Private detective Kinsey Millhone is hired by a grieving mother whose daughter was killed under mysterious circumstances. When the police are unable to locate suspects, Kinsey's search takes her from the mansions of the wealthy to the dens of prostitutes.

One of Ginsberg's most celebrated and important volumes, KADDISH AND OTHER POEMS was first published in 1961. An elegy to the memory of his mother, who died in a mental hospital in 1956, the poem "Kaddish" is a novel-like evocation not only of the illness of a beloved woman but of a family and a way of life.

Kathi Diamant is no relation to the subject of her study, but she tackled the subject of Kafka's relationship with Dora Diamant because it has, she feels, been slighted by other biographers. As Kafka wasted away with tuberculosis, Dora--an actress, ex-Hasidic, and Zionist activist--helped him endure his sufferings and even have hope for a brighter future.

In her fourth outing, Precious Ramotswe and her company, the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, faces a new challenge in the form of competition, the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency, on the other side of town.

Gilman's sleuthing psychic Madame Karitska returns. In KALEIDOSCOPE, she must unravel the shocking truth behind the death of a gifted violinist.

In France during World War II, Inspector Jean-Louis St.-Cyr and Gestapo commander Hermann Kohler investigate the murder of a young woman who was dealing in black market goods.

In the mid-19th century, a megalomaniacal young English officer named Gideon Barr establishes a kingdom for himself on an island in the Malaysian archipelago. The narrative shifts from Barr, to his ruthless sidekick and cousin Richard Hogg, to his innocent 18-year-old bride. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

Returning to the sorts of linguistic and semiotic investigations for which he was famous before he became a best-selling novelist, Eco here reconsiders Kant in the light of recent developments in cognitive science in order to offer theories about how we engage with the world around us, how we understand what we see, read, and hear even when we're presented with new information.

An attorney commits suicide on private investigator Kat Colorado's watch, triggering her investigation into a ruthless blackmailing scheme.

Narrated by a woman who has lived a long and tumultuous life, this novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published in 1986.

A young woman named Paige Morrell asks Kat to help unravel her past. While Paige claims to be an orphan on the brink of becoming an heiress, she is harboring some dangerous secrets that may put her life--and Kat's--in jeopardy.

Keats, with presentiments of his early death, worked with single-minded dedication once he began writing poetry at the age of 18. He began a rigorous training period during which he studied the great poets who preceded him, and in his November 1817 poem, "Sleep and Poetry", he wrote: "O for ten years, that I may overwhelm/Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed/That my own soul has to itself decreed." Alas, he was to have only three years before he became ill with the tuberculosis that would finally kill him at 25. Keats is celebrated for his sensual imagery, his intense identification with the things he wrote about, and the beauty of his language, which has often been compared to Shakespeare's.

Following the Norman conquest, the foster-daughter of a Saxon seeress dedicates her life to the Goddess of the Crystal Spring. Her life becomes complicated when she attracts the affections of a friend and fellow Saxon, as well as the son of the Norman lord of the land. The love triangle that follows will have a major impact on not only the lives of those involved, but the very history of the land in which they live.