Brad Parks
1) The player
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"When he hears residents of a Newark neighborhood are getting sick--and even dying--from a strange disease, investigative reporter Carter Ross dives into the story--so deep he comes down with the illness himself. With even more motivation to track down the source of the disease, Carter soon hits upon a nearby construction site. But when the project's developer is found dead, and his mob ties surface, Carter knows he's looking at a story much bigger--and...
2) The Good Cop
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In the fourth in Brad Parks's award-winning series, Newark investigative journalist Carter Ross must uncover the truth behind a beloved cop's alleged suicide.
3) The fraud
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"In the most thrilling entry yet in Brad Parks's award-winning series, investigative reporter Carter Ross must chose who gets to live: him or his unborn child. A rash of carjackings terrorizing Newark become newsworthy when one such theft ends in the murder of a wealthy banking executive. The affable, wisecracking Ross is assigned the story, but he's weary of only writing about victims of crime who happen to be rich and white. To balance his reporting,...
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Es hätte ein normaler Mittwochnachmittag werden sollen, an dem Bundesrichter Scott Sampson seine Kinder Sam und Emma zum Schwimmen begleiten würde. Doch dann erreicht ihn eine SMS seiner Frau, die besagt, dass sie die beiden von der Schule abholt. Als Alison später nach Hause kommt, sind die Kinder nicht bei ihr. Und sie hat auch keine SMS geschrieben. Stattdessen klingelt das Telefon. "Ihre Kinder sind in unserer Gewalt!", sagt eine Stimme. Wenn...
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Shamus and Nero award-winning author Brad Parks takes readers back to the beginning of investigative reporter Carter Ross's career with this intriguing prequel short story.
Only 24 years old and still a wide-eyed reporter for a tiny backwater newspaper, Ross is getting his crack at the big leagues with an interview at New Jersey's largest paper, The Eagle-Examiner. If-that is-he nails the interview and the on-the-spot writing test. Ross has never...
6) Two For One
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Two for One" is a return to Brad Parks's storytelling roots: New Jersey, his place of birth and also where he spent ten years as a young reporter for the state's largest newspaper, The Star-Ledger. Every character you'll meet in this story is more than likely someone he bumped into during that time. Hope you enjoy this healthy serving of Garden State goodness. The Barb Goffman Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of mystery, crime, and suspense...
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Die Katastrophe lauert an diesem Montagabend vor dem Haus der Tagesmutter, als Melanie mit den Worten überfallen wird: "Ihr Sohn ist nicht hier. Er befindet sich in der Obhut des Sozialamtes." Für die junge Mutter bricht ihre heile Welt zusammen: Sie wird beschuldigt, ihren Sohn vernachlässigt zu haben, mit Kokain zu dealen, den Stoff im Kinderzimmer gelagert zu haben und darüber hinaus auch noch ihr Kind im Internet zum Verkauf angeboten zu haben....
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"Judge Scott Sampson doesn't brag about having a perfect life, but the evidence is clear: A prestigious job. A beloved family. On an ordinary Wednesday afternoon, he is about to pick up his six-year-old twins to go swimming when his wife, Alison, texts him that she'll get the kids from school instead. It's not until she gets home later that Scott realizes she doesn't have the children. And she never sent the text. Then the phone rings, and every parent's...
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Brad Parks delivers another riveting, emotionally powerful stand-alone domestic suspense thriller perfect for fans of The Couple Next Door and What She Knew . Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know. It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care. But now that she's survived into adulthood--with a loving husband, a steady job, and a beautiful baby boy named Alex--she thought...
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Carter Ross mysteries volume 2
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Traces the investigation of reporter Carter Ross into the house fire deaths of two boys whose mother claims she was working two jobs to support them, a story that is thrown into dispute by a corrupt government program and the disappearance of the mother's boyfriend.
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Four bodies, each with a single bullet wound in the back of the head, stacked like cordwood in a weed-choked vacant lot. That's the front-page news facing Carter Ross, investigative reporter with the Newark Eagle-Examiner. The victims--an exotic dancer, a drug dealer, a hustler, and a mama's boy--came from different parts of the city and didn't seem to know one another. The police, eager to calm jittery residents, leak a theory that the murders are...
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Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers "a perfect piece of entertainment" (Steve Berry), a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that will keep readers riveted. Struggling stage actor Tommy Jump knows he has to stop chasing applause and start chasing greenbacks. But then he's offered the role of a lifetime: $150,000 for a six-month acting gig. With a newly pregnant fiancée depending on him, it's an opportunity he can't refuse,...
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This book is the third in the Nero and Shamus award-winning series featuring investigative reporter Carter Ross. Reading his own paper's obituaries, Carter Ross comes across a woman named Nancy Marino who died in a hit and run car accident while she was actually on the job delivering copies of that very paper, the Eagle-Examiner. Struck by the opportunity to write a heroic piece about an everyday woman killed too young, he heads to her wake to gather...
14) Interference
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When her husband, a quantum physicist, goes missing in the midst of a strange, violent seizure, Brigid Bronik discovers that his research had gained unwanted attention and wonders if the very same physics that endangered him could actually be used to save his life.
15) Unthinkable
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Nate Lovejoy is a self-proclaimed nobody, a stay-at-home dad who doesn't believe he's important to anyone but his wife and their two daughters. So it's a shock when members of a powerful secret society kidnap and spirit Nate away to a mansion at the behest of their leader, Vanslow DeGange, who claims to know the future. He's foreseen that a billion people could die--unless Nate acts. It seems improbable, especially given what DeGange says will set...
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"The latest entry in Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger's popular Sherlock Holmes-inspired mystery series, featuring fifteen talented authors and a multitude of new cases for Arthur Conan Doyle's most acclaimed detective. Sherlock Holmes has not only captivated readers for more than a century and a quarter, he has fascinated writers as well. Almost immediately, the detective's genius, mastery, and heroism became the standard by which other creators...
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