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 […]
Journey into the amazing world of Hindu mythology with Devdutt Pattanaik Why are most temples dedicated to Vishnu, Shiva or the goddess, but not to Brahma or Indra? How are an asura, rakshasa, yaksha and pishacha different from each other? Why did the Pandavas find themselves in naraka rather than swarga? Over several months, EPIC […]
We are in the car. Shes looking at me. I can see the love in her eyes for me. Then a huge crash. Shes flung out of the window. Im thrown out too. A pool of blood. Her eyes are still on me… but now its a death stare. I am Daman and I wake […]
A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation. In nearby Bolton, South Dakota, one brave woman is standing up for justice in a small town threatened by sinister forces. If she??s going to live long enough to testify, she??ll need help. Because a killer […]
Lee Child has steadily accrued one of the keenest groups of admirers for any contemporary thriller writer ?? and the reason is easy to discern. In such gritty and authoritative novels as Tripwire, Killing Floor and Die Trying, Child established his tough itinerant protagonist Jack Reacher as a key modern hero, with a taciturn, hard-boiled […]
This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is John Grishams first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a […]
As editor-in-chief of New Yorks leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan was utterly content with her life, jetting back and forth between Manhattan and Europe-until the day John Anderson strolled into her office.A widower with two daughters, John was as conservative as Fiona was freewheeling, and was both amused and appalled by her world of high-strung […]
A prisoner of a palace . . . Serena was almost too beautiful. Yet behind her aristocratic face there was something hurt, something closed. When she went back to the family palace in Rome after the Second World War she was searching for a shining fragment of the past to hold her heart. The last […]
A policeman, a criminal overlord, a film star, beggars, cultists, spies and terrorists-the lives of the privileged, the famous, the wretched and the bloodthirsty interweave with cataclysmic consequences amid the chaos of modern-day Mumbai in this soaring, uncompromising and unforgettable epic masterwork of literary art.
Meet Isabel “Izzy” Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to Get Smart reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors — but the upshot is shes good at her job as a licensed private investigator with […]