SUMMARY: Jonathan Quinn, freelance operative and professional 'cleaner', is on a mission in Ireland - purely as an observer - but things go wrong when a hidden assassin kills four ...
From Publishers WeeklyIn Gortner's latest riveting historical (after The Last Queen), the influential Dudley family sends orphan servant Brendan Prescott to serve their cruel son, ...
Amazon.com Review"Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir The Tender Bar is the story of how and why. A Pulitzer-Pr....
The Left Hand of DarknessSutty, an Observer from Earth for the interstellar Ekumen, has been assigned to a new world-a world in the grips of a stern monolithic state, the Corporati...
Until the 1960s, nearly all Chinese food served in the United States was Cantonese. Egg Foo Yung. Barbecued Spareribs. Egg Drop Soup. But with the opening of his Shun Lee restauran...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: **Killing Is An Art** In life, they were flawed. In death, they are perfect works of art--killed, preserved, and carefully molded into replicas of Michelangelo's ...
Review'Wholesale murder by black magic!highly ingenious, wholly enjoyable.' Evening Standard 'The acknowledged queen of detective fiction' Observer Product Description...
Review'The acknowledged queen of detective fiction the world over' OBSERVER About the AuthorAgatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer. Her books have so...
Review"Ambler brings off this comic thriller with consumate zest." --The New York Times Book Review“Rely on Mr. Ambler to serve a hot thriller in a cool style.” --...
The Letter Killers Club is a secret society of self-described "conceivers" who, to preserve the purity of their conceptions, will commit nothing to paper. (What, after all, is your...