Andrew Gross
1) The one man
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Poland, 1944. Alfred Mendl counts down his final days within the confines of a hell on earth. His family was torn away from him on arrival, his life's work was burned before his eyes. Now his only joy comes from watching the occasional game of chess. To the guards he is unassuming, but in fact Mendl - a leading physicist - holds knowledge that only two people in the world possess. The other person is working hard for the Nazi war machine. Four thousand...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Description
1930s New York City. Three brothers grow up poor on the Lower East Side, until the death of their father forces them to find work to support their family. Each brother takes a different path. Twelve-year-old Morris Rabishevsky apprentices himself to a garment manufacturer with the aim of running the business. Sol, six years older, heads to accounting school but is forced to drop out. Scarred by a family tragedy, Harry falls under the spell of the...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Perfect for fans of James Patterson and Harlan Coben. THE DARK TIDE: A terrorist blast rips through New York?s Grand Central Station, tearing apart Karen Friedman?s family. As Detective Ty Hauck investigates a seemingly unrelated hit and run, the trail leads back to hedge fund manager Charlie - Karen?s missing husband. And when her children?s safety is threatened, Karen turns to Hauck for help. But the people who investigate Charlie have a way of...
5) Killing hour
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Description
He heard voices in his head, in between the crashing of waves. Then he was gone, a drop in the ocean. A fisherman found his broken body on the rocks below. A phone call shatters Dr. Jay Handler's romantic anniversary dinner. The thought of his troubled nephew, helpless and doomed, will haunt Jay forever.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
February 1939 and Europe is on the brink of war. Charles Mossman is in a bar in Hell's Kitchen, New York, reeling from the loss of his job and his failing marriage, whilst outside thousands of Nazi sympathizers are attending a hate-spewing rally. As he confronts one, Charles makes a horrendous mistake with deadly consequences. Two years later, Charles is released from prison and tries to reunite with his family. The US has kept out of the war for...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Leading a tour down the rapids outside Aspen, Colorado, whitewater guide Dani Haller comes across the body of a close friend. Refusing to believe it was an accident, Dani uncovers evidence that backs up her suspicions and takes her case to Wade Dunn, local police chief and her ex-stepfather. Wade insists the case is closed but Rooster, a hot-air balloon operator, claims he saw something that Dani needs to know. Before she can find out, however, Rooster...
8) The saboteur
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Kurt Nordstrum leaves behind the safety of his life in Oslo to join the Allied troops. Having spent the last few months mourning the tragic death of his fiancee, he's been searching everywhere for distraction. When he learns of a top-secret operation to interfere with the Nazis' plans, it's everything he's been looking for, and he immediately steps up to the challenge. What he doesn't know is that the mission he has signed up to is about to become...
9) 3rd degree
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Series
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer is jogging along a San Francisco street as a fiery explosion rips through the neighbourhood. A townhouse owned by an Internet millionnaire is immediately engulfed in flames. A mysterious message at the scene leaves Lindsay and the San Francisco Police Department baffled.
10) 2nd chance
Author
Series
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer knows she has to reconvene the Women's Murder Club when a little girl is murdered on the steps of a San Francisco church. Lindsay soon starts to track a mystifying killer who quickly turns his pursuers into his victims.