A Native American trained in tracking and hiding, Jane Whitefield's job is to make people disappear. Jane's latest client is a boy-millionaire whose parents were murdered for the money that now belongs to their son.

This fictionalized biography of the dancer Rudolf Nureyev (1938-93), begins with his childhood as a young dancer entertaining the troops in World War II, follows his career with the Kirov in Leningrad, and finally recounts the circumstances of his defection to the West, after which he became an international idol and died, finally, of AIDS in January 1993.

One of Dick's most autobiographical works, "Confessions..." follows the life of Jack Isidore, a man who collects crazy ideas as a substitute for inaction with other people. His sister and her husband try to help him, but it becomes clear, to Jack anyway, that they are plagued by a least as many problems as he.

Fred Astaire needs Toby Peters help with a dancing matter. A mobster wants Fred to give his girlfriend dancing lessons, but Fred wants no part of it. When murder enters the picture, Toby needs to do some fancy footwork to stay alive.

Juanita's grown children have been a disappointment to her, and she takes solace in fantasizing about a better life than the one she is leading in the projects in an Ohio city. She finally decides to take off, leaving her troubles behind, and the decision pays off when she gets a job in a diner in the town of Paper Moon, Montana, and meets the reliable and soon-smitten Jess.

In the 23rd Sharon McCone mystery, her San Francisco PI agency, McCone Investigations, is enjoying unprecedented success until it becomes the target of a vendetta. Julia Rafael, McCone's newest employee and a former juvenile delinquent who has supposedly turned her life around, is accused of stealing the credit card of Alex Aguilar, a city supervisor planning a run for mayor. When McCone learns her own PI license may be suspended in response to Julia's alleged crime, she realizes that someone is out to get both her and McCone Investigations.