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 […]
In a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up to the curb…Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most sought-after dead body […]
Hard to believe, but there was a time when the word “lawyer” wasnt synonymous with “criminal,” and the idea of a law firm controlled by the Mafia was an outlandish proposition. This intelligent, ensnaring story came out of nowhere–Oxford, Mississippi, where Grisham was a small-town lawyer–and quickly catapulted to the top of the bestseller list, […]
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are collaborating, cooperating, competingand they are working coast to coast.
In what may be her most unsettling novel to date, Sue Graftons T is for Trespass is also her most direct confrontation with the forces of evil. Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of a private eye, Grafton suddenly shifts from the voice of Kinsey Millhone to that of Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a […]
Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, shes seen it all – and knows that her survival depends on her instincts. And shes going against every warning telling her not to get involved with Roarke, an Irish billionaire – and suspect in […]
Barcelona, 1945??A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax??s other books, it begins to dawn on […]
In his new book, Microsoft chairman and CEO Bill Gates discusses how technology can help run businesses better today and how it will transform the nature of business in the near future. Gates stresses the need for managers to view technology not as overhead but as a strategic asset, and offers detailed examples from Microsoft, […]
A uniquely brilliant book . . . told in language as subtly beautiful as its desert setting. One of the most important pieces of American writing of our time Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life […]