James Ellroy   Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on...

Stuart Woods Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington ventures out to the west coast and out on a limb in this "stylish whodunit" (Detroit News). 'L.A. Dead' is filled with murder, and romance...

Anna Del Conte Offers practical advice on making fresh pasta and sauces, and shares pasta recipes featuring vegetables, cheese, fish, and meat January 1, 1994 by Simon & Schuster  

Stuart Woods After turning a film student's directorial debut into a hit movie, New York mobster and movie fanatic Vinnie Callabrese takes off for the bright lights of Hollywood, where...

James Graham Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and "electability"... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster bubble in the...

Anne Tyler A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKBALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more...

Patricia Wentworth Miss Silver travels to the country to investigate a young man who may be deceiving his wifeNo one has seen Allegra Trent since she got married. Her husband...

Devised and Edited by Dermot Bolger In this almost-all-girl reprise of the collaborative fiction Finbar's Hotel, Dermot Bolger skillfully weaves together eight chapters, each contributed by a different Irish writer, into...

Fiona Carnarvon Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle - the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey - eight years ago. In that time she's become fascinated...

Walt DisneyWhat do you get when you combine a dog from the wrong side of the tracks with a pampered pooch? One of the most beloved animated films of all...

Susan Elizabeth Phillips A British Lady Lady Emma Wells-Finch, the oh-so-proper headmistressof England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls, is a woman on a mission—she has two weeks to lose her...

Lisa ScottolineA young lawyer searches for her missing rival from high school and finds more than she bargained for, in the latest high-octane thriller from New York Times bestselling authorShe’s...