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Letters to Kelly
by Suzanne BrockmannSo here I sit, writing letters that have no hope of reaching you until I am free to deliver them myself. With luck, that will be soon. For your eighteenth birthday is coming, and I intend to be there, like I promised. . . . For years, a trumped-up charge--and a Central American prison cell--kept Jax Winchester from claiming the girl he loved. Now he was a free man. Or was he?For only the memory of Kelly O'Brien--and the letters he'd composed to her--had kept him going. But once he was released, he knew he was still a prisoner--in a jail of his own making. The way out this time? Keep that promise he'd made to Kelly all those years ago--and claim her for his own. . . .
Letters to Kelly: A Selection From Unstoppable (Silhouette Intimate Moments Ser. #No. 1213)
by Suzanne BrockmannA fan-favorite story from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, originally published in 2003For years, a trumped-up charge—and a Central American prison cell—has kept Jax Winchester from claiming the girl he loved. Now, he’s technically a free man, but lives in a jail of his own making. The only way out is to keep the promise he made to Kelly O’Brien all those years ago—and claim her for his own.…
Letters To My Daughter's Killer
by Cath StaincliffeSHORTLISTED FOR THE ITV3 CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUBGrandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else on the planet: the man who she believes killed her daughter Lizzie in a brutal attack four years earlier. Ruth's burden of grief and hatred, has only grown heavier with the passing of time, her avid desire for vengeance ever stronger. In writing to him Ruth hopes to exorcise the corrosive emotions that are destroying her life, to find the truth and with it release and a way forward. Whether she can ever truly forgive him is another matter - but the letters are her last, best hope.Letters To My Daughter's Killer exposes the aftermath of violent crime for an ordinary family and explores fundamental questions of crime and punishment. How do we deal with the very human desire for revenge? If we get justice does reconciliation follow? Can we really forgive those who do us the gravest wrong? Could you?
Letters To My Daughter's Killer
by Cath StaincliffeSHORTLISTED FOR THE ITV3 CRIME THRILLER BOOK CLUBGrandmother Ruth Sutton writes to the man she hates more than anyone else on the planet: the man who she believes killed her daughter Lizzie in a brutal attack four years earlier. Ruth's burden of grief and hatred, has only grown heavier with the passing of time, her avid desire for vengeance ever stronger. In writing to him Ruth hopes to exorcise the corrosive emotions that are destroying her life, to find the truth and with it release and a way forward. Whether she can ever truly forgive him is another matter - but the letters are her last, best hope.Letters To My Daughter's Killer exposes the aftermath of violent crime for an ordinary family and explores fundamental questions of crime and punishment. How do we deal with the very human desire for revenge? If we get justice does reconciliation follow? Can we really forgive those who do us the gravest wrong? Could you?
The Letting Go
by Deborah MarkusEveryone Emily has ever loved has been brutally murdered. The killer has never been caught, but Emily knows who’s responsible.She is. It’s the only possible explanation. Emily is the one thing all the victims have in common, which can only mean that someone—or something—is killing them to make her suffer. Determined never to subject another person to the same horrible fate as her parents, friends, and pets, Emily sequesters herself at a private boarding school, keeping her classmates at a distance with well-timed insults and an unapproachable air. Day after day, she loses herself in the writing of Emily Dickinson—the poet makes a perfect friend, since she’s already dead. Emily’s life is lonely, but it’s finally peaceful. That is, until two things happen. A corpse appears on the steps of the school. And a new girl insists on getting close to Emily—unknowingly setting herself up to become the killer’s next victim.
Leur dernière course
by Cristina OrigoneUne seule nuit peut-elle changer le cours de toute une vie ? Enzo est chauffeur de taxi. Il effectue sa dernière course de la nuit et la dernière course de sa vie : après plus de quarante années à parcourir les rues de Gênes, il s’apprête à prendre sa retraite pour se consacrer à Adeline, sa femme adorée. Mais l’imprévu guette : un inconnu surgit dans la nuit près de chez lui et traverse la rue. Enzo freine de toutes ses forces et réussit à éviter l’impact, mais lorsqu’il descend de son taxi et qu’il reconnaît le jeune homme, sa vie change pour toujours. « Leur dernière course » est un récit dramatique, où le destin fait se confronter un père et son fils délinquant, autant que l’espoir et le désespoir d’un homme impuissant à sauver ce qu’il a de plus cher au monde.
The Levanter
by Eric AmblerA Syrian businessman is drawn into the deadly machinations of Palestinian terrorists in the acclaimed author’s Gold Dagger–winning thriller.Syria, 1970. As a self-described “Levantine mongrel,” Michael Howell is used to navigating the shifting sands of Middle East politics. Over the years, he has successfully maintained his business enterprise through war, revolutions, and takeovers, thanks in part to his office manager—and mistress—Teresa.Staunchly apolitical and programmed for survival, Howell enjoys the sweet life. But that all changes one fateful night in Damascus, when he finds men working overtime in his factory—secretly making bombs for the fanatical Palestinian Action Force. Suddenly, Howell is caught in the middle with nowhere to run.
The Levanter
by Eric AmblerWinner of the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award Syria, 1970. Michael Howell has kept his family's Middle Eastern business enterprises going through a decade of takeovers, war, and revolution, thanks in part to his office manager, Teresa, who is also his mistress. One late night at the office, they discover men working overtime--producing unauthorized bombs for the Palestine Action Force. Worse, this guerrilla terrorist group is not deterred by their discovery--rather, they will enlist Howell and Teresa's unwilling help in carrying out their plan.
Leve um com você
by Cynthia Menezes Oak AndersonAssassinato agora é viral! Charlie e Sarah, dois adolescentes angustiados que lutam contra a depressão, encontram-se em uma sala de bate-papo online, e logo criam um plano para dar sentido às próprias vidas, incentivando outros indivíduos desiludidos a ajudar a erradicar a "escória da sociedade", como pedófilos e estupradores que escaparam da justiça. Qualquer pessoa determinada a cometer suicídio é estimulada a, primeiro, matar alguém que tenha "conseguido se safar" antes de tirar a própria vida. "Por que não", eles perguntam, "levar alguém com você"? A ideia se torna viral e as coisas rapidamente saem de controle. Enquanto eles desenvolvem sentimentos um pelo outro, seus seguidores em todo o mundo começam a propagar uma versão muito diferente de sua ideia, deturpando sua intenção original e ameaçando a linha tênue entre a sociedade civil e a anarquia criminal. Assim que encontram a esperança de serem felizes juntos, Charlie e Sarah precisam lidar com o monstro que eles mesmos criaram, uma epidemia global de assassinatos-suicídios, que ameaça a própria essência de sua humanidade. "Leve um com você" é uma história de amor única, um suspense milenar que propõe uma questão: se você soubesse que ia morrer amanhã, mataria alguém esta noite? Alguém que tenha feito algo horripilante. Alguém que mereceria morrer. Caso a resposta seja sim, quem seria essa pessoa? Se você não pudesse ir tão longe, que tal seu vizinho? Seu amigo? Seu inimigo? Quem estabelece o limite? Quem decide quem vive e quem morre? E se todos nós começássemos a fazer justiça com as próprias mãos?
The Levee: A Novel of Baton Rouge
by Malcolm ShumanA true-crime writer returns home to solve the mystery that haunted his boyhoodAfter witnessing an execution, true-crime writer Colin Douglas starts having nightmares of himself as a boy, alone by the levee, trapped in the mud of the Mississippi River. Each night, the dreams grow worse, becoming horrid recreations of the day his childhood died.In 1959, Colin and three friends went camping on the levee, across from the tumbledown old Windsong plantation. When one of the boys disappeared, Colin went searching for him, and was approaching the old estate when he saw what appeared to be a ghost. The next day, he learned a woman had been murdered in the area—an unsolved crime that has haunted him ever since. Decades later, he attempts to solve this forgotten cold case, raking up something even dirtier than the muddy bottom of the Mississippi.
L'Éveil
by Brenda K. Davies Catherine DussaultTraumatisée par son passé et incapable de l’oublier, Sera a passé trois ans à l’université à éviter tout contact avec le monde réel, parfaitement contente de rester tapie derrière ses livres. Une rencontre fortuite avec Liam fait voler ses certitudes en éclats et la laisse ébranlée, surprise par ces émotions étranges qu’il provoque en elle : jamais elle n’aurait cru pouvoir vivre quelque chose de si intense… de si terrifiant. Pourtant, Liam a un secret bien à lui, et il sait qu’il devrait rester loin de Sera, qu’il ne peut que lui apporter malchance et larmes… mais il est irrésistiblement attiré par elle, incapable de nier le plaisir qu’elle seule peut lui offrir. Toutefois, lorsque leurs secrets s’immiscent dans leur vie présente, lorsque la vraie nature de Liam est révélée, leur amour l’un pour l’autre suffira-t-il pour surmonter ces terribles obstacles, ou la dure réalité réduira-t-elle le rêve en lambeaux à jamais ?
Level 26
by Anthony E. Zuiker Duane SwierczynskiSteve Dark was once a lost soul, torn between his family and his one-of-a-kind talent for hunting down serial killers - especially those so-called 'Level 26' killers whose depravity exceeds law enforcement's official scale of evil. In his reluctant pursuit of justice Dark once crossed the ultimate line, a line that might cause a lesser man to lose himself completely. Not Dark. When the world took everything from him, when it destroyed the very thing Dark once lived for, it sparked a transformation that, three years later, is only just complete. Dark is now a man on a mission. A mission unbound by authorities. A mission that, at long last, allows him to embrace his destiny. Dark is finally ready - ready to take justice to the next level.
The Levels
by Sean CreganThe explosive debut novel from the brilliant Sean Cregan - THE LEVELS is a dark, urban gothic thriller guaranteed to appeal fans of Child, Coben, Billingham and Kernick.On the outskirts of Newport, on the US East Coast, lies an abandoned, feral housing project: the Levels. Inhabited by Newport's forgotten homeless population, the Levels are run as a personal fiefdom by the all-powerful Sorrow.As THE LEVELS opens, ex-CIA agent Nate Turner, who is in the Levels to find out who has just tried to kill him, meets a 14-year-old girl Ghost. Ghost is a Fury, one of Sorrow's trained, drug-addicted assassins looking for a way back to her normal life.Also in the Levels is Kate, a suspended cop, who has been told that she has only days to live after being attacked, and infected, by the Beast, a serial killer working the streets. The Beast is out for revenge on Kate's new employer, who he believes created the infection that's killing him, an infection that has also been released into the Levels.Now Ghost is trying to escape Sorrow, Kate is looking for the Beast and Turner is looking for answers. One thing's for sure, some people aren't going to survive the fallout...
The Levels
by Sean CreganThe explosive debut novel from the brilliant Sean Cregan - THE LEVELS is a dark, urban gothic thriller guaranteed to appeal fans of Child, Coben, Billingham and Kernick.On the outskirts of Newport, on the US East Coast, lies an abandoned, feral housing project: the Levels. Inhabited by Newport's forgotten homeless population, the Levels are run as a personal fiefdom by the all-powerful Sorrow.As THE LEVELS opens, ex-CIA agent Nate Turner, who is in the Levels to find out who has just tried to kill him, meets a 14-year-old girl Ghost. Ghost is a Fury, one of Sorrow's trained, drug-addicted assassins looking for a way back to her normal life.Also in the Levels is Kate, a suspended cop, who has been told that she has only days to live after being attacked, and infected, by the Beast, a serial killer working the streets. The Beast is out for revenge on Kate's new employer, who he believes created the infection that's killing him, an infection that has also been released into the Levels.Now Ghost is trying to escape Sorrow, Kate is looking for the Beast and Turner is looking for answers. One thing's for sure, some people aren't going to survive the fallout...
L'Éventreur
by Hannah Howe« J’adore enfreindre les règles » - Cardiff Jack Quelqu’un passait son temps à assassiner des prostituées et à placer leurs corps couverts de roses dans la baie. La presse le surnommait « Cardiff Jack » mais, pour le reste d’entre nous, c’était un monstre à craindre et à éviter. En ces temps troublés, j’étais à la recherche de Faye Collister, une prostituée portée disparue. Pourquoi Faye, une jeune femme d’une grande beauté et venant d’un milieu privilégié, faisait-elle le tapin ? Pourquoi s’était-elle volatilisée ? Et quel était son lien avec Cardiff Jack ? Alors que je cherchais réponse à ces questions, je fis une découverte choquante qui allait influencer le reste de ma vie. L’Éventreur – l’histoire d’une semaine qui a refaçonné le passé, perturbé le présent et apporté la promesse d’un avenir incertain.
Leverage
by Janie CrouchHe'd been hired to transport precious cargo-and it put a beautiful twist in his solitary life Former operative turned pilot Dylan Branson has one mission: deliver vital codes to Omega Sector before millions of lives are lost. Surprisingly, the codes reside in the photographic memory of Shelby Keelan, a beautiful computer expert who's so far survived two murder attempts. Used to doing things solo, Dylan will get Shelby to Washington, DC, then walk away. So he's stunned to discover she's as much a loner as he is-and how much that appeals to him. Now, with both their lives in danger after his plane is sabotaged midair, Dylan no longer thinks of Shelby as just a job. Or that he'll be able to let her go once it's over.
Leverage in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel (In Death #47)
by J. D. RobbLieutenant Eve Dallas puzzles over a bizarre suicide bombing in a Wall St. office building in Leverage in Death, the latest in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from J.D. Robb… <p><p>For the airline executives finalizing a merger that would make news in the business world, the nine a.m. meeting would be a major milestone. But after marketing VP Paul Rogan walked into the plush conference room, strapped with explosives, the headlines told of death and destruction instead. The NYPSD’s Eve Dallas confirms that Rogan was cruelly coerced by two masked men holding his family hostage. His motive was saving his wife and daughter—but what was the motive of the masked men? <p><P>Despite the chaos and bad publicity, blowing up one meeting isn’t going to put the brakes on the merger. All it’s accomplished is shattering a lot of innocent lives. Now, with the help of her billionaire husband Roarke, Eve must untangle the reason for an inexplicable act of terror, look at suspects inside and outside both corporations, and determine whether the root of this crime lies in simple sabotage, or something far more complex and twisted. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Leverage in Death: An Eve Dallas thriller (Book 47) (In Death #47)
by J. D. RobbWhat would you do to protect your family?When Paul Rogan sets off a bomb at his office, killing eleven people, no one can understand why. He was a loving husband and father, with everything to live for. Then his wife and daughter are found chained up in the family home, and everything becomes clear. Rogan had been given a horrifying choice - set off the bomb, or see his loved ones suffer and die.Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows the violence won't end here. The men behind the attack are determined, organised and utterly ruthless. In this shocking and challenging case, both Eve and husband Roarke are heading into serious danger.
Leviathan
by James Byron HugginsWith the creation of an unholy beast comes the end of the world in this diabolical thriller from the international bestselling author of Crux and Hunter. On an Icelandic Island, an illegal experiment intended to create the perfect biological weapon has transformed a once-innocent creature into the biblical Leviathan that once terrorized the world. Able to shatter steel and granite as easily as it can melt the strongest containment shields, Leviathan escapes from its pen and is loose in a vast underground chamber harboring soldiers and scientists. The installation cannot allow Leviathan to reach the surface. For if Leviathan reaches the world, it could well be the end of the Earth. They must hold the line, here, and destroy it . . . even if they must detonate a last-chance nuclear failsafe built into the chamber itself. But, first, they must fight with every weapon at their disposal to discover if the beast can be killed at all. It is a battle many will not survive. As soldiers and scientists are vaporized by Leviathan&’s hellish flame, or ripped apart by the dragon&’s claws and fangs, a lone electrical engineer is forced to join the fight. And in the midst of what might well be the last battle for Mankind, Connor must find a way—any way—to save his family and kill this powerful, bloodthirsty Beast of Legend that has never been killed before. Before it feasts upon the world.Praise for James Byron Huggins &“Huggins writes like a man possessed.&”—Steve Jackson, New York Times bestselling author &“May be the thriller of the year.&”—BookPage on Cain &“Pure entertainment.&”—Publishers Weekly on Hunter
The Leviathan Effect: A Thriller (A\mallory Brothers Thriller Ser.)
by James LillieforsHomeland Security Secretary Catherine Blaine receives a frightening communication from a hacker identified only by the pseudonym "Janus": three recent natural disasters around the world were correctly predicted--in fact, they were manufactured, not natural at all. And, says the email, unless she does exactly as Janus instructs, more disasters are coming--and they will destroy the United States. Unaware of the crisis in Washington, investigative journalist Jon Mallory stumbles on a list of seven prominent scientists who have been murdered in recent months. When the person who had given him the list goes missing herself, Jon realizes he has unwittingly become part of a deadly chain of events. He contacts his brother, ex-CIA agent Charles, looking for help. Meanwhile, Catherine Blaine has also come to Charles for help to track down the hacker Janus and learn what frightening science is threatening the world.
The Leviticus Mission: The Rv Mysteries Book One (RV Mysteries)
by L. D. KnorrBook One of the RV Mysteries Series. Recently retired homicide detective Hank Moran and his wife Helen have just purchased a new motorhome and are ready to take a two-month tour to see the country. The discovery of a series of murders on their short trial run to Biloxi, Mississippi puts their tour on hold while Hank investigates. The prime suspect is a firebrand tent revival preacher who literally takes God's word for the Old Testament punishment of evildoers. Their adventure takes them, of all places, into a gay men's RV resort for the explosive finale.
Levkas Man: Isvik, Air Bridge, Atlantic Fury, And Levkas Man
by Hammond InnesThe tale of an archaeological dig gone terribly wrong from "Great Britain's leading adventure novelist" (Financial Times). When his parents died, Paul was sent to Amsterdam to live with his mother's old lover, the eccentric archaeologist Pieter Van der Voort. Paul became a man in that cramped, strange house, cooped up with skeletons, fossils, and his increasingly mad guardian, who was obsessed with the search for the origins of man. Finally, Paul can take no more. He hops a freighter and spends eight years at sea before returning home to find Van der Voort gone--and a mystery waiting in his place. Van der Voort is in Greece on an archaeological expedition that's spiraling out of control. The last place Paul wants to be is at the old man's side, but he feels something drawing him toward the dig site. To reach Greece, he takes a job working for a smuggler, embarking on a journey that will carry him across the globe--and into the blackest depths of history. A rip-roaring archaeological adventure in the spirit of Indiana Jones, Levkas Man is a story about the fundamental desire that has defined all human history: the irresistible urge to kill.
Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century
by Katharine KittredgeAccounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia Pilkington, whose sexual indiscretions caused her to fall from social and literary grace to become an articulate memoirist of personal scandal, and Elizabeth Brownrigg, who tortured and starved her young servants, propelling herself to an infamy comparable to Susan Smith's or Myra Hindley's. More awful women wait between these covers to teach us about society's reception (and construction) of their debauchery and dangerousness. The authors draw upon a rich range of contemporary texts to illuminate the lives of these women. Astute analysis of literary, legal, evangelical, epistolary, and political documents provides an understanding of 1700s womanhood. From lusty old maids to murderous mistresses, the characters who exemplify this period's vision of women on the edge are essential acquaintances for anyone wishing to understand the development and ramifications of conceptions of femininity.
The Lewis Man
by Peter MayMarilyn Stasio in The New York Times raved: "Peter May is a writer I'd follow to the ends of the earth." Among the many honors received, The Blackhouse, the first novel in May's acclaimed Lewis trilogy, won the Barry and Crime Thriller Hound awards. In The Lewis Man, the second book of the trilogy, Fin Macleod has returned to the Isle of Lewis, the storm-tossed, wind-scoured outer Hebridean island where he was born and raised. Having left behind his adult life in Edinburgh--including his wife and his career in the police force--the former Detective Inspector is intent on repairing past relationships and restoring his parents' derelict cottage. His plans are interrupted when an unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog. The only clue to its identity is a DNA match to a local farmer, the now-senile Tormod Macdonald--the father of Fin's childhood sweetheart, Marsaili--a man who has claimed throughout his life to be an only child, practically an orphan. Reluctantly drawn into the investigation, Fin uncovers deep family secrets even as he draws closer to the killer who wishes to keep them hidden. Already an international bestseller and winner of numerous awards, including France's Prix des Lecteurs du Telegramme, The Lewis Man has the lyrical verve of Ian Rankin and the gutsy risk-taking of Benjamin Black. As fascinating and forbidding as the Hebridean landscape, the book (according to The Times) "throbs with past and present passions, jealousies, suspicions and regrets; the emotional secrets of the bleak island are even deeper than its peat bog."
The Lewis Man: AN INGENIOUS CRIME THRILLER ABOUT MEMORY AND MURDER (LEWIS TRILOGY 2) (Lewis Trilogy #2)
by Peter MayTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO THE BLACKHOUSEBOOK TWO IN THE MILLION-SELLING LEWIS TRILOGY'One of the best regarded crime series of recent years' IndependentA MAN WITH NO NAMEAn unidentified corpse is recovered from a Lewis peat bog; the only clue to its identity being a DNA sibling match to a local farmer.A MAN WITH NO MEMORYBut this islander, Tormod Macdonald - now an elderly man suffering from dementia - has always claimed to be an only child.A MAN WITH NO CHOICEWhen Tormod's family approach Fin Macleod for help, Fin feels duty-bound to solve the mystery.LOVED THE LEWIS MAN? Read book 3 in the Lewis trilogy, THE CHESSMENLOVE PETER MAY? Buy his latest frontlist thriller, A SILENT DEATH