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Liz Monahan is in a rut. Her boss is a jerk. Her mom won't stop asking about her love life. And her boyfriend just might be married. But since she found that corpse in her hotel room, things have gotten interesting. The new guy in accounting has a license to kill. He thinks she holds the key to a terrorist plot. And the man in her life is a rogue secret agent who just might want her dead. But at least he's single.
Genre: FICTION / Action & AdventureNEED TO KNOW has been available for 10 years and is still selling, with around 8000 page reads a month. It has spent time on the Amazon.it best seller lists in English language thriller and giallo.
The author has many other books, already translated into 15 languages.
It was at times like this that Harper really missed his desk. It was so much nicer to be in a cool, clean office, bored stiff and staring at a computer monitor, than out in the field where anything could happen.
“Where’s the money, Eddie?” Max’s voice was still calm, but he was losing his temper.
Eddie didn’t answer. He just grinned, showing a lot of yellowing teeth.
Max slapped him hard across the face, and the smile disappeared. “Maybe you didn’t hear me, Eddie. I said, ‘Where’s the money?’ You had a suitcase. Red Samsonite. We saw you come in here with it. We have pictures.”
Eddie said nothing, and Max slapped him again.
It was such a nice desk, Harper thought. Not much space in his cubicle. But it seemed larger than the hotel bathroom the three of them were crammed into. Of course, his cube didn’t have poor Eddie, stuck on the can, smelling like sweat and cigarettes. He took up a lot of the space.
Max repeated his question again. And the slap.
Eddie continued his smug silence.
Harper leaned back against the sink and willed himself to stay calm. Somebody in the room had to stay calm. Max was beginning to sweat. Beating the man on the toilet was spoiling the lines of his expensive suit. Max couldn’t stand looking less than perfect. It made him crazy.
Harper thought of the picture on the desk. Amy, on the beach at Cancun. Very blue water in Cancun. Amy was probably back home in Alexandria, right now, making coffee.
“We can do this the easy way, or the hard way,” Max was saying.
