The Saberdene Variations

The Saberdene Variations
Author: Thomas Gifford
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453266178

DIVA powerful lawyer’s most famous opponent comes back to kill him/divDIV On his first day at Harvard, working-class student Charlie Nichols is instantly charmed by the debonair rake Victor Saberdene. While Nichols earns tuition playing football, Saberdene’s wealth and charm rocket him to the top of Harvard’s impenetrable social pyramid and beyond—to become the most feared defense lawyer in the country, a man who uses his charisma to manipulate juries./divDIV /divDIVNichols becomes an international crime reporter. He hasn’t thought of his old friend Saberdene in years when he reads of the Anna Thorne killing. A beautiful young Massachusetts stagehand disappears after a fling with the handsome, dangerous Carl Varada—who might have escaped had Anna not been Saberdene’s sister-in-law. Saberdene puts Varada behind bars, but years later the killer earns early release. When Varada sets his sights on the great lawyer’s family, no amount of charisma can stop him. /div

The Glendower Legacy

The Glendower Legacy
Author: Thomas Gifford
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453266089

DIVAncient treason threatens to ignite a new skirmish in the Cold War/divDIV It’s January, 1778, and William Davis is standing guard for the Continental Army at Valley Forge when he witnesses something sickening: an American selling intelligence to the British. The meeting goes wrong, three men die, and William flees the scene, leaving a swatch of his uniform behind. The next day he’s arrested, tried, and executed for treason as part of a monstrous cover-up to protect the identity of the officer who tried to sell out the American Revolution: General George Washington himself./divDIV /divDIVTwo centuries later, a descendent of Davis finds evidence of Washington’s betrayal. Before he can announce his findings, he’s murdered by KGB agents hoping to use the information to embarrass the United States. But the crucial document vanishes, and the only man who can secure it is Nat Underhill, a Harvard professor who truly must publish or perish./div

Guilty Parties

Guilty Parties
Author: Thomas Gifford
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453266135

DIVAt the apex of the New York art world, murder is the newest fad/divDIV Harry and Sally, Belinda and Jack—two couples, four best friends. Inseparable since college, they stay close through their twenties and thirties, as they make their way to the top of the New York arts scene. Harry is a playwright, Jack a novelist, Belinda a painter, and Sally, well, Sally has always been happy just to be Harry’s wife. But as Harry and Belinda’s careers take off, Jack’s stalls. Unable to complete a second novel, his attitude becomes poisonous, even violent, until Belinda is forced to throw him out of their beautiful loft apartment. Single again for the first time in decades, she finds that in a city full of wolves, her husband may have the sharpest teeth./divDIV /divDIVAs summer heat chokes New York, its most chic addresses are about to be drenched in the bluest blood the city has to offer./div

Hollywood Gothic

Hollywood Gothic
Author: Thomas Gifford
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453266119

Convicted of murder, a screenwriter gets a chance to clear his name The police find Toby Challis clutching his bloodstained Oscar statuette, his wife dead at his feet. He claims innocence, but the jury doesn’t buy it, believing that such a cinematic murder could spring only from the mind of one of Hollywood’s finest screenwriters. Nearly driven mad by the time spent waiting for the verdict, Challis has no idea how he will survive more than a decade in the big house. Lucky for him, he won’t have to find out—yet. To transport Challis to prison, the state provides only an old prop plane. A freak blizzard hits it hard, knocking it out of the sky and killing everyone on board but the convict. Challis escapes into the woods, to find the man who killed his wife and plan what every script needs: a Hollywood ending.

The Cavanaugh Quest

The Cavanaugh Quest
Author: Thomas Gifford
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453266100

Edgar Award nominee: Backwoods treachery links a string of grisly Minnesota murders Reporter Paul Cavanaugh is coming home from an afternoon tennis match when he sees an ambulance outside his building’s door. A half hour earlier, the mild-mannered Larry Blankenship walked into the lobby, said hello to the doorman, and blew his brains out in front of the elevator bank, leaving behind a note apologizing for the mess. Cavanaugh retreats to his apartment to forget this disturbing scene, thinking the story is over when the police take away the body. But the suicide is only the beginning. A knot of death is tied tight around Blankenship’s wife, Kim, an ice-cold beauty from the backwoods of northern Minnesota. As he investigates the string of deaths, Cavanaugh discovers a decades-old atrocity that may explain why the men who know Kim vanish faster than a sunny day in Minneapolis.

The Man from Lisbon

The Man from Lisbon
Author: Thomas Gifford
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453266097

DIVA daring fraud makes one man a titan, and brings a nation to its knees/divDIV The son of a failing undertaker, Alves Reis learned early on that death comes quickly and a man must make his fortune while he can. In 1916, Reis left Portugal for Angola, where the hardships of colonial life dashed his dream of easy riches. In desperate straits, Alves discovers his true talent: forgery./divDIV /divDIVWith an unerring hand, Alves begins to counterfeit. He falsifies diplomas, government documents, currency, and countless checks on his way to perpetrating one of the greatest frauds of the twentieth century. Inspired by the true story of a master swindler, Gifford brings to life a breathtaking international scam. Before Bernie Madoff, before Frank Abagnale, there was Alves Reis—a forger with talent, vision, and an uncompromising drive to succeed, no matter what man, bank, or nation stood in his way. /div

The Suspense Is Killing Me

The Suspense Is Killing Me
Author: Thomas Gifford
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1453266186

DIVA journalist searches for the true story of his glamorous sibling’s death/divDIV When rock star J. C. Tripper died, only his brother Lee was by his side, and in the decades since, Lee has been deviled by questions of what really happened that night in Tangier. He thinks he knows the truth, but his recollection of that final drug-soaked bender is about to be called into question./divDIV /divDIVAn old acquaintance mails Lee a Nazi pistol and four Polaroid pictures of a dead body—an invitation to reopen a long-cold murder investigation. Lee then reconnects with Sam Innis, onetime best friend to the brothers Tripper, who urges him to track down J.C.’s former bandmates and music industry contacts. That night, Lee’s girlfriend, a bestselling conspiracy theorist, is tortured to death in her tub. As his brother comes back to haunt him, Lee must unravel the mystery of J.C.’s last days, or risk joining him behind the velvet rope at the great after-party in the sky./div

What Do I Read Next?

What Do I Read Next?
Author: Kristin Ramsdell
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Total Pages: 646
Release: 1991-09-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780810354050

By identifying similarities in various books, this annual selection guide helps readers to independently choose titles of interest. Arranged by author within six genre sections, entries include such details as; publisher and publication date, description of main characters, and the series name.