Bøker av Seth Margolis

A shadowy billionaire pulls the strings behind a presidential election in this political thriller by a national bestselling author. In this twisting, ferocious novel of suspense, the presidential race has a number of men all clawing to get to the top. Each has a closet where his skeletons are locked awayand one man holds every key. Julian Mellow has spent his life amassing a fortune out of low-risk, high-reward investments. But the one time in his life he got in over his head, he left another man holding the bag and made an enemy for life, one who has nothing to lose. Now, Mellow has an even greater ambitionto use his wealth and power to select the next president of the United Statesand to make that man do his bidding, in business and beyond. In a story that ranges from the United States to an African nation where a brutal dictator reigns and a resistance movement lurks in the alleys, Presidents' Day spans the globe to weave together a brilliant portrait of politics at its most venal, where murder is a part of the political process, where anyone's life is up for sale, and where one manthat bad penny of an enemycould bring the whole kingdom toppling... This gripping read comes from the author of Losing Isaiah, the basis of the film of the same name, and The Semper Sonnet, praised by Phillip Margolin as ';a wildly imaginative thriller.'

A long-lost manuscript may reveal the pastor destroy the futurein ';a wildly imaginative thriller that fans of Dan Brown and Steve Berry will love' (Phillip Margolin, New York Timesbestselling author). Lee Nicholson is ready to take the academic world by storm, having discovered a sonnet she believes was written by William Shakespeare. But when she reads the poem on the air, the words put her life in peril and trigger a violent chasewith stakes that reach far beyond the cloistered walls of academia. Buried in the language of the sonnet, in its allusions and wordplay, are secrets that have been hidden since Elizabethan times, secrets known only to the queen and her trusted doctor, but guessed at by men who seek the crown and others who seek the world. If the riddles are solved, it could explode what historians know of the great Elizabeth Iand release a terrifying pandemic. Lee's quest for the answers buried in the sonnet keeps her one step ahead of an international huntfrom the police who want her for murder, to a group of men who will stop at nothing to end her quest, to a madman who pursues the answers for destructive reasons of his own. As this intelligent thriller moves back and forth between Tudor England and the present day, Lee begins to piece together the meaning behind Shakespeare's words, carrying the story to its gasp-out-loud conclusion. ';Imaginative plotting and depth of character distinguish this centuries-spanning thriller.' Publishers Weekly ';Will have you on the edge of your seat...a roller-coaster ride of a book.' C. W. Gortner, international-bestselling author of The Last Queen

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND FEATURE FILM STARRING HALLE BERRY AND JESSICA LANGE"e;Riveting...impossible to turn away from."e; -THE BOSTON GLOBE"e;Losing Isaiah pushes all the current cultural buttons...[Margolis] gets inside the head of every character."e; -THE WASHINGTON POST"e;[E]ngrossing and, to its credit, offers no pat answers to complicated issues."e; -PUBLISHER'S WEEKLYThree-year-old Isaiah has two mothers: and they both want him.Margaret Lewin adopted Isaiah as a newborn-and she and her husband, Charles, give the boy all the love a child could want and everything that money can buy. But can even the most loving, caring white family be responsible for raising a black child?Selma Richards is the boy's birth mother. When Isaiah was born she was illiterate, unemployed, and a crack addict. Giving up her son was the best thing for both of them-at the time. Now Selma has weaned herself off drugs, has a responsible job caring for another couple's child, and is learning to read. She's not rich and she doesn't live in the best neighborhood, but she's healed herself. LOSING ISAIAH raises one of the most complex and emotional moral questions of our times, and keeps you rooting for both women until the inevitable and heartrending conclusion in which one mother ends up losing her son.

A man wants to fake his own deathand then things get realin this PI mystery from the national bestselling author of False Faces. When retail tycoon George Samson appears in Det. Joe DiGregorio's Manhattan office asking for help in faking his own death, the wary private eye, a former Long Island cop, knows enough to refuse. But Samson's proposition isn't easy to forget. So when Samson is found murdered soon afterward, the struggling PI is convinced that his would-be client found another ';killer.' There's only one problem: the death is genuine. Something went wrong somewherebut what? DiGregorio offers his investigative talents to the new CEO of Samson Stores, who accepts. Since leaving the force, he's been struggling to make it as a private investigator, and this case could be the making of his new careeror the end of him.

A woman fleeing an abusive relationship is entangled in a shocking crime in this thriller by the bestselling author of Perfect Angel and President's Day. Gwen Amiel had only wanted a job, a haven, a fresh startand the nanny position seemed to offer exactly that. But inside a wealthy family's elegant home, a crime is committed that is so shockingso seemingly randomthat a tiny upstate New York town will never be the same. Gradually, evidence will lead the authorities to the family's new nanny, a woman whose past is shrouded in mystery... and violence. Now, with a police investigation swirling around her and no way to prove her innocence, she turns to the one person who seems to believe her, and the one place she feels safe. But as Gwen struggles to find answers, she'll discover that nothing is what it seems, that no one can escape from the past, and that trusting the wrong person can destroy your sanity... and your life.