PROLOGUE The day of the murder (Sunday, December 16) Six thirty in the morning. The Hôtel de Verbier was dark. Outside, it was pitch black and snowing heavily. On the sixth floor, the doors of the service elevator opened. A hotel employee appeared with a breakfast tray and made his way toward Room 622. When…
Chapter 1 I met Brendan Kaiser, the owner of my TV station Channel 10 and about a zillion other properties, for lunch on a sunny spring day at a restaurant called Tri-Bar in lower Manhattan. Tri-Bar is what’s known in New York as a celebrity restaurant. In other words, whenever you read the gossip columns,…
Let the Right One In is a new vampire series created in the same spirit as the internationally bestselling novel of the same name by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The series follows Mark Kane (portayed by Oscar® nominee Demián Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor Kane (Madison Taylor Baez), who turns into a vampire at the age…
Chapter 1 Lynnel feels the sun cutting into her skin, a harsh reminder of her own mortality. She rolls forward onto her toes and holds her hand up against the sun. The motion puts an old scar on her forearm in her direct line of sight. Her stomach clenches and she steps back into the…
Before a big race, swimmer Michael Phelps listened to a playlist to amp up his energy, increase his focus, and get in the zone. Maybe you can picture him, headphones on, bopping his chin to a beat that was audible only to him. I’m exactly the same. You heard it here first. Michael Phelps and…
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I was loading a week’s worth of water, energy bars, and fatty snacks into the trunk of my car when Battlin’ Bob Blazinsky, a small-time thug with a plus-sized appetite, phoned me with a last-minute request to break someone’s legs. I still wasn’t used to taking requests from a tiny fish like Bob, whose criminal…
CE: We’re thrilled to have you visit the site! First, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Alice: I’m a writer and journalist and I live in Devon with my family. I spent 15 years working for the BBC before becoming an author. My debut novel Sometimes I Lie was an international bestseller…
The party kicked off at Skateland, where the neon marquee regularly malfunctioned, so that it read SKAT or ATE. The roller rink sat at the eastern edge of Waukesha, Wisconsin, a city of 70,000 people, with an average income of $70,000, and a murder rate of about one person per year. In Skateland’s carpeted lobby,…
Chapter 1 The problem with perfection is that it doesn’t exist. Somewhere, deep down, I knew this. But in the high-end hotel kitchens and Michelin-starred restaurants where I honed my cooking skills, the name of the game was churning out perfection on a plate. Dish after dish, night after night. No mistakes. Ever. I opened…
