Tommy and Tuppence Beresford try to retire, but they find a children's book in their new home that leads them to investigate a mystery from years ago.

Newlywed Gwenda Reed, moving from New Zealand to England, buys a delightful Victorian house that seems oddly familiar, but it's rumored to be haunted. When she visits a London theater, a line from the play brings back a terrifying vision of a woman's body lying in the hall of the house. Miss Marple investigates.

Howards End is the story of the Schlegel sisters and their struggle to come to terms with their German heritage in Edwardian England. Their lives are intertwined with those of the Wilcox family and their country house, Howards End.

Eugenia, Baroness Munster, and her brother descend on their well-to-do cousins in New England, and old Mr. Wentworth installs them in a nearby house. Both parties, however, are faced with contrasting attitudes to life.

A police officer's whistle, running feet, gunshots, breaking windows, burglar alarms, police sirens…more gunshots…So begins another episode of Gang Busters! From New York City to St. Louis…from Newark to Detroit…From Baltimore to Houston…and all the way west to California…there's a crime wave on. Cases of safe-cracking, gambling, kidnapping, car theft, and murder--police across the nation are tracking small time crooks and big time trouble.

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris...

The Berlin Wall is toppled and the Iron Curtain has been swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he is forced to revisit his secret years.

There’s a caste system--even in murder. Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession, each of them steaming with a secret motive.

J. B. Priestley's Time and the Conways follows the ups and downs of one family between the years 1919 and 1938, and offers a fascinating perspective on the progress of time.

Mr. John Sunday, an officer with the Cotswold Health and Safety Board, has chosen Christmas as the time to crack down on safety hazards. But he goes too far when he rules that there cannot be a Christmas tree atop the church tower this year. Mr. Sunday is soon found face down in the petunias, very much dead. Agatha Raisin is instantly on the case, but with so many people having threatened the life of the victim, it's almost impossible to know where to start!

Annette Remmington, a London art consultant and private dealer, is at the top of her game. She is married to her mentor, Marius Remmington. It is with great care that he picks the best journalist possible to do a profile of her in a popular London newspaper. How could he have known that the connection between Jack and Annette would ignite so many secrets? And how could he know that Jack would uncover a scandal that could ultimately destroy them all?

When Tom Bedford's sister Diane, a rising star of stage and screen, falls in love with one of his idols, the suave TV cowboy Ray Montane, Tom's life is transformed. They move to Hollywood and all his dreams seem to have come true. Soon, however, the sinister side of Tinseltown casts its shadow and a shocking act of violence changes their lives forever.

P.I. Bill Smith is sent on a high-stakes chase when an electronically modified voice on his cell phone informs him that Lydia Chin, his occasional partner, has been kidnapped. Now, if Bill wants to keep Lydia alive, he'll have to play an elaborate game of the kidnapper's devising.

Dressed as a sexy comic-book princess on her way to a costume party, Alaina Montgomery couldn't believe it when her car broke down on a dark mountain road! The last thing she needed was a disguised Dylan Harrison trying to rescue her--and getting them both arrested! So what if he was impossibly sexy, irresistibly charming, and made her laugh?

This is the story of the only woman to ever stand up to the Virgin Queen--her own cousin, Lettie Knollys. Lettie won the attention of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a man so enamored of the queen that it was rumored he had murdered his own wife in order to become her royal consort. When Elizabeth discovered that he had married her cousin in secret, Lettie would pay a terrible price.

Featuring David Sedaris's unique blend of hilarity and heart, this new collection of animal-themed tales is an utter delight. Though the characters may not be human, the situations in these stories bear an uncanny resemblance to the insanity of everyday life.

Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger.

VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) head Joe Gunther and his team are called in to investigate a series of violent deaths that appear unrelated until telltale clues reveal a linkage between them and that they are, in fact, murders. With little to go on, the VBI must plumb of every suspect's past and examine the evidence down to the smallest detail.

Adrian Monk has journeyed into the realm of the cult science fiction show Beyond Earth, where he meets fans just as obsessive-compulsive as he is. Someone in a starship uniform has very publicly gunned down the show's legendary creator, Conrad Stipe. Could a fan be that furious at him for selling out to an exploitative Hollywood producer? Or is there more going on behind the scenes in Stipe's life?

Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan's Soho, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts--he a dealer, she an editor. They are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca's much younger look-alike brother Ethan (known in the family as Mizzy, "the mistake") shows up for a visit, and in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning the world he has so carefully constructed.

Chief Inspector Gamache has come to Winter Carnival in Quebec City to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong, but he is pulled into a case where an obsessive historian's search for the missing remains of the founder of Quebec ends bizarrely in murder.

Young Barry Laverty, M.B., is settling into the village, but an unexpected romantic reversal gives him second thoughts. Will he be happy tending to routine coughs and colds for the rest of his career? As much as Barry enjoys the life in County Down, is running a humble GP's shop all he wants out of life?

Dewey is the heartwarming story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat of Spencer, Iowa, as told by his owner and companion of nineteen years, Vicki Myron, the librarian who found him on a frigid January morning when he was abandoned as a kitten in the book drop slot. It is also the story of a remarkable small town.

When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest ship Tom has ever seen.  A ship made of iron. He soon learns that the Union army has very important plans for this iron ship called the Monitor. It is supposed to fight the Confederate “sea monster”—another ironclad—the Merrimac.

In this fourth and second-to-last book in the series, Cass and Max-Ernest set out on separate, yet equally dangerous, adventures. Cass finds herself alone and disoriented, a stranger in a dream-like, medieval world. With the help of a long-lost relative, she begins to uncover clues and secrets--piecing together her family's history as she fights her way back to the present world.

Claire Heller Chapman's perfect life is shattered when her husband Tom is suddenly arrested by a team of government agents and accused of a brutal crime he insists he didn't commit. As Claire finds herself drawn closer into a web of duplicity and shadowy figures, she discovers that her husband is not who he says he is…that he once had a different name…even a different face.

A breathtaking escape from a South African prison. A call girl found brutally murdered. A fugitive American billionaire obsessed with revenge. Special Agent Sarah Cahill is urgently summoned to investigate an impending terrorist attack on Manhattan. Her investigation turns into a desperate pursuit of an exceptionally dangerous terrorist-for-hire.

There are rumors of sinister forces within the CIA that could have ordered former director Harrison Sinclair's assassination. But suddenly, with the free-falling acceleration of a nightmare, Harrison's son-in-law Ben is thrust into a web of intrigue and violence beyond his control and lured into a top-secret espionage project.

Charlie Stone is a brilliant analyst for the CIA who has made an illustrious reputation for predicting the unpredictable ways of the Kremlin. He's summoned urgently to read the transcript of a tape recording smuggled out of the Soviet Union by one of the few remaining moles. Suddenly, Stone's investigation becomes deeply personal.

In a silent valley stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic haunted by his violent past. His sister, Audrun, alone in her modern bungalow, dreams of exacting retribution for the unspoken betrayals that have blighted her life. Into this closed world comes Anthony Verey, an antiques dealer from London. From the moment he arrives at the Mas Lunel, a frightening and unstoppable series of consequences is set in motion.

Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting. Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new-age theories, Nietzsche, Baudrillard, and knitting patterns, Meg wends her way through Our Tragic Universe.

Condoleezza Rice's achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9/11, to becoming only the second woman-and the first black woman ever-to serve as Secretary of State. But until she was 25 she never learned to swim. Not because she wouldn't have loved to, but because when she was a little girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools than give black citizens access...

The son of a classical pianist straight out of the Bronx of old Archie comics, Steven Tyler was born to be a rock star. Weaned on Cole Porter, Nat King Cole, Mick-and his beloved Janis Joplin-Tyler began tearing up the streets and the stage as a teenager before finally meeting his "mutant twin" and legendary partner Joe Perry. In this addictively readable memoir, told in the playful, poetic voice that is uniquely his own, Tyler unabashedly recounts the meteoric rise, fall, and rise of Aerosmith over the last three decades...

Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.

Seven years after the events of The Shadow Dragons, John, Jack and Charles are finally able to return to their beloved Archipelago of Dreams. But even as their return is celebrated by old friends, new concerns shadow the reunion: the threat of Ecthroi, primordial Shadow. And perhaps even worse, the apparent splintering of Time itself. Now, the Caretakers must fight against their most fearsome enemy ever and attempt to restore Time.

Before he was considered a CIA super-agent, before he was thought of as a terrorist's worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a star college athlete with an untapped instinct for violence. Tensions in the Middle East are simmering when CIA Director Irene Kennedy pays a visit to Syracuse University, where she hopes to recruit none other than Mitch Rapp, a student who has quickly climbed up the academic and athletic ranks.

When New York's most vicious gossip columnist, Cassidy Towne, is found dead, Heat uncovers a gallery of high profile suspects, all with compelling motives for killing the most feared muckraker in Manhattan. Heat's murder investigation is complicated by her surprise reunion with superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook. In the wake of their recent breakup, Nikki would rather not deal with their raw emotional baggage. But the handsome, wise-cracking Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's personal involvement in the case forces her to team up with Rook anyway.

From actress Portia de Rossi, a revelatory and searing account of the years she spent secretly suffering from anorexia and bulimia, all while living under the glare of Hollywood's bright lights. In this groundbreaking memoir, Portia de Rossi reveals the pain and illness that haunted her for decades, from the time she was a twelve-year-old girl working as a print and runway model in Australia, through her early rise to fame as a cast member of the hit television shows Ally McBeal and Arrested Development.

It. Is. On. From the pen of prolific (and bestselling) author Barney Stinson comes the indispensible guide for every Bro looking to score with The Ladies. Featuring the famous plays including: The Lorenzo Von Matterhorn, Mrs. Stinsfire, The Ted Mosby, The Time Traveler, The "SNASA", The Scuba Diver, and The "He's Not Coming"

Drawing on more than 500 interviews with friends and family, as well as teammates and opponents from every level of baseball, New York Times bestselling author Jane Leavy delivers the definitive account of one of the biggest talents and most tragic figures ever to play the game.

Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered Bosnian women, Neo-Nazis, and post-Katrina New Orleans (for which she won an Oscar), but now she's looking for an even bigger challenge. So she and her right-hand-man-a six-foot-six, 72-year-old, African-American man named Xavier-head to Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, to tackle modern-day pirates. Once they start filming, though, they find a whole lot more than they bargained for.

There's deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska…and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it's the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can't let go.