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Katherine Dexter's brother is dead. It was heroin that killed him, but Katherine can't help but blame his death on the organized crime so rife in Italy. The drug trade may not make much money for the small-time pushers, the petty crooks, and the addicts. But for the men at the top - men like the Malaspigas, who run their yachts and their big houses on the profits of other people's misery - drugs are big money. The Bureau of Narcotics are determined...
2) The Legacy
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When Christina Nordohl meets wealthy English widower, Richard Farrington, in Stockholm, it changes her life. They fall in love, and she returns to England with him as his wife. On his death twelve years later, Richard bequeaths Christina and her young daughter a great house, land, money, and a priceless Hebrew manuscript. But Richard's legacy comes with a downside in the form of his turbulent, hate-filled son, Alan, who has been disinherited. At his...
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A woman inherits a legacy of greed, guilt, and deadly danger when her father - a former SS Commander - bequeaths a priceless treasure. Twenty-five years after fleeing Germany, Paul Weiss lives a quiet life in Spain. Throughout his years of exile, he's kept a single photograph of a three-year-old girl. Now, he will set in motion a series of events that will reunite him with his long-lost daughter. All Paula Stanley knows about her father is that he...
4) The Relic
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When Yuri Varienski, a Ukranian emigré, dies in Jersey, he leaves his daughter Lucy an object - and a great responsibility. Lucy must take the gold filigree cross she is bequeathed to Geneva, and deliver it into the hands of exiled former dissident leader, Volkov. Lucy innocently accepts her father's charge. But Volkov, broken by imprisonment, is not the man he used to be. And there are other people who wish to possess the cross too. For the object...
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Forty years after World War II, a former Resistance fighter must revisit the past and make a decision that could shatter the lives of both the innocent and the guilty. Paul Roulier comes to the quaint English village of Amdale looking for Katharine Alfurd. Born in Paris, Katharine left London at nineteen to fight for the Resistance in Occupied France during World War II. There, she joined a notorious underground network and fell in love with Jean...
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Max has been having the same dream ever since the end of the war. The horrifying final moments in the Führer's Bunker, the brutal beating, the dying man - and his last desperate words. Years later Max hears the same words on the lips of another dying man, and finds himself caught in a chilling search for Hitler's last legacy - the Führer's final evil bequest. The dream is no longer a dream but a nightmare, and Max must try to live through it...
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An Englishwoman marries a Sicilian-American soldier during World War II and then vanishes from his life in this story of star-crossed love and deadly vendettas. They meet and fall in love in Palermo during World War II. She's an English nurse, the daughter of a Sussex country doctor. He's a wounded Sicilian-American soldier. When they marry, Angela Drummond is pregnant, but Steven Falconi will not be with her the day their son is born. Believing Angela...
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Three generations of women grapple with a legacy of secrets, lies, love, and loss Ashton. The place dreams are made of? For most of her life, Nancy Vandekar has been haunted by the same disturbing nightmare in which a menacing figure in the shadows calls out her mother's name: Diana. When Nancy found love, she thought she'd left her past far behind. But now a capricious twist of fate brings her back to Ashton. The magnificent family home masks a legacy...
9) The Legend
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Peter Arundsen is bored - bored with his conventional wife, and bored with his conventional city job. He hankers after his dangerous past, when he was a spy with the SIS, and cherishes his contact with ex-colleagues at weekend parties hosted by their old chief, Philip Wetherby. When one of these parties is overshadowed by news of a defection, Arundsen resists Wetherby's request to investigate. But he cannot resist Wetherby's beautiful and mysterious...
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The wife of a prominent British politician returns to Ireland to find her missing half-brother - and plunges into a hotbed of political unrest and murder. The wife of an important British Cabinet minister, Claire Fraser lives the kind of life that fills the society pages. But when the disappearance of her half-brother, Frank Arbuthnot, makes international headlines, she abandons her very public life in London to search for him in her native Ireland....
11) Exposure
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An investigative reporter hired to expose corruption at the highest levels of the government uncovers a chilling link to World War II in this expertly crafted thriller. As investigative reporter for the Sunday Herald's high-profile "Exposure" column, Julia Hamilton exposes everything from corruption in high places to the mutilation and murder of five-year-old twin sisters in a small Welsh village. Now that Julia's proven herself, her boss, Lord William...
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A widow attempts to fulfill her dead husband's last request-to enter his prize horse in the Derby-and plunges into a deadly world of blackmail, revenge, and murder Less than a year after arriving at his sprawling ancestral estate as his secretary, Isabel Cunningham marries the much-older Charles Schriber. But now Charles is gravely ill, and before he dies, he asks one last thing of his wife. Determined to honor her husband's deathbed wish, Isabel...
13) The Doll's House
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A female Intelligence agent is dispatched to spy on a group of retired spooks engaging in international terrorism in this post–Cold War thriller
After three decades serving king and country, fifty-one-year-old Harry Oakham is put out to pasture with a miserly pension. But the former civil servant has his own ideas for his so-called retirement. He settles into a luxury hotel in the English countryside and rounds up a...
After three decades serving king and country, fifty-one-year-old Harry Oakham is put out to pasture with a miserly pension. But the former civil servant has his own ideas for his so-called retirement. He settles into a luxury hotel in the English countryside and rounds up a...
14) The Assassin
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A woman swept into a dangerous world of international espionage can trust no one - least of all the assassin she has fallen in love with - in this intricate thriller by master storyteller Evelyn Anthony. When Elizabeth Cameron leaves Rome for the Middle East at her uncle Huntley's request, she has no idea that she's about to become a pawn in an international conspiracy that threatens her life and everything she believes America stands for. Huntley...
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A wife and mother becomes the target of terrorists in this mesmerizing thriller that sweeps from Iran to England to the South of France. Eileen Field, the unhappy, neglected wife of the chairman of the world's most powerful oil conglomerate, arrives in Tehran with her husband, Logan Field, for a reception honoring the Shah's minister of the economy. Logan needs the Shah on his side in order to win the bid to build a refinery in Iran. At the hotel,...
16) Blood Stones
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The diamond industry explodes in anarchy when a cache of rare gems is discovered in Russia in this intellectual thriller. At London's Diamond Enterprises, a major crisis is brewing: In the tundra of northern Russia, a newly discovered mine is producing a cache of flawless, five-carat red diamonds. These dazzling "blood stones" are beyond price, and powerful jeweler Ivan Karakov is about to sign an exclusive contract with Moscow to sell the gems. He...
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An Englishwoman falls for a Russian wanted by Intelligence on both sides of the Iron Curtain in this classic tale of Cold War espionage. As executive assistant to a senior diplomat at the UN, widow Judith Farrow spends most of her working hours handling classified information. When her boss insists she take some time off in Barbados, she's happy to escape her dead-end love affair with a very prominent, very married British attaché. But from the moment...
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Davina Graham series volume 4
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As the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Davina Graham faces her most daunting challenge: solving a series of seemingly random political murders in international waters. The first female head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, Davina Graham is taking a well-deserved holiday with her lover, advertising executive Tony Walden. But her Venetian idyll is short-lived. On the Grand Canal, widowed US Secretary of the Defense Henry Franklyn...
19) The Defector
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Davina Graham series volume 1
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British Intelligence Service agent Davina Graham falls in love with the KGB defector she has been ordered to debrief in this cold war thriller. British operative Davina Graham's life is her work. Her latest assignment is her most daunting. For the past five months, she's been trying to gain the confidence of Ivan Sasanov - and against her better judgment, she's falling in love with him. Sasanov, a top KGB agent who defected to America, has an Achilles...
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Davina Graham series volume 2
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MI6 agent Davina Graham plunges into a hotbed of international intrigue when she penetrates the inner sanctum of one of the US president's top aides, and tracks an elusive criminal from the White House to Moscow to Mexico City.
Still reeling from the murder of her husband, Ivan Sasanov, at the hands of the KGB, British Intelligence agent Davina Graham has been called back into active service to head off a potential international crisis. The...
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