My Favorite Bestselling Mysteries

The King of Torts

By John Grisham

The author of such best-selling legal thrillers as The Summons and The Brethren presents his latest novel of courtroom and legal suspense. 2,500,000 first printing. $2,500,000 ad/promo.

When his favorite uncle's boat floats into the Miami Bay on the eve of the Cuban revolution, minus the uncle and wired to explode, detective Michael O'Hara vows to uncover the truth and wonders what his family is not telling him. Original.

The Da Vinci Code

By Dan Brown

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.

Exposure Behind Closed Doors

By Victoria Taylor Murray

EXPOSURE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS is centered around one earth-shattering week in the life of New Orleans Police Lieutenant, Grieco Storm. A police detective whose passions and convictions run as deep and sizzling as the sultry city he is bound by duty and honor to protect. The discovery of arsenic found in the blood-systems of two International Super Models, Johna Bauer and Ursula Rhee; initially ruled accidental prescription drug overdoses by the city's shady coroner, is what initiated a secret branch of the Justice Department to get involved. Not only was the State of Louisiana suddenly faced with the very real possibility of a serial killer being on the loose in their Historical City, but it was suddenly faced with a potential scandal of such magnitude that it could rock New Orleans back several decades, politically, on its ear!

The Summons

By John Grisham

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self—a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the elder, a Virginia law professor, newly single, still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. Forrest is Ray’s younger brother, the family’s black sheep. The summons is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationery, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south to his hometown, to the place he now prefers to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The Judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray . . . and perhaps to someone else. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!

Total Control

By David Baldacci

When her husband mysteriously disappears in a plane crash into the Virginia countryside, a devastated wife must sort out truth from lies in this page-turning New York Times bestseller. Sidney Archer has it all: a husband she loves, a job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can trust. Jason Archer is a rising young executive at Triton Global, the world's leading technology conglomerate. Determined to give his family the best of everything, Archer has secretly entered into a deadly game. He is about to disappear--leaving behind a wife who must sort out his lies from his truths, an accident team that wants to know why the plane he was ticketed on crashed, and a veteran FBI agent who wants to know it all

Year Zero

By Jeff Long

When he opens an ancient relic, a wealthy artifact collector accidentally unleashes a virulent airborne plague that threatens to annihilate all life on Earth.

Getting Personal

By Diane Amos

Sometimes good intentions aren't enough.No one knows that better than Monique St. Cyr, parochial school dropout, dieter extraordinaire, and wanna-be investigative reporter with pit bull tenacity. Monique, obituary writer for a tabloid-style newspaper in Portland, Maine, lives next door to her mother, Anne Marie, an erotic fiction author. Anne Marie enlists Monique's help to do research for her next book about couples who meet online . . . by filling out several personals for her daughter.

The Montauk Mystery

By Diane Sawyer

When Matt Revington roars into Grayrocks, a resort town on Long Island, the locals, who consider all Revingtons land-stealing opportunists, treat him as a spoiled and greedy outsider. Surviving their hostile reception, Matt offers Annie Devane a summer job on an archeological expedition to the nearby Shell Islands. Once the home of the Montauk Indians, the islands are currently at the center of a debate between the developers and environmentalists. Thrilled about using her photography skills and immediately attracted to Matt, Annie accepts, despite the foreseeable criticism. As the expedition progresses, Annie's suspicions about helping a Revington turn to anger when she discovers the archeology team's true mission. Fear, however, prevails when she and Matt uncover startling information that threatens their lives and the future of the Shell Islands.

The Guardian

By Nicholas Sparks

At 29, Julie Barenson is too young to give up on love. Four years after her husband's tragic death, she is finally ready to risk giving her heart to someone again. But to whom? Should it be Richard Franklin, who is handsome and sophisticated and treats her like a queen, or Mike Harris, who is Julie's best friend in the world, though not as debonair? Now, with a decision that should bring her more happiness than she's had in years, Julie's life is about to become a living nightmare, as one man's jealousy spins into a deadly obsession.

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The King of Torts

Dirty Work

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Hot Schemes

The Da Vinci Code

Exposure Behind Closed Doors

The Summons

Total Control

Year Zero

Getting Personal

The Montauk Mystery

The Guardian