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Never Tell
(Paperback)
Alafair Burke
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Even a perfect family has its secrets.
Sixteen-year-old Julia Whitmire appeared to have everything: a
famous father, a luxurious Manhattan town house, a coveted spot at
the elite Casden prep school. When she is found dead in her
bathtub, a handwritten suicide note left on her bed, her parents
insist that their daughter would never take her own life. But
Julia's enviable world was more complicated than it seemed. The
pressure to excel at Casden was enormous. Abuse of prescription
drugs ran rampant among students. And a search of Julia's computer
reveals that she'd been engaged in a dangerous game of
cyberbullying against an unlikely victim.
NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher is convinced the case is a suicide,
but she knows from personal experience that a loving family can be
the last to accept the truth. As she is pressured to pursue a case
she doesn't believe in, she is pulled into Julia's inner circle--an
eclectic mix of precocious teenagers from Manhattan's most
privileged families as well as street kids from Greenwich Village.
But when the target of Julia's harassment continues to receive
death threats, Ellie is forced to acknowledge that Julia may have
learned the hard way that some secrets should never be told.
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Green for Danger
(Paperback)
Christianna Brand; Introduction by Martin Edwards
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It is 1942, and struggling up the hill to the new military
hospital, Heron's Park, Kent, postman Higgins has no idea that the
sender of one of the seven letters of application he is delivering
will turn out to be a murderer in a year's time. When Higgins is
brought in following injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his
inexplicable death from asphyxiation at the operating table casts
four nurses and three doctors under suspicion, and a second death
in quick succession invites the presence of the irascible - yet
uncommonly shrewd - Inspector Cockrill to the scene. As the
prospect of driving back across Kent amid falling bombs detains the
inspector for the night, a tense and claustrophobic investigation
begins to determine who committed the foul deeds, and how it was
possible to kill with no evidence left behind.
A crew of thieves hopes to hijack a mobile home full of money in
this crime caper from "the funniest man in the world" (The
Washington Post). John Dortmunder has been working an
encyclopedia-selling scam while waiting for his next big heist.
Unfortunately, his latest mark seems to be wise to the con, and he
has to cut his sales pitch short and make a quick escape. But
opportunity awaits: Main Street bank has temporarily relocated to a
mobile home. All Dortmunder has to do is get past seven security
guards, put the bank-on-wheels in gear, and drive away. It's a
simple plan, until it all goes wrong . . . Perfect for fans of Carl
Hiaasen or Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr series, the
Dortmunder novels by New York Times-bestselling and multiple Edgar
Award-winning author Donald E. Westlake are a rollicking treat that
combine fast-moving suspense with laugh-out-loud wit. Bank Shot is
a "hilarious" standout in the series (The New York Times).
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