Vehicles move through the murky night, carrying highly secret material. And that clandestine material will only be available — after midnight ?? to those who have signed non-disclosure notices. The plot of the new Dan Brown novel? No, it??s actually how reviewers such as myself obtained our copies of the much-anticipated The Lost Symbol, the […]
When Sophy goes to stay with her cousins in Berkeley Square, she finds them in a sad tangle of affairs ?? some romantic and others of a more pecuniary nature. Perhaps the Grand Sophy has arrived just in time to save them
“Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more […]
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid […]
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl […]
In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India??and for love??she screamed, ??Never!? and gave the country, and him, the finger. But eleven years later, the prophecy […]
Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid–and now, shes dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All thats left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery–or add to it.
Friendless and alone after his wife dies under suspicious circumstances, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox searches desperately for the illegitimate granddaughter who could be the only answer to the problems plaguing his name and his life.
The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly arent for him: “Where is Lilly? This is her number. Its on the site.” Pierce has just moved into a new apartment, and hes been “chasing the dime”–doing all it takes so his company comes out first with a scientific breakthrough worth millions. But he cant get […]
“The Sherlock Holmes” series read in unabridged form by David Timson is widely regarded as one of the finest. Here, Timson brings his remarkable performance skills to one of Doyles full-length novels. Holmes and his faithful Dr. Watson are summoned to a country house by a coded message. They arrive too late to save a […]
Somebody wants Mick Stranahan dead. Mick is sure of this, because he just had to dispatch a pistol-packing intruder with the help of a stuffed marlin head. But who would want to hurt a former Florida state investigator? The answer is plenty of people-as Stranahan soon finds himself acquainted with a litter of nefarious players, […]
Minty??s boyfriend, Jock, was killed in the disastrous train wreck at Paddington, shortly after he borrowed all her savings. Now he has come back to haunt her. Zillah lost her estranged husband, Jerry, in that same accident. She is not convinced he is actually dead, but for reasons of her own decides not to pursue […]
During the grand opening celebration of the new American headquarters of an immense Japanese conglomerate, the dead body of a beautiful woman is found. The investigation begins, and immediately becomes a headlong chase through a twisting maze of industrial intrigue and a violent business battle that takes no prisoners.
Imagine Philip Marlowe sans the cigarettes and in AA. Put him in Louisiana and jump forward 50 years or so and youve got David Robicheaux, a tough-talking detective with the same soft spot as his prototype for troublesome women and for delving into places into which he probably has no business. New Iberia, Louisiana, perfectly […]
While on vacation in the Orient, British Secret Agent James Bond matches wits with the maniacal Dr. Shatterhand in the doctors suicide gardens, and meets the luscious Kissy Suzuki. Reissue.