Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743266803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From the master of the suspense novel comes another gripping tale of mystery, money, and mayhem that skillfully weaves together an elegant plot and compelling characters, once again. “I have your children. Don't call the police, or the’ll die.” It’s a nightmare no parent should ever endure. Especially Alice Glendenning, a South Florida real estate agent who hasn’t managed to sell a single home—or collect any insurance money—after her husband’s fatal boating accident. Her daughter and son’s kidnappers demand $250,000, the exact amount she’s supposed to receive from the insurance company. To complicate matters, her housekeeper has contacted the police—a glaring error in judgment that puts a spotlight on the crime, the children’s lives at risk…and Alice in jeopardy.
Alice in Jeopardy
Author: Ed McBain
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743266803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From the master of the suspense novel comes another gripping tale of mystery, money, and mayhem that skillfully weaves together an elegant plot and compelling characters, once again. “I have your children. Don't call the police, or the’ll die.” It’s a nightmare no parent should ever endure. Especially Alice Glendenning, a South Florida real estate agent who hasn’t managed to sell a single home—or collect any insurance money—after her husband’s fatal boating accident. Her daughter and son’s kidnappers demand $250,000, the exact amount she’s supposed to receive from the insurance company. To complicate matters, her housekeeper has contacted the police—a glaring error in judgment that puts a spotlight on the crime, the children’s lives at risk…and Alice in jeopardy.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743266803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
From the master of the suspense novel comes another gripping tale of mystery, money, and mayhem that skillfully weaves together an elegant plot and compelling characters, once again. “I have your children. Don't call the police, or the’ll die.” It’s a nightmare no parent should ever endure. Especially Alice Glendenning, a South Florida real estate agent who hasn’t managed to sell a single home—or collect any insurance money—after her husband’s fatal boating accident. Her daughter and son’s kidnappers demand $250,000, the exact amount she’s supposed to receive from the insurance company. To complicate matters, her housekeeper has contacted the police—a glaring error in judgment that puts a spotlight on the crime, the children’s lives at risk…and Alice in jeopardy.
The Truth About Alice
Author: Jennifer Mathieu
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1596439106
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Winner of the Children's Choice Book Awards' Teen Choice Debut Author Award Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When Healy High star quarterback, Brandon Fitzsimmons, dies in a car crash, it was because he was sexting with Alice. Ask anybody. Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over the "slut stall" in the girls' bathroom: "Alice had sex in exchange for math test answers" and "Alice got an abortion last semester." After Brandon dies, the rumors start to spiral out of control. In this remarkable debut novel, four Healy High students tell all they "know" about Alice--and in doing so reveal their own secrets and motivations, painting a raw look at the realities of teen life. But in this novel from Jennifer Mathieu, exactly what is the truth about Alice? In the end there's only one person to ask: Alice herself. This title has Common Core connections.
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
ISBN: 1596439106
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Winner of the Children's Choice Book Awards' Teen Choice Debut Author Award Everyone knows Alice slept with two guys at one party. When Healy High star quarterback, Brandon Fitzsimmons, dies in a car crash, it was because he was sexting with Alice. Ask anybody. Rumor has it Alice Franklin is a slut. It's written all over the "slut stall" in the girls' bathroom: "Alice had sex in exchange for math test answers" and "Alice got an abortion last semester." After Brandon dies, the rumors start to spiral out of control. In this remarkable debut novel, four Healy High students tell all they "know" about Alice--and in doing so reveal their own secrets and motivations, painting a raw look at the realities of teen life. But in this novel from Jennifer Mathieu, exactly what is the truth about Alice? In the end there's only one person to ask: Alice herself. This title has Common Core connections.
Darkness Peering
Author: Alice Blanchard
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553581295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Police Chief Nalen Storrow faces the unthinkable when, while investigating the shocking murder of a local teenager, he learns that his own son must be considered a suspect, in an unsolved case that has profound repercussions eighteen years later, when his daughter, Rachel, is faced with the disappearance of another young woman. Reprint.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553581295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Police Chief Nalen Storrow faces the unthinkable when, while investigating the shocking murder of a local teenager, he learns that his own son must be considered a suspect, in an unsolved case that has profound repercussions eighteen years later, when his daughter, Rachel, is faced with the disappearance of another young woman. Reprint.
Alice in Jeopardy
Author: Ed McBain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780752865683
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
ALICE IN JEOPARDY is the first novel in an exciting new series. Each novel is set in a different location featuring a contemporary woman whose life or children are suddenly endangered. The woman must find in herself the resources to save both her children and herself. Alice is a recently widowed young woman living in Florida with her two small children. Utterly devastated by her late husband's death in a boating accident, she is struggling to re-build her life. And as if life can't get any worse, her children are kidnapped. Surrounded by police fighting inter-departmental battles, Alice ultimately has to resort to finding and saving her children herself. ALICE IN JEOPARDY is a truly gripping book, absolutely jam-packed with twists and turns, culminating in a totally unexpected ending.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780752865683
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
ALICE IN JEOPARDY is the first novel in an exciting new series. Each novel is set in a different location featuring a contemporary woman whose life or children are suddenly endangered. The woman must find in herself the resources to save both her children and herself. Alice is a recently widowed young woman living in Florida with her two small children. Utterly devastated by her late husband's death in a boating accident, she is struggling to re-build her life. And as if life can't get any worse, her children are kidnapped. Surrounded by police fighting inter-departmental battles, Alice ultimately has to resort to finding and saving her children herself. ALICE IN JEOPARDY is a truly gripping book, absolutely jam-packed with twists and turns, culminating in a totally unexpected ending.
One Summer's Night
Author: Mary Alice Kruesi
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739409787
Category : Romance fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The enigmatic Dane offers a young woman her first chance at love and the opportunity to explore an irresistible world of hidden delights. Then the outside world threatens the fairy tale they've spun together and they must choose between what once was real and what only happens on one summer's night.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739409787
Category : Romance fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The enigmatic Dane offers a young woman her first chance at love and the opportunity to explore an irresistible world of hidden delights. Then the outside world threatens the fairy tale they've spun together and they must choose between what once was real and what only happens on one summer's night.
Grave Secrets
Author: Alice James
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1786183412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An adventure with zombies. And vampires. And romance. And croquet. Toni Windsor is trying to live a quiet life in the green and pleasant county of Staffordshire. She’d love to finally master the rules of croquet, acquire a decent boyfriend and make some commission as an estate agent... ...but first she’s got to deal with zombies rising from their graves, vampires sneaking out of their coffins and a murder to solve. It’s all made rather more complicated by the fact that she’s the one raising all the zombies—oh, and she’s dating one of the vampires. Really, what’s a girl meant to do?
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1786183412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
An adventure with zombies. And vampires. And romance. And croquet. Toni Windsor is trying to live a quiet life in the green and pleasant county of Staffordshire. She’d love to finally master the rules of croquet, acquire a decent boyfriend and make some commission as an estate agent... ...but first she’s got to deal with zombies rising from their graves, vampires sneaking out of their coffins and a murder to solve. It’s all made rather more complicated by the fact that she’s the one raising all the zombies—oh, and she’s dating one of the vampires. Really, what’s a girl meant to do?
Half Moon Bay
Author: Alice LaPlante
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 150119089X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
“An eerie, tense, and finely written novel…Readers will grip their chairs” (SFGate.com) as they try to unravel this tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind. Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless accident. Devastated, she manages to make one tiny stab at a new life: she moves from San Francisco to the seaside town of Half Moon Bay. Jane is inconsolable, and yet, as the months go by, she is able to cobble together some version of a job, of friends, of the possibility of peace. And then, children begin to disappear. And soon, Jane sees her own pain reflected in all the parents in the town. She wonders if she will be able to live through the aching loss, the fear all around her. And as the disappearances continue, she begins to see that what her neighbors are wondering is if it is Jane herself who has unleashed the horror of loss. Alice LaPlante’s “well-crafted novel of psychological suspense” is a chilling story about a mother haunted by her past, a “brooding suspense novel…dark, starkly beautiful…LaPlante uses a seductively dangerous landscape to mirror her heroine’s inner life” (Kirkus Reviews).
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 150119089X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
“An eerie, tense, and finely written novel…Readers will grip their chairs” (SFGate.com) as they try to unravel this tale of psychological suspense from the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of Turn of Mind. Jane loses everything when her teenage daughter is killed in a senseless accident. Devastated, she manages to make one tiny stab at a new life: she moves from San Francisco to the seaside town of Half Moon Bay. Jane is inconsolable, and yet, as the months go by, she is able to cobble together some version of a job, of friends, of the possibility of peace. And then, children begin to disappear. And soon, Jane sees her own pain reflected in all the parents in the town. She wonders if she will be able to live through the aching loss, the fear all around her. And as the disappearances continue, she begins to see that what her neighbors are wondering is if it is Jane herself who has unleashed the horror of loss. Alice LaPlante’s “well-crafted novel of psychological suspense” is a chilling story about a mother haunted by her past, a “brooding suspense novel…dark, starkly beautiful…LaPlante uses a seductively dangerous landscape to mirror her heroine’s inner life” (Kirkus Reviews).
Carry the One
Author: Carol Anshaw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451656939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451656939
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
When a car of inebriated guests from Carmen's wedding hits and kills a girl on a country road, Carmen and the people involved in the accident connect, disconnect, and reconnect throughout twenty-five subsequent years of marriage, parenthood, holidays, and tragedies.
Beach House Memories
Author: Mary Alice Monroe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439171041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe's Southern-set classic Beach House Memories, the sequel to The Beach House, now a Hallmark Channel movie starring Andie MacDowell! Autumn brings haunting beauty to the sun-soaked dunes on Isle of Palms, where Lovie Rutledge lives in her beloved Primrose Cottage. As seasons change, Lovie remembers one special summer… In 1974, America is changing, but Charleston remains eternally the same. When Lovie married aristocratic businessman Stratton Rutledge, she turned over her fortune and fate to his control. But she refused to relinquish one thing: her family’s old seaside cottage. Precious summers with her children are Lovie’s refuge from social expectations and her husband’s philandering. Here, she is the “Turtle Lady,” tending the loggerhead turtles that lay eggs in the warm night sand and then slip back into the sea. In the summer of ’74, biologist Russell Bennett visits to research the loggerheads. Their shared interest soon blooms into a passionate, profound love—forcing Lovie to face an agonizing decision. Stratton’s influence is far-reaching, and if she dares to dream beyond a summer affair, she risks losing her reputation, her wealth, even her children. This emotional tale of a strong woman torn between duty and desire, between tradition and change, is an empowering journey through the seasons of self-discovery. Until this autumn, this time of winds and tides, of holding on and letting go…
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439171041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe's Southern-set classic Beach House Memories, the sequel to The Beach House, now a Hallmark Channel movie starring Andie MacDowell! Autumn brings haunting beauty to the sun-soaked dunes on Isle of Palms, where Lovie Rutledge lives in her beloved Primrose Cottage. As seasons change, Lovie remembers one special summer… In 1974, America is changing, but Charleston remains eternally the same. When Lovie married aristocratic businessman Stratton Rutledge, she turned over her fortune and fate to his control. But she refused to relinquish one thing: her family’s old seaside cottage. Precious summers with her children are Lovie’s refuge from social expectations and her husband’s philandering. Here, she is the “Turtle Lady,” tending the loggerhead turtles that lay eggs in the warm night sand and then slip back into the sea. In the summer of ’74, biologist Russell Bennett visits to research the loggerheads. Their shared interest soon blooms into a passionate, profound love—forcing Lovie to face an agonizing decision. Stratton’s influence is far-reaching, and if she dares to dream beyond a summer affair, she risks losing her reputation, her wealth, even her children. This emotional tale of a strong woman torn between duty and desire, between tradition and change, is an empowering journey through the seasons of self-discovery. Until this autumn, this time of winds and tides, of holding on and letting go…
Ed McBain/Evan Hunter
Author: Erin E. MacDonald
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786489480
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns. He also wrote several teleplays and screenplays, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle. When the Mystery Writers of America named Hunter a Grand Master, he gave the designation to his alter ego, Ed McBain, best known for his long-running police procedural series about the detectives of the 87th Precinct. This comprehensive companion provides detailed information about all of Evan Hunter's/Ed McBain's works, characters, and recurring themes. From police detective and crime stories to dramatic novels and films, this reference celebrates the vast body of literature of this versatile writer.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786489480
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
One of the most prolific crime writers of the last century, Evan Hunter published more than 120 novels from 1952 to 2005 under a variety of pseudonymns. He also wrote several teleplays and screenplays, including Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, and the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle. When the Mystery Writers of America named Hunter a Grand Master, he gave the designation to his alter ego, Ed McBain, best known for his long-running police procedural series about the detectives of the 87th Precinct. This comprehensive companion provides detailed information about all of Evan Hunter's/Ed McBain's works, characters, and recurring themes. From police detective and crime stories to dramatic novels and films, this reference celebrates the vast body of literature of this versatile writer.