DescriptionBombs are exploding in the streets of London, but life seems to have planted more subtle booby-traps for Miles Flint. Miles is a spy. His job is to watch and to listen, then to report back to his superiors - nothing more. The job, affording glimpses into the most private lives of his victims, appeals to Miles. He doesn't lust after promotion, and he doesn't want action. He wants, just for once, not to botch a case. Having lost one suspect, with horrific consequences, Miles becomes too involved with another, a young Irishwoman. His marriage seems ready to crumble. So does his home. But Miles is given one last chance for redemption: a trip to Belfast, which quickly becomes a flight of terror, murder, and shocking discoveries. Can the voyeur survive in a world of violent action?
DescriptionFor businessman Hugh Wellesley, the violent waking nightmare begins with the sparse report in the morning newspaper: a woman's body recovered from the River Dart in Devon...identified as that of Sylvie Mathieson...the corpse was stabbed and bound. Should he admit that she had once been his lover? Or let others discover the truth for themselves? Sylvie had always been exotic, unconventional, alluring. Now, with her death, comes an unexpected betrayal - as another truth emerges that will take even Hugh by surprise.
DescriptionTwo minutes can be a lifetime. But break the two minute rule and it's a lifetime in jail. Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two minute rule and they'll tell you that's as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up. But n…
DescriptionA writer-at-large for the Dallas Morning News, Howard Swindle has been nominated for an Edgar Award and received national attention for his first novel, Jitter Joint . Swindle's flair for edgy suspense is sharply defined in this successor, which challenges Dallas homicide detective Jeb Quinlin with a perplexing and far-reaching case. Newspaper reporter Richard Carlisle is not liked or admired by his colleagues. When his body is discovered by the side of a road, no one sheds any tears. What the autopsy report reveals, however, catches Detective Quinlin's attention. Instead of a bullet or knife, the unlucky reporter was murdered by an injection of snake venom. What was the young man investigating? And who used such a bizarre method to silence him? Pulling together the evidence, Quinlin soon finds himself pitted against one of the most powerful and dangerous families in Texas.
DescriptionKenneth Ewald has what it takes to win the presidency: the support of his party, a lovely wife, a dynamic campaign. What neither he nor any candidate needs is a corpse. Ewald knows only one man capable of solving a crime, clearing his son, putting his campaign back on track and catching a killer: his best friend Mac Smith. Oddly enough, it was Mac and his dog Rufus who found the body in the first place.
DescriptionRune seems to have finally made the first real step towards her dreams: she has secured a job working for a major network news department. From there, her career as a budding documentary maker can really take off. However, nothing in Rune's life is ever that simple. She quickly becomes fascinated by the brutal murder of the network boss, and just as swiftly comes to the conclusion that the guy in the frame for the crime must be innocent - despite the mountain of evidence against him. But trying to prove his innocence becomes hazardous to her health when a hitman comes to town with her name on a contract. Fulls of twists and turns, and with a incredibly engaging central character, this is classic Deaver.
DescriptionAfter nine tense months on the road, Maxie McNabb longs for her little house in Homer, Alaska. The 60-something RVer wants nothing more than to breathe the briny air of Kachemak Bay and relax on her deck, sipping whiskey and enjoying the company of her mi…
DescriptionPaul Wood was just a tourist in battle-scarred Sarajevo when an unexpected encounter changed his life. Now he is a desperate woman?s only hope of escape, but to get her to safety he must find a way through the minefield of warlords, criminals, and peacekeepers that is postwar Bosnia. Unable to leave the country legally, he agrees to do a job for a shadowy group of human traffickers, in exchange for safe passage. The job seems harmless, but its repercussions will propel him on a perilous journey from lawless Albania, through the jungles of Latin America, to an explosive confrontation at a festival in the Nevada desert.
DescriptionFBI agent Smoky Barrett is no stranger to the darker recesses of the human mind. But nothing could have prepared her for the day she had to watch her husband and daughter die at the hands of a serial killer. She bears the scars, mental and physical. Most people would run - from work, from life, from everything associated with the pain of a shattered existence. But Smoky doesn't know how to run, and when the job that has defined her life comes calling once again with the news that her best friend from school has been brutally murdered, she finds herself back in the firing line, chasing a hidden killer who will stop at nothing to confront her - face to face.
DescriptionDedicated to her profession, DI Joanna Piercy has built her imposing reputation on thorough investigative police work. However, the job that once excited and intrigued her has now fallen into a familiar pattern of form filling and snide office banter. D…
