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Ties that bind
by Brenda Jacksonall started in college, in the turbulent sixties, when Randolph Fuller and Jenna Haywood became lovers Randolph knew the moment he saw Jenna that he had to make her his But the path to love is not an easy one His wealthy grandmother, Julia, disapproves of the match, and unbeknownst to him, his brother's seemingly docile fiancee has a few plans of her own that she would like to set in motion Betrayal and devastation lurk in unexpected places and test the bond Randolph and Jenna believed was unbreakable. As they struggle with love and passion, secrets and lies, the question is Is love enough to help them see each other through the storms that await them?
The Mystery of the Cupboard
by Lynne Reid BanksIn the fourth book in Bank's acclaimed INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD saga, Omri and his family move to an old farmhouse, where he finds an ancient notebook that reveals a family secret-and the mysterious origins of his magical cupboard.
Fiddle Dee Death
by Caroline CousinsMystery amid the moonlight and the magnolias ... Okay, forget the magnolias. It's the end of December, after all, and frost silvers South Carolina's Low Country. But Pinckney Plantation is still open to visitors who want to see the pride of Indigo Island. The old house claims a long history--or so says the script the tour guides go by. What the script leaves out are the flickering lights and the sound of ghostly footsteps. And the dead body. The corpse is a new addition. Who is he? And what was he doing at Pinckney? And did he fall, or was he pushed? These are among the questions that puzzle the self-appointed detective trio, Lindsay and her cousins, Margaret Ann and Bonnie. As the old year slides into the new, the sleuths turn up old bones, old photos, and, in narrator Lindsey's case, an old flame. Hilarious Southern manners color the revelations about ruthless developers, secretive landowners, and family scandals as the cousins together Solve the mystery.
A Place Of Safety
by Natasha CooperBarrister Trish Maguire needs all the time she can find to help her young half-brother adjust to life after the violent death of his mother. Sir Henry Buxford, an influential acquaintance, has other ideas. He asks Trish to investigate one of his private charities, a magnificent art collection built up before 1914 and lost for most of the twentieth century. Taking a crash course in the murkier aspects of the art world, Trish is determined to unlock the secrets she is sure are hidden somewhere in the collection. Her research takes her not only into the heart of an engrossing love story, but also into the agonizing reality of the trenches of the First World War. She soon discovers a web of deceit that has spanned the decades since, catching all kinds of people in its filaments. Now, the innocent, the violent, and the victims all have to free themselves. And someone dies. With her trademark dexterity and hard-hitting suspense, Natasha Cooper brings us the unstoppable Trish Maguire in her most challenging and enthralling case to date.
Proof Positive
by Philip SingermanWhen his long-lost love and new bride Clara was brutally murdered in an Austrian mountain chateau while they were on their honeymoon, super-sleuth and undercover operative Roland Troy quit chasing criminals and retreated to the backwoods of Vermont. But when his old friend and former partner McKenzie Rockett travels all the way from Florida to ask a favor, Troy knows he can't say no to solving one last homicide. Troy is partnered with beautiful, ex-model Angela Becker, a superb undercover cop in her own right. The two of them quickly find that they are on the trail of an ongoing international conspiracy that has spanned decades and generations.
McNally's Dare
by Vincent LardoThe dowager duchess of Palm Beach dies, leaving behind a fabulous fortune and a handsome young heir-though Archy McNally has his doubts about the boy's bona fides. When a young waiter working Malcolm "Nifty" MacNiff's annual Tennis Everyone! benefit is found dead in Nifty's otherwise pristine swimming pool, it's Archy McNally, South Florida's most famous Discreet Inquirer, who rushes in to salvage the town's reputation and solve the un-fortunate crime. Palm Beach is already in a tizzy over the arrival of its newest millionaire, Lance Talbot, just in from Switzerland to claim his inheritance after the demise of his grandmother. There are those who believe Lance an imposter, and who he is-and was-becomes more of an enigma as Archy traces Lance's progress from the snowy Alps to the sands of Palm Beach. If he isn't the true heir, who is he? And who is the alluring Baroness Holga von Brecht, who is old enough to be his mother but claims to be his lover? When an old school chum of Holga's is made redundant, Archy must make some daring choices to snare a double murderer.
Degree of Guilt (Christopher Paget #2)
by Richard North PattersonA claim of attempted rape. A talepathology. These are the elements of Degree of Guilt, Richard North Patterson's stunning courtroom novel. Christopher Paget is a trial lawyer with a famous past: as a young investigator in Washington, he unearthed a scandal that brought ruin to a President--and an abrupt end to Paget's affair with Mary Carelli. Now, fifteen years later, they are estranged. Carelli is a well-known television journalist based in New York; Paget lives quietly in San Francisco, raising their teenage son and preserving what privacy he can. Until a charge of murder changes everything. The victim is America's most eminent novelist, Mark Ransom. The accused is Mary Carelli. Her defense is attempted rape. The man she chooses to defend her is Christopher Paget. Carelli does not deny that she killed Ransom, but a fateful question remains to be answered: Was it self-defense or was it murder? In preparation for a trial, Paget sets out to establish that Mark Ransom was the twisted man Carelli claims he was. With the help of an associate, Teresa Peralta, Paget uncovers compelling evidence that presents a complex and disturbing picture of Ransom as a sexual predator. But this evidence may not be admissible in court. And there are other unsettling surprises: a secret in Carelli's past that provides her with a powerful motive for murder; facts that suggest she has been lying; a woman prosecutor who firmly believes that Carelli is using the issue of rape to conceal murder; and an enigmatic judge who may very well have an agenda of her own. With the odds against Carelli's acquittal quickly rising, Christopher Paget is faced with a risky legal decision that leads to an explosive convergence of public trial and private conflict--a decision that threatens not only Mary Carelli's future, but his own, and their son's, as well. From first to last, Degree of Guilt holds us galvanized by its masterful storytelling, its complexity of motive and feeling, its vivid depiction of men and women under pressure, and its brilliant delineation of even the most subtle courtroom dynamics. It is an electrifying story of a search for legal and emotional truth. It is the ultimate courtroom drama.
Format C:
by Edwin BlackTwo Millennial fears haunted most Americans at the tunr of the last century: the sense of Armageddon, and the pending Y2K crisis. Both are woven together in Edwin Black's Format C:, a tense and compelling mystic techno-thriller about the final battle between good and evil fought against the race to fix the Millennium Bug.
Tarmac
by Lynne HeitmanOn her way to Detroit for a new job with an upstart airline, Alex Shanahan is detoured to Miami after the death of her friend John McTavish. There, Alex connects John's murder to the black-market of used airplane parts passed off as new. The man behind the scam doesn't want to be found--and he's not about to let Alex cause any turbulence.
Full Speed (Max Holt #3)
by Janet Evanovich Charlotte HughesWhile trying to expose a mob connected avangilist, Jamie and Max find themselves pitted against the mastermind of Nick Santoni.
Dead Air
by Bob LarsonTalk show host Wes Bryant never worries about anything that doesn't concern him directly. He makes his living doing a radio talk show in a small town, until the day a child's call changed his world forever. When Jennifer calls in and pleas for help, saying she is being abused by an evil cult, Wes cannot ignore her. He knows he must save her, whatever it takes. What he does not know is the web of evil he will become entangled in, and the evil he will battle to save Jennifer's life! An excellent book from start to finish, a book you will not want to stop reading until the last page!
The Man Who Killed His Brother (The Man Who #2)
by Stephen R. DonaldsonDonaldson uses the main character as a vehicle to show that people, even at their most wretched, can find transcendence through community, concentration, and disciplined self-cultivation.
The Midnight Mystery
by Betty Ren WrightIf only Rosie's mother hadn't bought the old man's wardrobe ... If only Rosie's father didn't have to go to Milwaukee for his job ... If only Rosie had ten fingers ... If only the "Dance of the Dinosaurs" could be a march ...
Killing Paparazzi
by Robert M. EverszNina Zero, the gun-toting anti-heroine who single-handedly blew up LAX airport by mistake, is finally judged worthy of release from prison. She launches a new career as a paparazza, but all too soon the shine of her glamorous job wears off with the realization that someone is killing paparazzi.
Bad Intent: A Maggie Macgowen Mystery
by Wendy HornsbyMaggie MacGowen, who sees sharply into the complexities of life and often solves crimes through the viewfinder of her video camera, is back in Los Angeles. Waiting for her is LAPD detective Mike Flint--and a case that will take her into the urban war zone of South Central L.A. There, a cop killing solved years before has reverberated through the lives of the three black children who witnessed it, one the son of the man convicted of the murder. Fifteen years later the long-dead case comes back to life, exploding in the media with a bang. A ruthless politician has decided to get the minority vote by claiming the police coerced the children into pointing a finger at Charles Conklin, an innocent man. Conklin's son, deprived of a father's guidance, has ended up in Juvenile Hall charged with a murder of his own. It is a situation sure to ignite sparks of protest in a tinderbox city--and bring Mike Flint's career down in flames. With her dreams newly joined to Mike's, Maggie begins her own campaign to clear his name, and the gutsy, prize-winning filmmaker is taking her camera and sleuthing skills into the heart of an embattled city. But beneath the smoggy L.A. skies, layer after layer of lies make the truth look out of focus around the edges. With her video running, Maggie captures the stark faces of shattered lives.
Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
by Georges Simenon J. Maclaren RossA CRIME CLUB SELECTION The police knew him as "Sad Freddie." The newspapers tagged him "the burglar on a bike." Once he had worked for a safe-manufacturing firm. Now he was in business for himself, cracking the safes he had once installed. Tuesday night's job was to be the last. Then he and his wife would buy that "house in the country." It was to have been a routine safe-cracking job, but Freddie stumbled across something that was quite out of his line-a corpse. When Sad Freddie's wife came to Inspector Maigret with the farfetched story, it took all of the famous Inspector's uncanny know-how to protect a man who, despite his taste for unearned money, was too smart to put his neck in a noose. Scene: France This novel has not appeared in any form prior to book publication.
Quietus
by Vivian SchillingMoments before her small chartered plane crashes into the treacherous White Mountains of New Hampshire, Kylie O'Rourke notices a raven standing placidly on the wing looking at her through distinctly human eyes. Regaining consciousness in a Boston hospital, Kylie finds that the peculiar raven was a herald of things to come and that her world has been irrevocably altered. She is haunted by improbable memories of the crash: though trapped within the wreckage, she recalls wandering the icy mountainside and speaking with one of the other passengers only to find that he'd died on impact. As the bizarre aftermath grows clearer it appears more ominous, and Kylie must fight for her life despite increasing evidence that she is living on borrowed time.
The Stolen Gods
by Jake PageBowdre, a powerfully built wildlife sculptor, is blind, which doesn't stop him from pursuing the truth when trouble erupts in the art world of Santa Fe.
Lord Peter
by Dorothy L. SayersA collection of all the Lord Peter Wimsey short stories, including an introduction.
Black Girl, White Girl (Inspector Henry Tibbett Mystery #18)
by Patricia MoyesChief Superintendent Henry Tibbett and his wife pay an ostensibly private visit to the Caribbean island of Tampica. In fact, Henry is there to investigate cocaine-smuggling and before long he is investigating a murder.
The Prairie Dog Conspiracy (Tom and Liz Austen Mystery #12)
by Eric WilsonDuring a long cold winter in his home town, young Tom Austen stumbles across some strange activity in an abandoned house.
Full House (Max Holt #1)
by Janet Evanovich Charlotte HughesThis is a rewrite and expansion of a 1989 romance novel by the same name published under the name of Steffie Hall. It begins the series in which Charlotte Hughes will become a co-author with Janet Evanovich. Humor, mystery, suspense and a little fooling around.
Ice (87th Precinct #36)
by Ed McbainIce coats the night streets of the 87th Precinct, where a maniacal rapist prowls for new victims. Ice spills from the pockets of a fallen diamond dealer as the life spills out of his ravaged body. Ice runs through the veins of the players in a multimillion dollar showbiz scam ... and through the heart of a cold-blooded murderer who destroys a two-bit drug dealer and a glamorous dancer with equal enthusiasm. And in the deep chill of winter, it is the dedicated cops of the 87th who must brave the frigid winds of death to save a city frozen with fear.
Air Raid (Destroyer, #126)
by Warren MurphyDON'T BREATHE THE AIR They are tiny, genetically engineered blue seeds that mature quickly into trees that literally suck all the oxygen out of the air. They're the earth-friendly but highly secretive Congress of Concerned Scientists, and now they've been snatched by its head, Dr. Hubert St. Clair. Having killed off all but one of his scientific team, he's leading Remo and Chiun on a chase through the proverbial forest. He's got enough seeds to choke off the world's oxygen supply, and the ability to create environmental disasters at will. Battling everything from acid rain to blistering heat to frigid cold, the Destroyer races to thwart double disaster in the Amazon rainforest: St. Clair is planting seeds like a maniac and a U.S. President prepares to nuke Brazil into oblivion.