Brenda
Joyce stammt von russischen Einwandern ab und wurde in Brooklyn
geboren. Seit der Veröffentlichung ihres ersten Romans
1988 gewann sie zahlreiche Auszeichnungen und gehört
mittlerweile mit einer Gesamtauflage von mehreren Millionen
zu den erfolgreichsten amerikanischen Romanautorinnen. Brenda
Joyce verbrachte viele Jahre in New York City, lebt heute
aber im ländlichen Colorado.
Francesca
Cahills 1. Fall
Labyrinth
der Lügen
Deadly
Love
New
York, 1902: Während Francesca Cahill auf einem rauschenden
Ball im Haus ihrer Eltern tanzt, ahnt sie noch nicht, dass
diese Nacht ihr Leben verändern soll. Denn zur gleichen
Zeit wird im Nachbarhaus ein kleiner Junge entführt,
und Francesca wird in die schwierigen Ermittlungen verwickelt.
Seite an Seite mit Rick Bragg, dem gut aussehenden Polizeipräsidenten,
wagt sie sich in die finstersten Viertel der Stadt - und nicht
nur die Angst lässt ihr Herz schneller schlagen ?»Schnell,
sinnlich und faszinierend!« Library Journal
01.10.2005
Francesca
Cahills 2. Fall
Haus
der Schande
Deadly
Pleasure
Ein fesselnder
romantischer Thriller!Am 31. Januar 1902 hat Francesca Cahill,
Tochter einer der reichsten Familien der Stadt New York, ihre
erste Begegnung mit dem Tod: Sie findet die Leiche eines bekannten
Industriellen. Nur zögernd stimmt Polizeipräsident
Rick Bragg zu, Francesca, die »Kriminalistin aus Leidenschaft«,
in den Fall einzubeziehen. Und äußerst widerwillig
muss er nach einiger Zeit eingestehen, dass sie nicht nur
eine geborene Ermittlerin ist, sondern auch eine außergewöhnlich
faszinierende Frau ...
Francesca
Cahills 3. Fall
Deadly
Affairs
As
the heiress to a vast fortune amassed by her millionaire father,
Francesca Cahill's life should be mapped out for her: find
an eligible suitor, marry, and have children. But Francesca
is an unconventional young lady who is not about to give up
her knack for sleuthing--even though she was almost killed
in her last outing...
Murder
strikes once again in the seamy underbelly of New York's high
society, exposing scandalous secrets and unleashing an intense
investigation into one of the most brutal crimes the city
has ever known. Francesca must join forces with Rick Bragg,
New York City's Police commissioner and the mans he cannot
resist loving, as their search takes them through a twisted
labyrinth of menacing lies, corruption, and a passion that
refused to be denied...
Francesca
Cahills 4. Fall
Deadly
Desire
The
time is turn-of-the-century New York City. Society's elite
host glittering balls inside sprawling mansions while outside,
the teeming street harbor secrets of their own.
New
York City's Police Commissioner Rick Bragg has been called
upon to investigate a shocking crime. Reluctant to pull Francesca
into a case that could be very dangerous, Rick also knows
the beautiful and brilliant heiress has a natural ability
for sleuthing that could aid him--even it if means working
side by side with a woman who tempts him like no other. And
so Franscesca and Rick begin a harrowing journey through the
squalid underworld of the city that plunges them deeper and
deeper in a peril neither could have imagined--and a desire
that only continues to grow...
Francesca
Cahills 5. Fall
Deadly
Caress
The
year is 1902. The place is New York City. A famous stage actress
has been found strangled in an artist's studio, and the artist
herself has vanished. Francesca Cahill, the city's most unconventional
heiress and famous amateur sleuth, is once again on the case-for
the murder victim is none other than her brother's mistress.
And when the sole witness to the crime is also found strangled
and only one clue is left behind-a silk stocking-it becomes
evident that a madman is on the loose.
Now
more than ever, Francesca is determined to find The City Strangler
and bring him to justice. But the trail is a twisted one,
and she'll need the help of handsome, dynamic Police Commissioner,
Rick Bragg-even though she must attempt to end their star-crossed
romantic liaison. But now, she also finds herself fending
off the advances of his notorious rival, his powerful half-brother,
Calder Hart. Ruthlessly pursued by Hart, hopelessly enamored
with Bragg, Francesca races against the clock before The City
Strangler strikes again, never realizing the consequences
that will come when danger and desire become one...
Francesca
Cahills 6. Fall
Deadly
Promise
It
is March of 1902, and Francesca Cahill-Fifth Avenue heiress,
undaunted political activist and intrepid amateur sleuth-has
just learned of a grave new danger haunting the streets of
New York. A beautiful teenage girl named Emily O'Hare is missing
and Francesca fears that the girl has been abducted. Only
one person can help her learn the child's fate-but Police
Commissioner Rick Bragg may not want to get involved because
Francesca has just stunned Rick by accepting a proposal of
marriage...from none other than his own rival.
Francesca
still questions her decision to marry the powerful and notorious
Calder Hart. But Rick Bragg is wed to another...and his dazzling
wife has just returned after four years abroad to reclaim
their marriage. Francesca remains torn between the two very
different men-but she desperately tries to set aside the affairs
of her heart when she discovers that Emily isn't the first
girl to vanish in recent weeks. And when Francesca discovers
a trail of deception and lies, when someone very close to
her investigation is murdered, Francesca realizes that the
evil force behind the girls' abductions may try to find a
way to silence her too-if she dares to uncover the truth...
Francesca
Cahills 7. Fall
Deadly
Illusions
Manhattan,
1902.
Irrepressible
heiress and intrepid sleuth Francesca Cahill moves from her
own elegant world of Fifth Avenue to the teeming underbelly
of society, a place of pride, passions. . .and sometimes deadly
perversions.
Despite
the misgivings of her fiancee, Calder Hart, Francesca cannot
turn away from a threat that is terrorizing the tenement neighborhood
of Lower Manhattan. A madman has attacked three women, but
while the first two victims survived, the third is dead, raising
the stakes. All the victims are impoverished but beautiful
Irishwomen--and Francesca fears that Maggie Kennedy and Gwen
O'Neil, two friends who live nearby, could be next.
Soon
she is working with her former love, police commisioner Rick
Bragg--Calder's half brother and worst rival. But even as
Calder's jealous passions leave his relationship with Francesca
teetering on the brink, Francesca is frantically on the killer's
trail, certain The Slasher will strike again--afraid she will
be too late. . .
