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When death shatters the serenity of the exclusive moneyed enclave of Tuxedo Park, New York, Eliza Blake, co-host of KEY to America, is on the scene. While attending a lavish gala at her friends' newly renovated estate, Pentimento, Eliza's host is found dead - a grotesque suicide that is the first act in a macabre and intricately conceived plan to expose sins of the past involving some of the town's most revered citizens.

Botulism, anthrax, smallpox, plague: as medical producer for television's highly-rated morning news program, Annabelle Murphy makes her living explaining horrific conditions to the nation. So when a KEY News colleague dies with symptoms terrifyingly similar to those of anthrax, she knows the panic spreading through the corridors of the Broadcast Center is justified. As one death follows another, Annabelle's co-workers look to her for assurance, but she finds it hard to give comfort. To her, the circumstances surrounding the infections suggest diabolical murders.

It's a minor accident that brings prosecutor Kerry McGrath to the plastic surgeon's office with her beloved daughter, Robin. There, she spies a familiar-looking beautiful woman in the waiting room and is seized by an overpowering sense of deja vu. When, on a return visit, she sees the same haunting face - on another woman - she has an intense flash of recognition: it's the face of Suzanne Reardon, the "Sweetheart Murder" victim, killed more than 10 years ago!

Die Historikerin Jean Sheridan reist zu einem Ehemaligen-Treffen in ihre Heimatstadt, bei dem sie und andere aus ihrem Jahrgang ausgezeichnet...

Gossip columnist Ethel Lambston knew everything about everybody who was somebody - so there were more than enough suspects in her murder. But for Neeve Kearny, owner of an expensive Madison Avenue boutique, the killing of one of her best customers had eerie echoes of another death that occurred many years earlier - the murder of her own mother.

Hours after throwing a third birthday party for their twins Kathy and Kelly in their Connecticut home, Margaret and Steve Frawley return home from a dinner in New York to discover the police in the house, their daughters missing, and an eight million dollar ransom note. The Frawleys meet the kidnapper's demands, but the abandoned car they're led to contains only Kelly, the body of the driver, and a suicide note, saying he had inadvertently killed Kathy and dumped her body in the ocean.

In her new thriller, America's #1 best-selling Queen of Suspense delves into a legal battle over the guilt or innocence of a man accused of murdering his wife. Woven into her plot is an eerie, little-understood but documented medical phenomenon -- the emergence of a donor's traits and memories in the recipient of a heart transplant.

Nelle McDermott mister pludselig sin mand, Adam, da deres lystyacht eksploderer i New Yorks havn. Hun er dybt ulykkelig over tabet af sin elskede og plaget af skyldfølelse, for den sidste gang hun så Adam, havde de et voldsomt skænderi, og hun bad ham om ikke at komme hjem igen. Efterforskningen viser, at nogen havde anbragt en bombe om bord, og Nell, der tidligere har flirtet med den spirituelle verden, opsøger en clairvoyant for at komme i kontakt med Adam. Beskeden fra Adam er foruroligende og får Nell til at tvivle på deres kærlige forhold. Men er beskeden ægte?

Mary Higgins Clark is a master storyteller who keeps her readers and listeners spellbound. Now, in her first two published stories, written in the 1950s, she draws on her career as a young Pan American Airways flight attendant to create these tales of adventure and intrigue.

Ernie and Wilma Bean have finally made it! Their lucky number has won the special Christmas lottery. Wilma is out of town, though, and it's tough to keep news like that a secret for too long. It couldn't hurt to celebrate a little with Loretta Thistlebottom, could it? In another story, the country cabin where Mike spent so many idyllic summers with his grandmother ought to be the perfect place for his wife, Laurie, to recover from the nightmares of her childhood. But now that Mike and Laurie have arrived, what could be causing such an ominous feeling to come over both of them?

Dedicación, integridad y sentido común son algunos de los valores que Warren Buffett ha destacado como esenciales en su exitosa carrera como inversor. Reunidos por su círculo cercano en un único libro a través de conversaciones personales, reuniones sociales y entrevistas, los aforismos de Buffett no sólo han instruido a sus discípulos en la dirección empresarial, sino también en la disciplina, la virtud de la paciencia y el desarrollo personal.