An Edgar Award-winning AuthorIt's the peak of the tourist season on the Connecticut gold coast. But this is no ordinary July for the picture-perfect village of Dorset - or for transplanted New York film critic Mitch Berger and his alluring love, resident State Trooper Desiree Mitry. When famous - and combustible - movie star Tito Molino plunges to his death from a cliff just outside town, Mitry's investigation threatens to reveal secrets too terrible to imagine. 
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The Bright Silver Star: A Berger and Mitry Mystery

Literature & Fiction

David Handler

United States

Thorndike Press

One of the twentieth century's most controversial and remarkable cultural figures, Ada Geiger was the only person, living or dead, who had been a colleague of both Amelia Earhart and the Rolling Stones. She was also one of Mitch Berger's idols, so he was thrilled to participate in an event planned for Ada's return to little Dorset, Connecticut - until the guests began to get killed off, one by one. 
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The Burnt Orange Sunrise

The Girl Who Ran Off with Daddy

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald (A Stewart Hoag Series)

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Runaway Man (A Benji Golden Mystery, 1)

Benji Golden works in his family’s struggling mom-and-pop business above a twenty-four-hour diner on Broadway and 103rd Street. Golden Legal Services, a private detective agency, was started by Benji’s hero-cop father. The business is now run by Benji’s mother, who used to be the only Jewish pole dancer in New York City, and is staffed by Lovely Rita, an eye-popping computer wizard and a former lap dancer.Baby-faced Benji—who is exactly one-quarter-inch shy of five foot six, weighs a buck thirty-seven, and answers to the nickname “Bunny”—specializes in tracking down teen runaways. One day, when a lawyer in fancy shoes arrives from Park Avenue’s classiest law firm offering a job and lots of money, Benji and his mother can’t say no.Bruce Weiner is a senior at prestigious Canterbury College. A client of the firm has bestowed a considerable inheritance on Bruce, but Bruce has gone missing, and it’s up to Benji to find him. One murder later, Benji finds himself on a dangerous investigation that will take him to the highly secretive core of the most powerful city on earth.Runaway Man delivers all that a David Handler novel promises: smart humor, a thrilling and sexy story, and characters you won’t soon forget.

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Celebrity ghostwriter Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag is off to London to dig up the secrets of reclusive bad-boy superstar Tristam 'T. S.' Scarr, formerly of the legendary British rock group Us. T.S. is ready to reveal all, in a book destined to become a controversial best-seller. But then someone intends to send Hoagy to the top of the charts with a bullet.

Man Who Lived by Night, The (Stewart Hoag, 2)

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Stewart "Hoagie" Hoag's been in tight spots before, but never anything like this. The police and the press are all over him, and a multiple murderer is using him as a go-between. Then, as if things weren't bad enough, it begins to dawn on Hoagie that the Answer Man may in fact be someone he knows - his oldest friend in the world. What he doesn't know is what he's going to do about it - except try to stay alive!

Man Who Loved Women to Death, The (Stewart Hoag, 8)

Hoagy tries to save a client from the deadly world of high-stakes publishing Stewart Hoag knows how quickly fame can fade. The same critics who adored his first novel used his second for target practice, ending his literary career once and for all. To keep his basset hound fed, Hoagy ghostwrites memoirs for the rich, famous, and self-destructive. His newest subject reminds him all too much of himself. By the age of twenty, Cam Noyes is already being hailed as the next F. Scott Fitzgerald. Though he's only published one book, Cam runs with the big boys: dating artists, trashing restaurants, and ending every night in a haze of tequila and cocaine. So glamorous is his lifestyle that he's having trouble starting his second novel, forcing his agent to hire Hoagy to get the little genius working on a memoir instead. As Hoagy digs into the kid's life story, he learns that New York publishing is even more cutthroat than he thought.

Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald, The (Stewart Hoag, 3)

A sequel to a fifty-year-old book puts Hoagy on the scent of a long-cold murder case Few American novels are as beloved as Alma Glaze’s Revolutionary War epic, Oh, Shenandoah. Although Glaze died before she could write a sequel, she left behind an outline for one, along with instructions that it not be written until 50 years after her death. The deadline has passed, and the American public clamors for the long-promised Sweet Land of Liberty. Only one thing stands in its way: Glaze’s heirs. Her daughter, socialite Mavis Glaze, is writing the novel under guidance from her mother, who she claims has been appearing in her dreams. As Mavis’s writing spirals farther into madness, her brothers hire Stewart Hoag, a ghostwriter famous for dealing with troublesome celebrities. When he arrives at the family’s Virginia manor, he finds that Alma’s is not the only unsettled spirit. Blood was spilt for Oh, Shenandoah, and more will die before the sequel hits the best seller list.

Woman Who Fell from Grace, The (Stewart Hoag, 4)

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