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Deputy Claudia Jean (Cici) Onofrio is going into work one beautiful Colorado afternoon believing her biggest problem is deciding whether to stay at mostly rural Arroyo County Sheriff’s Office, or move to an urban department in the Denver metro area. She’s wrong. Cici is built to be a police officer. Tall, strong and athletic, she has a deft touch with the citizens and an engaging personality. After five years on the job she is comfortable, appreciated by her boss and well-liked by her peers. Still, approaching twenty-seven, a fundamental question hounds her – have I found a job, or a ...

Guided by Voices was one of the most popular indie-rock bands of the 1990s. Critics internationally have lauded the band's brain trust, Robert Pollard, as a once-in-a-generation artist. Pollard has been compared by The New York Times to Mozart, Rossini, and Paul McCartney (in the same sentence) and everyone from P. J. Harvey, Radiohead, R.E.M., the Strokes, and U2 has sung his praises and cited his music as an influence. But it all started rather prosaically.

Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. The only man Vanessa ever loved recently killed himself by jumping off the roof of her building. It’s a full life. Vanessa has just started working on an English translation of a titillating, experimental thriller by a dead author when she’s offered a more prominent gig: translating the latest book by an Extremely Famous French Writer who is not in any way based on Michel Houellebecq.

Her attention focused on a smoking hole containing the remains of a wrecked airplane and its equally wrecked pilot–would she notice salvation walking up behind her? Out Of Ideas is a romantic suspense that explores the conflicted emotions of a lonely woman falling in love, who is simultaneously a police officer in single-minded pursuit of a killer. Deputy Karen O’Neil is a California girl, shedding the abusive husband who’d ripped her from a sun-drenched, stimulating life as a San Diego cop to isolation in rural Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Talented, attractive, and cut off from everything...

Detective Karen Sorenson returns a phone call - that's what detectives do - that visits unconstrained turmoil into her personal and professional life. A woman's body has been discovered at a fort in a harbor. The Secret Service wants...insists...that Karen drop what she is doing, leave her family and take an active role in the investigation. Portland (Maine) police are not enthusiastic about her "help." Nothing about the murder is ordinary. The victim is an enigma - even her name sounds made up. Her relationships are untidy. Her work history sporadic, disjointed and tainted with petty, ...

Karen Sorenson's transition from sheriff's deputy to charter pilot is complete. Long hours of study, of practice and the rigors of demonstrating her skills to demanding examiners has paid off. She flies families to Disney World, honeymooners to the Bahamas and Key West. It's everything she hoped it to be. Another pilot attracts her attention in a small airport lounge, introducing her to the hidden world of the charter pirate. Puzzled, then taken aback by the man's candor, at her next opportunity she places a call to the FAA. She just wants to report the guy, let someone know what he is up ...

What would you risk to keep a promise to someone you hardly knew? Your job, your marriage…. Your life? A Parasol in a Hurricane poses that question to a young policewoman, and dares her to choose. Karen O’Neil is a California girl with a domineering husband, ripped from a sun-drenched, stimulating life as a San Diego cop to isolation in rural Wisconsin. Talented, attractive and intense, she is cut off from everything she knows except how to be a police officer. She works for a progressive sheriff who can only offer her a badge, a uniform and refuge from an unfulfilling home life. On a ...

A severed appendage washes ashore; its owner’s demise is quickly ruled a suicide. Sheriff’s Deputy Karen Sorenson’s heart doesn’t want to believe that conclusion. The Heart of the Matter is a suspense novel, the sequel to the successful first Karen Sorenson novel, Out of Ideas. Karen and her airline pilot fiancé Adam Phlatt left Wisconsin after battling international smugglers. They settled near friends, walking distance from the sugar sands and blue waters of Naples, Florida. A wedding, a child on the way, their lives finally settling into a comfortable predictability. Bliss, only...

Join hosts Greer and James as they go Back to the Boardroom and behind the scenes of the latest episode of The Apprentice. We bring our unique take on the show's iconic business challenges, intense boardroom showdowns, and the clashes between candidates. If you want to get close to The Apprentice action but you’re not up for power dressing, being woken up with a 4AM phone call and having to patronise at least one graphic designer, this podcast is the one for you. So, go Back to the Boardroom with Greer and James. Lord Sugar will see you now. 💬 Instagram @BackToTheBoardroom. #TheApprentice