Five
Star Mysteries
Hardcover
ISBN: 1-59414-356-0
$25.95
HEIR TODAY…
How far would you go to retrieve a quarter-million dollars?
Investigative journalists Paige and Max Alper drop
everything, leave their jobs behind, and hopscotch from San Francisco to San
Diego to New York to Hong Kong to take up the paper chase.
Along the way they are pursued, trapped, stripped
naked, kidnapped, and set afire, but they end up with a lot more than the
$250,000.
It all starts when Paige rejects an heir-tracer’s
proposal to split 50-50 the inheritance from her adventurous and mysterious
sea captain uncle.
While her twin sister insists they accept the
heir-tracer’s offer without question, the Alpers launch their own trace,
unaware that Uncle Jock Boylan was murdered -- not for his money, but
because he had collected evidence that would expose a conspiracy of Chinese
government officials and a Hong Kong-based triad of pirates and white
slavers.
The Alpers’ search for the inheritance uncovers a set
of journals written by the uncle. They learn of the tragic loss of his
daughter at the hands of the Shan Triad and of his bold efforts to avenge
her death.
The result: A simple treasure hunt turns into an
international adventure of intrigue, courage, death, and revenge.
Five Star Mysteries:
Hardcover, $25.95
(ISBN: 0-7862-4912-9)
Trade paperback, $13.95,
(ISBN: 1-4104-018-8)
Imagine. You have cancer.
You’ve been blasted and wasted with chemotherapy, along with every other
poison the doctors could find to kill malignant cells. Most days you’re more
dead than alive.
Now there is one last chance for survival.
Tomorrow you will be infused with your own, treated hone marrow frozen,
stored, and safe in one of California’s most prestigious hospitals.
Then comes the note: “We have your marrow.... pay or die.”
A lab technician and her abusive, ex-orderly boyfriend, are behind the
fiendish scheme. But their third victim cannot pay. To keep from being
discovered, the boy friend gives the patient a lethal injection.
The missing marrow, a sudden change in patient demeanor, and the unusual
death raise suspicions, but protecting the hospital’s reputation becomes
more important than launching an investigation.
But the patient’s primary care nurse defies the hospital administrator, the
attending physician, and her own boyfriend to dig deeper.
In the end, she uncovers the deadly plot, saves two other patients from the
duo, and almost loses her own life in a bloody battle with the killer.
Join Five Star and Bette Golden Lamb and J .J. Lamb on a thrilling roller
coaster ride. Don’t start reading too late at night or you won’t want to put
down Bone Dry.