Books like Chocolate Burnout by Emunah La-Paz

In the isolated mining town of Hyde River, mysterious disappearances trigger a town‑wide fear as a malevolent force seeks to devour both bodies and souls.

Elmore Leonard’s fast‑paced crime thriller follows released mobster‑turned‑Hollywood producer Chili Palmer as he navigates the dangerous buzz of the entertainment industry, turning a mid‑day murder into a new film script.

FBI special agent Pierce Quincy teams with ex‑cop Rainie Connor to chase a psychopathic killer who preys on the minds of his victims, forcing them to confront the darkest fears close to home.

A London lodging house becomes the backdrop for a serial murder investigation as an eccentric lodger and his tenants become entangled in the Jack the Ripper killings.

Falklands veteran Nick Sandman, VC‑awarded but broken, fights to keep his crippled boat Sycorax afloat while making a perilous deal with TV star Tony Bannister, owner of the ocean racer Wildtrack, as dangerous enemies close in.

A quiet, unassuming English mother in the 1940s faces subtle domestic pressures that build to a gripping, unresolved climax.

Although the book is named Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lessig uses this theme sparingly. It is a fairly simple concept: since cyberspace is entirely human-made, there are no natural laws to determine its architecture. While we tend to assume that what is in cyberspace is a given, in fact everything there is a construction based on decisions made by people. What we can and can't do there is governed by the underlying code of all of the programs that make up the Internet, which both permit and restrict. So while the libertarians among us rail against the idea of government, our freedoms in cyberspace are being determined by an invisible structure that is every bit as restricting as any laws that can come out of a legislature, legitimate or not. Even more important, this invisible code has been written by people we did not elect and who have no formal obligations to us, such as the members of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) or the more recently-developed Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It follows that what we will be able to do in the future will be determined by code that will be written tomorrow, and we should be thinking about who will determine what this code will be. [from http://kcoyle.net/lessig.html]

A mysterious ivory jackal gamepiece leads Lydia Harris on a journey of discovery in ancient Egypt and Rome.