DescriptionSpring 1945. As work on the first atomic bomb nears completion on a remote mesa in New Mexico, Karl Bruner, a Manhattan Project security officer, is found murdered in nearby Santa Fe. Is Bruner the victim of a violent sexual encounter, as the local police…
DescriptionWhen a routine traffic stop in Monterey, California erupts into a scene of horrific violence, the stunned local police are left with a disemboweled strawberry blond victim and an ingenious killer with multiple alternating personalities. FBI Special Agent…
DescriptionThe best selling author of Body of Lies, Iris Johansen raises the stakes and the heart rate with this relentless new thriller that follows the harrowing trail of a ruthless killer on the hunt - and the woman who is determined to hunt him down. He is the…
DescriptionHarry Stanford, one of the world's wealthiest man, dies mysteriously while cruising his yacht along the rugged coast of Corsica. Immediately following Stanford's funeral in Boston, a lovely young woman identifies herself as the tycoon's daughter and heir to a share of his estate. When the well-respected Stanford family looks into the identity of the unexpected heiress, they uncover a world of blackmail, drugs, and murder that leads them through the Italian Riviera, the fashion salons of Paris and New York, and the social register of Florida's Hobe Sound. Actor David Ackroyd narrates Sidney Sheldon's masterful series of events that lead to an explosive and surprise ending.
DescriptionHarry Benson suffers from violent seizures - so violent that he requires a police guard when entering a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. Dr. Roger MacPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson through a procedure known as a stage three. During this highly specialized surgery, electrodes, placed deep in Benson's brain, send monitored soothing pulses to its pleasure canyons. The operation is a success - until Benson discovers how to get the pulses with increasing frequency. Then he escapes from the hospital and lapses into murderous rampages, becoming a homicidal maniac with a deadly agenda...
DescriptionIn the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with its neighbor and nemesis, France, and espionage is rampant. It is the job of Jonathan Absey at the Home Office to catch these spies, but his mind is elsewhere, his dre…
DescriptionWhen Goldy Schulz is offered a stint hosting a cooking show for PBS, she jumps at the chance. Her catering business is failing, and the publicity will help her get back on track. And the show is taped at Colorado's posh Killdeer Ski Resort. Life is great, right? Wrong. First, she has to drive through a blizzard to a live PBS telethon. Then, Doug Portman, her ex-boyfriend and new owner of her husband's treasured war memorabilia is killed in a bizarre skiing accident, and she finds the body. As the plot thickens, more questions than answers arise. Was the accident foul play? Was Doug connected to ex-cons? When a series of mishaps places Goldy's life in danger, she knows she must whip up her own crime-solving recipe before a hearty dose of intrigue and a deadly dash of danger ends her cooking career once and for all.
DescriptionAward-winning mystery author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse of Inspector Thomas Lynley, his friend forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde, as well as a masterfully crafted whodunit, in this suspenseful recording of h…
DescriptionLate one night Victor Carl gets a panicked phone call from an old law school classmate. Guy Forrest claims he has just found the body of his fiance lying murdered in the house they shared. The victim is Hailey Prouix, for whose love Guy had abandoned his…
