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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Adventure / thriller
The nineteenth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina
Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye
Kellerman When LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker reluctantly agrees to
do a big favour for old friend Teresa McLaughlin, he knows that his
involvement will bring her sociopathic husband, Chris Donatti, back
into his life. But then Terry goes missing and Donatti disappears,
leaving their 14-year-old son Gabe behind. Meanwhile Adrianna
Blanc, a party-loving nurse, is found swinging from the rafters of
a house in a wealthy suburban area. Her last phone call announced
she was breaking up with her philandering boyfriend and Decker
questions whether it was in fact suicide. With lives hanging in the
balance, Decker and his team need to find answers fast. At home
matters are just as precarious: while Decker and his wife Rina
Lazarus want to look after young Gabe, with Donatti on the loose,
no one is really ever safe...
From a seasoned insider of global finance comes a "stimulating,
relevant, and dramatic" (The Wall Street Journal) thriller about a
group of American operatives who secretly take over the world's
largest dark money fund--"a gripping thriller that takes you into
the world of New York hedge funds, Russian money launderers, and DC
power politics [that] makes you feel like you're actually there"
(Bill Browder, author of Red Notice). When a US airdrop of billions
of dollars disap-pears in the desert sands of Syria, only a small
group of military operatives knows its ultimate destination or why
it has been stolen. Their goal is no less than the restoration of
America's geopolitical dominance on the global stage. Essential to
this scheme are Greta Webb, a sophisticated CIA operative who is an
expert on dark money, not to mention lethally skilled in
hand-to-hand combat, and Elias Vicker, the damaged, dangerous soul
who runs the world's largest hedge fund. To achieve its goals, the
group must form dangerous alliances. One is with the hidden family
that manages the largest private pool of capital that has ever
existed. Another is with Fyodor Volk, the ruthless founder of
Russia's most successful private military company, a mercenary with
ties to Vladimir Putin. Volk has his eye on Greta. She would be
wise to avoid him but cannot. Arcing from Manhattan's finest
apartments to Washington, DC, from Middle Eastern war zones to
private European bank vaults, Jay Newman's Undermoney follows the
Americans as they are enmeshed in the world of dark money and
confront ever-increasing danger. Ultimately, they must decide
whether their objectives are worth the cost of sacrificing not just
a few but potentially many human lives. "Unexpectedly timely" (The
New Yorker), Undermoney is a "wildly entertaining peek behind the
curtain of American politics, financial skullduggery, and
high-stakes global conflict" (Nelson DeMille).
YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE... Kate Irving arrives at her
grandfather's cottage at Frenchman's Creek in the dead of night
with her young son, a small suitcase and little else. Its scattered
community of fishermen, farmers, artists and jetsetters barely bat
an eyelid, because theirs is a rarefied world, tucked beneath the
lush forest that lines the banks of the Helford Estuary, deep in
the heart of Cornwall, where life is slow and people generally mind
their own business. Unless, of course, your grandfather happens to
be a pillar of the local community... Kate's left the past behind
and guards her privacy and her son fiercely. She's wary of
accepting the friendship her new neighbours offer, but their
kindness is too great to refuse and she begins to feel she has
found her place in the world. That is, until tragedy strikes, and
her new friends look to her for the answers... Kate soon learns
that the past always catches up with you, in the end-the question
is, will she be able to face it, when it does? Suspense and mystery
are peppered with romance and humour in this fast-paced mystery,
set amidst the spectacular Cornish landscape.
PREPARE TO BE HOOKED . . . * #1 UK SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * * A
NEW YORK TIMES BSETSELLER * * OVER 2,000 5 STAR REVIEWS * 'I was
ENTHRALLED. Empathetic, gripping, authentic' Gillian McAllister 'A
GRIPPING read. Superb!' Shari Lapena 'The story EVERYONE has been
waiting for.' Adele Parks 'Fast-paced, cleverly plotted. GRIPS from
first page to last' Paula Hawkins 'Artful, slippery, HUGELY
SATISFYING. A rare treat awaits!' Louise Candlish ___________
LONDON. Early morning, June 2019: on the foreshore of the river
Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones. DCI Samuel Owusu
is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic
examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow
to the head many years ago. Also inside the bag is a trail of
clues, in particular the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu
back to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly thirty years previously,
three people lay dead in a kitchen, and a baby waited upstairs for
someone to pick her up. The clues point forward too to a brother
and sister in Chicago searching for the only person who can make
sense of their pasts. Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family
whose secrets can't stay buried for ever ... ___________ 'Twisty
and strange and surprising' EMILY HENRY 'Dark menace, consummate
plotting. A sheer PLEASURE to read' HARRIET TYCE 'This is
perfection on a page.' ALICE FEENEY 'A riveting, rollicking read,
guaranteed to send your blood pressure soaring' RED MAGAZINE 'It's
a triumph. Brava!' ERIN KELLY 'Compulsive, gripping and immersive.'
CL TAYLOR 'Lisa Jewell is, simply, outstanding.' ALEX MARWOOD
'Compelling, ingenious, breath-stopping.' TAMAR COHEN 'A witty and
propulsive stunner of a novel.' KATHERINE HEINY 'This is Lisa
Jewell at her absolute best. I loved it!' PAUL BURSTON 'A
compulsive, dark, satisfying tale that will pick you up and refuse
to put you down.' CATHERINE STEADMAN ___________ Readers can't get
enough of The Family Remains . . . ***** 'There's nothing about
this book that I would change. Seriously.' ***** 'My expectations
were high and this still managed to surpass them.' ***** 'The
writing is outstanding from start to finish and it's an engrossing
read.' ***** 'I could not put it down and loved the surprises and
twists.' ***** 'Lisa Jewell can write one hell of a thriller!!'
An overland tour through Africa becomes a quest for revenge.
Mike Williams is leading a supposedly carefree life as an overland tour guide in Africa, but he's carrying a burden of grief from his time as a United Nations landmine clearer in Mozambique. The South African police are hunting murderous poachers and they call on Mike to help them investigate a new lead in an old crime whose circumstances Mike knows all too well. British travel journalist Sarah Thatcher is along for the ride, with a bunch of fun-seeking backpackers, but Sarah is hungry for a hard news story and she'll do anything to uncover Mike's secret past.
Their safari holiday is about to turn deadly.
Best friends Darcy, Camilla and Kate have just landed in to the
Maldives for a luxury holiday at the exclusive Sapphire Island Resort.
They can't wait for ten days of scorching sun, crystal-clear waters,
white-sand beaches - and the chance to put a traumatic shared past
behind them.
But what awaits them is a murderous revenge plot that none of them saw
coming.
Or did they?
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