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She’s lost herself in his life—but what will she do without him? Tony looks from the smoking gun to me, his eyes wide with mingled grief and shock. I set the pistol down on the desk and sit. The grip bears my bloody handprint. “Is everyone ready to get to business now? Because we have a huge mess to clean up.” *** Eleni Everyone I love goes away or betrays me. I’m tired of getting my heart broken. When the empty boss’s chair offers me the opportunity to seize power and control, I don’t know how to refuse. Dante? I’m not used to taking a backseat. I’m not used to wearing my...

Sadie Wilson’s heart stops the moment the phone rings. Deep in her soul, she knows what’s coming, and the voice on the other end only confirms her fears: Emma never made it to school. Her sweet, scared five-year-old climbed onto the bus for her very first day of kindergarten…and then vanished.

Georgia, Charlie, and Alice each arrive at Harvard with hopeful visions of what the future will hold. But when, just before graduation, a classmate is found murdered on campus, they find themselves facing a cruel and unanticipated new reality. Moreover, a charismatic professor who has loomed large in their lives is suspected of the crime. Though his guilt or innocence remains uncertain, the unsettling questions raised by the case force the three friends to take a deeper look at their tangled relationship.

Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism, until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with killing an elderly and wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee fears that his legal skills may not be enough to prevail in a case where the odds are already stacked against both him and his client. And he quickly finds himself out of his depth when he realizes that what is at stake is far greater than the outcome of a murder trial.

Amy jumps at the opportunity when she's offered a nannying job in picturesque West Cork. The assignment is for the welcoming Carroll family, whose stunning house is situated on a stretch of remote and rugged coastline. It's the perfect chance for Amy to start over - far away from her life in Dublin she is trying to escape. With two adorable children to oversee, a pair of generous employers and a lavish new home, everything seems wonderful. So why can't Amy shake a creeping sense of unease?

Lucie Girard ermittelt wieder. Regisseur Olivier Borbet lädt zu einem Treffen seiner ehemaligen Schauspiel-Kommilitonen in die Provence ein. Er will sie für einen Autorenfilm gewinnen, in dem sie sich selbst spielen. Obwohl die Sechs ein tragischer Vorfall verbindet, willigen sie ein. Der Dreh wird zu einer Abrechnung, jeder gegen jeden. Commissaire Lucie Girard gerät in ein Schauspiel, das sie an ihren detektivischen Fähigkeiten zweifeln lässt. Was war? Was ist? Und was wird geschehen?

Follow the Money is a collection of novellas that follows the lives of different bank notes on their respective journeys, as they pass from one person to the next through London and New York. In a twist of fate, both of these bank notes transform in the second installment of each story. It sends them on a completely new journey into the unknown.

Eleven-year-old Renee Jenkins is a vivacious, bright girl who is unfortunately a member of the notorious, dysfunctional Jenkins clan living in a Miami neighborhood where it is not unusual to hold a nine-millimeter Glock pistol while answering the door and where little girls like Renee shop for heroin for their mothers. As she maneuvers her way through the asphalt jungle of Miami's dangerous Overtown section, Renee bravely attempts to find happiness amid a world consumed with death, despair, drugs, and pain.

Fatherless and as good as motherless, Messiah "Mash" Bankfield must shake his nagging religion from his conscious if he wants to level up in a city centered around the '90s drug boom, twisted sexual exploitation, hardcore hip hop, and deep ghetto philosophy. Even if it requires hustling the same stuff that turned his mother into a dope fiend or taking out the big homies who showed him love, some things just must be. Shaped by the unsavory lifestyle of his sugar-daddy seeking sister and haunted by the spirit of his deceased grandmother, Mash sinks deeper into the darkness.

In the gritty heart of Chicago, Black's chill Sunday shatters when Professor Moore pulls him into a twisted dance with danger. She's got a date with Sheek Green, the Beer Baron, and she needs Black to be the referee. What starts as a favor takes a deadly turn, and Black realizes he's caught in Moore's lethal game. Fresh out of a 55-year stretch, Yehohanan Daniels wants a clean slate. But Professor Moore has other plans, yanking him straight into the crossfire with Sheek Green's underworld drama. The clock ticks louder as Black races to save Moore and Daniels from Sheek's clutches. Cue ...

Sheltered and naïve Carmen Darby has lived under the thumb of her father Rex, a brutal criminal businessman, her whole life. But when Rex announces his retirement and plans to leave his vast wealth to his three daughters, Carmen doesn't thank her father as effusively as he'd like, enraging him. Cast out from her home, Carmen assumes a new identity and starts her life over, but she knows she can't outrun the sins of her family for ever.

Edith may have been tricked into a nursing home, but at eighty years young, she’s planning her escape. Patience works there, cleaning up mess and bonding with Edith, a kindred spirit. But Patience is lying to Edith about almost everything. Edith’s own daughter, Clio, won’t speak to her. And someone new is about to knock on Clio’s door...and their intentions aren’t good. With every reason to distrust each other, the women must solve a mystery with three suspects, two murders, and one victim. If they do, they might just find out what happened to the baby who disappeared.

What begins as a simple dog-sitting job for a friend soon becomes the most terrifying night of Riley Jordan’s life.

Ten years ago, Sebastian Croll was found not guilty of murdering his playmate. Criminal solicitor Daniel Hunter defended the 11-year-old in a trial that gripped the nation, but the past is unearthed when Daniel gets a call from his old client. Sebastian's university professor has been brutally murdered, and everyone who knew her is in the frame. As Daniel steps in to represent Sebastian for the second time, rumour of his client's identity spreads like wildfire.

A businessman drowning in debt makes a dangerous deal with a gang to kidnap his own son and demand ransom from his wife. But when things spiral out of control, the police step in! Will he escape, or will justice catch up with him?

What Is the End Game?: By Foley Western has achieved a remarkable feat by being as Top #10 best seller in three of Amazon's categories. #4 Best Seller ★ in Workplace Behavior (Kindle Store) (March 04, 2024) #32 Best Seller ★ in Workplace Culture (books) (Kindle Store) (Marach 04, 2024) Lean, louche and loaded, Dan is boss of his own multi- million pound computer tech company at the tender age of thirty-six. A charmed life, you might say... except that someone wants him dead. He's been shrugging off the hate mail that keeps appearing in his inbox. After all, you don't get to the top ...

This twisted, thrilling read will plunge you into the unraveling mind of a psychotic female serial killer. Joanne Hawkins, sexually abused as a young girl by Joe, her drug-addicted stepfather, develops multiple personalities to deal with this horrific tragedy. Years later, as an adult, she uses her beauty and her sex to attract men like Joe. Once she seduces them, she binds their hands together while she makes love to them, and when they are defenseless, she strangles them with barbed wire. After several known pedophiles, are found murdered in the Austin, Texas area, there is an ...

A childhood spent moving around the world left Revelle Lee with an unusual gift—the ability to fluently speak 11 languages. Now, Revelle spends her days translating for witnesses, victims, and the accused across London crime scenes and courtrooms. It's a stressful job, though not as stressful as the process she is currently going through to adopt little boy, Elliot. She is determined to be the mother to him that she never had, and to make up for her own past mistakes.

When successful journalist Marshall McEwan discovers that his father is terminally ill, he returns to his childhood home in Bienville, Mississippi - a place he vowed to leave behind forever. His family’s newspaper is failing; and Jet Turner, the love of his youth, has married into the family of Max Matheson, one of the powerful patriarchs who rule the town through the exclusive Poker Club. Bienville is on the brink of economic salvation, in the form of a billion-dollar Chinese paper mill.

Truth Be Told - formerly titled Are You Sleeping - is an addictive psychological thriller about a hit podcast that reopens a murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim’s daughter. The only thing more dangerous than a lie . . . is the truth. Josie Buhrman has spent the last ten years trying to escape her family. Following her father’s murder thirteen years before, her mother ran away to join a cult and her twin sister betrayed her in an unimaginable way, leaving Josie alone.