A Wall Street Journal reporter investigates the intrigue between owners and prospective buyers of the the Empire State Building--the Helmsleys, Donald Trump, and foreign businessmen.

Bo Bradley is always battling her manic depression, but when her faithful dog, Mildred, dies, she takes a turn for the worse. Recuperating at the Ghost Flower Lodge hasn't been very relaxing because someone keeps calling her and playing yelping dog tapes over the phone. Then her friend and fellow patient Mort Wagman is murdered. Bo's left with Mort's six-year-old son, an orphan with an attention deficit disorder. She has to find a home for him while trying to figure out who killed Mort, and who is harassing her.

When Natalie is 13, she meets 14-year-old Mark and his rather unusual family. Devotees of a cult named after a Finnish church figure named Envall, they have eschewed any kind of image, including television and works of art. The very differently-raised Natalie is drawn to their strange household and becomes so close to Mark and his parents that they take her on a vacation with them. Years later, when Natalie is a professor who specializes in the history of Envallism, the events of that vacation are revealed, along with the horrible consequences for Natalie.

Tensions are running high at a ballet company that is putting together a piece based on GREAT EXPECTATIONS. When one of the lead dancers dies, the cops thinks it's a suicide, but literary consultant and novelist Juliet Cherry knows it's murder, and she sets out to prove it.

A brash young male doctor and a female pathologist, both of whom have come to the same small West Virginia town in the wake of personal tragedies, discover a strange, terrifying disease afflicting the local population.

The ninth book in Sara Paretsky's popular V.I. Warshawski series has the tough, street-savvy private investigator doing time in a women's maximum security prison for the alleged kidnapping of a security magnate's neglected son. She makes the most of her sentence, investigating the death of an ex-housekeeper-turned-convict, who, last seen in the prison's infirmary, was brutally beaten and mysteriously left to die on the streets of her old neighborhood.