To Cut a Long Story Short (Jeffrey Archer)

To Cut a Long Story Short

Jeffrey Archer

Blurb: The latest short-story collection from the master storyteller. The fourteen - all new - stories show Jeffrey Archer's great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tail.

Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty's diplomatic service - but for a good cause. The last story, 'The Grass is Always Greener', is possibly the best piece Archer has written, and will haunt you for the rest of your life.

ISBN: 9780007841936 (Paperback)

Year: 2000

Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers

Pages: 419 (Fiction)

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Cut and Run: CSI Miami (Donn Cortez)

Cut and Run: CSI Miami

Don Cortez

Blurb: By air, sea, and land the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab are called out. In a field outside the everglades a ballon has just set down; the lone man inside the basket is dead - an apparent suicide. A yacht riddled with bullets limps into the Port of Miami; only a gravely wounded hijacker survives, confessing that their are drugs somewhere on board, but he can't find them. A local journalist, looking to break out of the rat race with a novel based on the people he covers on his beat, is found dead.

In the yacht's gallery is a record-setting sunfish that seems to be the key piece of evidence to just what was being smuggled on the shop, yet the lab is stumped when they discover no more than the normal parasites infesting the fish. A raunchy video of a citrus heiress having sex in a public place gives her the motive to kill the journalist-turned-novelist, but she has an alibi. All small pieces of the puzzles that Horatio Caine and the member of his team have to unravel to find out why all these people were killed. Before it is over the members of the Miami-Dade Crime Lab are caught up in the intrigue that reaches to the heart of Castro's Cuba.

ISBN: 9781847390646 (Paperback)

Year: 2008

Publisher: Pocket Books

Pages: 345 (Fiction)

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