Peter Israel
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In 1980s New York, a ruthless couple rockets up the corporate ladder. Tommy is waiting in the bushes when the woman comes home crying. He unlocks the door and pads through the darkened house as he has done so many times in the past. He finds her upstairs in her nightgown, half asleep but not surprised to see him - until he pulls out the gun. She is not afraid. She dares him to shoot. It would not be the first time she has convinced him to commit a...
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Suburban calm is shattered when a mother's worst nightmare comes true. She is twenty-one, gorgeous, and well mannered. She speaks English, she loves children, and children love her. Harriet Major is the perfect babysitter - almost too good to be true. Georgia Coffey has been searching for someone like Harriet ever since becoming pregnant with her second child. But in the sprawling suburbs of New York City, where the many bankers' wives need a nanny...
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To save his boss's wife, a clever lawyer must unmask a silent serial killer. Another woman has died, just like all the others who have been targeted by the so-called pillow killer - her life snuffed out without a sound. He smothers each of them carefully, and they seem to go without struggle, as though the killer were their friend. As each new body is discovered, the women of New York come closer and closer to outright panic. Finally, one of them...
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In the fast-paced Paris art world, a forger has come home to roost. In a lavish Parisian gallery, a painting waits behind a velvet curtain. The room is full of the most interesting people in the city, from diplomats and spies to fishmongers and thieves, but the man of the hour has not yet appeared. Al Dove never makes an early entrance. Finally, he swoops in to applause, his nut-brown California tan standing out in the sea of pale Parisian skin, and...
5) Hush Money
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Hired to kill a sensational story, a modern-day shamus discovers a murder. The rumors start flying almost as soon as Karen Beydon leaps out her window. The newspapers provide myriad theories as to what led this beautiful heiress to hurl herself out of a seventh-floor dorm room, suggesting everything from drug addiction and murder to depression over a love affair gone sour. The tawdry details of Karen's sad last days sell plenty of papers but do nothing...
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A private investigator risks his life for the sake of a French basketball player. Sometimes B. F. Cage can't remember what he's doing in Paris. He had a successful business in California doing dirty work for people who could afford to keep their hands clean, but the French don't seem to need his particular skills. When his nearly empty wallet is stolen, he pities the thief who took it. When the robber comes back, Cage knows he is in trouble. Her name...