In 1905, Stanley McCormick, heir to East Coast millions, is most definitely mad. Heredity and an early, horrifying glimpse of his naked sister have rendered him schizophrenic, incapable of being around women–right down to his wife, Katherine, “a newlywed who might as well have been a widow.” Not even the dawn of modern psychiatry can […]
From one of the most important and acclaimed writers at work today, a thrilling new novel??part murder mystery, part love story??set amid the perils of religious repression in sixteenth-century Istanbul. When the Sultan commissions a great book to celebrate his royal self and his extensive dominion, he directs Enishte Effendi to assemble a cadre of […]
Classic tales of crime detection featuring Byomkesh Bakshi, the master inquisitor. Written long before Satyaji Ray s Feluda series, Saradindu Bandyopadhyay s Byomkesh Bakshi mysteries heralded a new era in Bengali popular fiction. Set in the old-world Calcutta of the Raj, these stories featuring the astute investigator and his chronicler friend Ajit are still as […]
He was dragged from the sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues: a frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the skin of his hip; evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face; strange things he says in his delirium, which could be code words. And a number on the film negative […]
The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. ??Little Tree? as his grandparents call him is shown how to hunt and survive in the mountains, to respect nature in the Cherokee […]
Agnes Day is mildly discontent. As a child, she never wanted to be an Agnes–she wanted to be a pleasing Grace. But alas, she remained the terminally middle class, hopelessly romantic Agnes. Now shes living with her two best friends in London and working at a trade magazine. Life and love seem to go on […]
Magical, tantalizing, and sensual, The Mistress of Spices is the story of Tilo, a young woman born in another time, in a faraway place, who is trained in the ancient art of spices and ordained as a mistress charged with special powers. Once fully initiated in a rite of fire, the now immortal Tilo??in the […]
Blood Brothers is M.J. Akbars amazing story of three generations of a Muslim family ??based on his own??and how they deal with the fluctuating contours of Hindu-Muslim relations. Telinipara, a small jute mill town some 30 miles north of Kolkata along the Hooghly, is a complex Rubiks Cube of migrant Bihari workers, Hindus and Muslims; […]
The author of “Sanctuary” and the first writer to be inducted into the Romance Writers Hall of Fame delivers another heart-pounding thriller. In “Homeport”, Dr. Miranda Jones is summoned to Italy to verify the authenticity of a valuable Renaissance sculpture. There she encounters a seductive art thief whose own agenda forces them into a reluctant […]
A party ends in murder when a doctor is left lying in a pool of blood. His wife is holding the gun. But nothing is that simple for Hercule Poirot.
A vacation at the Majestic Hotel in the Cornish countryside is just what Hercule Poirot thinks he needs…until he meets Nick buckley, the lovely young mistress and End House. When several near-death accidents befall Nick in a short period of time, Poirot suspects foul play. Its a race against the clock to protect Nick from […]
Under Platform 13 at Kings Cross Station is hidden a quite remarkable secret. Every nine years a doorway opens to an amazing, fantastical island. Nine years ago, the islands baby prince was stolen on the streets of London. Now a rescue party, led by a wizard and an ogre, must find him and bring him […]
With her young sons potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work, only to face the case of her career. The investigation into the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham is a professional challenge-and has Lauries colleagues wondering if she still has what it takes after so […]