A shooting incident at a private school just north of Edinburgh. Two seventeen year olds killed by an ex Army loner who has gone off the rails. As Detective Inspector John Rebus puts it, 'there's no mystery'… except the why. But this question...
The Honorable Phryne Fisher—she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, cupid's bow lips, and diamante garters—is the 1920's most elegant sleuth. This sparkling collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany is lavishly illustrated with...
Becca Healy always believed she understood the shameful circumstances of her mother’s death — until the night her mother’s spirit whispers a simple message out of the static of a radio: “Not true.” Becca turns to the terse Dr. Joanne Call,...
With its exotic alien and distant space travel, our dramatic cover story is set far in time and space from some of the author’s stories of the near future and the historical past. The determination and inner reserves of this tale’s remarkable...
The annual Sports Day at respected public school Sudeley Hall ends in tragedy when the headmaster's obnoxious nephew is found strangled in a haystack. The boy was despised by staff and students alike, but English master Michael Evans, who was seen...
A private detective is hired to locate a missing girl -- the great niece of an eccentric sculptor named Edgar Tyrell. But Tyrell is nosferatu, and he can sculpt in the sands of reality itself. So the detective must call on Dr. Strangeways, an Old...
Anthony Powell's universally acclaimed epic A Dance to the Music of Time offers a matchless panorama of twentieth-century London. Now, for the first time in decades, readers in the United States can read the books of Dance as they were originally...
"The smartest zombie novel since Colson Whitehead's Zone One."
— Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"A Questionable Shape presents the yang to the yin of Whitehead’s Zone One, with chess games, a dinner invitation, and even a...