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ISABEL SPELLMAN, PI, is used to being followed, extorted, and
questioned--all occupational hazards of working at her fami-ly's
firm, Spellman Investigations. Her little sister, Rae, once tailed
Izzy for weeks on end to discover the identity of Izzy's boyfriend.
Her mother, Olivia, once blackmailed Izzy with photographic
evidence of Prom Night 1994. After years of power struggles, Izzy
staged a hostile takeover of the company. She should have known
better than to think she could put such shenanigans behind her.
When Izzy is accused of embezzling from a former client, her
troubles are just begin-ning. If Izzy gets indicted, she could lose
her PI license and the Spellman family's liveli-hood--not to
mention her own freedom. Is this the end of Izzy Spellman, PI?
"Spellman Six: The Next Generation" is, hands down, the most
powerful book in the best-selling, award-nominated Spellman series.
‘My sister was abducted from here nearly thirty years ago. The person who took her was never found. And neither was she. Her abductor nearly killed me. So I’m back here now trying to find the truth.’
Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened that fateful night in Andersonville, Georgia. Her six-year-old twin sister, Mercy, was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One person who continues to haunt her is notorious serial killer Daniel James Tor, locked away in a Colorado maximum security prison. Does he really know what happened to Mercy?
The family moved away. The parents divorced. And Atlee chose a career with the FBI dedicating her life to catching those who hurt others. When she oversteps the mark on the arrest of a dangerous criminal, she’s given a leave of absence offering the perfect opportunity to return to where it all
began, and find some answers. But the trip to Andersonville turns into a roller-coaster ride of murder, long-buried secrets and lies.
And a revelation so personal that everything she once believed is fast turning to dust.
Pippsy and Jack fall into a convoluted crime once Again. A
seemingly straightforward case soon becomes anything but. A wife
who claims her husband has been kidnapped - or has he? And is she
as naive as she appears? Why is the husband making threatening
noises at the pair? Who are the couple who claim to be
investigators, if in fact they are? Pippsy and Jack have to team up
with an acquaintance from a previous case. As usual, they need to
use their wits more than once to keep ahead of the persons wishing
them ill.
Coming on August 14 2024 as an Apple Original series from Ted Lasso
co-creator Bill Lawrence and starring Vince Vaughn, here is a gleefully
zany and incisively sharp tale from "the funniest important writer in
America" (Miami Herald).
Andrew Yancy-late of the Miami Police and soon-to-be-late of the Monroe
County sheriff's office-has a human arm in his freezer. There's a
logical (Hiaasenian) explanation for that, but not for how and why it
parted from its shadowy owner. Yancy thinks the
boating-accident/shark-luncheon explanation is full of holes, and if he
can prove murder, the sheriff might rescue him from his grisly Health
Inspector gig (it's not called the roach patrol for nothing).
But first-this being Hiaasen country-Yancy must negotiate an obstacle
course of wildly unpredictable events with a crew of even more wildly
unpredictable characters, including his just-ex lover, a hot-blooded
fugitive from Kansas; the twitchy widow of the frozen arm; two
avariciously optimistic real-estate speculators; the Bahamian voodoo
witch known as the Dragon Queen, whose suitors are blinded unto death
by her peculiar charms; Yancy's new true love, a kinky coroner; and the
eponymous bad monkey-who just may be one of Carl Hiaasen's greatest
characters.
The perfect wife. The perfect motive. The imperfect murder. In this gripping cat-and-mouse thriller, a brilliant cop must nail down an ingenious true crime author for murder.
Wife. Writer. Murderer?
When Denise Morrow is discovered standing over the body of her husband, a bloody knife between them, Detective Declan Shaw thinks it’s an open-and-shut case. But Denise is no ordinary murder suspect. She’s a famous true crime author, who knows how killers operate. And how they get away with it.
Then, Declan discovers the subject of Denise’s next book – the violent murder of a girl called Maggie Marshall. A case that Declan worked on. A case that has haunted him for years.
Denise knows much more about Declan than she’s letting on, and she might just be the slipperiest suspect he has ever encountered . . .
The first novel in Lee Child’s #1 bestselling Jack Reacher series—now an original series on Prime Video!
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome.
All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
Following his “resurrection walk” and need for a new direction, Mickey
Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit
against an artificial intelligence company whose chatbot told a
sixteen-year-old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend
for her disloyalty.
Representing the victim’s family, Mickey’s case explores the mostly
unregulated and exploding AI business and the lack of training
guardrails. Along the way he joins up with a journalist named Jack
McEvoy, who wants to be a fly on the wall during the trial in order to
write a book about it. But Mickey puts him to work going through the
mountain of printed discovery materials in the case. McEvoy’s digging
ultimate delivers the key witness, a whistleblower who has been too
afraid to speak up. The case is fraught with danger because billions
are at stake.
It is said that machines became smarter than humans on the day in 1997
that IBM’s Deep Blue defeated chess master Garry Kasparov with a gambit
called “the knight’s sacrifice.” Haller will take a similar gambit in
court to defeat the mega forces of the AI industry lined up against him
and his clients.
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Freida McFadden
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From Sunday Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a dark,
twisting thriller about a group of friends lost in the woods: one by
one, they each will fall, and only the killer will return home alive...
A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett
expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break from
the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair
her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with friends. It
sounded like heaven.
Then Claire's minivan breaks down on a lonely dirt road. With no cell
reception, the group has no choice but to hike the rest of the way to
their hotel. But it turns out the woods aren't as easy to navigate as
they thought. Hours later, they are lost. Hopelessly lost.
And as they navigate deeper into the woods, the members of their party
are struck down mysteriously one by one. Has a wild animal been hunting
them? Or is the hunter one of them?
But as more time passes, one thing becomes clear: Only one of them will
return home alive.
Oscar Wilde has fled to France after his release from Reading Gaol.
Tonight he is sharing a drink and the story of his cruel
imprisonment with a mysterious stranger. Oscar has endured the
treadmill, solitary confinement, censored letters, no writing
materials. Yet even in the midst of such deprivation, his
astonishing detective powers remain undiminished--and when first a
brutal warder and then the prison chaplain are found murdered, who
else should the governor turn to for help other than Reading Gaol's
most celebrated inmate?
Life had been looking up - she's dating a new man and finally
getting praise at work. But after the accident everything seems to
plummet downhill. In the space of a few days her flat is burgled
and her flatmate assaulted - she loses her phone and then her job.
Are these events linked? Perhaps what she had seen was something
more sinister?
How do you catch a killer, when all your suspects know how to get away
with murder?
When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their
crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin
and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book.
Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each
other. Obviously, that didn't pan out.
The program is a who's who of crime writing royalty:
the debut writer (me!)
the forensic science writer
the blockbuster writer
the legal thriller writer
the literary writer
the psychological suspense writer.
But when one of us is murdered, six authors quickly turn into five
detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime.
Or commit one...
Jack Reeca s hurting. Wounded three times by his old enemy,
psychopathic killer David Walker, hea s got his life back a " just
a " with the help of two fun-loving seA+/-oritas. But when Jack
starts diving for Brinks Mat gold bars in MA!laga Lakes, and is
befriended by beautiful rock sensation, Caviar, his Andalusian farm
attracts attention from all the wrong quarters, including David
Walker. The psycho has made a fresh kill, and is now branded a the
Rabbit Mana and a the Costa Killera . And then Caviar goes missinga
| With the action swinging from southern Spain to the Black Sea
coast of Turkey, the intimacies of kidnapping and revenge are fully
explored. Ita s the Stockholm syndrome, and ita s often sexual,
sometimes humorous and frequently violent. Desmond McGratha s
insight into the minds of killer captive and pursuer is
breathtaking, and in an epic showdown worthy of a Clint Eastwood
Western, we see how an armed man whoa s frightened of nothing can
harbour a secret terror a " of the beast inside himself.
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