The Face of a Stranger
Anne Perry (Auteur)
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TO SAVE HERSELF GENEALOGIST TORIE O'SHEA MUST UNRAVEL AN EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY-AND UNMASK A KILLER...Most people would think historian Torie O'Shea is a very lucky person to be the sole inheritor of a sprawling estate belonging to her great grandmother's old friend, Clarissa Hart. So why then is Torie far from happy when she hears the news? For starters, she had never met the woman and can't understand why the centenarian wanted to leave her property to a stranger. Secondly, the shabby, run-down boardinghouse is far from glamorous, with panthers roaming the acreage and a long-held superstition that it's cursed, bringing bad luck to whoever owns it...Summoned by ailing, one-hundred-and-one-year-old Clarissa to West Virginia for the reading of her will, a very pregnant Torie and her cantankerous grandma, Gert, are given a frosty welcome by Clarissa's family, staff, and boarders alike. But before Clarissa can explain, and as if to prove the existence of the bad luck karma, she is murdered, and Torie, who unluckily happens upon the body, becomes Sheriff Thomas T. Justice's prime suspect. Is it the curse or justice gone awry? But where there's a will there's a way out, and feisty Torie goes on the offensive. Using her considerable snooping skills, she brings to light a lynching on the family tree and a deadly secret rooted in revenge-and becomes the all-too-conspicuous target of a killer out of control...AUTHORBIO: RETT MacPHERSON lives in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri with her husband and three children. This is her fourth Torie O'Shea mystery.
In late 1923, the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, come to America for a honeymoon visit. In the midst of a pleasure trip, however, both work in a bit of business - Alec travels to Washington, D. C. to consult with the U.S. government, Daisy to New York to meet with her American magazine editor.While in New York, Daisy stays at the famed Chelsea Hotel, which is not only close to the Flatiron Building offices of Abroad magazine, where she'll be meeting with her editor, but home to many of New York's artists and writers. After her late morning meeting, Daisy agrees to accompany her editor, Mr. Thorwald, to lunch but as they are leaving the offices, they hear a gun shot and see a man plummeting down an elevator shaft.The man killed was one of her fellow residents at the Chelsea Hotel, Otis Carmody, who was a journalist with no end of enemies - personal and professional - who would delight in his death.Again in the midst of a murder investigation, Daisy's search for the killer takes her to all levels of society, and even a mad dash across the country itself, as she attempts to solve a puzzle that would baffle even Philo Vance himself.AUTHORBIO: Carola Dunn is the author of ten books featuring Daisy Dalrymple, most recently To Davy Jones Below, as well as numerous historical novels.Born and raised in England, she lives in Eugene, Oregon.
Once the haunt of Jack the Ripper, London's East End is a vibrant mix of history and new ideas, but the trendy galleries of Brick Lane disguise a seedy underside where unthinkable crimes bring terror to the innocent. Artist and young mother Sandra Gilles disappears without trace after leaving her three-year-old daughter, Charlotte, with a friend at the Columbia Road Flower Market. Her lawyer husband, Naz Malik, is devastated -- but he's also the prime suspect in a murder investigation. When Naz vanishes shortly afterwards, Gemma James and her partner Superintendent Duncan Kincaid agree to work together again to solve the case before the murderer can get his hands on the real prize, Charlotte. But just as the case grows more dangerous, a personal issue threatens to throw Gemma and Duncan off the trail. In the end, it is up to them to stop a vicious killer and protect the child whose fate hangs in the balance.
When bored young housewife Simone Hollingsworth misses bell-ringing practice-her latest effort to find something to do-no one is surprised. In fact, if old Mrs. Molfrey, her neighbor, didn't report it to Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby, Simone's disappearance might have gone unrecorded in Fawcett Green. But ever Barnaby isn't concerned-until a body is found.
Soon Barnaby is uncovering the passionate entanglements beneath the placid surface of Fawcett Green-and perhaps jeopardizing his career. Now, if he misconstrues the clue buried in Simone's garden-and a subtlety of human behavior his experienced eye should spot-a brutal killer may go free...
When a patron drops dead in The Hot Bagel, Ruby's friend the baker faces interrogation-and it's up to Ruby to fill the holes in the story.
Effectively combines humor with crime. (Booklist)
Entertaining. (Publishers Weekly)
Miami Dolphins linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter returns in the seventh Lassiter mystery from acclaimed South Florida writer and former lawyer Paul Levine.In Flesh & Bones, Jake takes on a seemingly unwinnable case. When Miami model Chrissy Bernhardt strides through a South Beach night spot and plugs three deadly shots into a bar patron, later identified as her tycoon father Harry Bernhardt, the lawyer watches the killing from the next stool. Yet when the apparent murderess asks him to represent her, Jake readily agrees, swayed as always by a pretty face and by nagging glimmers of reasonable doubt.Mounting Chrissy's legal defense, Jake sets out to unearth the family secrets that molded her past: his cover girl client is either a cold-blooded killer or a sexual abuse victim. Through hypnosis, Chrissy's psychiatrist and trusted friend Dr. Lawrence Schein has helped her remember long-suppressed incidents of childhood incest. As Jake struggles to learn if the memories are real or fabricated, he stumbles upon a scheme to manipulate South Florida's fresh water supply, masterminded by Chrissy's half-brother Guy. Delving deeper, he uncovers a suspicious link between the doctor and the developer.Once again, the personal and professional become intertwined when Jake falls hard for his beautiful client. Aided once more in Flesh & Bones, by his unorthodox but faithful braintrust -- moonshine-guzzling Granny Lassiter, cranky retired coroner Doc Riggs and precocious nephew Kip--Jake must keep Chrissy off Death Row if she's to stay in his life.