Lee Child’s Jack Reacher crime adventure The Killing Floor. When Jack Reacher steps off a bus in the town of Margrave, Georgia — he’s spent his entire adult life in the military, where he’s gained expertise in commando tactics and routine law enforcement procedures; now, he’s an aim...
At age 40—facing joblessness, broke, with a family to feed, yet supremely confident—Child did the unthinkable. Rather than seek a new job, he sat down to write a novel in longhand. The result was a gripping thriller,Killing Floor, that won awards, rave reviews, and the first of mill...
30. Killing Floor by Lee Child Buy on Amazon Add to library In another first book to a detective series we have Killing Floor, a novel full of action and secrets. Former policeman Jack Reacher gets arrested the moment he comes into the town of Margrave, for a murder he is sure he did...
Lee Miller. She took some iconic pictures during WWII, despite initially being told that she could not go to the front lines because she was a woman. It was a very, very good movie.
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“serious fiction” mislabelled as suspense herself — called it a fine portrait of “the self-sufficient modern woman who will break before she will bend.” This was reissued some years ago by the Murder Room Press, but for some reason, Amazon reports the Kindle edition is “out of stock...
I’ve just read this book and loved it. I snapped it up when it was a Kindle Daily Deal for 99p. There is a big cast of characters, a brilliant seaside setting for the first part of the book, complete with a a rambling old house (we all love those, don’t we?), servants who...
For the 1935 film The Little Colonel, Robinson taught the stair dance to the child star, modifying his routine to mimic her movements. Robinson and Temple became the first interracial dance partners in Hollywood history (however, the step dance scene was cut from the film shown to Southern aud...
Except... it is not the floor plan of Hill House.Move your mouse over the plan to zoom.Two things stand out: Firstly, the plan does not match the house: the shape of the entrance hall, the number of towers and their location, the small hexagonal tower, the shape of the house, ...
In 2015, prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead on his bathroom floor. To this day, questions surround his death, from who did it to why two Argentinian presidents have publicly commented on the circumstances. This documentary seamlessly blends true crime and political intrigue. ...