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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover

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Also by Sean Chercover:

The Savior's Game, August 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
The Devil's Game, June 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Trinity Game, August 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down, May 2010
Paperback
Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down, June 2009
Hardcover
Trigger City, October 2008
Hardcover
Big City, Bad Blood, March 2008
Mass Market Paperback
Big City, Bad Blood, January 2007
Hardcover

BIG CITY, BAD BLOOD
By: Sean Chercover

William Morrow
January 2007
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Featuring: Ray Dudgeon
304 pages
ISBN: 0061128678
EAN: 9780061128677
Hardcover
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Mystery Private Eye | Thriller

A disillusioned newspaper reporter turned private detective, Ray Dudgeon isn't trying to save the world. He just wants to do an honest job, and do it well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds for survival make for a sucker's bet. . . . While working on a movie in Chicago, Hollywood locations manager Bob Loniski saw something he shouldn't have. Now he's a prosecution witness against a suspected member of the Chicago Outfit. Petrified, he comes to Ray for protection. Ray's mob contacts insist that they have no interest in Loniski, so he takes the bodyguard gig.

Then people start dying and everything goes to hell.

Ray's investigation leads to a stash of blackmail files involving the sex trade, Washington political corruption, and a deadly power struggle among Chicago's organized crime bosses-setting the FBI, the Chicago police, and the mob on his tail. He now holds evidence against top-ranking cops and politicians . . . but with the line between good and bad blurring, he doesn't know who he can trust.

If he does the right thing, Ray is sure to die. But if he doesn't, how can he live with himself?