SUMMARY: Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an idealistic Brit haunted by ...
From Publishers WeeklyThe authenticity of background detail, the lilting prose rhythms and the appealing conceptual audacity that won many fans for The Clan of the Cave Bear and Th...
Product DescriptionMulmaster, nicknamed the "City of Danger," is the next stop on Volothamp Geddarm's research trip for his upcoming Guide to the Monsoon, and maybe his final resti...
A pulse-pounding real-life chase for an ancient masterpiece of immeasurable value...Sotheby's. New York City. June 19, 1990.Nothing of its kind had been sold to the public in more ...
SUMMARY: In this stunning debut, author Scott Lynch delivers the wonderfully thrilling tale of an audacious criminal and his band of confidence tricksters. Set in a fantastic city ...
ReviewPraise for The Last of the Live Nude Girls"[McClear] finds new ground not only in the specificity of her subject matter, but in the strength of her account of j...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The city of Isca is set like a dark jewel in the crown of the Duchy of Stonehold. In this sprawling landscape, the monsters one sees are nothing compared to what’...
A jaded young man embarks on a journey of self-discovery with the help of an unusual familyWill Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City...
St Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street Runner, sometime crook, finds himse...
From Publishers WeeklySex and the City meets London's Roaring '20s in Davis's satisfying fifth novel. Grace Rutherford leads a double life: by day she's an advertising copywriter ....