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Author
Publisher
Allium Press of Chicago
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Anna & Nouri fall in love, move to Tehran, and marry. Four months later, the shah is deposed.Anna, a young American studying in Chicago falls in love with fellow-student Nouri, the son of a wealthy Iranian business executive. Anna, whose parents are divorced and remote, eagerly moves to Tehran where she marries and is embraced by Nouri's family. A few months later, however, in February 1978, the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Republic of Iran is...
Author
Publisher
Allium Press of Chicago
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Description
Someone is trying to kill Lila Hilliard. During the Christmas holidays she returns from running errands to find her family home in flames, her father and brother trapped inside. Later, she is attacked by a mysterious man on a motorcycle ... and the threats don't end there. As Lila desperately tries to piece together who is after her and why, she uncovers information about her father's past in Chicago during the volatile days of the late 1960s ......
3) Havana Lost
Author
Publisher
The Red Herrings Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
On the eve of the Cuban Revolution, headstrong 18-year-old Francesca Pacelli flees from her ruthless Mafia-boss father in Havana to the arms of her lover, a rebel fighting with Fidel Castro. Her father, desperate to send her to safety in the U.S., resorts to torture and blackmail as he searches the island for her. So begins the first part of a spellbinding saga that spans three generations of the same family. Decades later, the family is lured back...
Author
Publisher
Bleak House Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Little Molly Messenger is kidnapped on a sunny June morning. Three days later she's returned, apparently unharmed. Molly's mother Chris is so grateful to have her daughter back that she's willing to overlook the odd circumstances. A few days later, the brakes go out on Chris's car. An accident? Maybe. Except that it turns out that Chris, the I.T. manager at a large Chicago bank, may have misappropriated three million dollars. Not convinced that...
Author
Publisher
[s.n.]
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
As World War II rages across Europe and the Pacific, its impact ripples through communities in the heartland of America. A farm girl is locked in a dangerous love triangle with two Germans soldiers held in an Illinois POW camp... Another German, a war refugee, is forced to risk her life spying on the developing Manhattan Project in Chicago... And espionage surrounds the disappearance of an actress from the thriving Jewish community of Chicago’s...
Author
Publisher
The Red Herrings Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A bloodstained note left for P.I. Georgia Davis reveals the shocking existence of a half-sister she never knew about. Her sister Savannah is pregnant and begging for Georgia’s help. Determined to track her down, Georgia finds herself heading deep into the secretive and dangerous underworld of Chicago’s illegal sex trafficking business. She soon discovers that trafficking is just a small part of the horrifying and deadly situation in which her...
Author
Publisher
Bleak House Bookds
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
When pretty, smart Sara Long is found bludgeoned to death, it's easy to blame the man with the bat. But Georgia Davis — former cop and newly-minted P.I. — is hired to look into the incident at the behest of the accused's sister. And what she finds hints at a much different, much darker answer. It seems the privileged, preppy schoolgirls on Chicago's North Shore have learned just how much their innocence is worth to hot-under-the-collar businessmen....
Author
Publisher
The Red Herrings Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Ten years before EASY INNOCENCE, P.I. Georgia Davis was a police officer on the force in a Chicago suburb. And while homicides are rare on the North Shore, three bodies turn up in quick succession — all of them dumped in waste disposal dumpsters or landfills. The investigations into the murders test the mettle and professionalism of a combined police task force. Along the way, they also test the strength of Georgia's relationship with one of the...
Author
Publisher
The Red Herrings Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
As the Nazis sweep across Europe, Jewish teen Max and his parents flee German persecution to Holland, where Max finds friends and romance. But when Hitler invades in 1940, Max escapes to Chicago, leaving his parents and friends behind. When he learns of his parents' murder, Max immediately enlists in the US Army. After basic training he is sent to Camp Ritchie, Maryland, where he is trained in interrogation and counterintelligence. Deployed to the...
