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Merry Mansfield is a free-spirited con artist who assists mobsters in abducting defaulting fugitives by rear-ending their cars on the highway. Unfortunately, after completing one such abduction on the Overseas Highway, Merry discovers that she and her accomplice "Zeto" have snatched the wrong person: Lane Coolman, a Los Angeles talent manager on his way to Key West to supervise a live ...
If Tomorrow Comes is a 1985 crime fiction novel by American author Sidney Sheldon.It is a story portraying an ordinary woman who is framed by the Mafia, her subsequent quest for vengeance towards them and her later life as a con-artist.
The same description of the novel is found in Desmond Morris's reference work The Book of Ages. [4] A survey of books for women's studies courses describes it as a "tongue-in-cheek erotic novel". [5] Books focused on the history of erotic literature such as Michael Perkins' The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature also so classify Lolita. [6]
The bestselling novelist returns with a work of non-fiction, co-written by the founder of an organization advocating for the wrongfully convicted, that details the painful stories of people ...
The novel received varying reviews. In Time magazine, R.Z. Sheppard said "This posthumously published novel by the author of The Godfather has more tasty twists than a plate of fusilli", and "this deft and passionate last novel by the Balzac of the Mafia", [4] while Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times "Fact is, the more I think about it, the more this book gives me agita.
Critical reception for Innocence was mixed.Publishers Weekly's Stephanie Feldman has listed the book as one of her "10 Creepiest Books." [1] The Boston Globe and Library Journal both praised Innocence, with The Boston Sunday Globe writing, "Borrowing classic ingredients from the genres of horror films and popular literature, Mendelsohn has concocted a coming-of-age tale about a Manhattan girl ...
Shortly after arriving in California, she went to a convenience store and heard a man preaching in the parking lot. The second time she saw him, the pair exchanged numbers and quickly started dating.
Gone Girl is a crime thriller novel by American writer Gillian Flynn, published by Crown Publishing Group in June 5, 2012. The book became popular, making the New York Times Best Seller list . The sense of suspense in the novel comes from whether Nick Dunne is responsible for the disappearance of his wife Amy.