When V.I. Warshawski is hired to investigate the fire at the hotel, her aunt disappears, and her aunt's young friend is found dead at a construction site. V.I. is warned off the case by both a high-ranking police officer and a major Chicago developer-who also happens to be a close friend of the chairman of the Cook County Board. After three terrifying attempts on her life. V.I. doesn't know whether it's the politicians, the police, or the developers...

It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple into their home to investigate. Amid rumors of scandal, she baits...

High school sweethearts get a second chance after twenty-three years apart.

In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own...

Barley Blair suddenly possesses a sheaf of military secrets that could profoundly alter the course of history. British Intelligence wants him to find out who gave him the documents and why.

John, a travel guide writer, out of necessity begins writing the biography of a racehorse trainer and encounters unforeseen dangers.

Bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beloved, enduring stories . . . Hoping to escape the shame of her street urchin's life in Boston, Anna Reardon plotted a desperate scheme-to become Karl Lindstrom's mail-order bride in the beautiful, dangerous frontier of Minnesota. A kind and gentle man, Karl forgave Anna for her deceptions. But there was still one burning secret she had to hide from him, knowing its revelation would destroy...

Follows the experiences of Heaven, one of the very poor Casteel children who are sold to different families by their father.

The assignment from his editor is to produce a special Sunday supplement on interior decorating. For Qwilleran and his Siamese investigative cat, even interior decoration has its interesting side, murder for instance.

Wounded in the Falklands War, Sandman teaches himself to walk again and heads home. His wife, children, and money are gone. Only his rotting 38-foot ketch remains and TV star Tony Bannister offers to help him restore the boat in exchange for a favor.