Deadly Verdict

Deadly Verdict

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

From the bestselling author of THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE.Neiderman never lets his audience down."—WEST COAST REVIEW OF BOOKSIn this dizzying novel of speculative fiction, the legal system is picked apart for all the fault lines upon which justice quakes. Imagine a system wherein a pool of professional jurors are trained to judge evidence objectively. It's clean, it's fair, it's infallible. But when a professional jury foreman goes missing, the FBI puts agents Holland Byron and new recruit Wyatt Ert on the case.Soon other jurors go missing and turn up dead—as do their wives and husbands. Is the entire program under attack or is it just guilty defendants exacting their revenge? The shocking discoveries Holland and Wyatt make about the new legal system turn a sci-fi detective story into a challenge on the nature of man and the pursuit of good and evil in an increasingly impersonal world.
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Someone's Watching

Someone's Watching

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

Marty, age seventeen, and Judy, age fourteen, become stepbrother and stepsister when their parents marry. When Marty's father attempts to attack Judy, Marty beats him off. The pair flee to a nearby, seemingly deserted old resort in the Catskills, where they discover the owner still living as if the hotel were about to open. They participate in the old man's fantasy to keep themselves safe, carrying on a Romeo and Juliet romance, unaware they are constantly being watched....
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In Double Jeopardy

In Double Jeopardy

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

Dead Man Stalking Shy and reclusive medical student Elaine Ross is warned she might have trouble dating after her only sister is brutally murdered by her brother-in-law, Dirk Stoner. Dirk, a handsome golf pro and the son of a billionaire developer, was convicted and executed amid a media frenzy that rivaled the O.J. Simpson trial. So when Elaine is coerced out to a nightclub and is unsettled by the advances of Jonathan Lewis -- a man whose mannerisms and gestures eerily remind her of Dirk -- she refuses to succumb to her paranoid fears.But Elaine can't conceive of the twisted trail of bribes, blackmail, and murder that Dirk's billionaire father wove in an attempt to save his only son. She isn't aware that an FBI investigation linking the deaths of Dirk's prison doctor and a plastic surgeon has been inexplicably dropped. And Elaine has no way of knowing that the face in her nightmares is carrying a very real torch...for revenge.
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Tender Loving Care

Tender Loving Care

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

Michael loves his wife, but after the tragic accident to their daughter Lillian, Miriam was untouchable, like a dream. Desperate, hoping that his living nightmare will finally end, and yearning to lie once again in the arms of his beautiful wife, Michael hires a nurse to care for his beloved. But though Nurse Randolph's powerful presence has done wonders for Miriam, the nurse's ominous yet erotic dominance over Michael fills him with a strange, shuddering sense of doom. And nothing can make the terror disappear, especially not Tender Loving Care....
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Teacher's Pet

Teacher's Pet

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

An intricately woven novel of suspense from the bestselling author of The Devil's Advocate Mr. Lucy is just the kind of teacher the children of Centreville needed. He's sharp, understanding, always ready to help out. A man like that inspires respect in his students. And he gets great results; it was really quite astonishing when the children brought home straight-A report cards. All the parents were so proud. It was even more astonishing to see how they began to resemble Mr. Lucy. And act like Mr. Lucy. And kill like Mr. Lucy . . . Praised by V.C. Andrews as "a master of psychological thrillers," Andrew Neiderman teaches a master class in suspense in this brilliantly textured novel.
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Angel of Mercy

Angel of Mercy

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

A police detective confronts a nurse with an unusual bedside manner and her chilling twin sister in Andrew Neiderman's page-turning thriller Palm Springs detective Frankie Samuels is on medical leave when a rash of suspicious suicides rock his town. Against the advice of his doctor and his supervisor, he investigates the case of a grieving widower who died of insulin shock, overdosing on his wife's meds, along with a sleep aid called Dilantin. But the police can't find any Dilantin in the man's medicine cabinet. The second victim, another surviving spouse, perishes from a lethal dose of chloral hydrate. Private-duty nurse Faye Sullivan seems to be the common denominator in the deaths. But Faye has a sister: an identical twin named Susie, who also has a connection to the victims. As Samuels discovers more clues that don't add up, his suspicion begins to fall decisively on the two women. But the truth is more terrifying—and deadly—than he...
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The Solomon Organization

The Solomon Organization

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

From the bestselling author of The Devil's Advocate comes this "fast-moving thriller with an up-to-the-minute premise: a secret conspiracy of men" (Publishers Weekly). Scott Lester's bitter divorce includes accusations of adultery, alcoholism, and more—and they're all true. To keep from losing his five-year-old daughter forever, he turns to the Solomon Organization, a secret society sympathetic to the plight of men in Scott's situation. They are on his side. They will help him. And they don't even want his money—they only want what is best for his little girl. And what they decide is best is the worst thing Scott Lester can imagine . . . "A taut tale of horror made more horrible by its very plausibility." —Library Journal
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The Need

The Need

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

An erotic horror tale of passion and the many faces of evil, from master storyteller Andrew NeidermanI awoke with blood on my hands . . . When Hollywood actress Clea Cave wakes up next to her dead lover, she rushes to the nearest police precinct to confess to murder. But Detective Steven Mayer doesn't believe her. He already has a solid suspect in the string of gruesome homicides dubbed the Love Murders: Clea's brother Richard. That's when she confesses that she and her brother are the same person. They inhabit one body; they share one soul. A member of the secret Androgyne race, Clea is blessed with the gift of flawless beauty and the ability to change gender at will. In the male state, she feeds on mortals and steals their life force through erotic seduction. Desperate to keep Richard from killing more innocents, she must fight her own dual nature, which is made more difficult by her growing hunger for Mayer. But Clea is in grave...
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Life Sentence

Life Sentence

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

Master of suspense Andrew Neiderman spins a spine-tingling tale about an aging experiment that goes horribly awry, and the lengths to which people will go to stop the clock In the Intensive Care Unit of the Oakland Clinic, a terminally ill patient vanishes. An elderly patient suddenly flat-lines . . . and that's just the beginning. Today, Ceil Morris had a visit from her son. Except that Bradley Morris, a convicted murderer, was killed in prison six months ago. So who is the man who shows up on Ceil's doorstep claiming to be her only child—a man decades older than she? Soon homicide cops Palmer Dorian and Tucker Browning find themselves investigating a shadowy organization and a scientist known for his revolutionary work on aging. But their search for answers brings them face-to-face with a seemingly unstoppable evil from which even they may not escape.
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Amnesia

Amnesia

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

What would you do if you couldn't remember... who you were? where you lived? or what you might have done? Rush hour, Grand Central Station. Aaron Clifford stops dead in his tracks, commuters swirling around him -- but he doesn't know he's Aaron Clifford. He doesn't know who he is at all. No matter how hard he tries, he has no memory of why he is there, where he came from, or where he's going. It's impossible ...maddening...but its true. The clues came slowly: from his surroundings, from his wallet, from the taste of dry martini still on his lips. Soon Aaron Clifford will piece together the keys to his life. With that relief will come cold-blooded fear -- as he learns more than he ever knew before. Things he shouldn't know. Things he doesn't want to know. Things that could get him killed....
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The Dark

The Dark

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

A psychiatrist wife comes to believe her husband's latest patient is the devil. His influence over her husband and his other patients lead her to make very exciting and near fatal discoveries.
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After Life

After Life

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

A riveting novel of suspense from the author V.C. Andrews has called "a master of psychological thrillers." Once she was blind, now she can see. A car accident claims Jessie's vision, leaving the young woman in the dark, struggling to piece her life back together. One year later, she has made progress, and Jessie and her husband, Lee, move to the peaceful village of Gardner Town. Once there, though, Jessie's blindness heightens her awareness of the strange and terrible things going on in the community. Only Jessie can hear the beckoning voices from the cemetery. Only Jessie thinks there's something terribly wrong with her husband's new boss. And then a local woman makes a chilling, desperate request: "When your husband dies, don't let them bring him back." From the bestselling author of The Devil's Advocate, this masterful novel of suspense gives readers chills with each page, and the final chapters will be read...
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The Baby Squad

The Baby Squad

Andrew Neiderman

Horror / Fiction

THE PERFECT CHILD.THE PERFECT NIGHTMARE. In the middle of the twenty-first century, the search for the human ideal is over. A medical breakthrough maintains the integrity of the world's gene pool. It's also made the birth of Abnormals -- children born of natural pregnancy -- a capital offense. To ensure the faultless future of the human race, The Baby Squad is created to track down all women who defy the law, and exact punishment. Women like Natalie Ross. She's pregnant -- a blessing to her, a disgrace to society -- and she's afraid. One young woman has already been found murdered. And the promise of more bloodshed soon sends Natalie on the run to the underground, where a safe house awaits. Or so she thinks. For Natalie and her unborn child pose a mortal threat to those in power who desire a pure world of their own design -- a world they will do anything to protect.... THEBABY SQUAD
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