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UNLUCKY MONEYWhen Chinese American private-eye Wendy Lu takes on her first murder case, she doesn''t realize how dangerous it''s going to be. Probing into the murder of Susan Fontaine, the wife of her client, wealthy real-estate developer Whit Fontaine-the primary suspect in the case-Wendy fights to prove he was framed. Wendy used to be a cop but quit after a rookie mistake caused the death of her partner. Now she leads a more traditional life, dealing with her guilt, feeling she has disappointed her parents. Yet despite hostility from Fontaine''s arrogant business partner, opposition from the police, and violent threats on her life, she perseveres in the case.And that''s when Wendy discovers things that Fontaine, his partner Tom McKenna, and even Ryan Connolly, the police detective in charge of the murder investigation, would like to keep secret-that Fontaine-McKenna Associates is using criminal-syndicate money to finance the casino the firm wants to build. Now she is forced to use everything she''s learned just to stay alive.

"The last person Virginia lawyer Robert Shipley expects to see again is Lisa Lindstrom. Their college relationship didn't end well, and Lisa is now married. She is also the daughter of retiring Senator Lindstrom, and used to getting her way. So when she is mailed with a tape showing her in bed with another woman, and told that she has five days to announce her decision not to run for her father's office, she contacts Robert. Shipley tries to refuse, but it's a losing battle. Which is how he finds himself in the apartment of Lisa's lesbian lover, Cate Gaulois, who is lying dead on the floor with a bullet in her chest. All the evidence for the blackmail--and the murder as well--point to three men who seem to have known Cate through a local strip club where she danced: Tommy Osborn, a ruthless tobacco lobbyist, the man who introduced Cate to Lisa; Bill Murphy, chief of staff for the opposition party, whose card he finds in her apartment; and Frank Nelson, chief of staff to Senator Lindstrom, who was also seen visiting the club. Three tough, arrogant Washington D.C. politicians--which one wants Lisa out of the race? And which one now wants Robert Shipley dead?"--

PIRATES You're an ex-SEAL named Hal Morgan. You served in a desert war and returned to the States with plenty of scars-inside as well as outside. Now you sail charter boats in Puerto Rico, taking the tourists out to sea. You're returning an empty boat to the marina when you spot a daysailer drifting ahead, apparently abandoned and ready to sink. You come alongside and find a young woman in a torn, black cocktail dress lying unconscious in the cockpit. The daysailer doesn't look as though it will last long, so you hurry the woman over to your boat and do what you can for her. When she wakes, she finds your gun in the cabin and demands that you go back and get some bag she left on the daysailer. She acts as though this bag means a lot to her-and it does. Because the young woman-Ana Cortez Bolano-has just left her boyfriend, gangster boss Jaime Riviera, taking all his cash with her. Now you have a choice: you can hand Ana over to Riviera, knowing what he'll do to her, or you can make like a white knight and help her escape. The first decision is easy. After that, well, things get complicated ....