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  The Vacation House Two women. Two secrets. One terrible night. PAXOS, GREECE The vacation house is a luxurious getaway for a wealthy English family, windows open to the sun and the sea, a sparkling swimming pool, and a verdant garden. One hot summer night, while the parents and their friends drink wine and amuse themselves, a young woman—the teenage daughter of the Greek caretaker—ventures for a walk on their private beach. Her life will never be the same again. LONDON, ENGLAND, TEN YEARS LATER Julia is the perfect wife and mother. Slender, blonde, expensively dressed, she's the classic “yummy mummy” of high society: cook, organizer, arm candy, and speechwriter to her influential husband. But behind her winning smile is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage , stricken with anxiety and perfectionism. When Julia meets Laurel, a therapist who promises to help her find fulfillment, Julia opens herself up to the hope of a different future. BOUND BY THE PAST What happened in Greece ...

  Curtain Call (A Dead Cold Mystery Book 30) Detective John Stone is taking early retirement. He has informed the chief, Inspector John Newman; and his partner and wife, Carmen Dehan, is retiring with him. She is pregnant and both Stone and Dehan want a safe, secure environment for their future child. Their sights are set on New England, where Stone will write his memoirs. So the last thing either of them expects is a curtain call from one of Stone's old flames. Yet that is exactly what happens when actress Jane Morley, wife of Dan Santos, known collectively as America's Sweethearts, shows up and asks Stone to investigate a very particular cold case – the brutal murder of her friend and personal assistant, Kate Hagan ten years earlier. . At the time Stone had refused to investigate because he had recently been personally involved with the actress. Now he can't refuse, but as the case unfolds and its dark shadows threaten to engulf his marriage and his future family, he wil...

  Robert B. Parker's Broken Trust (Spenser Book 51) Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world's richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain's beautiful wife, Laura, comes to Spenser hoping that he can find out what skeletons lurk in her husband's closet. Although Crain is a generous philanthropist and loving family man, she is concerned—he has recently become secretive, bordering on paranoid, and prone to violent outbursts. This is the opposite of the man she knew, and not only does his behavior put their marriage at risk, but also a lucrative company merger that would be life-changing for the Crains, their business partner, and everyone associated. Laura wants Spenser to find out what has gotten into her husband, before it's too late. As Spenser digs into the billionaire's past , he realizes that the man may have done terrible things on ...

  The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel AN INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES   BESTSELLER A   NEW YORK TIMES   NOTABLE BOOK NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY   NPR/FRESH AIR ,   WASHINGTON POST ,   THE NEW YORKER , AND   TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 “A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel. . . Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.” —Danez Smith,   The New York Times Book Review “We all need—we all   deserve —this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.” —Ron Charles,   The Washington Post From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick   Deacon King Kong   and the National Book Award–winning   The Good Lord Bird , a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them In 1972, When workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last ...

  The Exchange : After The Firm (The Firm Series Book 2) What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert & Locke and fled the country? The answer is in  The Exchange,  the riveting sequel to  The Firm,  the blockbuster thriller that launched the career of America’s favorite storyteller. It is now fifteen years later, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest l aw firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favor that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications—and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family. Mitch has become a master at staying one step ahead of his adversaries, but this time there’s nowhere to hide. click here

  A Villa with a View (Romantic Escapes, Book 11)  Lia Bathurst had always dreamed of escaping to the white sandy beaches and turquoise blue seas of the Amalfi coast – but that dream hadn’t included meeting her real father. A father she had never even known about until a few weeks ago! Yet here she was, standing outside the gates of a gorgeous pink villa being refused entry by the insufferable – and insufferably handsome – Raphael Knight, her father’s business manager. When an old black and white photo proves Lia’s claim to be true, Raph is determined to make sure this stranger, with her long caramel waves and infectious smile, doesn’t have an ulterior motive. Even if that means not letting her out of his sight. As temperatures rise , and not just from the heat of the Mediterranean sun, could Lia and Raph’s forced proximity lead to something more like… amore? Buy now