Fifteen-year-old Christine is visiting her eccentric great-aunt in historic Witcombe, where a pickpocket has been victimizing tourists. Aunt Maude owns an antique store and also runs the town’s ghost walk, which gives Christine the opportunity to meet local characters and visitors, including a mysterious young man who seems to know far too much about the crimes. When the pickpocket targets Aunt Maude’s store, Christine is determined to find out who is behind the thefts. Her search takes her through the nooks and crannies of the quaint town full of stories, and she unearths more than one surprise.
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She was a vision.
Now she has to mastermind two impossible cases, trying to find the hidden truth that links the two of them. Phillip Margolin, the master of the legal thriller, returns in one of his twistiest, most compelling crime novels yet.
His photo ID read RODNEY C. ARNOLD. Smilow flashed his badge again. “I need to question the people brought in with food poisoning from Charles Towne Plaza.” “Question them about what?” “They could be material witnesses to a murder that ...
A STRANGER IN HIS BED Millionaire Mick Reilly was desperate to prove his innocence.
Alibi smiles, but he shakes his head. "Thanks," he says to Thomas. "Thank you very much. But I'm not sure you should. It could be dangerous." Thomas laughs. "Really? More dangerous than an old ex-actor holding you at gunpoint, huh?
In a historical thriller set in 1946 Venice, Adam Miller, a U.S. Army war crimes investigator, confronts a city still at war with itself and haunted by the atrocities of the recent past, when he falls in love with a Jewish woman.
Epic and yet intimate, a seamless blend of fact and fiction based on a little-known episode of the war, The Alibi Club is a thriller of fierce and complex suspense by a writer whose own life in the spy world makes espionage come uniquely ...
The Marriage Hearse, his account of that wild winter’s night, was judged “one of the funniest, smartest, and most generous novels about marriage from a male point of view.” (Phyllis Rose, The Nation) Now, eight years older in The ...
ALIBI JONES is searching for a kidnapped friend with the help of the mysterious alien Dakhur named Kit, and the man known as Piccolo.