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Forced to give up her career as a dentist, and still unemployed a year later, Valentina Knight has finally run out of options. With foreclosure looming she acts in desperation, lying to get a position as an assistant to the county medical examiner. Val's relieved. She won't be homeless. But Val didn't count on the lie trapping her in a dangerous game with a killer. Val quickly becomes involved in the case of Francine Donohue, who disappeared from her neighborhood and is discovered dead six months later. The bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder are not the first of their kind.

When his father leaves town, 12-year-old Rodney Culver's mother takes up with Otis Dell, a fry cook at the local diner - and a well-known petty thief. While Rodney resists the man's influence at first, Otis soon draws the boy into his small-time criminal world. After a simple heist goes violently wrong, Rodney becomes an unwitting fugitive, swept away from his mother to the primitive mountain sanctuary of the mysterious Lester Fanning.

I wrote the following book to help you understand what your mother or grandmother and I have attempted to accomplish. Our mission is to convert evil to good or do good. In helping the helpless, I made enemies, formidable enemies. At times, I felt like evil was ever-present in and around us. My enemies pursued, overtook, and were close to killing me when unknown persons kept me alive. I survived and helped a few others from impending death by my enemies with hope, love, and eliminating my enemies before they eliminated me.

When Detective Mike West is called to investigate a murder in a Dublin graveyard, suspicion immediately falls on a local woman, Edel Johnson, whose husband disappeared some months before. But then she disappears. Evidence leads West to a small village in Cornwall, but when he arrives, he finds Edel has got there before him. Her explanation seems to make sense, but as West begins to think his suspicions of her are unfounded, she disappears again. Is she guilty? West, fighting an unsuitable attraction, doesn't want to believe it.

The Inspiration for the film starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, and Henry Golding. Don't miss the sequel, Another Simple Favor, streaming soon on Prime Video! ""Riveting and brilliantly structured, A Simple Favor is an edge-of-your seat domestic thriller.""—Kimberly McCreight, New York...

After three years in Mississippi State Penitentiary, Carl O'Donell re-enters society with simple plans: get back to work pushing drugs and keeping an eye on his younger brother, Jimmy. He quickly learns that Jimmy been committed after yet another failed suicide attempt, and his old boss is dead at the hands of Mexican drug lord Armando Vega. Carl's only way to quick cash and a fresh start is through Armando. He hires Carl for a simple assignment of busting up a rival meth lab that turns complicated and deadly.

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From the author of The Ruins comes his debut New York Times bestselling thriller A SIMPLE PLAN Read by Griffin Dunne Hank Mitchell thought he lived an ordinary, ordered life. But on one chilly afternoon, Hank, his brother Jacob, and Jacob's unsavory pal Lou, make a discovery that offers a chance...

Meet Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on his unforgettable first major case by award winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman. It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom has disappeared and his friends are dead. With only three days to the...

Winsconsin, automne 1907. Ralph Truitt, magnat local craint et respecté, attend, fébrile, sur un quai de gare enneigé. Ce train en retard renferme son dernier espoir. Après vingt ans de veuvage, l'homme a enfin décidé de se remarier et a placé plusieurs mois auparavant une petite annonce dans un journal de Chicago. Catherine Land a répondu. Se décrivant comme "une femme simple et honnête", elle est celle qu'il appelait de tous ces vœux. Mais les apparences peuvent être très trompeuses. Et l'épouse modèle cacher bien des secrets.

Emily hat alles, was man sich wünschen kann: einen glamourösen Job in New York, ein geschmackvolles Haus und einen attraktiven Mann. Und eine beste Freundin: Stephanie, die sie für all das bewundert. Als Emily Stephanie bittet, ihren Sohn Nick für sie von der Schule abzuholen, tut sie ihr diesen Gefallen gerne. Doch niemand kommt, um Nick wieder bei ihr abzuholen - und Stephanie ist außer sich vor Sorge. Aber je länger Emily verschwunden bleibt, desto mehr entdeckt Stephanie die Situation als Chance für sich.

It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. A few hours later, four of his best friends are dead, and Michael Harrison has disappeared. With only three days to the wedding, Detective Superintendent Grace - a man haunted by the shadow of his own missing wife - is contacted by Michael's beautiful, distraught fiancée, Ashley Harper. Grace discovers that the one man who ought to know Michael Harrison's whereabouts is saying nothing. But then, he has a lot to gain - more than anyone realizes.