Dr. Miranda Jones is called to Italy to secure theauthenticity of a valuable Renaissance sculpture. There she meets agorgeous art thief. But when dangerous sparks of passion begin tofly, Miranda finds herself in more trouble than she'd packedfor.

Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubledpast who's now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as heragent. Myron, who's also got the hottest young male tennis star,Duane Richwood, primed to take his first grand slam tournament,couldn't be happier. That is, until Valerie is murdered in broaddaylight at the U.S. Open and Myron's number one client becomes thenumber one suspect. Clearing Duane's name should be easy enough.Duane was playing in a match at the time of Valerie's death. Butwhy is his phone number in Valerie's black book when he claims onlyto have known her in passing? Why was she calling him from a phonebooth on the street? The police stop caring once they pin themurder on a man known for having stalked Valerie and seen talkingto her moments before the murder. But Myron isn't satisfied. Itseems too clean for him. Myron pries a bit and finds himself pryingopen the past where six years before, Valerie's fiancee, the son ofa senator, was brutally murdered by a juvenile del

When a female loan shark is attacked and left for dead,vampire Glory St. Clair turns her into one of the undead to saveher. But Lucky's flamboyant behavior is not only drawing everyvampire hunter within miles-its bringing her would-be killer out ofhiding, too.

The latest "New York Times" bestseller by "America's mostpopular suspense novelist" ("Rolling Stone") is the story ofHollywood's most dazzling star whose perfectly ordered life isunder siege by an insidious killer.

Havana may be far from Washington, but DC power brokers arenever far from Havana. Neither are danger, deception, and suddendeath. That’s what draws Max Pauling there. As an ex-CIA, ex-StateDepartment employee, he faces an uneventful early retirement–untilhe is asked to secretly fly some medical supplies into themysterious Cuban city. If Max is looking for excitement, he finds it.First there’s his contact, a breathtaking beauty with private plansof her own. Then there’s a former senator, in Havana to ease theU.S. embargo, but who may have another, more malevolent, mission.Throw in endless supplies of under-the-table money– not to mentiona murder–and Max has landed in a place even more corrupt . . . andmore compelling . . . than the U.S. capital itself.

The Watergate in Washington, D.C., is one of the world's mostfamous addresses--although not everyone knows exactly what it is.This imposing, fabulous complex is made up of a hotel, residences,restaurants, offices, shops, and more. It is a haven for the famousafter they break out and, on occasion, for the infamous when theybreak in. Its very name has become part of our history. Margaret Truman, herself the bearer of one of the world's mostfamous names, knows Washington's ins and outs, including who is"in" and who is "out." In this absorbing, timely Capital Crimesmystery, she shows us around this fascinating city that isAmerica's center of power and--some would say--corruption. Some ofthose who are "out" here are very dead indeed. The glittering cast of characters includes Vice President JoeAprile, who plans to become president, if he can avoid a temptingvice; a glamorous Washington hostess and fund-raiser, ElfieDorrance, with a propensity for marrying rich and powerful men andthen grieving p

Let number-one New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts fly you into Lunacy, Alaska, and into a colorful, compelling new novel about two lonely souls who find love - and redemtion... Lunacy was Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he'd watched his partner die on the street - and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts the job as chief of police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town, where the peace provides a balm for his shattered soul - and an unexpected affair with pilot Meg Galloway warms his nights... But other things in Lunacy are heating up. Nate suspects the killer in an unsolved murder still walks the snowy streets. His investigation will unearth the secrets and suspicions that lurk beneath the placid surface, as well as bring out the big-city survival instincts that made him a cop in the first place. And his discovery will threaten the new life - and the new love - that he has finally found for herself.

Roses link four novellas by four romance writers. The best isRoberts' powerful fairy tale of a kingdom imprisoned in ice andsnow that features a wounded hero from another land who appreciatesall that the young hardworking queen does for her people, evenrisking her own life to magically heal those who need it. MarianneWillman's story is about the daughter of a king hidden from theevil sorceress queen by means of an amulet forged with rose petals.Jill Gregory's tale is of a princess who, upon her twentiethbirthday, will lose the protection that has kept her hidden fromthe evil sorcerer who had slain her family. Her only hope ofsurviving is to marry a man with a magical sword. Ruth Ryan Langantells of a mute girl in war-torn Scotland and a wounded warrior. Aswith all collections, some stories will appeal more to some readersthan to others. Diana Tixier Herald。

Corine Solomon is a handlerawhen she touches an object sheinstantly knows its history and its future. Using her ability, shecan find the missingawhich is why people never stop trying to findher. Like her ex-boyfriend Chance, who needs Corineas gift to findsomeone dear to them both. But the search proves dangerous as itleads them into a strange world of demons and sorcerers, ghosts andwitchcraft, zombiesaand black magic...

In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman haskept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acuteadventures of Dr. Alex Delaware-and with excursions through the rawunderside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of the criminal mind.""Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as Delaware and LAPDhomicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying crime from thepast that has taken on shocking and deadly new dimensions. TroyTurner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnappedand murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, diedviolently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed tosurvive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged ahaunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk-onceagain-with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comesto a brutal end, that conversation never takes place. Has karmacaught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient yearsto dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities toStur

In the small coastal town of Fog Horn, South Carolina, you'llfind plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells, and even a few celebstrying to duck the paparazzi. But when townspeople start turning updead with haiku poems left with the bodies, writer Olivia Limogesand the Fog Horn Fiction Group are determined to get the storybefore there's an unhappy surprise ending.

Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor takes center stage inbestseller Kellerman's elaborate, suspenseful, albeit improbable,thriller. Connor, who assisted Kellerman's main series detective,psychologist Alex Delaware, in 2003's A Cold Heart, proves anengaging protagonist, fully capable of carrying a story on her own.She's investigating a seemingly random drive-by shooting thatclaimed four teenage victims when a precocious 22-year-old graduatestudent intern, Isaac Gomez, presents her with evidence that aserial killer has struck on the same day, June 28, every year forthe past six years. Though his proof relies entirely on astatistical analysis he's performed, his unquestioned brillianceprompts Connor to do a little extracurricular digging that turns upsuggestive clues supporting Gomez's theory. Meanwhile, afterdoggedly pursuing even the slightest lead in the drive-by shootingcase, Connor suspects that one of the victims, perhaps the one whowasn't claimed by any next-of-kin, was deliberately targeted. While

Donna Leonas mastery of plot, her understanding of Venetianmanners and mores, and above all her philosophical, unfailinglydecent protagonist have made the Commissario Brunetti mysteriesbestsellers around the world, including an ever-growing Americanaudience. In "The Death of Faith," Brunetti comes to the aid of ayoung nursing sister who is leaving her convent following theunexpected death of five patients. At first Brunettias inquiriesreveal nothing amiss, and he wonders whether the nun is simplycreating a smoke screen to justify abandoning her vocation. Butperhaps she has stumbled onto something very real and verysinisterasomething that puts her life in imminent danger.

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in theheart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America'spremier writer of psychological suspense, the author of tensuccessive New York Times bestsellers. Three months inparadise, all expenses paid. It's an invitation Alex Delawarecan't refuse. Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, a reveredscientist and philanthropist on the tiny Pacific island of Aruk,has invited Alex to his home to help him organize his papers forpublication-- a light workload leaving Alex plenty of time to enjoya romantic interlude with Robin Castagna. Quickly, however, secretive houseguests, frightening nocturnalvisitors, and the elusive Dr. Moreland himself dim the pleasures ofdeep blue water and white sand. The cases Moreland chooses to share--a patient driven to madnessby a cruel, unspeakable act; a man who succumbed forty years ago toradiation poisoning after a nuclear blast; a young woman, brutallymurdered, whose mutilated body was found on the beach j

A brand-new thriller from internationally bestselling JonathanKellerman TRUE DETECTIVES follows Moe Reed and Aaron Fox on thetwisted trail of a missing girl, a dark, baffling whodunit thatforces the brothers to put aside their mutual animus -- and toconfront the unresolved family mystery that turned them intoenemies. PIs can do things, legally, that cops can't. And cops haveaccess to resources denied their private counterparts. Only bypooling their efforts -- and by consulting a man both brothersrespect, psychologist Alex Delaware, do Fox and Reed stand a chanceof peeling back the secrets in high places that explain the fate ofan outwardly innocent young woman. And, by doing so, the brotherslearn about much more than murder.

Undeniably powerful, an enormously affecting and intenselyhuman story. --The Washington Post Book World "A GUT-WRENCHING PIECE OF WORK. . . Carcaterra's graphic narrativegrips like gunfire in a dark alley." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution "In his controversial memoir SLEEPERS, Carcaterra remembersharrowing months in the Wilkinson Home for Boys and the elaboratevengeance he and his friends exacted against the guards. He tellsit all in spare, stylish prose . . . [with] relentless momentum andsheer drama. . . . SLEEPERS is a thriller, to be sure, but it isequally a wistful hymn to another age." --The Washington Post Book World "A TERRIFYING ACCOUNT OF BRUTALITY AND RETRIBUTION, searing in itsemotional truth, peopled with murderers, sadists, and thugs, butbiblical in its passion and scope." --People "SLEEPERS is so many things: a Dickensian portrait of coming of agein Hell's Kitchen, a terrifying and heartbreaking account of thebrutalization of youth, a shocking--and disturbinglysatisfying--climax worthy of

Three women discover friendship, love, and a shocking secretright in their own backyard.

Once it was a swamp. Now Foggy Bottom is swimming with real-estate sharks. When a man is found stabbed to death in this trendy D.C. neighborhood, it is major news. But within forty-eight hours the nation is gripped by a fear that leaves this comparatively small crime in the dark. Three passenger planes are shot out of the sky. Everywhere in law enforcement, in the media, and in the most secret realms of government men and women scramble to find out who shot hand-held missiles at the planes, and why. It is a search that reaches from Moscow to the Pacific Northwest, putting some people s lives in jeopardy and turning others lives inside out. But no one can guess the truth: that the epicenter of the terrorist outbreak is Washington D.C. . . . and a dead man behind a park bench in a place called Foggy Bottom

He died beneath the Statue of Freedom, clutching a 9-mm pistolin his hand. But as dawn rose, the politician would die again--in ahail of rumor and character assassination. Now one man suspects the shattering truth: that the congressman'ssuicide was a carefully planned murder. In the heart of the freeworld, a furious struggle begins: to reclaim a man's innocence,expose a woman's lie, and stop a chilling conspiracy of murder thatreaches halfway around the world. . . .

Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty- six, gazed out a moonlitwindow, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley homeof her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderoussociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent onkilling everyone inside. A self-proclaimed "homicidal adventure,"Vess lives only to satisfy all appetites as they arise, to immensehimself in sensation, to live without fear, remorse or limits, tolive with intensity. Chyna is trapped in his deadly orbit. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safetyand self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At firsther sole aim is to get out alive-until, by chance, she learns theidentity of Vess's next intended victim, a faraway innocent onlyshe can save. Driven by a newly discovered thirst for meaningbeyond mere self-preservation, Chyna musters every inner resourceshe has to save an endangered girl—as moment by moment, theterrifying threat Edgler Foreman Vess intensifies.

Undead fathers really do know best... To prove her journalisticchops, Libby Monroe ends up in Broken Heart, Oklahoma, chasing downbizarre rumors of strange goings-onaand finding vampires,lycanthropes, and zombies. She never expects to fall in lust withone of them, but vampire/single dad Ralph Genessa is tooirresistible. Only the town is being torn in two by a war betweenthe undeadaand Libby may be the only thing that can hold BrokenHeart togethera]