An Option On Death

A suitcase filled with a quarter of a million dollars and evidence of a complex web of unusual stock transactions lead Emerson Ward along a perilous trail--involving murder, smuggling, missing persons, and more--as he searches for the killer of his lover, Jessica Pearson

An Option on Death

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Sherer, Michael W.

Thrillers & Suspense

Harper Paperbacks

When his phone is tapped, his lover leaves him, and one of his close friends is reported missing and another is hospitalized after a brutal beating, Emerson Ward begins to try to find out what is going on. Original.

Death Came Dressed in White

Mystery

Harpercollins

Island Life

Worldwide

Chicago freelance writer and sometimes sleuth, Emerson Ward, is determined to solve the mystery surrounding the brutal murder of his friend, photographer Brady "Puppy" Barnes, which involves missing jewels, corrupt politicians, and family secrets. Reprint.

A Forever Death: An Emerson Ward Mystery

Sherer, Michael

Worldwide Library

Someone was in the market for murder. After ten years of drifting in and out of Emerson Wards life, it looked as though Jessica Pearson was there to stay. But only a few hours after her arrival, a bullet crashing through a window kills her, and Emersons dreams as well. An accident, the police say, but Emerson knows better. Someone wanted Jessica dead; now he wants to find out who, and why. The place to start? Jessicas suitcase stuffed with cash and stock transaction receipts. all the hallmarks of the McGee seriesthe next John D. MacDonald.Chicago Tribune

An Option on Death: An Emerson Ward Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Dodd, Mead

A Forever Death (Five Star First Edition Mystery Series)

Five Star

What would you do to save someone you love? More than a year after Blake Sanders’s life fell apart he’s finally starting to pick up the pieces and put it all back together. When his ex-wife Molly is abducted, he vows not to lose her, too. Her high-profile law firm calls in the FBI, which treats the case as a run-of-the-mill kidnap-for-ransom. But to Blake, it’s personal. When the kidnappers demand that he deliver the ransom, he knows it is. With Molly’s life hanging in the balance, Blake does the unexpected, setting off a chain reaction and a game of cat-and-mouse with the mastermind behind the abduction. The deeper Blake digs for answers, the more apparent it becomes that money is lowest on the kidnappers’ list of demands. One of Molly’s clients is an ex-Navy SEAL, an expert dolphin trainer turned animal rights activist. When he disappears the stakes suddenly go up, and Blake asks naval intelligence officer Reyna Chase for help. As soon as Reyna gets wind of what’s happening, the game changes from saving Molly to saving Seattle from a terrorist threat that could wreak havoc on the city and kill thousands. The only way Blake can stop it is to pay the ransom—not with cash, but with his life. By the author of the Thriller Award-nominated Night Blind, Sherer’s third book in the Blake Sanders series grabs the reader by the throat and doesn’t let go until the last page is turned.

Night Drop (Blake Sanders Thriller Series)

Cutter Press

Starting A War Is Child’s Play… An ex-Navy SEAL parachutes onto a glacier in Greenland under cover of darkness. A Russian admiral sails his Udaloy-class destroyer to the newly reopened air base on Kotelny Island in the East Siberian Sea. A research scientist in Seattle arranges a midnight meeting with an NCIS counterespionage agent. A navy intelligence agent goes AWOL in a quest to clear her name of murder. The only common thread among them is unsuspecting newspaper delivery driver Blake Sanders. When the scientist’s surreptitious rendezvous is interrupted by Russian mafiosi and goes bad, the wounded scientist rabbits. Desperate to get away, he hijacks Blake’s car at gunpoint. Shortly after, the man bleeds out in the back seat and dies, but not before giving Blake a photo of a young girl and extracting a promise to find and protect her. Carrying out that promise launches Blake on a frenetic and dangerous race against time to find the girl and the secret she holds, a secret that could put technology in the hands of the Russians that will tip the balance of world military power. On the run from NCIS, police, the Russian Organizitsaya, and even his former lover, naval intelligence officer Reyna Chase, Blake’s only hope of stopping a secret plot against Putin that could put Russia and the US at war is saving the girl. First, he has to stay alive…

Night Strike (Blake Sanders Thriller Series)

Night Tide (Blake Sanders Thriller Series)

Who can you trust when you can't even see? Life used to be so easy when she was a royal. All she had to worry about was her wardrobe and makeup. Tess Barrett doesn't know who to trust anymore. Alice, maybe, the long-time manager of the Barrett household, but Alice has all the warmth and charm of a rattlesnake on a snowy night. Not exactly the kind of person Tess wants to cuddle up to and confide in. Then there's her personal assistant Oliver, who's been acting like a jealous middle-school kid whenever their friend Derek is around. And Yoshi, the gardener and Tess's martial arts teacher, suddenly seems to have secrets Tess never imagined. Tess even thinks her Uncle Travis might not be that bad since he let her go to homecoming, but he's let Robyn back into their lives, the woman who Tess is sure tried to come between her parents. Homecoming was the worst disaster imaginable. Bad enough that Oliver tried to kiss her (eww), but then a hired assassin attempted to kill her in front of half the school. Her quick reaction when he hesitated was all that saved her. Now, the principal wants her gone unless Travis provides extra security and metal detectors at all the entrances. Everyone hates her for it. Someone hates her so much that he-or she-posts a porno video made to look like Tess is the star. With mid-term exams coming up, the deadline for college applications looming, and her AP Chemistry teacher threatening to make her drop the course, Tess is feeling more pressure than any senior should. None of it will make a bit of difference if she doesn't find out who's trying to have her killed. Tess, Oliver and Derek follow the money. When she discovers the trail leads to one of the most powerful men in Washington, D.C., and to someone in her father's company, she's no longer sure she wants to know the truth. Once the wheels are set in motion, though, there's no turning back. And with every step she takes, Tess learns the conspiracy against her and everything she holds dear is far deeper and more dangerous than any of them had imagined. She'll have to trust someone, and it will take every resource she can muster to get to the heart of what these dark forces want...if she survives.

Blind Trust: A Tess Barrett Thriller (Tess Barrett Thriller Series)

Michael W. Sherer

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