April Henry Books In Order

Circles of Confusion

GR8 LYF? Claire Montrose doesn’t know it yet, but her ho hum world is about to go wild. Lately, Claire doesn’t know which is worseher uninspired romance with her insurance adjuster boyfriend, or her job approving applications for vanity license plates. BIG$? When Claire’s distant, elderly aunt dies, she leaves a fitting estate for her mousy niecea trailer full of junk, Claire finds a painting that haunts her with its beauty. Might this be a long lost masterpiece? To learn the painting’s secrets, Claire leaves Portland behind for a dazzling solo trip to New York City. BEWARE! In the Big Apple, Claire must keep up her guard against the charms of two mysterious men, each of whom is intent on figuring out what it is she’s uncovered from her aunt’s past. Could the canvas Claire is totting around in her backpack really be worth millions? It certainly seems to be her ticket into a whole new realm of adventure. Along the way, she just might discover her painting’s true worthand her own. X CTG! Claire took a deep breath. ‘I’ve decided to go to New York for a couple of days. I’m going to get the painting appraised.’ Evan sat back in his chair and steepled his hands. ‘You’re going to go off on some wild goose chase, based on nothing more than the opinions of your hundred and three year old roommate and some guy who runs a junk shop? No, I don’t think so.’ She took a soundless step backward on the plush carpet, then another, until her hand was on the doorknob. ‘Evan?’ ‘Hm?’ he said, looking at his paperwork. ‘I am going.’ She closed the door on his surprised face.

Square in the Face

HapydazeOnce upon a time, Clair Montrose was a mousy employee in the Oregon State License Plate Division approving vanity plates. Now this part time sleuth has an artist boyfriend in New York City and a quirky group of friends and family that keep her happy in Portland. But danger is never far away…
Helpp!When her friend and former coworker, Lori, calls with an urgent request, Claire can’t say no. Lori’s son is ill, and his only hope is a bone marrow transplant from a sibling. Long ago, Lori had a baby a girl she gave up for adoption to a secretive agency. Now, she needs Clair to find her long lost daughter. DangrusScouring the city, Claire has little to go on besides common sense and her own two feet. Using her wits, charm, and savvy sleuthing skills, she begins to dig up old secrets secrets someone will kill to keep buried. Now, it’s not just a young boy’s life hanging in the balance, but Clair’s as well.

Heart-Shaped Box

Claire Montrose wasn’t part of her high school’s in crowd. Too smart, too tall, too skinny, and too young looking, she didn’t have a lot of fun back then. But that won’t stop Claire from attending her twentieth class reunion. After all, those former disadvantages now work very well for her, plus she’s got a hip boyfriend named Dante. But someone else can’t let bygones be bygones. Checking into her hotel, Claire receives a mysterious heart shaped box with her yearbook picture inside. Then another heart shaped box is found in the limp hand of former head cheerleader Cindy Sanchez, strangled in the parking lot. Claire’s got to put all her smarts to the test and find a calculating killer before she, too, becomes a memory.

Buried Diamonds

Claire Montrose discovers an engagement ring that had gone missing for fifty years. Did the young woman who owned it really commit suicide? One of Claire’s elderly neighbors harbors an old secret and will kill to keep it. Past and present grow more entangled when neo Na*zis seem to target Claire’s Jewish roommate. Henry’s trademark mix of quirky characters, humor, and vanity license plates also explores the persistent shadows of the past.

Girl, Stolen

Sixteen year old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realizes what’s happening, their car is being stolen with her inside! Griffin hadn t meant to kidnap Cheyenne, all he needed to do was steal a car for the others. But once Griffin’s dad finds out that Cheyenne’s father is the president of a powerful corporation, everything changes now there s a reason to keep her. What Griffin doesn t know is that Cheyenne is not only sick with pneumonia, she is blind. How will Cheyenne survive this nightmare, and if she does, at what price?

Face of Betrayal

Fox News legal correspondent and former Federal Prosecutor Lis Wiehl has created a suspense novel that’s as timely as tomorrow’s headlines.

While home on Christmas break, a seventeen year old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. Reporter Cassidy Shaw is the first to break the story. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. The three unique women are life long friends who call themselves The Triple Threat a nickname derived from their favorite dessert and their uncanny ability to crack cases via their three positions of power.

Though authorities think Katie might have been kidnapped or run away, those theories shatter when Nicole uncovers Katie’s blog. They reveal a girl troubled by a mysterious relationship with an older man. Possibly a U.S. Senator.

As the three women race against time to find Katie alive, their increasing emotional involvement brings out their own inner demons and external enemies. There are many faces of betrayal, but they must find one face in a crowd of growing suspects before they become the next victims.

In Face of Betrayal, Lis Wiehl’s expertise in law, politics, and criminal investigation merges with April Henry’s narrative genius to create a gripping mystery filled with rich characters, real danger, and a shocking yet satisfying final twist.

Hand of Fate

When the host of a popular radio talk show is murdered, the suspects almost outnumber his millions of listeners.

Outspoken radio talk show host Jim Fate dies tragically when poisonous gas fills the studio while his polarizing show, ‘The Hand of Fate,’ is on air.

The triple threat of FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges, crime reporter Cassidy Shaw, and Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce must piece together the madness, motive, and mystery of what just happened. And this time it’s personal since one of the women was secretly dating the host and has access to his home…
and secret evidence.

In the days following Fate’s murder, these three friends must confront a betrayal within the team while unearthing the not-so-public life of Jim Fate. Together, they must uncover the stunning truths behind this cold-blooded murder.

Heart of Ice

The Triple Threat Club novels follow three fiercely intelligent women a TV reporter, a Federal prosecutor and an FBI agent as they investigate crimes as current as today’s headlines. The Triple Threat women have faced intense situations before but never such a cunningly cold blooded murderer. Elizabeth Avery is a stunningly beautiful woman. But her perfectly managed exterior hides the ice cold heart of a killer. She ingeniously manipulates everyone who crosses her path to do exactly as she wishes from crime reporter Cassidy Shaw, who thinks Elizabeth is her new best friend, to a shy young man Elizabeth persuades to kill for her. As Elizabeth leaves a trail of bodies in her wake, Federal prosecuter Allison Pierce and FBI agent Nicole Hedges must piece together clues from seemingly unrelated crimes. Can they stop her before she reaches her unthinkable, ultimate end game?

Learning to Fly

Nineteen year old Free Meeker has a shaved head, a nose ring, and a tattoo of Chinese characters around her biceps. She has a career, if you can call it that, as a pet groomer. And she has just learned that she is pregnant, and that her boyfriend is a two timing bast*ard. Then a disastrous highway pile up erroneously adds her name to its list of victims and hands Free a chance for a new life. In the chaos of the fiery accident, she acquired the identity papers of the hitchhiker who is mistaken for her plus a gym bag filled with $740,000 in drug money that otherwise would have been burned up. Go, Free, go! Free sets out to transform herself into Lydia, the sweet faced girl whose identity she has assumed. Raised by aging hippies, Free has always secretly longed to be more ‘normal,’ to try shaving her underarms instead of her head. Now she has a chance to make herself over. But Free doesn’t know that two men are hot on her trail. One man wants the money back. If he doesn’t get it soon, he knows he will end up dead. The other man wants his wife back. He doesn’t know the real Lydia died in the accident, on the run from his pathological abuse. Now he is determined to ‘teach her a lesson’ even if the lesson is fatal. As Free/Lydia settles into a new life full of possibilities, she is completely unaware that it is threatened by resourceful pursuers who are closing in on her.

Shock Point

Sixteen year old Cassie’s stepfather Rick is about to strike it rich with Socom, a new behavioral drug in which Rick is a big investor. But then Cassie discovers that Rick, a teen psychiatrist, has already been prescribing Socom illegally to his patients and three teens have died.

Before she can report him, Rick has Cassie committed to Peaceful Cove, a sad*istic boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico where the only way out is to graduate at age eighteen. Cassie knows she has to get out now, before more teens die from Socom. But no one has ever escaped from Peaceful Cove alive and even if Cassie gets over the walls and survives the Mexican desert, will anyone believe her story?

A taut, psychological thriller ripped from today s headlines, Shock Point deftly explores the cutting edge issue of behavioral drugs while taking readers on a roller coaster ride of action and suspense.

Torched

When Ellie’s parents are busted for possession of mari*juana, the FBI gives her a choice: infiltrate the Mother Earth Defenders MED, a radical environmental group, or her parents will go to jail. At first Ellie is more than willing to entrap the MEDics, but the more time she spends undercover particularly with Coyote, the green eyed MEDic that she can t stop thinking about the more she starts to believe in their cause. When talk turns to murder, Coyote backs out, but Ellie is willing to risk everything to save her family even if it means losing Coyote and putting her own life on the line.

April Henry, author of the acclaimed YA thriller Shock Point, pulls an issue straight from the headlines as she deftly explores what happens when good intentions get out of hand. With the environment a hot topic, this blend of explosive action and romance will make Torched a must read for all suspense lovers.