In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a "confidential informant" made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando ... more »

Known for her deliciously wicked novels depicting the subtleties and pitfalls of modern relationships, Leslie Glass now takes stock of life's two most compelling priorities: love and money. Successful stockbroker Annie Custer is the perfect working mom: Her only problems are her career and her domestic ... more »

A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace ... more »

In this delightfully infectious novel of love and intrigue, Leslie Glass puts a sly and sexy spin on two of life's most devastating certainties: death and taxes. Cassandra Sales is a woman with a gift for nurturing things--her husband, the successful wine importer; her two adult children; the fabulous ... more »

Charles Todd returns to the world of Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge in a series that the New York Times Book Review called "harrowing psychological drama" and the Washington Post Book World hailed as "among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days." This ... more »

Traditionally, Old Philadelphians keep a low profile. They associate with one another and leave life as discreetly as they have lived it. So Philly Prep English teacher Amanda Pepper, who thinks her only current problems are keeping her well-meaning family from hijacking her wedding, is understandably ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Murder on the Orient Express; The Poirots: the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. Just after midnight, a snowstorm stops the Orient Express dead in its tracks in the middle of Yugoslavia. The luxurious ... more »

E-book exclusive extras: 1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on Evil Under the Sun; 2) The Poirots: the complete guide to all the cases of the great Belgian detective. Arlena Stuart, the famous actress, is enjoying--like our favorite Belgian detective Hercule Poirot--a summer holiday on Smugglers ... more »

Death. It's not only inevitable and frightening, it's intriguing and fascinating-especially today, when science continues to make ever more stunning advances in the investigation of the oldest and darkest of mysteries. To discover the how and why of death, unearth its roots, and expose the mechanics ... more »

The first edition of this title proved the most successful of the Portable Handbook series launched in 1999. Aimed at electrical engineers and technicians working in building power systems, the relentlessly practical Handbook succeeded as an in the field working tool. This new edition is necessitated ... more »

Mystery novel K.O.'d in Honolulu stars brassy Honolulu police officer, Katrina Ogden, known at work as K.O. She runs a tight ship in the Records and I.D. department and calls things as she sees them. A series of homicides is somehow connected to K.O. who is oblivious because the whole police department ... more »

Roughneck is pulp noir master Jim Thompson's quasi-autobiography of the wandering wild days of one of America's wildest wandering authors. Follow Thompson through the Great Depression, his young adulthood, marriage and family but with the apocryphal dark wit that is his trademark. He goes from riding ... more »