In this winner of the 1990 Edgar Award for best mystery novel, Dave Robicheaux, a former New Orleans policeman, is pursued by a psychopath and flees his home on the Bayou Teche, in the heart of Louisiana, to find a new life in Montana. After settling near the Blackfoot River Canyon, Robicheaux finds himself smack […]
For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art – and he is the citys most accomplished artist. For Kylar Stern, just surviving is a struggle. As a guild rat, hes learned to judge people quickly – and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, he must turn his back […]
It touches all our lives; our triumphs and tragedies, our proudest achievements, our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love and fear, death and fire, and the inscrutable acts of the gods, insurance is indeed the force that binds the universe together. Hardly surprising, therefore, that Frank Carpenter, one of the foremost magical practitioners of our […]
In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies–elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal–fifteen-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. But when his homeland erupts in chaos–when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies– Tavis simple courage will turn the tides of war.
In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting place??unknown to this day??remains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure hunters. Now the quest for this coveted prize is about to heat up. And Cotton Malone??former U.S. Justice […]
A man in a Virginia prison awaits execution for three horrific murders he must have committed but swears he didnt . . . An aging investigator in New York City has seen too much and lost too much — and is ready to leave the darkness behind . . . But a nightmare is coming […]
One enemy spy knows the secret to the Allies greatest deception, a brilliant aristocrat and ruthless assassin — code name: “The Needle” — who holds the key to ultimate Nazi victory. Only one person stands in his way: a lonely Englishwoman on an isolated island, who is beginning to love the killer who has mysteriously […]
What is Clare Wingate doing? One minute shes suffering in a pretty-in-pink gown shell never wear again, and the next thing she knows its morning . . . and she has the nastiest hangover of her life. To make matters worse, shes wearing nothing but a spritz of Escada and lying next to Sebastian Vaughan […]
Evan Tanner cant sleep. Ever. Which gives him plenty of free time to get involved in lots of interesting endeavors in all sorts of exotic locales. Now Tanners in Thailand with a partially baked plan and a butterfly net, hoping to snare a beautiful missing chanteuse whos metamorphosed into an international jewel thief. Tanner hopes […]
L.A.P.D. Detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina, are profoundly shaken by this terrible “accident” that has occurred frighteningly close to their daughters school. And an irate call from the unaccounted-for flight attendants stepfather further tangles an already twisted mystery. The man insists twenty-eight-year-old Roseanne Dresden was never on the doomed flight, but was probably […]
I myself had two separate encounters with witches before I was eight years old. From the first I escaped unharmed, but on the second occasion I was not so lucky. Things happened to me that will probably make you scream when you read about them. That cant be helped. The truth must be told. The […]
This well-loved Little Critter picture book has become a modern classic. Its the tale of a father-and-son camping trip filled with Little Critters mistakes and good intentions. In spite of difficulties, however, the happy father and son manage to put up their tent, catch fish for dinner, and sleep beneath the stars. In spite of […]