Titles starting with L from The Cracked Book, LLC

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.

A mystical quest for the Grail serves as the focus of this polished and suspenseful literary thriller. Alice Tanner, a volunteer on an archaeological dig high in the Pyrenees, inadvertently unblocks the entrance to a mountain cave, where she finds two skeletons, one of which bears a stone ring carved with a labyrinth pattern. The discovery awakens a mysterious connection between Alice and the similarly-named Alais, a 13th-century young Frenchwoman guarding a book holding encrypted information about the Grail. Just as Alais must keep the book safe from the Crusaders besieging her town of Carcassone, the present-day Alice must also keep the Grail secrets from falling into the wrong hands.

Delia Grinstead, a 40-year-old mother of three almost-grown children, abandons her family impulsively in search of an entirely new life a few miles from home, becoming secretary to a lawyer. Gradually, she begins to return to her old life--first for her daughter's wedding, then for small occasions, finding that the people she left behind have changed as much as she has.

In an Orthodox Jewish community in Memphis, Batsheva Jacobs, a young widow, is a flamboyant, unconventional misfit. When she is accused of influencing a young girl to run away with her non-Jewish boyfriend, the community's strong and inflexible traditions are threatened.

Taking as her inspiration the famous "Lady and the Unicorn" tapestries (which date from the 16th century), Tracy Chevalier writes a deeply researched historical novel about their creation, going into the minds and lives of the men who designed and executed the tapestries as well as the into the events of the time.

Married for just a few days before her husband died, Delia Effington can honestly say she didn't know everything about him. And that included the fact that he was a spy for the English government. Delia also doesn't know that her butler is actually an undercover government agent, Viscount Tony St. Stephens. As Tony works to find out if Delia murdered her husband, he is distracted by the fact that he is falling in love with her.

In this bestselling mystery from author Lisa Scottoline, attorney Mary DiNunzio is asked to help a former high school classmate who is trapped in an abusive relationship.

In this lusty historical romance, a woman poses as a nun so that a handsome Earl will help her to outrun her captors.