Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen Ashleigh, struggling writer, to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. When Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, she discovers an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. As Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if Jeremy were to read his wife's words. After all, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving Verity.
Texas, 1921. Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.
Lily’s graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. When she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant but also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. But even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to Ryle's “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place. When Atlas Corrigan, Lily's first love and link to the past, suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.
Harry Booth started stealing at nine to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head, slipping into luxurious, empty homes at night to find items he could trade for precious cash. He dons new identities and can't afford to get attached. Still, he can't help letting his guard down when he meets Miranda Emerson. After Harry takes a lucrative job commissioned by Carter LaPorte, LaPorte strongarms Harry into robbing a Baltimore museum. Harry abandons Miranda and disappears. But no matter what name he uses or where he goes, LaPorte casts a shadow over Harry's life. To truly free himself, he must face down his enemy once and for all.
On this particular Monday, Stephanie Plum knows that something is amiss when she turns up for work at Vinnie’s Bail Bonds to find that longtime office manager Connie Rosolli, who is as reliable as the tides in Atlantic City, hasn’t shown up. Stephanie’s worst fears are confirmed when she gets a call from Connie’s abductor. He says he will only release her in exchange for a mysterious coin that a recently murdered man left as collateral for his bail. Unfortunately, this coin, which should be in the office—just like Connie—is nowhere to be found. The quest to discover the coin, learn its value, and save Connie will require the help of Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur, her best pal Lula, her boyfriend Morelli, and hunky security expert Ranger.
NYPD master homicide investigator Michael Bennett and top FBI abduction specialist Emily Parker have a history. When she fails to show at FBI headquarters in Washington, DC, Bennett risks venturing far outside his jurisdiction. A portrait begins to emerge of a woman as adept at keeping secrets as forging powerful connections. A woman whose enemies had both the means and the motives to silence the real Emily Parker--and her protectors.
Olivia McAfee never imagined that she and her son Asher would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in and taking over her father’s beekeeping business. When Lily Campanello and her mom relocate to Adams, New Hampshire, for her final year of high school, they both hope it will be a fresh start. Olivia and Lily's paths cross when Asher falls for the new girl in school, and Lily can’t help but fall for him, too. Then one day, Olivia receives a phone call: Lily is dead, and Asher is being questioned by the police. Olivia is adamant that her son is innocent but as the case against him unfolds, she realizes he’s hidden more than he’s shared with her.
Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide that appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge's face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out. Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count but the bodyguard presents additional conundrums. Decker must also contend with a new partner, Special Agent Frederica "Freddie" White, and a devastating event that brings Decker's own tragic past back to the present. Decker and White are inexorably pulled down a twisted tunnel of secrets at the end of which lies Decker's deadliest threat yet.
Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. But two months before she’s finally free, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her summer in Texas with a father she barely knows. Beyah has no time or patience for Samson, the wealthy, brooding guy next door but the connection between them is too intense to ignore. The two decide to maintain only a casual summer fling. Too bad neither has any idea that a rip current is about to drag both their hearts out to sea.
It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who’d conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide, and the police, including Eve Dallas, have crashed the party. Since the champagne cocktail that killed Brant was originally intended for Eliza, it’s possible she was the real target, with a recently fired assistant, a bitter rival, and an obsessed fan in the picture. All Eve wants is to figure out who’s truly innocent, and who’s only acting that way.
Every day Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. Then one morning Devine's tedious routine is shattered by an anonymous email: She is dead. Sara Ewes, Devine's coworker and former girlfriend, has been found hanging in a storage room of his office building, prompting the NYPD to come calling on him. Devine then receives a threat to reveal grim secrets from his past in the army unless he participates in a clandestine investigation into his firm. This treacherous role will take him to the darkest corners of the country's economic halls of power. And there's a killer out there with Devine as the bull's-eye.
When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her: 1) Never ask about the past; 2) Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.
In “Homecoming,” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is called upon to help old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton, who stole money from his clients, divorced his wife, filed for bankruptcy, and left his family in the middle of the night. Now Mack is back, but his homecoming does not go as planned. In “Strawberry Moon,” we meet Cody Wallace, a young death row inmate only three hours away from execution. As the clock winds down, Cody has one final request. The “Sparring Partners” are Kirk and Rusty Malloy, two successful young brothers who inherited a once prosperous firm. Kirk and Rusty loathe each other. As the firm disintegrates, does Diantha Bradshaw, the only person the partners trust, save the Malloys or does she try to save herself?
In Gerrardsville, Colorado, a woman dies under the wheels of a moving bus. Jack Reacher saw what really happened: A man in a gray hoodie and jeans, moving stealthily, pushed the victim to her demise—before swiftly grabbing the dead woman’s purse and strolling away. Reacher is unaware that these crimes are part of something much larger and more far-reaching: an arsonist out for revenge, a foster kid on the run, a cabal of powerful people involved in a secret conspiracy with many moving parts. But Reacher is relentless when it comes to making things right.
Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends, as well as Little League all-stars. But as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions. Keith’s father became a legendary prosecutor, determined to “clean up the Coast.” Hugh’s father became the “Boss” of Biloxi’s criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father’s footsteps. Hugh preferred the nightlife and worked in his father’s clubs. The two families were headed for a showdown, one that would happen in a courtroom.
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the great gentleman, Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's greatness, and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
On his first night with Detroit PD, Officer Walter O'Brien is called to a murder scene. A terrified twenty-year-old has bludgeoned her kidnapper with skill that shocks even O'Brien's veteran partner. The young woman is also a brilliant escape artist. Her bold flight from police custody makes the case impossible to solve--and, for Walter, even more impossible to forget. By the time Walter's promoted to detective, his fascination with the missing, gray-eyed woman is approaching obsession. And when Walter discovers that he's not alone in his search, one truth is certain. This deadly string of secrets didn't begin in his home city--but he's going to make sure it ends there.
A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders happen on rainy nights, but Ian knows the victims must have something in common beyond the weather. He turns to Miriam fford Croft, Daniel's good friend and now officially one of the first female pathologists in London, to tap her scientific know-how to find details he and Daniel have missed. With Miriam involved in the murder investigation, Ian passes Daniel the case of Nicholas Wolford, their former university professor. Charged with assault after reacting violently to an accusation of plagiarism, Wolford, a proud, boastful man, is loath to admit he was in the wrong as the murders continue with no clue as to who is committing themIs the "Rainy-day Slasher," as the newspapers have dubbed the killer, really just one person? Or have the investigators stumbled into a more complicated web of deceit?
Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe’s place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball. GPS coordinates etched into the eyeball lead to a Benedictine monastery where an equally macabre discovery awaits. Soon after, Tempe examines a mummified corpse in a state park, and her anxiety deepens.
There seems to be no pattern to the subsequent killings uncovered, except that each mimics in some way a homicide that a younger Tempe had been called in to analyze. Who or what is targeting her, and why?
Helping Tempe search for answers is detective Erskine “Skinny” Slidell, retired but still volunteering with the CMPD cold case unit—and still displaying his gallows humor. Also pulled into the mystery: Andrew Ryan, Tempe’s Montreal-based beau, now working as a private detective. Tempe is at a loss to establish the motive for what is going on…and then her daughter disappears.
THE GREAT GATSBY is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.