On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the HollywoodHills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty yearsearlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirsup memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. Asthe investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautifulrookie cop brings him alive in the present. No official warning canbreak them apart--or prepare Bosch for the explosions when the casetakes a few hard turns. Suddenly all of L.A. is in an uproar, andBosch, fighting to keep control, is driven to the brink of anunimaginable decision.
Lovely, idealistic Tracy Whitney is framed into a fifteen yearsentence in an escape-proof penitentiary. With dazzling ingenuityshe fights back to destroy the untouchable crime lords who put herthere. With her intelligence and beauty as her only weapons, Tracyembarks on a series of extraordinary escapades that sweep heracross the globe. In an explosive confrontation Tracy meets herequal in irresistible Jeff Stevens, whose past is as colorful asTracy's. Show more Show less
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs. Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating, and unfathomable, consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella's life-first discovered in Twil
There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do:he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away againafter barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, neverbecome a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of BooneCreek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of hislife, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as hislife seems to be settling into a blissful pattern, an unsettlingand mysterious message re-opens old wounds and sets off a chain ofevents that will forever change the course of this young couple'smarriage. Dramatic, heartbreaking and surprising, this is a story aboutthe love between a man and a woman and between a parent and achild. More than that, it is a story that beautifully portrays howthe same emotion that can break your heart is also the one thatwill ultimately heal it. While the novel picks up the tale of Lexie Darnell and JeremyMarsh that started in True Believer and will delight fans of thatnovel, it st
In 1795 Mungo Park, a twenty-four year old surgeon, set out from the Gambia to trace the course of the Niger, a river of which Europeans had no first-hand knowledge. Travels in the interior districts of Africa is his Journal of that extraordinary journey. He travelled on the sufferance of African rulers and soon came to depend for his survival on the charity of African villagers. Before he reached the Niger, he endured months of captivity in the camp of a Moorish chief. Yet throughout his travels, Park maintained a remarkable empathy for African societies and beliefs. He recorded what he saw as accurately as he could, and without presuming European superiority. He prefaced his Jornal with the disclaimer that it has nothing to recommend it but truth.It is a plain unvarnished tale,withort any pretensions of any kind Park's truthfulness and lack of pretension will endear him to nodern readers.
Total Heat Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. Ajob at which she excels and a cherished young daughter. Then, as aplane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes.And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. TotalDanger Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global,the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give hisfamily the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into adeadly game. He is about to disappear-leaving behind a wife whomust sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wantsto know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBIagent who wants to know it all...
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands hisbusiness into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clientsaccused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take awayher home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel,even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his clientis guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black marketdealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too--and he's certainhe's on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the bestdefense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comesafter the verdict is in. Connelly proves again why he "may verywell be the best novelist working in the United States today"( San Francisco Chronicle ).
With more than 500,000 copies of her books in print in theUnited States, Donna Leon continues to find new fans for herriveting Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries. In "Death andJudgment," a truck crashes and spills its dangerous cargo on atreacherous road in the Italian Dolomite mountains. Meanwhile, inSanta Lucia, a prominent international lawyer is found dead aboardan intercity train. Suspecting a connection between the twotragedies, Brunetti digs deep for an answer, stumbling upon a seedyVenetian bar that holds the key to a crime network that reaches farbeyond the laguna. But it will take another violent death in Venicebefore Brunetti and his colleagues begin to understand what isreally going on.
A power revered by presidents and kings, a fortune unsurpassedby few people on earth: all that ended for Harry Stanford the dayhe mysteriously-and fatally-plunged from his luxury yacht into theMediterranean Sea. Then, back home in Boston, as the family gathersto grieve for his memory and to war over his legacy, a stunninglybeautiful young woman appears. She claims to be Stanford'slong-lost daughter and entitled to her share of his estate. Now,flaming with intrigue and passion through the glamorous preservesof the world's super rich, the ultimate game of wits begins, forstakes too dazzling and deadly to imagine.
Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. THE LOVELY BONES is such a book -- a #1 bestseller celebrated at once for its artistry, for its luminous clarity of emotion, and for its astonishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions of readers around the world. "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her killer trying to cover his tracks, her grief-stricken family unraveling. Out of unspeakable tragedy and loss, THE LOVELY BONES succeeds, miraculously, in building a tale filled with hope, humor, suspense, even joy. The major motion picture version of THE LOVELY BONES, directed by Peter Jackson and s
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.
The long-awaited reissue of "New York Times" bestsellerCatherine anderson's "truly spectacular read" (Linda Lael Miller).Years ago, Amy Masters escaped the Texas plains for a quiet life asa teacher in Oregon. Then, out of the shadows comes Swift Antelope,the Comanche warrior to whom she once pledged her heart. But Amy'sbrutal past has made it impossible for her to trust any man-eventhe bold warrior who has haunted her dreams, the only man she everloved, the Comanche heart she can't live without...
When an old Gypsy man curses Billy Halleck for sideswiping hisdaughter, six weeks later he's 93 pounds lighter. Now Billy isterrified. And desperate enough for one last gamble...that willlead him to a nightmare showdown with the forces of evil meltinghis flesh away.
From America’s #1 bestselling crime writers comes the extraordinary new Kay Scarpetta novel. Leaving behind her private forensic pathology practice in Charleston, South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta accepts an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk—and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. The injuries, he says, were sustained in the course of a murder . . . that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The one thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered—and more violent deaths will follow. Gradually, an inexplicable and horrifying truth
On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautifulyoung woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makesheadlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt inCalifornia history.Caught up in the investigation are BuckyBleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, andrivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with theDahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, tocapture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their questwill take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly ofpostwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life,past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of totalmadness.
An unforgettable fresco of a golden age in fourteenthcentury Barcelona, Cathedral of the Sea is a thrilling historical n0vel of friendship and revenge, plague and hope, love and war. Arnau Estanyol arrives in Barcelona to find a city dominated by the construction of the city's great pride--the cathedral of Santa Maria del Mar-and by its shame, the deadly Inquisition. As a young man, Arnau joins the powerful guild of stoneworkers and helps to build the church with his own hands, while his best friend and adopted brother, Joanet, studies to become a priest. With time, Arnau prospers and falls secretly in love with a forbidden woman. But when he is betrayed and hauled before the Inquisitor, he finds himself face-to-face with Joanet. Will he lose his life just as his beloved Cathedral of the Sea is finally completed, or will his brother save him?
Becky Bloomwood, America's favorite shopaholic, is back in a hilarious, heartwarming tale of married life, best friends, and long-lost sisters (and the perils of simply having to own an Angel handbag!) What's a round-the-world honeymoon if you can't buy the odd souvenir to ship back home? Like the twenty silk dressing gowns Becky go on a budget. And worse: her beloved best friend Suze has found a new best friend while Becky was away. Becky's feeling rather blue -- when her parents deliver some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister! Becky is thrilled! She's convinced her sister will be a true soulmate. They'll go shopping together, have manicures together…… Until she meets Jessica for the first time and gets the shock of her life. Surely Becky Bloomwood's sister can't …… hate shopping?
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded foryears, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has neverforgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideouscrimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widowof an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his tiesto the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at aderelict spot in the California desert where the feds areunearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rachel. Now the two areat odds with the FBI...and squarely in the path of the Poet, whowill lead them on a wicked ride out of the heat, through thenarrows of evil, and into a darkness all his own...
The vision has haunted him for four years--a youngwoman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silentsupplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murdercase when the production assistant's death was linked with theviolent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both fileswere never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch isdetermined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to opendoors and strike fear into the guilty, he's on his own. And even inthe face of an opponent more powerful and ruthless than any he'sever encountered, Bosch is not backing down.
This is knock-out classic horror about the loneliest town offNevada's Interstate 50-and the scariest.
