Barbara Trapdio Noah and Alison, an unlikely couple, have a happy marriage, but while Noah is away at a medical conference Alison must face problems from her past May 1,...

Robert Lohr In 1770, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen introduces Vienna to the Mechanical Turk?an unbeatable chess-playing automaton that, unbeknownst to an astonished Europe, is in fact nothing more than an...

Lisa Gardner FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy and Sergeant Detective D D Warren have built a task force to follow the digital bread crumbs left behind by deceased serial kidnapper...

Neal Stephenson In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves—including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox—devises...

Michael Malone In small towns between the North Carolina Piedmont and the coast the best scenery is often in the sky. On flat sweeps of red clay and scrub pine...

Charles Cumming For six years, Alec Milius has been trying to escape his past, but his past refuses to release him. Abandoned by MI6 after a disastrous operation against the...

Herbjorg Wassmo On the scale of Gone with the Wind and War and Peace, this grand, sweeping epic will enthrall readers just as Dina bewitches everyone she meets. Set in...

Elizabeth George Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens...

Chayym Zeldis A riveting, monumental novel about the life of the brother of Jesus Christ—hypnotic in its power and imagery, awesome in its conception and dramatic invention. Brothers is the...

Katherine Arden **Final part of the trilogy of The Bear and the Nightingale: magic, monsters, and enormous palaces in medieval Russia.** Fire has ravaged Moscow, and a furious mob seeks...

Graham Phillips The excavation of a mysterious Egyptian tomb in the early twentieth century holds the key to one of the greatest disasters to strike humankind. Strangely sealed, this was...

Paul Doherty "The Magician's Death" is set in a snow-besieged castle where secret knowledge is the prize and human life the price to be paid. January 1, 2004 by Headline...