by Paul McGuire (1985)
Tony Grant meets a lovely girl on the Spanish Steps in Rome. The encounter is mystifying, and when she leaves Tony fears he will never see her again. But then he receives an invitation to spend a weekend with a famous woman he has never met, and when he arrives at his host's dazzling villa, he once again encounters the girl from the Spanish Steps. Evil lurks within the halls of the sinister villa and the girl is involved, but Tony has to stay and confront the danger ahead for all of them.
Michael Gilbert
The woman was young, French, and on trial for murdering a man said to be her ex-lover and the father of her dead child: an English major who had been one of the great heroes of the French Underground Resistance during the war. Mr. Macrea, hired to be her attorney on the first day of the trial, must find a way to prove her innocence in only one week. And he must dig deeply into the past to prove it.
Steve Hamilton
Half a lifetime ago, Alex McKnight was a young cop in Detroit. Now he's an occasional private eye up in Paradise, Michigan, and trying hard to put the past behind him. Then he gets the call that every cop dreads: a killer he helped put behind bars is getting released, and he might just have payback on his mind. Suddenly the years fall away, and in his mind Alex is back in that hot summer in Detroit, hunting the brutal murderer of a young woman. The problem is, something about the case no longer makes sense, and Alex feels compelled to retrace the steps that led to the arrest and conviction of Darryl King. But it's not just the case that looks different: returning to Detroit, Alex finds a city that is almost unrecognizeable from the one he left, a city that is quite literally dying on its feet, where crime and decay hold sway, and law and order are in retreat. And as Alex searches for the truth among the shadows of the past, he discovers a story more shocking than the one he thought he knew and a danger more threatening than an ex-con looking for revenge.
Andrew York
Was the combination a point of negotiation for the hostages? Does the Ayatollah now own the wealth of Iran? These are some of the questions Andrew York answers in the exciting denouement.
Laurence Shames
A comedy on a tourist mistaken for a mobster. Both men are called Big Al and both are on holiday in Key West, Florida, their names prominently displayed on the license plate of their cars. The bouncers sent to rough up Al become confused.