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",Love, Lust, Glamour, Greed, Money, Power = Hollywood&rdquo, Explosive intrigue is found only in the movies for most of the world, but in Hollywood, it',s real life. Dotty Henderson seemed to be nothing more than a charming waitress at Schwabs, a restaurant at the legendary corner of Sunset &, Vine. She never dreamed she&rsquo,d become the envy of the world, brought about by a stunning revelation that would shock even jaded Hollywood. Dotty had a secret ambition &hellip, and it was not to make management. But things took a deadly turn. Hollywood screenwriter, Michael Deeves, joins forces with detective Rocco Goldman and his ex-partner-turned-PI, Elsa Wagoner, in solving the gruesome, cold-blooded murder of their friend and confidant

Hard Fall

When student veterinarian Evan McEwan goes deep into the brush of Toronto',s Don Valley to catch what he thinks is a stray puppy, he stumbles upon a human skull. While Evan continues his search for the pup, the homicide detectives Publishers Weekly called ",captivating", sift through the past to determine whose skull it is and how it got there. Meanwhile, families with missing loved ones anxiously seek information and curious reporters try to get a scoop. Note

Peter Robertson, 33, discovers his wife is cheating on him. Following her suspected boyfriend one night, he erupts into a rage, beats him and leaves him to die... or so he thought. Soon he discovers that he has killed the wrong man &ndash, a perfect stranger. Six months later, impaneled on a jury, he realizes that the murder being tried is the one he committed. After wrestling with his conscience, he works hard to convince the jury to acquit the accused man. But the prosecution&rsquo,s case is strong as the accused man had both motive and opportunity to commit the murder. As the pressure builds, Peter begins to slip up and reveal things that only the murderer would know &ndash, and Christine, a pretty and intelligent alternate juror, suspects something is amiss. Meanwhile, Peter&rsquo,s wife leaves him, his mother suffers a series of debilitating strokes, and his best friend and employee, accused of sexual harassment, needs Peter&rsquo,s help that he&rsquo,s too preoccupied to give. As jurors one by one declare their intention to convict, Peter',s conscience eats away at him and he careens toward nervous breakdown, revealing details about the crime that had not been disclosed in court. &ldquo,Lying in Judgment&rdquo, is a gripping courtroom thriller about a good man&rsquo,s search for redemption for his tragic, fatal mistake, pitted against society&rsquo,s search for justice._,

Smart, sexy, sassy and driven&mdash,Victoria Rodessa just graduated from one of the ,country&rsquo,s top law schools and joined the international firm Acker, Smith &,amp, ,McGowen, respected for its advancement of female lawyers. ,When Victoria lands a prized assignment vital to the ambitions of the firm&rsquo,s ,powerful partners, she sets out to become the first woman to join their ranks. But ,behind closed doors, deviant agendas dominate. With only her intellect and guts to ,guide her, Victoria confronts a perfect storm of misogyny, lies and criminal intent. If ,she follows her conscience, she could lose everything. But keeping silent could come ,at an even higher cost._,

Dan Martinez, twenty-eight, laid off from his job with a law firm in Portland, Oregon, decides to train for an off-road triathlon in rural Central Oregon. After a run, Dan comes to the back door of his childhood friend, Candy Winterpol, to find Candy&rsquo,s husband, Ken, barely conscious on his deck. , Dan and Candy help Ken into the kitchen and call 911. , When Detective Breuninger of the Deschutes County Sheriff&rsquo,s Department arrives with the medics, Dan and Candy realize they may be charged with attacking Ken (and ultimately murdering him when he dies that afternoon). Dan arranges a criminal attorney for Candy and protects himself using what he can remember from law school, where he studied business, not criminal, law. ,When a neighbor tells Dan he saw Dan&rsquo,s father in the vicinity, Dan decides he must protect his father, as well as Candy and himself, from arrest and possible conviction. Meanwhile, Dan&rsquo,s father disappears.Dan undertakes to protect Candy, his father, and himself by identifying other people who had reason to kill Ken. , He uncovers Ken&rsquo,s fraudulent business practices, his bribery of public officials, his early life as a drug dealer, and his bitter relationship with his previous wife. , When Dan delivers a host of suspects to Detective Breuninger, the detective arrests Dan himself in the hope of learning what Dan is trying to hide.Amy De Santis, twenty-three, attends the funeral of her landlord (Ken) and is accosted by his sister who sees a family resemblance. Amy believes Ken might be the father for whom she never had a name. , Amy meets Dan and finds they are both training for the same triathlon. , They eventually fall in love, though Dan is wary of a girl who stands to gain from Ken&rsquo,s estate.Dan finally identifies the murderer, who attempts to kill Dan, and fights the killer in a life and death struggle deep in the Oregon forest.The novel is narrated i

An assassin who s just accepted her latest contract, complete with target, weapon, and half her fee up front. A skateboarding purse-snatcher, cruising along, always on the lookout for the next opportunistic score. When their paths cross, it s bad news for both. Lives in danger. Livelihoods on the line. Can t go to the police. What would YOU do? SCOOT!_,

When Martin Bennett, the backroom brains in a regeneration company charged with bringing back Merseyside&rsquo,s former prosperity, sees an ex-friend murdered on a hospital escalator and discovers that the body was too hastily cremated, he feels compelled to investigate.In order to discover the truth about the murder, he must navigate the Merseyside underworld peopled by bent solicitors and coppers, corrupt politicians and violent thugs. He forms an alliance with the mayor&rsquo,s right hand woman, who is out of favour with her corrupt boss, and uncovers not only the surprising story behind the murder but also a conspiracy to carve up Merseyside&rsquo,s green belt.The journey will not be without risk. For both of them._,

&ldquo,I wouldn&rsquo,t like to make you really angry, darling. You know, the only time I did you nearly scared me dead. I believe if you were really roused you might do something rather frightful.&rdquo, Lucas Dale, new owner of King&rsquo,s Bourne, was flirting with danger when he showed his priceless collection of pearls to the guests assembled in his period salon. But when, under threat, he forced lovely Susan Lenox to break her engagement and consent to marry him, he started a train of events that inevitably led to murder, shattering the quiet of the English village. Bill Carrick, Susan&rsquo,s former fiancé,, is the primary suspect, but as Inspector Ernest Lamb and Detective Frank Abbott soon discover, Dale&rsquo,s questionable past offered motives of revenge and greed to darken the mystery. Motives which would lead another victim into the path of murder&hellip, Who Pays the Piper? ,was first published in 1940. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. &ldquo,When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think, now to enjoy myself&mdash,and I always do.&rdquo, Mary Dell, Daily Mirror_,

&ldquo,It was some sort of sudden death?&rdquo,Travers made a face. &ldquo,It certainly was sudden. I&rsquo,ll say it&rsquo,s ten to one it was murder.&rdquo,Ludovic Travers is asked by an old school friend, Henry Dryden, to investigate the cause of the agitation in the formerly placid village of Bableigh &ndash, not to mention the gunshot death, ruled an accident, of Dryden&rsquo,s friend Tom Yeoman, the local impoverished squire. Even after Travers and ex-CID associate John Franklin arrive in Bableigh, however, the spell of unfortunate village &ldquo,accidents&rdquo, continues. And now there are rumours of a witches&rsquo, coven, right in the heart of the community&hellip, Can Ludo and Franklin solve the mystery of the strange malaise that has afflicted the unfortunate Bableigh, and return the community to its previous state of pastoral grace?The Case of the Unfortunate Village was originally published in 1932. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans._,

Trav Becker can travel between parallel realities. So can other versions of him. And one is systematically killing every Trav he can find. , Trav must now fight to keep the very fabric of time from unwinding as he hunts the most dangerous quarry of all... himself_,

The $500 billion a year illegal drug trafficking business has a secret relationship with seemingly legitimate bankers and mainstream financial markets which is exposed by a story in the press that reverberates on front pages around the world.The question that even legitimate investigators seem not to be asking is

What do you do when logic tells you to do one thing, but your heart tells you to do another? ,That&rsquo,s the problem Nicky Fusco is facing when Rosa&rsquo,s friend is kidnapped, and she asks him to help. ,Then Rosa brings home a video that shows her friend Allison being forced to do disgusting things. At that point, Nicky realizes he has no choice, so he sets out to make things right. ,_,

Middle age can be murder ...At least that&rsquo,s how it seems to former crime journalist, Wilhelmina Chance, whose near-fatal accident has given her a strange side effect ... she sees ghosts.After a messy divorce sends her fleeing back to her hometown of Mystic Notch, nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Willa finds herself haunted by the tenacious ghost of the town librarian who insists Willa solve her murder.Luckily, she has lots of help, including a quirky cast of small-town characters, the cat she&rsquo,s inherited from her grandmother, and her best friend, Pepper, who claims her herbal teas can work magic.But just when Willa thinks she&rsquo,s discovered who the killer is, she finds out that things are not what they seem in Mystic Notch, and the case takes a strange turn that has Willa adding even some of her long-time friends to her suspect list.Can Willa find the real killer in time to keep the magical balance in Mystic Notch on the side of good, or will evil prevail?_,

When Pamela Dodd arrives in the sleepy Chesapeake village of River Glen to hunt for treasure, she unleashes a summer of chaos and murder. The wake from her speeding motor yacht erodes a cliff, causing an abandoned cottage to topple off the edge&mdash,and revealing a mass grave under its foundation. The discovery sends River Glen into a panic. Was Henry Herssen, the reclusive fisherman who owned the cottage, responsible for the killings, or has someone else been burying bodies at the top of the cliff for decades? As Detective Jay Braden and his assistant Will Wilkins investigate the murder site, the clues point to Tolchester College, a small school with secrets of its own. Braden discovers a discarded animal canister with a desiccated spider in a nearby shed. Will stumbles into a hidden pit containing a chair with restraints. It seems one of the professors has been conducting experiments using poisonous Australian funnel spiders. And their version of the scientific method is deadly. ,_,

When the ghost of a murder victim appears in Last Chance Books, middle-aged bookstore owner, Willa Chance, must find the ghost',s killer or risk being haunted with it',s unwanted advice forever. Too bad the ghost suffers from amnesia and only has a few scant clues as to the identity of the killer. That',s okay, though, because Willa has a pretty good idea who did it ... until her investigation turns up additional suspects with curious motives. Meanwhile her cat, Pandora, is on the hunt for a mystical kitten that the cats of Mystic Notch must bring into the fold before the kitten is enticed to the side of evil by a powerful foe. When Willa',s own life is threatened, she enters into a race against time to figure out the identity of the killer before he comes back to finish the job._,

A half-forgotten cold case will likely mark the end of Detective Archie Stevens career. Instead, a brutal murder leads him deep into the rotten heart of a west coast community. Driven by his own ghosts, Archie must reconnect with a troubled past if he hopes to destroy the lingering evil that threatens to destroy him and the woman he loves._,

The weather turns to spring, and Charlotte ",Charlie", Parker faces a pair of puzzles. Against Charlie&rsquo,s better judgment Ron, her PI partner, takes a cheating-spouse case that turns into a comedy of errors involving a star football player and his wife&rsquo,s petty vengeance. Meanwhile, Charlie&rsquo,s neighbor Elsa has a bad feeling about a family up the street. Is it a case of the neighborhood busybody having too much time on her hands, or is there truly something sinister happening with twin teen girls who&rsquo,ve been left with too much money and not enough supervision? ,Praise for the Charlie Parker series

',Two intriguing cases &ndash, one twisted plot.', &ndash, Alison Bruce ',Stylish, skilful and packed with suspense.', &ndash, Sharon Bolton SOMETIMES THE PAST IS BEST LEFT ALONE The quiet Buckinghamshire village of Houghton is reeling. Soon after twelve year old Leanne Richards is killed by a hit and run driver, the two classmates who were with her that night disappear, one by one. Jade and Becky said they couldn&rsquo,t identify the car or the driver. Does someone want to make sure it stays that way? Or are other, darker motives in play? As DI Lizzie Archer and DS Dan Baines search for the truth, buried pasts and secret loves begin to reveal themselves. But is time running out for the girls? Or is it already too late? PRAISE FOR ARCHER AND BAINES

Della Banners was born into poverty. It had been a hard life up in the hills. But she discovered early that a girl with her figure could get things from men. So when she ran away to the city, she was ready to try anything. That&rsquo,s when she met Jack. Jack immediately sized up her assets and suggested that she belonged in sales. His line of business is selling roofs and siding, but to do it right, he needs someone to find the prospects. That&rsquo,s where Della comes in.  , Pretty soon she finds she has a knack for finding new customers, and a better knack for conning them into buying jobs they don&rsquo,t really need. Della and Jack are on their way to success. The only trouble is, Jack is married, and his wife is less than understanding. Because Della wants it all&mdash,the money, the new car, the nice clothes&mdash,and Jack. And heaven help anyone who gets in her way.  , ,  ,_,