Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.Sweeping and lyrical, spellbinding and unforgettable, David Ebershoff's The 19th Wife combines epic historical fiction with a modern murder mystery to create...
Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim discovered in a high lonely place -- a corpse with a mouth full of sand, abandoned at a crime scene seemingly devoid of tracks or usef...
Blindman's Bluff (Decker and Lazarus)...
Faye KellermanIn bestseller Kellerman's solid 18th novel to feature L.A. police detective Lt. Peter Decker and his wife, Rina (after The Mercedes Coffin), Rina finds that some jury duty should include hazardous duty pay. A shooting rampage at the 7...
The bestselling author of When The Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over The Edge delivers the most stunning novel yet and featuring psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware. At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist,...
From the Mexico City of Frida Kahlo to the America of J. Edgar Hoover, The Lacuna tells the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations. Born in the United States, but reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shel...
Inside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of the night, they die. Suddenly, inexplicably, horribly. A tough, bright doctor...
At the headquarters of Boston's Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She's not the first to die - nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and the victims have one thing in common: th...
Scat works in marketing. When he devises a killer scheme for promoting a hot new product, he is sure he's on his way up the corporate ladder. But things begin to go in the other direction. This humorous novel is a satire of corporate ...
When someone tries to kill her three decades after being trained as a spy, Sally Gilmartin, a respectable English widow living in a quiet Cotswold village, decides to reveal the truth about her past to her daughter, Ruth, a young sing...
Dear Reader, As most of you probably know by now, I began my career writing series, or category, romance. I am very proud of my roots in romance, and consider myself lucky to have served a solid writing apprenticeship in a genre tha...
The Indwelling: An Experience in Soun...
Tim LaHayeThe Experience in Sound and Drama series of audio products from Left Behind have captured the minds and ears of fiction fans worldwide. Aired on hundreds of radio stations nationwide as well as the worldwide Web, this package of twelv...
Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government ...
Mick Winger is only seventeenand already he's killed over a dozen people. Not on purpose; he never meant to hurt anyone. But when Mick gets angry, people die, even the people he loves the most. Now he's on the run from his own t...
Mycroft Holmes's encoded message to his brother, Sherlock, is unsubtle enough even for Dr. Watson to decipher: a matter concerning the safety of Queen Victoria herself calls them to Edinburgh's Holyrood House to investigate the confou...
A vicious love triangle involving Keith and Carmen, a couple on the verge of divorce, and Keith's lover Billie, a free-spirited biker pregnant with Keith's child, takes on additional tension after Keith and Carmen's 15-year-old daught...
Special agent Blake Johnson has a difficult brief--he must keep the president out of a scandal that threatens to tie U.S. government to a clandestine meeting with the Nazis during World War II. The trouble is that the president's poli...
“Alice Hoffman is my favorite writer.”–Jodi Picoult Alice Hoffman is one of our most beloved writers. Here on Earth was an Oprah Book Club selection. Practical Magic and Aquamarine were both bestselling books and Hol...
On a cold October night, five people gather in a run-down motel on the Jersey shore and begin preparations to break into the Paragon Hotel. Built in the glory days of Asbury Park by a reclusive millionaire, the magnificent structure -...
Returning to her rural hometown of Twin Rivers, Rhode Island, after a fourteen year absence, free-spirited Jane Porter is drawn to Dylan Chadwick, an ex-federal agent and recent returnee fleeing the nightmare of his former life, by an...
Churches outnumber bars 20 to 1 in Greenville, South Carolina--so that's where new-in-town stockbroker Jay Jarvis sets out to meet women. But after a weekend beach retreat with a bevy of bewildering believers--including one particular...
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph CampbellAccording to Joseph Camell, there is only one story in the world, retold in many guises....[he] strips away the masks and shows the Hero to be a cultural code: the universal algorithm for transcending mundane consciousness and pluggin...
The appearance of a corpse in a sarcophagus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art would normally be a surprise, but in this case, since the body is that of a museum employee, things are a little different. A district attorney must penetra...
The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, thefifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass.' So beginsThe Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part acontemporary story of a girl's search for...
Some doctoral candidate is doubtless hard at work as you read this, trying to explain why and how the serial killer suddenly became every thriller writer's favorite subject. Meanwhile, the irrepressible Tami Hoag shows us in her late...
Enter the world of the Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse - and was rumored to be more than half mad - after his wife and two children were kidnapped in 1896 and never found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in 1...
[Munro] continues to perfect her virtuosic formula....While her style typifies the traditionally realistic, often domestic genre..., Munro's stories are also global, big-hearted and warm....One never knows quite where a Munro story wi...
The Slow Regard of Silent Things: A K...
Patrick RothfussDeep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of ...
A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness' which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is ...
Fraa Erasmus is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the Saecular world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and...
They all loved her. That was their mistake. Two husbands, her college fiance, an influential boss every man who gets close to Jordan Price is made to pay in blood. And the list is growing. The more investigator Rick Carson delves into...