The panoramic novel takes place in the 1870s, and focuses on a writer named William Rackham who is married to the sickly, depressed Agnes but is so enamored of a prostitute named Sugar that he hires her as governess for his daughter. Around these characters, the tumult of Victorian London is revealed as the story spirals into a tale of ambition, love, and revenge. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

The discovery of a bricked-up skeleton in a partially demolished brownstone is a scenario straight out of Edgar Allan Poe. What makes the find more amazing is the fact that the building is actually one of Poe's former residences. Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper pursues the connections from the skeleton to the 19th-century writer, and to the resurgence of a long-dormant perpetrator, the Silk Stocking Rapist, who has now begun murdering his victims. This is the seventh novel in a series.

Alexandra Cooper is the assistant district attorney in charge of Manhattan's sex crime prosecution. Alex is shocked one morning to read her own obituary in the headlines, when it is really movie star Isabella Lascar who has been killed--in Alex's summer home on Martha's Vineyard. As a prosecutor who has tried many high-profile cases, Alex has made a lot of enemies. The search for Isabella's killer goes on while Alex continues with witness and victim interviews, serial rape investigations, and late night meetings with cops and detectives that are as much a part of her life as uptown social rounds.

The author of BACKLASH: The Undeclared War Against American Women turns her attention to the problems of the American male. She shows how social forces have left men in a corner and how traditional values and views of masculinity have not helped matters. Faludi bolsters her case through interviews with men from all walks of life and levels of society. Included is her article on the Citadel which ran in the New Yorker magazine.

The third book of the "Dayworld" series, in which the population of the Earth has increased so much that people are forced to timeshare their lives, only allowed to "live" one day a week. Jefferson Caird, a daybreaker (one who inhabits seven different personalities in order to defy the government's timeshare regulations), struggles to stay alive and keep sane, as government agents hunt him down to forcibly brainwash him.

"Red Orc's Rage", while not an actual part of the World of Tiers series, explores the mind of the Red Orc behind the relative safety of a fictional psychiatrist's theories.

The Montreal police force's star detective, Emile Cinq-Mars, investigates a spate of mysterious deaths and finds a powerful biotech company behind them.