02204cam a2200301 4500 607515508 TxAuBib 20140428120000.0 140421s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780061656002 hbk. 0061656003 hbk. TxAuBib Gross, Andrew. Everything to lose / Andrew Gross. First Edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2014. 328 p. ; 24 cm. A determined mother becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty-year-old secret buried in this blistering thriller, set during the tragic aftermath of hurricane Sandy. While driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Cantor, who's just lost her job and whose deadbeat husband has left her alone to care for her son with Asperger's, witnesses a freakish accident. A car ahead of her careens down a hill and slams into a tree. Stopping to help, she discovers the driver dead-- and a satchel stuffed with a half a million dollars. That money could prevent her family's ruin and keep her special needs son in school. In an instant, this honest, achieving woman who has always done the responsible thing makes a decision that puts her in the center of maelstrom of dark consequences and life-threatening recriminations-- a terrifying scheme involving a twenty-year-old murder, an old woman whose life has been washed out to sea, and a powerful figure bent to keep the secret that can destroy him hidden. With everything to lose, everything she loves, Hilary connects to a determined cop from Staten Island, reeling from the disaster of Sandy, to bring down an enemy who will stop at nothing to keep what that money was meant to silence, still buried. 20140428. Murder Investigation Fiction. Parents of developmentally disabled children Fiction. Extortion Fiction. Police Fiction New York (State) -- New York. Staten Island (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Suspense fiction. TXMIT