Made of cherry wood and perhaps ten feet tall, it featured a polished brass doorknob set in a curved bar of brushed copper. Now, six weeks later, Victoria Reina was still missing, and the police didn’t seem to have a clue to her whereabouts. Even Antonia, nice as she seemed, could have enlisted others to help out with a get-rich-quick scheme like kidnapping wealthy women. A.’s downtown central library, behind the books on a shelf holding copies of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well.

Soon, Nicole is immersed in a high-stakes game of murder and espionage where trusting a stranger can be as deadly as a bullet. However, The Ransom differs from the previous Nicole Graves novels which were solely about Nicole and told purely from her point of view. A partial social security number was given, not unusual for a database report, but not enough for Nicole to check it out. The ad for her condo had billed it as in a security building, but she’d noticed there were two hefty deadbolts on the front door, as well as a sturdy chain lock, which suggested that whoever lived here before hadn’t considered the building that secure.Rexton’s secretary said he was out of the office for the day but could meet with her at three thirty the next afternoon. It appeared he’d tried to fight off the intruders and had fallen or been knocked down and struck his head against the corner of a marble fireplace. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Before turning to mysteries, Nancy coauthored Backroom Politics, a New York Times notable book, with her husband, Bill Boyarsky.

Washburn University prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or marital or parental status. When their most terrifying threat is delivered to her door, Nicole is faced with a dreadful choice: Can she count on the police or must she risk going it alone?S. citizens abroad and, except for the stint in the orthopedic clinic, had no employment records in this country. And Foreword Reviews has fallen for the "tough and likable protagonist Nicole Graves" while Midwest Book Review praises the "exquisite tension" throughout the story.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and INscribe Digital/Light Messages Publishing for giving me a copy of this book on the understanding that I provide an honest review. Nicole has street-smarts and is strong-willed, exactly what I like to discover in a leading character. We’d already submitted a forensic accountant’s report that showed Blair used his tax-paid wages to invest from the time he began working.As a single woman, there is always the opportunity for romance and I was pleased the author left that opportunity open for Nicole, in the future. The plot and development of this book was clearly well thought out and took the reader on a number of twists and turns that placed various of the main characters in serious danger at times, which allowed the reader to root for the characters. Nicole is shocked to learn that the police have decided Jerry's death was murder and even more shocked that she's their only suspect when there's no shortage of people with motives. Nicole Graves finds herself in the crosshairs when she reluctantly agrees to babysit a witness in a high-profile rape trial. Nor did they look for missing persons, except for the rare occasions when an important client’s minor child ran away.

Kirkus had special praise for The Bequest, concluding, "Boyarsky's weightless complications expertly combine menace with bling, making the heroine's adventures both nightmarish and dreamy. By the time they arrived at her door, several of her neighbors were in the hall wanting to know what had happened. Nicole Graves arrives early at work, just as Los Angeles is hit with "the Big One," a long-predicted, devastating earthquake. Nicole believes Abigail has been framed, but the victim's tight-knit circle of friends and relatives are most unwilling to talk to an American detective. She’s only a year old, but they had the trainer every week from the start so she wouldn’t jump on Ashley and mess up her clothes.A. This made her job infinitely easier than having to track down someone with a common name, like a Jane Smith or a Robert Jones. But things get complicated after someone associated with another kidnapping is killed, one of the other victims goes missing, the police get involved, and Nicole’s money drop is not picked up… twice! Days later, under remarkably similar circumstances to the case she is investigating, someone near and dear to Nicole is kidnapped and a ransom of her full inheritance is demanded. Like John le Carre, Boyarsky portrays a world of espionage that's more grit than glamour and where it can be a struggle to distinguish the good guys from the bad.