Led by Bram, a bioengineer, humans recreated by the alien Nar from an intercepted message from Earth seek to uncover the roots of their existence on the far-distant, forbidden planet Earth

A killer takes refuge in the blacked-out streets of wartime London, upending the world of one of Britain’s greatest painters in this chilling and captivating reimagining of the life of Francis BaconFrancis Bacon walks the streets of World War II London, employed as a warden for the ARP to keep watch for activities that might tip off the Axis powers. Before the war, Bacon had travelled to Berlin and Paris picking up snatches of culture from a succession of middle-aged men charmed by his young face. Known for his flamboyant personal life and expensive taste, Bacon has returned home to live with his former nanny—who’s also his biggest collector—in a cramped bohemian apartment. But one night, death intrudes on his after-hours paradise. When a young man is found dead in the park, his head smashed in, Bacon and the rest of London’s demimonde realize that they have much more to fear than the faraway scream of war.

Product Description: When a raging fire destroys the modern mansion of wealthy restauranteur Joseph Skane and kills his disabled wife, Mrs. Skane's nurse, Maria, is arrested for arson and murder. Soon afterward, a mysterious caller hired investigator Anna Peters to help with Maria's defense...read more

Product Description: In the style of National Treasure hit films, Janice Law's fast-paced fiction thriller discloses how a wicked secret double-encrypted in an 18th century diary, intersects dramatically with 16th century Vatican art under the U.S. Capitol dome from which a gadfly journalist plunges to his death...read more

Product Description: When the night magic transforms statues inside the U.S. Capitol into the famous historical personalities they were in life, Capitol Cat & Watch Dog recruit them as a secret Nighttime Congress to lobby for the reunion of two Lady Freedoms--American symbols who have been separated for more than 200 years...read more

Product Description: Book by Law, Janice

When Deputy Joseph Richard Quinn and three other veteran Harris County, Texas, sheriff's deputies with guns drawn, burst into an apartment the night of September 17, 1998, searching for a black male with a gun, their shocking discovery in the back bedroom triggered a chain of events resulting in a 2003 U. S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas that state laws criminalizing consensual, adult sodomy are unconstitutional. The landmark Lawrence ruling is the trigger event kicking away roadblocks to gay marriage. Lawrence remains in headlines today, in a larger cultural war, over adoption, employee benefits, the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, and related issues of judicial activism.

Product Description: "This is a fresh, well plotted story from a writer who mixes venerated clue-chasing techniques with current political dynamite..."--Hartford Courant

Months after suffering a miscarriage, Leslie begins to harbor suspicions about the first five years of her life and wonders if she is the same person who was kidnapped twenty-five earlier from a Connecticut home. 10,000 first printing.

Professor Jason 'Lars' Larson, a scholar at a prestigious Connecticut university, is delighted to assist the beautiful young Iris Weed with her offbeat independent study, but when Iris is killed in a vicious attack in a parking lot, Lars finds himself the prime suspect in the crime. By the author of The Night Bus.

Catherine Tolland must battle through her mental problems as she struggles to recall why she attempted to run away from her husband with no money or identification and why she has such a paralyzing fear. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: In 1664, Marquise Athénaïs de Montespan returned to the Court of Versailles. At twenty-three, she was young, beautiful, and highly intelligent, but burdened with a young son, a mad husband, and big debts. The way to power and prosperity at Versailles led through Louis XIV, well known for his susceptibility to pretty ladies...read more

Product Description: Set at the time of the North Sea oil boom, The Big Payoff marks the debut of Anna Peters, the witty, cynical character Booklist called "among the most complex, fully drawn female leads in crime fiction" and whom the New York Times lauded for her "sweetly unscrupulous deals"...read more

Product Description: Anna Peters, the unorthodox New World Oil Company researcher, learns the price of the good research job she obtained after her successful adventures in The Big Payoff. The Chairman of the Board wants her to do a little favor: track down Crystal Blythe, a feckless young woman soon to inherit the lions share of New World stock...read more

Product Description: Anna Peters, the unorthodox New World Oil Company researcher, gets tapped for a delicate mission to pre-unification Germany: collect an East German oil chemist who has discovered how to separate oil from sea water. If genuine, the new process means huge profits...read more

Product Description: Anna Peters has married her long time lover Harry Radford and the couple is off for a honeymoon in St. Andrews, Scotland, courtesy of Harry's commission to make illustrations of the British Open Golf Tournament.Soon after they arrive in the famous old resort, golf, and university town, one of Annas former clients asks a small favor: could she possibly look into a few incidents of minor vandalism at the Old Course? A simple matter, surely, and with Harry busy sketching golfers, Anna doesnt expect more than a few hours of work...read more

Summoned to Florida by her old mentor, Anna Peters is drawn into a grasping, glamorous society and into a vicious smuggling operation involving very high stakes, ruthless criminals, and extreme peril to Anna and her friend, John Hillary

Private investigator Anna Peters is not convinced about her client's innocence when she agrees to help hockey star Jurgen Parks clear himself of his teammate's murder, and when she arrives in Florida to start work, she must find out fast who is telling the truth. Reprint. AB.

Hired to investigate the death of an action/adventure movie star, Anna Peters explores the actor's latest production site and finds that the truth is about as exciting as the victim's scripts. Reprint. LJ. K. PW.

Entreated by an anonymous caller to clear nurse Maria Rivas of a murder charge, Anna Peters follows a trail from Washington, D.C., to Tucson, during which she realizes that the involved parties know much more than they are telling. Reprint. AB.

A fourteen-year-old girl is murdered in the affluent town of Branch Hill, and Anna must probe the neighbors' dark secrets and find the high-society killer