Now freelancing from south Florida, Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to Richmond, Virginia, the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Investigating the death of a young girl, she must follow the twisting leads and track the strange details in order to make the dead speak-and to reveal the sad truth that may […]
An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in The Rule of Four – a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery. Its Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan […]
The first victim was found lying on a sidewalk in the rain. The second was murdered in her own apartment building. Police lieutenant Eve Dallas had no problem finding connections between the two crimes. Both victims were beautiful and highly successful women. Their glamorous lives and loves were the talk of the city. And their […]
In the newest addition to the universally beloved No. 1 Ladies?? Detective Agency series, the charming and ever-resourceful Precious Ramotswe finds herself overly beset by problems. She is already busier than usual at the detective agency when added to her concerns are a strange intruder in her house on Zebra Drive and the baffling appearance […]
Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried about the disappearance of Ethel Lambston. Ethel, a bestselling author famous for her juicy expos??s, is one of the best customers at Neeves exclusive Madison Avenue boutique. But Ethels ex-husband, her parasitical nephew, and the fashion moguls skewered in her latest article all have […]
Ronald Thompson knows he never killed Nina Peterson… yet in two days the state of Connecticut will take his life, having found him guilty via due process of law. But Thompsons death will not stop the pain and anger of Ninas husband, Steve. Thompsons death will not still the fears of Nnas six-year-old son, Neil, […]
Detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant District Attorney Jill Bernhardt are enjoying a quiet afternoon in San Francisco when a townhouse across the street explodes in flames. A sinister note signed “August Spies” is found at the scene of the disaster, and the body of an infant who was asleep in the house at the time […]
What is peculiarly impressive about Patricia Cornwells new addition to her popular series about the pathologist Kay Scarpetta, The Last Precinct, is that it is a book in which everything is up for grabs and all is at stake. Murders we thought settled for good in previous books, with guilt allocated and people arrested or […]
From universally beloved author Alexander McCall Smith, comes this seventh installment in the bestselling No. 1 Ladies?? Detective Agency series featuring Botswana??s best-loved detective. Life is good for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve to solve people??s problems, heal their misfortunes, and untangle the mysteries that make life interesting. And life […]
When a young secretary, Sheila Webb, is sent to the home of a blind woman on an errand, she is horrified to discover a dead man behind the couch, surrounded by four clocks that have all been stopped at 4:13. The owner arrives home and denies that the clocks belong to her, the deceaseds business […]
A womans body has been found at the bottom of a well. The death wounds are startling: two small, round punctures to the jugular vein. . . . Vampire fever is spreading throughout the countryside, and suspicions soon fall on the recently arrived Emma Rimmele. Investigator Hanno Stiffeniis must do everything he can to find […]
Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her hair, and left California for the windswept peace of Cape Cod. Now remarried, she has two more beloved children, and the terrible pain has […]
Old sins have long shadows. Was the cause of death some long shadow from the past? This was the question facing Hercule Poirot when he agreed to help his old friend, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, delve into the deaths of Lord and Lady Ravenscroft, ruled a double suicide by the police twelve years before. All […]