This second installment of Abbott's Sam Capra series is a rollicking good thriller with some wry humor thrown into a tale of global organizations with a lot of money, one with the intent to make life miserable for powerful people, the other to maintain a safer world. Definite need to suspend bel...
At last! after almost 4 months at my comfort Bookshelf I'm done with Jeff Abbott's "Black Jack Point"."MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL'S" This book is all about Murder/Suspense/Drama/Treasure Hunting book. An emerald , a murdered old couple , pirates , a crazy treasure hunter and a judge. Well, alt...
In a Gulf Coast Texas town, beach-bum-turned-judge Whit Mosley is called to a yacht where the son of a senator lies dead. Was it suicide? Or did an obsessed killer use the dead man as a pawn in a twisted game? Whit and Detective Claudia Salazar expose a nest of drug lords and power-hungry sharks,...
Jordan Poteet has left the big city to work as a librarian in his hometown of Mirabeau, Texas. But his dream of the quiet life is shattered when he locks horns with Miss Beta Harcher, the town's prize religious fanatic, in a battle over censorship. When Jordan finds her murdered body in the libra...
In a small Texas town, murder brings home the unforgotten past. Twenty years ago, as Hurricane Althea lashed Central Texas, twelve-year-old Jordan Poteet and his friends decided to ride it out in their tree house. But in the still eye of the tempest, they raced for safety--and stumbled over the b...
Esta foi o meu primeiro contacto com a escrita de Abbott. A sinopse está muito bem conseguida e é clara q.b. Normalmente não gosto de utilizar sinopses como parte integrante da minha opinião mas neste caso abrirei uma excepção. A velocidade e intensidade do enredo não me permitem elaborar muito s...
Fortunately I still had the black eye to make me look even more respectable. I saw Leonie sitting alone at a corner table, a barely touched pint of Guinness in front of her. Her eyes widened when she saw me. The bartender on duty – a guy I didn’t know – actually started co...
He’d sat in the darkness, perfectly still, trying to steel himself against what might come next.“Nice to have quiet and time to think.” Kidwell shut the door behind him.“Sitting in the dark didn’t make me smarter.”“Didn’t it? I thought you might be ready to talk about Emily.”Ben felt a slow rage ...
August asked Howell. They sat in the van, half a block from the address provided by the Chinese student. It was a gray block of industrial space. Multiple buildings, but the complex looked mostly deserted. Two vehicles parked in front of one door at the end. The rest of the parking lot space was ...
It’s a violation to stand in their space, unexpected. It can cause panic. I turned the photo of Holly and the kids from the mantel and held it, facing her. Most burglars or rapists or murderers—however she classified me on first sight, unwelcome in her home—didn’t hold fam...
I could only imagine what game plan their minds had concocted after hearing such poisonous talk. Accusations, counteraccusations, slander, grief, hatred—we all needed to be flown to the nearest tabloid talk show and unleashed on the audience. They wouldn't know what the hell hit them. Or perhaps ...
He yanked out an ear bud, heard the thin thump of her song. ‘Where the hell is Paul?’ ‘Up in a private room. Alone.’ She glared at him over her shoulder. ‘No time for you anymore?’ he said. In the mirror he was watching her chest, covered by thin white Lycra. She’d taken o...