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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?_,

It all started with a horse race in picturesque Palermo, Sicily, but this wasn&rsquo,t your typical race with rules designed to protect the horses, jockeys and bettors, this was a Mafia sponsored street race, a blood sport free-for-all more suited for the Coliseum than the backstreets of the Sicilian town. Race promoter, Santos Luzzato, nephew to Nicky The Mushroom Fungo, wanted in on his American Uncle&rsquo,s horse racing connections with the LA triads. The race leads to a series of decisions that end with a suspicious car accident that kills billionaire heiress and race horse owner, Josephine Somersby Murphy, sister to the Governor of California, Samuel Somersby, a man with Presidential ambitions and ties to Johnny Luck, LA triad big shot. ,Love, sex, murder, and race horses create a toxic mix of intrigue and suspense that drives Luck&rsquo,s proté,gé,, Jesse James, to Sicily, Argentina, England, and Switzerland in her pursuit of the truth. Who killed Josephine Murphy? Was it Luzzato, Nicky Fungo, Murphy&rsquo,s brother, the Governor, or was it someone closer the Jesse. ,Palermo, a place to die._,

Kurt Maxxon has been a successful stock car race driver for a decade. But when he arrives at the Masonville Oval racetrack and finds the bludgeoned body of the tracks general manager, Elaine Willowby, on the concrete floor in a drivers garage, he turns into an amateur sleuth. Maxxon believes he is obligated to help find the murderer, but while the police focus on the missing driver who rents the garage, he looks elsewhere. Through masterful logic and innovative approaches, Maxxon works through his own list of suspects until he forces the killer to make a move. The first novel in the Kurt Maxxon series, Masonville takes you on a wild ride through the world of stock car racing, murder, and mystery._,

Sex and Champagne is set in the glitz of the annual Cannes Film Festival, but accurately describes what happens in the shadows created by the money that the festival brings, drugs, alcohol, prostitution and abuse. Dana, a beautiful though naive young woman decides to move up in the world and obtains a job in a Champagne bar not knowing that is just a front for the oldest profession. She soon looses her naivety and starts dating Jack Holloway an American who, unknown to Dana, is an Internet pornographer and serial killer on the run from the F.B.I. Her life spirals into decline until, with her friend Martha, she hatches a plot to get Jack Holloway out of her life for ever. Unknown to Dana, she is Matts link (FBI) to Jack Holloway. Danas plan goes horribly wrong because of an incredible twist caused by Marthas boyfriend Edgar. Sex and Champagne pulls no punches when it come to the abuse that Dana and her friends suffer at the hands of the rich who come to Cannes for The Festival. Does Dana become an Internet porn Queen against her wishes, and who is Edgar?_,

Blake Worthy is a programmer-a good one. He and his long-time friend and business partner, Frankie Jolley, own a thriving software consulting business in Little Rock, Arkansas. They love the challenge of a difficult problem. When the largest bank in Arizona calls Blake in to speed up their ATM network, it seems like any other job. On the flight home though, he realizes that some of the code he reviewed is causing much more serious problems than slow response time. The discovery leads Blake and friends into the heart of a murder investigation. Follow Blake and his band of bright but quirky comrades through this sometimes tragic, sometimes triumphant, but always witty and faithful look into the hearts and minds of programmers. The B. S. Layer perfectly captures the world view of computer geeks-the logical thinking, the creativity, the camaraderie-and marries it with a great who-done-it plot. -Dan Darnell, author of Java and the AS/400_,