After moving with her daughter to rural Wisconsin after her husband's death, Claire Watkins is enjoying being a small-town cop. But the murder of a well-liked citizen forces Claire to uncover truths that others want to keep hidden at any cost. Booklist Tennessee's governor is threatened with assassination, but his wife is kidnapped, and the bizarre ransom demands impels him to set up his own covert operation to get her back. His Vietnam buddy, Elmo Flinn, quickly reassembles his old commando corps to battle the kidnappers. Tracy leaps to her mother's defense.
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After trying to destroy the career of Inspector Alan Banks, Chief Constable Riddle now turns to Banks for help when pictures of Riddle's missing daughter turn up on a pornographic web site. The search for the missing young woman draws Banks deep into London's sordid underbelly of drugs, crime, and sex. Kirkus Booklist Julius Caesar and Pompei bring their Roman Civil War to the city of Massilia. Gordianus the Finder seeks his missing son Meto, once a lieutenant to Caesar but now rumored to be a traitor, who was last seen in Massilia, but a gruesome murder interrupts his search. But he soon discovers inconsistencies at the accident scene that authorities seem to be trying to hide.