"Val Leary is handsome, charming and broke. On the morning of April Fool's Day 1871, while walking through one of London's wealthiest districts, he notices a young maidservant scrubbing the steps of 53 Northbourne Park Villas. In that instant he conceives the idea for a remarkable case of burglary. The set-up seems perfect, but chance intervenes in a succession of coincidences that place the jewels further and further beyond the reach of Val and his cronies - until. ....
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"Williams Adams is a killer who has never been convicted of murder. He has never confessed, even when convicted of rape and criminal assault. Nor has he admitted to the other attacks upon women. He feels no remorse, no pity for his victims. He despises them. Now, having served his sentence in full, he is free, with no su...
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"When the young town-planner was found dead after his car careered into a canal, the Coroner's verdict was that he had had a heart attack. But why won't the widow accept the verdict? And why, when she takes her worries to Chief Inspector Morrissey, is an attempt made to frighten her into silence? Morrissey's investigation uncovers a darker side of Malminster. Finally, when the mistress of a power...
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"Brock Potter of New York's top Brokerage firm of Price, Potter and Petacque, is facing a particularly tense and complex problem. Kevin Rand, an executive of Calthrop Industries, has been found guilty of passing Defence secrets to East Germans; and it was on Brock's strong recommendation that Rand, a family friend, had been appointed to the job. When Rand is murdered in prison, Brock is drawn into a highly dangerous investigation which nearly costs him his...
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Large print edition of the second book in the Yellow Rose trilogy.
"Injured Texas Ranger Dakota Rawlings is eager to return to his dangerous profession, but his boss won't hear of it. Instead, he wants Dakota to escort his niece, Darvi, on a trip to visit a friend. Dakota is not pleased-but he and Darvi take an instant liking to one another and sparks begin to fly. However, events take an unexpected turn when Darvi is kidnapped in a case of mistaken...
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"On the Cornish moor where Sister Joan lives with other Sisters of the Daughters of Compassion, a shadowy figure is stalking the night, slashing trees. When Father Malone's housekeeper is found dead, suicide is the verdict - but Sister Joan and her old friend, Detective Sergeant Mill, think otherwise. When Sister Joan is sent to the presbytery to work as temporary housekeeper, the stage is set for a race a...
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"It's the early 1980s. Crack cocaine has made its devastating appearance. Violence is escalating, morality is declining. Things are happening that never happened before. One of those things is the brutal kidnapping of an innocent 12-year-old girl. But this kidnapper has made a deadly mistake. He has brought Boomer Frontieri back to life . . . a NYC detective forced to retire after being wounded, Boomer thirsts to return to the life he loved. When an old friend turns to him...
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Conclusion to the Kerry Kilcannon trilogy, which includes "No Safe Place" and "Protect and Defend."
President Kerry Kilcannon and his fiancee, television journalist Lara Costello, have at last decided to marry. But their wedding is followed by a massacre of innocents in a letha burst of gunfire, challenging their marriage and his presidency in ways so shattering and indelibly personal that Kilcannon vows to eradicate gun violence and crush the most powerf...
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"Beth Davis's fairy-tale days were over. Or so the single mother of two thought! Then her match-making friends sent her on a date with her very own Prince Charming. Millionaire bachelor Todd Graham was sexy, eligible - everything a woman could want in a man. But Beth was a thirty-something suburban mum. Not exactly Cinderella material. . . But somehow Todd saw the Sleeping Beauty within. Why ...
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"With his unmatched investigative skills, veteran journalist and eight-time No. 1 national bestselling author Bob Woodward tells the behind-the-scenes story of how President George W. Bush and his top advisers, after the initial shock of the September 11 attacks, led the nation to war. Extensive quotations from the secret deliberations of the National Security Council-and firsthand revelations of the private thoughts, ...
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"The newest in a long line of brilliant African-American female authors, Dori Sanders enters the literary scene with Clover, the story of a ten-year-old girl living on her family’s South Carolina farm. Written from the child’s perspective, this engaging novel offers the upbeat and precocious narrator’s wealth of innocence, and her moments of wisdom beyond her years. Clover centers upon the relationship between young Clover and her new stepmother, Sara Kate, the white woman who married Clo...
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"Fifteen years ago, the body of a 9-year-old girl was found in San Francisco Bay. Two brothers, Rennell and Payton Price, were found guilty of the murder and sentenced to death. Now, just two months before the execution, pro bono lawyer Teresa Paget and her family, a team of anti-death penalty lawyers, are convinced that Rennell didn't receive a fair trial - and that he may in fact be innocent of the crime. Resolving to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court, Paget revis...
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"To Kitty, the conditions of her guardian's will were intolerable. She had to marry one of his nephews before she could inherit a tuppence -- and the only one she wanted was handsome Jack Westruther. He, however, made it quite clear that he wo...
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"11:05 PM Convicted murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell is pronounced dead in Virginia’s electric chair. In the morgue, Dr. Kay Scarpetta waits for Waddell’s body Waddell’s death isn’t the only newsworthy event on this cold December night. Three hours after thirteen-year-old Eddie Heath goes out to a convenience store, he is found, grotesquely wounded, propped against a Dumpster. The two events seem unrelated until Scarpetta and Richmond police lieutenant Pete Marino reme...
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"Darrick McKeon was his family's Mr. Fix It, the one who solved all the problems. But now he had a major upset of his own. Twin baby girls had been abandoned at his hospital and all the staff had been given was the daddy's name" DK McKeon! Darrick is DK, all right, but so are his brothers. One of them must be the father. After all, he's the good brother - the one who always loo...
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"Darrick McKeon was his family's Mr. Fix It, the one who solved all the problems. But now he had a major upset of his own. Twin baby girls had been abandoned at his hospital and all the staff had been given was the daddy's name" DK McKeon! Darrick is DK, all right, but so are his brothers. One of them must be the father. After all, he's the good brother - the one who always looks before he leaps. But then he remembers a certain ...
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"It's been over 20 years since reporter Ellie Cavanaugh helped convict wealthy neighbor Rob Westerfield of her older sister Andrea's murder, and now she's having doubts. Was Rob really guilty of Andrea's death, or had Ellie made a terrible mistake? At the trial, Ellie had given critical testimony that helped put Westerfield away. But what if his claims of innocence were true? Determined to find the answers, Ellie returns to the ...
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"Lew Deever, the greatest bank robber of them all, had eluded justice for twenty years. When young Inspector Beaton was sent to Lady's Holt to investigate a strange murder - there was a story of a grey hooded figure which had been seen in the house of a Mrs. Sylvia Temple - by some strange coincidence there seemed to be many of Deever's old acquaintances in the vicinity, all searching for the Tranter Steal - Deever's biggest haul - half a million...
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