Beyond Recognition - A Woman's Place - The cat who tailed a thief - The Unlikely Spy (Ridley Pearson, Barbara Delinsky, Lilian Jackson Braun and Daniel Silva)

Collection : Select Editions

Category :  Novel

English

Format :  Hardcover

573 pages

ISBN :  0-88850-458-6

Publisher :  Reader's Digest 1997

Dimension :  192x140x37mm

Weight :  557g

Condition :  very good

Dust Jacket Condition :  good

Book Summary :

Beyond Recognition by Ridley Pearson

A strange series of fires is raging in Seattle - white-hot fires that burn so cleanly even the ash is consumed, along with all traces of the fires' victims. Brilliant forensic investigator Police Sergeant Lou Boldt is back, battling the mysterious arsonist. He is also keeping his eye on the Fire Warden, who seems to be a little too close to the heat.
But police psychologist Daphne Matthews is more concerned about the victims of the blazes, especially the smart and wily ten-year-old boy who had a terrifying encounter with a disfigured, badly burned man.
Beyond Recognition is the story of a deadly, taunting game of cat and mouse, where the stakes are raised to a burning point that might spell disaster for Boldt - and the city of Seattle.

A Woman's Place by Barbara Delinsky

Everything Claire Raphael has she's earned. On her own. The hard way. She built her part-time business up from nothing and made it successful through her imagination, creativity, and hard work. She has two great children and Dennis, a husband she loves completely. Then, one evening, when Claire returns from a difficult business trip, Dennis hands her divorce papers along with a court order to vacate their house. Claire is devastated. She had no idea her marriage was on the brink of disaster, that Dennis had been planning this ambush for weeks, if not months, or that her hectic but happy life was about to come crashing down around her. Claire doesn't know where to turn or whom to trust. But in a few short weeks she learns what so many women have had to discover—that when the going gets tough, a woman's as tough as she needs to be.

The Cat Who Tailed a Thief by Lilian Jackson Braun

In the nineteenth installment in the popular mystery series, the village of Pickax experiences a rash of petty thefts and the murder of a flashy newcomer, sending Qwilleran off on his own investigation into the crime wave, with feline sleuths Koko and Yum Yum sniffing for leads.

The Unlikely Spy by Daniel Silva

"In wartime," Winston Churchill wrote, "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
For Britain's counterintelligence operations, this meant finding the unlikeliest agent imaginable-a history professor named Alfred Vicary, handpicked by Churchill himself to expose a highly dangerous, but unknown, traitor.
The Nazis, however, have also chosen an unlikely agent: Catherine Blake, a beautiful widow of a war hero, a hospital volunteer - and a Nazi spy under direct orders from Hitler to uncover the Allied plans for D-Day...