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Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CARTEL.
When Tim Kearney, a small-time criminal, slits the throat of a Hell's Angel and draws a life sentence in a prison full of gang members, he knows he’s pretty much a dead man. That’s until the DEA makes Kearney an offer: impersonate the late, legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z so that the agency can trade him for one of their own, who was captured by a Mexican drug kingpin.
...2) Dead ringer
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
Battling her sister in a heated dispute at the same time her law firm runs into financial trouble, attorney Bennie Rosato takes on a potentially lucrative class action suit and finds unexpected assistance from a mysterious stranger.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
CIA assassin Fortune Reading is about to undertake her most difficult mission ever -- in Sinful, Louisiana. With a leak at the CIA and a price on her head, Fortune never expected to be this far out of her element: posing as a former beauty queen turned librarian in a small bayou town!
Author
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books
Language
English
Description
Galip is a lawyer living in Istanbul. His wife, the detective-novel-loving Rèuya, has disappeared. Could she have left him for her ex-husband, Cell, a popular newspaper columnist? But Cell, too, seems to have vanished. As Galip investigates, he finds himself assuming the enviable Cell's identity, wearing his clothes, answering his phone calls, even writing his columns. Galip pursues every conceivable clue, but the nature of the mystery keeps changing,...
7) Past Due
Author
Series
Victor Carl novels volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
When Joey Cheaps is murdered less than twenty-four hours after telling Victor Carl a twenty-year-old secret, Victor decides to investigate, but soon finds his own life threatened
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Language
English
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Description
"The Earl of St. Merryn needs a woman. His intentions are purely practical - he simply wants someone sensible and suitably lovely to pose as his betrothed for a few weeks among polite society. He has his own agenda to pursue, and a false fiancee will keep the husband-hunters at bay while he goes about his business. The easiest solution is to hire a paid companion. However, finding the right candidate proves more of a challenge than he expected - until...
12) Vanishing act
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Whitefield helps people disappear by giving them a new identity--new appearance, new social security card--and her clientele ranges from bankrupt businessmen to fleeing wives. On this occasion, things backfire and she must resort to her Native American talents to track a dangerous customer she helped disappear.
13) The ivy tree
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of a girl who went to Northumberland, where she was mistaken by a young man to be his cousin.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Cynical and insecure, Iris has long been envious of her twin sister Summer's seemingly never-ending good fortune... including her perfect husband Adam. Called to Thailand to help her sister sail the family yacht to the Seychelles, Iris unexpectedly finds herself alone in the middle of the Indian Ocean. When she makes it to land, Iris allows herself to be swept up by Adam, who assumes that she is Summer. Now she has the golden life she's always envied,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Romany Jake aroused passionate feelings in young Jessica Frenshaw but then came the murder, the scandal, the trial and, ultimately, Jake's exile. After Napoleon fell and England was safe again Jake returned and Jessica would finally discover who he really was and that he had come to claim what was rightfully his.
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A riveting legal thriller set against the bakdrop of a richly emotional family story.
Author
Series
Code of the west (Stephen Bly) volume 1
Publisher
Crossway Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Launching the Code of the West series, this is a tale of switched identities, the need for truth and an unexpected love, set in the Old West.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"A best-selling novelist enlists her own sister to bring us the story of two Southern sisters, disguised as men, who join the Confederate Army--one seeking vengeance on the battlefield, the other finding love. In a war that pitted brother against brother, two sisters choose their own battle. Joseph and Thomas are fresh recruits for the Confederate Army, daring to join the wild fray that has become the seemingly endless Civil War, sharing everything...
Author
Series
Victor Carl volume 4
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A defense attorney who lives his life in shades of gray, Victor Carl fights all the right fights for all the wrong reasons.