Download or read book Hotshot P I written by B. J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the second time in her life Clancy Jones had awakened at a murderscene—this time with the murder weapon in her hand. To the untrainedeye, she looked mighty guilty. But to private investigator JakeHawkins, she still looked good. Desire for Clancy had always burned inside Jake; so had anger. Ten years ago Clancy sleepwalked ontoanother crime scene and her testimony had put Jake's father behindbars. Now Jake didn't know if he wanted to prove his seductiveclient's innocence—or guilt. Previously published.

Download or read book Picture Me Dead Hotshot P I written by Heather Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN ARRESTING AFFAIR Ashley Montague is nearing the end of her police training—but nothing has prepared her for the shocking discovery of a body on the highway. When she links the body to Detective Jake Dilessio’s case, they are forced to work together to find the killer. The body discovered has marks identical to the victims of a cult leader Jake put behind bars five years ago. Is this a copycat killing, or have Jake’s deepest fears been realized? Is the wrong man behind bars and the real killer still on the loose? The last thing Jake needs is the electric pull of desire as he and Ashley are dragged deeper into a world of corruption, greed and murder. Now, with time running out and their lives on the line, they have everything to fight for…and everything to lose. FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME! Hotshot P.I. by New York Times bestselling author B.J. Daniels When Clancy Jones awakens at a murder scene—with the bloodied weapon in her hand—to the untrained eye, she looks mighty guilty. But to private investigator Jake Hawkins, she still looks as good as she did ten years ago. Previously published.

Download or read book Louisiana Hotshot written by Julie Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talba Wallis--African American poet, leader of New Orleans' café society, and fledgling private detective--is hired by veteran sleuth Eddie Valentino to find a dangerous lothario who seduces teenage black girls who then mysteriously vanish.

Download or read book The Paternity Promise written by Merline Lovelace and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You're the father." After leaving her late cousin's baby on the Dalton doorstep, Grace Templeton poses as a nanny to discover which of the billionaire twins is the father. Grace promised to protect the child, but she didn't plan to fall for the seductive brother she learns is the daddy. For single dad Blake, there's only one priority—protecting his daughter from whatever secrets Grace won't reveal. He'll get the truth from her—any way he can. And until she talks, he'll keep the temptress at his side all day…all night. Not as the nanny, but as his wife!

Download or read book Vineland written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quite simply, one of those books that will make this world - our world, our daily chemical-preservative, plastic-wrapped bread - a little more tolerable, a little more human." - Frank McConnell, Los Angeles Times Book Review “Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 . . .” On California’s fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the “Nixonian Reaction,” still struggling with the consequences of their past lives. Aging hippie freak Zoyd Wheeler is revving up for his annual act of televised insanity when news reaches that his old nemesis, sinister federal agent Brock Vond, has come storming into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed Justice Department strike force. Zoyd instantly disappears underground, but not before dispatching his teenage daughter Prairie on a dark odyssey into her secret, unspeakable past. . . . Freely combining disparate elements from American popular culture—spy thrillers, ninja potboilers, TV soap operas, sci-fi fantasies—Vineland emerges as what Salman Rushdie has called in The New York Times Book Review “that rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years.”

Download or read book This Storm written by James Ellroy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. There's a murderous fire and a gold heist. There's Fifth Column treason on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, Commies, and race racketeers. It's populism ascendant. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with history. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A. '42. Homefront madness. Wartime inferno--This Storm is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes. It is a masterpiece.

Download or read book The Wrong Man written by David Ellis and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jason Kolarich accepts the case of a homeless Iraq War veteran accused of murdering a young paralegal, his course seems clear: to mount an insanity defense for a man suffering so badly from post-traumatic stress disorder that he has no real memory of the crime. But as Kolarich digs deeper, he realizes that, unlikely as it seems, his client is probably innocent. Only days before her death, the murdered paralegal had stumbled onto something she wasn't supposed to know ... information that someone would kill to keep secret. Her murder was no random crime but a targeted hit, and the wrong man was charged. As Jason Kolarich races to discover the truth in time to save his client, he finds himself embroiled in a mystery involving the Mob, a mysterious assassin known only as "Gin Rummy," and a conspiracy of wealthy international terrorists with explosive plans for his city. With thousands of lives at stake, Kolarich has more on the line than ever before ... and time is running out.

Download or read book The Agent s Secret Child written by B. J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman missing and believed dead is reunited with the father of her child in this romantic suspense from a New York Times–bestselling author. The mission: find mother and child. Finding Isabella Montenegro and her young daughter and bringing them back to testify should have been easy. But one look at Isabella and Texas Confidential Agent Jake Cantrell remembered a woman he’d cherished . . . a woman who’d died. And one look at the child—and he saw himself in her eyes. . . . Until she’d met Jake Cantrell, Isabella’s past had been a blank. Now fragmented memories began to assault her. Who was she? If Jake had fathered her child, then her entire life was a lie. Now that false life and the life of her daughter were at stake—and there was only Jake to trust.

Download or read book Wedlocked written by Pamela Toth and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE DECEPTION Years ago steely attorney Cole Cassidy had been forced to give up the only woman he'd ever loved—Annie Jones. Now she was his last hope; he desperately needed Annie to play his beloved wife. Shockingly, she agreed to the masquerade—but why? Did the sultry beauty yearn to reignite their long-ago love? Or was the invitation in her eyes a ploy to destroy Cole in the name of sweet revenge? Cole vowed that he would not lose Annie again. This undercover bride would be his for real...wedlocked in desire forever!

Download or read book When Twilight Comes written by B. J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He'd waited for this day--this woman--for forever it seemed. Harry Ballantine had been a prisoner of Fernhaven forest and now he found the key to his salvation in Jenna Dante. But would she surrender to him before she left the hidden hamlet? With an angry ex on her tail and rain pouring, the last thing Jenna Dante needed was car trouble and a cranky child. Her only option was to seek refuge in the desolate hotel on the hill in Fernhaven. But the restored walls seemed to hold more than memories. For Jenna they vibrated with life and an all-male seduction she could only see and feel in her mind. But when danger came to call, she would need flesh-and-blood protection--and maybe something more lethal...like transcending love.

Download or read book Mountain Sheriff written by B. J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A small town cop’s heart is on the line when the woman he loves from afar is in danger in this romantic suspense from a New York Times–bestselling author. Trouble always accompanied the rainy season. Rain and isolation could make folks crazy in these parts. Sheriff Mitch Tanner—the most eligible bachelor in the county—would have his hands full for sure. Bigfoot sightings and sundry strange happenings he could handle . . . but he wasn’t prepared for murder. With a killer on the loose, he’d have to keep a tight grip on the investigation and a close eye on the mounting list of suspects. Unfortunately, the person causing the most trouble to his male senses was none other than the town’s biggest gossip and the one woman he’d do anything to avoid: Charity Jenkins. Sure enough, she’d whittled away at his confirmed-single status with her annoying questions and all-American-girl good looks and had him thinking about something more permanent . . . Except a killer had other plans for Charity.

Download or read book The Dying Game written by Beverly Barton and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play To Win. . . It's the ultimate game--the adrenaline surge of the hunt, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat. For in this game, the rules are simple: To win, you only have to kill. To lose, you will have to die. . . Play To Scream. . . The victims are former beauty queens found with a single rose beside their bodies. Lindsay McAllister has seen this signature before, when she was a rookie detective with the Chattanooga PD investigating the death of Judd Walker's wife, a murder that sent the handsome lawyer off the deep end. Now, Lindsay has the brutal task of telling Judd that his wife's killer has struck again, and she's going to need his help to outplay their opponent--because the killer is getting bolder, faster, and more ruthless. The game is escalating, and no one is safe. Play To Die. . . Now as the body count rises, the rules are changing. A killer will do anything to win. And the only way for Lindsay to stop a madman's twisted game is to play it herself. . .

Download or read book Mad Maudlin written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary ¾and Quite Deadly . . . Eric Banyon, better known as Bedlam's Bard, is finally about to graduate from Julliard and enter the Real World and so, with the help of a psychiatrist who specializes in the problems of magicians, he's finally coming to terms with his past. But a spur-of-the-moment trip home to Boston to visit his parents brings him more trouble than even Eric thought possible. Meanwhile, his Bardic apprentice Hosea has discovered that the young homeless children in New York's shelters have created a bizarre mythology about a demon called Bloody Mary who preys on young children¾and somehow Bloody Mary has taken on an independent life and now stalks the streets of the city. And for some reason, she's after Eric as well. . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for the Bedlam's Bard Series: "[Spirits White as Lightning is] fast, furious, and completely absorbing . . . make no mistake, this is a good series." ¾Booklist "Lively and original, rich in clever ideas . . . Lackey is one of the best storytellers in the field, and this is among her best." ¾Locus "This is a fast-paced, suspenseful, action-packed page turner." ¾VOYA "[Lackey] shows a sure touch with the wonder and adventure that characterize the best fantasy writers." ¾Romantic Times

Download or read book Secret Weapon Spouse written by B. J. Daniels and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By day, quiet and reserved Samantha Peters worked for a high-endwedding planner. By night she was a top-notch agent with Miami Confidential. Then she met sexy Alex Graham after tragedy struck outsidethe Weddings Your Way salon, and Samantha had trouble keeping her twolives separate. Being with Alex brought out Samantha's protectiveinstincts—and the wild side she tried so hard to keephidden—when she and Alex became the targets of a dangerousenemy. Samantha had to remain focused, or jeopardize the work and theteam. After all, forming attachments to victims was wrong…even ifbeing with Alex felt so right….

Download or read book Heart s Desire written by Jayne Ann Krentz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents three short love stories by romance authors Jayne Ann Krentz, Linda Howard, and Linda Lael Miller.

Download or read book Of Blood and Sorrow written by Valerie Wilson Wesley and published by One World. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valerie Wilson Wesley’s private investigator, Tamara Hayle, whom the Houston Chronicle calls “smart, sexy, tough but tender,” has earned enthusiastic acclaim from reviewers and readers alike. Now Newark, New Jersey’s savviest detective confronts the one case she never saw coming–and discovers how ties that bind can easily become a noose. Tamara Hayle can’t believe that her life is this good. New York’s most powerful businessman wants her to work for him, her new lover seems caring and supportive, and her son, Jamal, is thriving. But as Tamara sardonically observes, “When things stir that easy, there’s always something lumpy at the bottom of the pot.” Enter Lilah Love, an old acquaintance who begs Tamara to find her missing child. Tamara, however, is wary of Lilah, who attracts mayhem and murder like an alley cat attracts fleas. Next up is Basil Dupre, Tamara’s outlaw ex-lover, who always brings passion–and chaos–when he strolls into Tamara’s life. Suddenly Tamara’s safe world isn’t so secure, especially when Jamal witnesses a brutal murder and becomes the prime suspect. As the body count rises, Tamara and Jamal will follow a long-forgotten secret into a terrifying confrontation with love gone bad, trust turned lethal, and a past hungry to claim more lives.

Download or read book Robert B Parker s Little White Lies written by Ace Atkins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man’s trail of smoke and mirrors in this thrilling entry in Robert B. Parker’s long-running series. Connie Kelly thought she’d found her perfect man on an online dating site. She fell so hard for handsome, mysterious M. Brooks Welles that she wrote him a check for almost three hundred thousand dollars, hoping for a big return on her investment. But within weeks, both Welles and her money are gone. Her therapist, Dr. Susan Silverman, hands her Spenser’s card... A self-proclaimed military hotshot, Welles had been a frequent guest on national news shows speaking with authority about politics and world events. When he disappears, he leaves not only a jilted lover but a growing list of angry investors, duped cops, and a team of paramilitary contractors looking for revenge. Enter Spenser, who quickly discovers that Welles’ name, résumé, and client list are nothing but an elaborate fraud. As he follows the mystery man’s trail from Boston to backroads Georgia, Spenser will need help from trusted allies Hawk and Teddy Sapp to make sure Welles’s next con is his last.