambeur [3]: With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterization and his unrivaled grasp of thrillingly bizarre cutting-edge science, Hannu Rajaniemi swiftly set a new benchmark for Science Fiction in the 21s...
Cause of Death
Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta [7]: Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover the very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter. Together with her niece Lucy and police captain Pete Marino, Scarpetta will follow the...
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