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1) Dead anyway
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Language
English
Description
Imagine this: You have a nice life. You love your beautiful, successful wife. You're an easygoing guy working out of your comfortable Connecticut home. The world is an interesting, pleasant place. Then in seconds it's all gone. You're still alive, but the world thinks you're dead. And now you have to decide. Make it official, or go after the evil that took it all away from you. Arthur Cathcart, market researcher and occasional finder of missing
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Series
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Market researcher Arthur Cathcart searches for clues to the actions of his murdered wife, Florencia Etxarte, and the secrets that died with her. Aided by girlfriend Natsumi Fitzgerald, Cathcart plays a series of cat-and-mouse games, both cerebral and physical, as he strives to stay a step ahead of mysterious pursuers who are all linked to Florencia's Basque heritage
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Investigating an unusual set of photos taken by a plane crash victim, Jackie Swaitkowski is surprised to discover familiar, notorious faces in the pictures and realizes that the plane crash may be tied to a mystery from Jackie's own past.
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English
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Smart-aleck attorney Jackie Swaitkowski's business relies on constant movement of Hamptons' real estate market. After making an odd request to evict his sister-in-law from his home, one of her clients turns up dead. Jackie would have expected that to be the end of it, but an envelope found on the corpse contains an item so unusual that Jackie finds herself working on something bigger—and more dangerous—than real estate.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pulled by a murder case back into the heart of her late husband's eccentric family during a harrowing Hamptons winter, Jackie Swaitkowski finds her principles of right and wrong challenged by criminal intrigues, a romantic prospect, organized crime, and digital wizardry.
6) Black swan
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Series
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sudden storm drives Sam, Amanda, and their sailboat into harbor at Fishers Island. The owner of the Black Swan, a small hotel, reluctantly gives them lodging. When a fellow lodger dies in circumstances that suggest a killer in their midst, Sam must ferret out the corporate secrets behind the murder.
8) Two time
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Series
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
All ex-boxer, ex-corporate executive Sam Aquillo wants to do is hammer a few nails into his ramshackle cottage, drink a great deal of vodka, hang out with his dog, Eddie, and stay out of trouble. But trouble seems to find him anyway. When a car bomb outside a trendy waterfront restaurant kills a prominent financial consultant and injures Sam and his lawyer friend Jackie Swaitkowski, he is drawn into the investigation. Where the police have met roadblocks,...
9) Back lash
Author
Series
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As Sam Acquillo tells us in the early pages of Back Lash, 'Not everyone gets to live their adult lives orbiting a central mystery.' But that's how it's been for Sam, for whom a single, horrific event has helped define his entire existence. Now that event has reached out from the deep past, an unwanted visitor, with secrets within secrets he's forced to unpack like a Russian doll, each more ominous than the one before. What is revealed would be disturbing...
10) Hard stop
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Series
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
11) You're dead
Author
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Organizational psychologist Dr. Waters is a solitary guy with a few deep attachments, including to his boss Paresh Rajput, the owner of a thriving hi-tech aerospace company. When something really bad happens to CEO Rajput, it throws Waters into a lunatic swirl of murderous stalkers, corporate intrigue, amorous female executives and crafty cops who see the inscrutable psychologist as a murder suspect. Waters, a weight-lifter and former wrestler, ace...
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English
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Arthur Cathcart and Natsumi Fitzgerald wanted to believe they were free of the nearly invisible, malignant forces they had pursued, and been pursued by, across continents and oceans. The slightly brain-damaged, tech freak researcher and the blackjack dealing psychologist had convinced themselves that life aboard a sail boat in the Caribbean, incognito and in love, could be a lasting refuge. The death of that illusion was as brutal as it was abrupt....
13) Cop job
Author
Series
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
287 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
This sixth in the Sam Acquillo Hamptons Mystery series brings back Knopf's ensemble of famously eccentric and involving characters, not the least of which is Sam's mutt Eddie Van Halen. Combining beautiful watery settings with a unique look into the underbelly of the Hamptons, these are mysteries you won't find anywhere else.
14) Elysiana
Author
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
15) Tango down
Author
Series
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a colleague in the building trades is arrested for murder, it will take both Sam Acquillo and defense attorney Jackie Swaitkowski to defend the defenseless.