Showing results for "Job" in Historical Fiction

1929 Las Vegas, New Mexico. When a man is murdered at the Castaneda Hotel, Josie MacFarland is given an impossible role: the first Harvey House Detective. Armed with only her determination, Josie faces a dismissive sheriff, the cold shoulder of old friends, and the hardships of the Great Depression. She can either return home in disgrace—or fight to prove she belongs in a world determined to shut her out. For readers of Jacqueline Winspear, Rhys Bowen, and Sulari Gentill.

Chicago, 1932. Mick Oberon may look like just another private detective, but beneath the fedora and the overcoat, he's got pointy ears and he's packing a wand. 

A Story We Believe We KnowThere are stories we think we know. Stories we’ve heard so many times, we stop asking questions. The book of Job is one of them. A man loses everything. Jehovah allows it. Faith endures. That’s the version most of us were given. What if that isn’t the whole story? What if some of what Job believed… wasn’t true? What if his greatest suffering wasn’t what he lost, but what he misunderstood about Jehovah? This is not a story about a man being tested. This is a story about a man who thought he knew Jehovah, and the moment he realized he didn’t. Step into the ashes.

Surviving the job happens one day, one shift, and one call at a time. Having each other's backs sets a team apart from a crew. The Bag takes you on that journey for just one shift.

With husband Tim stationed in Egypt and her children at boarding school, Hester Christie -affectionately known as 'Mrs Tim' and based loosely on D. E. Stevenson herself - finds herself at a loose end, until her friend Grace takes her at her word and finds her a job with the formidable Erica Clutterbuck, who has opened a new hotel in the Scottish Borders.

A thrilling adventure inspired by true events, the impact of which continue to be felt to the present day. After the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly established government privatises its industry by issuing vouchers to all of its citizens, giving them the chance to be shareholders in the...

P. D. James is “the reigning mistress of murder.” –Time Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out...

The Spear of Lugh, one of the four Kingly Hallows of Ireland is in Chicago. And everyone, everyone wants it, for it is said that he who carries the spear into battle cannot be defeated. Among those who seek it are an agent of the infamous Wild Hunt; a mobster who knows far more about these things than he should; and of course both the Seelie and Unseelie Courts - the last people PI Mick Oberon would want getting hold of the spear....

An immigrant arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, falls into a job at a famous hedge fund, and is startled to discover how business is done on Wall Street. His observations of American culture and finance are jarring, surreal, and hilarious. The author worked directly for George Soros and launched funds with several other Soros alumni. In addition to his career in finance, he founded and continues to host one of the largest veteran fundraisers in New York.

Ben the tramp, with his usual genius for trouble, runs into danger when he finds a dead body and decides to help out. Ben knew that whenever his thumbs were itching, something ‘orrible’ was about to happen. Sure enough, on one foggy afternoon of itchy thumbs, the hapless Ben is implicated in...

The Modern-Day Jōb: An Amazing Fable of Truth is a gripping tale of faith, heartbreak, and triumph that will leave you reflecting on life’s deepest questions long after the finale.

Award-winning historical novelist James Y. Bartlett has reimagined the great German composer and keyboard virtuoso Johann Sebastian Bach as a cross between Sherlock Holmes and Keith Richards in this imaginative new historical mystery. During a visit to the German city of Kassel to inspect the church’s newly constructed pipe organ, (based on an actual event in his life) Bach, his wife Anna Magdalena and his cousin and personal secretary Elias Bach (who serves as Dr. Watson to Bach’s Sherlock) discover that the pastor of the church may have murdered his young wife.

It’s 1982 and one of the most daring raids of the Falklands war is about to be sprung on the Argentine mainland; the aim is to destroy the last Exocet missile and kill the pilots that might launch it; but everyone knows it’s a one-way, suicide job…Operation Mikado was an actual raid that almost went ahead. ‘The Argentine Job’ is the fictional ‘what if’ that details a mission and potential escape by surviving British forces across forty miles of barren Patagonian winter wasteland at its worst, chased by an army out for their blood.

Ella Parker's male alias was a star pupil in medical school. But as a woman in 1810 England, Ella cannot find a job as a doctor's assistant. In a life-or-death emergency with a mother in labor, she oversteps her boundaries and risks arrest. Determined to practice medicine, she decides to join her mentor on the Neptune, a warship heading for open waters. Following an accident, she is quickly thrust into the role of ship surgeon, and her skills are put to the test.

Texas 1893: Neill, der jüngste der Archer-Brüder, träumt davon, finanziell endlich auf eigenen Füßen zu stehen. In dem kleinen Ort Dry Gulch will er sich genug Geld für eigenes Ackerland verdienen. Doch es ist gar nicht so einfach, das Vertrauen der Einheimischen zu gewinnen und einen Job zu finden. Zum Glück spielt ihm ein Unbekannter einen Zettel zu: Dachdecker benötigt, um Heim von Witwe zu reparieren. Da ihm jede Arbeit recht ist, beschließt Neill, die Frau aufzusuchen. Leider gestaltet sich der Empfang alles andere als vielversprechend.

“I adored this novel. It’s a story about being an awkward, misfit girl with big dreams in a man’s world. It made me laugh out loud, and it made me really, really want a tattoo.” —Clare Pooley, New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project An uplifting, feminist...

This is a fictitious account of Pete Peterson's adventures in the navy, based in part on the author's own real-life experiences.

Endlich wird er von seinem Groβneffen, Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes, vorgestellt – Sherrinford Holmes, Fagottspieler, Linguist, Diplomat, und urspüngliche Inspirazion des Meisterspurhundes. Und Sherrinford Holmes ist nicht die einzige wichtige Person, die wir in dieser Geschichte, die Holmes Watson vor dem Kamin in Baker Street erzählt, kenenlernern.