A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Tennessee, where he's completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney - an attractive but hard-charging woman - is intending to run for governor and as a showcase she's planning to use a new crime initiative, At Risk. Its motto: 'Any Crime, Any Time. She's also looking to employ some cutting-edge DNA technology and she thinks she's found a 20-year old murder - in Tennessee. Solving the case would make them all look pretty good - right? Her investigator is not so sure - not sure about anything to do with this woman, really - but before he can say anything, a shocking piece of violence intervenes, an act that shakes everyone's lives and the lives of those around them. It's not a random event - is it personal? Professional? Whatever it is, the implications are very bad indeed - and they're about to get worse.
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At Risk: Patricia Cornwell
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Harry Wethermill has fallen in love at first sight with the beautiful Celia,, a young woman of dubious background who has turned up in Aux-les-Bains as companion to the ostentatious, jewel-flaunting Madame Dauvray - who is found strangled in her sitting room - with no trace of the jewels. Wethermill and his friend Mr. Ricardo enlist the help of French detective Hanaud, in the hope of clearing Celia - but as the investigation progresses, it looks likely to seal her doom.
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Autumn Maze: Jon Cleary
$9.00Scobie Malone No. XI. When the Sydney police minister's son falls twenty floors to his death, the politics of murder ripple the city like a boulder dropped into a pool. Caught in the wash is Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, as he uncovers an elaborate financial scheme, a series of cold-blooded precision killings, and layers of political intrigue. Scobie thinks he is immune to politics, but he is soon engulfed in its consequences: The police minister applies pressure; a millionaire banker becomes less than his public image; a hit man goes about his grisly work; and three of Sydney's most powerful (and libidinous) women give Scobie a glimpse of how life in Sydney really operates. Finally, when he is forced to accept aid from his onetime enemy, top criminal Jack Aldwych, now retired but still ruthless, Malone learns once again that when politics and money are arrayed against him, the odds are never even. -
Autumn Maze: Jon Cleary
$15.00Scobie Malone No. XI. When the Sydney police minister's son falls twenty floors to his death, the politics of murder ripple the city like a boulder dropped into a pool. Caught in the wash is Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, as he uncovers an elaborate financial scheme, a series of cold-blooded precision killings, and layers of political intrigue. Scobie thinks he is immune to politics, but he is soon engulfed in its consequences: The police minister applies pressure; a millionaire banker becomes less than his public image; a hit man goes about his grisly work; and three of Sydney's most powerful (and libidinous) women give Scobie a glimpse of how life in Sydney really operates. Finally, when he is forced to accept aid from his onetime enemy, top criminal Jack Aldwych, now retired but still ruthless, Malone learns once again that when politics and money are arrayed against him, the odds are never even. -
Female: age 32, single, self-employed and wiser than she used to be. For Kinsey Millhome, private investigator, only one thing stays the same - when a client sits down in the chair across the desk, she never knows what's going to happen next. Business was slow and there was nothing about Beverley Danziger to cause Kinsey concern. She was looking for her sister. She paid up front. It seemed like a lot of money for a routine job but Kinsey wasn't going to argue. She kicked herself later for the things she didn't see. But by then she was in danger, and money was the last thing on her mind... -
Gemma Lincoln Book II. Private Investigator Gemma Lincoln is trying to discover who has been raping and murdering street girls from Kings Cross. Parallel cases follow the suspicious death of a high-profile Sydney businessman and philanthropist and an utterly ruthless drug dealer whose hobby is maintaining a small zoo of poisonous snakes. Gemma has to contend with sabotage from within her small organisation and pangs of jealousy over her boyfriend, Steve, whose own undercover work involves getting up close and personal with an extremely beautiful society woman. How much is Steve acting a role and how much is he really involved with the woman? Haunted by the insecurities of her past, Gemma struggles to pull her life together in increasingly sinister circumstances. -
Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff." Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a decidedly fishy scuba "accident" may be just the stiff Jack needs - if only he can figure out what happened. Standing in the way -among others - are an editor who wants Jack to "break her cherry," Stoma's ambitious pop-singer widow, and the soulless, profit-hungry newspaper owner Jack once publicly humiliated. As clues from Stoma's music give Jack Tagger the chance to trade obits for a story that could hit the front page, murder gives his career a new lease on life. Cover art by Jon Rogers. -
Tom Dunleavy has a one-man law firm in the legendary East Hampton, summer home to the rich and shameless who have their own lawyers on the payroll. Tom's clients are the locals, the people he grew up with. Then an old friend of Tom's, a local star athlete, is arrested for a triple murder on the beach near a movie star's mansion. Tom knows that Dante Halleyville is innocent and agrees to represent him. He recruits Manhattan super-lawyer Kate Costello to help him fight the case - a tough hire since Kate is his ex. But she comes back for the case. The two have to discover who executed three locals and why they went to great lengths to set Dante up as the killer. The investigation reveals a world of illegal pleasures, revenge and fear among the super rich. -
Ridley Jones 1. If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect - with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole. But that’s not what happened. Instead, those inconsequential decisions lead her to perform a good deed that puts her in the right place at the right time to unleash a chain of events that brings a mysterious package to her door - a package which informs her that her entire world is a lie. Suddenly forced to question everything she knows about herself and her family, Ridley wanders into dark territory she never knew existed, where everyone in her life seems like a stranger. She has no idea who’s on her side and who has something to hide - even, and maybe especially, her new lover, Jake, who appears to have secrets of his own.
