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A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide--except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett--Container.

Collects four fast-paced suspense novellas, including "The Trial," in which a vicious drug lord unleashes unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in his case.

A mysterious billboard from a wealthy stranger intrigues three single women in LA. But is he really the man of their dreams?
A creative, open-minded businessman doesn't have time to play the field . . . so he offers a serious proposal of ten million dollars to find the right woman. But who is this Mr. Right? And is he the perfect match for the lucky winner?

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Lightning-fast stories by James Patterson

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When former SAS captain David Shelley goes looking for an old comrade who has taken to a life on the streets, he finds his friend is dead. An MI5 agent contacts Shelley and arranges a meeting. All the signs point to murder, and the agent believes this is part of something much bigger. The only way Shelley can discover the truth is to put himself on the streets, and into the same danger that got his friend killed.

This collection features three pulse-pounding stories from James Patterson: "The Lawyer Lifeguard" with Doug Allyn, "The Shut-In" with Duane Swierczynski, and "The Doctor's Plot" with Benjamin Percy.

"An anonymous caller has promised to set off deadly bombs in Washington, DC. A cruel hoax or the real deal? By the time Alex Cross and his wife, Bree Stone, uncover the chilling truth, it may already be too late"--Amazon.com.

Sometimes it only takes a few minutes for the perfect murder to take place. Here are three fast-paced thrillers that will have you reading for just a minute longer. DEAD MAN RUNNING: Psychiatrist Randall Beck specializes in PTSD cases--and his time is limited. Especially when he uncovers a plot to kill a presidential candidate. 13-MINUTE MURDER: He can kill anybody in just minutes--from the first approach to the clean escape. His skills have served...

The toughest cases are the ones that hit close to home. When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades. As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where everyone seems to be on the take, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known. Chasing a ghost he believed was long dead, Cross gets pulled into a case that...

A short story by the best-selling writer and one of his popular co-authors is set in fast-paced real time and follows the efforts of Molly Rourke, a woman who takes the law into her own hands when her son is murdered.

If the Women's Murder Club can't be together this Christmas, a killer is to blame. As the holidays approach, Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends in the Women's Murder Club have much to celebrate. Crime is down. The medical examiner's office is quiet. Even the courts are showing some Christmas spirit. And the news cycle is so slow that journalist Cindy Thomas is on assignment to tell a story about the true meaning of the season for San Francisco....