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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"Hollywood Nate" Weiss might have finally found his big break when he meets B-list director Rudy Ressler and his wealthy widow girlfriend, Leona Brueger. The couple is planning an extended trip to Tuscany and is worried about the security of their Hollywood Hills mansion, since there's been a rash of burglaries committed by the "Bling Ring." Nate agrees to keep an eye on their home and Rudy agrees to help Nate get a movie role. Rudy and Leona are also "fortunate" to have found a live-in butler who will care for Leona's invalid brother-in-law. The butler, Raleigh L. Dibble, is a petty criminal who has vowed to go legit, but he can't resist art dealer
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The Camel Club's unofficial leader, Oliver Stone is about to begin a secret mission against Russian and Mexican drug cartels for the President when he witnesses a bombing in Lafayette Park, across from the White House. Since the British Prime Minister is attending a state dinner at the White House and was scheduled to walk across the park, it is assumed that he was the intended victim. Stone, a former member of the CIA and one of its mostly highly skilled assassins finds his orders changed. He is now tasked with finding out who planted the bomb and why. British Intelligence assigns MI6 agent Mary Chapman to work with Stone to discover the truth about the bombing. Working with
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It's not every day that the police ask a private investigator to prove them wrong, but that's essentially what Detective Martin Quirk does when he asks Spencer to look into the death of a young girl found in a movie star's hotel room. Jumbo Nelson, the larger than life movie star, appears to be a slam dunk for the rape and murder of a young girl found in his hotel room, but Quirk doesn't believe that he's guilty, so he calls on Spenser. When Spenser enters the scene and overpowers Nelson's bodyguard, a Cree Indian named Zebulon Sixkill, Nelson fires the bodyguard and Spenser finds himself
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In this sequel to Shanghai Girls, Joy, the girl who was born to one sister but raised as the daughter of the other, flees from both mothers when she learns of the bizarre relationship at age nineteen. Since she was born in the United States to Chinese parents, she is an American citizen, but her adoptive mother Pearl raised her to understand and embrace Chinese culture and customs. Joy's rapture with all things Chinese extends to Mau's teachings, and when she feels betrayed by
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This is not an ordinary love story. It is action-filled right from the beginning when a female state trooper gets home and finds herself in a deadly confrontation. The love story of this book is in the true love that State Trooper Tessa Leoni has for her missing 6 year old as she vows to find her daughter no matter what it takes, even murder. The reader is given hints about Tessa's actual situation in the prologue, but it isn't until halfway through the book that it becomes clear whether she is the victim or
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