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Once again the author proves a master at all. Most striking of all, in developments that give this novel astonishing moral force, the pair explore the "ripples" of the long ago crime. Connelly comes as close as anyone to being today's Dostoyevsky of crime literature, a likely candidate not only for book award nominations but for major bestsellerdom. Publishers Weekly

Lisa Kleypas, New York Times Bestseller & RITA Award Winner. -1843. Strong-willed American heiress Lillian Bowman gets under the skin of straitlaced earl Marcus Westcliff, and soon finds herself sharing the sheets with him. . .

The most skillful lover in all of Victorian England, Nick Gentry believes his mission to seek out Miss Charlotte Howard will be typically simple. Suddenly he asks her to be his bride. But he soon discovers that though he might claim Charlotte's body, it will take much more than passion to win her love. Publishers Weekly

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An epic Roman novel which follows three men and one woman bound in servitude to the Republic. Romulus and Fabiola are twins, born into slavery after their mother is raped by a drunken nobleman. At thirteen-years-old, they are sold Romulus to gladiator school, Fabiola into prostitution where she will catch the eye of one of the most powerful men in Rome. Tarquinius is an Etruscan warrior and soothsayer, and an enemy of Rome, but doomed to fight...

Centered on the early life of Queen Isabella, Spain's most extraordinary Queen, this novel begins at her adolescence under the care of her ambitious and volatile mother. Narrating her time in the court of her brother Henry IV, the story follows Isabella to her eventual ascension to the throne beside Ferdinand of Aragon, and includes the intrigue, love affairs, and scandals that surrounded her throughout her journey to the throne.

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This engrossing and hypnotic tale of witchcraft and the occult spans four centuries of the prominent and wealthy Mayfair family, a dynasty of witches that is haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being over the ages. The Mayfair family tries to understand and destroy the terrible force that holds the family in its power in this first book of the Mayfair Witches series.

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Aristocrat, elegant and possessor of an innate charm, Michael Anstruther-Wetherby is a prominent member of Parliament. His relationship with the rich and influential Cynster (his sister is married to Devil Cynster, the Duke of St.. Ives) suggests that the future is assured. But it lacks a wife. Michael is released to the search for the ideal bride: a young woman from a good family to which shape at will and, if possible, with political contacts.

Cutting-edge gene mapping intertwines with ancient mysteries in this continuation of Rice's series of novels about witches and the supernatural. A "taltos" is the superhuman result of the crossbreeding of two human witches who possess an extra chromosome, almost a monster, the creature is capable of beastly behavior fuelled by an extraordinary sex drive.

Miami detective Mercedes Barren isn't phased by muchthat is, until a late-night phone call awakens her from one nightmare and catapults her into another: her niece has been murdered. She soon has a suspect in Douglas Jeffers, a disgruntled photojournalist who has committed a series of copycat murders while forcing a young English major to document his killing spree.

Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raoul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raoul and Aenea travel the river Tethys, pursued by Father Captain Frederico DeSoya, an influential warrior-priest and his troops.

The brilliant and acerbic Dr. Kay Scarpetta has settled in Charleston, where she has established a modern forensic laboratory in which her team works with his niece Lucy Faranelli, Rose and Pete Marino. This time, Scarpetta travels to Italy to investigate the bloody death of Drew Martin, a young and famous tennis player whose body has been found mutilated in the venerable historic center of Rome. The murderer is a man nicknamed the Sandman bec...

A few years ago, in a prison in England, Albert Michael Wensbourgh, a very violent prisoner, suddenly became a man of extreme kindness. What took place to operate such a personality change? Questioned, Wensbourgh told that an angel was the architect of this transformation, and when the psychiatrists and specialists studied the case, could not find any kind of imbalance in his mind. The case aroused the curiosity of many journalists, but it was...

Fed up with the hypocrisy of the LAPD, Harry Bosch has resigned and is forced to find a new way of life. But the life of a retiree doesn't suit him. He has always devoted himself to justice, and he is still drawn toward protectingor avengingthose whom the law has failed. When he left the LAPD Bosch took a file with him the case of a film production assistant murdered four years earlier during a $2 million robbery on a movie set. The LAPDnow op...

When a neighboring eighty-year-old dog owner turns up floating facedown in a canal shortly after an argument with a yuppie couple, V. I. Warshawski begins an investigation.