Life has dealt Honor Gillette more than her share of cruel blows, the most recent of which was the death of her police officer husband, Eddie. After Eddie's fatal car accident, instead of moving into town she decides to raise their 4 year old daughter Emily in their isolated home along a remote Louisiana bayou. Grieving for the dead becomes secondary to struggling for life the day she befriends the injured man who appears at her door. Lee Coburn immediately takes advantage of her kindness and holds her and Emily at gunpoint as he ransacks the house demanding something he said Eddie was hiding before
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When the call "Mayday" is used, there is the supposition that anyone hearing it will take immediate action to help those in need. In this book, due to certain evil considerations, a Mayday call is ignored, leading to a fantastic story involving an airline disaster. The book was originally written in 1979, and was not only a best-seller, but it was made into a hit TV movie. Nelson Demille had given his friend Tom Block help in writing that original book and in the late 1990's they co-authored this newer version of Mayday. The reason for the rewrite is that in 1979 the electronic world of today did not exist. Planes did not fly as fast or as high as today. Cell phones and the internet did not exist and
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Facing a terminal illness and a vindictive mother-in-law who seizes control of his three children after the death of his wife , Jack Armstrong anticipates dying alone in an Ohio hospice. Shocking doctors, he slowly starts to improve, and the disease that no one ever survives finally leaves his body. As he regains his health, he takes steps to recover his children and rebuild the happy family they'd had before the death of their mother. While they'd prepared for Jack's imminent death his wife, Lizzie and he had talked about how she would carry on without him. Knowing his wife had planned to
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Spring Break in Key West leaves Jeanine with more than a hangover and a bad sunburn. While speeding drunkenly on an isolated stretch of beach road, she kills a man. The handsome police officer who is first on scene tells her the victim was a known drug dealer and that she shouldn't let her life be ruined by one unfortunate act. After he covers up the crime and disposes of the body, Peter and Jeanine become first lovers and then
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt probably didn't realize that when he sent mild-mannered history professor, William E. Dodd, to Germany in 1933, as ambassador and charged him with maintaining stability and protecting U. S. investments, he was also sending Dodd's exact opposite-- his high-spirited daughter Martha. While William assessed and reported on the situation in pre-war Germany, growing more and more alarmed at Hitler's blatant aggression, Martha fell in love, literally and figuratively, with Nazi Germany. Although the 22 year old left an estranged husband in New York, she embarked
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This chilling tale of love and murder takes place in 1986, in the bucolic town of Oak Knoll, California, the setting for Tami Hoag's Deeper than the Dead. Tony Menendez is called to investigate a 911 call placed by a child who whimpered, "My daddy hurt my mommy." Arriving on the scene, he finds a critically injured 4 year old Hayley draped over her mother's bloody body. Tony asks former FBI profiler Vince Leone to help him
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