Kurt Austin, crew leader of the National Underwater & Marine Agency, investigates a mysterious Venezuelan tribe and its legend of a white goddess. Meanwhile, in California, a billionaire tycoon plans to monopolize the earth's freshwater reserves, and so to dominate the world. Austin travels a twisting ... more »

Summer, 1895, and the social season in Newport is in full swing. Among the Four Hundred, grand entertainments are planned, fashionable outfits are displayed, and people partake of every pleasure, from an outing at Bailey's Beach to tennis at the Casino. Few are unduly troubled by the murder of maids ... more »

Yellow light filled the attic. The light locked with the dust--tons of dust up here--and the atmosphere of the place stuffed his head like a fever. It seemed that he perceived this light with every nerve of his body. The attic was mostly empty but toward the south wall was a queer arrangment of chains ... more »

An extraordinary fiction debut: a large, stirring novel of suspense that is, at the same time, a work of brilliantly astute social observation. The Emperor of Ocean Park is set in two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the eastern seaboard--old families who summer on Martha ... more »

Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane-the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan. From the Trade Paperback edition. more »

The master of hard-boiled detective fiction is back -- and better than ever -- with Something's Down There, a blade-sharp thriller set among the islands of the Caribbean. To the casual observer, Mako Hooker looks like any other grizzled fishing-boat captain trawling the Bermuda Triangle. He's content ... more »

Albert Jay Smalls sits in an interrogation room accused of an unspeakable crime. The police have no witnesses, no physical evidence, but they are certain he is hiding the truth. With less than twelve hours before he must be released, Smalls will be put through one final interrogation. It is a search ... more »

Elizabeth Goodweather and her husband built a rewarding life in the hills and hollows of their adopted Appalachian home. But now Elizabeth is alone, her husband tragically killed, her children grown, the land around her filled with customs and beliefs she cannot share. It's still a good life-tending ... more »

The entertainment world is stunned when famous comic Lenny Maxted commits suicide on an earls estate. Lennys fiancee, cocktail waitress Alice Conway, makes front-page headlines when she discovers his body. Traumatized by his inexplicable suicide and by her ill-considered marriage to a philandering photographer ... more »

Where the Truth Lies is a tour de force of sinister mystery, sly comedy, grand cuisine, and incredible sex--a sensual, sardonic, neo-Dickensian thriller in which a latter-day Alice careens through the seductive Wonderland of New York and Los Angeles in the dark heart of the 1970s. This novel of intrigue ... more »

The Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man: an entire room forged of exquisite amber, from its four massive walls to its finely crafted furniture. But it is also the subject of one of history's most intriguing mysteries. Originally commissioned in 1701 by Frederick I of Prussia ... more »

Terrifying . . . Not only does Greg Bear keep you guessing, he keeps you thinking. He is a master at turning a scientific concept into a crackling good thriller. TESS GERRITSEN Author of The Surgeon Astonishing. I was blown away by its ferocious intelligence, astounding research and insight, and terrifying ... more »