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by Jefferson Bass

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by Mary Kubica

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by Elle Cosimano

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by Anna Carey

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by Barclay, Linwood

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by Mary Kubica

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by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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by Carolyn Lee Adams

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by Linda Castillo

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by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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by Linwood Barclay

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by Lynn Weingarten

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by Linda Castillo

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by Linda Castillo

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by Linda Castillo

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by Linda Castillo

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by Linda Castillo

A Baby Before Dawn by Linda CastilloChapter One4:00 a.m., August 27 hours since the blackout beganIt was going t...

by Kate Carlisle

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by Lee Bross

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by Kate Carlisle

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by Mary Higgins Clark

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by Carlisle, Kate

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by Gretchen McNeil

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by Kate Carlisle

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by Kate Carlisle

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by Carlisle, Kate

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by Sara Shepard

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by Sidney Sheldon

ProloguePerho, Finland. The meeting took place in a comfortable weatherproofed cabin in a remote wooded area two hundred miles from Helsinki. The members of the Western branch of the Committee had arrived discreetly at irregular...

by Sidney Sheldon

Chapter OneBOOK ONEChapter OneThursday, September 10, 1992 8:00 P.M.The 727 was lost in a sea of cumulus clouds that tossed the plane around like a giant silver feather. The pilot's worried voice came over the speaker."Is y...

by Sidney Sheldon

PrologueCONFIDENTIAL MINUTES TO ALL OPERATION PERSONNEL: DESTROY IMMEDIATELY AFTER READING.LOCATION: CLASSIFIEDDATE: CLASSIFIEDTHERE WERE TWELVE MENin the heavily guarded underground chamber, representing twelve far-flung countries. They ...

by Sidney Sheldon

Author's NoteThis is a work of fiction. And yet .The romantic land of flamenco and Don Quixote and exotic-looking senoritas with tortoiseshell combs in their hair is also the land of Torquemada, the Spanish Inquisition, and...

by Sidney Sheldon

Chapter 1At the age of seventeen, working as a delivery boy at Afremow's drugstore in Chicago was the perfect job, because it made it possible for me to steal enough sleeping pills to commit suicide. I was not certain ex...

by Sidney Sheldon

chapter OneAT TEN MINUTES before eleven in the morning, the sky exploded into a carnival of white confetti that instantly blanketed the city. The soft snow turned the already frozen streets of Manhattan to gray slush and the ...

by Sidney Sheldon

PROLOGUEUetendorf, SwitzerlandSUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH, 1550 HOURSThe witnesses standing at the edge of the field were staring in horrified silence, too stunned to speak. The scene that lay before them was grotesque, a primeval nightm...

by Sidney Sheldon

Chapter 1The first entry in Leslie Stewart's diary read:Dear Diary: This morning I met the man I am going to marry.It was a simple, optimistic statement, with not the slightest portent of the dramatic chain of events that...

by Sidney Sheldon

Chapter OneSomeone was following her. She had read about stalkers, but they belonged in a different, violent world. She had no idea who it could be, who would want to harm her. She was trying desperately hard not to panic, ...

by Sidney Sheldon

Chapter OneNEW YORK: SEPTEMBER 4, 1969The hunters were closing in for the kill.Two thousand years ago in Rome, the contest would have been staged at the Circus Neronis or the Colosseum, where voracious lions would have been st...

by Sidney Sheldon

PrologueSan Francisco Spring 1995District Attorney Carl Andrews was in a fury. "What the hell is going on here?" he demanded. "We have three doctors living together and working at the same hospital. One of them almost gets an...

by Sidney Sheldon

Chapter OneDmitri asked, ' you know we're being followed, NIT Stanfordt '.' He had been aware of them for the past twenty-four hours. The two men and the woman were dressed casually, attempting to blend in with...

by Sidney Sheldon

PROLOGUELEXI TEMPLETON'S HANDS TREMBLED AS SHE READ THE letter. Sitting on the bed in her wedding dress, in what had once been her great-grandmother's bedroom, her quick mind began to race.Think. You don't have much ...

by Sidney Sheldon

PrologueKowloon - May 1949"It must look like an accident. Can you arrange that?"It was an insult. He could feel the anger rising in him. That was a question you asked some amateur you picked up from the streets. He was temp...

by Sidney Sheldon

PROLOGUEKate 1982The large ballroom was crowded with familiar ghosts come to help celebrate her birthday. Kate Blackwell watched them mingle with the flesh-and-blood people, and in her mind, the scene was a dreamlike fantasy as ...

by Sidney Sheldon

Chapter 01New OrleansTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20 - 11:00 P.M.She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would notshow. Doris Whitney looked around the bedroom ...

by Sidney Sheldon

Chapter 1BOOK ONEChapter 1Istanbul.Saturday, September 5.Ten p.m.He was seated in the dark, alone, behind the desk of Hajib Kafir, staring unseeingly out of the dusty office window at the timeless minarets of Istanbul. He was a...

by Sidney Sheldon

PROLOGUEBerlin, GermanySONJA VERBRUGGE HAD no idea that this was going to be her last day on earth. She was pushing her way through the sea of summer tourists overflowing the busy sidewalks of Unter den Linden.Don't panic,...

by Sidney Sheldon

PROLOGUENEW YORK, DECEMBER 15, 2009THE DAY OF RECKONING HAD ARRIVED.The gods had demanded a sacrifice. A human sacrifice. In ancient Roman times, when the city was at war, captured enemy leaders would have been ritually strangle...

by Sidney Sheldon

PROLOGUEOn a Saturday morning in November in 1969, a series of bizarre and inexplicable events occurred aboard the fifty-five-thousand-ton luxury liner S.S. Bretagne as it was preparing to sail from the Port of New York to Le ...