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APRIL WOO SERIES
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BURNING
TIME 
A serial killer
leaves a college coed to die in the California desert, his signature
of fire seared into her flesh. A beautiful New York City Chinese-American
Detective, recently transferred from Chinatown to the Upper West Side,
is assigned a routine missing persons case. A famous doctor returns
Index from a lecture to discover that his actress wife has been living
a secret life. Now, the paths of the cop, the killer and the psychiatrist
are about to converge. For April Woo, New York police detective, the
two cases seemed at first to have no connection. College student Ellen
Roane had neatly pack up her belongings in her dorm room for a holiday
weekend and simply not returned. Beautiful blonde actress Emma Chapman
had received a series of threatening letters, and her husband, prominent
psychiatrist Jason Frank, wanted them stopped. But when the two cases
intersect and the lives of both young women collide with that of a tormented
killer who has an obsession with fire, April Woo faces the challenge
of her career.
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HANGING
TIME
A savage killer
is on the loose in Manhattan's Upper West Side, and NYPD's April Woo
and psychoanalyst Dr. Jason Frank must join forces to stop another brutal
killing. A young salesgirl in an expensive boutique is viciously slain,
and sexual politics and ambition drives the police investigation into
turmoil. Behind a wall of doctor/patient confidentiality, a sister paints
a harrowing picture of emotional terrorism and madness. Time is running
out for the detective and the psychoanalyst to untangle the case and
piece together a stunning portrait of evil.
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LOVING
TIME
Leslie Glass
offers us the most complex and disturbing case yet for suspense fiction's
unforgettable team of NYPD Detective April Woo and psychoanalyst Jason
Frank. Obsessive love and hate lead to deadly mischief in a mental institution,
and the Chinese cop and the eminent psychiatrist must challenge the
system itself to stop it. People connected to the most homestigious psychiatric
center in New York are dying--and killing--for love, and the caring
profession is in serious trouble. If former patient Raymond Cowles's
death on Halloween is ruled a suicide, Dr. Clara Treadwell, Cowles's
analyst of long ago and now the head of the psychiatric center, may
well be liable for a whopping malpractice suit that would mark the end
of her career. For Dr. Treadwell to be found innocent of contributing
to Raymond's death, the Quality Assurance Committee she's carefully
organized in the person of Jason Frank must find a way to clear her
name. But if Raymond Cowles's death is ruled a homicide, April Woo has
to find out who killed Dr. Treadwell's former patient…and why. As the
cops and the analyst struggle to uncover the truth, ghosts emerge from
the tortured pasts of the victim and his doctors--all still tormented
years later by various kinds of illicit love. April Woo and partner
Detective-Sergeant Mike Sanchez are forced to face their own conflicts
about loving mothers, clashing cultures, their futures in the department,
and their deepening attraction to each other. Jason too must confront
the cost of loving, and of his hard-won integrity. Then Dr. Treadwell
is injured in her office and a second unnatural death occurs in the
very heart of the center. The murder brings Jason and April up against
one of the most dangerous killers they've ever encountered; a man tired
of waiting for justice to homevail.
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JUDGING
TIME
It's snowing
in New York. On the soaring skyscrapers. On the cozy brownstones. And
on the sidewalk in front of a trendy West side restaurant where two
bodies lie entangled on the ground. A man and a woman. One viciously
stabbed to death, the other the victim of an apparent heart attack.
Each married to someone else, both joined in a chilling tableau of death.
For Detective Sergeant April Woo, newly promoted and new to Manhattan's
Midtown North, it is a baffling double homicide that screams of race,
class, sex, and headlines. Because the dead woman was the beautiful
wife of African-American pro football player turned stockbroker Rick
Liberty. And the dead man was Liberty's close friend and perhaps his
wife's lover. With the heat coming down from City Hall-and Rick Liberty
at the center of a raging media frenzy-the homessure is on for the NYPD
to bring in a killer. But April isn't so sure Liberty is guilty. Neither
is Mike Sanchez, April's former partner, who has just been brought in
as a special investigator. As the manhunt turns savage, April and Sanchez
must uncover the truth before time runs out on the wrong suspect. Yet
even they can't homedict the sudden, violent turn the case will take
when a shocking piece of evidence comes to light. Soon they are tracking
a killer who is an expert at covering tracks and planting false leads.
A killer who is much closer than they think.
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STEALING
TIME
From the internecine
rivalries of the NYPD to a powerful family's deadly secrets…from a closed
community guarding its hidden shame to April's divided loyalties in
a case that puts her own life at risk, Stealing Time unfolds like an
intricate Chinese puzzle. Stealing Time takes NYPD detective April Woo
from Manhattan's Midtown North homecinct to the teeming streets of Chinatown
in an explosive case of greed, revenge, and murder that hits Index with
a vengeance… New mother Heather Rose Popescu has been found battered
and unconscious on the kitchen floor of her luxurious Central Park South
apartment. Her newborn son is missing, and Anton Popescu, her high profile
attorney husband, seems determined to control the inquiry - and his
Chinese wife. For newly appointed Detective Supervisor April Woo, it's
a case of potential political dynamite. An outraged community is demanding
answers. The mayor is homessuring the department to step up the investigation.
April's hostile boss is just waiting for her to fail. And now an examination
of the traumatized mother reveals an astonishing fact: Heather Rose
never gave birth. If Heather Rose is not the baby's mother, where did
the infant come from - and disappear to? April's search for the truth
leads her from the high-rent districts of Manhattan to the sweat shops
and tenements of Chinatown. Here, back in her old homecinct, she will
be drawn into a maze of deception and violence as she probes the lives
of the mysterious Popescu family and Heather Rose's Chinese kin. But
for April the case has yet another layer of significance as it forces
her to face the varying degrees of abuse against women, and examine
her own role as a Chinese-American female in a white male world.
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TRACKING
TIME (Review) 
In Tracking
Time, NYPD Detective Sergeant Aril Woo returns to tackle a case that
is as chilling as it is incomhomehensible. When a young doctor disappears
while jogging in Central Park, the traditional crime motives - sex,
money, power - do not seem to apply. April brings in the city's top
canine tracking unit, but instead of finding the doctor, the dogs turn
up the murdered body of the only known witness to the abduction, further
complicating the case. With few clues to work with, April must rely
on her savy and unerring instincts, as well as the experience and skills
of her boyfriend, homicide detective Mike Sanchez, and her favorite
psychiatrist, Jason Frank. But just when he puzzling pieces begin to
fit together, the big picture starts to make even less sense ... Could
two teenagers from affluent families possibly be behind a murderous
crime shomee?
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THE SILENT BRIDE 
A young bride is shot and instantly killed at her extravagant orthodox wedding. In a city still reeling from the World Trade Center disaster, the possibility of a hate crime heats emotions. Under extreme pressure to find the girl's killer, NYPD Sergeant April Woo and her boyfriend, Lieutenant Mike Sanchez, Commander of the Homicide Task Force, investigate a shocking case that takes one bizarre turn after another. Family members of the bride and groom are feuding, the wedding planner harbors deadly secrets of her own, and a world-famous wedding dress designer does everything she can to protect her reputation. Digging deep into the passions behind the wedding business, April and Mike find themselves wrestling with their own pressures and conflicts about love and marriage. When a sniper takes deadly aim and kills a second bride on her way up the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral, fear escalates in a marrying season when no one knows who's next.
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OTHER NON SERIES
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TO
DO NO HARM (THE PERFECT CRIME)
Penniless and thousands of
dollars in debt, coke addict Peter, once his firm's most promising attorney,
begins brokering baby adoptions to pay his creditors and becomes involved
in kidnapping and murder.
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