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Author
Series
Chicago fire trilogy volume 03
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five years after rescuing an orphaned infant from the Great Chicago Fire and raising the child as her own daughter, Lucy Hathaway encounters Randoph Higgins, a prominent banker, who turns out to be the father of her little girl.
5) Stake & eggs
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
291 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the town's most-hated banker is beheaded by a wire staked in the snow behind the Cackleberry Club cafe, Suzanne, with most of her customers on the prime suspect list, must serve up the real killer.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
379 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Violet Burton flees to New York City in an effort to earn enough money to pay her debts before returning to Virginia, where a banker who holds the mortage on her house is blackmailing her. When she reconnects with a childhood friend, she wonders if the home she seeks is right there in New York City.
Author
Series
A Manor House mystery volume Book 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Now that Grace Wheaton has officially been named heir to Bennett Marshfield's fortune, her usually busy schedule has become a juggling act. In addition to her duties at Marshfield Manor, she's bankrolling her roommates' refurbished wine shop. Grace is excited to check out the rustic space with Bruce and Scott. but that excitement turns to dismay when they stumble upon the body of the banker involved with the sale."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Silver Tesdal has a head for business and a mouth made for kissing, and banker Drew Lovato has his eye on both. But ever since he was dumb enough to let her go, she's kept him at a distance. When the bank turns her down for a loan, Drew sees a double opportunity--he can finance her brilliant, unique idea to rock Happily Inc's wedding industry and win back her trust. Despite her reputation, Silver's not as tough as she seems. Losing Drew nearly destroyed...
10) Recovery road
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 394 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kir "Master" Vasiliev doesn't care whether he lives or dies. He's a burnt-out shell with no one and nothing but his club. Whatever Torpedo Ink needs, Master will put himself in harm's way time after time. If he doesn't make it back, he's certain everyone will move on just fine. Investment banker Ambrielle Moore knows her own mind, and she's not willing to settle for anyone. So when a second-rate gangster and his thugs try to coerce her into marriage--and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
393 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sweet Dreams Chocolate Company has been in the Sterling family for generations, ever since Great-Grandma Rose literally dreamed up her first fabulous recipe. But now it looks as if they're about to lose Sweet Dreams to the bank, and that would be a disaster, not only for the family but for the town of Icicle Falls, Washington. Can Samantha, the oldest daughter and new head of the company, come up with a way to save it? After Samantha does some brainstorming...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nothing Personal is the stunning story of Warren Hament, a bright young man who stumbles into a career in finance in the early 1980s. His rapid rise exposes the inner workings of the amoral, crude, and brutal world of top-tier investment banking as only a true insider could know them. Introduced to the elite bastions of wealth and privilege, and with his beautiful and ambitious girlfriend pushing him, he gets a major boost when first his patrician...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
395 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adele Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day, she simply vanishes into thin air and Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance....
14) A delicate touch
Author
Series
A Stone Barrington novel volume 48
Language
English
Description
When an old acquaintance reaches out to Stone Barrington requesting assistance, the job seems easy enough. She needs an expert in an esoteric field, someone with both the knowledge and careful dexterity to solve a puzzle. But the solution to one small problem blows the lid open on a bigger scandal going back decades, involving numerous prominent New Yorkers who would prefer the past stay buried.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A father comes to terms with his mortality and secrets in a heartrending novel of family and forgiveness from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred-Foot Journey. It is a time of reckoning for Jose Maria Alvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living in a Swiss village with his American wife. Nearing the end of a long and tumultuous life, he's overcome by hallucinatory memories of the past. Among his most cherished memories are those...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists-a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extraordinary gift-whose lives collide in the wake of a devastating fire in the American West For the citizens of Spokane Falls, the fire of 1889 that destroyed their frontier boomtown was no disaster; it was an opportunity. Barton Heydale, manager of the only bank in Spokane Falls, is on the verge of ending his short, unpopular life. But when his city goes...