At Risk - Winston Garano #1 (Patricia Cornwell)

At Risk - Winston Garano #1

Patricia Cornwell

Blurb: A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from the National Forensic Academy in Tennessee. His boss, an attractive but hard-charging woman, is running for governor, and as a showcase plans to use a new crime initiative called At Risk - motto: 'Any crime, any time.' She's looking for a way to employ cutting-edge DNA technology, and thinks she's found it in a twenty-year-old murder - in Tennessee. If her office solves the case, they'll all look pretty good, right?

Her investigator is not so sure, but before he can open his mouth a shocking piece of violence intervenes, an act that shakes up not only their lives but the lives of everyone around them...

ISBN: 9780751538717 (Paperback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: Sphere

Pages: 229 (Fiction)

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2. Wikipedia page for the author

3. About the movie adaption of the story

4. Review of the book

5. Author's official site

Gold Coast (Nelson DeMille)

Gold Coast

Nelson DeMille

Blurb: Long Island is upmarket and salubrious. It's the stamping ground for a dying breed of America's super-rich. It's also the residence of top-drawer layer John Sutter - old money, right clubs - and his sensual wife, Susan.

When a new neighbour arrives on the block, their lives are turned dramatically upside down. For the des-res suburb becomes the home of Mr Frank Bellarosa, top Mafia don and manipulator. It is he who will impress upon them a rule much older than the archaic etiquette of the old-money set: a favour accepted is a favour owed.

ISBN: 9780751531213 (Paperback)

Year: 1990

Publisher: Sphere

Pages: 637 (Fiction)

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1. Author's official site

2. Discussion questions on the book

3. Wikipedia page for the author

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5. An interview with the author

Dear John (Nicholas Sparks)

Dear John

Nicholas Sparks

Blurb: When John meets Savannah, he realises he is ready to make some changes. Always the angry rebel at school, he has enlisted in the army, not knowing what else to do with his life. Now he's ready to turn over a new leaf for the woman who has captured his heart.

What neither realises is that the events of 9/11 will change everything. John is prompted to re-enlist and fulfil what he feels is his duty to his country. But the lovers are young and their separation is long. Can they survive the distance?

ISBN: 9780751541885(Paperback)

Year: 2006

Publisher: Sphere

Pages: 338 (Fiction)

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1. Author's official site

2. About the book

3. Wikipedia page for the book

4. Buy from Amazon

5. Interview with the author

The Suspect & The Night Ferry - Omnibus (Michael Robotham)

The Suspect & The Night Ferry - Omnibus

Michael Robotham

Blurb: The Suspect

Joseph O'Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from unravelling. All it takes is a murdered girl, a troubled young patient and the biggest lie of his life...

The Night Ferry

Alisha Barba receives a message from a school friend, Cate Beaumont, who is eight months pregnant and in trouble. But on the night they arrange to meet, Cate is mown down by a car. Now Alisha has to discover why Cate contacted her - and why her old friend created such a trail of deception...

ISBN: 9780751544268 (Paperback)

Year: 2004 & 2007

Publisher: Sphere

Pages: 501 (Fiction)

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4. Goodreads page for the author

5. Crime Down Under page for the author

Scarpetta - Kay Scarpetta Series #16 (Patricia Cornwell)

Scarpetta (Kay Scarpetta Series #16)

Patricia Cornwell

Blurb: Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina. Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward.

The handcuffed and chained patient eventually begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard.

He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder... that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered - and that more violent deaths will follow...

Twenty years after creating Kay Scarpetta, Patricia Cornwell has written her most extraordinary novel yet. Gripping and packed with characteristic twists and turns, it resoundingly proves that 'no one is better than Cornwell.'

ISBN: 9780751542127 (Paperback)

Year: 2008

Publisher: Sphere

Pages: 500 (Fiction)

Links

1. Wikipedia page for the author

2. Author's official site

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4. Goodreads page for the book

5. Review of the book

The Colour of Law & The Abduction: Omnibus (Mark Gimenez)

The Colour of Law & The Abduction: Omnibus

Mark Gimenez

Blurb: THE COLOUR OF LAW

A. Scott Fenney is a rich Dallas corporate lawyer in the prime of his life, with a beautiful house, a beautiful wife and an adored daughter. But when a rich senator's son dies in mysterious circumstances, Fenney is asked by the federal judge to put his air-conditioned lifestyle on hold to defend the accused: a black, heroin-addicted prostitute. Scott believes in justice - but is his belief strong enough to withstand the loss of everything he holds dear?

THE ABDUCTION

When Elizabeth Brice turns up to collect her daughter Grace from football practice, the coach tells her she needn't have bothered, as Grace's uncle has already picked her up. The only problem is - Grace has no uncles. And so begins a furious race against time to save Grace from unknown kidnappers. But secrets from the past make the little girl's survival more uncertain with every passing minute...

ISBN: 9780751544121(Paperback)

Year: 2005 & 2007

Publisher: Sphere

Pages: 465 & 520 (Fiction)

Links

1. Author's official site

2. Publisher's page

3. Buy The Colour of Law from Amazon

4. Author's Wikipedia page

5. Buy The Abduction from Amazon