With your crooked heart

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Thomas Berger

"Since childhood, Sam Grandy and Roy Courtright have been best friends. They grew up in the same prosperous community, went to the same prep school, and later entered the same university. After Sam's father died, Roy's father looked after him. At one point Sam dated Roy's sister, Robin. As best friends, they share a close and loving bond, often stronger than the relationships other men share with their girlfriends, siblings, or wives.". "But in the twenty years since their friendship began, their fundamental differences have become more apparent and their relationship has grown strained. More and more often they realize they are opposites - one a womanizer, the other a devoted husband; one careless with money, the other frugal; one independent, the other needy. Do these differences threaten their friendship - or are the dissimilarities what make it possible? Can they escape the ties of their past, or are they intrinsically bound until death?" "When Sam's health begins to falter, he draws Roy into his life again - and into a chain of deceit, sex, delusion, death, and love such as only a best friend could."--BOOK JACKET.

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Jilliane Hoffman

One rainy night in New York City, outstanding law student Chloe Larson wakes from a terrible nightmare. But it's not a nightmare it's real. Not only is she savagely violated in her own bedroom, Chloe then has to deal with the horror of nobody being brought to justice. Twelve years later a very different Chloe is forging a formidable reputation in the Miami Dade State Attorney's Office, as a vicious serial killer nicknamed Cupid terrorises Florida tearing out his tortured victim's hearts while they're still conscious. When the police stop a driver on the McArthur Causeway and a mutilated corpse is found in his trunk, it seems the hunt for Cupid is finally over. But as Chloe begins the task of prosecuting the suspect, she soon realises that this case will be anything but easy. Because her past is about to force itself on her present and the terror is only just beginning. Sometimes there's a price to be paid for justice. And sometimes that price is awful. Revenge could cost Chloe her sanity. The truth could cost her her life.

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Anne Whitney Pierce

Ten stories on women. In Sans Homme, a girl falls in love with her mother's boyfriend, in Abeyance, a woman whose marriage is falling apart reflects on the loneliness ahead of her, while in Empty Beauty Salon, a woman moves her business from New York to Maine for a change of scenery.

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Kyle Higgins, Tom DeFalco, writers

"Gotham's protector...or killer? With the Owls descending upon Gotham City, the fate of the city's top official rests on the shoulders of Nightwing. But as our hero embarks on a mission to rescue Mayor Hady, just how do Cameron Kane and turn-of-the-century Gotham City factor in? As Nightwing fends off a Talon with a very personal agenda, he must also prove that he is not the monster the Court of Owls sought to turn him into. Two bodies have shown up in a Gotham morgue, both apparent victims of Nightwing. To clear his name, Dick must figure out who framed him-- and survive the deadly villain know as Paragon." -- page 4 of cover.