Orem Library

'Blood Sky' is a collection of stories written by Will Cook that have been edited by Bill Pronzini for their first appearance in book form.

Evelyn Hadley-Attwater has it all-- a genteel Victorian life, loving husband, elegant parties. No one, including the man she married, suspects that she was once a spy for England's most enigmatic intelligence agency... and now she's been summoned for one final assignment. Adrian Hadley-Attwater is a respectable, dignified gentleman. But even the most proper gentlemen have secrets from their wives. Secrets that have a price. Now, as a veil of secrecy...

When Anabel Radburn placed a desperate overseas phone call to her sister Tracy saying she was in great danger, Tracy chalked it up to Anabel's dramatic flair. Until the next day when Anabel's body is pulled from the Bosporus in Istanbul. Racked with guilt for not responding immediately, Tracy travels to Turkey where she keeps her identity secret while trying to piece together the broken threads of Anabel's life. Despite what Anabel's husband says,...

"Poirot returns to the scene of his very first crime to solve a mystery that will be his last"--

Rusty Sabin, born to white parents, was brought up by the Cheyenne Indians who had given the young red-headed boy the name Red Hawk. His ability to heal the sick and make strange magic were widely honored throughout the tribe. But in his twenties, Red Hawk set out to take his place among white people. When Rusty and his stallion named White Horse were nearly at the frontier post of Fort Marsden, the river boat he was riding in was grounded, and a...

Dorcas flees to the Greek island of Rhodes to escape the strange incidents that have beset her since the death of her husband, Gino, in a plane crash. But as danger to her daughter becomes apparent, Dorcas's very sanity seems to hang in the balance.

Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, he feels no real callingdespite his lively faithand he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris, and then hanging his sign in Oxford. Soon after, a local lord asks Hugh de Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspool. Through his medical knowledge,...

German immigrant and housewife Hulda Klager becomes interested in plant hybridization in the early 1900s, and gradually develops over two hundred new varieties of lilacs while dealing with a series of family tragedies.

"Five stories set in the American Old West"--

"When a friend from his time in Africa is found murdered in a New York alley, Ray Campbell returns to the African homeland of the only woman he ever loved in pursuit of answers--still haunted by her murder twenty years ago and believing there is a connection between the two murders"--