The book is a laugh riot like the previous two!! Easy breezy read….Underneath the humor, sarcasm, satire and bumblings of one of Pakistans rich dumb socialites (fictional) Moni also touches on the deep troubling political and social issues Pakistan faces and how their people view these events and learn to live life inspite of such […]
New Yorks trendy magazines are a source of peril when a killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, using the personal ads to lure his victims… After college, best friends Erin Kelley and Darcy Scott move to the city to pursue exciting careers; Erin is a promising jewelry designer, Darcy finds success as a decorator. […]
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone has served Sue Grafton well through 16 letters of the alphabet in a perennially popular series that occasionally breaks new ground but more often traverses familiar territory, as is the case here. Two old, ailing cops–one retired, the other disabled–try to breathe some life into an 18-year-old mystery that haunts them […]
Originally published the year of Agatha Christies death, Sleeping Murder is a novel as legendary as its lead character and its creator…A novel that adheres to the classic mystery formula, and transcends it… A novel that is a must for every mystery reader, marking the final bow of Christies beloved sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. Now […]
When Dowan Purcell, a respected physician who operates a nursing home, disappears, his ex-wife hires Santa Teresa PI Kinsey Millhone to look into it. Fiona Purcell is still seething over Dows affair and subsequent marriage to Crystal, a former stripper, yet theyre still friends, and she seems worried. But when his body is discovered, shes […]
actually takes us back to the era of her first book, The Beekeepers Apprentice. Perhaps King was afraid that her characters, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, were becoming too cozy as an old married couple, and she wanted to recreate the edgy sexual tension of their first encounter. Its 1918. Nineteen-year-old Mary and her fiftysomething […]
“The Moonstone is a page-turner,” writes Carolyn Heilbrun. “It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular.” Wilkie Collins??s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre??the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally […]
Virginias chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is getting ready for a romantic holiday with her retired-FBI-profiler boyfriend, Benton Wesley, when she receives a cryptic and foreboding letter: “Hey DOC, Tick Tock, Sawed bone and fire,” it begins. Even more creepy, the taunting note has been signed by Carrie Grethen, the psychotic killer Kay helped […]
The New York Times Bestseller Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante??s Inferno. Only an elite group of America??s first Dante scholars??Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields??can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante??s literary future […]
Thirty-four years ago, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the annual Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again. In the small California town of Serena Station, tongues wagged. Some said shed run off with a lover. Some said she was murdered by her husband. But for the not-quite-seven-year-old […]
On the platform of a London Tube Station Anne Beddingfeld watches in horror as a man looks in her direction, panics, falls on to the tracks and is killed. But who is the mysterious man in the brown suit who comes forward claiming to be a doctor? And what connection does he have to the […]
Heather Wells Rocks! Or, at least, she did. That was before she left the pop-idol life behind after she gained a dress size or two ?? and lost a boyfriend, a recording contract, and her life savings (when Mom took the money and ran off to Argentina). Now that the glamour and glory days of […]
Virginia Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta has a bloody puzzle on her hands: five headless, limbless cadavers in Ireland, plus four similar victims in a landfill back home. Is a serial butcher loose in Virginia? Thats what the panicked public thinks, thanks to a local TV reporter who got the leaked news from her boyfriend, Scarpettas […]