Private, the world's most respected investigation firm, has branches
around the world, each staffed with the smartest, fastest, and most
advanced agents, who have cutting-edge forensic tools that not even the
most powerful governments possess.
At Private Berlin, agent Chris Schneider
has disappeared. Chris had taken a secretive personal leave and hadn't
spoken to anyone from the office in days. The Private team retraces his
footsteps to the cases he was investigating before his disappearance: a
billionaire suspected of cheating on his wife, a world-famous soccer
player accused of throwing games, and the owner of a seedy nightclub.
They were the last people to see Chris—and they're all suspects. And
someone is lying.
The Private team is led to an abandoned
Nazi slaughterhouse where all hope vanishes. As Private digs further
into Chris's past, a terrifying history is revealed, and they begin to
suspect that someone very dangerous and very depraved is responsible for
Chris's disappearance. And he's not finished in Berlin. PRIVATE BERLIN
has more twists, action, and deception than any other James Patterson
thriller ever.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
"Foul Play" by Janet Evanovich
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Cheesecake crescent rolls
Cheesecake Crescent Rolls
2 cans of Pillsbury Crescent rolls
2 (8oz each) package cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 cup butter, melted
cinnamon
sugar
Unroll and spread 1 of the cans of crescent rolls on the bottom of a 9 x 13 baking dish (or 8 x 8 if you want to cut the recipe in half). Combine softened cream cheese, 1 cup sugar, and vanilla. Spread over crescent roll layer. Unroll and layer remaining crescent rolls over cream cheese layer. Melt your butter and spread over top of crescent rolls. Sprinkle generously with cinnamon and sugar.
Bake for 20-30 minutes in 350 degree oven until bubbly and slightly browned. Drizzle with a little honey if you like. Let cool a bit, slice and eat.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Audiobook "Blindsighted" by Karin Slaughter
Set in rural Georgia, Blindsighted is the first a series of
heart-stopping novels, which stars Dr. Sara Linton, the town’s
pediatrician and coroner, Jeffrey Tolliver, her wayward ex-husband and
chief of police, and Lena Adams, the county’s only female detective.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Audiobook "NYPD Red" by James Paterson and Marshall Karp
NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called. Then an actor is killed on the set of a film. And a Molotov cocktail explodes at a movie premiere.
Detective First Grade Zach Jordan and his new partner—and ex-girlfriend—Detective Kylie MacDonald are assigned to the case. The killer has every murder, every escape, planned down to the last detail—and he's scripted an explosive finale that will bring New York and Hollywood to its knees. With larger-than-life action, relentless speed, and white-knuckle twists, NYPD RED is a mega-blockbuster from "The Man Who Can't Miss." (TIME)
Monday, March 4, 2013
Audiobook "The Pilot's Wife" by Anita Shreve
Who can guess what a woman will do when the unthinkable becomes her reality?
Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening effect of time. As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone—but nothing has prepared her for the late-night knock that lets her know her husband has died in a crash.
As Kathryn struggles with her grief, she descends into a maelstrom of publicity stirred up by the modern hunger for the details of tragedy. Even before the plane is located in waters off the Irish coast, the relentless focus on her husband's life begins to bring a bizarre personal mystery into focus. Could there be any truth to the increasingly disturbing rumors that he had a secret? Fighting the impulse to protect herself and her daughter from the details of the crash and the mystery surrounding it, Kathryn sets out to learn who her husband really was—whatever that knowledge may cost. The search will lead her to shocking revelations, testing both the truth of her marriage and the limits of her ability to face it.
From the bestselling author of The Weight of Water, this taut, impassioned novel asks fundamental questions we all have about how well we can really know anyone—even those (or especially those) we love the most. Written with grace and controlled beauty, The Pilot's Wife definitively places Anita Shreve among the ranks of the best novelists writing today.
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