Michele Martinez
Author
Series
Melanie Vargas thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
c2006
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Description
At the start of Martinez's gripping second thriller (after 2005's Most Wanted), New York federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas is summoned at two in the morning a week before Christmas to a sadly bizarre death scene on Park Avenue. The teenage stepdaughter of Wall Street mogul and would-be U.S. senator James Seward has died of a heroin overdose, along with a fellow student at a posh East Side girls' school.
2) Most wanted
Author
Series
Melanie Vargas thrillers volume 1
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Description
On an innocent evening stroll with her child, Melanie stumbles across a horrifying crime scene. A wealthy former prosecutor from her office has been tortured and murdered, his luxurious town house set ablaze to destroy evidence of the crime. It's the kind of high-profile case that can make her name, and Melanie wants in. Needs in. But what she doesn't realize is that this opportunity will bring her dangerously close to a hard-to-resist FBI agent who...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Kate, Aubrey, and Jenny. They first met as college roommates and soon became inseparable, even though they are as different as three women can be. Twenty years later, one of them is standing at the edge of a bridge, and someone else is urging them to jump. How did things come to this? As the novel cuts back and forth between their college years and their adult years, you see the exact reasons why these women love and hate each other--but can feelings...
4) Cover-up
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas must choose between a bevy of suspects when television gossip Suzanne Shepard, known for dredging up scandalous information on celebrities, is found brutally murdered in New York's Central Park.
Author
Series
Melanie Vargas thrillers volume 4
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
About to take a controversial rap star to trial for a past crime, Melanie Vargas receives an important piece of information from his lawyer. On the steps of New York City's federal courthouse, he tells her that his client may have had ties to a wanted fugitive. Moments later, a powerful car bomb blows the lawyer to pieces, with Melanie only steps away. As shocking as the murder is, it has other repercussions for Melanie. Her relationship with the...
Author
Series
Melanie Vargas thrillers volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
The brutal rape and murder of Suzanne Shepard, a scandal-mongering New York City TV journalist, provides a welcome high-profile case for Melanie Vargas in Martinez's stellar third thriller to feature the sharp and sexy federal prosecutor. Melanie accompanies her boyfriend, FBI agent Dan O'Reilly, to the grisly crime scene in Central Park, where someone, later dubbed the Central Park Butcher, has carved "bitch" into the victim's stomach with a hunting...
Author
Series
Melanie Vargas volume 1
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Young, ambitious Melanie Vargas, a federal prosecutor in Manhattan gets the big break of her career almost by mistake: she's pushing her baby daughter through the nighttime streets when she walks into a crime scene.