<div><B>After an evening with a movie star, a magazine editor is found murdered</B><BR />  <BR /> Shirley Kolp finds the movie star sleeping in the park. Even before he speaks a word, she recognizes Gavin More&mdash;a Hollywood A-lister reduced to spending the night on a New York park bench. Feeling compassionate, she invites him to come up to her apartment and get out of the rain&mdash;for a cup of coffee and a place to sleep, nothing more. Gavin has just bedded down when the door opens and Shirley joins him, stark naked and rather less frumpy than she had looked before. It&rsquo;s a beautiful evening, but there&rsquo;s murder lurking in the air.<BR />  <BR /> The next morning, Shirley is found bludgeoned to death in the same park where she stumbled across Gavin. When her roommate, screenwriter Joe Anton, learns of the murder while sitting in his West Coast office, he&rsquo;s sick down to his soul. He begins asking questions that lead him to mysterious Gavin More, but the truth of the matter is stranger than anything a Hollywood playwright could devise.<BR />  <BR />  </div>

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The Motive

<div><B>A larger-than-life actor is caught in a web of murderous lies in this twisting thriller by a master of &ldquo;realistic domestic terror&rdquo; (<I>The New York Times</I>).</B><BR /><BR />  Hanno Dietrich awakes in a hospital bed, certain the crisis has passed. His hulking body is as weak as a beached whale, but the greatest actor of his generation feels his strength returning. So why won&rsquo;t they let him leave? A man comes to see him and, rather embarrassedly, tells the star that a body has been found in his bomb shelter&mdash;a young boy with a broken neck. Dietrich chuckles, good-natured as always, and begins to tell his story.<BR />  <BR /> The boy showed up at Dietrich&rsquo;s house a few nights before, drunk and angry. He insulted the actor, disparaged his wife, and then lunged to attack him. Dietrich did what anyone else would do: He shoved the boy, who fell and broke his neck. As far as Dietrich&rsquo;s concerned, it was self-defense&mdash;hardly worth discussing. But he will soon find the real story is just starting to unfold.<BR />  </div>

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Hanno's Doll

<div><B>Two years after killing his younger brother, an eight-year-old confronts a menacing nanny</B><BR />  <BR /> In the High House School for Disturbed Children, the windows are narrow, the shadows are dark, and the secrets can be deadly. Unable to cope with his guilt, Joey Fane has been here ever since the afternoon when his little brother wouldn&rsquo;t leave him alone in the bathroom&mdash;the day that Joey cracked a block across his Ralphie&rsquo;s head and left him to bleed. Two years after the incident, Joey finally recovers and is released and sent back home&mdash;but he will soon wish he could have stayed locked away forever.<BR />  <BR /> While Joey was away, his mother fell completely under the spell of the nanny who was hired before the accident to care for Joey&rsquo;s now-long-dead brother. With Joey&rsquo;s return, it&rsquo;s time for Nanny to leave, but she&rsquo;s not ready to go. Between these two ruthless souls, battle will be waged, and more blood will be spilled.<BR />  <BR />  </div>

The Nanny

<div><B>A deranged failed actor plots revenge against a Hollywood starlet</B><BR />  <BR /> Desmond stands in a grotty flat on the outskirts of London, trying to decide between methods of revenge. He drags the lipstick across his mouth, slips into the pair of stockings, and finds the dress fits even better than he expected. It&rsquo;s been a long time since Des wore drag, when his uncanny ability to imitate Hollywood icon Coral Reid won him renown across the French Quarter, but he still has what it takes&mdash;and he&rsquo;s going to put his skill to bloody good use.<BR />  <BR /> The real Coral Reid is in London shooting a movie, and Des wants payback for a thousand slights, real and imagined. He has enough acting experience to sneak onto the set and get close to his target, but is he better off killing her or snatching her child? No matter which he chooses, vengeance will be a messy business.<BR />  <BR />  </div>

The Stand-In

<div><B>To escape poverty, a doctor blackmails a desperate patient</B><BR />  <BR /> In the far reaches of Queens, a doctor struggles to maintain his practice. Milton Krop sees patients in his apartment&rsquo;s bedroom, which means he dresses in the bathroom and sleeps in the living room, trying to keep up appearances while providing for two children. Krop is strong as an ox, but poverty is suffocating, and if he doesn&rsquo;t escape soon, he&rsquo;ll wither and die. He&rsquo;s about to find a way out&mdash;but it will cost his soul.<BR />  <BR /> Krop finds Sloane in the kitchen of her mother&rsquo;s house, about to kill herself with a fistful of pills. She believes she caused her mother&rsquo;s death, and she can&rsquo;t live with the guilt. Milton knows her mother&rsquo;s death was accidental, but that doesn&rsquo;t stop him from blackmailing Sloane into marrying him&mdash;pulling him out of poverty, and into a psychological hell more terrible than he could have ever imagined.<BR />  <BR />  </div>

The Lady and Her Doctor

<div><B>Living in a dead woman&rsquo;s shadow, a young bride fights to stay sane</B><BR />  <BR /> After years of rotten luck with men, Marjorie thinks Charles Carter is a miracle. He&rsquo;s dashing, urbane, and so terribly passionate&mdash;until his heart is snatched away by another woman, leaving Marjorie alone and expecting a child. The desertion is unbearable, but then there&rsquo;s a stroke of luck: The first Mrs. Carter drops dead, and Marjorie steps right into her place. Now she has everything she ever wanted, a perfect apartment, perfect husband, perfect child. But she&rsquo;s beginning to sense that something is terribly wrong.<BR />  <BR /> A chance phone call awakens Marjorie&rsquo;s suspicions that the first Mrs. Carter&rsquo;s death was more than a tragic fluke. Isolated in her luxurious New York high rise, she becomes obsessed with the idea that her seemingly perfect life is founded on a murder&mdash;and that the killer will strike again.<BR />  <BR />  </div>

The Innocent

<div><B>Living with his idol, a young man is consumed with jealousy and contemplates murder</B><BR />  <BR /> Jamey Vaughn is in his office, but Ethel Spock has been his secretary long enough to know that the great writer is not writing. She finds him as he always is, nearly naked on the couch, staring at the ceiling and reflecting on the fading glory of his long career. A young man is here to see him, an admirer named Louis Daignot, come from New York for the chance to meet Vaughn. Daignot makes Ethel uneasy, but Vaughn invites him in. He couldn&rsquo;t know he&rsquo;s welcoming the devil into his home.<BR />  <BR /> Daignot has an uncanny understanding of Jamey&rsquo;s work, and his praise mesmerizes the older man. Ethel does what she can to protect her boss, but as the men&rsquo;s relationship becomes twisted, Daignot usurps his mentor&rsquo;s position. When the two writers commune, the first step is plagiarism. The next is murder.<BR />  <BR />  </div>

The Plot

<div><B>Haunted by a vengeful ghost, a woman is forced to find a killer</B><BR />  <BR /> It&rsquo;s been nine weeks since Myra was murdered, and Elizabeth Tregillis is still seeing her ghost. After six years working as that horrible woman&rsquo;s secretary, it&rsquo;s no wonder she can still hear her insults and feel every scar left by the emotional abuse. Elizabeth has long dreamed of Myra being out of her life, but why won&rsquo;t Myra stay dead? Why won&rsquo;t she go to hell where she belongs?<BR />  <BR /> If Myra weren&rsquo;t haunting her, Elizabeth could live happily ever after with Tom. But it was Tom&rsquo;s nurse, Ruthie, who was arrested as the killer, and Elizabeth isn&rsquo;t sure that she&rsquo;s truly guilty. Anyone in town could have wanted Myra dead, but who bought those nine grains of morphine? Who used them to shove the old lady over to the other side? One thing is for certain, until the real killer is found, Elizabeth won&rsquo;t get a moment&rsquo;s rest.<BR />  <BR />  </div>

The Naked Murderer

<div><B>The classic novel of suspense is &ldquo;a headlong story of nerve-wracking tension, psychological validity and emotional drive&rdquo; (<I>Oakland Tribune</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> Blanche Lake is not like the other mothers who come to collect their children at the local nursery school on New York&rsquo;s Upper East Side. She lives alone, has a job, and has never been married. It&rsquo;s the first day of school when this story begins, and Blanche is eager to see how her daughter, Bunny, has fared away from home. But her expectant waiting becomes a mother&rsquo;s most dreaded nightmare: Bunny never materializes. Neither teachers nor students recall the small girl, and soon Blanche is engaged in a frantic search for any trace of her missing daughter. And the worst part is . . . no one believes her. In this fraught and at times freakish tale of suspense, Evelyn Piper takes us deep into the psyche of the 1950s to explore American fetishes, fallacies, and fears around motherhood and sexuality. Blanche emerges as a new kind of heroine&mdash;a hard-boiled mom with gun in hand, willing to take any risk to find her missing daughter.<BR />  <BR /> &ldquo;A classic thriller&mdash;a riveting revisit to the dark side of the fifties, where the tension beneath the calm surface has an undertow that drags the reader into its grip. Prime pulp&mdash;pure pleasure.&rdquo; &mdash;Linda Fairstein, author of <I>The Bone Vault</I></div>

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Books By Evelyn Piper (9 Books)

The Motive

Hanno's Doll

The Nanny

The Stand-In

The Lady and Her Doctor

The Innocent

The Plot

The Naked Murderer

Bunny Lake Is Missing

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