On the death of France's most glorious king, Louis XIV, in 1715, few people benefited from the shift in power more than the intriguing financial genius from Edinburgh, John Law. Al...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: He'd kept a promise to marry his best friend's widow. But even an obligatory marriage could not diminish the hunger vintner Tony Carlino still felt for Rena Montg...
SUMMARY: Three deaths, one connection-the anonymous calls all three women reported in the weeks before they died. Detective Tony Marino wants to close this case before another woma...
From Publishers WeeklyWhen most readers hear the words E. coli, they think tainted hamburger or toxic spinach. Noted science writer Zimmer says there are in fact many different st....
EDITORIAL REVIEW: THE SAILOR WAS EDGY, STUBBORN...AND THE LOVE OF HER LIFE. For years, Kelly Andrews had waited for her big brother's best friend to notice her. Now navy SEAL Micha...
Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but two—in physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.
"Ever since the spectacular success of Chang's Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China's most notorious modern lea...
SUMMARY: Nothing good comes of the closest ties in Mama's Boy and Other Dark Tales, the new collection from Fran Friel and Apex Publications. Things can go especially awry when the...
SUMMARY:Without warning, a member of the da Vinci crew is found dead in his quarters. Lt. Commander Corsi's investigation is thorough and complete -- and turns up nothing. W...
Thomas Buergenthal was not quite six years old when he and his parents were forced into a Jewish ghetto in Poland. Four years later, they were placed on a train bound for Auschwitz...