Trick of Light
10 best books like Trick of Light (David Hunt): When the Bough Breaks, Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal, The Key to Rebecca, Gold Coast, The Lion's Game, The General's Daughter, Mortal Fear, The Diary of Jack the Ripper: The Discovery, the Investigation, the Authentication, the Debate, Mars Crossing, Head of State
Author | Jonathan Kellerman |
ISBN | 0345466608 |
In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but...
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Author | Ben Macintyre |
ISBN | 0307353400 |
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona...
Author | Ken Follett |
ISBN | 0451207793 |
Ken Follett’s The Key to Rebecca took readers and critics by storm when first published more than twenty years ago. Today, it remains one of the best espionage novels ever written. Look out for Ken’s newest book, A Column of Fire, available now.
A brilliant and ruthless Nazi master agent...
Author | Nelson DeMille |
ISBN | 0751531219 |
Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to a fading aristocratic legacy; and Frank Bellarosa,...
Author | Nelson DeMille |
ISBN | 0446679097 |
Detective John Corey, last seen in Plum Island, now faces his toughest assignment yet: the pursuit and capture of the world's most dangerous terrorist -- a young Arab known as "The Lion" who has baffled a federal task force and shows no sign of stopping in his quest for revenge against the American pilots...
Author | Nelson DeMille |
ISBN | 0446364800 |
Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Campbell. She is the pride of Fort Hadley until, one morning, her body is found, naked and bound, on the firing range.
Paul Brenner is a member of the Army's elite undercover investigative unit and...
Author | Greg Iles |
ISBN | 0340686014 |
By day, Harper Cole trades commodities from his farmhouse in the isolated Mississippi Delta. But at night, Harper serves as system operator for E.R.O.S., a highly exclusive, sexually explicit on-line service whose clients range from the glitterati of Hollywood to the literati of New York. Shielded...
Author | Shirley Harrison |
ISBN | 1562827049 |
For starters, I think a lot of people rated and reviewed this book based on whether they believed it's authenticity or not instead of rating how it read. I think some people went into it already sure it was fake. So what I'm saying is, I suggest you read it if you're interested in Jack the Ripper. Ignore the...
Author | Geoffrey A. Landis |
ISBN | 0812576489 |
By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has finally landed men on Mars-only to watch helplessly as the first two missions end in catastrophe and death.
With resources running out, a third-and perhaps final-mission to Mars is hastily mounted, with a crew of four men and two women. But from...
Author | Andrew Marr |
ISBN | 1468310569 |
The debut novel by Britain’s most celebrated pundit, a gleefully twisted take on 10 Downing Street
It’s September 2017, and the United Kingdom is on the verge of a crucial referendum that will determine, once and for all, if the country remains a member of the European Union or goes its...
Author | Jack Higgins |
ISBN | 0425169685 |
In the early days of World War II, nations were forced to choose sides in the epic battle that would change history forever. But for two brothers, fate had already made the choice. Separated as boys, Max and Harry Kelso have grown up to become ace fighter pilots --- Max with the German Luftwaffe and Harry...
Author | Ken Follett |
ISBN | 0449227545 |
Ken Follett hits the top of his form with "The Hammer of Eden," a state-of-the-art suspense thriller to rival his best.
When controversial radio talk host John Truth broadcasts a terrorist threat of a man-made earthquake, few people take it seriously. Crackerjack young FBI agent Judy Maddox is assigned...
Provence, a sensual landscape of golden light, rich contrasts and striking colour, is an artist's dream. But sometimes dreams turn into nightmares and the shadows cast can be as dangerous as the darkest night.
Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad is called...
Author | James W. Huston |
ISBN | 0688159184 |
From coast to coast, raves greeted James W. Huston's first electrifying thriller of Washington intrigue, Congressional confrontation, and fast-paced, flat-out war at sea. Now he's back with a new novel featuring the same winning style and many of the same characters, who face off once again in a deadly,...
Author | Carolyn G. Hart |
ISBN | 0425156745 |
Also writing as Carolyn Hart.
An accomplished master of mystery with 46 published books, Carolyn Hart is the creator of the highly acclaimed Henrie O,Death on Demand, and Bailey Ruth Raeburn series. Her books have won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. Letter from Home (2003),...
Author | Richard Herman |
ISBN | 0380787873 |
Amazing story has a little bit of everything including cover-ups, a conspiracy, odd characters, bureaucratic bull and a prosecutor who is worth his weight in gold. A military man accused of treason is fighting to prove his innocence even though mounds of evidence is produced which would appear to "color...
Author | Brian Kelleher |
ISBN | 0451161009 |
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Author | Joseph Kanon |
ISBN | 0440225345 |
In a time of accusations, treachery and lies, some secrets were heartbreaking....
Others were deadly.
Once, Nick Kotlar tried to save his father. From the angry questions. From the accusations. From a piece of evidence that only Nick knew about and that he destroyed--for his father....
Author | Jonathan Kellerman |
ISBN | 0345413881 |
A brutalized corpse discovered in a remote region of the Hollywood Hills plunges psychologist-detective Alex Delaware into a landscape of rage and madness as he struggles to solve this most baffling of homicides.
To some, Eldon Mate was evil personified. Others saw the former physician...
A sensational New York Times bestseller and subject of a CBS-TV miniseries, Night Sins has confirmed Tami Hoag's reputation as the new modern master of suspense.
This gripping tale unfolds in a peaceful Minnesota town, where crime is something that just doesn't happen. But when a young boy...
Author | Joseph Kanon |
ISBN | 0316641286 |
A successful thriller tells an exciting, satisfying story and lets us look at the lives of some interesting people in an environment either totally new or freshly observed. Former publishing executive Joseph Kanon's first novel does all of that, and adds a layer of acute perception about recent history...
Author | Payne Harrison |
ISBN | 0517584050 |
After the Cold War, in the not-too-distant future, the United States and the new Soviet Confederation come together on a joint mission in the frozen wastes of Antarctica. But deep beneath the glaciers lies a devastating discovery destined to shatter the fragile peace between East and West. And now,...
Author | John Lescroart |
ISBN | 0451204891 |
Hardy's best friend, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky, has kept a secret from him...and everyone else. Hardy never knew that Abe had a daughter-until she was shot dead. It seems obvious that the heroin addict hovering over her body with a gun is the guilty party, and Glitsky has few qualms about sweating a confession...
Author | Gayle Lynds |
ISBN | 0312986033 |
When you gaze into the mirror--and find a stranger looking back? Liz Sansborough has no recollection of her past as a CIA agent; no idea what her future holds. For her, there is only the present...and the chilling knowledge that the world's most lethal assassin has set his sights on her.
When...
Author | Nancy Kopp |
ISBN | 0451404777 |
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Author | Eric Van Lustbader |
ISBN | 0345484851 |
"Swiftly paced and fascinating...An intricately designed puzzle."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
She is a sorceress--indescribably beautiful, overpoweringly sensual--who possesess incomprehensible powers. She is also a murderess who plans to use her power to kill Nicholas Linnear, the hero...
Author | Gary Krist |
ISBN | 0425173003 |
kate is an ex chicago cop who has moved to the east coast and met the man of her dreams, joel. they r now happily married with him running his own company and making a lot of money in the process
then one evening he pops out to the shops and never returns ......
naturally kate is worried - is...
Author | Eric Van Lustbader |
ISBN | 0345466837 |
"Chilling, brutal, and satisfying...The reader becomes deeply involved."
THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE
The sudden death of a major presidential contender in the arms of his beautiful mistress sends his best friend, Tracy Richter, on an epic journey of violence back into the heart of the Cambodian...
Author | Eric Van Lustbader |
ISBN | 0449209164 |
"Totally absorbing...as gripping a tale of hatred and revenge as you will read...It is superb."
NEWS RECORD
This is the story of Nicholas Linnear, half-Caucasian, half-Oriental, a man caught between East and West, between the sexual passions of a woman he can't forget and the one he can't...
Author | David L. Lindsey |
ISBN | 0446608033 |
Unless I'm somehow misreading this, the book seems to start off with one of the most glaring examples of authorial and editorial malpractice I've seen in years (underlining added):
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Chapter 1
Venice, Sestiere Di Dorsoduro
It was the middle...