Most Popular Books by John Waters

A love triangle goes bad on the movie set for Secret Desires when a determined killer prowling Crystal Dreams Pictures brutally murders two Academy-Award-Winning stars under exclusive contract with the Hollywood studio. The film''s leading actor, Lance Vaughn is rising to the top with unprecedented speed. His fairytale romance with Natalie Baldwin, the film''s makeup artist, begins to fade when his stunning co-star, Kela Ryan, faces the critical decision to play her part opposite Vaughn and to become his secret lover. When Lance doesn''t show up for publicity photos the morning after the mega-budget picture wraps, Natalie finds Lance in the guesthouse of his Bel Air mansion, dead with a .38 caliber revolver next to the body. Within hours of the discovery of Vaughn''s body, the LAPD reluctantly arrest Jake Baldwin, a decorated veteran detective with LAPD based on circumstantial but troubling evidence: the gun found at the crime scene is his. The next day Natalie, who also just happens to be Jake''s daughter, thinks of only one person who could possibly beat the rap against her father - Grant Westmore, Jake''s former partner on the Job. As the days pass in Grant''s exhaustive search for the real killer, Kela is found murdered in her Beverly Hills estate. At the crime scene, Grant uncovers a startling fact: Kela died in the same manner as Lance. Except this time the killer did not leave behind the murder weapon. Inching closer toward the explosive truth about the killer''s identity, the police, along with Grant and his investigative dream team, soon realize they''ve all glossed over one person: Natalie Baldwin. Having known Natalie since she was a little girl, Grant doesn''t want to believe the possibility that she''s capable of two cold-blooded murders. Grasping at a faint hope that they''re all wrong about Natalie, Grant orders a full-court press to find out one way or the other.

The center of conversation during coffee breaks around office water coolers, at bars and restaurants, on talk shows and in newspapers, is the FBI''s number three national priority only after terrorism and counterintelligence - computer crime. Grant Westmore discovers a secret brotherhood operating under the color of authority within the highest level of the federal government, but not before Grant himself becomes the target of the secret circle that will use all their power to stop him - dead. Proving his client is not a master criminal within a worldwide syndicate involved in extortion, fraud, money laundering, and murder, catapults Grant into the midst of the secret circle, whose members are as cunning as they are formidable. Grant''s run-of-the-mill case soon leads to dangerous discoveries, woven into a vile whirlpool of criminality far beyond conspiracy theories that only Judith Osborne, the Attorney General of the United States, can stop before his last chance of clearing his longtime friend Kyle Miller of the multi-count federal indictment is ripped away. Now with only days remaining to prove Miller is innocent, Grant and the Attorney General are hurled into a chase of surprising jeopardy, and toward the volatile reality about the secret circle''s true identity. In the end, and without warning the unthinkable occurs in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles, as Grant and the Attorney General are about to perform one of the most incredible stings in American judicial history. Regrettably, His Honor will never see the final chapter close in each of the brethren''s personal world as the secret circle is finally decapitated.

Using a blend of reality and fiction, Privilege is a ripped-from-the-headlines slice into the ever evolving, and sometimes finicky, world of privilege, where reality is pushed to the point of no return, and some stars go to jail, some die from their excesses, or merely fade away.Accidentally launched into superstardom when her estranged co-star leaked some sleazy sex photos of the two of them to the public via Facebook, billionaire heiress Allie Dolanne is at the top of the paparazzi A-list. Talk about dumb luck. Like it or not, the self-proclaimed iconic redhead is an entity the world can''t escape.With the paparazzi in their speed dial, and trumping world news, Allie and her Best Friends Forever celebutantes, singer-actress-starlet Lara Tait, once-cute kid star Sheli Lange, and fashion model-actress-singer Kela Ryan, Allie and her singer-starlet sister Tary, feed the celebrity gossip tabloids and Internet sites daily with one shocking shenanigan after the other.Captured on film by a prominent paparazzo, an unexpected sexual indiscretion between two of the BFFs forever changes their lives. This leads Grant Westmore to the breakthrough discovery of a blackmail plot by the paparazzo and his adult film goddess wife, and that there''s a serial killer on the loose in Tinseltown.Grant Westmore mixes the intuitive spirit of the beloved sleuths of classic detective tales with the irony, wit and creativity of a postmodern private eye in Tinseltown. In this gripping mystery, Grant struggles to make what they know to be the truths prevail as a Pandora''s box of crime, trickery, and deception under the color of privilege slowly opens before his eyes.

"Structured in the same way as the MRCP part 2 written exam, the two volumes of this self-assessment book together contain over 270 questions based on clinical scenarios which address the more difficult aspects of the medical curriculum. Chapters are divided by clinical specialties. Volume 1 includes: cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology and metabolic medicine, gastroenterology, haematology, and infectious diseases. Volume 2 includes: neurology and ophthalmology, oncology and palliative care, psychiatry and clinical pharmacology, nephrology, respiratory medicine and rheumatology. The first section of each chapter contains a clinical scenario followed by a multiple-choice, ''best-of-five'', question written in the style of the MRCP exam. The second section of each chapter contains the answer, a concise and clear explanation of the reasoning behind the given answer being correct, as well as a comprehensive tutorial on the subject matter which uses high-quality diagrams and tables to help readers absorb and retain information quickly and orderly. References for further reading are also then given for those interested in a broader review"--

What have Dustin the Turkey, the Paddy Paxman Vincent Browne, Michael O''Leary of Ryanair and the infamous fictional heroine Peig got in common? Apart from all having a genius for annoying people and boring them in equal measure, they''re all lined up to feature in the second volume of Feckers who fecked up Ireland, by John Waters, to be published by Constable in the autum of 2014. The first volume - Feckers: 50 People who Fecked up Ireland - became an instant bestseller when it was published in 2010. Hitting the irish psyche at a time of intense fragility, it sought to dig underneath the superficial rage and recrimination of post-boom Ireland to get to some of the real reasons why the country was in such a sorry state. In Feckers I named both the guilty and the excessively gifted, the beloved losers and those who screwed up Ireland''s psychological ecology by winning not wisely too well. In a time of alleged recovery and rejuvenation, Feckers II will continue this theme, tracing a different narrative that runs just beneath the surface of things. It will celebrate some some of the great unsung villains of Irish self-sabotage and indict some of those who have drawn too much attention to themselves by succeeding far beyond their entitlements. It will address some of the key moments in recent Irish cultural history, from that legendary note on the school notice board of Mount Temple Comprehensive, to the fake tweet that changed the direction of the Irish presidency in the dying moments of the election campaign of 2011. Like its predecessor, Feckers II will penetrate beyond the pretences, vulnerabilities and delusions of a nation still trying to extricate itself from the debris of its picaresque past.