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Book DIAMONDS ARE FOR NOW  Cozy In The City Book 3

Download or read book DIAMONDS ARE FOR NOW Cozy In The City Book 3 written by Ruth Harris and published by Word International. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? A little bit sexy. A little bit Bond-y. When the world’s most famous writer of thrillers, Hoad Powell, vanishes on a heavily-guarded private island in the Caribbean with a glamorous woman wearing a diamond bracelet worth more than some countries, fashion-editor Blake and her handsome, sexy husband, ex-cop Ralph, must rescue him. But can they? Did the celebrity author disappear willingly? Or not? Is he a prisoner? Or is he an international arms dealer who sells nukes to terrorists, dictators, and rogue militias around the world? Will Blake and Ralph succeed in their quest? Or will they fail? And what will happen when oh-so-macho Ralph finds out that Blake is making more money than he does? Million-copy NYT and Amazon bestselling author. "Ruth Harris is one of the frankest, most stylish, and most compelling voices in contemporary fiction." —Chicago Sun-Times “Diamonds Are For Now is a sparkling read—an entertaining hunt for an elusive author and a missing manuscript. A carousel of colorful characters stake their careers on a future bestselling book that will lead to either fame and fortune or abject failure. Ruth Harris always writes with wit and sophistication." —Debbie Burke, author of the award-winning Tawny Lindholm series “With a blend of wit and charm, Ruth Harris is a modern-day Jane Austen.” —Reader Review

Book THE BIG SIX OH

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ruth Harris
  • Publisher : Word International
  • Release : 2021-06-20
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book THE BIG SIX OH written by Ruth Harris and published by Word International. This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Loved it! One ex-cop who doesn’t want help solving a murder. One current wife whose help he needs to catch the killer. One couple meant for each other who fall in love all over again after decades of marriage. Funny, exciting and very romantic.” —Verified Purchase Reader Review Blake Weston, is a smart, savvy, no BS former fashion editor. Her handsome, sexy husband, Ralph Marino, is a très James Bond ex-cop and head of security for an international media company. When Blake buys a faux Chanel bag from a sidewalk vendor, the danger starts—but doesn’t end—with a scary mugging in broad daylight. From there, it escalates to face-to-face encounters with a gun-toting jailbird, a lovelorn Afghan war lord, and a celeb chef in a red balconette bra. Meanwhile, Ralph is about to hit the Big Six Oh! and he’s not happy about it. Not that Blake is exactly thrilled. Especially now that she suspects Ralph might be cheating on her. Again. Just as Blake and Ralph are forced to work together by his über-neurotic boss to bring down a deadly global counterfeiting ring—and save Ralph’s job! “Funny and charming and a delight to read! Really yummy. It is a rare author who can bring to the page such vivid and believable characters with so much sly wit and style.” —Verified Purchase Reader Review “Perfect for those of us not looking for bubble gum chick lit. The relationship between savvy Blake Weston and her ex-cop husband Ralph Marino is realistic and down to earth. And yet the extraordinary circumstances they find themselves in kept me flipping the pages well past my allotted reading time. If you're looking for a wonderfully fast-paced read that will take your mind off whatever you're stressing about, Harris's The Big Six-Oh! will fit the bill.” —Verified Purchase Reader Review

Book THE RYDER DOSSIER

    Book Details:
  • Author : R.A. Harris
  • Publisher : Word International
  • Release : 2022-03-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book THE RYDER DOSSIER written by R.A. Harris and published by Word International. This book was released on 2022-03-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “POWERFUL! BRILLIANT! SEXY! Written by a pro who knows how to tell a story.” —Publisher's Weekly New 2022 edition. Expanded. Revised. Updated. When Dr. Gavin Ryder defies the medical establishment to create a revolutionary new treatment, he accepts a daunting challenge from a power-mad billionaire, and turns a depraved Royal Prince into a political powerhouse. Success brings Gavin the blessings of fame and fortune, and access to the closely-guarded secrets of high government officials — until he finds himself trapped in a web of interlocking conspiracies that extend from the White House to the savage docks of Izmir. Forced to risk everything to save his own life, Gavin must trust the beautiful, rich and powerful woman he loved — and betrayed — even as he attracts the attention of an elite CIA kill team. Set in the turbulent 1960's, The Ryder Dossier takes place in New York and Washington, a modest fishing village on the Turkish Riviera, an opera house in Vienna, a potentate's palace on a private island in the Mediterranean, and aboard Lydia, the world's most beautiful yacht. “One of the best books I've ever read! If I could give it 10 stars, I would. It's that good!!!” —Amazon review “Sex, greed, ambition and murder — what's not to like? Great!” —Mark Chisnell, author of The Defector Also by NYT bestselling author R.A. Harris: MK-ULTRA, A CIA Cold War Thriller, is based on real-life psychiatric experiments conducted by the CIA in American and Canadian universities. “Delivers the goods: thrills, suspense, terror! I dare you to put it down!" --Bob Mayer, bestselling author of AREA 51

Book Code Name  MK Ultra

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. A. Harris
  • Publisher : Word International
  • Release : 2022-04-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Code Name MK Ultra written by R. A. Harris and published by Word International. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “POWERFUL! BRILLIANT! SEXY! Written by pros who know how to tell a story.” —Publisher's Weekly Zeb Marlowe, the physically scarred and psychologically maimed survivor of a top secret CIA mind-control experiment, has begun to remake his life when Jai Jai Leland, the beautiful widow of a man who didn't survive, asks him to help her solve the mystery behind her husband's shocking death. Marlowe, struggling to resist his attraction to Jai Jai, is pulled into her dangerous quest despite himself. Together they search for rogue psychiatrist, Dr. Victor Ressid, creator of the diabolical experiments that ravaged Marlowe’s mind and turned ordinary, decent people into terrorists. Meanwhile, stripped of his medical credentials and in thrall to perverse erotic desires, Ressid is consumed by fantasies of revenge against Marlowe, the only subject to defy him. Against an ominous background of escalating global terrorism, Marlowe and Jai Jai must risk their lives to stop a nuclear threat that will destroy the security of the entire world even as they wonder if Marlowe, too, has been turned into a suicide bomber. International in scope, Codename: MK Ultra takes place on the beautiful islands of the Caribbean, in Damascus and Dublin, in the Philippines, Washington, DC, and in an underground torture chamber located on Victor Ressid's secluded private estate located near the Mexico-Belize border. Codename: MK Ultra is based on illegal real-life psychiatric experiments conducted on human subjects by the CIA in American and Canadian universities. “Thrills! Suspense! Terror! I dare you to put it down.” —Bob Mayer, bestselling author

Book DECADES  Park Avenue Series Book  1

Download or read book DECADES Park Avenue Series Book 1 written by Ruth Harris and published by Word International. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New! Revised Author's Edition. “The songs we sang, the clothes we wore, the way we made love. Absolutely perfect!” —Publisher’s Weekly Spanning the years from the optimistic post-War 1940s to the Mad Men 1950s and rebellious “Make Love, Not War” 1960s, DECADES is about three generations of women and the dynamic but flawed man they all loved. Evelyn, talented but insecure, faithful to the traditional values she grew up with, is a loyal and loving wife whose marriage means everything to her. Nick, handsome and ambitious, a chameleon who changes with the changing times, is her successful but restless husband. Joy, their daughter, coming of age at a time of anger and rebellion, needs them both but is torn between them. Barbara is the other woman. Younger than Evelyn, accomplished but alone, she wonders if she can have everything--including another woman's husband. But can she? Is she willing to pay the price? And how will Evelyn handle her rebellious daughter, her straying husband and the threat to her marriage? Sweeping in scope yet intimate in detail, DECADES is the emotional, compelling story of family and marriage, betrayal and healing. DECADES REVIEWS: “A brilliant book. Three generations of women are succinctly capsuled in this novel by a writer who has all the intellect of Mary McCarthy, all the insight of Joan Didion. Rarely have attitudes been so probingly examined—tough, trenchant, chic and ultra-sophisticated, Ms. Harris recreates the decades in which her heroines lived, from zoot suits and Sammy Kaye, through Eisenhower, Elvis and poodle-cut hairdos to moon walks, Mick Jagger and micro-minis. Readers will be entertained and few will be able to forget what Decades has to say about men and women and the games people play.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram “A terrific novel about a singular single girl.” —Cosmopolitan “Ruth Harris has re-created both the style and substance of three decades of American life—from the bobby socks and innocence of the Forties, to the crinolines and caution of the Fifties, to the bra-less T-shirts and alienation of the Sixties.” —Book-of-the-Month Club “Powerful. A gripping novel that depicts the lives and loves of three generations of women.” —Women Today Book Club “I read Decades straight through at one sitting and the more I think about that, the more impressive the novel seems.” —Houston Post DECADES, Book #3 in the Park Avenue Series, was originally published in hard cover by Simon & Schuster. All 5 books in the Park Avenue Series are all available on GooglePlay. Love And Money (Book #1)—Rich girl, poor girl. Sisters and strangers until murder—and the handsome, brilliant man they both love—bring them face to face. “Richly plotted. First-class entertainment.” —NY Times "Fast-paced, superior fiction. A terrifically satisfying 'good read.'" —Fort Lauderdale News Sun-Sentinel https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=6TD3AgAAQBAJ Husbands And Lovers, Book #2 in the Park Avenue Series. Million copy NYT bestseller! Winner, Best Contemporary, Romantic Times! The story of a shy wallflower who turns herself into a lovely and desirable woman and the two handsome, successful men who compete for her love. "Steamy and fast-paced." --Cosmopolitan https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ruth_Harris_Husbands_And_Lovers_Park_Avenue_Series?id=-DX3AgAAQBAJ Modern Women (Book # 4)--Million-copy NYT bestseller! Three likable, dynamic women--and the men in their lives. The right men. The wrong men. The maybe men. "Funny, sad, vivid, and raunchy. Harris seeks to enliven and entertain, and she does it in spades." --The Cleveland Plain-Dealer "Ruth Harris's rapier wit spices up a superb 'rags to riches' novel. You'll love Modern Women." --West Coast Review of Books "Sharp and stylishly written." --Chicago Sun-Times https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=oHH4AgAAQBAJ The Last Romantics (Book # 5)--A sweeping love story set in Paris and New York during the champagne-fizzed Jazz Age of the 1920's. He is dashing, handsome and celebrated but dangerously flawed. She is a gifted fashion designer who has the world at her feet. She is beautiful, charming, lonely, haunted."I love it, I love it! Fantastic, immensely readable." --Cosmopolitan "Gloriously romantic" --Kirkus https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ruth_Harris_The_Last_Romantics_Park_Avenue_Series?id=lav4AgAAQBAJ Keywords: womens fiction, womens literary fiction, literature & fiction, Historical Women's Fiction NYC, Historical fiction, Historical fiction 20th Century, upmarket women’s fiction, romance, marriage, divorce, wife, divorced woman, single woman, single mom, millionaire, publishing, cheating husband, New York, NYC, divorced parents, 1960s, 1940s, 1950s, WW II, sexual revolution, New York City, Nantucket island

Book The Smart Set

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Jean Nathan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 880 pages

Download or read book The Smart Set written by George Jean Nathan and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Mechanics

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1914-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Book Playing the Field

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer Seasons
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2013-07-23
  • ISBN : 0062271466
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Playing the Field written by Jennifer Seasons and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sexy baseball players of Jennifer Seasons' Diamonds and Dugouts series are back with the story of a single mom, a hot rookie, and a second chance at love. Single mother Sonny Miller has spent years avoiding love. A rotten childhood and an even rottener ex-boyfriend left her determined to protect her son—and herself—against the risks of romance. That is, until hotshot ballplayer JP Trudeau swaggers into her carefully constructed life, all sin-with-me eyes and irresistible grin. Sonny can’t help but feel drawn to the sexy, confident man, even as every fiber of her being tells her to keep running the bases . . . JP is known for being fast on his feet, not fast with his heart. But meeting Sonny and her boy sparks something in him—something he’s never felt before, not from all the cleat- chasers in the major leagues. Sonny may be hell-bent on keeping him at arm’s length no matter what, but this rookie has a plan. To get the girl, he must step up to the plate and convince her to take another chance on love . . . before this game gets rained out.

Book The Diamond of Darkhold

Download or read book The Diamond of Darkhold written by Jeanne DuPrau and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern-day classic. This highly acclaimed adventure series about two friends desperate to save their doomed city has captivated kids and teachers alike for almost fifteen years and has sold over 3.5 MILLION copies! Lina and Doon escaped the dying city of Ember and led their people to the town of Sparks. But they soon discover that winter is harsh aboveground. When Doon finds a book with torn pages that hints at a mysterious device from the Builders, it doesn’t take much for him to convince Lina to join him for one last adventure in the city of Ember. But what—and who—will they find when they return? Praise for the City of Ember books: Nominated to 28 State Award Lists! An American Library Association Notable Children’s Book A New York Public Library 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing Selection A Kirkus Reviews Editors’ Choice A Child Magazine Best Children’s Book A Mark Twain Award Winner A William Allen White Children’s Book Award Winner “A realistic post-apocalyptic world. DuPrau’s book leaves Doon and Lina on the verge of undiscovered country and readers wanting more.” —USA Today “An electric debut.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred “While Ember is colorless and dark, the book itself is rich with description.” —VOYA, Starred “A harrowing journey into the unknown, and cryptic messages for readers to decipher.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred

Book The Popular Science Monthly

Download or read book The Popular Science Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Price of Compassion

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  • Author : A.B. Michaels
  • Publisher : Red Trumpet Press
  • Release : 2018-08-27
  • ISBN : 0997520116
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book The Price of Compassion written by A.B. Michaels and published by Red Trumpet Press. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2020 INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD WINNER - Distinguished Favorite in Historical Fiction "This excellent story, with well-researched historical detail, is a profile of resilience in the face of vast tragedy." Publisher's Weekly "A well-thought-out legal drama, full of intrigue and duplicity." Kirkus Reviews The Golden City is in peril…and so is Tom Justice. 1907: Former surgeon Tom Justice sits in a San Francisco jail on murder charges. The attorney hired to defend him is perplexed: the doctor hasn’t confessed to the crime—if there even was a crime—but why won’t he declare his innocence? The reasons are complex, reaching back to Tom’s youth and influencing the decisions he makes about his career, friends, and loved ones. In one soul-defining moment, he makes a choice that will change his life forever. An absorbing tale of medicine and morality in turn of the twentieth century America, The Price of Compassion is Book Four in A.B. Michaels’ historical fiction series “The Golden City.” Other titles in the series include The Art of Love, The Depth of Beauty, The Promise, Josephine's Daughter and The Madness of Mrs. Whittaker. All titles in this series are stand-alone reads. For more information, please visit the author's website.

Book Popular Science Monthly and World s Advance

Download or read book Popular Science Monthly and World s Advance written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Modern Women  Park Avenue Series  Book  4

Download or read book Modern Women Park Avenue Series Book 4 written by Ruth Harris and published by Word International. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Million-copy NYT bestseller! "Fiction at its best!" —New Woman magazine “Bestsellers like Decades, Husbands And Lovers and Love And Money have established Ruth Harris as one of the frankest, most stylish, and most compelling voices in contemporary fiction." —Chicago Sun-Times Meet three modern women—and the men in their lives. Jane Gresch: Her delicious revenge on her lying, cheating, thieving ex makes her rich and famous, but then what?? Lincky Desmond: Smart, beautiful and hard working, she marries Mr. Right—but risks it all for Mr. Oh-so-wrong. Elly McGrath: When her husband dumps her for another, younger woman, she doesn’t get mad. She gets even. Owen Casals: He is handsome, horny, and magnetic. Everyone knows it—and so does he. "Funny, sad, vivid, and raunchy. Harris seeks to enliven and entertain, and she does it in spades." —Cleveland Plain-Dealer “Glory be! Excellent. This is the story of today’s women.” —Los Angeles Times Ruth Harris is “brilliant, trenchant, chic and ultra-sophisticated, a writer who has all the intellect of Mary McCarthy, all the insight of Joan Didion.” —Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Excellent! Thoroughly delightful!" —Los Angeles Times "Author Ruth Harris' rapier wit spices up a coming-of-age-in-the-sexist-'60s story. Funny, sad, vivid, and more than raunchy enough to satisfy the most ribald appetites. Harris seeks to enliven and entertain, and she does it in spades." —Cleveland Plain-Dealer "Ruth Harris has written a superb 'rags to riches' story. Harris creates characters that are alive and familiar. These three women, Lincky, Jane and Elly, are like old friends, women we've all known. Their experiences, hopes and fears are universal and, yet, like most modern women they, too, wonder if they will find the right man and or how to get rid of the wrong one. Each in their own way finds success at the top and a successful relationship. You'll love MODERN WOMEN." —West Coast Review of Books “Bestsellers like Decades, Husbands And Lovers and Love And Money have established Ruth Harris as one of the frankest, most stylish, and most compelling voices in contemporary fiction." —Chicago Sun-Times MODERN WOMEN was originally published in hard cover and paperback by St. Martin's Press. All five books in the Park Avenue Series are available as GooglePlay ebooks. Decades (Book # 1)--The compelling story of a marriage at risk, a family in crisis and a woman on the brink set against the tumultuous decades of the mid-twentieth century. "Absolutely perfect." --Publisher's Weekly "Terrific!" --Cosmopolitan "Powerful. A gripping novel." --Women Today Book Club https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ruth_Harris_DECADES_Park_Avenue_Series_Book_1?id=iMfHBAAAQBAJ Husbands And Lovers (Book # 2)--Million copy NYT bestseller! Winner, Best Contemporary, Romantic Times! The story of a wallflower who turns herself into a lovely and desirable woman and the two handsome, successful men who compete for her love. "Steamy and fast-paced." --Cosmopolitan https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Ruth_Harris_Husbands_And_Lovers_Park_Avenue_Series?id=-DX3AgAAQBAJ Love And Money (Book #3)--#1 on Amazon's Movers and Shakers. Rich girl, poor girl. Sisters and strangers until the handsome, mysterious man they both love--and murder—bring them face to face. "Richly plotted. First-class entertainment." --NY Times "Fast-paced, superior fiction. A terrifically satisfying 'good read.'" --Fort Lauderdale News Sun-Sentinel https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=6TD3AgAAQBAJ The Last Romantics (Book # 5)--A sweeping love story set in Paris and New York during the glamorous Jazz Age of the 1920's. He is dashing, handsome and celebrated but dangerously flawed. She is a gifted fashion designer who has the world at her feet. She is beautiful, charming, lonely, haunted by a desperate secret. "I love it, I love it! Fantastic, immensely readable." --Cosmopolitan "Gloriously romantic." --Kirkus https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=oHH4AgAAQBAJ Keywords, Series Keywords: Historical fiction, women's fiction, single woman, funny, humor, hilarious, sexy, bestseller, cheating boy friend, marriage, divorce, JFK, assassination, sex, women, marriage, divorce, Texas, New York, publishing, career woman, wife, journalist, author, affair, 20th Century

Book Popular Science

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1920-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.

Book Collier s Once a Week

Download or read book Collier s Once a Week written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book BED  BREAKFAST  and BONES

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  • Author : Carolyn L. Dean
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-07-28
  • ISBN : 9781947383005
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book BED BREAKFAST and BONES written by Carolyn L. Dean and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amanda Graham inherited a rundown bed and breakfast, a starving cat, and some dead guy who's buried in her garden!What should've been a simple remodeling project and a new business in a small Oregon beach town winds up with her uncle named as the number one murder suspect, a slew of odd neighbors and problematic townspeople, and Amanda wanting to just sit down and eat her weight in chocolate pie.Sure, she could pack her bags and travel back to LA?or should she dig in, heal from her failed romance, and find a whole new set of friends and adventures in Ravenwood Cove?And how could a quiet little coastal village have so many secrets?Includes the free recipe for Amanda's (and the author's) favorite cinnamon rolls. First novel in the Ravenwood Cove ebook series. Mild PG rating (because hey, there's a dead guy in it).

Book Black Diamond

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Walker
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-08-30
  • ISBN : 030770145X
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book Black Diamond written by Martin Walker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third installment in thed elightful, internationally acclaimed series featuring Chief of Police Bruno. Something dangerous is afoot in St. Denis. In the space of a few weeks, the normally sleepy village sees attacks on Vietnamese vendors, arson at a local Asian restaurant, subpar truffles from China smuggled into outgoing shipments at a nearby market—all of it threatening the Dordogne’s truffle trade, worth millions of dollars each year, and all of it spelling trouble for Benoît “Bruno” Courrèges, master chef, devoted oenophile, and, most important, beloved chief of police. When one of his hunting partners, a noted truffle expert, is murdered, Bruno’s investigation into the murky events unfolding around St. Denis becomes infinitely more complicated. His friend wasn’t just a connoisseur of French delicacies, he was a former high-profile intelligence agent—and someone wanted him dead. As the strange crimes continue, Bruno’s detective work takes him from sunlit markets to dim cafés, from luxurious feasts to tense negotiations—from all of the paradisial pleasures of the region to its shadowy underworld—and reunites him with a lost love, an ambitious policewoman also assigned to the case. Filled with an abundance of food and wine (including, bien sûr, many, many truffles) and a soupçon of romance, Black Diamond is a deliciously entertaining concoction that delivers all the complexity and delights of the Dordogne itself.