Frank Carlson Library

In an ancient Venetian palazzo, Urbino Macintyre encounters a decades-old murder The Contessa da Capo-Zendrini is one of the leading lights of Venice society, but there is one house where she has long been unwelcome. Her late husband's family, the Zenos, has loathed her since the 1930s, when a gathering at her palazzo ended in tragedy. Decades later, she hits on a devilish plan to make amends: inviting the Zeno clan over for a house party to make...

An American chess grandmaster gets involved with a Russian defector in the exciting debut novel from the author of the Mongo Mysteries. Highly focused and arrogant, John Butler has little time for anything other than achieving his ultimate goal: to become a world champion chess player. He already knows he's the best player in the world, but he needs the title to prove it. Now, with the most important competition of his life about to take place in...

A young boy dies during a midnight ceremony. A fish buyer and $75,000 goes missing. And a runaway becomes the object of an Alaskan wilderness search. It is 1979 in a small native village in Alaska accessible only by boat. The local Tlingits continue to honor many traditions of the past, although increased contact with the outside world is accelerating a cultural shift. Caught in a slipstream of time, the village has become a curious blend of old...

An impulsive decision. A chance to gain a lot or lose everything. An odd discovery catapults Sam Whayler into a world of crime and intrigue. Just when he thinks he's on the verge of a breakthrough the worst happens. Sam finds himself on a spine-chilling quest for answers. He soon realizes that nothing, is as it seems. Onslaught is, a fast-paced murder mystery within a mystery buoyed, by an adrenaline-fueled adventure, against the backdrop of the stunning...

Tajikistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Transport plays an essential role for ensuring connectivity and facilitating movement of goods and people within the country and along borders shared with its neighbors in the region. This publication provides an overview of the transport sector in Tajikistan, along with major development constraints, the government's strategies and plans, and assistance provided by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)...

On the day of his forty-first birthday, an Israeli secret agent encounters a beautiful young English woman. In his overburdened mind, she is the woman he has been searching for all his life, the one he has loved forever. Though they have never met, he is certain that she is an essential part of his life's destiny. Using all tricks of his trade and his network of contacts, he takes control of her existence without ever revealing his identity. Alexander...

The Asian Development Bank, under the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation program, is helping Maldives implement a robust domestic and regional trade system. This integrated trade network facilitates seamless movement of goods and documents, across organizational and national boundaries, and will vastly improve the business environment and overall economic activity. This publication outlines key blockchain use cases recommended for implementation...

Piano tuner and jazz musician Frank Ryan is in Japan teaching bored housewives how to play piano. Then he gets a gig in a trendy underground bar and ends up ensnared with a young woman with a grudge and the crime boss who owns the bar. Drawn into Tokyo Girl's vendetta, Frank stumbles into an underworld where transgressions are paid for by the flash of a razor-sharp cleaver. And for a pianist, that's not a good thing. Tokyo Girl is the follow-up to...

Un día después del final de Heat, Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) se encuentra escondido en Koreatown; está herido, medio inconsciente y tratando desesperadamente de escapar de Los Ángeles. Lo persigue el detective del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino). Horas antes, Hanna había matado al compañero de Shiherlis, Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro), en un tiroteo bajo las luces estroboscópicas al pie de una pista del...

Wilson has tried to put his criminal past behind him-but now a random car accident has interfered with his plans and pushed him back in the crosshairs. Dirty cops have gotten their hooks in him and want to use him as bait, telling him the only way to stay out of cuffs is to put someone worse in them. Knowing that justice isn't blind in the city, Wilson picks a fight with the Russian mob to lure both the corrupt cops and brutal robbers into a trap,...