The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Island of Lost Girls and Promise Not to Tell returns with a chilling novel in which the secrets of the past come back to haunt a group of...
In this classic of literary nonfiction, Annie Dillard takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes...
This luminous tale filled with honesty and love charts the lives of sisters who find their curse and their salvation on the street where they live. One fateful summer they create their own...
A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Kate Summerscale
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection,...
From the luxuries of court to the last gory years of King Henry's rule, Catherine Parr was the least known of Henry VIII's six wives, but the cleverest of them all. Alluring, witty, and resourceful,...
In 1965, the dogged Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico is assigned to solve what appears to be a single murder. Part of a young woman’s body has turned up at one of the world’s leading neurological...
Mace Perry was a cop and then a detective working narcotics...until she was kidnapped, and set up by her abductors to look like a criminal herself. She lost her job, her house, and finally her...
Leon Courtney guides rich and powerful men from America and Europe on big game safaris in the territories of the Masai tribe. One of Leon's clients is Count Otto Von Meerbach, a German industrialist...
It's Christmastime in Pine Cove. Lena Marquez rings the bell for the Salvation Army, and when ex-husband Dale Pearson won't part with his pocket change, she decides to exact revenge. Meanwhile,...
