Product Description: Detective Michael Gideon is used to being handed L.A.’s oddest cases, but his newest one assigned itself. When Gideon’s K-9 partner, Sirius, rescues a lost dog from a pack of coyotes, the duo tries to return her home―only to discover her owner is missing...read more

Nina Granville believes her business trip to Alaska will give her a short respite from the merry-go-round that came with her engagement to Congressman Terrence Donnelly. But instead of allowing her the peace she craves, Nina’s getaway from the public eye means that no one witnesses her abduction into a very cold hell.Taken by a mountain man who calls himself Baer and then transported to a remote cabin surrounded by nothing but frozen wilderness, Nina descends into a nightmare of terror, privation, and bitter cold. Nina’s privileged life did not prepare her for imprisonment at the hands of this survivalist trapper. If she is to live―and to escape―Nina realizes she must do it on her own.Undaunted and with startling determination, Nina pits herself against her captor, her fear, and nature itself in a battle for her life―but can she win against such deadly opponents?

Product Description: When Santa Claus is a cop, you better watch out.It’s not looking like a very merry Christmas for San Diego cop Nick Pappas. Suspended from his job, alienated from his family, and persecuted by the press, he’s sorely tempted to turn his gun on himself...read more

Product Description: Capturing the seedy and sordid side of life isn’t anything new for photojournalist-turned-paparazzo Graham Wells. But when a shoot turns deadly―secretly causing the car crash that takes the lives of two beloved public figures―he knows the ensuing media spotlight could easily destroy him...read more

As the sole members of LAPD’s Special Cases Unit, Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius work investigations considered bizarre even by Los Angeles’s standards. Yet their latest case is more than strange—it might be out of this world.Ronald “Wrong” Pauley is a homeless man long fallen from grace. When Pauley’s late-night drinking is interrupted by a detonation of light, he sees what he describes as a “being of light” in the alley below. Pauley tries to help, but ends up as a witness to what he believes is the murder of a fallen angel.Gideon and Sirius are already in the midst of trying to determine the identity of the so-called “Reluctant Hero” who seemed to magically appear just moments after shots began ringing out at an elementary school. Braving gunfire, the hero tackled the shooter, and then disappeared. Both cases defy easy answers, but when Pauley turns up dead, the detectives are left with two murders to solve and lots of questions. Gideon and Sirius—along with help from a newfound friend—investigate that thin line between the real and surreal to make sense of these possible crimes.

Product Description: As the sole members of LAPD’s Special Cases Unit, Detective Michael Gideon and his German shepherd partner Sirius work investigations considered bizarre even by Los Angeles’s standards. Yet their latest case is more than strange―it might be out of this world...read more

Product Description: Caleb Parker has been on the run from his past ever since his father, a serial murderer known by the name of Shame, was electrocuted by the state of Florida. Wishing for nothing more than to start life anew and away from the dark shadows of his past, Caleb tries to distance himself from his father’s legacy by moving to California...read more

Product Description: Nominated for the Anthony and Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Novel of the YearHolly Troy's mind is a complex maze of myth and reality, multiple personalities vying for time in the spotlight. As an artist, she is creative and compelling...read more

Product Description: Caleb Parker has been on the run from his past ever since his father, a serial murderer known by the name of Shame, was electrocuted by the state of Florida. Wishing for nothing more than to start life anew and away from the dark shadows of his past, Caleb tries to distance himself from his father’s legacy by moving to California...read more

When her art gallery owner is brutally murdered, Holly Troy, a sculptor suffering from dissociative identity disorder, cannot remember if she witnessed the crime, or actually committed it. Original.

Product Description: LAPD cop Michael Gideon and his police dog partner Sirius became reluctant celebrities after capturing a notorious serial killer in the midst of an inferno. For their heroism, they were chosen to head up the newly formed Special Cases Unit...read more

Product Description: When LAPD detective Michael Gideon and his police-dog partner Sirius are assigned to the Special Cases Unit (SCU), Gideon knows their work lives will be anything but ordinary. SCU gets the cases no one else wants, the unusual and bizarre crimes that need special handling and special investigators...read more

Novice hotelier Am Caulfield, left happily in charge of a luxurious southern California resort, is underprepared for the ensuing mayhem, which includes a grisly double murder that must be solved before his boss's return

When a doctor investigating fraud in a visiting New Age cult winds up dead, hotel detective Am Caulfield scours the premises for clues while struggling to keep a group of swingers under control

Foiling a murder attempt on a recently deceased congressman's daughter, investigator Will Travis finds himself in over his head when the woman tells him that her father was actually murdered by a presidential candidate. Reprint.

Product Description: Experts in global conflict, international political economy, business, and ethics assess the impact of the biotechnological revolution on agriculture, bio-diversity, the environment, North-South, and biological warfare. The first section considers the nature of the science itself, the normative questions raised and the significance of gender responses...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: On 13 February 1945 Dresden, one of the most beautiful and historic cities of Europe, was destroyed by British and American air raids. This book is the first comprehensive history in the English language of this important cultural and historical centre...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A stunning and moving history of Dresden and its environs. Experts from the fields of history, politics, literature, the arts, and defense contributed to the book, which tells the history of Dresden from its foundation in the early thirteenth century through the controversial fire bombing in World War II to the end of communist rule in Germany and the renaissance it is now undergoing...read more

Caleb Parker, whose father had been one of the most notorious serial killers of all time, finds himself on the run when a series of corpses is found bearing the same marks that his father used. 15,000 first printing.

While investigating the death of an art dealer, Detective Orson Cheever encounters the dangerous Holly Troy, an enchanting woman with multiple personalities who appear in the form of classical gods. 15,000 first printing.

When beautiful, deaf heiress Anita Walters vanishes, Stuart Winter looks to those involved in her bizarre nightlife and to Joseph, the gorilla to whom she had been teaching sign language, for clues. Reprint. K. NYT.

When the controversial environmental activist, Christopher Shepard, also known as Green Man, is killed by a falling redwood, a radical conservation group hires private investigator Stuart Winter to find out who killed Shepard.