WHEN A DEAD BODY TURNS UP ON THE DETECTIVE’S BOAT

Content to leave his controversial past behind him and enjoy a more relaxed,hedonistic lifestyle on a concerted houseboat in the glamorous French resort of Cannes,enigmatic Englishman Patrick the courvoisier is known as ‘Le Limier’or ‘Fixer’.People come to him with their problems and he fixes them.However,when Camille Ager asks Patrick to find her sister,Angele Valette,star of the new movie The Black Pearl,Patrick’s laid back lifestyle is dealt a terminal blow.Last seen at the film’s lavish party on board the luxurious black yacht owned by Russian Oligarch Vasily Chapayev,the funds behind the movie and owner of the famous black pearl,Angele seems to have vanished into thin air-and so has the pearl.As Patrick questions all those involved with the movie,he discovers that this is a case where nothing is as it seems.And when a dead body turns up on his boat,the investigation takes a deeply disturbing new twist.

TITLE: THE CASE OF THE BLACK PEARL

AUTHOR: LIN ANDERSON

UNTIL A FORMER EMPLOYEE CLAIMED HE BEDDED HER

Divorcee Fiona Carson has only two priorities in her life:her two children and her cooperation.Other than those focuses,her life might as well be spent in a convent.Her concern at the moment is finding the person on her board of directors who is leaking sensitive information to the press.CEO Marshall Weston is her opposite.He slits his out of office time between his two families:his wife and his three nearly grown children and his mistress and their seven year old twins.Marshall is able to keep all the balls in the air until a cancer surviving former employee claims he bedded her and then fired her,and she’s ready to tell her story to the press.Suddenly Marshall is on the denial trial,trying to keep his private life from imploding.

TITLE: POWER PLAY

AUTHOR: DANIELLE STEEL

AWAKEN WITH THE ABILITY TO FORESEE PEOPLE’S DEATH

Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital to discover an attempt has been made on her life.But who in her sleepy little North Carolina town could have hit her with their car?And why? Before she can consider the question,she finds that she’s awoken with a strange new skill;the ability to foresee people’s deaths when they touch her.While she’s recovering from the hit-and-the run,Nate an old flame,reappears,and the two must traverse their rocky past as they figure out how to use Eva’s power to keep her friends-and themselves alive.

TITLE: MADE FOR YOU

AUTHOR: MELISSA MARR