A winning new novel from the bestselling author of The Sixteen Pleasures---whose engaging, emotionally true characters could be right at home in the stories of Alice Munro or Bobbie Ann Mason.

Troy Chance returns in another riveting novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Learning to Swim   Freelance writer Troy Chance is snapping photos of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace when the ice-cutting machin...

When she sees what looks like a child tumbling from a ferry into frigid Lake Champlain, Troy Chance dives after him without thinking. When she gets the child to shore she discovers that his name is Paul, he speaks only French — and ...

Frank Herbert's last published novel, a charming and witty science fiction adventure coauthored with his son Brian. What if the entire universe were the creation of alien minds? After an unfortunate spaceship accident, the hedonistic ...

A fascinating examination of the fragile balance between consciousness, man, and insect from one of the best-loved science fiction creators of all time.

On the eve of battle, passions are running high.…"A brilliant achievement…vivid, accurate, dramatic…the description of Waterloo is magnificent." —Daily Mail"My favorite historical novelist." —Margaret Dra...

An elegant card party turns deadly.…Inspector Hemingway has his work cut out for him when a seemingly civilized game of Duplicate Bridge leads to a double murder. The crimes seem identical, but were they carried out by the same hand...

Tragedy befalls the Carter family following an eventful visit from a Russian prince and a scandalous blackmail letterThe superlatively analytical Inspector Hemingway is confronted by a murder that seems impossible—no one was near th...

A family tyrant whose murder has shocking and far-reaching consequences....Hated for his cruel and vicious nature, ruling his family with an iron hand from his sickbed, tyrannical patriarch Adam Penhallow is found murdered the day bef...

When Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, first meets Phoebe Marlow, he finds her dull and insipid. She thinks he is insufferably arrogant. But when a series of unforeseen events leads them to be stranded together in a lonely country inn, ...

"Jack Higgins has written some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years," wrote the San Diego Union-Tribune, and The Strand Magazine agreed: "With fresh plots, interesting characters and vibrant settings, Ja...

No one becomes a contract killer and expects to hang around to collect a pension. Sooner or later, even the best makes mistakes. Even Martin Fallon, the most ruthless of them all… Fallon was the best you could get with a gun in hi...

After a long night on the job, Detective Sergeant Nick Miller is on his way home – only to become the first policeman at the scene of a young women's mysterious suicide. What's odd is that it appears she tried to conceal her identit...

The Organization was all-powerful, and the Baron's word was law. A sinister villain's network, raking profits from all fields of crime. But one man is ready to storm them, and bring 'Babylon' crashing down... For Harry Youngblood, it ...

Half British and half Arab, Paul Rashid is proud to be both heir to the ancient Dauncey Place in England and the leader of the Rashid Bedouin of Hazar in the Persian Gulf. So when he uncovers a conspiracy to deprive his family of thei...

EAST OF DESOLATIONJoe Martin had been on many salvage operations, but his gut feeling told him this one was different. The insurance company and the beautiful widow of the dead pilot had hired him to find out what he could about the c...

The plan for the invasion of Hitler's channel stronghold is the Allies' greatest secret. So when Colonel Hugh Kelso is pulled from the sea off German-occupied Jersey a crisis erupts as he knows the exact details of the invasion. The A...

Harry Manning fled Cuba for the Bahamas to escape the chaos of the Revolution; to find solace in a bottle of rum and comfort in the arms of his girlfriend, Maria. But when Cuban terrorists bomb a plane in which Maria is traveling, Man...

Mark Hagen's streak of bad luck left him broke, despondent, and barely able to eke out a living smuggling guns in Macao. But things begin to look up when Hagen gets a lead on a bounty of gold, lying untouched at the bottom of a lagoon...

It's August 1944 and as the Allied forces gain momentum in Europe, a group of loyal German expatriates trapped in Brazil hatch a desperate plan to return to the Motherland. Twenty-seven of them crowd aboard a 19th century, three-mast ...

By the end of 1943, all evidence of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill has been carefully buried in an unmarked grave in the Norfolk village of Studley Constable. But two of the most wanted ringleaders are st...

Before the sun can set on Jack Drummond's career as a pilot in the British Navy, he must complete one final flight — a weapons drop over Tibet to aid guerilla fighters in their border dispute with the Red Chinese. But before he can ...

British expatriate Paul Chavasse is about as tough as they come. For years, he has made a dangerous living running men and intelligence across the Adriatic Sea from Italy to the communist country of Albania. But his ideals are about t...

Locals call it the Rio das Mortes―the treacherous Brazilian river where the Huna tribe is known to kill all who trespass. Despite the river's deadly reputation, pilot Neil Mallory agrees to fly supplies to outposts there in hopes of...

In 1969, Jake Cazalet saved the life of a Frenchwoman in Vietnam, and a brief, passionate affair ensued. Years later in Paris, he was introduced to another beautiful young woman - his daughter. For many reasons, their relationship rem...

Seven years ago, Sean Rogan's dedication to the Irish Republican Army landed him in a high-security prison. When the organization needs his help again, Rogan stages a daring jailbreak, determined to intercept an armored truck and deli...

On Long Island, a trusted operative for the President nudges his boat up to a pier, when a man materializes out of the rain and shoots him. In London, General Charles Ferguson, adviser to the Prime Minister, approaches his car on a si...

In 1992, the wreck of Nazi leader Martin Bormann's submarine is discovered in the Caribbean--along with a secret list of Nazi sympathizers. The names include high-level citizens from the U.S. and Great Britain, but the evidence is at ...

1940. Hitler's terrifying war machine will soon roll through England, and in its wake Hitler plans to enthrone puppet monarchs under Nazi control. For these roles he demands none other than the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor. B...

Faith Holland left her hometown after being jilted at the altar. Now a little older and wiser, she's ready to return to the Blue Heron Winery, her family's vineyard, to confront the ghosts of her past, and maybe enjoy a glass of re...