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Twilight Child [MultiFormat]
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The rights of grandparents to visit their beloved grandson pit them against their remarried daughter-in-law. When Charlie and Molly's son dies, their daughter-in-law remarries and is vaulted into an upper class world of money and privilege. She is now determined to lead a new life and keep her son free from the blue-collar influences of her ex in-laws. Forced to sue for their right to visit their beloved grandson, Charlie and Molly enter a world of courtroom conflict that deeply affects everyone... more info>> 1985
Words: 107778 - Reading Time: 307-431 min.
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Death of a Washington Madame [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Washington D.C.'s struggling underclass and the U.S. Capitol's politically aggressive upper strata collide in a horrifying crime. Homicide detective Fiona FitzGerald, the daughter of a Senator, once again battles prejudice and privilege, matching wits with the violet-eyed wife of a powerful politician determined to erase the sinful secrets of the past. 2005
Words: 80437 - Reading Time: 229-321 min.
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Random Hearts [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Survivors of a tragic plane crash seek both meaning and closure to the discovery of their dead spouses' infidelity. In an ideal world, they would never have met. Vivien Simpson is a happy housewife with a young son who adores her successful lawyer husband. Edward Davis is an ambitious aide to an important Congressman who loves his wife. When an airplane crash brings about the discovery that their supposedly loving and now deceased spouses were involved in a deeply passionate love affair and poss... more info>> 1984
Words: 77706 - Reading Time: 222-310 min.
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American Quartet [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Never underestimate the power of failure. In this first book of the Fiona series, four seemingly unconnected D.C. murders stimulate Fiona FitzGerald's sense of history as she delves into our country's dark past. In her search to solve the crimes, she uncovers the disturbing sexual and homicidal obsessions of a socially prominent but failed Washington politician. 1981
Words: 86323 - Reading Time: 246-345 min.
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American Sextet [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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A political sex scandal of massive proportions! A beautiful young woman dressed in white is found at the bottom of the Duke Ellington Memorial Bridge. Was it a suicide or murder? Fiona FitzGerald, possessed by a painful personal dilemma, is determined to find out, even if her demons might drive her from the police force. As Fiona goes deeper into the fire, a sexual conspiracy is uncovered involving six men from the highest offices in the country--a great American Sextet! 1983
Words: 73000 - Reading Time: 208-292 min.
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The Casanova Embrace [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Three women become sex slaves to a diplomat's murderous impulses. A seductive South American Diplomat recruits three Washington women to engage in international terrorism. Unaware of the consequences and greedy for the man's erotic favor, the women allow themselves to be manipulated and unwittingly enter into the diplomat's bizarre, devious, and destructive plot. When the women discover each other and learn how they have been duped by their need for erotic fulfillment, they become enraged. Overc... more info>> 1978
Words: 111344 - Reading Time: 318-445 min.
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The Ties That Bind [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Even judges must be judged. The daughter of a prominent lawyer is found murdered, and a Supreme Court Justice with a sadomasochistic fetish is the target of Fiona FitzGerald's investigation. This is one case that brings Fiona to the darker side of the Washington scene in which sexual aberration and fear of exposure plays a role in murder. 1994
Words: 75394 - Reading Time: 215-301 min.
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The Witch of Watergate [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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A poison pen gets it back. Fiona FitzGerald, a senator's daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is back for her fifth gripping thriller, investigating a murder with explosive consequences on Capitol Hill. When Polly Dearborn, the infamous Washington Post investigative reporter whose poison pen had destroyed many a politician's career, is found hanging from her Watergate apartment, the elite of Washington rejoice. "The Witch of Watergate" is dead! But this is no time for detective ... more info>> 1992
Words: 64026 - Reading Time: 182-256 min.
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Natural Enemies [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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An unforgiving nature reorders an urban couple's priorities. A young New York couple, unable to have children and whose marriage seems to be sputtering, is advised to leave their tense urban lives and take a vacation in a more bucolic environment. Out West, they are suddenly confronted by violent rednecks and chased deep into the surrounding wilderness. Braving floods, avalanches, wild animals and human predators, they come face-to-face with death. This test of endurance and their passion to sur... more info>> 1980
Words: 83880 - Reading Time: 239-335 min.
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We are Holding the President Hostage [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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A Mafia Don swings into action when terrorists capture his daughter and grandson. Aging Mafia Don Salvatore Padronelli, a.k.a. the Padre, is furious when fanatical terrorists capture his beloved daughter and grandson on a trip to Egypt. Fed up with diplomatic caution that prolongs their captivity, the Padre and his loyal henchman cleverly insinuate themselves into the White House and hold the President and his wife hostage. Now the Padre calls the shots on getting the President to take steps to ... more info>> 1986
Words: 78395 - Reading Time: 223-313 min.
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Undertow [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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A cynical and clever cover-up of a potential fatal scandal that could cut short a senator's career. A womanizing married Senator, enjoying a tryst in his Delaware beach home with a beautiful black woman, discovers that his paramour has accidentally drowned. Aware of the scandal that could ensue and destroy his political career, the Senator mounts a campaign of cover-up and cynical lies designed to deflect the potential damage. This suspenseful tale of adultery, media manipulation, and political ... more info>> 1974
Words: 75984 - Reading Time: 217-303 min.
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The Sunset Gang [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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With time running short, these intrepid residents of Sunset Village in Florida continue to thirst for life and love. The Sunset Gang is as lively, fun, and courageous a group as you'll find anywhere this side of the Last Reward. The fact that you'll find them at Sunset Village, a condominium retirement community in Florida--where an ambulance siren is the theme song and cycling at a stately pace is strenuous exercise--does not mean that they are ready to pack it all in. Not by a long shot. Indee... more info>> 1977
Words: 60206 - Reading Time: 172-240 min.
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Never Too Late For Love [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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More stories from The Sunset Gang. A collection that combines additional stories written after The Sunset Gang was published dealing with the same intrepid crew who inhabit Sunset Village. Anyone who is aging, meaning all of us, will revel in these stories of joy, love, sex, and energy that give a deeper meaning to the aging process, especially in what the young might call "the twilight years." In these stories, there is no sense of oncoming doom and life goes on in a perpetual sunset. Anyone wh... more info>> 1996
Words: 96705 - Reading Time: 276-386 min.
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Private Lies [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Two couples are caught in an emotional web of adultery and deception that turns deadly on an African safari. Ken Kramer, a Manhattan advertising copywriter, and his wife, Sheila, a computer expert, appear to have a comfortable life and loving marriage. But when Ken is taken along on a business dinner and introduced to the wife of his wife's major client, we discover she is Ken's old flame--in fact, the love of his life and the object of his sexual obsession as a young man. Baffled by her non-rec... more info>> 1991
Words: 97767 - Reading Time: 279-391 min.
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The Housewife Blues [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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How the frenetic pace of big city life impacts on a small town girl. A small town girl from the Midwest is carried away by her "Prince Charming" to the super-charged canyons of modern New York City. Warned by her uptight advertising executive husband to beware of strangers, the newlywed cannot repress her small town upbringing and instinctive innocence. She eventually befriends many of the offbeat and quirky tenants in her apartment building and enters into their complicated and sometimes tragic... more info>> 1992
Words: 81423 - Reading Time: 232-325 min.
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Banquet Before Dawn [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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The last hurrah of an aging Irish politician pursuing his final campaign. After serving his Brooklyn district for many years, Congressman Sullivan discovers that his once comfortable Irish American majority has given way to a diverse district of blacks and Hispanics. Challenged by a more liberal opponent, he tries everything possible to maintain his seat only to painfully learn that he and his views are outdated and irrelevant to today's world. But "Sully" doesn't bow out of the race gracefully,... more info>> 1976
Words: 79585 - Reading Time: 227-318 min.
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Madeline's Miracles [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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A cautionary tale about a powerful psychic who takes control of a family. When a commercial artist, her stockbroker husband and their twin daughters move to Los Angeles, they unwittingly fall prey to a woman who convinces them that she is a psychic and can foresee their future. By persuading them that she holds the key to their success and can protect them from the dangers that threaten them, she gradually takes full control over their careers, their parenting, even their sex lives, until they b... more info>> 1989
Words: 79140 - Reading Time: 226-316 min.
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Blood Ties [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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An arms-dealing family confronts a moral dilemma in the nuclear age. During a family reunion at their ancestral castle, the famed Von Kassel family--arms dealers for over a hundred years--suddenly find themselves in possession of stolen plutonium capable of creating the most destructive weapon on earth. Previously aloof from the moral implications of their business, the family is torn apart by the deadly potential of their recent acquisition. Family conflicts are ignited that had long been avoid... more info>> 1979
Words: 85031 - Reading Time: 242-340 min.
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Immaculate Deception [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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The clock is ticking for Fiona FitzGerald. The clock is ticking both figuratively and biologically. During Fiona FitzGerald's pursuit to conceive a child, a powerful female pro-life Senator is found dead. It appears to be suicide, but Fiona is puzzled and continues to investigate. The case gets even more baffling when one shocking clue contradicts the entire investigation. 1991
Words: 77127 - Reading Time: 220-308 min.
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Senator Love [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Dare to resist him. The stunning wife of the Austrian Ambassador is kidnapped and murdered. The bones belonging to a vanished young girl are discovered. Both share the same starling clues that point to a powerful, seductive and womanizing Senator. Besides solving the mystery, will Fiona FitzGerald submit to the powerful sexual forces of "Senator Love?" 1991
Words: 78687 - Reading Time: 224-314 min.
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Trans-Siberian Express [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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International intrigue and suspense on the world's longest and most exotic train ride. During the bad old days of the Soviet Union, famous American cancer specialist Dr. Alex Cousins is sent by the President of the United States to Russia to prolong the life of the Secretary General of the Politburo. While in Russia, Cousins learns that the Soviets plan to attack China. Suspecting that he knows their secret, the Soviets send him home via the Trans-Siberian Express, which, they hope, will keep hi... more info>> 1977
Words: 109864 - Reading Time: 313-439 min.
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Mourning Glory [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Mourning Glory is a provocative heart stopping bittersweet tale of desperation and desire in the vein of The War of the Roses and Random Hearts. Thirty-eight year old divorcee Grace Sorentino is in a precarious position, upwardly mobile in age, downwardly mobile in income. A cosmetician on Palm Beach's fashionable Worth Avenue, she barely makes enough to keep her 16-year old daughter Jackie in their tiny apartment. Still they're scraping by ... until Grace loses her job. Hanging on by a thread, ... more info>> 2001
Words: 116698 - Reading Time: 333-466 min.
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The Grace of Her Exit [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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Nothing is more hurtful than social rejection in official Washington, a land of strict protocol and ever ascending and descending social status as power figures ebb and wane. In this treasure of a story by Warren Adler, an uninvited guest and a powerful hostess confront each other revealing the inherent cruelty of the system. 2001
Words: 4416 - Reading Time: 12-17 min.
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The Democratic Family [MultiFormat]
by Warren Adler
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The moral dilemma posed by the temptations of political bribery is offered up raw in this story of an elected official who consults his family as he wrestles with whether or not to accept badly needed money from an old friend seeking favors. Another in a series of Warren Adler short stories offering powerful insights into the Washington scene. 2001
Words: 2145 - Reading Time: 6-8 min.
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Her Moment [MultiFormat]
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Another in a series from Warren Adler who reports about the intimate looks into the sexual mores of official Washington and the erotic stimulation of power. In this delightful story, a woman proudly recalls her adulterous sexual experience with a womanizing ex-President and uses the story to enhance her allure to a potential lover. 2001
Words: 2299 - Reading Time: 6-9 min.
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