Kirjahaku

All-Star Catcher Benito Santiago, the man who could throw from his knees to second base to get a runner out, reveals personal and professional stories of his baseball career.

The determination of a man to transform his country may come at too steep a price. Professor Ryan Byrne once believed he could help lift countries into prosperity. When given the opportunity to work with his theories, murder was not the result he anticipated. Barely escaping with his own life, he plunged into guilt-ridden reflection until he was drawn from self-isolation into other work. King Phillip of Malathos, however, feels Ryan is the man who can help guide his country from centuries of bloody violence and crushing poverty. If he can convert the sham constitutional monarchy into a true state, it is a legacy he will leave for future generations. The King knows there are resistance and obstacles to his sweeping vision. What neither man realizes is the depth of betrayal being plotted within the royal house. Charlie Hudson has moved from her scuba-themed novels to take readers into a novel of intrigue and thought-provoking discussions. As a retired Army officer and veteran of Desert Storm and Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti (1995), she brings a different cast of characters to life.

"He didn't drop the gun," Noonan said calmly, as if killing a man was as routine as remembering to set the alarm before you left the house. Finding a corrupt, manipulative politician beneath a charming exterior is nothing unusual. Unraveling the connection to a twenty year old suicide and linking him to a string of present day bodies is another matter. Police Detective Bev Henderson of Verde Key, Florida doesn't care that rising star State Senator Warren Randall belongs to a wealthy and powerful family. What she does care about is a missing woman, a dead accountant and people who think they can paint the truth in shades other than black and white.

Verde Key Police Detective Bev Henderson is faced with her first cold case when a skeleton is snagged by local residents out fishing. Once the victim is identified, his wife is stunned to learn he was murdered instead of deserting her forty years ago as she had thought. Regular crime is not taking a break though as other cases take priority. in the process, links to the dead man emerge as Bev weaves thin threads together to develop likely scenarios as to who murdered him and why. is the widow as innocent as she seems or is she hiding more than one secret? With no useful forensics evidence, will this be the one time in Bev's career she can't solve a case?