The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in November 2007, became an international sensation when one of her housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, was charged with the murder. This is a mesmerizing literary investigation of the crime, the trial, the machinations of Italian justice, and the clash of cultures in one of central Italy's most beloved cities.

A history of the birth of Egyptology traces the pivotal contributions of 151 European scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and artists who were brought into Egypt by Napoleon's invading army to document and classify every aspect of the region.

A portrait of the naturalist who founded the Smithsonian Institute notes the fierce political and interpersonal battles that nearly prevented the museum's establishment and recounts the intervention of such individuals as John Quincy Adams that enabled its recovery. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A gripping account of the murder of JFK mistress Mary Pinchot Meyer--who was killed in 1964--chronicles her short life, her CIA family connections, and her relationship with the president, speculating on the existence of a diary and running through the list of potential suspects in the murder. Reprint.