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Photo Finished (A Scrapbooking Mystery #2)
by Laura ChildsNew Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand is hosting a late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session-when a neighboring antique-shop owner winds up murdered in the alley. Now, the scrapbooking expert must rearrange the jumble of clues and pick out the killer.
Photobomb (Lethal Lit, Novel #2)
by Micol OstowTig Torres investigates a decades-old cold case -- and a present-day stalker -- in this original novel based on the hit podcast Lethal Lit from Einhorn's Epic Productions and iHeartRadio!Lethal Lit follows Tig Torres, a Cuban-American teen detective in her hometown of Hollow Falls. This second original novel takes place after the events of season two of the hit podcast series, when Tig and her friends investigate the mysterious deaths surrounding a new hotel opening in Hollow Falls.Now, follow Tig as she solves a brand-new mystery with help from her friends Max, Wyn, and Ella.While visiting Hollow Falls’s local art gallery, Tig runs into Darsi, someone she knew back in New York. But an old friend isn't the only unexpected thing Tig finds at the gallery. Tig spots a murder happening in the background of one of the photos in the gallery exhibit. But who was murdered -- and who is the killer?Tig and her friends, including Darsi, are determined to find out what happened to the woman in the photograph. But they don’t realize that they’re being watched. The murder captured in the photo has gone undiscovered for decades -- and someone is willing to kill to keep it that way.Told from Tig’s first-person POV and featuring tons of podcast interstitials, this is a brand-new story not heard on the podcast!
The Photographer: an addictive and gripping new psychological thriller that you won't want to put down for 2021
by Mary Dixie Carter'You meets Parasite' JENNIFER HILLIER'Creepy and gripping - I loved it!' JACKIE KABLER'I've rarely felt as unnerved as I did after reading Mary Dixie Carter's The Photographer, a debut that trains a literary lens on aspiration, envy and obsession ... The depths to which Delta insinuates herself into their lives ...makes the ensuing narrative climax all the more shocking with its unexpected twist' NEW YORK TIMESThey want the perfect family picture.She wants their perfect life.As a photographer for Manhattan's elite, Delta Dawn is intimately familiar with the city's most illustrious families - and all their secrets. She may blend into the background, but she sees everything.When she is booked for a job by the glamorous Amelia Straub, there is a jolt of recognition. This time the family feels special - and wouldn't Delta fit so perfectly here with them, in their gorgeous home, their elegant life? She wants nothing more. And as she steadily befriends them all, she discovers that the one thing Amelia wants most is also the perfect way to ensure Delta will never be asked to leave.Combining pin-sharp storytelling with a tantalising build of menace, and a dangerously magnetic lead character, The Photographer heralds the arrival of a brilliant new crime writer for fans of Netflix drama You by Caroline Kepnes and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.RAVE READER REVIEWS'A disturbing and highly entertaining psychological thriller that sets itself apart from the rest''An engaging psychological thriller from start to finish''This is exactly the book we all need right now! I can't remember the last time a book made me forget I had a phone'
The Photographer: an addictive and gripping new psychological thriller that you won't want to put down for 2021
by Mary Dixie Carter'You meets Parasite' JENNIFER HILLIER'Creepy and gripping - I loved it!' JACKIE KABLERThey want the perfect family picture.She wants their perfect life.As a photographer for Manhattan's elite, Delta Dawn is intimately familiar with the city's most illustrious families - and all their secrets. She may blend into the background, but she sees everything.When she is booked for a job by the glamorous Amelia Straub, there is a jolt of recognition. This time the family feels special - and wouldn't Delta fit so perfectly here with them, in their gorgeous home, their elegant life? She wants nothing more. And as she steadily befriends them all, she discovers that the one thing Amelia wants most is also the perfect way to ensure Delta will never be asked to leave.Combining pin-sharp storytelling with a tantalising build of menace, and a dangerously magnetic lead character, The Photographer heralds the arrival of a brilliant new crime writer for fans of Netflix drama You by Caroline Kepnes and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl.RAVE READER REVIEWS'A disturbing and highly entertaining psychological thriller that sets itself apart from the rest''An engaging psychological thriller from start to finish''This is exactly the book we all need right now! I can't remember the last time a book made me forget I had a phone'(P)2021 Macmillan Audio
The Photographer: A Novel
by Mary Dixie CarterMary Dixie Carter's The Photographer is a slyly observed, suspenseful story of envy and obsession, told in the mesmerizing, irresistible voice of a character who will make you doubt that seeing is ever believing."A breathless psychological thriller about epic mind games."—PEOPLEA Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller of 2021!WHEN PERFECT IMAGESAs a photographer, Delta Dawn observes the seemingly perfect lives of New York City’s elite: snapping photos of their children’s birthday parties, transforming images of stiff hugs and tearstained faces into visions of pure joy, and creating moments these parents long for.ARE MADE OF BEAUTIFUL LIESBut when Delta is hired for Natalie Straub’s eleventh birthday, she finds herself wishing she wasn’t behind the lens but a part of the scene—in the Straub family’s gorgeous home and elegant life. THE TRUTH WILL BE EXPOSEDThat’s when Delta puts her plan in place, by babysitting for Natalie; befriending her mother, Amelia; finding chances to listen to her father, Fritz. Soon she’s bathing in the master bathtub, drinking their expensive wine, and eyeing the beautifully finished garden apartment in their townhouse. It seems she can never get close enough, until she discovers that photos aren’t all she can manipulate.
The Photographer: The Dark Room
by Barbara SteinerSome people would die to have the perfect pictureDerrick, the new kid at Boulder High, seems a little strange. Maybe he&’s just shy, or marches to the beat of a different drummer, but he gives Cynthia the creeps. He&’s got talent with a camera, though, and quickly earns a spot in the school photography club with Megan, who has been having strange dreams ever since he arrived. When the pretty girls Derrick photographs for the school paper begin getting sick, Megan realizes his camera can do more than take spectacular photos—it can actually kill. And Megan is not immune to Derrick&’s control. Can she stop him before she becomes his next victim?
The Photographer
by Barbara SteinerSome people would die to have the perfect pictureDerrick, the new kid at Boulder High, seems a little strange. Maybe he&’s just shy, or marches to the beat of a different drummer, but he gives Cynthia the creeps. He&’s got talent with a camera, though, and quickly earns a spot in the school photography club with Megan, who has been having strange dreams ever since he arrived. When the pretty girls Derrick photographs for the school paper begin getting sick, Megan realizes his camera can do more than take spectacular photos—it can actually kill. And Megan is not immune to Derrick&’s control. Can she stop him before she becomes his next victim?
The Photographer II: The Dark Room
by Barbara SteinerHis drive to preserve their beauty for eternity cannot be controlledDerrick, now David, tried to suppress the bad place within himself—the part that wanted to punish the girls who had shunned him. He knew he was good at his work—his actual photography—and he tried to make that more important than the darkness inside. But it was no use. His mission was to immortalize the beauty of young women—and nothing would stop him. Senior Vicki Valentine is devastated by the loss of her best friend, SueAnne, unable to believe that someone would actually murder her. Spending time with the new guy in town, Scott, helps, but she can&’t shake the feeling that something else is about to happen. Little does she know that David has been preparing his next photo shoot already . . . with her.
The Photographer II: The Dark Room
by Barbara SteinerHis drive to preserve their beauty for eternity cannot be controlledDerrick, now David, tried to suppress the bad place within himself—the part that wanted to punish the girls who had shunned him. He knew he was good at his work—his actual photography—and he tried to make that more important than the darkness inside. But it was no use. His mission was to immortalize the beauty of young women—and nothing would stop him. Senior Vicki Valentine is devastated by the loss of her best friend, SueAnne, unable to believe that someone would actually murder her. Spending time with the new guy in town, Scott, helps, but she can&’t shake the feeling that something else is about to happen. Little does she know that David has been preparing his next photo shoot already . . . with her.
A Photographic Death: A Delhi Laine Mystery (Delhi Laine Mysteries #3)
by Judi CulbertsonBookseller-turned-amateur detective Delhi Laine is back with another atmospheric mystery—but this time, it's a family affair.Nineteen years ago, Delhi Laine's two-year-old daughter disappeared. After a frantic but inconclusive search, authorities determined that she must have drowned, her body washed away from the picturesque English park in which she had been playing.Delhi's heart has never healed, yet her family has since soldiered on. But when a mysterious letter arrives containing the ominous words Your daughter did not drown, their lives are once again thrown into turmoil. With her family torn between fighting for the past and protecting the future, Delhi is caught in the middle. For a mother, the choice to find her daughter seems easy. But for a family left fractured by the mistakes of the past, the consequences, and the reality, may be infinitely more costly.Fans of Carolyn Hart will be swept away by this story of a family on the brink—and their hunt for the truth.
Photoplay
by Hallie EphronDuane Foley thought shooting movie star Bunny Nichol's glamorous Hollywood party was going to be just another job. All the A-listers will be there, of course: Rock Hudson and Doris Day, not to mention Bunny herself and her current Argentine playboy, Tito Acevedo. And Duane's being paid up front, not working on spec like he usually does. (He's still smarting over having gotten that shot of Jack Kennedy and Marilyn all lovey-dovey over dinner, only to have a pair of goons tackle him in the parking lot and smash his camera.)Bunny's party is about what Duane expects--too many beautiful people, too much alcohol, Bunny's 15-year-old daughter looking too grown up--but what he doesn't expect is the shot he gets at the end of the night: a dead body. Nor does he expect to be left with an unsettling question: Is getting the shot his lucky break, or is he being played?
Phyllis
by Howard FastTwo scientists—one American and one Russian—form a pact for nuclear disarmament that threatens to bring civilization to its kneesThe physicists met during a nuclear conference in London. Wanting to hurry America and the Soviet Union into nuclear non-proliferation, they each construct a crude atomic bomb, hiding one in New York and one in Moscow, and then they disappear. The United States and the USSR have forty days to renounce nuclear weapons, or two world capitals will burn. The American government chooses police detective Thomas Clancy to save his city. As a cop with a background in physics, he enters the faculty of Knickerbocker University to investigate the American professor. Clancy&’s hope is that Phyllis Goldmark, the vanished physicist&’s former lover, may know some clue to his location. The clock is ticking as the fate of millions rests on the shoulders of Phyllis and Clancy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author&’s estate.
The Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume Four: The Turquoise Mask, The Trembling Hills, and The Quicksilver Pool
by Phyllis A. WhitneyThree romantic novels of suspense from the New York Times–bestselling “Queen of the American gothics” (The New York Times). The Turquoise Mask: Manhattan illustrator Amanda Austin is summoned to her grandfather’s Santa Fe hacienda to get to know distant relatives of her late mother, who died years ago under mysterious circumstances. But once there, everyone greets her like an unwelcome guest. After a little investigating, she begins to fear the real reason she was invited . . . The Trembling Hills: In 1906, Sara Bishop is off to San Francisco to win back her childhood sweetheart, Ritchie Temple. Her mother, however, is not only concerned with her daughter’s pursuit of an elusive romance, but also with the city itself—and the secret she and Sara’s father buried there years ago . . . The Quicksilver Pool: After the Civil War, Lora, a young Confederate bride moves north to live with Wade, her Union soldier husband, in his Staten Island mansion. Waiting for her there are a bitterly unwelcoming family and the shadows of Wade’s past.
The Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume One: Hunter's Green, Dream of Orchids, and The Winter People
by Phyllis A. WhitneyThree spellbinding romantic thrillers from the New York Times–bestselling and Edgar Award–winning &“master of suspense&” (Mary Higgins Clark). Now in one volume: Three of the most haunting novels by the &“queen of the American gothics&” (The New York Times). Hunter&’s Green: When Eve North returns to Athmore, it&’s to win back the love of her estranged husband, Justin. But she&’s dangerously unaware of the secrets in the sprawling English estate—and the motives of those who protect them, including Justin&’s brother, who once preyed on Eve&’s emotions; Justin&’s manipulative new fiancée; and Justin himself. Eve&’s only ally appears to be the old family gardener who has carved from the green-black yew a magnificent chessboard, both a topiary masterpiece and a warning. Dream of Orchids: Laurel York has come to Key West at the request of her estranged father, expecting to heal old wounds with the celebrated author. Instead, she&’s greeted with the unexpected: her father&’s cold reception, two weird stepsisters, and whispers of a woman&’s bizarre death in a greenhouse full of orchids. The only one pleased with her presence is her father&’s mysterious collaborator. But in a house of bad blood and family secrets, trusting the wrong person could cost Laurel her life. The Winter People: Manhattan art curator Diana Blake is looking forward to finally meeting her husband Glen&’s family. Unfortunately, when she arrives at the lakeside Victorian mansion in the snowy Jersey hills, the greeting is as ice-cold as the frozen Gray Rocks Lake where Glen&’s mother mysteriously drowned. But it&’s Glen&’s twin sister who casts the most sinister shadow. Because it&’s here in dark halls of High Towers, where a strange sibling rivalry will draw Diana into a chilling and inescapable game of family secrets. This trio of atmospheric psychological thrillers once again proves why Phyllis A. Whitney &“is, and always will be, the Grand Master of her craft&” (Barbara Michaels).
The Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume Three: Window on the Square, Thunder Heights, and The Golden Unicorn
by Phyllis A. WhitneyThree haunting novels of romantic suspense from the New York Times–bestselling and Edgar Award–winning &“Queen of the American gothics&” (The New York Times). A trio of spellbinding thrillers from &“the Grand Master of her craft&” (Barbara Michaels) and a &“superb and gifted storyteller&” (Mary Higgins Clark). Window on the Square: Megan Kincaid lives in a house of secrets on Washington Square in New York City. Hired by romantic and wealthy Brandon Reid as his stepson&’s caretaker, she knows the boy&’s violent history—one the Reid family has tried to bury. But their mysterious past runs deeper and more dangerous than she realized. Now, as Megan slowly unravels the truth behind a tragic murder, she&’s torn between a child she must save, a man she&’s come to love, and the desire to run for her life. Thunder Heights: Camilla King has received a startling invitation: Her wealthy and estranged grandfather wants her to return to the mansion on the Hudson where her mother suffered a mysterious death. Camilla complies, partly to meet the family she never had, and partly because of whispers of an inheritance. But a series of suspicious accidents lead Camilla to fear that her homecoming may be a carefully designed trap—the same one her own mother fell prey to many years ago. The Golden Unicorn: After the death of her adoptive parents, Courtney Marsh is determined to uncover her past. The only clues are a unicorn pendant she&’s had all her life and a newspaper clipping about a prominent yet reclusive East Hampton family. Under the guise of a reporter, she&’s arrived at the Rhodes&’s mansion to find the truth of her heritage. But the more Courtney discovers, the more she fears—because hers is a legacy of murder that has yet to play its final hand.
The Phyllis A. Whitney Collection Volume Two: Woman Without a Past, The Red Carnelian, and Feather on the Moon
by Phyllis A. WhitneyA trio of romantic spellbinders from a New York Times–bestselling and Edgar Award–winning &“master of suspense&” (Mary Higgins Clark). Three atmospheric psychological thrillers from the undisputed &“Queen of the American gothics&” (The New York Times). Woman Without a Past: Popular mystery novelist Molly Hunt has just made a stunning discovery: She&’s the daughter of South Carolina blue bloods and was kidnapped as an infant from their plantation in Charleston. But her birth family is a strange brood and meeting them is not the happy reunion she expected. It&’s only when Molly finds a letter from her late father that she comes to realize how much danger she&’s in—and what it will take to escape the shadows of Mountfort Hall alive. The Red Carnelian: Linell Wynn, copywriter for Chicago department store Cunningham&’s, can put a clever spin on everything. But she&’s at a loss for words when, after closing time, she finds the manager&’s corpse in a window display. Considering her volatile history with the victim, she&’s the number one suspect—until a second murder throws the store detective for a loop and plunges Linell into the investigation. Now she&’s working after hours to find a killer, and she has more to lose than her job. Feather on the Moon: It&’s been seven years since Jennifer Blake&’s daughter vanished, but she&’s never given up hope of finding her. Then comes the call from a wealthy dowager a continent away who believes the girl living in her own home could be Jennifer&’s long-lost child. When Jennifer arrives at the sprawling Vancouver Island estate she must navigate a maze of threatening secrets if she&’s to find her daughter—and solve the most shattering mystery of all, locked away in the shadows of Radburn House.
Phyllis A. Whitney Presents Malice Domestic 5: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (Malice Domestic #5)
by Phyllis A. WhitneyMystery Writers of America Grand Master Phyllis A. Whitney, author of more than seventy bestsellers, presides over a salon of today's wittiest writers of mystery in this sparkling new addition to the series. MALICE DOMESTIC 5 once again delivers the style of skillfully plotted crime writing that is a credit to the cherished Agatha Christie tradition. JOYCE CHRISTMAS drops in murder with the egg rolls to go.... EILEEN DREYER proves one perfect man equals double trouble.... PETER LOVESEY gives a gabby bird a criminal vocabulary.... SHARAN NEWMAN unearths devilish doings in an unlikely place.... JILL CHURCHILL whips up batter for a killer recipe.... DEAN FELDMEYER spins a tale of hell freezing over..... PATRICIA MOYES plants larceny amid island palms..... TONI L.P. KELNER douses a hot corpse with southern salsa..... and many more top contemporary writers concoct the wickedest of clever crimes.
Physical Education (The Murder 101 Mysteries #6)
by Maggie BarbieriCollege English professor and sometime amateur sleuth Alison Bergeron would've been thrilled to hear that her husband, NYPD Detective Bobby Crawford, was leaving Homicide if that were the whole story, but it turns out that Bobby's next assignment is even worse---undercover. As if worrying about his involvement in a case he won't talk about at all wasn't bad enough, Alison is forced to take over the women's basketball team at St. Thomas after the coach dies of a heart attack during a game. She may not know much about basketball, but she's no stranger to sleuthing, and it isn't long before she suspects that the coach's death may be more than unexpected but premeditated as well.With Bobby deep undercover and Alison always on her way to deep trouble, it's only a matter of time before they run smack into each other in Physical Education, the latest in Maggie Barbieri's charming Murder 101 mystery series.
Physical Forces (The K-9 Rescue Novels)
by D. D. AyresIn this romantic suspense adventure, a Florida detective’s search for missing dogs leads to a deadly conspiracy—and a sexy search & rescue expert.Macayla Burkett is no ordinary private eye. She’s a pet detective, dedicated to tracking down missing dogs and cats. When two famous racing greyhounds disappear and turn up dead, Macayla finds herself in the midst of a much more serious case. And when the thieves target her and threaten her life, she realizes she’s in grave danger—until a ridiculously handsome stranger enters the picture . . . Oliver Kelly may look like a male stripper, but his muscles aren’t just for show. The gorgeous Australian is co-owner of a K-9 Search and Rescue service dedicated to saving those in danger. When he and his K-9 partner, an Australian shepherd named Jackeroo, rescue the fiery detective from trouble, the sparks begin to fly. And when they join forces to stop a widespread case of animal theft, it unleashes a torrent of passion that’s impossible to tame . . . Praise for Physical Forces“Ayres is back with another fun and exciting K-9 Rescue tale. . . . Ayres does a terrific job developing and layering these characters so that their burgeoning relationship feels real and connected. Ayres and romantic suspense are a great mix!” —RT Book Reviews“A book that will leave you wanting more.”—Fresh Fiction
The Physicists' Daughter: A Novel
by Mary Anna EvansPerfect for fans of The Alice Network and Kate Quinn, The Physicists' Daughter is "a fascinating and intelligent WWII home front story." —Rhys Bowen, New York Times bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook.No one can be trusted. The fate of a country is at stake. And everything depends on the physicists' daughter.New Orleans, 1944.Sabotage. That's the word on factory worker Justine Byrne's mind as she is repeatedly called to weld machine parts that keep failing with no clear cause. Could someone inside the secretive Carbon Division be deliberately undermining the factory's Allied war efforts?Raised by her late parents to think logically, she also can't help wondering just what the oddly shaped carbon gadgets she assembles day after day have to do with the boats the factory builds. When a crane inexplicably crashes to the factory floor, leaving a woman dead, Justine can no longer ignore her nagging fear that German spies are at work within the building, trying to put the factory and its workers out of commission.Unable to trust anyone—not the charming men vying for her attention, not her unpleasant boss, and not even the women who work beside her—Justine draws on the legacy of her unconventional upbringing to keep her division running and protect her coworkers, her country, and herself from a war that is suddenly very close to home.
The Physiognomy
by Jeffrey FordIn the Well-Built City, Master Drachton Below's power is absolute, and he will not hesitate to use it. His primary method of control is through his physiognomists, who are trained to read a person's face and body, perceiving that person's past and secrets-and even events yet to come. These seers are the judges and jury. Now Drachton has found something that could extend his reign for eternity: a fruit that bestows immortality. To investigate its whereabouts, Below sends cold, collected physiognomist Cley to the remote mining town of Anamasobia. One at a time Cley interrogates the townspeople, performing his usual fact finding without issue. That is, until he meets the beautiful and bright Arla, who harbors a secret that could potentially turn Cley's world upside down-and topple the Well-Built City itself.A Kafkaesque journey into the unknown, The Physiognomy is an award-winning trip through a land where the line between reality and imagination is constantly blurred.
The Pianist in the Dark: A Novel
by Michéle HalberstadtA stirring novel of love and music inspired by the life of pianist Maria-Theresa von Paradis, a blind virtuoso and contemporary of Mozart. Maria-Theresa von Paradis, the only daughter of the secretary of the empress of Austria, was an exceptionally gifted child. By the age of seventeen, she was a full-fledged virtuoso, playing for the royal family, acclaimed for her beauty and talent . . . and because she was blind. Her father, unable to accept her condition despite her soaring musical gifts, enlists the help of Franz Anton Mesmer, the forerunner of the modern practice of hypnotism, where Maria-Theresa discovers the passions and emotions from which her blindness had previously protected her. In the tradition of Sleeping with Schubert and The Cellist of Sarajevo, the novel is moving portrait of courage, loss, the elation of first love—and the pain of lost innocence.
Picaro: Una storia dell'orrore estremo
by Terry M. WestATTENZIONE: Questa storia contiene scene di violenza estrema e gore. Inadatta a chi si offende o impressiona facilmente. "Picaro è il genere più insidioso di horror estremo, raccontato con un tocco sanguinario." - Bob Milne, Beauty in Ruins “Una persona spesso incontra il suo destino sulla strada che aveva preso per evitarlo.” Jean de La Fontaine Houston, Texas. Estate del 1984 Binh Pham è un gigolò di strada che soffre di narcolessia. Dopo che il suo pappone è ucciso dal cartello della droga messicano, Binh si rende conto di essere il prossimo. Durante la fuga, va in autostop lungo la Interstate 45, una strada tutta diritta immersa nei boschi tra Houston e Dallas. Incontra Paul Marrane, un viaggiatore accanito eccentrico e carismatico. Paul viaggia con Binh, facendogli da protettore e amico. Ma il comportamento strano di Paul si rivela presto pericoloso. Certo che il suo compagno di viaggi sia un letale psicopatico, Binh scopre che Paul Marrane è molto peggio. Nel loro viaggio per le strade polverose, la loro odissea dà inizo a un incubo angosciante da cui non c'è via di fuga. Picaro è un viaggio sanguinoso verso l'Inferno, dal celebre autore horror, Terry m. West,
Picasso Blues: A Ray Tate and Djuna Brown Mystery
by Lee LamotheMore than a whodunit detective story, Picasso Blues is a gripping tale of missed opportunities and hidden desires set amid rampant cynicism, fear, and deadly danger. In this sequel to Free Form Jazz, Ray Tate and Djuna Brown are reunited in a city being ripped apart by fear, paranoia, and racism. With the police force decimated by a SARS-like disease, Tate and Brown are assigned to a task force targeting a series of murders that seem to be racially motivated. As the city riots around them, can they fashion a future for themselves in their dreamland of bohemian Paris? Far more than a whodunit detective story, Picasso Blues is the gripping tale of a civil society that flirts with anarchy a society where the very defenders of order risk losing themselves to chaos.
The Picasso Flop
by Vince Van Patten Robert J. RandisiJust out of prison after ten years, professional poker player Jimmy Spain visits his wealthy former cell mate and listens to an offer he can't refuse. The rich man wants the ex-con to mentor his only child in the game of poker. In return, he'll set Jimmy up and pay all of his buy-ins on the poker tour. This deal looks like easy money, especially after Jimmy meets the kid--a cocky and abrasive young girl named Kat who has some good, yet raw, poker skills. Soon Jimmy and Kat enter a World Poker Tour tournament at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Things are coming up aces...until a player is found brutally slain with a Picasso flop--three picture cards--on his body. When suspicion points to Kat as the killer, it's up to Jimmy to find the real culprit--while fighting to remain in the tournament. As one ghastly murder after another knocks out other players, this hard-bitten veteran of the felt knows that in this cutthroat world of card sharks, someone could eliminate him--or Kat--for good. On the clock, with the blinds escalating, and down to his last hand, Jimmy fears he may be drawing dead. Featuring the appearances of such poker luminaries as Mike Sexton, Doyle Brunson, and James Woods, and cowritten by a true impresario of the game, THE PICASSO FLOP mixes money, mystery, and the adrenaline-pumping excitement of Texas hold'em poker action, Vegas-style. Shuffle up and read.