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In big stakes bass fishing tournaments, contestants will do anything to win. Maybe that's why there is a corpse floating in Coon Bog. Now it's up to R J Decker, novice private investigator, to find out who was dying to get the biggest fish. Help comes in the unlikely form of Skink, a half-mad hermit with a taste for road kill.

Christie Malry is a simple man. As a young accounts clerk at a confectionery factory in London, he learns the principles of double-entry bookkeeping. Frustrated by the petty injustices that beset his life - particularly those caused by the behaviour of authority figures - he determines a unique way to settle his grievances: a system of moral double-entry bookkeeping.

"In his remarkable performance of Edward St. Aubyn's newest novel, stage and screen actor Benedict Cumberbatch proves yet again that he is a master of pacing and characterization...When not delivering a silky, warm, and beautifully enunciated narration, Cumberbatch subsumes himself into a...

Frederique Toenes was the pastor of a small vibrant church in Jonestown, Virginia. His wife Dorothy and their teenage daughter Merlene were not as committed as he was to the faith, so on several occasions, Dorothy stirred up confusion with accusations, both in the home and in the church. Merlene began an intimate relationship with a neighbor Mr. Seatone, whose daughter Eastlyn lived a miserable life, trying to take care of her mother who was in deep depression over her husband’s disloyalty to her.