Bøger af Len Boswell

"More gleeful madness. Joyous!" -Michael Hartnett, author of The Blue RatMurder has come to Crab Cove once more-this time a triple murder. Three young women, one a professional tennis star, are found dead within hours of each other. All have died by lethal injection, and each has the same crab tattoo.Grave and his team set out to investigate the murders, quickly learning that they will be assisted by a young woman from Mars, Kismet Salamander, who has come to Earth as part of an exchange program between Crab Cove and the Mars Colony. Salamander, a quirky and rebellious teen, the first girl born on Mars, has two goals: to solve the case and to check off as many items as possible on her "crater" list of things to see and do on Earth. She proves to be more than capable at both.As the case unfolds, Grave and Salamander discover that much more than murder is involved. To solve the case, they will have to deal with a new technology that threatens not just Crab Cove and the Earth, but the entire universe itself.The year is 2055. Get ready for murders most foul-and fun!

Ash thinks his life is erasing itself. Friends and loved-ones have either died or run away to their own lives. Everything he's known about life is disappearing. Even the letters on the liquor store where he works are blinking out, LIQUOR becoming LIQUO becoming LIQU becoming LIQ. And now Ash's wife may be dying. The doctor says she is, but Ash is not about to let her go. No, he will not let her be erased, too. Then a neighbor asks a favor . . .

It's the year 2054 and Mrs. Wiggle's elephant figurines are disappearing from every shelf and table, but then magically reappearing the next day. The police think she's crazy, "crying wolf," they say. Every time they come to investigate a disappearance all they find is a reappearance. So eventually they stop coming. In a last-ditch effort to find out what's really happening with her figurines, she calls detective after detective to find someone willing to take the case. Eventually she works her way down the alphabet to Red Owl Investigations, and that's when everything changes. Red Owl Investigations has two things going for it: Penelope Goodlove and Rippley (not Ripley) Blunt. Both young girls have the curious and wonderful skill of being able to make themselves invisible at will, a skill that will come in handy as the case takes an unexpected and deadly turn. The Elephant Who Cried Wolf is the first in a new series, Penelope Goodlove's Invisible Detective Agency. The series is a spinoff of the award-winning Simon Grave Mysteries, by bestselling author Len Boswell.

Bruce Cargo, a scientist at the British Geological Survey, is stunned when he discovers a journal purportedly written by Charles Darwin. But is the fantastical story it contains real, or is the journal just a hoax?Bruce and his girlfriend Luna set out to determine the journal's authenticity, but as soon as they begin, someone-or some thing-kills the Darwin expert they have just consulted and ransacks Luna's apartment. A witness claims a "flying monster" was responsible, but the police are incredulous.Meanwhile, Lily (Barnum's Angel) in flashbacks to 1882, searches for a series of journals penned by Darwin that she hopes will help her find her brother-and deal with him when she does.Now, more than a century later, Lily is well aware that the monster is her brother, Jamie. So as Bruce and the police pursue him, unknown to them, so does she.

Detective Simon Grave's tour of a local winery turns sour when a body is discovered in the fermentation tank for his favorite wine, Duct Tape Chardonnay. To solve the murder, he and his team of fellow detectives will have to question strangers, a long-lost love, and his choice in wines.Publishers Weekly describes Boswell's PenCraft Award-winning series as a "genre-defying" adventure, a sort of cozy, sort of sci-fi, sort of paranormal, always-funny series set in the quirky seaside town of Crab Cove. As with all Simon Grave mysteries, simdroids (androids who resemble famous people) play a critical role in solving the crime.Expect humorous takes on the advance of technology, the effects of global warming, and nothing less than the meaning of life, death, love, and loss. Get ready for a fun read. The year is 2054, and the future is filled with mystery.

Having survived a fight-to-the-death ceremony that elevated her to Queen of Enturia, 15-year-old Rhynt must now face the Mystrosians, a formidable force intent on conquering Enturia and enslaving her and her people.As hundreds of Mystrosian ships approach the Enturian harbor, she turns to Baron Bookins, the former fool to the king, for help. He says he has a plan to defeat the Mystrosians, a gambit that will assure victory. Maybe.There's just one problem.Whelan the Wanderer, Randall himself, God of Gods has other ideas. He wants the Mystrosians to win and sets his own gambits in motion. But it's more than just fool against god-it's fool against gods. Bookins must parry the assaults of several gods, each with different skills, to have any hope of victory.Despite surprises and setbacks at every turn, his own doubts, and the doubts of the people closest to him, Bookins sticks to his gambit. But will it work? The answer is delivered by award-winning writer Len Boswell, in a breathtaking clash of armies and gods, with an ending sure to shock and surprise.

To some, Lily was just a beautiful little girl. To others, she was a freakish albino who ate live chickens in a freak show. Charles Darwin called her his impossible girl and tried in vain to classify her. P. T. Barnum called her his angel and tried to take advantage of her.But the creature Barnum thought to turn into a money-making feature attraction is neither girl nor angel. She is something other, a species of unimaginable abilities, with the power to destroy-or save -our world. The power is hers alone, but only the strange blood coursing through her veins will decide when and how to unleash a power she struggles every day to control.From the cold, barren shores of Tierra del Fuego and the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle to the bustling crowds of Victorian London, Lily's story-and her quest-unfolds in a thrilling historical fantasy for all ages from award-winning author Len Boswell.