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Prescription For Murder, A Murder She Wrote Mystery
by Donald Bain Jessica FletcherIn the newest novel in theUSA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher must diagnose a killer with a taste for bad medicine. Jessica's latest book tour brings her to Tampa, Florida, where she meets up with an old friend, Cabot Cove's Dr. Seth Hazlitt.
Prescription for Mystery (Miracles and Mysteries of Mercy Hospital #2)
by Ruth Logan HerneWhile digging through dusty hospital archives, Anne Mabry discovers a box tucked away in the darkest recesses of the windowless room. The contents of the box compel Anne, Shirley, Evelyn, and Joy to join forces and find out whatever happened to the promising young ER doctor who went missing thirty years before--a young doctor whose family had long roots in Charleston society, roots that predated the Civil War. When Dr. Byron Wellington disappeared without a trace, no one knew what to think. Was he forced to leave without saying goodbye? Or was it something worse? Something even more sinister? As the ladies search out tidbits of information, they discover much more than they were looking for. In this lingering mystery of the past, the women realize that all is not what it seems on the surface and that, in the end, the truth does indeed set you free. Four talented women from very different walks of life witness the miracles happening around them at Mercy Hospital and soon become fast friends. Join Joy Atkins, Evelyn Perry, Anne Mabry, and Shirley Bashore as, together, they solve the puzzling mysteries that arise at this Charleston, South Carolina, historic hospital--rumored to be under the protection of a guardian angel. Come along as our quartet of faithful friends solve mysteries, stumble upon a few of the hospital's hidden and forgotten passageways, and discover historical treasures along the way! This fast-paced series is filled with inspiration, adventure, mystery, delightful humor, and loads of Southern charm!
Prescription for Trouble Bundle #1, Code Blue & Diagnosis Death - eBook [ePub]
by Richard L. MabryThis bundle contains Code Blue and Diagnosis Death, PLUS bonus chapters from Medical Error and Lethal Remedy. Code Blue When Dr. Cathy Sewell returns to her hometown seeking healing after a broken relationship, she discovers that among her friends and acquaintances is someone who wants her out of town...or dead. Lawyer Will Kennedy, her high school sweetheart, offers help, but does it carry a price tag? Is hospital chief of staff Dr. Marcus Bell really on her side in her fight to get hospital privileges? Is Will's father, Pastor Matthew Kennedy, interested in advising her or just trying to get her back to the church she left years ago? When one of Cathy's prescriptions almost kills the town banker, it sets the stage for a malpractice suit that could end her time in town, if not her career. It's soon clear that this return home was a prescription for trouble. Diagnosis Death The threatening midnight calls followed Dr. Elena Gardner from one city to another, prolonging her grief. Even worse, they are echoed by the whispers of her own colleagues. Whispers that started after her comatose husband died in the ICU . . . then another mysterious death during her training. When a third happens at her new hospital, the whispers turn into a shout: "Mercy killer!" Why doesn't she defend herself? What is the dark secret that keeps Elena's lips sealed?
Prescription for Trouble Bundle #2, Medical Error & Lethal Remedy - eBook [ePub]
by Richard L. MabryThis bundle contains Medical Error and Lethal Remedy, PLUS bonus chapters from Code Blue and Diagnosis Death. Medical Error Dr. Anna McIntyre's life was going along just fine until someone else started living it. Her patient died because of an identity mix-up; her medical career is in jeopardy because of forged prescriptions; and her credit is in ruins. She thought things couldn't get worse, but that was before she opened the envelope and saw a positive HIV test with her name on it. Lethal Remedy Dr. Sara Miles' teenage patient is on the brink of death from an overwhelming, highly resistant infection. Only an experimental antibiotic, developed and administered by Sara's ex-husband can save the girl's life. But potentially lethal effects from the drug send Sara and her colleague, Dr. Rip Pearson, on a hunt for hidden critical data that will let them reverse the effects before it's too late. What is the missing puzzle piece? And who is hiding it?
Prescription: Makeover
by Jessica AndersenIke Rombout had to be in control-of her job,her life and especially her men. And with herintimidating look, including short, dark hair and apreference for tight black clothes, most men stayedaway. Except former FBI agent William Caine-he walked where most men wouldn't.While working at Boston General, Ike found herselfin the crosshairs of some very powerful men. Andwhen a bullet meant for Ike kills someone she loves,William Caine discovered the perfect solution for acommon enemy. A clean-cut military man had thejob of transforming a rebel with a cause into hisbest-kept secret. Primped in flower prints andpastels, no one in the workaday world wouldbelieve this soft, innocent woman dreamed ofrevenge. But when William's caution turned intoconcern, Ike wondered if he wanted the strikingbeauty in front of him, or the real woman inside....
Present Danger
by Stella RimingtonMI5 intelligence officer Liz Carlyle has just been despatched to Northern Ireland. It's a promotion, and she'll be running agents--her favourite activity--but it also means being separated from Charles Wetherby, her old boss, recently widowed and a very close friend. Attachments in the Intelligence Services are not encouraged: it seems her superiors know more about Liz's life than she thinks.In Belfast, Liz and her team are monitoring the brutal breakaway Republican groups who never accepted the peace process and want to continue their "war". Intelligence is focused on the shady Fraternity, with links to drug-running, arms-dealing and organised crime. With some help from Special Branch and a volunteer informant who seems to be legit, the Fraternity's leader is identified as a cold, calculating and ruthless American, hijacking the Cause for his own financial ends. It is a perilous group to become involved with. Especially if your informant turns tail...
Present Danger (Thorndike Romance Ser.)
by Susan AndersenTo Love. He'll find her. Sooner or later, Aunie Franklin's ex-husband, Wesley, will track her down. She's moved clear across the country to start over, but she knows it's not far enough from a madman obsessed with making her pay. . .And To Cherish. James Ryder's new tenant is running from something. Her Southern sass doesn't hide the fading bruises on her face. James doesn't need more complications in his life, but he can't ignore her rising fear. Especially once the phone calls and threats begin. . .Till Death. . .Every day brings Wesley one step closer. Aunie will be his again, to possess--and to punish. Because the past she tried to flee is about to become her present. And he'll make sure she never escapes again. . .
Present Danger: Gripping spy thriller from former Head of MI5
by Stella Rimington'THE SENSE OF BEING INSIDE ONE OF THE GREAT SECRET SERVICES OF THE WORLD LEAPS FROM EVERY PAGE' Daily MailGripping spy fiction from the former Head of MI5. When MI5 officer Liz Carlyle arrives in Belfast, danger immediately follows - she quickly learns that the peace in the province is as precarious as everWho or what is The Fraternity? MI5 officer Liz Carlisle suspects the group to be a front for renegade IRA men. Also it looks as though a plot is being hatched against the security forces. Liz and her colleague Dave Armstrong believe that a former French Intelligence officer is involved. But during their investigations, Dave goes missing. Liz fears the worst, especially when she discovers that the obvious suspects have all disappeared.
Present Danger: Gripping spy thriller from former Head of MI5
by Stella Rimington'THE SENSE OF BEING INSIDE ONE OF THE GREAT SECRET SERVICES OF THE WORLD LEAPS FROM EVERY PAGE' Daily MailGripping spy fiction from the former Head of MI5. When MI5 officer Liz Carlyle arrives in Belfast, danger immediately follows - she quickly learns that the peace in the province is as precarious as everWho or what is The Fraternity? MI5 officer Liz Carlisle suspects the group to be a front for renegade IRA men. Also it looks as though a plot is being hatched against the security forces. Liz and her colleague Dave Armstrong believe that a former French Intelligence officer is involved. But during their investigations, Dave goes missing. Liz fears the worst, especially when she discovers that the obvious suspects have all disappeared.
Present Darkness: A Novel (Emmanuel Cooper Ser. #4)
by Malla NunnSet in the corrupt, unforgiving world of apartheid South Africa, this novel in the Detective Emmanuel Cooper series follows Cooper as he faces a test of loyalty and friendship.<P> Five days before Christmas, Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper sits at his desk at the Johannesburg major crimes squad, ready for his holiday in Mozambique. A call comes in: a respectable white couple has been assaulted and left for dead in their bedroom. The couple’s teenage daughter identifies the attacker as Aaron Shabalala— the youngest son of Zulu Detective Constable Samuel Shabalala—Cooper’s best friend and a man to whom he owes his life. <P> The Detective Branch isn’t interested in evidence that might contradict their star witness’s story, especially so close to the holidays. Determined to ensure justice for Aaron, Cooper, Shabalala, and their trusted friend Dr. Daniel Zweigman hunt for the truth. Their investigation uncovers a violent world of Sophiatown gangs, thieves, and corrupt government officials who will do anything to keep their dark world intact.
Preserve The Dead: a tense, gripping crime novel (DS Lucy Black #3)
by Brian McGilloway'Dazzling' The Guardian on Borderlands'A clever web of intrigue that deepens and darkens as it twists' Peter James on Gallows Lane'Some of the very best crime fiction being written today' Lee Child on Bad Blood________Detective Sergeant Lucy Black is visiting her father, a patient in a secure unit in Gransha Hospital on the banks of the River Foyle. He's been hurt badly in an altercation with another patient, and Lucy is shocked to discover him chained to the bed for safety. But she barely has time to take it all in, before an orderly raises the alarm - a body has been spotted floating in the river below...The body of an elderly man in a grey suit is hauled ashore: he is cold dead. He has been dead for several days. In fact a closer examination reveals that he has already been embalmed. A full scale investigation is launched - could this really be the suicide they at first assumed, or is this some kind of sick joke?Troubled and exhausted, Lucy goes back to her father's shell of a house to get some sleep; but there'll be no rest for her tonight. She's barely in the front door when a neighbour knocks, in total distress - his wife's sister has turned up badly beaten. Can she help?___________In Preserve The Dead, Brian McGilloway weaves a pacy, intricate plot, full of tension to the very last page. DS Lucy Black's third outing since the bestselling Little Girl Lost confirms her as one of the decade's most original female detectives: strong, sensitive and ever determined.Praise for Preserve the Dead:'Storytelling of the highest order from one of Irish crime writing's most unassuming masters' Irish Independent
Preserve and Protect (Advise and Consent)
by Allen DruryPart of the saga begun with the Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, &“one of the finest and most gripping political novels of our era&”(The New York Times). The United States is thrown into chaos as the President is killed in a plane crash shortly after securing his party&’s nomination in a hotly contested race for re-election. As suspicions are cast upon the circumstances of the plane crash, the incumbent party quickly convenes to nominate a candidate in a storm of domestic and international chaos. Against the backdrop of a rich cast of characters, the motivations and drives of each candidate and player help shape the future of the nation and the world. Praise for Advise and Consent: "Fifty years after its publication and astounding success . . . Allen Drury&’s novel remains the definitive Washington tale. —The Wall Street Journal
President Down
by Terence StrongFormer intelligence officer and one-time instructor at the British Army School of Sniping, Phil Mason is struggling to make ends meet as a private investigaor when he's contacted by his former M15 liaison officer. The overstretched security service needs all the help it can get hunting down members of al-Qaeda terror cells in the UK - and Mason needs the cash. But in the murky intelligence world of smoke and mirrors, nothing is what it seems. As a routine surveillance operation escalates into a full-blown international crisis, Mason must come to terms with the unthinkable: there must be a traitor within Britain's security forces. Entering a desperate race against time to identify and avert a major terrorist threat, Mason must hastily re-hone his old counter-sniper skills as he returns to the business he swore he had left behind forever. The killing game.
President Down
by Terence StrongFormer intelligence officer and one-time instructor at the British Army School of Sniping, Phil Mason is struggling to make ends meet as a private investigator when he's contacted by his former M15 liaison officer. The overstretched security service needs all the help it can get hunting down members of al-Qaeda terror cells in the UK - and Mason needs the cash. But in the murky intelligence world of smoke and mirrors, nothing is what it seems. As a routine surveillance operation escalates into a full-blown international crisis, Mason must come to terms with the unthinkable: there must be a traitor within Britain's security forces. Entering a desperate race against time to identify and avert a major terrorist threat, Mason must hastily re-hone his old counter-sniper skills as he returns to the business he swore he had left behind forever. The killing game.
President Lincoln's Spy
by Steven Wilson1861. As the Civil War rages on, one man is determined to prove himself on the front lines of battle. But destiny has far greater plans for him. . . On the battlefield, Captain Fitz Dunaway is a man of action with a keen, intellectual prowess. But when he humiliates his commanding officer, he finds himself facing a court martial for his maverick behavior. Now his only chance to redeem himself is by working as a spy to uncover a plot to assassinate President Lincoln. Searching through gas-lit alleyways for traitors who will embrace him as one of their own, Fitz discovers just how fine the line is between allegiance to your cause--and allegiance to your country... In this rousing novel of loyalty and patriotism, betrayal and scandal, honor and valor, Lincoln scholar and expert Steven Wilson blends meticulous detail with captivating characters, taking readers back to one of America's most defining moments in history. "The reader can taste the grit and feel the excitement and expectations of a pivotal time in American history. In President Lincoln's Spy, Wilson has given us a time machine." --John Lutz "Steven Wilson writes a story as vivid and engrossing as the Civil War itself." --Troy Soos "If Robert Ludlum had written a Civil War novel filled with spies, double-crosses, murders, romances, and battlefield mayhem, it would read like President Lincoln's Spy." --Clint Johnson, author of Pursuit: The Chase, Capture, Persecution and Surprising Release of Confederate President Jefferson Davis
President Sybil Norcroft: Rumors of War, Secession, and Trouble
by Carl DouglassPresident Sybil Norton Daniels's presidency is tumultuous, to put it mildly. In this, the eleventh book of the series, there are rumors of war and some serious skirmishes, a legal battle over secession moving seriously through the courts, and beaucoup troubles for the harried president--the first woman to hold the office. There is a scandal popularly known as the New Teapot Dome Scandal,' a National Enquirer contrived and photoshopped lurid expose,' a hate crime by New Confederate secessionists that incites riot, and "The Trial of the Century," the National Guard is called out, the draft is reinstated. US missiles deal with a North Korean missile and artillery threat. It will be a wonder if Sybil can juggle all of the balls that keep coming her way."
Presidential Agent: Wide Is The Gate, Presidential Agent, And Dragon Harvest (The Lanny Budd Novels #5)
by Upton SinclairOn the eve of World War II, Lanny Budd reenters the deadly snake pit of Nazi Germany as Roosevelt&’s spy—in the pulse-pounding, Pulitzer Prize–winning series. An American art expert raised in a world of European wealth and privilege, Lanny Budd is dedicated to his socialist ideals and to combatting the twin scourges of Nazism and Fascism. In 1937, a chance encounter in New York with Professor Charles Alston—his boss at the Paris Peace Conference and now one of President Roosevelt&’s top advisors—provides Lanny with the opportunity to make a profound difference. Appointed Presidential Agent 103, the international art dealer embarks on a secret assignment that takes him back into the Third Reich as the Allied powers prepare to cede Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in a futile attempt to avoid war. But Lanny&’s motivations are not just political: The woman he loves has fallen into the brutal hands of the Gestapo, and Lanny will risk everything to save her. Presidential Agent is the action-packed fifth installment of Upton Sinclair&’s Pulitzer Prize–winning series that brings the first half of the twentieth century to dramatic life. An astonishing mix of history, adventure, and romance, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author&’s vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.
Presidential Deal (John Deal Series #0)
by Les StandifordIn the fifth installment of the series, Deal is being awarded the Presidential Medal of Valor, and as a campaign gimmick, the presentation ceremony is held in Miami. During the ceremony, terrorists interrupt with machine gun fire, and Deal and the First Lady are taken captive.
Presidential Mission (The Lanny Budd Novels #8)
by Upton SinclairAmerica is at war, and Lanny Budd risks life and limb from North Africa to Moscow on behalf of the Allied cause in this &“absorbing&” historical novel (The New York Times). Members of the German high command believe that American art expert Lanny Budd is sympathetic to their cause, but since 1938 he has been an undercover agent working for President Franklin Roosevelt. Now, in 1941, the United States has been pulled into the fray by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and Lanny&’s services are required more than ever. In Algiers he must convince the French troops to stand with the Allies in advance of the Axis invasion. A meeting in Moscow, intended to sway Communist despot Joseph Stalin, precedes Hitler&’s disastrous decision to invade Russia. Over the course of the next two years, Lanny faces death at virtually every turn as his important presidential missions carry him from the sands of the African desert to the bomb-blasted streets of Berlin. Presidential Mission is the electrifying eighth chapter of Upton Sinclair&’s Pulitzer Prize–winning dramatization of twentieth-century world history. An astonishing mix of adventure, romance, and political intrigue, the Lanny Budd Novels are a testament to the breathtaking scope of the author&’s vision and his singular talents as a storyteller.
Presidents' Day
by Seth MargolisA shadowy billionaire pulls the strings behind a presidential election in this political thriller by a national bestselling author. In this twisting, ferocious novel of suspense, the presidential race has a number of men all clawing to get to the top. Each has a closet where his skeletons are locked away—and one man holds every key. Julian Mellow has spent his life amassing a fortune out of low-risk, high-reward investments. But the one time in his life he got in over his head, he left another man holding the bag and made an enemy for life, one who has nothing to lose. Now, Mellow has an even greater ambition—to use his wealth and power to select the next president of the United States—and to make that man do his bidding, in business and beyond. In a story that ranges from the United States to an African nation where a brutal dictator reigns and a resistance movement lurks in the alleys, Presidents&’ Day spans the globe to weave together a brilliant portrait of politics at its most venal, where murder is a part of the political process, where anyone&’s life is up for sale, and where one man—that bad penny of an enemy—could bring the whole kingdom toppling . . . This gripping read comes from the author of Losing Isaiah, the basis of the film of the same name, and The Semper Sonnet, praised by Phillip Margolin as &“a wildly imaginative thriller.&”
Presidio: A Novel
by Randy KennedySet in the 1970s in the vast and arid landscape of the Texas panhandle, this darkly comic and stunningly mature literary debut tells the story of a car thief and his brother who set out to recover some stolen money and inadvertently kidnap a Mennonite girl who has her own reasons for being on the run.Troy Falconer returns home after years of working as a solitary car thief to help his younger brother, Harlan, search for his wife, who has run away with the little money he had. When they steal a station wagon for the journey, the brothers accidentally kidnap Martha Zacharias, a Mennonite girl asleep in the back of the car. Martha turns out to be a stubborn survivor who refuses to be sent home, so together these unlikely road companions attempt to escape across the Mexican border, pursued by the police and Martha’s vengeful father. The story is told partly through Troy’s journal, in which he chronicles his encounters with con artists, down-and-outers, and roadside philosophers, people looking for fast money, human connection, or a home long since vanished. The journal details a breakdown that has left Troy unable to function in conventional society; he is reduced to haunting motels, stealing from men roughly his size, living with their possessions in order to have none of his own and all but disappearing into their identities. With a page-turning plot about a kidnapped child, gorgeously written scenes that probe the soul of the American West, and an austere landscape as real as any character, Presidio packs a powerful punch of anomie, dark humor, pathos, and suspense.
Presque Imparfait
by Mary FrameElle, est une policière en cavale. Lui, est son voisin de toujours, et un vrai pitre. Quand quelqu'un essaye de les tuer tous les deux, ils doivent coopérer pour survivre. Qu'est-ce qui pourrait mal tourner? Gemma McDougall sait trois choses de façon certaine : un, elle a des fesses de bomba latina. Deux, sa carrière est plus importante que les relations sentimentales pourries qu'elle a dû endurer jusqu'ici. Trois, elle va obtenir ce poste de détective, même si cela doit la tuer. Et puis, elle passe à deux doigts de la mort à cause de son boulot, et doit se mettre en arrêt de travail forcé. Sam London sait trois choses de façon certaine : un, il n'a aucune idée de comment avoir une vie de couple normale et va probablement mourir seul et abandonné de tous, dévoré par des chiens sauvages. Deux, jouer au Jenga à boire, bien qu'amusant, l'a aussi poussé à pénétrer dans le jardin des voisins et à se retrouver braqué par leur fille. Trois, il n'a aucune idée de l'étendue des problèmes de Gemma McDougall, mais il va s'y retrouver mêlé, qu'il le veuille ou non. Vous allez adorer ce roman policier loufoque et romantique, drôle, complètement fêlé et absolument adorable. Presque Imparfait va illuminer votre journée.
Pressed to Kill (The Mandy Dyer Mysteries)
by Dolores JohnsonIn this &“sparkling&” cozy mystery with &“an oddball cast of characters,&” a dry cleaner-turned-amateur sleuth discovers someone is murdering her customers (Publishers Weekly). Mandy Dyer is happy to see her straitlaced customer Ardith Brewster suddenly bringing a fresh, fun new wardrobe into Mandy&’s Denver dry cleaners. When Ardith confides she&’s got a new man in her life—someone she met at Mandy&’s open house, no less—Mandy is delighted for her . . . until Ardith turns up dead. Mandy is sifting through her customers, trying to find someone who matches Ardith&’s mystery beau&’s well-heeled description, when suddenly another customer is killed. And just when Mandy is about to turn to her PI boyfriend Travis for help, she wonders if the stylish perp might be even closer to home than she realized . . .Praise for Dolores Johnson and the Mandy Dyer Mysteries &“Delightful. Good, clean fun.&” —Dorothy Cannell, author of The Thin Woman &“Dolores Johnson writes with wit and panache. I love her sense of humor.&” —Diane Mott Davidson, New York Times–bestselling author of the Goldy Bear Culinary Mysteries
Pressing The Bet
by W. L. RipleyFrom the Publisher The word is that Jesse Robinson is dead. But when Cole Springer goes to Vegas at the behest of Jesse's father, he finds Jesse very much alive. Unless Springer can figure out what's going on--he won't be alive for very long. Jesse believes that whoever killed his "double" was really trying to kill him, only he doesn't know why--or who was killed in his place. The Vegas strip is full of murder, robberies and red-hot former flames in this fast-paced tale.
Pressing the Bet: A Cole Springer Mystery (Cole Springer Mysteries #2)
by W. L. RipleyThe word is that Jesse Robinson is dead. But when Cole Springer goes to Vegas at the behest of Jesse's father, he finds Jesse very much alive. Unless Springer can figure out what's going on--he won't be alive for very long. Jesse believes that whoever killed his "double" was really trying to kill him, only he doesn't know why--or who was killed in his place. The Vegas strip is full of murder, robberies and red-hot former flames in this fast-paced tale."The author's working knowledge of the ins and outs of Vegas lends color and considerable interest to the story" - Publishers Weekly