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Peter Silas is the successful pastor of a thriving church until he gets a phone call that rocks his world. His wife is dead. Not just dead, but murdered in the master bedroom of the parsonage with a knife from her own kitchen. A female member of his church, who was seen running from the house, is arrested for the murder. Convinced she isn_,

Frank Vogel has developed a unique line of hair-care products and needs money to grow. When he runs an ad in The New York Times asking for investors, Thomas Harwood replies and agrees to invest three million dollars to get the products into the market. Harwood claims that his money is coming from a settlement with the federal government that involves a bank in Colorado and the government bailout of the Savings and Loan industry in the 1980s. He tells Vogel that hes signed a confidentiality agreement and cant say any more about it. Nine months later, hes still saying the same thing, while Vogel teeters on the verge of bankruptcy. After contacting other companies in which Harwood has promised to invest, Vogel learns an interesting fact

Everyone on Prince Isle wants to get rid of Jonathon Weymore. Who finally does?_,

Four hundred years ago a Chinese porcelain maker loses his family in a plague. Grief stricken, he becomes a Taoist monk and rids himself of his fortune in gold, concealing it in the bottom of four priceless vases. Unwittingly he includes a deadly cache of the recent virulent plague. Bashir, a present-day terrorist on the hunt to resurrect such ancient plagues, traces in archives the story of the lost vases, but loses the trail when the ship is wrecked off the Balinese coast. Watching closely are agents of the American Presidents newly formed Terrorist Threat Integration Centre. When one of the ancient vases turns up at an antique auction in Bali, the hunt is on for the other three. On a collision course with the terrorist group and the TTIC agents is Lim, an importer, who has learned of the hidden gold. In their way is Chad Handelmann, a Balinese-Australian importer and ex-SAS captain, whose family are the guardians of a map leading to the vases. The thrilling race to the burial place of the vases leads to a ruined temple deep in the rainforest of Mt Agung. Nobody is prepared for the danger that lies inside. Suddenly, it is no longer only about recovery of the sacred vases. It is a struggle just to stay alive._,

Places the Dead Call Home begins on a summer night in 1958, as bullets tear through the body of a young man on a lonely Oklahoma highway. Nineteen years later, a soldier lies in the pool of his own blood on an army base in Virginia. Death has made room at home for both of them. Death can always find room for more. Josh Kincaid is happy with life in Phoenix where he manages a bar and sells a few drugs on the side. His serenity is soon shattered, however, by a call from his cousin, Frankie McKnight, who claims to know why Joshs father died many years earlier in the parking lot of a gas station in Oklahoma City. Soon, a reporter named Jeffrey Bonus and his traveling companion, Jeanette Koskos, arrive with questions for Josh about the death of Bonuss father, a highly decorated army colonel. All of these characters converge on Mesa Verde, where Josh and Frankie seek the answer to Jimmy Kincaids destiny and Bonus hopes to learn the true fate of his father. But others are making plans of their own to ensure that the dead stay where they belong-the places they call home. _,

Name-calling and mudslinging permeate the election campaign for Great Britains office of prime minister. Two leading candidates, Howard Spencer and Adam Baldwin, both covet the powerful position and will do anything to get it. Spencer can taste victory, but he knows one thing that will guarantee it. He asks his ex-girlfriend, Baldwins spoiled and selfish wife, Angela, to drag Baldwin into a scandal so horrific that his political career will be ruined forever. With the promise of five million pounds and a future as Mrs. Prime Minister, Angela agrees, ruthlessly using her own eleven-year-old daughter to entrap Baldwin in an unspeakable crime. When the scandal hits the news, Baldwin loses his political standing-and his reputation. Now, desperate for the truth, Baldwin searches for answers and uncovers a maelstrom of lies, deceit, and murder. From the halls of Parliament to the streets of London, Absolute Greed explores the secret, and sometimes deadly, lives of politicians._,

Someones been playing with the gazpacho in this satirical drawing-room mystery. Marla Stones nine-acre island estate has sadly fallen into disrepair. Her twenty-four-room French Normandy mansion, guesthouse, stables, cabanas and outbuildings are showing their age. Marla earns a paltry sum teaching cooking and birdsong identification classes in her home, and shes having trouble maintaining the elegant way of life to which she had always been accustomed. Even Acumulada, her loyal maid of thirty years, has agreed to work without wages. Marlas financial salvation arrives in the form of Jack Trumpet, CEO of Conglomotron. He appears on her doorstep one day, asking her to co-host a lifestyle television show with his wife, Barbie Lee. Barbie Lees dearth of talent is only part of the problem. Marlas dinner guests are stranded overnight on the island. They each question who among them could be capable of murder. Who isnt? With the bridge out, roads closed, phone lines down, and electricity out, the frightened guests must survive another night in the house ... and another night with the killer._,

WELCOME TO NEW YORK A PERILOUS PLAYGROUND FOR THE RICH, THE YOUNG AND THE TROUBLED, AND THE CRIMINALS WHO PREY UPON THEM. Fueled by black coffee and vengeance, Felix Novak speeds across the country to New York City on a mission to find and kill whoevers responsible for his sisters death. Felixs childhood friend, Soraya Navarro, collided with the drug-addled Penelope the night she died. But Soraya may be too close to the nightclub establishment to really help. With time against him, Felix is forced to turn to the last person he wants to see

Between haute couture and haute cuisine, Parisian Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier finds murder to be more than the spécialité du jour...When the senior food critic for Le Figaro is found face-first in a plate of Ravioles dhomard, there seem to be as many suspects as there are restaurants in the City of Light. Yet Capucine feels shell solve the case quicker than it takes to find a 3-star rating in the Michelin Guide. Un problem, murders of food critics have become an epidemic. And there are just as many suspects, including a sexy starlet, an award-winning novelist, and a smorgasbord of aggravated chefs. While Capucine struggles to zero in on the murderers tastes, she is confronted with a false dilemma

Tyler Montague is, by anyones estimation, successful

Tris Apthorp, recovering alcoholic, rescues an infant kidnaped after four deaths and murder attempts upon Apthorp and Apthorps father, the boys grandfather and great grandfather. Tris solves the mysteries by risking his life and using skills gained in conquering his illness._,

From the peaceful hillsides of rural Italy to the glitzy night life of Las Vegas, The Card House tells the story of a deadly family feud that spans two generations and brings shocking personal cost. In 1959, twelve-year-old Angelo Angelli identifies Gaitano Defierro, the powerful patriarch of their small Italian village, as the perpetrator of his best friends brutal rape and murder. Despite his protest of innocence, Gaitano hangs for his crime. The Defierro family kills Angelos mother and two sisters in retribution, forcing Angelo and his brother to flee to America-and an uncertain future. Thirty years later, Angelo has built a modest life for himself and his son, Tony. But under his uncles influence, Tony becomes a professional gambler, flunking out of college and deeply disappointing his father. He masters an elite blackjack system guaranteed to beat the Las Vegas casinos and plans to make his fortune in Sin City. However, vengeance has carried on to the next generation of the Defierro family, and Tony is their unenviable target. Thrust into the seedy side of high stakes gambling, Tony doesnt know whom to trust. But one thing is certain

Name-calling and mudslinging permeate the election campaign for Great Britains office of prime minister. Two leading candidates, Howard Spencer and Adam Baldwin, both covet the powerful position and will do anything to get it. Spencer can taste victory, but he knows one thing that will guarantee it. He asks his ex-girlfriend, Baldwins spoiled and selfish wife, Angela, to drag Baldwin into a scandal so horrific that his political career will be ruined forever. With the promise of five million pounds and a future as Mrs. Prime Minister, Angela agrees, ruthlessly using her own eleven-year-old daughter to entrap Baldwin in an unspeakable crime. When the scandal hits the news, Baldwin loses his political standing-and his reputation. Now, desperate for the truth, Baldwin searches for answers and uncovers a maelstrom of lies, deceit, and murder. From the halls of Parliament to the streets of London, Absolute Greed explores the secret, and sometimes deadly, lives of politicians._,

Saving an ex-wife might get Ross Malone into heaven but hed have to die to get there, or is that the point? Maggie Warners significant other wants something from her, bad enough to take it, no matter the cost. Only private detective Ross Malone stands in the way of Maggie paying the ultimate price. Rescuing her means skipping out on a district attorney who likes him for the murder of a local crime boss, even though the surviving daughter hires Ross to find the real killer. Breeder, the latest Ross Malone thriller, will forever leave an indelible mark on the private detective and all he loves. Or is that the point?_,

When police are stumped by the perpetrator in a series of murders in the area, a divorced woman raising two daughters alone through the cold winter in a wilderness area moves her family to Florida._,

Laura living alone far into the country on a deserted lane, wanted desperately to meet her dream man and get married, but was her dream man the right one for her? Or was he a murderer? Or maybe the murderer was her neighbor? She was becoming paranoid._,

Sicilian-American Womens, Mens, and Family Studies Professor, psychoanalyst, and night radio talk show personality, Anna Falcos dad always told her that the lower our self esteem, the more we want to be someone different from ourselves, and the more we want someone different from ourselves. He made a point that the higher our self esteem, the more we want someone like ourselves. Anna Falco added something more to that

Four hundred years ago a Chinese porcelain maker loses his family in a plague. Grief stricken, he becomes a Taoist monk and rids himself of his fortune in gold, concealing it in the bottom of four priceless vases. Unwittingly he includes a deadly cache of the recent virulent plague. Bashir, a present-day terrorist on the hunt to resurrect such ancient plagues, traces in archives the story of the lost vases, but loses the trail when the ship is wrecked off the Balinese coast. Watching closely are agents of the American Presidents newly formed Terrorist Threat Integration Centre. When one of the ancient vases turns up at an antique auction in Bali, the hunt is on for the other three. On a collision course with the terrorist group and the TTIC agents is Lim, an importer, who has learned of the hidden gold. In their way is Chad Handelmann, a Balinese-Australian importer and ex-SAS captain, whose family are the guardians of a map leading to the vases. The thrilling race to the burial place of the vases leads to a ruined temple deep in the rainforest of Mt Agung. Nobody is prepared for the danger that lies inside. Suddenly, it is no longer only about recovery of the sacred vases. It is a struggle just to stay alive._,

A cunning psychopath has found a serial killers paradise in an isolated patch of Oregon ... a religious commune, a cult. His youthful victims are never even missed ... until a lawyer comes looking for one of them. And Rob Swift comes home. Once this hamlets brightest star, Swift is a cop now--disillusioned anxious, and insecure--on the brink of losing his job. A dismembered corpse is discovered. Not a trace of evidence. No apparent motive. Small town politics and vested interests conspire to keep murder under wraps--to shield the cult from outside exposure. But the killings continue ... and Swift is named a suspect. Has he been set up? ... Again?_,