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Santa Cruise
Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband Willy, private detective Regan Reilly, her new husband Jack, and Regan's parents are all guests on the Royal Mermaid's maiden voyage, the Santa Cruise. The ship's passengers include members of the Oklahoma Readers and Writers group - who are planning a mystery seminar dedicated to a Ghost of Honour, the late Left Hook Louie - as well as assorted other charitable folk all planning on a restful post-Christmas vacation. What the guests don't know is that two escaping criminals have been smuggled on board. The hoped-for tranquility quickly vanishes when a terrified mystery fan swears she has spotted the Ghost of Honour in the ship's chapel, and soon after - while a storm develops outside - an attempt is made on the life of a feeble passenger. As the Royal Mermaid sails on through troubled waters, Alvirah, Regan and Jack are uncovering clues that lead them to dangerous criminals.
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All Through The Night
Fans of Mary Higgins Clark and cozy mysteries will relish this Christmas confection. Unlike her previous holiday novel, Silent Night, All Through the Night is virtually free of life-and-death crime. Rather, it is a Dickensian tale of good deeds rewarded and crimes punished. The wintry story begins on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with 18-year-old Sondra Lewis, an aspiring violinist, tearfully leaving her baby on the steps of St. Clement's Church. Unbeknownst to her, Lenny Centino is robbing that same church on the same night, with his attention particularly on the Church's diamond inlaid chalice. He finds a buggy outside the church and uses it for cover as he flees. Only later does he realize that his take for the night includes the infant Stellina (Italian for star). The narrative then abruptly moves ahead seven years. Clark's lottery-winning protagonists, Alvirah and her husband Willy (introduced in Weep No More, My Lady) return for some amateur sleuthing. Sister Cordelia's thrift shop doubles as an after-school recreation place for neighborhood children (including a shy little girl named Star), but the building has been condemned. Bessie Maher had vowed she was leaving the house to the nun and her children. Now that she is gone, the will indicates that the tenants of the house, Vic and Linda Baker, are the true heirs. As December rushes on towards Christmas, Alvirah struggles to put things right before the children are left in the cold. Like the best holiday stories, All Through the Night steers toward sentimentality, but it veers back on course with narrative wit and Alvirah's charm. Clark's prose is lean and her plotting is brisk. This is a mystery that would be a pleasure to share aloud with a family gathered at the fireplace for some holiday cheer.
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You Belong To Me
In this breathtaking new novel from the reigning diva of suspense, a psychopathic killer stalks lonely women aboard cruise ships -- giving grisly new significance to the lyrics of an old sweet song
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Stillwatch
Pat Traymore, a brilliant investigative repoter, is drawn to Washington to discover the truth about enigmatic and ambitous Senator Abigail Jennings. The Senator is tipped to be the first female vice-president, and her reputation intrigues Pat - but she also has an ulterior motive for coming to the city. Years earlier, as a child, Pat was present during the violent deaths of her parents. Left damaged, both mentally and physically, she is seeking solace by returning to the house where the events took place. However, somebody has learned her plans - and is hellbent on stopping her. As the storm gathers, Pat begins to suspect everyone around her - even handsome congressman Samuel Kingsley, with whom she is madly in love. But who would want to hurt her? And how are these new events connected to the deaths of her mother and father? As the storm gathers, Pat begins to suspect everyone around her - even handsome congressman Samuel Kingsley, with whom she is madly in love. But who would want to hurt her? And how are these new events connected to the deaths of her mother and father?
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You Belong To Me
Regina Clausen was forty-three, successful in her career but insecure and unfulfilled in her personal life. Travelling alone on the luxury liner Gabrielle, she disembarked in Hong Kong saying she would rejoin the ship when it docked in Japan. She was never seen again... Three years later, radio presenter Susan Chandler does a series about vanishing women on her radio talk show. When a caller, who refuses to identify herself, tells of meeting a man on a cruise who gave her a ring inscribed 'You Belong to Me', but then disappeared when she refused to leave the ship with him, she thinks little of it. But then Regina's mother appears at Susan's office with a ring bearing the same inscription which was found amongst her daughter's belongings, and Susan begins to suspect that they are on the trail of something dangerously sinister... As she Looks deeper susan finds herself confronted with the horrifying possibility that she may know the killer and that she may even be his next victim.
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Where are the children?
Nancy Harmon has a new home, a loving husband and two beautiful children.The thing is, she's had all this before...Seven years ago she escaped from a volatile marriage and the devastating deaths of her first two children. Now, she's trying to start afresh. The accusations. The newspaper stories. The blame. That's all behind her.Or so she thinks.For someone has not forgotten. Someone who is determined to bring the terror and the pain hurtling back. One cold morning, Nancy leaves her children to play outside - but when she returns, they have disappeared. With growing terror, she realises it has begun again...
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A cry in the night
Divorcee Jenny MacPartland's struggle to support herself and her two small daughters is not helped by her irresponsible ex-husband. But suddenly a new man steps into her life. Rich, handsome Erich Krueger sweeps her off her feet and off to his mansion in the country. Everything seems to be perfect, and Jenny feels like a fairy-tale princess. But gradually the fairy-tale turns into a nightmare. Something is very wrong in the great house that has become her prison. Something that threatens her marriage, her life - and her children.
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time is my time
A high-powered Hollywood agent is found drowned in her swimming pool. Jane Sheridan, a former classmate of the deceased, believes this new death - the fifth from her graduate year - is related to the forthcoming twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy. She is there to be honoured during a ceremony, but slowly realises someone is out to stop her. And when she recieves a mysterious, taunting fax about her daughter Lily - a daughter she secretly gave up for adoption twenty years before - Jean understands that whoever it is knows far more about her life than she first thought. With the deaths and the message haunting her, Jean attends the reunion - but events begin to spiral out of control. As she draws closer to the truth, Jean is unaware that a vicious killer is among the guests; a killer who works under the cover of darkness, and who will stop at nothing to complete his mission...
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Moonlight Becomes You
Oh, God! She was burried alive! She pounded her fists on the lid of the casket, but even inside, the thick satin muffled the sound. Finally She Screamed.a Manhattan party, fashion photographer Maggie Holloway is reunited unexpectedly with her former stepmother, Nuala, and their friendship is resumed. But when Maggie arrives for dinner one evening at Nuala's home, she finds her dead. Stranger still, she learns that only days before her death Nuala had changed her will, leaving everything to Maggie ...The only condition is that Maggie occasionally visits an old friend, Greta Shipley. It is when she accompanies Greta to visit Nuala's grave that she discovers something is badly wrong. When Greta also dies suddenly, of supposedly natural causes, Maggie's suspicions are confirmed. But what Maggie doesn't realize is that she, too, has become a target for the killer, and that each clue she uncovers brings her closer to a terrifying fate ...
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Weep no more my lady
Elizabeth Lange is still reeling from the death of international film starlet Leila De Salle, her beloved sister. In the frame for the killing is Leila's handsome, famous fiance Ted Winters. Before the trial in which she is the chief witness, Elizabeth decides to take a break and relax in Pebble Beach, an exclusive Californian spa.She made the wrong decision.Before too long, from all around her, people begin to emerge - people who all had cause to hate, and maybe even murder, her sister. Elizabeth realises her idyllic vacation is about to take a horrifying turn for the worse - and that someone is out to shatter the peace and quiet by silencing her forever....
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Pretend You Don't See Her
Lacey Farrell is a witness to horrific murder, and to the last words of the dying victim, Isabelle.Now, she's under witness protection - with a new life, new name and the beginnings of a new romance with radio talk show host Tom Lynch. He doesen't know who she really is ...but someone does.Someone who's hunted her down. Someone who knows what she saw and what she learned from Isabelle. When Lacey realises the danger she is in, she knows that only she can stop a relentless killer from claiming another life: hers...