Jungle of Glass (for fans of Michael Connelly, James Patterson and Stieg Larsson)

THIS TIME IT'S PERSONAL.

Ed Rogan, tough as nails and twice as sharp, is a private investigator of malfeasance in the corporate world. The enigmatic case he's working on in A MURDER TOO PERSONAL takes on a very personal aspect when he searches for the murderer of his ex-wife. Someone has put a bullet in the back of her head and Rogan is driven by the twin demons of guilt and revenge to find her killer. His quest leads him through the netherworld of Wall Street and corporate board rooms where vermin in Armani suits crawl along the underside of a glittering world where nothing is as it appears. The suspects are golden, well-groomed executive types with deadly secrets of greed, betrayal and lust locked up in their highly-polished mahogany desks. As he tracks down the murderer, Rogan rips apart layer after layer of surprises about the woman he was married to. Along the way he discovers she was not the wife he knew, which leads him to the unanswerable question, "Do we ever really know another person?"

Have you ever wished you could start over? That you could leave everything and everyone behind and find a new life? Our narrator takes that risk. He leaves a weary, dull, anesthetized existence, abandons his family and sets out to live as an explorer in the jungle that is called New York City, in the long-shot hope of finding contentment. He changes his appearance and takes a new identity, but he is not prepared for the obstacles he encounters and the enemies who surround him. He descends into a world where you write the rules as you go along, and where there are no dental plans, no indexed pensions and no frequent flier miles. Join him as he embarks on a journey of self-discovery with an uncertain outcome.

"Odd Jobs is a tightly-wound, well written mystery that I read in one sitting." James Patterson

College student Kevin Davenport is working any and every odd job to make it through school. He discovers who killed his father while working at the corrupt, mob-controlled, Kosher World Meat Factory. Now he will stop at nothing to prevent the killers from ruining other families and to get his revenge. Going to the police and conventional methods have not only been ineffective for others, but has proven to be virtual suicide for them. So all bets are off and Davenport uses the grittiest and strangest tools to bring down the killers. The characters, misadventures and odd jobs will have the readers laughing, but the hazard is real and Davenport is in over his head.

ONE COLD NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED....

New York Police detective Dave Strauss is haunted by the one case he couldn't solve. A schoolgirl vanished off the streets of Brooklyn, with only a trail of blood and a series of untraceable phone calls from "the Groom" hinting at her fate. Now the cold dark night has engulfed another young girl--but this time she is part of Dave's family. He and his wife, Susan, know fourteen-year-old Lisa has not run away, and they know her disappearance is not just a tragic coincidence. And once the first phone call comes, they know she's not alone.

Praise for international bestseller Katia Lief's novels:

"Mesmerizing." --Lisa Gardner

"Nail-biting suspense." --Richard Montanari

"Taut, clean storytelling." --Publishers Weekly

"A new force to reckon with in...suspense." --Donna Anders

"Suspense at a high level." --Midwest Book Review

"Readers will want to read more of this talented writer's work." --New York Journal of Books