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Forensic psychologist Breeze Copens has a gift. She not only hears the truth, she also sees it, through the rare psychological condition synethesia. So she knows when Daryl Collins-a born-again but remorseless con jailed in Seattle for armed robbery-is lying. What she doesn't know is the identity of a little girl in a blue dress with yellow daisies who appears suddenly in her line of vision during her interview with Daryl. And Daryl isn't tell...

Rebecca Fraser's biography places Charlotte's life within the perceptual framework of contemporary attitudes to women.

A young woman is found murdered ...and the clues to her death point to her spurned lover, Paul Cezanne. In this richly atmospheric novel, a mysterious young woman named Solange Vernet arrives in Aix-en-Provence with her lover, a Darwinian scholar named Charles Westbury, and a year later is found strangled in a quarry outside the city. The young and inexperienced magistrate, Bernard Martin, finds his investigation caught in the crossfires of a...

A groundbreaking study on the relationship between mental and physical health. A stomach ache before a job interview is common enough--but how else can the mind affect the body? Can conditions like heart disease, cancer, asthma or arthritis be exacerbated, or relieved, by our own thoughts and feelings? Have you ever wondered why people get sick when they do? Does the mind really affect the body? And why does modern medicine seem to have so li...

A macabre, terrifying thriller."-Library Journal "A nightmare of sex, murder, and madness."-Kirkus Reviews "Told with great power. . . . A stunning achievement."-The Boston Globe "Nancy Zaroulis has a fierce sense of history. . . . A magnificent storyteller."-The Plain Dealer "Fascinating. . . . It would be interesting to see what Alfred Hitchcock would do with this material."-Publishers Weekly A woman with a secret of adulterous love in her p...

In his splendid study The Siege of Vienna, the Oxford historian John Stoye provides a detailed account of the intricate machinations between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans. Mr. Stoye's description of the siege itself is masterly. He seems to know every inch of ground, every earthwork and fortification around the Imperial City, and he follows the action meticulously."-The Wall Street Journal "Worthy of the pen of Herodotus. . . . It is a measur...

Susan Kelly has a quiet dignity and honesty."-Atlanta Journal-Constitution College roommates in 1947, Frances and Libba forge an unlikely friendship that only ends with Frances' lingering death. As secrets and betrayals begin to emerge, Frances' three children strive to resolve their resentment toward their mother's best friend. A poignant, stylish novel about the darker side of Southern mores, by the acclaimed Susan Kelly. Susan Kelly is t...

They've been friends since their college days-Shotsie, Bess, and Claire-and the twenty years since have gotten them husbands, children, mortgages, assorted body patches, one handgun, a hysterectomy, and lots of neurosis. Still, at least once a year they again have each other. And Ian. This year, in this affecting, sly, bittersweet novel, they are gathering along with their husbands at Dune Ridge on the coast of North Carolina near the close o...

The third novel in an imaginative Victorian series narrated by the young Arthur Conan Doyle. As the inspirational model for Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant and eccentric Dr. Bell properly takes charge of the cryptic codes that figure in this ingenious mystery."-Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review "Pirie's knowledge of Doyle's biography, as well as of the Holmes canon, makes him an intellectual treat and a downright guilty pleasure."-...

Miller chronicles his senior year with North Carolinas famed basketball program, taking readers inside the locker room, on the court, and behind the scenes, in this unique book written about one of the most famous college sports dynasties of all time.

An ancient conspiracy links the secret alchemy of Isaac Newton to modern day New York.

It's the story of a lurid murder in San Francisco. The case of Jordan Alexander, a socialite, would have never gone to trial if district attorney Peter Granucci hadn't been preparing to run for mayor. Granucci chooses Destiny Mitchell, a young black woman, to prosecute Jordan, the mayor's best friend, in this difficult and highly publicized case. Jordan is accused of brutally murdering his ex-wife in her Pacific Heights home. He denies any inv...

Rare and fantastic."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "London's dark heart has seldom been exposed with such surgical precision. Brutal, mesmerizing stuff."-Ian Rankin "Highly recommended for adult mystery collections."-Library Journal (starred review) "A beautifully written and constructed thriller. . . . Raw violence explodes on almost every page, and there are some artfully awful villains."-Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A powerful writer who...

From their heroic feats on the battlefields of World War I to the rise of Hitler and a tragic culmination at Treblinka, this is one family s extraordinary history.

The glamorous adventures--and enticing temptations--of Japanese nightlife are laid bare in this introspective book. A former model guides readers through the largely unreported modern geisha lifestyle.

With the fate of the Catholic Church hanging in the balance, a debut thriller of religious ambition gone horribly wrong.

The remarkable adventures of a Russian princess set against the tumult of the twentieth century.

Neverland" offers a fascinating account of the psychological web in which [J.M.] Barrie trapped the tragic du Maurier family (David Lodge), who became the inspiration for the Darling family in Barrie's immortal "Peter Pan.

A beautiful young woman is found murdered . . . and the clues to her death point to her spurned lover, Paul Cezanne.

Columbus is back and as deadly as ever. But the hunter has now become the hunted, in this sequel to the national bestseller "The Silver Bear.