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    Mortal Sins
    Hidden Agenda
    Ebook series2 titles

    Judith Hayes Series

    By Anna Porter

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    About this series

    From the author of Hidden Agenda, a reporter and amateur sleuth gets wrapped up in a murder case involving a wealthy recluse and international espionage.

    Toronto’s a big city, and corpses are always turning up, but rarely are they so very well-dressed.

    Judith Hayes is a well-respected journalist, and interviews are always turning up, but rarely with super-reclusive billionaires.

    Finally, the world of mystery fiction is rooted in unlikely connections, the hidden strands that tie un-guessed-at motivations to unexpected acts, but rarely do those strands create such a tangled web as in Mortal Sins, leading Judith and her cop-boyfriend from New York to Bermuda to Paris and at last to Hungary, where the billionaire’s wartime childhood proves to have been the breeding ground for secrets that have stretched terrible tendrils to the edge of the twenty-first century. A deviously plotted thriller with a spy-story kicker and a froth of romance to help the espionage slide down.

    Praise for Mortal Sins

    “A tightly plotted, well-written, and richly atmospheric novel.” —Booklist

    “A deftly written novel abounding with intrigue . . . . Readers will eagerly await the next assignment for Porter's thoroughly credible and engaging heroine.” —Publishers Weekly
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 3, 1994
    Mortal Sins
    Hidden Agenda

    Titles in the series (2)

    • Hidden Agenda
      Hidden Agenda

      Hidden Agenda

      Anna Porter
      2/5
      2/5

      In this series opener by the author of The Appraisal, a Toronto journalist and amateur sleuth tackles a case involving murder and a missing manuscript. So here’s the question: You’re about to kill yourself. How vital is it that you get your teeth cleaned? That’s the question that keeps bugging Judith Hayes, though admittedly, she keeps returning to it: It’s so much easier to deal with than the real question of why her friend George Harris would have killed himself at all. But the cops don’t care about the questions. Harris’s company was drowning in debt, they point out. And several people saw him jump, right in front of the moving train. It was suicide, they insist, awfully sad, onto the next. There’s a devious plot here, and a delicious swirl of romance, but the real joy is Judith—feisty, funny, tough as a bulldog, and everything you want in a mystery-novel heroine. Praise for Hidden Agenda “Lively . . . mysterious deaths and plenty of insider publishing stuff along the way.” —The New York Times “Superior fiction. Crisp prose, inventive plot, convincing characters . . . A major new talent.” —San Diego Union “Suspenseful . . . Offbeat . . . Believable and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly

      In this series opener by the author of The Appraisal, a Toronto journalist and amateur sleuth tackles a case involving murder and a missing manuscript. So here’s the question: You’re about to kill yourself. How vital is it that you get your teeth cleaned? That’s the question that keeps bugging Judith Hayes, though admittedly, she keeps returning to it: It’s so much easier to deal with than the real question of why her friend George Harris would have killed himself at all. But the cops don’t care about the questions. Harris’s company was drowning in debt, they point out. And several people saw him jump, right in front of the moving train. It was suicide, they insist, awfully sad, onto the next. There’s a devious plot here, and a delicious swirl of romance, but the real joy is Judith—feisty, funny, tough as a bulldog, and everything you want in a mystery-novel heroine. Praise for Hidden Agenda “Lively . . . mysterious deaths and plenty of insider publishing stuff along the way.” —The New York Times “Superior fiction. Crisp prose, inventive plot, convincing characters . . . A major new talent.” —San Diego Union “Suspenseful . . . Offbeat . . . Believable and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly

    • Mortal Sins
      Mortal Sins

      Mortal Sins

      Anna Porter
      0 ratings
      0 ratings

      From the author of Hidden Agenda, a reporter and amateur sleuth gets wrapped up in a murder case involving a wealthy recluse and international espionage. Toronto’s a big city, and corpses are always turning up, but rarely are they so very well-dressed. Judith Hayes is a well-respected journalist, and interviews are always turning up, but rarely with super-reclusive billionaires. Finally, the world of mystery fiction is rooted in unlikely connections, the hidden strands that tie un-guessed-at motivations to unexpected acts, but rarely do those strands create such a tangled web as in Mortal Sins, leading Judith and her cop-boyfriend from New York to Bermuda to Paris and at last to Hungary, where the billionaire’s wartime childhood proves to have been the breeding ground for secrets that have stretched terrible tendrils to the edge of the twenty-first century. A deviously plotted thriller with a spy-story kicker and a froth of romance to help the espionage slide down. Praise for Mortal Sins “A tightly plotted, well-written, and richly atmospheric novel.” —Booklist “A deftly written novel abounding with intrigue . . . . Readers will eagerly await the next assignment for Porter's thoroughly credible and engaging heroine.” —Publishers Weekly

      From the author of Hidden Agenda, a reporter and amateur sleuth gets wrapped up in a murder case involving a wealthy recluse and international espionage. Toronto’s a big city, and corpses are always turning up, but rarely are they so very well-dressed. Judith Hayes is a well-respected journalist, and interviews are always turning up, but rarely with super-reclusive billionaires. Finally, the world of mystery fiction is rooted in unlikely connections, the hidden strands that tie un-guessed-at motivations to unexpected acts, but rarely do those strands create such a tangled web as in Mortal Sins, leading Judith and her cop-boyfriend from New York to Bermuda to Paris and at last to Hungary, where the billionaire’s wartime childhood proves to have been the breeding ground for secrets that have stretched terrible tendrils to the edge of the twenty-first century. A deviously plotted thriller with a spy-story kicker and a froth of romance to help the espionage slide down. Praise for Mortal Sins “A tightly plotted, well-written, and richly atmospheric novel.” —Booklist “A deftly written novel abounding with intrigue . . . . Readers will eagerly await the next assignment for Porter's thoroughly credible and engaging heroine.” —Publishers Weekly

    Author

    Anna Porter

    Anna Porter is the award-winning author of ten books, both fiction and nonfiction, most recently Deceptions and In Other Words: How I Fell in Love with Canada One Book at a Time. She has written five mystery novels, including The Appraisal, which was shortlisted for the Staunch Book Prize, and Mortal Sins. Kasztner’s Train won the 2007 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and Ghosts of Europe won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. She cofounded Key Porter Books, an influential publishing house she ran for more than twenty years. In addition, she writes book reviews, opinion pieces, and stuff. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has received the Order of Ontario. Visit her at AnnaPorter.ca or connect with her on Twitter @AnnaPorter_Anna.

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