For Michael, anger is the only means of strength he can muster, and he thinks of nothing but revenge. He reaches his manhood in wartime Saigon, and remembers every betrayal and beating. With his survival skills and his good looks he builds his own little piece of life, surviving as a criminal.
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Book Review: ‘Forget You Ever Knew Me,’ A Thriller by Judy Dailey
This is not the stuff of conventional genre fiction.
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A Pleasure And A Calling is an enthralling psychological thriller.
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Best-selling novelist Mary Higgins Clark joins younger but equally praised author Alafair Burke for their first collaboration.
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A good first offering in a new series by Nancy G. West.
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Frederick Case, a Pinkerton Detective, and Athelney Jones from Scotland Yard form an uneasy relationship as they follow a strange missive purported to be written by Professor Moriarty.
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DeMille's charming prose blends suspense, a crime puzzle solution and a subtle sense of humor.
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The late expatriate American moviemaker’s last pulp novel gets its long-deserved English language publication.
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When a murder occurs one of the pieces of evidence is a photo shot just after the fact. The photo depicts a space in time where imagination sets the scene.
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Jacob Underwood is not like anyone else, for he experiences Cotard’s syndrome, a real condition that causes him to believe he is dead.
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