Titles starting with L from Book Castle

When Stone Barrington's erstwhile lover, Arrington Calder, phones him to say that her husband has been murdered and she's been accused of the crime, Stone immediately goes to Los Angeles to find the real killer and exonerate Arrington. Arrington's husband, Vance, was a movie star, and the couple's glamorous Hollywood milieu gives Stone ample opportunity to indulge his playboy tendencies while he seeks the murderer.

The eighth book in the Elvis Cole mystery series probes into the life and trials of Joe Pike, Cole's loyal sidekick. As we follow Pike through his investigation of a string of grisly murders, a series of flashbacks uncover his past life as an abused child, a troubled teenager, and an L.A. policeman bent on protecting his family from a corrupt partner. When Pike is pegged as the prime suspect for the crimes he is investigating, Cole begins work on his exoneration. Nominated for the 1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.

Kinsey Millhone, who sometimes lies "just to keep up my skills," is about to meet her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevarications who quite literally take her on the ride of her life. Quick-witted, smart-mouthed private eye Millhone joins up with a modern day Bonnie and Clyde in an adventure that will take her halfway across the country and leave her with an empty bank balance and a major headache.

Stories from the 14 winners of the 1994 L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.

Dante's "Vita Nuova", written in 1292, is heavily influenced by the courtly love tradition. In it, Dante records the story of his lifelong Platonic passion for Beatrice Portinari, whom he met when she was 9 and he was 10.