Urbane Sicilian police inspector Salvo Montalbano, whose exploits have sold more than four million copies in Europe, makes his long overdue U.S. debut in this spare and spry English translation of the first novel in the series. When two garbage...
In a brilliant return after his introduction in A Test of Wills (1996), Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is dispatched to Cornwall to investigate three deaths - seemingly a double-suicide and an accident that have occurred within weeks in the...
Nate Heller is a cop trying to stay straight in one of the most corrupt places imaginable: prohibition-era Chicago. When he won't sell out, he's forced to quit the police force and become a private investigator. His first client is Al Capone. His...
Eastern philosophy popularizer and mind-body pioneer Chopra has done novels before, and critics have not found fiction his long suit. That should change with this tale of how the Indian prince Siddhartha came to be the enlightened one, the...
Four wanting wantons ...each waiting for a fifth to play bedroom bridge. Roz wanted her husband. Elly wanted anybody’s husband. Nan wanted an encore to seduction. Maggie wanted taboo caresses. Quietville, it might have been called. A place for...
A STARTLING CRIME WITH DOZENS OF VICTIMS. A GHASTLY ENIGMA WITH NO APPARENT SOLUTION. Called away from vacation elsewhere in the state, Agent Pendergast reluctantly agrees to visit the crime scene — and, despite himself, is quickly drawn in by the...