Kinsey Milhone investigates the death of sheriff's investigator Tom Newquist in the tiny California haven of Nota Lake.

Through a series of comic anecdotes, quirky essayist David Sedaris touches on the highlights of his life to date, including his cross-country hitchhiking trip; his discovery of Shakespeare in rural North Carolina; his various odd jobs as a migrant fruit picker, a jade polisher, and a woodwork refinisher; a family Christmas Eve spent with a prostitute fresh out of jail; and his trip to a nudist colony.

Originally published in "The Miami Herald", this comic novel of suspense was penned serially by 13 writers associated with Florida. The authors, including Elmore Leonard, Dave Barry, and Edna Buchanan, each added a chapter before passing along the manuscript to the next in line.

When the owner of a luxurious health spa is killed, guest Caroline Blessing must solve the murder. Thirteen female crime novelists contributed to this mystery novel. The title echoes that of NAKED CAME THE STRANGER, the famous round-robin mystery written by Newsday staffers in the '60s.

This is the eighth volume in Goodkind's Sword of Truth series.

"Naked in the Ice" is the book that propelled author Kathleen Darcy to fame. Now her estate is looking for a writer to pen the sequel. Jacqueline Kirby inherits Kathleen's pen, and with it, portions of Kathleen's life, including her ex-lover, her papers...and maybe the method of Kathleen's untimely death.

Despite his recent move up the promotion ladder, Lucas Davenport is still plagued by ugly crimes. This time (his 13th appearance), the bodies of a man and women, one black and one white, turn up hanging from a tree in the woods, both corpses stripped bare.

After the hero's girlfriend commits suicide, he desperately looks for answers--first in the bars of Manhattan, then in the bosom of his New Jersey family, finally within himself.

A Vietnam veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder is unable to relate to anyone who didn't share his experience in the war. When his wife leaves him, he begins an affair with a woman who is as troubled emotionally as he is. Meanwhile, a patient at the VA hospital where he volunteers as a therapist stalks him and wishes to kill him.