Cate Holahan

A harrowing abduction becomes a tantalizing nationwide game in a twisty and ingenious novel of suspense by a USA Today bestselling author.Alice Ingold has been kidnapped. Call the police. Alert the media. You can?t play this game without all the pieces.Beautiful, blond, and immensely privileged, Alice Ingold is the perfect victim for a true-crime obsessed culture?and for a masked duo with a singular purpose. Instead of a demand for ransom, her captors have a riddle, and they?re inviting the entire country to solve it.No one is more invested in the search than Alice?s parents: Catherine, a socialite with obscene generational wealth, and Brian, a visionary AI tech guru. But while Brian turns to machines to solve the problem, Catherine tries to crowdsource the solution, stopping at nothing to bring her daughter home. And America isn?t just watching the story unfold?it?s playing along. The nationwide scavenger hunt for Alice is on.As an increasingly desperate Catherine strives to understand each new clue, a complex picture of the crime develops. Soon, everyone will see the kidnapping of Alice Ingold for what it is?and Alice won?t be the only one who will need saving.

The widows are back! Big hair and bigger lies collide in the highly anticipated follow-up to Young Rich Widows, where nothing's more dangerous than a widow with nothing left to lose. Set in neon-drenched Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1987, just two years after a plane carrying four mafia-affiliated law-firm partners exploded over the Atlantic along with the cushy lives of their once wealthy wives. Now, Krystle fights to keep their fallen law firm afloat. Justine hustles as a lawyer-in-training. Meredith owns and operates the strip club where she once danced. And Camille orchestrates honey-pot schemes for scorned women-until one of her arrangements goes terribly wrong, and she becomes implicated in the debauched Mayor Tom's mysterious murder in the champagne room. With everything on the line, the widows must join forces once more. But as the conspiracy unravels beyond the mayor's demise, their search for justice pits first wife against second wife and widow against widow. With the widows' fragile bond now tested, will the women cement their friendships, or is loyalty a luxury they just can't afford? In this thrilling expansion of the Widows universe, brimming with sloshed champagne, smeared lipstick, and lethal secrets, Desperate Deadly Widows unfolds as an edge-of-your-seat thriller where desperation wears stilettos, trust is a poker chip, and redemption comes at the cost of everything you thought you knew.

The Audible Original sensation Young Rich Widows is now in paperback. When the four partners of a prominent law firm are killed in a mysterious plane crash, their widows must come together to uncover the truth in this explosive, edge-of-your-seat thriller with an 80s mafia vibe, co-written by four bestselling authors. 1985, Rhode Island. A private jet carrying four partners of a Providence law firm crashes outside New York City, killing all aboard but leaving behind more questions than answers and setting the stage for four widows to find the truth. Justine- a former fashion model adjusting to suburban life Camille- a beautiful, young second wife whom some suspect is a gold digger Meredith- a stripper who was in a relationship with the firm's only female partner Krystle- a founding partner's wife committed to the firm being a legacy for her sons While the crash is initially ruled a tragic accident, something's not adding up- the team wasn't supposed to be in New York that day, and it's soon revealed there was a very large sum of cash that burned up with the plane. The scene is as wild as '80s neon, and the manic chase to uncover the Mafia-laced secrets gives this rip-roaring read a rad vibe that will linger long after the '80s soundtrack fades and the hairspray falls.

Pravda může být krutější než fikce. Liza Cole, kdysi úspěšná spisovatelka, jejíž kariéra pomalu uvadá, má jen jeden měsíc na to, aby napsala thriller, který by mohl její jméno vrátit na seznam bestsellerů. Mezitím se pokouší o založení rodiny, ale její manžel se stará jen o osud svého nejlepšího přítele Nicka, který nedávno záhadně zmizel. A tak před stresy z osobního i profesního života uniká ke psaní a nové hlavní hrdince Beth. Beth, čerstvá matka, má podezření, že ji manžel podvádí, zatímco ona se doma stará o novorozence. Cítí se zrazená a naštvaná a chce manžela chytit při činu a přinutit jej, aby zaplatil za rozbití její iluze dokonalého života. Ale než si pořádně uvědomí, co vlastně dělá, tělo manželovy milenky už plave v místní řece. Rozdíl mezi realitou a fikcí se Liz pomalu ale jistě rozostřují. Nickovo tělo je právě vytaženo z místní řeky a Lizin manžel obviněn z vraždy...