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Skipping Christmas - John Grisham
SUMMARY:Luther and Nora Krank are fed up with the chaos of Christmas. The endless shopping lists, the frenzied dashes through the mall, the hassle of decorating the tree... ... -
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
From Library JournalThe Continental Op, hero of this mystery, is a cool, experienced employee of the Continental Detective Agency. Client Donald Wilson has been killed, and the Op ... -
Lion in the Valley - Elizabeth Peters
SUMMARY:The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son R... -
Knightley Academy - Violet Haberdasher
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Henry Grim has never been in trouble for borrowing a sword from the headmasterÕs private stores. He has never discovered a forbidden room in a foreign castle, or ... -
Folly Du Jour - Barbara Cleverly
Praise for Barbara Cleverly: “Spectacular and dashing, spellbinding.”—The New York Times Book Review“Smashing . . . marvelously evoked.”—Chicago Tribune“... -
Flamethrower - Maggie Estep
From Publishers WeeklyWhen Ruby Murphy—Brooklyn resident, cat whisperer and mad-dash urban bicyclist—notices a human leg in her psychiatrist's fish tank in her third diverting sleu... -
Fed Up - Jessica Conant-Park; Susan Cona
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **The latest in a series with "all the right ingredients-fresh characters, a dash of humor and a sizzling romance."(*Elaine Viets*)** Part-time student Chloe Cart... -
Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Lynne Truss
In 2002 Lynne Truss presented Cutting a Dash, a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation, which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a runawa... -
Curtain_ Poirot's Last Case - Agatha Christie
SUMMARY:The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings - there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr ... -
Captain's Fury - Jim Butcher
From Publishers WeeklySharp tactical plotting, hazardous cross-country travel and a dash of sardonic humor mark Butcher's fourth Codex Alera novel (after 2006's Cursor's Fury). Tw....