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Windy City danger

2006
While visiting Chicago, twins Ashley and Bryce catch up with old friends, visit the house where they grew up, see many reminders of their deceased father, and help search for their best friends' uncle, who disappeared days before his wedding.

Bad business

Lindy takes financial advantage of her elderly employer's mistake and pays for a dream trip to the Arctic. However, when she tells someone what she has done, she begins paying for her deed.

Where you end

Overwrought when she sees her ex-boyfriend with another girl during a class field trip, seventeen-year-old Miriam Feldman races into the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden and pushes over a priceless Picasso sculpture, then finds herself blackmailed by the mystery girl who saw what she did.

Watched

When teenager Jesse is contacted by a former victim of King, a hacker who is currently stalking Jesse, Jesse is faced with the decision whether to join with the former victim and seek revenge on King, or continue to cede to King's demands.

Everything to Lose

2015
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Hilary Blum, a determined but down-on-her-luck single mother caring for a special needs son, becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty-year-old secret buried.

Black maps

2003
Private investigator John March agrees to help Rick Pierro clear him from any involvement in a vast money-laundering scheme, but when the investigation reveals a murderous undertone, John realizes he is in over his head.

Volpone

and, The alchemist
2004
Contains two comedies by Ben Jonson, "Volpone" and "The Alchemist" that portray the greed, gullibility, and pretension of seventeenth-century London society.

Wifebeater

a novel
2005

Deal breaker

1998
Sports agent Myron Bolitar rushes to find out the truth when the future of his star client, rookie quarterback Christian Steele, is threatened by the reappearance of a former girlfriend everyone believed to be dead.

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