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Guilt By Silence

Taylor Smith

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Excellent Find! 4 out of 5 stars.
15 of 19 people found this review helpful.

I just stumbled upon Taylor Smith while browsing the books section in my local wholesale club. I bought two books Jackie Collins and Taylor Smith.

Jackie Collins is my favorite author so I had an idea of what to expect. I had never heard of Taylor Smith but the sneak peek of the story on the back cover grabbed my attention quickly. It did not stop for a moment during the entire book.

Watching and rooting for Mariah as she searches for the answers as to what really happened in Vienna, was great reading! This book will grab your attention from page 1 and will not let go!

This was a deliciouly spellbinding read from start to finish. I highly recommend it!

CIA and More 4 out of 5 stars.
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The character of Mariah Bolt as a CIA Operative is exciting and interesting. The story of her involvement in trying to find out what happened to her husband and daughter takes her into a web of a variety of places and people. It was an exciting read.

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When her husband and daughter are severely injured in a tragic accident, CIA officer Mariah Bolt becomes determined to learn how the accident is linked to the disappearance of five leading scientists. Original.

Slim To None (STP - Mira)

Taylor Smith

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After losing custody of her young son, security specialist Hannah Nicks has one goal: earn enough money to retire and raise her child. The fastest way to accomplish that is to take on a covert, privately funded mission in the Middle East, and in a war fueled more by money than morality, Hannah is on only one side--her own. When the opportunity arises to do a little extra business, rescuing a kidnapped American doctor and retrieving a handsome reward, Hannah figures Why not? But when the mission ends badly, she discovers the price of her risks: the loss of a young ally, the reward money and her reputation.

Two years later, Hannah is back in Los Angeles, no closer to gaining custody, more uncertain of her fitness as a mother and even less in demand for employment.

But when a chance encounter leads to the man who ruined her mission in Iraq, Hannah plans to even the score. Now she's got another shot at unraveling a tangled web of lies and treachery that, she soon discovers, could drag America to its knees. Her only ally is a cop who has burned a few too many bridges himself, a man who understands that the odds are always better when you have nothing left to lose.

Deadly Grace

Taylor Smith

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On a cold winter night in a small Minnesota town in 1979, someone comes looking for Grace Meade. She is killed and her house is set ablaze. Incredibly, the prime suspect is her own daughter, Jillian.

Rescued from the burning house, Jillian Meade is hospitalized, unable -- or unwilling -- to speak. After an attempt to take her own life, Jillian's doctor gives her a blank journal to encourage her to write about her mother's death.

Unaware of what has happened, FBI Special Agent Alex Cruz comes to Havenwood, Minnesota, to interview Jillian. Two elderly women were found murdered in their homes in England, and Jillian, it seems was the last person to see both women alive. When he learns that Jillian's own mother met a similar fate, he realizes that there is far more going on than anyone ever imagined.

When Jillian suddenly disappears, Cruz has only her journal to decipher the story of Grace and Jillian Meade. A story of a wartime heist of Nazi gold, of unforgivable betrayals and ruthless actions. A deadly secret from the past, Cruz learns, has surfaced. And if he doesn't find Jillian soon, she, too, may be made to pay the ultimate price.

Random Acts: Does It Take A Killer To Catch A Killer?

Taylor Smith

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I think that this book was really great. Once I started it I was not able to put the book down, because I was in suspense and always wanted to know what was going to happen next. I didn't expect the ending to happen the way that it did so that came to be a big suprise but that made the book all the more interesting to read. I would suggest this book to anyone who wants to read a great suspenseful book.

Very good. 4 out of 5 stars.
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Claire Gillespie was a top reporter on an overseas assignment when whe fell in love with an FBI agent, Michael Kazarian. When Claire accidentally broke his cover, Michael was murdered. During her next news assignment in California, she found out that Michael had been married! If just so happens that Michael's widow, Laurel Madden, was heading the case Claire was to cover about a serial killer targeting infants.

Claire was like a dog with a bone! She was out to prove Laurel a murderer. However, Michael's ex-partner, Dan Sprague, kept getting in the way.

***EXCITING! No John Grisham or Patricia Cornwell here, but well worth your time and money to read. Some stores have put this under Fiction, others Thriller, and still others as Romance. Well, the first two make sense. The last does not. Romance is such a small portion of this story. It is all Thriller!***

Editorial Review:

A random predator is terrorizing Southern California. After children start disappearing, it's up to the FBI's finest to stop a killer. Criminal profiler Laurel Madden is at the top of her field. But being the best has its price which is why she understands the criminal mind so well. Reporter Claire Gillespie intends to rip away the veil of secrecy that surrounds and protects Madden. Claire has evidence that the FBI agent committed murder and got away with it--until now.

Liar's Market (Mira)

Taylor Smith

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From the bestselling author of Deadly Grace.

On a rainy spring morning in London, a young American woman is cut down by a killer. Six months later, a senior CIA official dies in a hail of gunfire on the D.C. beltway. Random, unrelated acts of violence? Or two pieces of the same puzzle?

These events are no accidents, it seems, when it's discovered that the London murder was a case of mistaken identity. And that the intended target was the wife of Agency deputy Drummond MacNeil, the man killed in the Washington attack.

Officially, the government's position is that Drum MacNeil is a high-profile casualty in America's war on terrorism. Behind the scenes, though, investigators are taking a closer look at MacNeil and his restless wife, Carrie.

Carrie is doing her best to play the part of the grieving widow, but it's increasingly difficult given what she has begun to suspect about her husband -- that this hero's life was a strategically constructed lie. Drum, she believes, made a deal with the devil, and now she's the one who's going to have to pay the price.

Because, even though Drum is dead, the devil still wants his due. And to prove his point, Carrie's young son has been targeted. If she fails to deliver what he wants, her child's life could be forfeited.

Carrie MacNeil is about to learn firsthand about the evil of treachery, and in this business there are no fair trade rules. It's always a liar's market.

Innocents Club

Taylor Smith

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Heavily touted as a would-be bestseller, The Innocents Club has a lot going for it. There's a smart, sexy heroine, Mariah Bolt, whose unhappy childhood as the abandoned daughter of a famous writer revered by millions (including the Russian people) hasn't stopped her from moving right along in her career as a CIA analyst. There's Los Angeles society matron Renata Hunter, who stole Ben Bolt away from his family and then left him to die in penury. She now guards the legacy of her own father, a multimillionaire industrialist whose ties to the Soviet Union are legendary (think Armand Hammer). There's Paul Chaney, a slick, ambitious newscaster (think Peter Jennings) who has designs on Mariah, as well as a secret connection with Renata. And there's Frank Tucker, a CIA agent who's been buried in the dead document basement since Jack Geist, his nemesis in the agency, clawed his way to the top of the intelligence bureaucracy. Finally, there's a famous, revered, conveniently dead Russian literary lion (think Chekhov) who may have smuggled a manuscript to the late Ben Bolt, pages the Soviet bureaucracy couldn't afford to have published, then or now. It all comes together in Southern California, where a world conference featuring a Russian prime minister desperately trying to retain his power is the setting for a clever novel about revenge, betrayal, and intrigue. Readers of Taylor Smith's first novel, Guilt by Silence, will be delighted to encounter Mariah Bolt again. New readers are in for a well-plotted, fast-paced thriller that provides a nice twist on international intrigue. Mariah's efforts to come to terms with the father she barely knew provide a window into her interior life, and her growing realization about her feelings for Frank Tucker add just enough romance to season the mix. This may be one of those instances where the advance hype for a book is merited. --Jane Adams

Best Of Enemies

Taylor Smith

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

This new author is great,a successor to Helen McGinnes 5 out of 5 stars.
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Leya Nash enjoys living the sedate life of a New England professor at Mount Abbey College after being raised by her CIA agent father. However, that tranquil life suddenly changes when one of her students, eighteen year old Holly Stroud, daughter of an ambassador, is the chief suspect of the FBI in a bombing case. Adding to her seeming guilt, Holly has disappeared. ..... Leya thinks the teen is innocent and decides to prove that is the case. She reluctantly teams up with FBI agent Peter van Aken, a man she knew when her father was stationed in Beirut. Peter, who thinks everyone is guilty, struggles with the media and his own brass who want a fast arrest. He also skirmishes with his own growing feelings towards his partner. However, Leya has to decide can she trust a man whom her father had some doubts about with her heart and a teenager's life? ........ With her third Mira book, Taylor Smith proves, once again, that she is at the top of contemporary suspense. THE BEST OF ENEMIES is a tense thriller that showcases a strong female protagonist forced out of her mundane but contented existence to combat terrifying forces that threaten her heart and her life. Only someone with a talent as great as Ms. Smith could turn a two day investigation into one of the year's top thrillers. .........Harriet Klausner

Editorial Review:

When a young college girl is linked to a terrible crime and then mysteriously vanishes, one woman, who firmly believes in the girl's innocence, joins forces with a man tormented by his tortured past to unravel dark secrets that will rock a tranquil New England town. Original."

Random Acts/the Best of Enemies/Guilt by Silence: Collectors Edition

Taylor Smith

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