E-book exclusive extra: The Lure of the Arcade, an essay by A L McCann. Behind the respectable facade of turn-of-the-century Melbourne lies another, darker city -- one of obsession, derangement, dissipation and crime. This is the world that has driven Albert Walters to the brink of madness, that haunts ... more »

Watch your back most carefully when someone you trust steps behind you. Even after Hugh Freyl lost his sight he was invincible. But late one night, in the library of the elite law firm that bears his name, he was beaten to death. The obvious suspect is David Marion, a convicted killer from the inner ... more »

Das ganze Leben ist eine Kette von Zufällen; die guten heißen Glück, die schlechten Pech, glaubt Gert Maindl. Der Mordplan, in dem er die passive Hauptrolle zugewiesen bekommt und nichts davon ahnt, ist demnach ein ausgesprochen schlechter Zufall. Er würde schnell einige von der guten Sorte brauchen ... more »

A haunting novel about a brilliant young man who enrolls at a small New England college and becomes entangled in a mysterious death -- and the ultimate scientific quest. Eric Dunne is a sixteen-year-old academic phenom. Desperate to escape his foster family, Eric graduates early from high school and ... more »

The 2005 edition of The Best American Crime Writing offers the year's most shocking, compelling, and gripping writing about real-life crime, including Peter Landesman's article about female sex slaves (the most requested and widely read New York Times story of 2004), a piece from The New Yorker by Stephen ... more »

Now expanded with a note from the author, 16 pages of photos, and a startling new epilogue that everyone in Oakdale is talking about! It's a major event in Oakdale -- a black-tie gala honoring the Marron family's fifty years of support for Oakdale's Memorial Hospital. But high spirits are cut short when ... more »

For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose ... more »

The delectable new installment in the bestselling and already beloved adventures of Isabel Dalhousie and her no-nonsense housekeeper, Grace. When friends from Dallas arrive in Edinburgh and introduce Isabel to Tom Bruce - a bigwig at home in Texas - several confounding situations unfurl at once. Tom ... more »

This is the novel that everyone in Oakdale is talking about. This is the scandal they can't ignore. It's a major event in Oakdale -- a black-tie gala honoring the Marron family's fifty years of support for Oakdale's Memorial Hospital. But high spirits are cut short when patron of honor Gregory Marron ... more »

Thieves, liars, killers, and conspirators -- it's a criminal world out there, and someone has got to write about it. An eclectic collection of the year's best reportage, The Best American Crime Reporting 2007 brings together the murderers and muscle men, the masterminds, and the mysteries and missteps ... more »

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Jodi Compton's debut, The 37th Hour , was hailed as "compelling" ( San Francisco Chronicle ), "intelligent" ( New York Times Book Review ), and "the debut of a world-class mystery writer" ( Denver Post ). Now Compton delivers a new novel featuring Detective Sarah Pribek ... more »