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Five mystery thrillers by a Pulitzer-nominee!
"IF YOU LIKE STRONG CHARACTERIZATIONS, GREAT DIALOGUE AND SURPRISES, PULITZER-NOMINEE LAWRENCE DE MARIA'S ALTON RHODE MYSTERIES ARE IN A CLASS BY THEMSELVES." (JOHN CRUDELE, NEW YORK POST)
• In CAPRIATI'S BLOOD (now THE CAPRIATI CONSPIRACY), Rhode has recently returned from military duty when a beautiful woman asks him to find the bank-embezzler lover who fathered her daughter and disappeared 14 years earlier. The man, she says, doesn't know about the child, but his bone marrow could save the child's life. Rhode takes the case, although it seems hopeless. It soon becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems. Bodies pile up as Rhode's search takes him from a college campus, to a nursing home, to a Florida orange grove. And, finally, to a revelation he never sees coming.
• In LAURA LEE, a neighborhood security guard apprehends Elizabeth Olsen, gun in hand, fleeing a mansion. Inside, John Denton, a prominent banker lies dead. The District Attorney, smelling a slam dunk in an election year, will prosecute the case himself. Elizabeth's wealthy father hires Rhode to clear her. Soon, the drama takes an unexpected and tragic turn and Rhode uncovers a startling secret that threatens everyone involved.
• In SIREN'S TEARS, the death of a spider monkey in South America is the prelude to a series of apparently unsolvable human murders in Canada and the United States. Only when Rhode is approached by a suspicious Catholic priest does the killer have anything to worry about. Urged on by an unlikely underworld ally, Rhode pieces together the mystery. His hunt for the truth spans thousands of miles and makes him a target of a diabolical killer who uses sex and science to seek her perverted revenge on men.
• In SISTER, a nun's murder in Massachusetts brings two homicide detectives to Alton Rhode's office. Before she became a nun, the dead woman was his first love. Plagued by long-suppressed memories, Rhode dedicates himself to finding the killer. But there are no suspects, clues or obvious motive. But then a pattern emerges, which sets Rhode on a cross-country hunt for a probable serial killer. What he eventually discovers shocks him to the core.
• In GUNNER, Alton Rhode is angered by the apparently senseless murder of a Vietnam-era Medal of Honor winner. Then the killer, one of Rhode's own former troopers, tells him that the murder was not the home invasion the police assume. The assassin, a patriot of sorts, didn't know his victim's heroic history. Now, he wants to set things right. He also doesn't know who ordered the hit, so he gives Rhode the $20,000 he was paid for the assignment to finance an investigation. Rhode barely survives an ambush in upstate New York and more people are killed before he gets to the bottom of the murders.
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