Before turning to mysteries, Nancy coauthored Backroom Politics, a New York Times notable book, with her husband, Bill Boyarsky. He seems interested whilst walking a fine professional line - trying to guarantee her safety and solve the kidnappings.

The businessman mistrusts his daughter-in-law sufficiently to think she may have been involved in her own abduction. 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. At last she went to bed and tossed fitfully, sleeping on and off until her eyes popped open and she was wide awake. The story Stephanie had mentioned was easy to find, second from the top under a photo of Nicole and Steph. Sometimes when I have picked up standalone novels with repeating characters I have felt the urge to read the earlier instalments to get to know them better.

She’d hung a lot of big abstract paintings on the walls—not a Kandinski or a de Kooning— He paused to gesture at the art on his walls. He wore no tie, and his shirt was open at the neck, giving the impression that he didn’t much care about his appearance. As she walked farther into the room, she caught sight of a huge bloodstain on the white carpet near the fireplace.

She has strong ties to the community and believes strongly in giving back to the community that has given so much to her. However, The Ransom differs from the previous Nicole Graves novels which were solely about Nicole and told purely from her point of view. 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.

She explained who she was and that Ashley’s father-in-law had hired her to find Ashley’s next-of-kin. Then she noticed he was looking at the papers on her desk—case files that were strictly confidential. Several attractive, well dressed women had just settled into a nearby booth, and he was watching them. 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.

a land development company that happened to be a client of Nicole’s employer, Colbert and Smith Investigations. Since she has helped him on cases on occasion, she starts looking for him and things get really wild from there.A.’s downtown central library, behind the books on a shelf holding copies of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well.