Sent into Witness Protection, Allie goes to deliver her friend’s beauty products only to find her door hanging on its hinges and a trail of blood leading to a body. Is she dead? Views: 49
The daughter of a
diplomat disappears on a school field trip–lured into the Santa Monica
mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of
a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of
sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD
homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the disturbing question: Why?Working
together with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli police inspector,
Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the
darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes
again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an
unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt
for human life. Views: 49
Southern town seeks single women. Lots of them!The hardheaded Armstrong brothers are determined to rebuild their tornado-ravaged hometown in the Georgia mountains. They've got the means, they've got the manpower...what they need are women! So they place an ad in a northern newspaper and wait for the ladies to answer their call....Porter, the youngest Armstrong, is all for importing women. Still, he's so blown away by the sheer numbers, he falls off the water tower. Luckily there's a doctor among the newcomers—sweet and sexy Dr. Nikki Salinger.And Porter has every intention of checking out her bedside manner.... Views: 49
Chet Gecko's investigations often show him the seamy underbelly of school life, but this case throws him for a loop. A deadly stink bomb is unleashed, a school building falls to rubble, money goes missing from the principal's office, and that's just a start. Chet's endurance for trouble is tested, but so is his loyalty: Someone is trying to get his mongoose janitor pal Maureen DeBree fired. A true-blue P.I. doesn't take that kind of monkey business lying down. Standing up, maybe.And stand up he will—to some very shifty school bullies. Chet keeps digging for the truth like a mole after an earthworm sandwich. Oh, foolish detective. Views: 48
The voice belongs to a
woman, but Dr. Alex Delaware remembers a little girl. It is
eleven years since seven-years-old Melissa Dickinson dialed a hospital
help line for comfort--and found it in therapy with Alex Delaware. Now
the lovely young heiress is desperately calling for
psychologist's help once more. Only this time it looks like Melissa's
deepest childhood nightmare is really coming true ... Twenty years
ago, Gina Dickinson, Melissa's mother, suffered a grisly assault that
left the budding actress irreparably scarred and emotionally crippled.
Now her acid-wielding assailant is out of prison and back in L.A.--and
Melissa is terrified that the monster has returned to hurt Gina
again. But before Alex Delaware can even begin to soothe his former
patient's fears, Gina, a recluse for twenty, disappears. And now,
unless Delaware turns crack detective to uncover the truth, Gina
Dickinson will be just one more victim of a cold fury that has already
spawned madness--and murder. Views: 48
A woman, imprisoned for manslaughter, disappears without a trace during transport between states and it's all up to Dana to find her.Sheila Ford traveled to Tennessee planning to commit an act of pre-meditated murder on her husband. Her lone shot at him misses and kills his lover instead. After pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge, she's locked away in a Tennessee prison for women. Everyone back home in Ohio wrote her off. She wasn't eligible for a parole hearing for seven years.When Jennifer Coventry calls begging Sheriff Mel Crane to bring her ailing mother home to Ohio to serve out the rest of her sentence in the county jail, close to home, Mel is reluctant but gives in. The only problem is, she's so short staffed and can't send a deputy to do the transport. She deputizes Dana to do the duties.Dana planned to go to Tennessee anyway, to look at a vacation cabin for herself and Mel. A little detour over to Nashville to connect with Sheila and the ambulance transporting her to Ohio won't be hard, she thought…until everything that could go wrong does, ending up with Sheila disappearing during a rest stop. A multi-state manhunt is on to find the escaped convict and return her to prison, but the circumstances of her disappearance go far deeper than anyone could have imagined. This book is great together with Books 1-10 of The Morelville Mysteries series but it can also be read as a stand-alone mystery. Views: 48
