diversion publishing ips jan 2015 (14 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - How far would you go to save your life and your world After a nasty divorce, single mother Joanne Lessing finally has her life together, and she's made a name for herself as a photographer. Then, while on assignment, she witnesses a hit and run. Property damage only. No big deal, she thinks. So she does the right thing--calls the cops. Joanne is dismayed when FBI agents arrive with the local detective. They admit the hit and run driver was a mob killer fleeing the scene of his latest hit. Joanne is relieved to find she can't really identify the hit man. But when she sees the killer again while on another assignment, she takes his picture and finds her new life and her son's future threatened. Caught between the Mob and the FBI, she's on her own.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Arson, passion, and religious fanaticism set Chicago ablaze in the deadliest summer on record. While jogging through Chicago's Lincoln Park, Dr. Jack Caleb runs into murder--a mob setting a police car on fire--with the officer still inside. Caleb rescues the man, but later the cop's partner is found stoned to death. Detective John Thinnes is assigned to investigate. Evidence points toward members of a charismatic church, but too many of them die in arson fires before the cops can round them up. When arson kills the apparent ring leader, it's too much coincidence. The remaining cop killers plead guilty; the case seems to be closed. But as Chicago heats up in the deadliest summer on record, it becomes clear that a serial arsonist is still at large. A physician friend of Caleb's is implicated when some of the fire victims are found to have been drugged. To exonerate the man, Caleb sets a trap for the killer, and Thinnes and Caleb are nearly incinerated when the doctor's trap brings the case to a fiery finish.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Sylvia Halliday's well-crafted tale will both inspire and pull at your heartstrings.' --RT BOOK REVIEWSSeeking to ease her ailing father's mind as his body fails him in his final days, Callie Southgate agrees to marry the mail-order groom coming to Colorado from back east. When she meets her husband, she is timid around the handsome but mysterious man. But when they marry, she finds passion she never knew in his embrace.Jace Greer, a con-man and bank robber, is given the perfect opportunity to start over when the stagecoach carrying a mail-order groom is ambushed, leaving Callie's future husband dead. Taking on the deceased man's identity as his own, Jace continues to the Southgate home with the hope of leaving his murderous past behind him.But as true love blooms between Jace and Callie, secrets Jace tried to keep buried begin to surface, threatening their futures--and their lives.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - '[A] powerful romance brimming over with intense emotions and dark passions. Readers will be captivated from first page to last.' --RT BOOK REVIEWSAllegra Baniard is a passionate young woman who lives for only one thing--revenge. Her family had been branded traitors and banished from Shropshire. After eight tormented years as an indentured servant in the Colonies, she returns incognito to the ancestral home of her once-noble family, vowing to avenge them all. But when she meets Greyston Morgan, the new owner of Baniard Hall, he ignites desires inside of her that burn as hot as her fiery rage.Caught between her own love and hatred for her enemies, Allegra must decide whether to destroy them and give up her own chance for happiness, or surrender to the flame of passion between her and Grey, and betray the ghosts of her long-dead family.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale.' --RT BOOK REVIEWSBorn the illegitimate daughter of a great French nobleman, Ninon knew only a harsh life of cruelty and hardship. It isn't until the dashing Count of Froissart, Philippe, whisks her off to a different world that she begins to hope for a better future.But she soon learns her new life is hollow, promising unhappiness, not joy. A slave to his powerful title and an unbreakable marriage vow, Philippe's love remains just beyond Ninon's reach. In despair, she runs away and joins a traveling acting company. Can she dare give her heart to Valentin, the handsome and cunning rogue and actor who rules the troupe.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale.' --RT BOOK REVIEWS Armed only with her wavering courage and her fear that her brother has been captured during the Huguenot uprising against Louis XIII, Marielle Saint-Juste enters the Rebel prison to search him out. But it isn't her wounded brother she finds, but a mysterious stranger--and her destiny. In the darkest shadows of a French dungeon, love illuminates a brilliant path for two hearts. Marielle and Andre will face their deepest fears and trials, but their lives will be forever changed.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Two unlikely partners join forces to solve a murder disguised as suicide and catch a killer ready to strike again. Gold Coast psychiatrist Jack Caleb is wealthy, cultured, and gay. When one of his clients is found dead in a locked apartment--apparently from a self-inflicted wound--burned-out Chicago detective John Thinnes doesn't believe it was suicide. And Caleb is inclined to agree. But Thinnes regards a shrink who makes house calls suspicious and starts his murder investigation with the doctor himself. An attack on Caleb that's made to look like an accidental drug overdose starts to change the detective's mind. Soon, the two men find themselves a whirlwind of theft, scandal, and blackmail. Forced into an unlikely partnership, they'll have to confront not only a killer, but hard truths within themselves that will change them forever.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - ¿¿¿¿¿¿The art world is the backdrop when a controversial artist reaches the end of his fifteen minutes of fame. Native American artist Blue Mountain Cat has a style described as 'Andy Warhol meets Jonathan Swift in Indian country.' When he's murdered at an exclusive showing in a conservative art museum, Detective John Thinnes has no shortage of suspects. Targets of the artist's satire included a greedy developer, a beautiful Navajo woman, and black-market antiquities dealers. Even the victim's wife merits investigation. Thinnes drafts psychiatrist Jack Caleb to guide him through the terra incognita of the art world, and their investigation turns up a desperate museum director, a savage critic, a married mistress, and shady dealings by the artist's partner. Thinnes and Caleb connect several apparently unrelated deaths as they follow leads from Wisconsin to Chicago's South Side and the mystery's explosive conclusion.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - An RT BOOK REVIEWS top pick.'Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale.as stubborn lovers enter into a clash of wills on board a ship.' --RT BOOK REVIEWSPrudence Allbright believes Lord Jamie's declarations of love--so much so that she vows to follow him to the Colonies. It is onboard the ship that will take her to him that she meets the honorable Dr. Ross Manning, and a flame of passion ignites.Ross is determined not to defile the memory of his late wife, but night after night he longs to hold Prudence in his arms. When Prudence discovers Jamie has already gone back to England without her, Ross knows he may have only one last chance to claim Prudence as his own. But can love stand against the secrets of Prudence's past.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The murder of a Vietnamese woman in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood brings Caleb and Thinnes together to catch a deadly criminal known only as the White Tiger. The TV news report of a woman's murder in Uptown flashes psychiatrist Dr. Jack Caleb back to his time in Vietnam. Assigned to investigate, Chicago detectives John Thinnes and Don Franchi find the victim's son curiously unmoved by his mother's death. Their preliminary canvass of the dead woman's neighborhood reveals that she was well liked and well off, and she had never quarreled with anyone but her 'good son.' When Thinnes realizes that he knew the victim when he was stationed in Vietnam-twenty-four years earlier-he is pulled off the case. But Thinnes can't let go. And when a schizophrenic man shows up at Mrs. Lee's wake, connecting the deceased to another Vietnam vet and to an unsolved murder in wartime Saigon, Thinnes starts a retrospective investigation of that crime, soliciting Caleb's help to discover the identity of the White Tiger and set a trap for the elusive killer.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale.' --RT BOOK REVIEWS Unable to deny the attraction that simmers between them on the long journey from Canada to France, Delphine, a wild hoyden and the captain's daughter, and Andre, a widower still mourning his lost wife, fall into one another's arms on the last day of the voyage. But after an impassioned night, morning comes, the ship has docked, Delphine wakes alone, and Andre has fled. Scorned, Delphine soon finds herself determined to avenge her broken heart. But a love that will not be denied may confound her journey to Andre's ruin.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - 'Sylvia Halliday spins a marvelous tale.' --RT BOOK REVIEWSLysette, the Marquise de Ferrance, is left penniless after her husband dies. With nowhere else to turn, she ventures across the turbulent French countryside to the safety of her brother's home. But when she meets Andre, Comte du Crillon, her plans change. She cares not that he's married; using her beauty as her weapon, she sets out to seduce him.But little does she know, there's another man in her midst, waiting for the perfect time to take her for himself. It is in his arms that Lysette is destined to find that true love and sanctuary she seeks.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A tale of violent men and violent passions, of missing friends, of loss and love and discovery.The accidental death of Rhiann Fahey's second husband leaves her paralyzed by grief and has her son Jimmy cutting school and drinking. The widow's problems are compounded by unwanted advances from her dead husband's friend. She does her best to cope, returning to work, dealing patiently with Jimmy's misbehavior, telling Rory Sinter she isn't interested.Then a mysterious stranger moves next door. John Devlin offers Rhiann beer and sympathy. He offers Jimmy work.When Sinter tries to discredit John, then beat him to death, Rhiann comes to John's rescue. But she discovers her perfect neighbor isn't what he'd seemed-which leads her to investigate, and to see John in a different light altogether.A beautifully written story with characters who come to life from the first page, M.I.A. shows one more side of Michael Allen Dymmoch's powerful storytelling ability.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - ¿¿¿¿¿¿When a vicious rapist crosses the line into murder, Detective John Thinnes and his prickly new partner draft psychiatrist Jack Caleb to help them track the killer down. When a young woman is brutally raped in the posh Lincoln Park neighborhood, Chicago Police detective John Thinnes catches the case--even though Thinnes hates working rapes. Worse yet, he has to deal with a new female detective who has a chip on her shoulder the size of a 12 gauge shotgun. A second victim is murdered, and the rapes become 'heater cases.' What started as a simple investigation, soon twists around earlier, similar crimes. Tempers flare; the detective squad polarizes across the gender line. Dr. Jack Caleb, a psychiatrist and police consultant, is asked to mediate. But Thinnes's sometime- ally finds himself with conflicts of interest occasioned by their friendship and Caleb's own disturbing case load. The investigation ranges from Chicago's Lincoln Park to the northern Illinois city of Waukegan. And the explosive climax explores not only the karma of evil but the beginning of a beautiful Feline Friendship.