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Anne Perry, author of Dark Tide Rising: A William Monk Novel

Kidnappers have chosen Jacob’s Island as the site of a ransom exchange for Kate Exeter, the wife of wealthy real estate developer Harry Exeter. Harry asks the Thames River Police to secretly accompany him to the spot and ensure that no harm comes to him or his captive wife. But on arrival, Monk and five of his best men are attacked from all sides, and Monk is left wondering who could have given away their plans.

Week of September 9, 2019

Paperback releases for the week of September 9th include FEAR, Bob Woodward's intriguing account of life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies; THE REAL LOLITA, in which Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Vladimir Nabokov knew of the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing LOLITA; John Lescroart's THE RULE OF LAW, which finds attorney Dismas Hardy defending the least likely suspect of his career --- his trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessory to murder; and THE GLASS OCEAN by Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig and Karen White, a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century --- two deep in the past, one in the present --- to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.