General Adult. Single mother Hester Wallace reluctantly begins to care about comic book creator Mitch Dempsey; and cynical Booth DeWitt becomes unwillingly fascinated with actress Ariel Kirkwood, who is playing the role of his cruel ex-wife.
Roz Young's hilarious account of Edith, the most famous cat in Dayton, Ohio, and their move to a condo apartment and the cat's adjustments to it's new home.
Matt Payne finds himself saddled with three homicide cases and then is additionally challenged with showing a movie star "the real stuff" for the making of a police movie.
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorAs the holiday season approached, the residents of Jacobsville were whispering about Janie Brewster's hopeless crush on Leo Hart. Up till now, all her efforts to lasso the dynamic cattleman had crumbled, but this time the starry-eyed debutante had come up with the perfect self-improvement campaign to dazzle Leo - she'd become a courageous cowgirl! So why did her transformation seem to rouse Leo's formidable temper more than ever?
Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspects, most of whom had very good reason to wish her ill. Cover Her Face is P. D. James's electric debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.
Even though she is engaged to a wealthy vintner, a widow is swept away into a forbidden passion with his identical twin brother, Brody. Tori sets out with Brody to solve the mysterious death of his father, uncovering a tangle of betrayals along the way. Author signings.
Eighteen years after the body of an unidentified young woman is discovered in a quarry off California's Highway 1, two police detectives nearing retirement enlist Kinsey Millhone's aid to help identify the long-ago murder victim.
Loving Evangeline - How to describe successful tycoon Robert Cannon? "Cool, ruthless and with a hint of cruelty," said his enemies. "Seductive, passionate and charming", claimed the women he dated But what would Evangeline Shaw think when she became Robert's next target - in both ways? One More Chance - A night of passion brought Dr. Luke Trahern more than a respite than professional burnout. Upon discovering that Melanie Summerville was carrying his child, he insisted on knowing her motives - but Melanie wasn't about to listen to his demands!
Jane Preston agrees to take the place of her news reporter cousin Molly at a beach front retreat for bigwigs who may recognize Molly from her disastrous Washington internship. Gaining admittance with a nerdy reporter, who's really a bestselling author going incognito for ideas for his next novel, Jane is soon on a sizzling summer adventure. Original.
Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Thrones Dominations, Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript---with extraordinary success. “The transition is seamless,” said the San Francisco Chronicle; “you cannot tell where Sayers leaves off and Walsh begins.” “Will Paton Walsh do it again?” wondered Ruth Rendell in London’s Sunday Times. “We must hope so.” Jill Paton Walsh fulfills those hopes in A Presumption of Death. Although Sayers never began another Wimsey novel, she did leave clues. Drawing on “The Wimsey Papers,” in which Sayers showed various members of the family coping with wartime conditions, Walsh has devised an irresistible story set in 1940, at the start of the Blitz in London. Lord Peter is abroad on secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, has taken their children to safety in the country. But war has followed them there---glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes the nighttime lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Daily life reminds them of the war so constantly that, when the village’s first air-raid practice ends with a real body on the ground, it’s almost a shock to hear the doctor declare that it was not enemy action, but plain, old-fashioned murder. Or was it? At the request of the overstretched local police, Harriet reluctantly agrees to investigate. The mystery that unfolds is every bit as literate, ingenious, and compelling as the best of original Lord Peter Wimsey novels.
Follows the life of Virginie Gautreau, the subject of John Singer Sargent's controversial portrait "Madame X," from her Creole youth and flight to France during the American Civil War, to her marriage to a prominent banker.
