ALLEEN HUILEBALKEN HEBBEN SPIJT In 'Alleen huilebalken hebben spijt' zijn de meest roemruchte reportages van Peter opgenomen, alsmede een aantal prikkelende columns. In het boek beschrijft Peter uitvoerig hoe zijn veelbesproken vriendschap met Heineken-ontvoerder Cor van Hout tot stand is gekomen, maar ... more »

Wayne Johnston's breakthrough epic novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was published in several countries and given high praise from the critics. It earned him nominations for the highest fiction prizes in Canada and was a national bestseller. His American editor said he hadn't found such an exciting ... more »

What--or who--could turn a gifted little boy into a murderous thing that calls itself Satan's Child? In search of an answer, Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess presides over a congregation of assassins. From the Trade Paperback edition. more »

New York City taxidermy collector Garth Carson was seconds away from snagging the greatest find of his career--the original Pipsqueak the Nutty Nut, stuffed-squirrel puppet star of his favorite 1950s kiddie TV show--until a biker, a brawny redhead, and a murder derailed his dreams and stole his squirrel ... more »

Five brutal homicides ... zero arrests. Disgraced private investigator Tess Monaghan agrees to review the police murder files for blunders and finds a single common thread emerging with shocking clarity -- the link is Tess Monaghan herself. more »

It was a bright and shiny Beverly Hills afternoon when Shell Scott opened his door to find intrigue laying at the foot of his apartment ...in the form of a corpse! Just another day in the sun for the private eye with a nose for danger. He's got to dodge bullets and bounce Beverly Hills beauties in his ... more »

IN A CITY OF BEAUTY AND HISTORY, A LITTLE NIGHT MURDER IS BEING COMPOSED... For world-class musicians, Bath is no mecca. But to cellist Sara Selkirk it is home, now invaded by an unbearably sexy Czech composer and his unheralded protégée, who is scoring an opera for a local company. Between the notorious ... more »

From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl , Naomi Hirahara's acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction's most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler. Few things get Mas more excited than gambling, so when he hears about a $500 ... more »

Exchange student Jamie Penich left her small Pennsylvania hometown to see the world, but her journey ended with a brutal attack in a shabby motel room in Seoul, South Korea, where the raven-haired 21-year-old was found naked and stomped to death. Investigators zeroed in on soldiers, turning out barracks ... more »

 A face is worth 1,001 French words Using the stories that our faces, appearance, and gestures tell,  French in Your Face  helps you learn and remember essential French vocabulary and everyday expressions relating to personality, attitudes, moods, and emotions. This hugely entertaining ... more »

The new novel from Andrew Vachss puts Burke 'hard-core career criminal and man-for-hire' up against a new breed of predator: stalkers. Some obsessed, some deranged, all dangerous. Burke's old prison pal Hercules, hired by a shadowy network that runs a safehouse for stalking victims, botched the job, ... more »

What's wrong with me? is the thought that crosses Stanley Hastings's mind when he gets his first paying client. Stanley has absolutely no interest in being a P.I., but hey, he needs to pay the bills. The novice P.I.'s first victim ... um ... client is Marvin Nickleson, an ex-husband on the rampage. Stanley ... more »