Bøger af Michael Elias

Mark, a homebody by choice, also chooses his friends carefully. Now that his new friend has disarmingly worked his way into Mark's life, will the new alliance prove to be a life-altering association? Or, will Mark be faced with old, familiar doubts and anxieties once again, just when things were starting to look rosier? New feelings and lifelong dreams swirl in Mark's mind and body, and his soul cries out for more significant achievement by the person he is to become. Just who will that be, and what form will it take? Can he realize his aspirations without life's burdens and disappointments dragging him down? Will Mark's new friend have his back, or will he turn his back on him?

As Mark struggles with his severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and his bisexuality, he's got a lot of time to figure out something meaningful to do with his life. Recently disabled and unemployed due to the OCD, he explores dating different men in an attempt to surround himself with good people, or at least one who's beneficial. Since women reject him unequivocally, the only relational options for Mark are to be with a man or to become celibate, and his spiritual discovery and self-awareness grow with every new chapter in his life. Join Mark on this journey of navigating the difficulties of disability, acceptance, sexuality, spirituality, and the quest for significance and love, as he battles depression, self-doubt, disappointment, and bewilderment in dealing with various friends and foes along the way.

Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of writing fictionFor ten years, crime novelist Lawrence Block funneled his wealth of writing expertise into a monthly column for Writer’s Digest. Collected here for the first time are those pieces illuminating the tricks of the authorial trade, from creating vibrant characters and generating seamless plots, to conquering writer’s block and experimenting with self-publishing.Filled with wit and insight, The Liar’s Bible is a must-read for experts, amateurs, and anyone interested in learning to craft great fiction from one of the field’s modern masters.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

In this smart, relevant, unputdownable psychological thriller, a woman cop is on the hunt for a killer while battling violent secrets of her own.My name is Nina Karim. I am a single thirty-one-year-old woman who likes cats, Ryan Reynolds movies, beautiful sunsets, walking on a wintry beach holding hands with a tall, caring, lightly bearded third-wave feminist. Yeah, right.Nina is a tough Queens detective with a series of cold case homicides on her desk men whose widows had the same alibi: they were living in Artemis, a battered womens shelter, when their husbands were killed.Nina goes undercover into Artemis. Though she is playing the victim, shes anything but. Nina knows about violence and the bullies who rely on it because shes experienced it in her own life. In this heart-pounding thriller Nina confronts the violence of her own past in Artemis where she finds solidarity with a community of women who deal with abusive and lethal men in their own way. For the women living in Artemis there is no absolute moral compass, there is the law and there is survival. And, for Nina, who became a cop so she could find the man who murdered her father, there is only revenge.

A series of child abductions near the Andes Mountains lands a Peruvian archaeologist and an American FBI agent deep in an ancient Incan mystery. At the foot of a crumbling sacrificial altar on an Andes mountaintop, Nina Ramirez, an archaeology professor at Cuzco University in Peru, makes two stunning discoveries. One is the mummified body of an Inca girl buried five centuries ago. The other is the corpse of a young boy, recently reported missing, now unearthed in a freshly dug graveand dressed in the same distinctive ritual shawl as the ancient victim. It's a clue Nina's ex-lover, FBI agent Adam Palma, never wanted to find. A hostage retrieval specialist, Adam has been enlisted to find the son of a State Department official kidnapped in Limajust one in a series of child abductions reported throughout the South American country. But as his path converges with Nina's, he must contend with a new fear: Someone is reviving the ancient Inca tradition of human sacrifice. With the help of a mysterious young boy, Nina and Adam's investigation will lead them into the endless unknown of the Amazon jungle to follow the shadow of a legendary conquistador. But to solve a twenty-first-century mystery, they will first have to face one in Adam's own savage and distant past: his link to the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro.