Vengeance. Mystery Writers of America Presents B00A25NLU4

plaintiff’s trial lawyer, Twist Phelan writes the critically acclaimed legal-themed Pinnacle Peak mystery series published by Poisoned Pen Press. Her short stories appear in anthologies and mystery magazines and have won or been nominated for the Thriller, Ellis, and Derringer awards. Twist’s current project is a suspense novel set in Santa Fe featuring a corporate spy. Visit her website at www.twistphelan.com.
    Zoë Sharp opted out of mainstream education at the age of twelve. She created her highly acclaimed ex–Special Forces–turned–bodyguard series heroine Charlie Fox after receiving death-threat letters in the course of her work as a freelance photojournalist. Sharp lives on the edge of the English Lake District, where she and her husband, a nonfiction writer, built their own house. She blogs regularly on her website, www.zoesharp.com, and on the award-nominated www.murderati.com.
    Karin Slaughter has written eleven books that have sold twenty-five million copies in thirty languages. A
New York Times
bestselling author, Karin’s books have debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands. She lives in Atlanta, where she is working on her next novel.
    Orest Stelmach is the author of the thriller
The Boy from Reactor 4,
the first in the Tesla trilogy, and the historical mystery
Lady in the Dunes,
the first in a series set in 1950 Provincetown featuring Father Sean Kale. A Connecticut native, he went to kindergarten speaking only Ukrainian. He still tries to use as few words as possible. Orest and his wife divide their time between Connecticut and Cape Cod. Visit him at www.oreststelmach.com.
    Anne Swardson is an editor-at-large with Bloomberg News in Paris and a former European economic correspondent for the
Washington Post.
“River Secret” is her first published work of fiction. She is also the author of a mystery novel. Like “River Secret,” it is set in Paris, where Anne has lived with her husband and two children for fifteen years.

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    “The Fourteenth Juror,” © 2012 by Alpha Blonde, LLC
    “The Mother,” © 2012 by Alafair Burke
    “The Hollywood I Remember,” © 2012 by Lee Child
    “A Fine Mist of Blood,” © 2012 by Michael Connelly
    “Leverage,” © 2012 by Mike Cooper
    “The Final Ballot,” © 2012 by Brendan DuBois
    “Blind Justice,” © 2012 by Jim Fusilli
    “It Ain’t Right,” © 2012 by Michelle Gagnon
    “Even a Blind Man,” © 2012 by Darrell James
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    “Blood and Sunshine,” © 2012 by Adam Meyer
    “The Hotline,” © 2012 by Dreda Say Mitchell
    “Africa Always Needs Guns,” © 2012 by Michael Niemann
    “Lost and Found,” © 2012 by Zoë Sharp
    “The Unremarkable Heart,” © 2010 by Karin Slaughter
    First published in Holland as an e-book original in 2010 as “Ongezien.”
    Also published in the United Kingdom as an e-book in 2011.
    Reprinted by permission of the author.
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    “River Secret,” © 2012 by Anne Swardson