Author: Amy Atwell
Publisher: Amy Atwell
ISBN: 0984968237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In The Daughters of Cosmo Fortune, three respectable women find themselves lying, cheating and stealing their way to love. Enter the glittering casinos on the famed Las Vegas Strip and meet Cosmo Fortune. Magician…charmer…trickster…. His eldest daughter built a sensible, practical life for herself. Costume jewelry designer Iris Fortune knows how to copy the world’s finest gems for a fraction of their value. Little wonder that she believes a future with her predictable fiancé will fulfill her wish for a stable family. Only to have it shattered… But when her screwball father embroils himself in a murder then disappears, Iris discovers the depth of his duplicity. With the lies mounting and the clock ticking, she must work with her two newly discovered half-sisters—and an overgrown rabbit—to save their father. …and replaced with an attraction that’s as hot… Add to the madness a handsome thief shadowing her. And making her question a lot of things, including her future. Is he after a cool ten million in gems? After Cosmo? Could she be lucky enough that he’s after her? …as it is deadly. Undercover cop Mickey Kincaid has put his life on the line before, but never his heart. Now Cosmo is testing his patience, and Iris is testing his resolve—not to mention his restraint. Is she a clever criminal or his personal femme fatale? Join Iris and Mickey for a madcap weekend discovering that family and true love are worth risking everything.
Lying Eyes
Author: Amy Atwell
Publisher: Amy Atwell
ISBN: 0984968237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In The Daughters of Cosmo Fortune, three respectable women find themselves lying, cheating and stealing their way to love. Enter the glittering casinos on the famed Las Vegas Strip and meet Cosmo Fortune. Magician…charmer…trickster…. His eldest daughter built a sensible, practical life for herself. Costume jewelry designer Iris Fortune knows how to copy the world’s finest gems for a fraction of their value. Little wonder that she believes a future with her predictable fiancé will fulfill her wish for a stable family. Only to have it shattered… But when her screwball father embroils himself in a murder then disappears, Iris discovers the depth of his duplicity. With the lies mounting and the clock ticking, she must work with her two newly discovered half-sisters—and an overgrown rabbit—to save their father. …and replaced with an attraction that’s as hot… Add to the madness a handsome thief shadowing her. And making her question a lot of things, including her future. Is he after a cool ten million in gems? After Cosmo? Could she be lucky enough that he’s after her? …as it is deadly. Undercover cop Mickey Kincaid has put his life on the line before, but never his heart. Now Cosmo is testing his patience, and Iris is testing his resolve—not to mention his restraint. Is she a clever criminal or his personal femme fatale? Join Iris and Mickey for a madcap weekend discovering that family and true love are worth risking everything.
Publisher: Amy Atwell
ISBN: 0984968237
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
In The Daughters of Cosmo Fortune, three respectable women find themselves lying, cheating and stealing their way to love. Enter the glittering casinos on the famed Las Vegas Strip and meet Cosmo Fortune. Magician…charmer…trickster…. His eldest daughter built a sensible, practical life for herself. Costume jewelry designer Iris Fortune knows how to copy the world’s finest gems for a fraction of their value. Little wonder that she believes a future with her predictable fiancé will fulfill her wish for a stable family. Only to have it shattered… But when her screwball father embroils himself in a murder then disappears, Iris discovers the depth of his duplicity. With the lies mounting and the clock ticking, she must work with her two newly discovered half-sisters—and an overgrown rabbit—to save their father. …and replaced with an attraction that’s as hot… Add to the madness a handsome thief shadowing her. And making her question a lot of things, including her future. Is he after a cool ten million in gems? After Cosmo? Could she be lucky enough that he’s after her? …as it is deadly. Undercover cop Mickey Kincaid has put his life on the line before, but never his heart. Now Cosmo is testing his patience, and Iris is testing his resolve—not to mention his restraint. Is she a clever criminal or his personal femme fatale? Join Iris and Mickey for a madcap weekend discovering that family and true love are worth risking everything.
Don't Believe Your Lying Eyes
Author: Blair S. Walker
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN: 9780345446831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Riding high on the success of his critically acclaimed mystery debut, Up Jumped the Devil, and his dazzling second novel, Hidden in Plain View, Blair S. Walker continues the adventures of sleuthing Baltimore newspaperman Darryl Billups. In Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes, appearances can be deceiving . . . and just as deadly. Every two months for the last seventeen years, the payments for unit number nine at a storage facility in West Baltimore have arrived without fail. After the money orders mysteriously stop, a grisly surprise is found inside the abandoned space: the mummified remains of black socialite Adrienne Hudson. The victim’s husband was none other than Charles Hudson, one of Baltimore’s greatest business leaders, who has since remarried a much younger woman. Adrienne’s disappearance during an apparent robbery in 1984 shocked and saddened the people of Baltimore. Now her murder has reopened old wounds, and cast a shadow of suspicion on a pillar of the community. Into this lurid state of affairs steps Baltimore Herald reporter Darryl Billups, who is set to marry his long-time, live-in girlfriend, Yolanda, and become an instant father to her wonderful four-year old son. Nervous about the upcoming wedding after thirty-three years of bachelorhood, he welcomes any distraction and eagerly throws himself into the sordid case. Yet after receiving sensitive inside information from a contact in the police department, Darryl discovers there’s much more to the story than meets the eye. Maneuvering through a world of lies and deception, privilege and power, Darryl uncovers secrets and bombshells which will lead him to an unlikely suspect–one who will shake the foundations of a proud city . . . and one that just may cost Darryl his life. Seamlessly blending action, romance, comedy, and relentless suspense, Blair S. Walker has written a stunning mystery full of unexpected twists–and featuring a hero fans will delightfully welcome back and new readers will adore. From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
ISBN: 9780345446831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Riding high on the success of his critically acclaimed mystery debut, Up Jumped the Devil, and his dazzling second novel, Hidden in Plain View, Blair S. Walker continues the adventures of sleuthing Baltimore newspaperman Darryl Billups. In Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes, appearances can be deceiving . . . and just as deadly. Every two months for the last seventeen years, the payments for unit number nine at a storage facility in West Baltimore have arrived without fail. After the money orders mysteriously stop, a grisly surprise is found inside the abandoned space: the mummified remains of black socialite Adrienne Hudson. The victim’s husband was none other than Charles Hudson, one of Baltimore’s greatest business leaders, who has since remarried a much younger woman. Adrienne’s disappearance during an apparent robbery in 1984 shocked and saddened the people of Baltimore. Now her murder has reopened old wounds, and cast a shadow of suspicion on a pillar of the community. Into this lurid state of affairs steps Baltimore Herald reporter Darryl Billups, who is set to marry his long-time, live-in girlfriend, Yolanda, and become an instant father to her wonderful four-year old son. Nervous about the upcoming wedding after thirty-three years of bachelorhood, he welcomes any distraction and eagerly throws himself into the sordid case. Yet after receiving sensitive inside information from a contact in the police department, Darryl discovers there’s much more to the story than meets the eye. Maneuvering through a world of lies and deception, privilege and power, Darryl uncovers secrets and bombshells which will lead him to an unlikely suspect–one who will shake the foundations of a proud city . . . and one that just may cost Darryl his life. Seamlessly blending action, romance, comedy, and relentless suspense, Blair S. Walker has written a stunning mystery full of unexpected twists–and featuring a hero fans will delightfully welcome back and new readers will adore. From the Hardcover edition.
Lying Eyes
Author: Emer Connolly
Publisher: Gill Books
ISBN: 9780717146253
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The story of Sharon Collins, the housewife and mother who went online to find hitman to kill her partner and his two sons.
Publisher: Gill Books
ISBN: 9780717146253
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The story of Sharon Collins, the housewife and mother who went online to find hitman to kill her partner and his two sons.
Her Lying Eyes
Author: David K. Bartoo
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1441526692
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This is the story of a dedicated man who worked all his adult life, to achieve the American dream, and how the woman he trusted and loved destroyed it all. A husband tries to give all the necessities and conveniences of a modern life to his wife and children. He tried to make them as comfortable as possible. This story shows the depth of his love for his wife and the disdain she felt for him. It shows that no matter how long you live with your partner, and you think you know everything about your better half, think again. A housewife deceitful ways causes a family to lose everything. He keeps waiting, thinking that she will change her deceitful ways, but is he waiting in vain?
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1441526692
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
This is the story of a dedicated man who worked all his adult life, to achieve the American dream, and how the woman he trusted and loved destroyed it all. A husband tries to give all the necessities and conveniences of a modern life to his wife and children. He tried to make them as comfortable as possible. This story shows the depth of his love for his wife and the disdain she felt for him. It shows that no matter how long you live with your partner, and you think you know everything about your better half, think again. A housewife deceitful ways causes a family to lose everything. He keeps waiting, thinking that she will change her deceitful ways, but is he waiting in vain?
Her Lying Eyes
Author: Susan Mills Wilson
Publisher: Code 3 Publications
ISBN: 0991169115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Investigative reporter, Jamison Jackson, likes to go after the tough issues. She never backs away from a story that will expose greed and corruption. Tough minded and stubborn, Jamie takes risks and collects enemies along the way -- a consequence she accepts willingly. But when she is framed for murder, she is forced to go on the run to escape the killer who will do anything to retrieved something she might not even have. She must trust her former boyfriend, Homicide Detective Chris Lagoni, to clear her name, and the man she has fallen in love with, Brennan McKeever, to save her. But first, Brennan must find it in his heart to forgive her for a truth she buried behind her lying eyes.
Publisher: Code 3 Publications
ISBN: 0991169115
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Investigative reporter, Jamison Jackson, likes to go after the tough issues. She never backs away from a story that will expose greed and corruption. Tough minded and stubborn, Jamie takes risks and collects enemies along the way -- a consequence she accepts willingly. But when she is framed for murder, she is forced to go on the run to escape the killer who will do anything to retrieved something she might not even have. She must trust her former boyfriend, Homicide Detective Chris Lagoni, to clear her name, and the man she has fallen in love with, Brennan McKeever, to save her. But first, Brennan must find it in his heart to forgive her for a truth she buried behind her lying eyes.
Believe Me Or Your Lying Eyes With "Hind" Sight!
Author: Lou Illar
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449007511
Category : Casinos
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." Groucho Marx In 1957, Vance Packard wrote. "Our American life, through a large scale effort to use psychiatry and the social sciences to influence and manipulate buying, has had impressive success below our level of awareness." Since 1957, there is great evidence that our culture has become a harbinger of emotional exploitation in more forms than we can recognize and irrational profit taking in more forms than we can image. In these times, investing in a charity is not easy within a gambling culture that has glamorized wind fall profits, and run away CEO salaries. It certainly worsens when these efforts become unfettered, and ignored by business efforts that not only fail to provide a product of value but offer no product at all. This madness can only succeed by turning huge profits through the creation of cannibalistic markets and non-profit corporations that feed on gambling addictions which buy moments of hope as they excite and exploit risk instincts. This baiting continues to validate at warp speed the assumption that we are a nation of impulse buyers. We reverse like a school of starving gold fish fearful of the vibrations of mere foot steps and unable to notice bread crumbs on top of the water. No doubt someone has convinced us that with every failure there will always be another roll of the 'dice.' The more relevant question of interest is who will roll those dice on your internet gambling site? No doubt we have become more reactive but worse we have become less knowledgeable. This writing is offered to encourage your thoughtfulness about your money and who andwhat you empower as you give it away.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449007511
Category : Casinos
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." Groucho Marx In 1957, Vance Packard wrote. "Our American life, through a large scale effort to use psychiatry and the social sciences to influence and manipulate buying, has had impressive success below our level of awareness." Since 1957, there is great evidence that our culture has become a harbinger of emotional exploitation in more forms than we can recognize and irrational profit taking in more forms than we can image. In these times, investing in a charity is not easy within a gambling culture that has glamorized wind fall profits, and run away CEO salaries. It certainly worsens when these efforts become unfettered, and ignored by business efforts that not only fail to provide a product of value but offer no product at all. This madness can only succeed by turning huge profits through the creation of cannibalistic markets and non-profit corporations that feed on gambling addictions which buy moments of hope as they excite and exploit risk instincts. This baiting continues to validate at warp speed the assumption that we are a nation of impulse buyers. We reverse like a school of starving gold fish fearful of the vibrations of mere foot steps and unable to notice bread crumbs on top of the water. No doubt someone has convinced us that with every failure there will always be another roll of the 'dice.' The more relevant question of interest is who will roll those dice on your internet gambling site? No doubt we have become more reactive but worse we have become less knowledgeable. This writing is offered to encourage your thoughtfulness about your money and who andwhat you empower as you give it away.
Lying Eyes
Author: Robert Winter
Publisher: Robert Winter Books
ISBN: 1948883031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This bartender’s art lies in more than mixing drinks … Randy Vaughan is a six-foot-three mass of mysteries to his customers and his friends. Why does a former Secret Service agent now own Mata Hari, a successful piano bar? Where did a muscle daddy get his passion for collecting fine art? If he’s as much a loner as his friends believe, why does he crave weekly sessions at an exclusive leather club? Randy’s carefully private life unravels when Jack Fraser, a handsome art historian from England, walks into his bar, anxious to get his hands on a painting Randy owns. The desperation Randy glimpses in whiskey-colored eyes draws him in, as does the desire to submit that he senses beneath Jack’s elegant, driven exterior. While wrestling with his attraction to Jack, Randy has to deal with a homeless teenager, a break-in at Mata Hari, and Jack’s relentless pursuit of the painting called Sunrise. It becomes clear someone’s lying to Randy. Unless he can figure out who and why, he may miss his chance at the love he’s dreamed about in the hidden places of his heart. Note: Lying Eyes is a standalone gay romance novel with consensual bondage and a strong happy ending. It contains potential spoilers for Robert Winter’s prior novel, Every Breath You Take.
Publisher: Robert Winter Books
ISBN: 1948883031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This bartender’s art lies in more than mixing drinks … Randy Vaughan is a six-foot-three mass of mysteries to his customers and his friends. Why does a former Secret Service agent now own Mata Hari, a successful piano bar? Where did a muscle daddy get his passion for collecting fine art? If he’s as much a loner as his friends believe, why does he crave weekly sessions at an exclusive leather club? Randy’s carefully private life unravels when Jack Fraser, a handsome art historian from England, walks into his bar, anxious to get his hands on a painting Randy owns. The desperation Randy glimpses in whiskey-colored eyes draws him in, as does the desire to submit that he senses beneath Jack’s elegant, driven exterior. While wrestling with his attraction to Jack, Randy has to deal with a homeless teenager, a break-in at Mata Hari, and Jack’s relentless pursuit of the painting called Sunrise. It becomes clear someone’s lying to Randy. Unless he can figure out who and why, he may miss his chance at the love he’s dreamed about in the hidden places of his heart. Note: Lying Eyes is a standalone gay romance novel with consensual bondage and a strong happy ending. It contains potential spoilers for Robert Winter’s prior novel, Every Breath You Take.
Lying Eyes
Author: Tom Owens
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560250746
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A former L.A. police officer describes the corruption that is rampant in the L.A.P.D.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560250746
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A former L.A. police officer describes the corruption that is rampant in the L.A.P.D.
Lyin' Eyes
Author: Julie Mulhern
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732755994
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Get my to the church on time! Not so much the church as the patio. And not if Ellison can't stop finding bodies. She's finding corpses in pairs now, and planning a wedding, and trying (truly she is) to steer clear of the murder investigation. But when she finds a third body, Ellison becomes a suspect. Will Ellison get her happily ever after or will a devious killer turn her wedding into a funeral?
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732755994
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Get my to the church on time! Not so much the church as the patio. And not if Ellison can't stop finding bodies. She's finding corpses in pairs now, and planning a wedding, and trying (truly she is) to steer clear of the murder investigation. But when she finds a third body, Ellison becomes a suspect. Will Ellison get her happily ever after or will a devious killer turn her wedding into a funeral?
The Truth about Lying
Author: Stephen Costello
Publisher: The Liffey Press
ISBN: 1908308532
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
In this forthright and fascinating study, Dr Stephen J. Costello, philosopher and logotherapist, takes us on a profound journey into the intricate and intriguing nature of the dynami of lying. Drawing on philosophy, logical puzzles and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Costello investigates the types of lies we tell, the lies that include a good deal of truth, how and why children lie, the lies lovers tell, self-deception and much more. In the final section of the book Costello focuses in particular on how men and women lie in different ways. Men, he argues, lie in the guise of truth while women tell the truth in the guise of a lie. Men tend to be more direct while women are more deceptive. Men lie to create a better image of themselves, women lie to make others feel more comfortable. Provocative, while also frequently amusing, The Truth about Lying is a pithy primer on the act and art of lying. “This is an absolutely fascinating book . . . a quite extraordinary range of information . . . I can only encourage everyone to read it and thoroughly enjoy it as I did.” - Ivor Browne, from the Foreword
Publisher: The Liffey Press
ISBN: 1908308532
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
In this forthright and fascinating study, Dr Stephen J. Costello, philosopher and logotherapist, takes us on a profound journey into the intricate and intriguing nature of the dynami of lying. Drawing on philosophy, logical puzzles and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Costello investigates the types of lies we tell, the lies that include a good deal of truth, how and why children lie, the lies lovers tell, self-deception and much more. In the final section of the book Costello focuses in particular on how men and women lie in different ways. Men, he argues, lie in the guise of truth while women tell the truth in the guise of a lie. Men tend to be more direct while women are more deceptive. Men lie to create a better image of themselves, women lie to make others feel more comfortable. Provocative, while also frequently amusing, The Truth about Lying is a pithy primer on the act and art of lying. “This is an absolutely fascinating book . . . a quite extraordinary range of information . . . I can only encourage everyone to read it and thoroughly enjoy it as I did.” - Ivor Browne, from the Foreword