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Hand of Fate When the host of a popular radio talk show is murdered, the suspects seem to outnumber his millions of listeners. Outspoken radio talk show host Jim Fate dies tragically when poisonous gas fills the studio while his polarizing show, "The Hand of Fate", is on air. In the ensuing panic, police evacuate downtown Portland--and the triple threat of FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges, Crime reporter Cassidy Shaw and Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce begin piecing together the madness, motive and the mystery of what just happened. And this time it's personal since one of the women was secretly dating the host and has access to his home...and secret evidence. In the days following Fate's murder, these three colleagues and friends must confront a betrayal of the team while piecing together the not-so-public life of Jim Fate. Together, they must uncover the stunning truth of who killed him, how close the killer really is, and what the ultimate motive is for this cold-blooded murder. |
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Torched When Ellie’s parents are busted for possession of marijuana, the FBI gives her a choice: infiltrate the Mother Earth Defenders (MED), a radical environmental group, or her parents will go to jail. At first Ellie is more than willing to entrap the MEDics, but the more time she spends undercover -- particularly with Coyote, the green-eyed MEDic that she can’t stop thinking about -- the more she starts to believe in their cause. When talk turns to murder, Coyote backs out, but Ellie is willing to risk everything to save her family -- even if it means losing Coyote and putting her own life on the line. |
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Face of Betrayal While home on Christmas holiday, seventeen-year-old Katie Converse, a Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. Reporter Cassidy Shaw is the first to break the story. The media firestorm soon engulfs Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. Was Katie romantically involved with a senator - and is he linked to her disappearance? |
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Shock Point Sixteen-year-old Cassie’s stepfather Rick is about to strike it rich with Socom, a new behavioral drug in which Rick is a big investor. But then Cassie discovers that Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has already been prescribing Socom illegally to his patients—and three teens have died. Before she can report him, Rick has Cassie committed to Peaceful Cove, a sadistic boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico where the only way out is to graduate at age eighteen. Cassie knows she has to get out now, before more teens die from Socom. But no one has ever escaped from Peaceful Cove alive—and even if Cassie gets over the walls and survives the Mexican desert, will anyone believe her story? A taut, psychological thriller ripped from today’s headlines, Shock Point deftly explores the cutting edge issue of behavioral drugs while taking readers on a roller coaster ride of action and suspense.
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Buried Diamonds Claire Montrose discovers an engagement ring that has gone missing for 50 years. Did the young woman who owned it really commit suicide? One of Claire's elderly neighbors harbors an old secret - and will kill to keep it hidden. Past and present grow more entangled when neo-Nazis target Claire's Jewish roommate. Henry's trademark mix of quirky characters, humor, and vanity license plates also explores the persistent shadows of the past.
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Learning to Fly The chaotic scene of a huge, fiery chain-reaction car accident leaves Free Meeker in the possession of someone else’s bag and the hitchhiker she has just picked up dead. By the next morning, 19-year-old Free, daughter of aging hippies, has discovered that the bag contains nearly a million dollars - and that the hitchhiker’s body has been identified as hers. Fate seems to be handing her the chance to make her life over. But when the owner of the drug money realizes it didn’t burn up in the fire, things get complicated. And things only get worse when the hitchhiker’s stalking husband decides that Free must be some do-gooder hiding his wife. Learning to Fly has been translated into Japanese and Dutch, was a Booksense 76 pick, an Otto Penzler pick, one of Library Journal’s Best of 2002, and a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. It has been optioned for film. |
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Heart-Shaped
Box The inimitable Claire Montrose is back, and as delightful as ever, in this third installment in April Henry’s acclaimed mystery series. Claire wasn’t part of the in-crowd at Minor High. In fact, she didn’t have many friends at all, spending most of her time outside of school toiling at Pietro’s Pizza. Yet when the invitation to her 20-year high-school reunion comes in the mail, she decides to go. After all, Claire is no longer the girl she was in high school, the one who was too smart, too tall, too skinny, and who looked a lot younger than she was. Now maybe all her old handicaps are actually to her advantage. At thirty-seven, it’s good to be smart, tall, thin and look younger than you actually are. Not only that, she has a hip boyfriend named Dante, and a windfall from an old painting she inherited. The painting turned out to be a Vermeer, and its sale freed her from her former job vetting vanity plates for the department of motor vehicles. So Claire sets off to see old friends, old lovers and maybe even a few old enemies. While checking into Ye Olde Pioneer Village for the weekend festivities, Claire receives a mysterious package containing a heart-shaped box. Inside is a high school yearbook picture of Claire. Is it a secret admirer? Before Claire figures out who might have sent it, another box turns up—in the limp hand of Cindy Sanchez, the former head cheerleader, who is found strangled in the parking lot. Before the night is over, five more women reveal they, too, have received heart-shaped boxes. Is there a killer on the loose who will claim them all before the reunion is over? Was Cindy’s murder simply a mugging gone bad? Or was Cindy, who had more lovers—and more enemies—than anyone else in school, the only one marked for murder? In a tale combining equal parts suspense and humor, Claire and the Minor High Class of ’79 suffer a reunion nightmare they won’t soon forget. While secrets are revealed as the reunited class suspiciously examines its ranks, Claire struggles to stop a killer before the killer stops her.
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Square
in the Face Square in the Face is the second book in April Henry's delightfully entertaining, acclaimed mystery series in which danger often takes an unexpected shape. HAPYDAZE Claire Montrose can't believe her good luck. Once upon a time, she was a mousy employee in the Oregon State License Plate Division with the odd job of deciding which vanity plate applications passed the good-taste test. Now she has a charming artist boyfriend in New York City and a quirky group of friends and family that keeps her happily settled in Portland. But when a former coworker and friend urgently needs her help, Claire agrees to do a little sleuthing. HELLP! Years ago, Lori gave up her child to a secretive adoption agency. Now Lori's young son is ill, and the doctors say his only hope is a bone marrow transplant from a sibling. Lori talks Claire into finding her long-lost daughter. Unfortunately, as Claire scours the city for the information that could save the boy's life, she has little to go on besides her common sense and her own two feet. MR. E The closer Claire gets to the truth, the more twisted and perilous the search becomes. Using her wits, charm, and savvy sleuthing skills, she digs up old secrets -- but someone is willing to kill to keep them buried. Meanwhile, Claire has a problem closer to home: a mother addicted to television shopping channels. DANGRRR April Henry's Square in the Face is a captivating, crime-solving adventure starring the inimitable Claire Montrose, a woman with the deductive powers and scrappy determination to discover the hidden meaning of any license plate and to rescue a friend from a desperate fate.
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Circles
of Confusion Certain to be one of the most talked about first novels to come around in years, April Henry's Circles of Confusion delivers a taut, engrossing mystery that deftly intertwines the mundane life of a civil servant with the elite world of priceless art. With the exception of having the power to reject obscene and salacious requests for vanity license plates, Claire Montrose leads an ordinary, if not monotonous, life. Working nine to five in the Portland motor vehicle department for as long as she can remember, the young woman's daily routines are suddenly interrupted when she inherits the possessions of a great aunt. Clearing out the elderly spinster's cluttered trailer, Claire becomes fascinated with a beautiful painting, tucked away and hidden for decades in an old suitcase under the bed. In the hopes of determining the painting's origin and worth, Claire goes to New York City. But what begins as curiosity about the captivating picture quickly turns to uneasiness as Claire's quest for information finds her in the company of suspicious people vying for her trust. From the sleep and polished appraiser at a famed auction house to the bohemian artist Claire bumps into at the Museum of Modern Art, it seems everyone's interest in the little painting goes far beyond the surface. Though immediately deemed a forgery, Claire cannot understand the continued concern for her possession, and the continued attention of the two men. When her hotel room is ransacked, Claire is forced on a risky journey alone. Secretly returning to Portland, Claire realizes in an instant that danger has followed, and finds, too, that her tedious life was not everything it had appeared to be. Unable to trust anyone, Claire desperately tries to keep one step ahead of her enemies and stay alive long enough to find out the truth about the coveted piece of art and her pursuers. The kickoff title in a new mystery series featuring the clever and persevering Claire Montrose, Circles of Confusion is set to hook readers and make a name for first time author April Henry.
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