Karen Robards. S&S/Gallery, $25 (328p) ISBN 978-1-4516-7867-3
Set in St. Louis, this spellbinding novel of romantic suspense from bestseller Robards (The Last Victim) stars Samantha “Sam” Jones, a 23-year-old single mother, who struggles to make ends meet by working nights repossessing cars while taking...
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Karen Robards, Author . Pocket $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-671-78653-3
The usual ingredients bubble and boil in Robards's latest romantic suspense thriller. Julie Carlson, once a poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks but now the beautiful owner of a successful boutique in Charleston, S.C., seems to have it...
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Karen Robards, Author Delacorte Press $18.95 (345p) ISBN 978-0-385-30836-6
Robards ( Nobody's Angel ) here mixes suspense with romance, with uneven results. Teacher Rachel Grant, the daughter of a prominent family, agrees to give a former student a job when he gets out of prison after serving 11 years on a murder...
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Karen Robards, Author Delacorte Press $15 (324p) ISBN 978-0-385-30677-5
Set in the Carolinas during the colonial period, this saucy Cinderella story concerns the unexpected seduction of a Methodist minister's plain and practical daughter. Susannah Redmond, who has sacrificed much of her youth to care for her...
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Karen Robards, Author Delacorte Press $19.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-385-31205-9
In her fourth romance, Robards ( This Side of Heaven ) combines elements of wife abuse, sexual secrets and mother love. Lyle and Maggy Forrest and their son David, 11, seem to be a stable, wealthy Kentucky family, but Lyle is physically abusive and...
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Karen Robards, Author Delacorte Press $21.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-385-31034-5
With intriguing twists and turns, Robards's (Maggie's Child) latest is a fast-paced romantic thriller, peopled by down-to-earth characters. The heroine, Summer McAfee-proud owner of Daisy Fresh, a janitorial company-has no inkling of the crazy spin...
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Karen Robards, Author Delacorte Press $23.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-31040-6
When political consultant Tom Quinlan is hired to ""handle"" a politician's troublesome spouse, the spin doctor gets more than he bargained for. The young, unpredictable, Yankee wife of an aging Mississippi senator up for reelection, Ronnie Honneker
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Karen Robards, Author Delacorte Press $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-31038-3
When divorced Chicago anchorwoman Lynn Nelson, 35, signs on to chaperone high school students on a horseback riding vacation in the Utah mountains, she views it as an opportunity to bond with her increasingly estranged teenage daughter, Rory. In the
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Karen Robards. Ballantine, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-53540-5
Bestseller Robards (Sleepwalker) kicks off a paranormal romantic suspense series with this engaging but uneven tale of serial murder and ghosts. When she was 17, Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone was the sole survivor of a horrific attack by the...
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Karen Robards, Author Atria Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-671-78645-8
Set in Kentucky bluegrass country, Robard's latest romance-cum-thriller (after Ghost Moon) is suspenseful and atmospheric, another winner by a doyenne of the bestseller lists. By turns the gory saga of a psychopath with a penchant for burning his...
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Karen Robards. S&S/Gallery, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6658-4
A hardened FBI agent is irresistibly drawn to Riley Cowan, the heroine of this intoxicating blend of romantic suspense and mystery from bestseller Robards (Guilty). Riley Cowan, who grew up poor on Philadelphia's North Side, is acutely aware of the...
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Karen Robards. Mira, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7783-3070-7
This series launch from bestseller Robards (Hush), about a female master thief with highly developed martial arts skills, scores points for energetic storytelling but is marred by an implausible plot, shallow characters, and uninspired dialogue. As...
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Karen Robards. Mira, $26.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7783-3074-5
In bestseller Robard’s exciting follow-up to 2017’s The Ultimatum, master thief Bianca St. Ives has recently discovered an explosive secret about herself, and she’s being hunted by those who are desperate to keep that secret contained. When she...
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Karen Robards, Author . S&S/Gallery $25 (359p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1061-8
In the long-awaited conclusion to the Banning Sisters trilogy (after Irresistible
), Robards reaffirms her skill for addictive Regency romance. In 1817 London, half-British, half-French Neil Severin plies a dangerous trade as the Angel of Death, an...
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Karen Robards, Author . Pocket Star $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7434-1060-1
Moving effortlessly from a merchant ship on the high seas to the glittering ballrooms of London, this exhilarating 19th-century romance is full of swashbuckling suspense and sexual sparks. Hugh Battancourt has all the makings of a true romantic hero&
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Karen Robards, Author . Atria $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5346-2
Like the junkyard mongrel who plays a pivotal role in the plot, this latest by the prolific Robards is a mix of breeds: Southern gothic, suspense and rough-and-tumble romance. It is sweltering summer when recently divorced spitfire Carly Linton...
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Karen Robards, Author . Atria $25 (343p) ISBN 978-0-7434-5348-6
Mob honeys and Jersey capos populate this frothy, fast-paced offering from bestselling Robards. In the beachfront town of Ocracoke on North Carolina's Outer Banks, 27-year-old lawyer Christy Petrino hurries along the dunes to her rental cottage...
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Karen Robards, Author . Putnam $24.95 (372p) ISBN 978-0-399-15202-3
Veteran romance/crime bestseller Robards (Beachcomber
; Whispers at Midnight
) delivers another hold-your-breath drama, this time starring FBI agent Sam McCabe and advertising executive Maddie Fitzgerald. The sardonic hunk and the honey-eyed...
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Karen Robards, Author . Putnam $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15280-1
Combining elements of a Southern gothic, a cozy comedy, a sexy romance and a serial killer thriller, this new offering from Robards (Bait
, etc.) tries to be too many things at once, and the result is a mishmash of familiar devices and recycled...
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Karen Robards, Author . Putnam $24.95 (369p) ISBN 978-0-399-15338-9
Bestseller Robards (Superstition
) opens her latest romantic thriller with a bang by placing her heroine, assistant district attorney Sarah Mason of Beaufort County, S.C., in the midst of a convenience store robbery gone wrong. A cashier is shot to...
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Karen Robards, Author . Putnam $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-399-15416-4
Bestselling Robards (Vanished
, Superstition
, etc.) adds psychological spice to a familiar love-on-the-run plot. While FBI Special Crimes Unit agent Nick Houston goes undercover to track down the drug dealers who killed his sister, ski-masked...
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Karen Robards, Author . Putnam $24.95 (408p) ISBN 978-0-399-15461-4
In this scintillating romantic thriller from bestseller Robards (Obsession
), Kate White, a single mother and Philadelphia ADA, is embarrassed in court when her cellphone goes off during a trial. Just then the defendant pulls out a pistol and...
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Karen Robards, Author . Putnam $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15542-0
Jessica Ford is a young lawyer trying to rise in a powerful Washington, D.C., law firm. Her life gets thrown for a loop when she gets into a car accident that kills the first lady. Jessica wakes in the hospital to find someone trying to kill her as...
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Karen Robards, Author . Putnam $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-15627-4
After Lisa Grant loses her job at a Lexington, Ky., law firm in this seductive romantic thriller from bestseller Robards (Pursuit
), she heads home to Grayson Springs, a once thriving Kentucky horse farm, owned by her mother, who's dying from...
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Karen Robards, Author Avon Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-75888-3
Robards ( Tiger's Eye ) here transposes the tale of Cinderella to a cotton plantation in the antebellum South. Wicked, sexy Celia is cruel to Jessie, the spirited, late-blooming daughter of her deceased husband. The unlikely prince is Clive, a...
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Karen Robards, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-385-31972-0
The fainthearted should be warned: Robards (The Midnight Hour) has crafted a mossy modern gothic drenched in gore. In northern Louisiana, little girls die at the hands of a twisted villain, and the author's detached style makes the killings'...
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Karen Robards, Author Avon Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-380-75889-0
Although this romance makes a promising start by tossing its spirited heroine and roguish hero into an imaginative if improbable situation, it soon flounders in sentimentality (``Did he love her? Oh, she hoped so''). Anna Traverne, a young widow...
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Karen Robards, Author Dell Publishing Company $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-440-21590-5
In this romantic thriller, a female janitor cleaning a funeral home is abducted by a man she'd thought was dead. (Nov.)
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Karen Robards, Author, Robards, Author Delacorte Press $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-31971-3
For Grace Hart, single mother and Juvenile and Domestic Court Judge, it's never a problem sorting out other families' affairs, but when her own 15-year-old daughter, Jessica--recently diagnosed with diabetes and unable to come to terms with her...
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Karen Robards, Author, TBA, Read by, Kate Forbes, Read by Simon & Schuster Audio $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-3376-8
When listeners pop the first tape of this absorbing audio adaptation into their cassette decks, they may get the sense that they've stepped into a movie at the midway point; a murder, a chase and a heated confrontation between hero and heroine...
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Karen Robards. Mira, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-6947-9
As part of an effort to eradicate all evidence of a clandestine government program, a ruthless CIA hit squad targets super thief Bianca St. Ives in bestseller Robards’s stellar third Guardian thriller (after 2018’s The Moscow Deception). Meanwhile,...
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Karen Robards. Mira, $27.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7783-0933-8
Famed, beautiful Parisian singer Genevieve Dumont uses her alliance with the Resistance to rescue her mother from the Nazis in Robards’s thrilling latest (after The Fifth Doctrine). As the darling of Paris’s music scene, Genevieve receives adulation
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