HARD TIMES IN HOUSTON Neil Marshall is a graduate student in the University of Houston's creative writing program. He is also a poet. Graduate student and poet--hardly the world's most lucrative endeavors, especially for someone who has just embarked on a money-draining divorce. To make ends meet, Neil moonlights as a chef for a high-society caterer. Just when his life seems bleakest, Neil's oldest friend, racehorse breeder Jason Keys, is murdered. And guess what! Neil becomes the prime suspect. To save his neck, avenge his friend, and rescue a missing championship Thoroughbred, Neil penetrates the dark underworld of horse theft and illegal breeding. Neil's friends--his attractive writing teacher, his cooking colleagues, and a freckle-faced teenage horsewoman--cheer him on. But Neil knows if he fails, his goose is cooked. . . .
HARD TIMES IN HOUSTON Neil Marshall is a graduate student in the University of Houston's creative writing program. He is also a poet. Graduate student and poet--hardly the world's most lucrative endeavors, especially for someone who has just embarked on a money-draining divorce. To make ends meet, Neil moonlights as a chef for a high-society caterer. Just when his life seems bleakest, Neil's oldest friend, racehorse breeder Jason Keys, is murdered. And guess what! Neil becomes the prime suspect. To save his neck, avenge his friend, and rescue a missing championship Thoroughbred, Neil penetrates the dark underworld of horse theft and illegal breeding. Neil's friends--his attractive writing teacher, his cooking colleagues, and a freckle-faced teenage horsewoman--cheer him on. But Neil knows if he fails, his goose is cooked. . . .
TOO MANY COOKS Houston's culinary luminaries all know each other . . . much too well. Perry Stevens is the city's hot caterer. Magazine publisher Agnes Berryman dishes up the last word on cuisine. And the city's most celebrated kitchen artist is TV chef Sherwood Welles. Suddenly Welles is super-famous--now that he's been brutally murdered. When prime suspect Perry Stevens is arrested, his chef (and part-time sleuth) Neil Marshall swears to hash out the truth.
Congressional candidate Chip Gunn figures he has the election in the palm of his hand. But when Gunn's guard is stabbed all hell breaks loose. Things only get worse when the victim vanishes and Neil's assistant is left holding a bloody knife.
Almost 80% of CEOs say that their organization must get better at managing external relationships. According to The Economist, one of the major reasons why so many relationships end in disappointment is that most organizations 'are not very good at contracting'. This ground-breaking title from leading authority IACCM (International Association for Contract and Commercial Management) represents the collective wisdom and experience of Contract, Legal and Commercial experts from some of the world s leading companies to define how to partner for performance. This practical guidance is designed to support practitioners through the contract lifecycle and to give both supply and buy perspectives, leading to a more consistent approach and language that supports greater efficiency and effectiveness. Within the five phases described in this book (Initiate, Bid, Development, Negotiate and Manage), readers will find invaluable guidance on the whole lifecycle with insights to finance, law and negotiation, together with dispute resolution, change control and risk management. This title is the official IACCM operational guidance and fully supports and aligns with the course modules for Certification.
As if being in high school isn't hard enough, Bobby Hawthorne and his best friend, Angelina Dellapicallo, struggle to understand the secrets of magic - secrets guarded by Bobby's overprotective mother and her friends. The unexpected appearance of his grandfather sets in motion a series of events that sweep the teens down a dangerous path.
TOO MANY COOKS Houston's culinary luminaries all know each other . . . much too well. Perry Stevens is the city's hot caterer. Magazine publisher Agnes Berryman dishes up the last word on cuisine. And the city's most celebrated kitchen artist is TV chef Sherwood Welles. Suddenly Welles is super-famous--now that he's been brutally murdered. When prime suspect Perry Stevens is arrested, his chef (and part-time sleuth) Neil Marshall swears to hash out the truth.
Graduate student and part-time chef Neil Marshall only wants to go for an early morning run. Instead he witnesses the near-fatal shooting of legendary Houston private eye C.J. McDaniels, and he fears the gunmen can identify them. In Houston's sultry summer heat a deep-rooted rage is building from a whisper to a roar.
Forget a white Christmas in Houston. Poet, chef and amateur sleuth Neil Marshall sees a blue, blue Yuletide heading straight at him. And as if his holiday funk and the hectic seasonal demands aren't enough, Neil's grandfather, who bears an uncanny resemblance to old St. Nick, decides to make an unexpected visit. Soon, however, Neil learns that Grandpa's normal holiday cheer is closer to holiday fear as the elder Marshall is on the lam from a murder charge back in Colorado. It's up to Neil to nab the real murderer or else Grandpa's twelve days of Christmas may be his last.
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