Edited by Andrew F. Gulli and Lamia J. Gulli. S&S/Touchstone, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4516-0737-6
Twenty-six of the best-known names in the business—including Jeffery Deaver, Faye Kellerman, Alexander McCall Smith, Kathy Reichs, Thomas H. Cook, and Lisa Scottoline—contribute chapters to this modestly entertaining "who-really-done-it." In 2000,...
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Sandra Brown, Author . Warner $25.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-446-52713-2
Style and form are usually the least of prolific bestselling romance/thriller writer Brown's concerns, but in her latest effort she takes on an unusual challenge, setting out to craft a novel within a novel within a novel. The onion begins to...
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Sandra Brown, Author . Warner $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-52704-0
Brown's latest thriller pits the infamous Ricky Lozada, an unscrupulous killer for hire, against Wick Threadgill, a wily, disgruntled detective on leave from the force. Threadgill's former partner, Oren Wesley, lures him back with the news...
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Sandra Brown, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4552-4
Cue another run up the charts for bestselling Brown (The Crush), who knows just the right mix to spin: a second-chance-at-love theme rocked by the rhythms of families-in-jeopardy and the hip-hop beat of an at-risk teen subplot sure to alarm the most
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Sandra Brown, Author . Simon &Schuster $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4553-1
White-hot labor disputes, family conflict, murder and romance are ablaze in bestselling Brown's latest romantic thriller (after Hello, Darkness
), when Sayre Lynch returns to Destiny, La., for her brother Danny's funeral. Estranged from her...
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Sandra Brown, Author . Doubleday $25.95 (389p) ISBN 978-0-7432-4554-8
Lust, jealousy and murder suffuse Brown's crisp thriller (after White Hot
), set in the snowbound mountains of North Carolina. Lilly and Dutch Burton's marriage didn't withstand the loss of their three-year-old daughter, despite their...
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Sandra Brown, Author . Simon & Schuster $25.95 (385p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8933-7
No one does steamy suspense like Brown (Chill Factor
), as shown by this expert mix of spicy romance and sharply crafted crime drama. Det. Sgt. Duncan Hatcher, a sexy Savannah homicide cop, falls hard for Elise Laird, a dishy damsel-in-distress, the
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Sandra Brown, Author . Simon & Schuster $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8935-1
The seven deadly sins help propel this provocative, sex-fueled thriller from bestseller Brown (Ricochet
). Foster Speakman, an eccentric Texas paraplegic millionaire, offers $500,000 to Griff Burkett, a disgraced former NFL quarterback fresh out of...
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Sandra Brown, Author Simon & Schuster $26.95 (398p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6306-8
At the start of this scorching if somewhat formulaic thriller from bestseller Brown (Play Dirty
), Charleston, S.C., TV reporter Britt Shelley wakes up in bed next to the dead body of police detective Jay Burgess. While Jay had been diagnosed with...
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Sandra Brown, Author . Simon & Schuster $26.95 (367p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6308-2
This superlative romantic thriller from bestseller Brown (Smoke Screen
) features a particularly memorable villain, sociopath Creighton Wheeler, who’s obsessed with re-enacting scenes from films like Strangers on a Train
and Frenzy
. When...
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Sandra Brown, Author . Simon & Schuster $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4391-7277-3
Bestseller Brown (Smash Cut
) brings Depression-era Texas to vivid life in this poignant short novel. At the recommendation of Dr. Murdy Kincaid, Ella Barron, a hardworking woman whose husband deserted her, accepts David Rainwater, a relative of the
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Sandra Brown, Author Doubleday $16.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-385-41388-6
This slick contemporary romance focuses on a second member of the Texas Tyler family, the clan first seen in Texas! Lucky . It is a switch on the hoary scenario of boy loves girl, loses girl, wins girl: in these feminist times it is the girl (here a
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Sandra Brown, Author Doubleday $18 (343p) ISBN 978-0-385-41581-1
This final novel in the Tyler trilogy (begun in Texas! Lucky ) is summer-reading fluff; a few interesting plot twists, stereotypical but amusing characters and situations, and the factory-made happy ending. Headstrong Sage Tyler expects an...
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Sandra Brown, Author Warner Books Inc $32 (403p) ISBN 978-0-446-51654-9
Set in atmospheric New Orleans, Brown's ( Breath of Scandal ; Mirror Image ) latest highly entertaining novel again demonstrates her mastery of the romantic suspense genre. When evangelist Jackson Wilde is murdered in his hotel room, handsome,...
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Sandra Brown, Author Warner Books Inc $21.95 (405p) ISBN 978-0-446-51656-3
Soap opera star Cat Delaney gets a new heart--literally and figuratively speaking--in bestseller Brown's ( French Silk ; Where There's Smoke ) latest contemporary romance. The heart transplant that beautiful, arrogant Cat endures in the first...
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Sandra Brown, Author Warner Books Inc $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-446-51978-6
The newborn son of the president and the first lady has died suddenly. Was his death a tragic consequence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)-or was it murder? Brown (The Witness) pulls out the stops in this nimbly plotted political thriller that
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Sandra Brown, Author Warner Books Inc $24 (464p) ISBN 978-0-446-51632-7
New Orleans police lieutenant Burke Basile has nothing left to lose. He mistakenly shot his best friend and partner in the midst of a drug raid; now he has found his wife in the shower with another man. Hungry for justice, Basile resigns his job in...
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Sandra Brown, Author Warner Books Inc $30 (439p) ISBN 978-0-446-51979-3
A 20-year-old unsolved murder in a small East Texas town sets the stage for this fast-paced and romantically charged, if stiffly written, thriller, the latest (after Fat Tuesday) from the prolific Brown. Everyone in Blewer, Tex., assumes that the...
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Sandra Brown, Author Warner Books Inc $33 (496p) ISBN 978-0-446-51980-9
The prolific Brown (Unspeakable) undoubtedly has another bestseller in her latest suspense novel, which catches its protagonist in a tricky ethical situation. When Charleston real estate developer Lute Pettijohn is murdered in the penthouse suite of
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Sandra Brown, Author Warner Books Inc $28 (224p) ISBN 978-0-446-52701-9
Workaholic Dallas TV reporter Tiel McCoy thought she would take a well-earned vacation, but while driving to a secluded condo in New Mexico, she hears a radio report that changes her plans. Teenager Sabra Dendy, only daughter of Fort Worth...
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Sandra Brown, Author Warner Books Inc $32 (480p) ISBN 978-0-446-52703-3
With some 60 novels, including 40-plus bestsellers already to her credit, it seems a sure bet that this new romantic thriller will not blemish Brown's phenomenal track record. On a whim, the same day she is artificially inseminated at a Dallas...
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Sandra Brown, Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4165-6310-5
Introduced in 2009's Smash Cut, Atlanta PI Dodge Hanley makes this entertaining, if slightly talky romantic thriller from bestseller Brown a must-read for anyone who appreciates a tough guy hero with a heart of gold. Late one night Dodge receives a...
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Sandra Brown, Author Grand Central Publishing $7.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-446-35963-4
Jade Sperry's entire professonal life is dedicated to one purpose: revenge. As a pretty and intelligent high school senior she is raped by three classmates, an attack instigated by Neal Patchett, the son of the most powerful man in Palmetto, S.C. No
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Sandra Brown, Author Grand Central Publishing $32 (417p) ISBN 978-0-446-51655-6
Readers who miss TV's Dallas will love the latest fast-paced romance from the author of the bestselling Mirror Image and French Silk. The Tackett oil clan of Eden Pass in East Texas, dominated by hard-driving widow Jody, managed to weather the sex-sc
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Sandra Brown, Author Grand Central Publishing $7.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-446-60034-7
Brown's fast-paced melodrama portrays a family oil empire in East Texas. Literary Guild main selection in cloth . (May)
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Sandra Brown, Author Grand Central Publishing $30 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-51631-0
Through a mosaic of tantalizing clues, premonitions and withheld identities, Brown (Charade) has created another page-turner to ensure her phenomenal popularity. This story pivots on the relationship between Kendall Deaton Burnwood, an idealistic...
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Sandra Brown, Author Warner Books $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-446-60330-0
Brown's latest thriller, in which an idealistic public defender discovers a terrible secret about her new husband, spent 11 weeks on PW's bestseller list. (July)
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $26.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4555-0147-2
At the start of this pulse-pounding thriller from bestseller Brown (Tough Customer), Honor Gillette is baking cupcakes in the kitchen of her Tambour, La., home when her four-year-old daughter, Emily, tells her a bloodied man is outside in the yard....
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $26.99 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4555-0155-7
In this breathless romantic thriller from bestseller Brown (Lethal), Bellamy Price hopes that her debut novel, the pseudonymous Low Pressure, will be therapeutic. Instead, Low Pressure reopens many old wounds in Austin, Tex., after Bellamy’s...
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4555-0151-9
Domestic terrorism provides the backdrop for this uneven romantic thriller from bestseller Brown (Low Pressure). Dawson Scott, a veteran journalist traumatized by his work in Afghanistan, rejects the fluff piece his editor urges him to write, and...
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4555-8112-2
At the start of this solid novel of romantic suspense from bestseller Brown (Deadline), heiress Emory Charbonneau, a successful Atlanta-based pediatrician, disappears while training for a marathon; the police, along with her colleagues and husband,...
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Sandra Brown. Severn, $28.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8337-7
Three days after Kyla Stroud, the heroine of this overwrought romance novel, gives birth to a son, Aaron, in a Texas hospital, she learns that her husband, Sgt. Richard Stroud, has perished in a terrorist attack on the American embassy in Cairo,...
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4555-8116-0
Bestseller Brown's highly recognizable brand of romantic suspense is on full display as the fates of rugged Texas Ranger Crawford Hunt and Judge Holly Spencer collide in the courtroom, in the bedroom, and in a desperate attempt to save reputations...
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $26 (300p) ISBN 978-1-455-58120-7
This exceptional romantic thriller from bestseller Brown (Friction) pairs Shaw Kinnard, a handsome hired killer, and his beautiful target, Jordie Bennett, the owner of a New Orleans event-planning business, in a spirited contest of wills and wiles....
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Sandra Brown, Author, Natalie Ross, Performed by , read by Natalie Ross. Brilliance Audio $39.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4418-1367-1
Brown's 16-year-old romance novel delivers a fair amount of heavy-breathing, which might be enough to satisfy her fans in spite of a contrived plot that includes, near the end, an unbelievable action-adventure sequence set in the Caribbean. The
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Sandra Brown, read by Renée Raudman, Brilliance Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4418-2696-1
When her sister's abusive husband dies, and then her sister dies in childbirth, Kathryn Adams takes her newborn niece and hides her from the child's wealthy and overbearing grandparents. Jason Manning, her brother-in-law, finds Kathryn, determined...
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Sandra Brown, read by Victor Slezak. Hachette Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $34.98 ISBN 978-1-60941-917-2
In Brown’s latest romantic thriller, beautiful young widow Honor Gillette and her four-year-old daughter, Emily, wind up on the run through coastal Louisiana with a suspected mass murderer named Lee Coburn. Given the genre, it should come as no...
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Sandra Brown, Author, Dennis Boutsikaris, Read by , read by Dennis Boutsikaris. S&S Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7435-5424-4
A sultry noir in contemporary clothes, this tight new thriller from Brown plays like measured chaos. The plot is twisting, the characters are well shaded, and Brown manipulates each string with a skilled hand, creating a story that will keep...
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Edited by Sandra Brown. Mira, $24.95 (608p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1344-1
If a person is known by the company she keeps, then the company of the 30 romance and suspense writers in this stellar all-original anthology speaks volumes about bestseller Brown. From Lori Armstrong’s sexy “Holding Mercy” to Vicki Hinze’s sweet “We
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Multiple writers, read by multiple narrators. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 9 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-4808-0
Twenty-six writers and six narrators join forces in the audio edition of this twisted tale of greed, betrayal, and murder. It’s been a decade since Rosemary Thomas was executed for the murder of her husband. But former police detective Jon Nunn—whose
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Edited by Lee Child. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4159-1
Each of the 11 collaborative tales in this stellar sequel to the International Thriller Writers’ anthology FaceOff (2014) pairs a top-rank female thriller writer with a male counterpart. Sandra Brown’s Lee Coburn and C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett send...
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4555-7210-6
Combustible relations between a strong man with seemingly serious flaws and a beautiful, smart woman with unexpected strengths elevate this novel of romantic suspense from bestseller Brown (Sting). TV journalist Kerra Bailey wants to interview Maj....
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $29 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5201-2
Early in this overly long romantic suspense novel from bestseller Brown (Blind Tiger), Kate Lennon, a “smart, savvy, ambitious state prosecutor,” arrives at the door of Zach Bridger, a former professional football player who lives in splendid...
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $28 (512p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5196-1
Set in 1920, this superior thriller from bestseller Brown (Thick as Thieves) firmly anchors all the action in the plot. Laurel Plummer, the mother of an infant, is stuck in a remote shack with her father-in-law near the little town of Foley, Tex.,...
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $28 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5387-5194-7
Arden Maxwell, the heroine of this taut novel of romantic suspense from bestseller Brown (Outfox), returns to Penton, Tex., after an absence of 20 years. In 2000, Arden was in grade school when she and her college-age sister, Lisa, left town,...
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4555-7219-9
FBI special agent Drex Easton, the hero of this engrossing thriller from bestseller Brown (Tailspin), is obsessed with catching a serial killer who has preyed on wealthy single women for more than 30 years. The cunning murderer, who uses various...
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Sandra Brown. Grand Central, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4555-7216-8
Early in this suspenseful romantic thriller from bestseller Brown (Seeing Red), “freight dog” pilot Rye Mallett agrees to fly a small plane in foggy weather into a remote area of northern Georgia to deliver a black box to Nathaniel Lambert, a doctor
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