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Kingfisher
by Gerald SeymourFour Ukrainian Jews are engaged in a bitter fight for recognition within the Soviet Union. When one of them is captured after shooting a policeman, they know time is running out. Their only hope is to hijack a plane, fly to the West and then on to Israel.Britain is the only country that allows the plane to land. Charlie Webster, an Intelligence officer, is brought in to negotiate with the hijackers: are they political refugees or dangerous criminals? As the British government prevaricates, the hijackers become increasingly desperate, losing patience - and control.
Kings of America
by R.J. ElloryIn America, kings are not born, they are made.Danny McCabe isn't his real name. America certainly isn't his real home.But now Danny finds himself fleeing Ireland for the bright lights of 1930s Hollywood with two virtual strangers, Nicky Mariani and his beautiful sister, Lucia. As Lucia pursues her dream of stardom, Nicky finds his calling in the violent underbelly of the city of dreams. Torn between his love for Lucia and his desperate fear for their safety, Danny is drawn into a chain of events that will pit brother against sister, friend against friend, and lover against lover.
Kings of America
by R.J. ElloryDanny McCabe is on the run. He committed a terrible crime. And he'd do it again.A promising boxer back in his native Ireland, he had to start over with a new life and a new home, halfway across the world in up-and-coming New York City.A chance encounter tangles his life up with fellow immigrants Nicky and Lucia Mariani. The siblings came to the land of opportunity with high hopes and little else. As Danny scrapes by, Lucia dreams of Hollywood stardom, while Nicky's reckless ambition measures success only in money and power.They are the only family Danny has. He would do anything for them. But every family has its secrets -- even from each other . . .This is a sweeping story set over three decades, from Europe to America, from the slums and tenements of New York to the glitz and glamour of the Hollywood Hills, from the dark heart of the American Dream to an impossible choice . . .
Kings of Brighton Beach Bundle: Complete Part 1: Gangsters With Guns (Kings of Brighton Beach #1)
by D. B. ShusterKings of Brighton Beach Bundle Complete Part 1: Gangsters with GunsThis bundles contains Episodes #1, #2, and #3. At fourteen Vlad escaped his violent father and the criminal soup of Brighton Beach. Now, twenty years later, in pursuit of his own brand of justice, he will reclaim his father's place in the Russian mafia if he can survive. Vlad plans to ingratiate himself with his father's former partner, Artur, learn the "business," and commit a hostile takeover. But Vlad isn't the only one interested in claiming Artur's slice of Little Odessa. Vlad's rivals have no code of honor, and Artur's daughter, Inna, is discovered in her brother's own nightclub, raped and drugged, with a gun in her hand and a dead mobster sprawled on top of her. The dead man's comrades want retribution, blood for blood, but Vlad is convinced Artur's mafia princess is innocent and that the real killer has ambitions to start a war in Brighton Beach.Confronted with a tangled web of intrigue, Vlad races to solve the mystery and keep Inna safe amidst the crossfire of competing mafia factions. As rumors surface about spies and federal agents lurking undercover, Vlad fights a war on more than one front with hidden enemies masquerading as allies and international stakes reaching far beyond this little corner of Brooklyn.What Readers are Saying about the Series"I could not put it down...""The characters, introduced chapter by chapter, are an intriguing cast each with secrets and flaws... There's illicit romance, sons estranged from fathers, husbands distanced from wives. The best part is the way these various characters are inter-connected." "A must read! The new kings of suspense are here to stay... Drama, suspense and even romantic twists are spicy ingredients of an engaging storytelling that reveals the lives of fascinating, and complex, individuals who live just around the corner.""Can't wait for the next installment. Great read!" "This book sucked me in from Page 1. The characters are well written and singularly unique... What a fantastic start to a new series.""Each face to face meeting in the book only intensifies the suspense and makes the reader want more of the story! Great read..."
Kings of Brighton Beach Episode #1: Extended Sample (Kings of Brighton Beach #1)
by D. B. ShusterEnjoy this FREE preview of Kings of Brighton Beach (originally published as Episode #1).A ruthless son. A master strategist. In the mafia, nothing stays secret forever…Vlad wants to rule the mob. The former FBI agent thinks a few lessons from Artur, his father’s former partner, will put him on the path to kingpin status in the Russian mafia. But Artur has his own agenda, and it could lead Vlad down a path he never saw coming. When Artur’s beautiful daughter is drugged, assaulted, and framed for the murder of a rival mobster, Vlad and his new employer must fight a high stakes war that threatens to destroy them all. Kings of Brighton Beach is a Russian mafia crime thriller. If you like addictive family drama, turbulently passionate mysteries, and compellingly complex characters, then you’ll love D.B. Shuster’s gritty take on the Russian mob. Get lost in the suspenseful family saga readers are comparing to The Sopranos and Sons of Anarchy!
Kings of Brighton Beach Episode #2: Part I: Gangsters With Guns (Kings Of Brighton Beach Ser. #2)
by D. B. ShusterInna's rape and the murder last night at Troika stink to Vlad of a setup that could only be committed by an insider intent on starting a mafia war. Aleksei, Inna's brother and the owner of the nightclub where the crimes were committed, is a prime suspect, but he's not the only one with motive. Solving the mystery of who hurt Inna and why becomes a personal obsession for Vlad, one that might just propel him to the top of the Russian mafia if he and Inna can avoid getting caught in the crossfire of competing mafia factions. He doesn’t have the luxury of indulging his tender feelings for his boss’s daughter if he wants to achieve his ambitions, but there’s nothing tender about Vlad’s particular brand of justice. Maybe he can give Inna at least that much, since he has no business giving her his heart. What Readers are Saying about the Series"I could not put it down...""The characters, introduced chapter by chapter, are an intriguing cast each with secrets and flaws... There's illicit romance, sons estranged from fathers, husbands distanced from wives. The best part is the way these various characters are inter-connected." "A must read! The new kings of suspense are here to stay... Drama, suspense and even romantic twists are spicy ingredients of an engaging storytelling that reveals the lives of fascinating, and complex, individuals who live just around the corner.""Can't wait for the next installment. Great read!" "This book sucked me in from Page 1. The characters are well written and singularly unique... What a fantastic start to a new series.""Each face to face meeting in the book only intensifies the suspense and makes the reader want more of the story! Great read..."
Kings of Brighton Beach Episode #3: Part I: Gangsters With Guns (Kings Of Brighton Beach Ser. #3)
by D. B. ShusterVlad needs to maintain Artur’s trust and keep his hands off of the man’s daughter if he hopes to stay alive, but he may have just been assigned mission impossible. Only hours after he takes on his newest assignment as Inna’s bodyguard, mafia war erupts in Brighton Beach. Vlad’s shoot-first methods attract police attention and possibly murder charges, but the cops are the least of his problems as rumors surface about spies and federal agents lurking undercover. To keep Inna safe, Vlad must fight a war on more than one front with hidden enemies masquerading as allies and international stakes reaching far beyond this little corner of Brooklyn. But can he keep Inna safe from himself? What Readers are Saying about the Series"I could not put it down...""The characters, introduced chapter by chapter, are an intriguing cast each with secrets and flaws... There's illicit romance, sons estranged from fathers, husbands distanced from wives. The best part is the way these various characters are inter-connected." "A must read! The new kings of suspense are here to stay... Drama, suspense and even romantic twists are spicy ingredients of an engaging storytelling that reveals the lives of fascinating, and complex, individuals who live just around the corner.""Can't wait for the next installment. Great read!" "This book sucked me in from Page 1. The characters are well written and singularly unique... What a fantastic start to a new series.""Each face to face meeting in the book only intensifies the suspense and makes the reader want more of the story! Great read..."
Kings of Midnight: A Novel (Crissa Stone Novels #2)
by Wallace StrobyCrissa Stone is a career criminal who has pulled a number of impressive heists by knowing how to keep her mouth shut and her temper in check. Still, as good as she is, she wants to get out of the life. All she needs is one last big score, enough to bribe her lover's way out on parole, set up a safe and stable new life, and get her daughter back. However, things keep going wrong, like when her last two partners lost their cool and fought over the take instead of walking away $150K richer. The mess they made of the job and each other has put her on the run again.She's not the only one. Benny Roth, a former mobster, has been straight for years, but now he has his own problems. A face from the past has popped up to tell him that boss Joey Dio is finally dead and to ask about the five million dollars that Joey was rumored to have stashed away years ago. Benny denies knowing anything about it and claims he's out of the business. That may be what he says, but he's willing to risk almost everything for one last shot.With the law and mobsters on the lookout and five million dollars on the line, it isn't long before Crissa and Benny find themselves on a collision course that neither of them can avoid. This hard-boiled world, where the stakes---and the risks---are always high, unfolds at breakneck speed in Kings of Midnight, another dark and thrilling masterwork of crime fiction from Wallace Stroby.
Kings of Vice: A Novel
by Ice-T Mal RadcliffTwenty years ago, Marcus "Crush" Casey was the leader of the Vicetown Kings, the most powerful crime syndicate in New York City. Then he was betrayed by his second-in-command and sent to prison.Now he's back on the streets and he has a lot more on his mind than just getting even.He needs to take back everything he lost: Find the friend who betrayed him and killed his only son, keep the cops at bay, and resist the one woman he knows he can't have. His time on the inside gave him a conscience and he also wants to help clean up the crime-infested neighborhoods that used to be his home.Crush will take back the Vicetown Kings and guide them to protect the city and its citizens...or die trying.Ice-T's experience with crime and gangs in Los Angeles and his years on Law & Order: SVU make him the perfect person to tell this thrilling story of revenge and redemption. Kings of Vice marks a new entry into the type of urban fiction immortalized by writers like K'wan, Elmore Leonard, and Donald Goines.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Kings of many castles
by Brian Freemantlethe world witnesses in horror the Moscow assassination attempt upon the American and Russian presidents.
Kings of the Castle: Book 6 Of Kings Of The Castle (Kings of the Castle #1)
by Naleighna Kai Lisa Watson S. L. Jennings Martha Kennerson London St. Charles MarZe Scott J. L. Campbell Janice M. Allen Karen BradleyUSA Today and New York Times Bestselling Authors work together to provide you with a world you'll never want to leave. It's time to discover The Castle. Fate made them brothers. Protecting the Castle, each other, and the women they love will make them Kings.When their mentor and founder of The Castle ends up on the business end of an assassination attempt, Grant, Alejandro, Shaz, Mariano, Vikkas, Jai, Daron, Kaleb, and Dwayne are snatched from their daily lives and successful businesses in order to right old wrongs and track down the men responsible for the attempt on his life. However, The Castle, which was built on humanitarian purposes and has amassed a substantial amount of wealth, is now overrun with dirty politicians, the Russian mafia, American crime lords, and businessmen with their own sordid agendas. They have every intention of keeping the current state of things intact. Even if they have to increase Chicago’s body count to do so. Calling in his former students and two outsiders is the beginning of a series of dangerous challenges that will alter the path of their lives forever. Not to mention, it will also draw the ire and deadly intent of current Castle members who wield major influence across the globe. Powerful men unexpectedly brought together by their pasts and current circumstances will become a force to be reckoned with.This world was brought to you by: Naleighna KaiS.L. JenningsMartha Kennerson J.L.CampbellLisa WatsonKaren D.BradleyJanice M. AllenLondon St. CharlesMarZe Scott.If you like romance, suspense, or contemporary fiction, it's past time for you to visit The Castle.ABOUT THE KINGS OF THE CASTLE SERIESEach King book is a standalone, NO cliffhangersUSA Today, New York Times, and National Bestselling Authors work together to provide you with a world you'll never want to leave. The Castle. Fate made them brothers, but protecting the Castle, each other, and the women they love, will make them Kings. Their combined efforts to find the current Castle members responsible for the attempt on their mentor’s life, is the beginning of dangerous challenges that will alter the path of their lives forever. These powerful men, unexpectedly brought together by their pasts and current circumstances, will become a force to be reckoned with. Book 1 – Kings of the Castle (the introduction to the series)Book 2 – King of ChathamBook 3 – King of EvanstonBook 4 – King of DevonBook 5 – King of Morgan ParkBook 6 – King of South ShoreBook 7 – King of Lincoln ParkBook 8 - King of Hyde ParkBook 9 – King of Lawndale"Kings of the Castle by Naleighna Kai is a multicultural literary feast." - Kelsie Maxwell, OnlineBookClub.org DON'T MISS the hot new standalone series, Knights of the Castle. The Kings of the Castle made them family, but the Knights will transform the world.Book 1 - King of DurabiaBook 2 - Knight of BronzevilleBook 3 - Knight of South HollandBook 4 - Lady of Jeffrey ManorBook 5 - Knight of Grand CrossingBook 6 - Knight of Paradise Island Book 7 - Knight of IrondaleBook 8 - Knight of Birmingham Book 9 - Knight of Penn Quarter
Kings of the Dead
by Tony FavilleA group of survivalists are ready for the undead apocalypse, but no amount of disaster prep could anticipate what&’s next in this zombie thriller. When the H1N1 &“Swine Flu&” virus mutates it begins to not only kill those who have received the vaccination, but also bring on the unthinkable: the dead reanimate. Cole Helman and his friends are not only survival experts, they&’ve spent hours discussing and preparing for just this event. Now they&’re heading to the hills before the cities become clogged with looting and riots. But the group knows all too well that the living dead are just the beginning of their problems, and they&’ll eventually have to deal with the selfishness and cruelty of the living in this new post-apocalyptic world. And a chance encounter at a secret military installation may reveal a conspiracy bigger than any of them had imagined…
Kingsley Baby Trilogy
by Amanda StevensEvery family has its secrets...Prepare to be shocked and seduced by these three tales of deception, passion, and long-awaited revenge.The Hero's SonValerie Snow is desperate to clear her wrongfully convicted father of the abduction and murder of the young son of a powerful Memphis family. But the justice-seeking journalist hits a blue wall of silence. The son of the cop who helped put Valerie's father away thirty years ago, Lt. Brant Colter now isn't sure they caught the right man. Can he protect Valerie from a killer determined to bury the truth forever?The Brother's WifeGiving up Jake McClain was the hardest thing Hope ever had to do. But the Memphis PI put his life on the line every day and she couldn't risk losing the man she loved. Marrying Andrew Kingsley was her second mistake. Now Andrew is dead-and a stranger claims he's Andrew's twin brother, vanished for thirty years. But there's something disturbingly familiar about Adam Kingsley...The Long-Lost HeirBradlee Fitzgerald was just a child when her best friend Adam Kingsley disappeared. Rumors of foul play swirled around the Kingsleys' palatial Memphis estate. Thirty years later, as one man fights to clear his name and another man awakens dangerous desire, what Bradlee inadvertently witnessed comes back to haunt her as she's drawn into an unholy maze of retribution and murder.
Kingston Noir (Akashic Noir)
by Colin Channer"Thoroughly well-written stories...fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering heat of the tropics."--Publishers Weekly"Kingston Noir subverts the simplistic sunshine/reggae/spliff-smoking image of Jamaica at almost every turn...The collection amply rewards the reader with a rich interplay of geographies and themes."--The Los Angeles Times"Kingston Noir goes darker and deeper than any before...the purest of noir, and the richest depictions of Jamaica."--The Huffington Post"Kingston Noir is an eclectic and gritty melange of tales that sears the imagination . . . Kingston Noir proves its worth as a quintessential piece of West Indian literature-rich, artistic, timeless, and above all, draped in unmistakable realism."--The Gleaner (Jamaica)"Drop your energetically touted 'best of' Jamaica brochures and sink your teeth into noir that bites back: the eleven wicked, wild, and unrepentant stories in Kingston Noir feature the talents of eminent voices in Jamaican fiction."--Caribbean Beat"Some of these stories are mysterious, some are straightforward, but all are dark. There isn't a single light-hearted story in the bunch, which falls in line perfectly with the noir theme. Readers beware, there are some stories in this book that address the darkest parts of human nature: rape, torture, murder. It's not for the faint of heart. However, they are all well-written and tap into the true underbelly of another culture."--Examiner.com"Several of the stories in Kingston Noir succeed brilliantly in reproducing the simultaneously estranging and horrifying effects of urban violence in Jamaica. And there is something appropriately unsettling about the differences between the stories, collected and edited by Colin Channer, such that the sense of being dislodged somewhere puzzlingly dissimilar from the place one began sometimes mimics the feeling of moving through Kingston... traversing this collection as if going 'down the road,' with all the abrupt stops, shifts, and turns that Jamaicanism implies, does offer a way of connecting, piece by piece, story by story, to fragments of the city tucked away in consciousness and memory. It is a city rarely encountered in fiction; this collection satisfies a need and makes one hungry for more."--sx salon: a small axe literary platformOriginal stories by: Marlon James, Kwame Dawes, Patricia Powell, Colin Channer, Marcia Douglas, Leone Ross, Kei Miller, Christopher John Farley, Ian Thomson, Thomas Glave, and Chris Abani.From Trench Town to Half Way Tree to Norbrook to Portmore and beyond, the stories of Kingston Noir shine light into the darkest corners of this fabled city. Joining award-winning Jamaican authors such as Marlon James, Leone Ross, and Thomas Glave are two "special guest" writers with no Jamaican lineage: Nigerian-born Chris Abani and British writer Ian Thomson. The menacing tone that runs through some of these stories is counterbalanced by the clever humor in others, such as Kei Miller's "White Gyal with a Camera," who softens even the hardest of August Town's gangsters; and Mr. Brown, the private investigator in Kwame Dawes's story, who explains why his girth works to his advantage: "In Jamaica a woman like a big man. She can see he is prosperous, and that he can be in charge." Together, the outstanding tales in Kingston Noir comprise the best volume of short fiction ever to arise from the literary wellspring that is Jamaica.
Kinsey and Me: Stories
by Sue GraftonIn 1982, Sue Grafton introduced Kinsey Millhone. Today, Kinsey is an icon of detective fiction and her creator is at the top of her form. This collection is both a look at Sue Grafton's own early life in the guise of the character Kit Blue, and a fascinating glimpse of Kinsey Millhone in nine tales featuring "the spunkiest, funniest, and most engaging private investigator [in] the entire detective novel genre."--Entertainment Weekly
Kinship of Clover: A Novel
by Ellen Meeropol&“Wonderful . . . a story about young people organizing for a sustainable future…as their once-radical elders try to hold on to a gradually disappearing past.&” ―Charles Baxter, author of The Sun Collective He was nine when the vines first wrapped themselves around him and burrowed into his skin. Now a college botany major, Jeremy is desperately looking for a way to listen to the plants and stave off their extinction. But when the grip of the vines becomes too intense and Health Services starts asking questions, he flees to Brooklyn, where fate puts him face to face with a group of climate-justice activists who assure him they have a plan to save the planet, and his plants. As the group readies itself to make a big Earth Day splash, Jeremy soon realizes these eco-terrorists&’ devotion to activism might have him—and those closest to him—tangled up in more trouble than he was prepared to face. With the help of a determined, differently abled flame from his childhood; her deteriorating, once–rabble-rousing grandmother; and some shocking and illuminating revelations from the past, Jeremy must weigh completing his mission to save the plants against protecting the ones he loves, and confront the most critical question of all: how do you stay true to the people you care about while trying to change the world? &“Ellen Meeropol has an uncanny knack for examining the big topics of our contemporary world and putting a human face on them . . . a must read.&” ―Ann Hood, author of The Obituary Writer &“Gripping . . . irresistible characters.&” —The Berkshire Eagle
Kipper's Game: A Novel
by Barbara EhrenreichFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a futuristic thriller about science, love, politics, and social disarray.Della Markson is searching for her son, a brilliant, nihilistic computer hacker who has invented an addictive computer game. She teams up with her former professor, Alex MacBride, an academic has-been desperately in need of a publication and a drink, is looking for the papers of an obscure, long-dead neurobiologist. As they stumble through a suburban landscape littered with broken marriages and blighted careers, they discover that their personal quests are of great interest to mysterious others, and that they have been drawn into a grand design full of wondrous possibilities and perilous meanings.For Della and Alex live in a hyper-real world of strange portents and accelerating decay. Caterpillars are destroying the trees. A cracked but eerily lucid evangelist preaches apocalypse on a pirate frequency. And in the renowned biological research institute where Della and Alex work, escaped laboratory animals roam the corridors, hazardous wastes leak unchecked, and a lethal new disease is outwitting the researchers. The search for Della's son and Alex's missing papers turns out to hinge on the ancient quest for the ultimate purpose of human intelligence and life. A startling feat of the imagination from one of our sharpest social observers, Kipper's Game is a daring and sophisticated adventure at the interface of science and metaphysics, human love and the equally human hunger for knowledge.
Kirby's Last Circus
by Ross H. SpencerThe author of the Chance Purdue series introduces a Chicago detective who goes under the big top to take down the ringmaster of a Russian conspiracy. When the CIA chooses Birch Kirby, a mediocre detective with a personal life even less thrilling than his professional one, no one is more surprised by the selection than Birch himself. But the agency needs someone for a secret mission, and Birch may be just the clown for the job. Going undercover as a circus performer, he travels to Grizzly Gulch to investigate the source of daily, un-decodable secret messages that are being transmitted to the KGB. Birch interacts with wildly colorful characters while stumbling through performances as well as his assignment. With the clock ticking, Birch must hurry to take a right step toward bringing the curtain down on this very important case. Praise for Ross H. Spencer&’s The Dada Caper &“Parodies of the private‐eye novel come and go. Here is The Dada Caper by Ross H. Spencer. It has every cliché down pat, including rat-tat-tat writing in which paragraphs are seldom more than one sentence. . . . The hero is a private eye who is always tailing the wrong people and hitting the wrong guys. The Dada Caper is wild, shrewd, mad and unexpectedly funny.&” —The New York Times
Kirkby's Changeling
by Madeleine BrentWhen eighteen year-old Chantal first encounters the half-starved tramp who calls himself Martin, she is touring Hungary with a circus company as one of the 'Flying Gallettis', and prefers to forget every detail of her unhappy early years in faraway England. But a train of events is started which will bring her inevitably back to her destiny and to the unravelling of many mysteries that surround her life. Who is this Martin, who speaks like an English gentleman and looks like a tinker? Why is he in Hungary at all? Whose powerful malice has pursued her since childhood, and why? Who indeed is she? In Chantal Madeleine Brent has created one of her most appealing characters. Red-haired and spirited, her wilfulness and courage win hearts and bring trouble upon her wherever she goes, but although she has driven herself unsparingly to attain a rare skill as a circus artist, her true ambition is to become a doctor (no mean aspiration at the beginning of this century). The story moves from the warm, bustling atmosphere of a travelling circus to the cold correctness of English country house society, and back again to Eastern Europe, before all the complex strands are finally unravelled. Packed with incident and excitement, Kirkby's Changeling represents Madeleine Brent at her very best.
Kismet
by Jakob ArjouniIntroducing Kemal Kayankaya, a wise-cracking private detective in Frankfurt - aka, "the ugliest town in Germany." As a Turkish immigrant raised by Germans, he's regularly subjected to racism in the gritty, working-class city, and getting work isn't easy. So when his friend Romario asks Kayankaya to protect him against thugs demanding protection money from his restaurant business, the down-and-out Kayankaya takes the job. Except these are no ordinary thugs. They turn out to be battle-hardened Croatian nationalists looking to take over the rackets in Frankfurt, and they do not take kindly to Kayankaya's interference with their plans. But try as he might, Kayankaya just can't seem to stay out of their way ... What ensues is a brilliant novel about organized crime, immigration, the fallout from the Balkan wars, and the madness of nationalism from one of Europe's finest crime writers.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Kiss (87th Precinct #44)
by Ed McbainSomeone wants Emma Bowles dead, someone very determined and as close as a kiss.
Kiss Her Goodbye
by Allan GuthrieA Scottish thug needs help clearing his name when he&’s accused of killing his daughter in this hard-boiled mystery by the author of Two-Way Split. When people in Edinburgh need to borrow money, they go to Cooper. When they don&’t pay it back, they get a visit from Joe Hope. But now, Joe&’s got troubles of his own. His teenage daughter&’s been found dead, an apparent suicide. Then the police arrest him for murder. But, for once, Joe is innocent. With help from Scotland&’s hardest men—and one woman—he sets out to discover who has framed him and to deliver his own brutal brand of justice.Praise for Kiss Her Goodbye&“A tough and fresh take on the classic hard-boiled tale...vivid, smart and stylish.&” —San Francisco Chronicle&“Guthrie writes with an urgency, energy, cynical realism and mastery of casual violence that is rarely encountered in British crime writing.&” —The Times (UK)&“A page-turning countdown to [a] violent explosion . . . a throwback to pulp fiction&’s heyday.&” —Giant Magazine&“The writing is tight, the story as poised and precisely plotted as the finest of Ed McBain&’s procedural gems.&” —The Scotsman (UK
Kiss Her Goodbye
by Max Allan Collins Mickey SpillaneMike Hammer has been away from New York too long. Recuperating in Florida after a deadly mob shootout, the private eye learns that an old mentor on the New York police force has committed suicide. Hammer returns for the funeral--and because he knows that Inspector Doolan would never have killed himself. But Manhattan in the 1970s no longer feels like home. Hammer's lovely longtime partner, Velda, has disappeared after he broke it off for her own safety, and his office is shut down. When a woman is murdered practically on the funeral home's doorstep, Hammer is drawn into the hunt for a cache of Nazi diamonds that makes the Maltese Falcon seem like a knickknack, and for the mysterious beauty who had been close to Doolan in his final days. But drug racketeers, who had it in for the tough old police inspector, attract Hammer's attention as well. Soon he is hobnobbing with coke-snorting celebrities at the notorious disco Club 52 and playing footsie with a sleek lady D.A., a modern female on the make for oldfashioned Hammer. Everything leads to a Mafia social club where Hammer and his .45 come calling, initiating the wildest showdown since Spillane's classic One Lonely Night.
Kiss Her Goodbye
by Wendy Corsi StaubA Great Place To Live Woodsbridge, New York, is the sort of upscale community where the American Dream is alive and thriving--shiny cars, beautiful homes, and safe, tree-shaded streets. There are pools where kids splash each other gleefully, and soccer games where moms cheer their teenagers from the sidelines. For Kathleen Carmody, moving to Woodsbridge is an attempt to escape memories of her own rough childhood and a shattering secret that still haunts her. It's a place where her 13-year-old daughter Jen will have everything Kathleen didn't. The Perfect Place To Die But suddenly, the sleepy, affluent suburb is gripped by fear. One by one, teenage girls are disappearing from Woodbridge's "safe" streets. Someone wants what these charmed people have. Someone who will take what they love most. Someone who is targeting girls with long, blond hair and brown eyes. . .girls who look a lot like Jen. Someone who is watching and waiting for the moment Kathleen drops her guard and kisses her daughter goodbye. . . Praise for the novels of Wendy Corsi Staub "Scary. . .the characters are well-drawn, and the atmosphere suitably gothic. Staub keeps the readers guessing."--Publishers Weekly "Bunker down for a great read!"--Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author Includes and excerpt from Wendy Corsi Staub's upcoming thriller Dying Breath!
Kiss Her Goodbye: A Frankie Elkin Novel
by Lisa GardnerA New York Times bestselling author returns with the latest installment in the addictive Frankie Elkin series, in which Frankie is called to Tucson, Arizona, to find a missing Afghan refugee, whose friend suspects she is in grave danger—before it is too late. &“Timely and completely gripping.&” (Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author) Recent Afghan refugee and young mother Sabera Ahmadi was last seen exiting her place of work three weeks ago. The local police have yet to open a case, while her older, domineering husband seems unconcerned. At the insistence of Sabera's closest friend, missing persons expert Frankie Elkin agrees to take up the search just in time for a video of Sabera to surface—showing her walking away from the scene of a brutal double murder. Frankie quickly notes there's much more to the Ahmadi family than meets the eye. The father Isaad is a brilliant mathematician, Sabera a gifted linguist, and their little girl Zahra has an uncanny ability to remember anything she sees. Which given everything that has happened during the girl's short life, may be a terrible curse. When Isaad also disappears under mysterious circumstances and an attempt is made on Zahra's life, Frankie realizes she must crack the code of this family's horrific past. Someone is coming for the Ahmadis. And violence is clearly an option. When everything is on the line, how far would you go to protect the ones you love? Frankie is about to find out.