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Pardal Negro
by A.J. Griffiths-JonesNo Aeroporto de Heathrow, um assassino contratado está embarcando num avião para Paris. No mesmo avião está a jovem Uzma Rafiq, a caminho de uma nova vida com o seu namorado francês. Os passageiros transportam malas idênticas, mas os seus motivos para viajar à cidade europeia não podiam estar mais distantes. Quando eles acidentalmente pegam a bagagem errada na chegada, uma série mortal de eventos é iniciada. Assim como uma reviravolta sinistra os une, eles ditarão os destinos um do outro. Com o pano de fundo da Cidade das luzes, quem sobreviverá?
Pardon the Ravens: A Novel
by Alan Hruska"As good as the best offerings of Turow, Grisham, and other legal-thriller hitmakers"--Booklist, on Wrong Man RunningFrom the author of Wrong Man Running and the writer and director of the films Reunion and The Warrior Class, this fast-paced legal thriller set in the Mad Men era grabs you and doesn't let go. Gifted young New York lawyer Alec Brno gets the career boost of a lifetime: the opportunity to try a huge fraud case making international headlines. But he risks it all when he falls for an alluring young woman whose estranged husband is a sadistic Mafia don--and the criminal mastermind behind Alec's case. Alan Hruska is a native of New York and a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School. He is a former trial lawyer who has represented Henry Kissinger, William Paley, Sam Walton, Katherine Graham, and many others. As cofounder of Soho Press, he currently serves as chairman of the board. He has also written and directed a number of movies, including Nola, The Warrior Class, and Reunion, and several plays. Pardon the Ravens is his third novel.
Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs #3)
by Jacqueline WinspearIn the third novel of this bestselling series, London investigator Maisie Dobbs faces grave danger as she returns to the site of her most painful memories from the Great War to resolve the mystery surrounding a pilot's death. A deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but also to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. Maisie accepts the assignment--determined to prove Ralph Lawton either dead or alive--and in doing so is plunged into a case that tests her spiritual strength, as well as her regard for her mentor, Maurice Blanche. The mission also brings her together once again with her college friend Priscilla Evernden, who served in France and who lost three brothers to the war--one of whom, it turns out, had an intriguing connection to the missing Ralph Lawton.
Pardonner à Thayne (Véritables compagnons #2)
by J. R. Loveless Bénédicte Girault NelsonVéritables compagnons, numéro hors sérieNicholas Cartwright a fait tout ce qui était en son pouvoir pour oublier cette nuit, six mois plus tôt à Senaka, quand son véritable compagnon l'a rejeté, le laissant brisé et désabusé. Se réfugiant dans son travail, il s'y adonne jusqu'à l'épuisement, tout en trouvant les caresses d'un autre insupportables. Tout à coup, son compagnon a besoin de son aide et demande peut-être plus que ce Nick est prêt à lui accorder. Thayne Whitedove a toujours été une âme errante, passant ses journées sur les routes et ses nuits dans les bras d'un amant de rencontre, jusqu'à ce qu'une erreur fatale le pousse à chercher secours auprès des siens. À sa grande consternation, la seule façon de réparer sa faute est d'accepter ce qu'il refuse par-dessus tout... son compagnon. Thayne doit choisir entre continuer à fuir ou rester et se battre pour le pardon de Nick.
Parents Weekend: A Novel
by Alex FinlayAN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling author of If Something Happens to Me, comes one of the year’s most anticipated thrillers.In the glow of their children’s exciting first year of college at a small private school in Northern California, five families gather over dinner and cocktails for the opening festivities of Parents Weekend. As the parents stay out way past their bedtimes, their kids—five residents of Campisi Hall—never show up to dinner.At first, everyone thinks they’re just being college students, irresponsibly forgetting about the gathering or skipping out to go to a party. But as the hours tick by and another night falls with not so much as a text from the students, panic ensues. Soon the campus police call in reinforcements. Search parties are formed. Reporters swarm the small enclave. Rumors swirl and questions arise.Libby, Blane, Mark, Felix, and Stella—The Five, as the podcasters, bloggers, and TikTok sleuths soon call them—come from very different families. What drew them out on that fateful night? Could it be the sins of their mothers and fathers come to cause them peril—or a threat to the friend group from within?Told from each family’s point of view—and marking the return of FBI Special Agent Sarah Keller from Every Last Fear and The Night Shift—Parents Weekend explores the weight of expectation, family dysfunction, and those exhilarating first days in the dorms when friends become family.
Parfois, ils reviennent
by Cristina Lattaro Raymonde ConiglioL’Inspecteur Marco Feltri et la Commissaire Alessia Costantini vivent ensemble bon an, mal an, à cause du passé de tous les deux. Une mystérieuse découverte dans le camp rom de la cité, Rieti, arrive tandis que la police trouve un corps calciné dans un coude du mont Terminillo. Il attire l'attention de la police de Rome managée par le questeur Oleani, l'amant de Alessia pendant des années. Tourmenté par la jalousie et par la peur qui Hego peut être en danger, Marco fait face à une semaine de suspects et de regrets, au prix de la relation avec Alessia et de sa propre vie. Un romance qui tient en suspens du début à la fin.
Paris Affair (The Malcolm & Suzanne Mysteries #2)
by Teresa GrantFrom the ashes of war rise the secrets of its darkest hearts. . . In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, Paris is a house divided. The triumphant Bourbons flaunt their victory with lavish parties, while Bonapartists seek revenge only to be captured and executed. Amid the turmoil, British attaché and Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, discover that his murdered half-sister, Princess Tatiana Kirsanova, may have born a child--a secret she took to the grave. And Malcolm suspects there was more than mere impropriety behind her silence. . . As Malcolm and Suzanne begin searching for answers, they learn that the child was just one of many secrets Tatiana had been keeping. The princess was the toast of Paris when she arrived in the glamorous city, flirting her way into the arms of more than a few men--perhaps even those of Napoleon himself--and the father must be among them. But in the melee of the Napoleonic Wars, she was caught up in a deadly game, and now Malcolm and Suzanne must race against time to save the child from a similar fate. . . "Unravel the secrets and lies at the heart of an almost impenetrable mystery. . . thrilling!" --New York Times bestselling author, Deanna Raybourn"Twists and turns galore, swashbuckling adventure and suspense throughout. . for readers in search of smart historical mysteries. " -Tasha Alexander"I loved this book! No one else can combine page-turning suspense, fascinating mystery, a palpable sense of time and place, with such unforgettable and masterfully-drawn characters. Superb!" --Deborah Crombie, New York Times bestselling author
Paris Blues
by Harold FlenderParis Blues by Harold Flender is a poignant and evocative novel that explores the lives of two expatriate American jazz musicians searching for freedom, purpose, and meaning in post-war Paris. Against the backdrop of the City of Light, with its smoky jazz clubs and bohemian culture, Flender paints a vivid portrait of artistic passion and the complexities of identity in a changing world.Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook, the novel’s protagonists, are drawn to Paris by its promise of liberation—from racial prejudice, societal expectations, and the constraints of life in America. While Ram wrestles with his artistic ambitions and struggles to perfect his music, Eddie contemplates whether he has truly escaped the challenges of being a Black man in a world shaped by inequality.Their journey is shaped by love, loss, and the relationships they form with two French women who introduce them to new ways of seeing themselves and the world around them. Through these connections, Flender weaves a story that is as much about personal transformation as it is about the unifying power of music.With its rich atmosphere, complex characters, and exploration of cultural and racial tensions, Paris Blues captures the spirit of an era while offering timeless insights into the human condition. Flender’s evocative prose immerses readers in the rhythms of jazz and the soul of a city where art, identity, and freedom intersect.Perfect for fans of character-driven stories and those intrigued by the intersection of music and cultural exploration, Paris Blues is a deeply moving novel that resonates with anyone who has ever searched for a place to belong.
Paris City of Night: A Jay Grant Thriller
by David DownieAn American photographer in Paris is unwittingly drawn into a nightmarish terror plot when one of his daguerreotypes puts both his life and his adopted city in gravest perilThere is a Paris that no tourist ever sees--a shadowy secret world of intrigue, betrayal, and murder. The son of a recently deceased CIA agent, photographer and American expatriate Jason Anthony Grant knows the dark side of the City of Light all too well. When an imitation daguerreotype he created for fun falls into the wrong hands, Jay finds himself a target, accused of fraud. Only by recovering the entire series of photographic fakes can he hope to avoid prosecution.But suddenly, other parties have become interested in his work: former Cold War operatives and Company spooks, French intelligence agents and cutthroat murderers with shady, unrevealed allegiances. They all want Jay for themselves, and not all of them want him alive. He discovers he's become an unwitting pawn in a chilling conspiracy that could destroy the beautiful city he loves--a city that has now become a dark and dangerous maze with treacherous turns and too many dead ends.A breakneck-paced thriller brimming with intrigue, murder, espionage, terrorism, and relentless Hitchcockian surprise and suspense, David Downie's Paris City of Night introduces readers to a Paris they've never imagined and a hero they will never forget.
Paris Match
by Stuart WoodsStone Barrington is back and better than ever in the astonishing new thriller from New York Times bestseller Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington has returned to Paris to attend to some business concerns, and finds himself embroiled in high-stakes trouble on both sides of the pond. An old enemy is still in hot pursuit, and this time he might have a powerful local resource on his side: a gentleman with his own ax to grind against Stone. And back in the United States, the swirling rumor mill threatens to derail a project of vital importance not just to Stone but to the nation. Though Stone is no stranger to peril, never before has he faced threats from so many directions at once. . . .
Paris Match (A Stone Barrington Novel #31)
by Stuart WoodsStone Barrington is back and better than ever in the astonishing new thriller from New York Times bestseller Stuart Woods. Stone Barrington has returned to Paris to attend to some business concerns, and finds himself embroiled in high-stakes trouble on both sides of the pond. An old enemy is still in hot pursuit, and this time he might have a powerful local resource on his side: a gentleman with his own ax to grind against Stone. And back in the United States, the swirling rumor mill threatens to derail a project of vital importance not just to Stone but to the nation. Though Stone is no stranger to peril, never before has he faced threats from so many directions at once. . . .
Paris Metro: A Novel
by Wendell Steavenson“A nuanced, engrossing novel about conviction and terrorism in a cosmopolitan, complicated world.”—National Book ReviewFrom the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 to the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015, Paris Metro is a story of East meets West. Kit, a reporter, has spent several years after 9/11 living in the Middle East, working as a correspondent for an American newspaper. Along the way she falls in love and marries a charismatic Iraqi diplomat named Ahmed, before their separation leaves Kit raising their teenage son alone in Paris. But after the Charlie Hebdo attack occurs and, a few months later, terrorists storm the Bataclan, Kit’s core beliefs are shattered. The violence she had spent years covering abroad is now on her doorstep. As Kit struggles with her grief and confusion, she begins to mistrust those closest to her: her friends, her husband, even her own son.
Paris Noir (Akashic Noir #0)
by Aurélien MassonAll original stories from Paris' finest authors, all translated from French. "The dank and sweaty crime scenes in Paris Noir testify to the fact that the French invented 'noir.' Among the jarring images in this story collection, Didier Daeninckx's murky view of the after-hours scene in Porte Saint-Denis and Marc Villard's gritty look at the sex trade in Les Halles are correctives to all those persistent romantic fantasies about the city." —New York Times Featuring brand-new stories by: Didier Daeninckx, Jean-Bernard Pouy, Marc Villard, Chantal Pelletier, Patrick Pécherot, DOA, Hervé Prudon, Dominique Mainard, Salim Bachi, Jérôme Leroy, Laurent Martin, and Christophe Mercier. From the editor's introduction: "Paris is a city that lives, and thus dies, every day. No point hiding behind history or war memories. What is a threat to Paris, to its noir dimension even, is potential 'museumification,' the possibility of the city turning into a big theme park. In Paris, after all, everything is still there. All you have to do is look around with eyes wide open . . . "Beyond the lights, beyond the cafés and bars, Paris is sometimes like a grave. It's a city you run away from, or at least dream of running away from. But on every street corner, the past jumps at your throat like a grimacing hyena . . . You don't inhabit your city, you dream it. All I can do now is invite you to enter the dream."
Paris Noir: Akashic Noir Series (Akashic Noir #0)
by Hervé DeloucheFollowing the success of Paris Noir, the Akashic Noir Series has expanded to include the famously diverse and sometimes controversial suburbs of this legendary city.“A treasure chest of resources for any noir author seeking a more gruesome approach or a more relentless destruction of the soul. One might hope the real Paris suburbs are not so dark and blood drenched. But by the end of the collection, that hope seems almost foolish, and the body found on the quay seems to be the lucky guy in the story.” —New York Journal of BooksAkashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.Featuring brand-new stories by: Cloé Mehdi, Karim Madani, Insa Sané, Christian Roux, Marc Villard, Jean-Pierre Rumeau, Timothée Demeillers, Rachid Santaki, Marc Fernandez, Guillaume Balsamo, Anne Secret, Anne-Sylvie Salzman, and Patrick Pécherot. (All stories were written in French and translated into English by Katie Shireen Assef, David Ball, Nicole Ball, and Paul Curtis Daw.)
Paris Requiem: A Novel
by Chris LloydA gripping World War II murder mystery—and a beautifully drawn portrait of Paris under Nazi occupation—with compelling and conflicted hero Detective Eddie Giral at its heart.Paris, 1940. As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation, Detective Eddie Giral struggles to reconcile his job as a policeman with his new role enforcing a regime he cannot believe in, but must work under. He's sacrificed so much in order to survive in this new world, but the past is not so easily forgotten. When an old friend—and an old flame—reappear, begging for his help, Eddie must decide how far he will go to help those he loves. The notion of justice itself quickly becomes as dangerous, blurred, and confused as the war itself. And Eddie&’s morale compass, ever on unreliable foundations, will be questioned again and again as the ravages of the German occupation steadily attempt to grind him—and the city he loves—into submission. Negotiating a path between resistance and collaboration, he can remain a good man and do nothing—or risk everything he has achieved in a desperate act of resistance.
Paris Requiem: From the Winner of the HWA Gold Crown for Best Historical Fiction
by Chris Lloyd'A terrific slice of historical noir... Sparkles with Lloyd's mordant wit and gallows humour, illuminating the depravity of an evil regime.' VASEEM KHAN'Paris Requiem is more than a historical crime novel, it's a tour de force.' ALIS HAWKINS'You have a choice which way you go in this war...'Paris, September 1940.After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The dead man is not the first or the last criminal being let loose onto the streets. But who is pulling the strings, and why?This question will take Eddie from jazz clubs to opera halls, from old flames to new friends, from the lights of Paris to the darkest countryside - pursued by a most troubling truth: sometimes to do the right thing, you have to join the wrong side...****Praise for Chris Lloyd's Occupation series, featuring Detective Eddie Giral:'Ranks alongside Alan Furst and Philip Kerr ... Powerful stuff.' SUNDAY TIMES'A thoughtful, haunting thriller' MICK HERRON'Such a powerful and morally nuanced crime novel. Both a gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation' ANDREW TAYLOR'It's up there with luminaries such as Philip Kerr, Sebastian Faulks and Manda Scott - in fact, it's probably better than all of those.' DAVID YOUNG'A haunting and eye-opening portrayal of life under occupation' ADELE PARKS'Lloyd does a masterly job of conjuring a hungry, defeated Paris. Eddie is a convincing protagonist; a flawed man trying his best to be a good one.' THE TIMES
Paris Requiem: From the Winner of the HWA Gold Crown for Best Historical Fiction
by Chris Lloyd'A terrific slice of historical noir... Sparkles with Lloyd's mordant wit and gallows humour, illuminating the depravity of an evil regime.' VASEEM KHAN'Paris Requiem is more than a historical crime novel, it's a tour de force.' ALIS HAWKINS'You have a choice which way you go in this war...'Paris, September 1940.After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The dead man is not the first or the last criminal being let loose onto the streets. But who is pulling the strings, and why?This question will take Eddie from jazz clubs to opera halls, from old flames to new friends, from the lights of Paris to the darkest countryside - pursued by a most troubling truth: sometimes to do the right thing, you have to join the wrong side...****Praise for Chris Lloyd's Occupation series, featuring Detective Eddie Giral:'Ranks alongside Alan Furst and Philip Kerr ... Powerful stuff.' SUNDAY TIMES'A thoughtful, haunting thriller' MICK HERRON'Such a powerful and morally nuanced crime novel. Both a gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation' ANDREW TAYLOR'It's up there with luminaries such as Philip Kerr, Sebastian Faulks and Manda Scott - in fact, it's probably better than all of those.' DAVID YOUNG'A haunting and eye-opening portrayal of life under occupation' ADELE PARKS
Paris Spring: A Thriller
by James NaughtieWill Flemyng’s world is turned upside down in James Naughtie’s stunning prequel to The Madness of July James Naughtie established himself a “capable and elegant writer” (Wall Street Journal) with his gripping and highly praised debut, The Madness of July. He sets his new, “brilliant spy thriller” (The Guardian) in the feverish atmosphere of Paris, in April of 1968. The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Scottish-American Will Flemyng—a spy working in the British Embassy—the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life. His family is threatened with ruin and he now faces the spy’s oldest fear: exposure. Freddy Craven is the hero and mentor Flemyng would trust with his life, but when he is tempted into a dark, Cold War labyrinth, he chooses the dangerous path and plays his game alone. And when glamorous, globe-trotting journalist Grace Quincy, in pursuit of a big story, is found dead in the Pere Lachaise cemetery, the question is raised—what side was she on? Certainly she knew too much, and had become dangerous. But to whom? The bizarre murder reveals a web of secrets, and Fleming’s loyalty to family and friends is tested as never before. As the streets of Paris become a smoke-filled battleground, Flemyng, like his friends and enemies, discovers that where secrets are at stake, lives are too. Once again James Naughtie spins an irresistible, intelligent, and page turning thriller.
Paris Trout: A Novel
by Pete DexterPete Dexter’s tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town.<P><P> The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he’s done absolutely nothing wrong. As a trial looms, the crime eats away at the social fabric of Cotton Point, through its facade of manners and civility. Trout’s indifference haunts his defense lawyer; his festering paranoia warps his timid, quiet wife; and Trout himself moves closer to madness as he becomes obsessed with his cause—and his vendettas.<P> Winner of the National Book Award
Paris Twilight: A Novel
by Russ RymerA moody, sumptuous debut novel set in 1990s Paris Matilde Anselm, professor of cardiac anesthesiology, arrives in Paris from New York to be part of a surgery team in the winter of 1990, as manifestations against the First Gulf War are raging in the streets. Even as her concerns mount over the shadowy protocols surrounding the planned heart transplant, and even as she falls in love with the Arab diplomat in charge of those protocols, a surprise inheritance—a mysterious Paris apartment and a trove of love letters from the Spanish Civil War, bequeathed to her by a stranger—sweep her through a hidden Paris and into the labyrinth of her own buried past. As the diplomat and the apartment reluctantly reveal their secrets, the tragedies they unearth open a further mystery, the enigma that has haunted Matilde’s life. In the end she is left devastated, liberated, and, for the very first time, herself. Paris Twilight grapples with the meaning of love, the sin of suicide, and the mystery of family in a masterful fiction debut, a dizzying tale of personal transformation.
Paris Weekend
by Todd Bludeau Sergei KostinKGB operative Paco Araya is a mole who runs a travel agency in Manhattan, where he's been living for many years. Suddenly, on a secret mission in Paris, he discovers by accident that the man he's wanted to kill for many years happens to be within reach. Why does Paco want to kill this man, a known international terrorist very much reminiscent of the infamous Carlos the Jackal? Espionage and personal vengeance provide a deadly mix in this masterful Russian version of John Le Carre.
Paris in the Dark: A Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thriller (The Christopher Marlowe Cobb Thrillers #4)
by Robert Olen ButlerA novel of murder and espionage during the First World War: &“Rich atmosphere and a propulsive plot...a satisfying, stylish thrill.&”―The Tampa Bay Times Autumn 1915. World War I is raging across Europe, but Woodrow Wilson has kept Americans out of the trenches—though that hasn&’t stopped young men and women from crossing the Atlantic to volunteer at the front. Christopher &“Kit&” Cobb, a Chicago reporter with a second job as undercover agent for the U.S. government, is officially in Paris doing a story on American ambulance drivers, but his intelligence handler, James Polk Trask, soon broadens his mission. City-dwelling civilians are meeting death by dynamite in a new string of bombings, and the German-speaking Kit seems just the man to figure out who is behind them—possibly a German operative who has snuck in with the waves of refugees coming in from the provinces and across the border in Belgium. But there are elements in this pursuit that will test Kit Cobb, in all his roles, to the very limits of his principles, wits, and talents for survival. With Paris in the Dark, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler returns to his lauded Christopher Marlowe Cobb series and proves once again that he can craft &“a ripping good yarn&” (Wall Street Journal) with unmistakably literary underpinnings and a rich sense of the political and cultural atmosphere of the time. &“Best is Butler's feel for the black-and-white-movie atmospherics of a war zone after hours: It's a thrill to follow Kit to German hangouts like Le Rouge et le Noir, where a password will get you in, but there&’s no guarantee you'll get out.&”―Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
Paris to Die For
by Maxine KennethInspired by an actual letter in the John F. Kennedy Library written by Jackie and revealing her job offer from the newly formed CIAYoung Jacqueline Bouvier's first CIA assignment was supposed to be simple: Meet with a high-ranking Russian while he's in Paris and help him defect. But when the Comrade ends up dead, and Jackie-in her black satin peep-toe stiletto heels-barely escapes his killer, it's time to get some assistance. Enter Jacques Rivage, a French photographer and freelance CIA agent who seems too brash and carefree to grapple with spies, though he's all too able to make Jackie's heart skip a beat. Together the two infiltrate 1951 high society in the City of Lights, rubbing shoulders with the likes of the Duchess of Windsor, Audrey Hepburn, and Evelyn Waugh. Jackie, no longer a pampered debutante, draws on her quick intelligence, equestrian skills, and even her Chanel No. 5 atomizer as a weapon to stay alive in the shadowy world of international intrigue-and to keep her date with a certain up-and-coming, young Congressman from Massachusetts . . .
Parishioner
by Walter MosleyAn eBook original crime novel from bestselling author Walter Mosley, Parishioner is a portrait of a hardened criminal who regrets his past, but whose only hope for redemption is to sin again. In a small town situated between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, a simple church of white stone sits atop a hill on the coast. This nameless house of worship is a sanctuary for the worst kinds of sinners: the congregation and even the clergy have broken all ten Commandments and more. Now they have gathered to seek forgiveness. Xavier Rule—Ecks to his friends—didn&’t come to California in search of salvation but, thanks to the grace of this church, he has begun to learn to forgive himself and others for past misdeeds. One day a woman arrives to seek absolution for the guilt she has carried for years over her role in a scheme to kidnap three children and sell them on the black market. As part of atoning for his past life on the wrong side of the law, Ecks is assigned to find out what happened to the abducted children. As he follows the thin trail of the twenty-three-year-old crime, he must struggle against his old, lethal instincts—and learn when to give in to them.
Park Avenue Tramp
by Fletcher FloraDuring one of her blackouts, Charity McAdams Farnese walks into a downtown bar named Duo's and into the life of Joe Doyle, second-rate piano player and a man with a bum heart. Yancy the bartender knows that she's trouble, a rich girl with an itch, but Joe won't listen. All he knows is that Charity wants to love him. But Charity has a husband Oliver Alton Farnese. Oliver is a creature of habit and allows Charity her flings. But when this fling turns serious, Oliver has his own way of dealing with the situation.