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.

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

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

Allen Carmichael has been living on the edges of society since returning from Viet Nam. He has built himself a reputation by rescuing women and children from abusive relationships, but now, at 50, he is set to retire. When he takes one final case, though, things go disastrously wrong, and both Allen and the boy he is trying to save find themselves on the run from a very dangerous foe.

When a performance artist is murdered at Avril Koozeman's hip gallery, Sgt. Kathy Mallory finds that the crime is linked to a twelve-year-old unsolved murder that her deceased father, a police inspector, once investigated.

Kate Shugak encounters murder in the Alaskan fishing industry in her eighth mystery. When contemptible, foul-mouthed fisherman Calvin Meany gets his due from someone who couldn't resist mutilating his dead body, most of the citizens of Cordova are pleased he's dead. But who would have killed him so viciously?

The year is 2023, five years after the assassination of President Emily Forrester, and Dr. Gideon Wolfe is a criminologist and professor in New York City. He is visited by the widow of a murdered man who wants Gideon to track down her husband's killers. She provides him with a computer disk containing a video of the president's assassination--a video that proves that the official version of the event has been doctored, perhaps by her husband, who was a special-effects genius. This work of "future history" is by the author the the best selling novel THE ALIENIST.

Paul Trilby has experienced a series of disasters: he lost his prestigious teaching job, his wife left him when she found out he was having a liaison with a student, he has moved to Texas, and he's working as an eight-dollar-an-hour temp typist at something called the Texas Department of General Services. He has acquired a girlfriend, but otherwise Texas promises to be even more of a disaster than his life up north. What's with the ceiling noises in the men's room? And the secret society that wants to admit him? And what really caused the death of the guy in the next cube? In KINGS OF INFINITE SPACE, James Hynes sheds new light on the reasons why work can be hell.

Jess and Sophie are enamored with their life of naughty sex and disposable jobs; after all, they have each other. Then chilly sophisticated Lena moves in with the couple, and their lives begin to spiral uncontrollably amidst an urban milieu of late-night clubs and a decadent art scene.

Best-selling author Sam Bayer is in a bit of a rut. He's bitter over his third divorce, writing has become tedious, and he's got no inspiration for his latest novel--which is way overdue. So Sam returns to his hometown of Crane's View, New York, where inspiration strikes in the form of a 20-year-old unsolved murder. But as Sam uncovers secrets buried deep in the past, the murderer reappears, and Sam and his 15-year-old daughter come face to face with terror.

Pearl gradually comes to understand her mother Jiang Weili (Winnie) as a heroic survivor, not a troublesome anachronism, as they begin to reveal secrets about themselves to one another. Winnie tells the story of how she escaped a horrible marriage to a cowardly fighter pilot in the Sino-Japanese war and how he may or may not be Pearl's father. Meanwhile Pearl gathers the strength confide her great secret, that she has multiple sclerosis, to her mother.

Pearl gradually comes to understand her mother Jiang Weili (Winnie) as a heroic survivor, not a troublesome anachronism, as they begin to reveal secrets about themselves to one another. Winnie tells the story of how she escaped a horrible marriage to a cowardly fighter pilot in the Sino-Japanese war and how he may or may not be Pearl's father. Meanwhile Pearl gathers the strength confide her great secret, that she has multiple sclerosis, to her mother.