Select Editions
Subtitle: Volume 4 2005
By: selected and edited by Reader's Digest.
Contributors: Reader's Digest Association.
Edition: 1st ed
Series: Select editions -- vol. 280
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pleasantville, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 573
Subjects: Women in the advertising industry -- Crimes against -- Fiction.; Government investigators -- Fiction.; Murder for hire -- Fiction.; Married women -- Fiction.; Arab American families -- Fiction.; Parental kidnapping -- Fiction.; Americans -- Jordan -- Fiction.; Custody of children -- Fiction.; Missing children -- Fiction.; Runaway husbands -- Fiction.; Serial murders -- Fiction.; Reacher, Jack (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Military police -- Fiction.; Snipers -- Fiction.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.; Conflict of generations -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.; Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Fiction.; Jordan -- Fiction.; Middle West -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Reader's Digest select editions.
Description: Bait: It's a business trip that takes Maddie Fitzgerald to New Orleans, but it's hardly business as usual when a man breaks into her hotel room and tries to kill her. Barely escaping, the thirty-two-year-old brunette calls the police and finds herself face-to-face with FBI agent Sam McCabe. Apparently, Maddie has been mistaken for another woman--an FBI informant of the same name also staying at the hotel that night. Shaken, she finishes her business and returns home to St. Louis. Days later, Maddie is attacked a second time. McCabe returns and convinces her that the best way to catch the killer is to use her as bait.

Mosaic: Dina Ahmed has become adept at juggling her family and her work. She's the owner of Mosaic, a thriving business, and has been blessed with success, beauty, and--most important--a happy family. But when she returns home one day to discover that her twins have vanished, Dina is forced to admit that her life is hardly perfect. Husband Karim has taken the twins to Jordan to raise them with his family. Distraught, Dina travels to Jordan to confront her husband and to enact a desperate plan to get her children back---but at what risk?

One shot: When ex-military investigator Jack Reacher is called in by a man accused of a lethal sniper attack that leaves five people dead, he teams up with a young defense attorney to find an unseen enemy who is manipulating events.

Diving through clouds: Kate Fitzgerald has made a mess of her life. Trapped in a loveless marriage, she and her husband have drifted apart. Her grown daughter has abandoned the family years ago, leaving Kate never having met her grandson. Now she has one final chance to set things right.
Table of contents: title: Bait -- Karen Robards; title: Mosaic -- Soheir Khashoggi; title: One shot -- Lee Child; title: Diving through clouds -- Nicola Lindsay.