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Dr. Kay Scarpetta returns to her old office in the 13th thriller to star the fan-favorite medical examiner. Five years ago, Scarpetta was fired from her position as Chief Medical Examiner of Richmond, Virginia. Currently based in Florida, she travels...

Patricia Cornwell's intrepid medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is visiting Florida, hoping to get away from the pressures of her job. No such luck: down in the Sunshine State, she becomes involved in a terrifying international intrigue with...

John Grisham ventures out of the suspense field and onto the football field in this story of a once-great high school quarterback, Neely Crenshaw, who, years later, returns to the scene of his glory days to attend a memorial to his old coach, the...

Unfailingly optimistic Emma Corrigan has a problem. During an episode of flight turbulence, she tells her troubles (the job she hates, the seemingly perfect boyfriend she is not sure she loves) to the handsome man sitting next to her. Then, who walks...

Now in paperback--the astonishing bestselling novel about two friends who find the key to a labyrinth that holds the secrets of an ancient text called the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. When a fellow researcher is murdered, they suddenly realize they are...

Somewhere,' muses Noah Calhoun, while sitting on his porch in the moonight, 'there were people making love.' The Notebook, a Southern-fried story of love-lost-and-found-again, revolves around a single time-honored romantic dilemma: will beautiful...

Receiving a mysterious photograph of his late wife, Kath, holding hands with another man, self-centered professor Glyn begins a search that proves shocking to Kath's family and friends, who include in their number a remorseless sister, a doyenne...

Wealthy, sexy interior designer Nora doesn't just love 'em and leave 'em --she loves 'em and murders 'em. While Nora plots to kill her current husband as well as her current fianc', FBI agent John O'Hara has been assigned to gather evidence on her....

In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim...

From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George, come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to...

At the age of twenty-three, James Frey woke up on a plane to find his four front teeth had been knocked out. His nose was broken and there was a hole through his cheek. He had no idea where the plane was headed or what had happened over the preceding...

The curious circumstances of a museum curator’s murder lead Harvard professor Robert Langdon into the heart of a centuries-old religious conspiracy in this follow-up to ANGELS & DEMONS. With help from a French police cryptologist (the...

In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of...

This pulse-racing work from a bestselling master of psychological suspense features a serial killer attending his 20th high school reunion. The killer, who identifies strongly with owls, has murdered several members of the class over the years, in...

Binchys latest bestseller is a story of sudden endings and new beginnings between tourists in a small Greek island village, who are brought together by a sudden tragedy in the harbor that turns perfect strangers into unlikely friends.

Canadian writer Mary Lawson's debut novel is a beautifully crafted and shimmering tale of love, death, and redemption. The story, narrated by 26-year-old Kate Morrison, is set in the eponymous Crow Lake, an isolated rural community where time has...

This is the second book in Nora Roberts' Key trilogy in which three women (Mallory, Dana, and Zoe) are given 28 days to embark on a dangerous quest. If one of the women should fail, they will all lose their chance to find the key that unlocks each...

In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood...

Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has helped psychologist Alex Delaware crack tough cases in the past. And in Jonathan Kellerman’s New York Times bestseller Billy Straight she took the lead in the desperate hunt for a teenage runaway...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Blood Brothers and The Hollow—the conclusion to the electrifying trilogy of three men and three women who join forces—and hearts—to battle the ultimate evil.

Grisham again goes after greedy tort lawyers who accumulate enormous fees in class-action settlements against corporations, with hardly anything left for the corporations' actual victims. In this novel, lawyer Clay Carter is offered a role in the...

Melis Menid lives an idyllic life on a tropical island, with her two pet dolphins for company. It's idyllic, that is, until an arms dealer becomes determined to ferret out a secret known only to Melis's foster father--a secret that could unleash...

This is the third book in Nora Roberts' Key trilogy in which three women (Mallory, Dana, and Zoe) are given 28 days to embark on a dangerous quest. If one of the women should fail, they will all lose their chance to find the key that unlocks each...

In this novel by a bestselling author of women's fiction, a Manhattan woman in a cold, repressive marriage reassesses her priorities after she survives a Maine boating accident that kills nine others. Having been saved from death, Julia is now hungry...

Three women meet at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for new ways to grow--and find in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future.With the undying support of her friends, Hayley and her new daughter have laid...

This is the first book in Nora Roberts' Key trilogy in which three women (Mallory, Dana, and Zoe) are given 28 days to embark on a dangerous quest. If one of the women should fail, they will all lose their chance to find the key that unlocks each...

The New York Times bestselling author of Firestorm, Iris Johansen, returns with a psychological thriller so terrifying, so relentlessly paced, it won't leave you time to catch your breath before the next shock comes. A forensic sculptor is locked in...

When Lauren Stillwell discovers her husband leaving a hotel room with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But while she's sneaking around, her husband is hatching a plan of his own. After a torrid quickie with a co-worker, Lauren...

As wild and mysterious as the Louisiana swamp he called home, Lucky Doucet was a dangerously attractive Cajun no woman could handle.  His solitary life left no room for the likes of elegant Serena Sheridan, but Lucky couldn't deny her desperate...

Precious Ramotswe lives to help people, a predilection that directs her to embark on a career as a private detective. It proves to be a remarkably prescient notion: upon opening the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, she is inundated with...