Charles McCarry When Charles McCarry's The Better Angels was first published almost 30 years ago, its premise--that terrorists would use passenger-filled airliners as tools of terror--seemed incredible. In retrospect, the...

Julia Navarro January 1, 2009 by John Murray

Created by Matt GroeningPainstakingly assembled and rigorously organized by that master of clutter, Matt Groening, this is not another mini-jumbo, hard-to-read, abbreviated compendium in that seemingly endless series of discourses...

The beguiling story of a man, a woman and a nasty crime, from 'the hottest thriller writer in the US' [Time]."But the whole deal, staying and going along with her...

Robert Crais A man vanishes, leaving behind a determined woman who refuses to give up the search. Private investigators Elvis Cole and Joe Pike take on a puzzling case, confronting...

Susanna Moore Helen is serving a life sentence at Sloatsburg women's prison for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, a recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, is...

Ayelet Waldman Welcome back to the exasperating world of Juliet Applebaum, a public defender turned sleep-deprived stay-at-home mom—and “a unique, highly likable sleuth” (Judith Kelman). When her infant son’s beautiful young...

Jasper Fforde It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty Stuyvesant Van...

Douglas Kennedy On the face of it, Ben Bradford is a standard Wall Street hotshot - six-figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But...

Dick King-Smith

David BennettWith the help of his younger brother and sisters, Ben searches the garden for the birthday present his parents have hidden there.First published January 1, 1988

Fritz Leiber Fritz Leiber (1910-1992) is best known as a fantasy writer, but his achievements and influence are also considerable in the horror and science fiction fields. One of his...