Dead at First Sight

Author: Emory Clark
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664185674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 227

Book Description
Billy Morgan, an exemplary beer salesman for a northwest brewery and a single parent, sort of, witnesses an attempted murder along the freeway on his way to work. He sees the victim throw a large black suitcase from a high overpass just as the victim is getting shot. Billy calls the police with details from the scene, including the license number of the car, but doesn't mention the suitcase. He knows there must be something worth dying for in it, and he knows where it probably landed. Much-to-quickly, he decides to be the first one to look inside. It was a decision, that changes his life ---not necessarily for the good. As you may guess, there is a treasure inside, worth millions, but it had been ill gained, and later re-stolen by hardened criminals. Possessing it takes Billy into new-found enemy territory and puts his life in jeopardy. It does, however, introduce him to the beautiful woman of his dreams, who, years earlier, was coerced into marriage by -- and to -- a wealthy gangster, and longs for a strong sweet honest man like Billy. And then, along comes Billy! They communicate by phone daily; she lives in another country, Through "Face Time" they fall deeply and madly in love. When at last he travels to meet her, Billy discovers that her jealous husband, who also was one of the owners of the missing fortune he now secretly possesses , knows all about his wife's "clandestine plans," and hires a thug who kills her-- or thinks he does? Could she really be dead at first sight?

Dead at First Sight: a Roy Grace Novel 15

Author: Peter James
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 1509816410
Category : Brighton (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
It is clear that nothing is as it seems when Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to investigate the suicide of a woman in Brighton. As his inquiries continue, a handsome motivational speaker living in the area comes forward. He's discovered his identity is being used to scam eleven different women who are looking for love online. The first he knew of it was a phone call from one of them out of the blue. That woman is now dead. Roy Grace realizes he is looking at the tip of an iceberg: a global empire built on clever, cruel internet scams and the murder of anyone who threatens to expose them.

Dead at First Sight

Author: Peter James
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1509816429
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 489

Book Description
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace exposes the dark side of internet dating in the intriguing crime novel Dead at First Sight, by award winning author Peter James. A man waits at a London airport for the love of his life to arrive. Across the Atlantic, a retired cop waits in a bar in Florida’s Key West for his first date with the lady who is his soulmate. The two men are about to discover they’ve been scammed out of almost every penny they have in the world – and that neither women exist. In the same week, Roy Grace is called to investigate the suicide of a woman in Brighton, that is clearly not what it seems. As his investigations continue, a handsome motivational speaker comes forward. He’s discovered his identity is being used to scam eleven different women online. The first he knew of it was a phone call from one of them saying, ‘You don’t know me, but I thought I knew you’. That woman is now dead. Roy Grace realizes he is looking at the tip of an iceberg. Can he bring down the murderous global empire built on clever, cruel internet scams? Although the Roy Grace novels can be read in any order, Dead at First Sight is the fifteenth title in the bestselling series. Discover more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Find Them Dead and Left You Dead. Now a major ITV series, Grace, starring John Simm.

Dead at First Sight

Author: Peter James
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509816392
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
It is clear that nothing is as it seems when Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to investigate the suicide of a woman in Brighton. As his investigations continue, a handsome Brighton motivational speaker comes forward. He's discovered his identity is being used to scam eleven different women, online

You Are Dead

Author: Peter James
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250074584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
In Peter James' You Are Dead, the last words Jamie Ball hears from his fiancée, Logan Somervile, are in a terrified mobile phone call from her. She has just driven into the underground car park beneath the apartment block where they live in Brighton, and seen a man acting strangely. Then she screams and the phone goes dead. The police are on the scene within minutes, but Logan has vanished, leaving behind her neatly parked car and cell phone. That same afternoon, workmen digging up an old asphalt path in a park in another part of the city, unearth the remains of a young woman in her early twenties, who has probably been dead for 30 years. At first, to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and his Major Crime Team, these two events seem totally unconnected. But then another young woman in Brighton goes missing and another body from the past surfaces. At the same time a strange man visits an eminent London psychiatrist, claiming to have a piece of information on the missing woman, Logan, that turns out, at first, to be wrong-or so it seems. It is only later Roy Grace makes the chilling realization that this one thing is the key to both the past and the present-and now, beyond any doubt, he knows that Brighton has its first ever serial killer.

Find Them Dead

Author: Peter James
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1529004349
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474

Book Description
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace unearths a powerful criminal network in the sinister crime novel Find Them Dead, by award winning author Peter James. Ending his secondment to London’s Met Police, Roy Grace gets a tip-off about a drugs mastermind operating out of Brighton. On his first day back in his old job, he is called to a seemingly senseless murder. Gradually, Grace’s investigation draws him into the evil sphere of an utterly ruthless drug dealer on trial. A man prepared to order the death of anyone it takes to enable him to walk free from court. Sitting in the jury is Meg Magellan, whose daughter's life is being threatened by a stranger who tells her that if she ever wants to see her alive again, it is very simple. At the end of the trial, all she has to do is make sure the jury says just two words . . . Not guilty. Although the Roy Grace novels can be read in any order, Find Them Dead is the sixteenth title in the bestselling series. Discover more of the Brighton detective’s investigations with Left You Dead. Now a major ITV series, Grace, starring John Simm.

At First Sight

Author: Nicholas Sparks
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 0759514380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
In this #1 New York Times bestselling follow-up to True Believer, a young couple's love faces the ultimate test when the past disrupts the life and family they've built together. There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettling and mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain of events that will forever change the course of this young couple's marriage. Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story about the love between a man and a woman and between a parent and a child. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays how the same emotion that can break your heart is also the one that will ultimately heal it. While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and Jeremy Marsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of that novel, it stands on its own as one of Nicholas Sparks's most deeply moving love stories.

Dead at First Sight

Author: Christie Marquess
Publisher: Tamsin Baker
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
Needing a change in life, the last thing I wanted to do was solve a murder. When a lawyer approached me regarding inheriting a grand estate in a small town across the ocean, I didn't want to believe him. But then he said my mother's murder needed solving. What was he talking about? The only thing I knew about my mother's death was that it was an accident. In Provence, where everyone knew everyone, I found myself drawn to the intricacies of the daily lives of the townsfolk, a hidden, abandoned cottage and a stray cat. I knew this wasn't going to be easy, but the more I investigated my mother's murder, the more my life was at stake, until a motorcycle accident had me down on my knees begging for my life – just like my mother's last moments. Dead at First Sight is the first of a 6 book paranormal cozy mystery series.

At First Sight

Author: Stephen J. Cannell
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458766802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
A dot.com millionaire's obsession with a young married woman spirals homicidally out of control, leading to the destruction of everything he holds dear.

The Shadow of the Wind

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101147067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512

Book Description
The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.