The Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man: an entire room forged of exquisite amber, from its four massive walls to its finely crafted furniture. But it is also the subject of one of history??s most intriguing mysteries. Originally commissioned in 1701 by Frederick I of Prussia, the Room was […]
Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half […]
“Linda Wallander is bored. Just graduated from the police academy, she is waiting to start work at the Ystad police station and move into her own apartment. In the meantime, she is staying with her father and, like fathers and daughters everywhere, they are driving each other crazy. Nor will they be able to escape […]
The #1 bestseller?ÿPop Goes the Weasel?ÿproved once again that James Patterson is an undisputed master of suspense. Now he has written his most compelling and surprising thriller ever. . . . Cradle & All In Boston, a young woman finds herself pregnant — even though she is still a virgin. In Ireland, another young woman […]
Jack Bauer is in Nicaragua to recover stolen military secrets and track down a CTU agent with Colombian assassins hot on his trail, but the killers are one step ahead of him and Jacks comrade is shot down in a hail of bullets right in front of his eyes. Back stateside Jack must find the […]
It was the trial that electrified the world. Not only because of the defendant, Maggie Bradford, the woman whose songs captivated the worlds heart. Not only because of the victim, Will Shepard, the worlds most glamorous athlete. But also because everyone said Maggie had murdered not just one husband, but two. And because in Maggies […]
While restoring a 15th-centuty painting which depicts a chess game between the Duke of Flanders and his knight, Julia, a young art expert, discovers a hidden inscription in the corner: Quis Necavit Equitem. Translation: Who killed the knight? Breaking the silence of five centuries, Julias hunt for a Renaissance murderer leads her into a modern-day […]
THE MURDER WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING… Paul Madriani, the brilliant defense attorney from Compelling Evidence andPrime Witness, is back in a complex web of murder and deceit — this time within his own family. His wife Nikki has just died of cancer. On her deathbed, Nikki made Paul promise to look after her younger sister, […]
“Two minutes can be a lifetime. Ask anyone on the wrong side of the law about the two-minute rule and theyll tell you thats as long as you can hope for at a robbery before the cops show up. Break the two-minute rule and its a lifetime in jail. But not everyone plays by the […]
For ambitious, troubled architect Ray Jackson, the nightmare begins one sultry California night when his wife disappears. No phone call, no ransom note, no body, reveals whether Leigh is dead or alive. Then, suddenly, a woman shows up on Ray??s doorstep demanding answers: Kathleen, an old friend of Leigh??s. Ray wants answers, too, but his […]
A missing teenager and an octogenarian found dead of apparently natural causes are pretty run-of-the-mill cases in Bisbee, Arizona, where Sheriff Joanna Brady is focusing on the last-minute details of her upcoming wedding. In this latest outing in Judith Jances Brady series, the connection between the two events is a thin one. In the authors […]
Fourth in the Kurt Wallander series. In the award-winning Sidetracked, Kurt Wallander is called to a nearby rapeseed field where a teenage girl has been loitering all day long. He arrives just in time to watch her douse herself in gasoline and set herself aflame. The next day he is called to a beach where […]
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize??winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anil??s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped […]
Watch for the signs! What signs these shall be, I say unto you: first the earth will flow with the blood of Aen Seidhe, the Blood of Elves… For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the […]
Michelle Maxwell has just blown her future with the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she led a presidential candidate out of her sight to comfort a grieving widow. Then, behind closed doors, the politician whose safety was her responsibility vanished into thin air. Living a new life on a quiet lake in central Virginia, Sean […]