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A New York Times bestseller When police officer Robicheaux learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, has been the victim of a brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn't realize is that in doing so he is inviting into his life - and into the lives of those around him - an ancestral evil that could destroy them all.

A New York Times Bestseller "I am The Owl," he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, "and nighttime is my time." Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, to attend her twenty-year reunion at Stonecroft Academy, where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There is, however, something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted drowned in her pool during an early-morning swim - the fifth woman in the class whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end. Struggling to conceal her fears, Jean arrives at the hotel where the reunion is being held. She does not suspect that among the distinguished people she is greeting is The Owl, a murderer nearing the countdown on his mission of vengeance . . .About the author: Mary Higgins Clark is America's undisputed "Queen of Suspense." Clark's first book was a biographical novel about the life of George Washington, Aspire to the Heavens. It was remaindered as it came off the press. Her second book was a suspense novel, Where Are the Children?, which became a bestseller. Mary Higgins Clark lives in Saddle River, New Jersey; but also has an apartment in Manhattan and summer homes in Spring Lake, New Jersey and Dennis, Massachusetts.

With impeccable research and flawless prose, Chevalier perfectly conjures the grandeur of the pristine Wild West . . . and the everyday adventurers male and female who were bold enough or foolish enough to be drawn to the unknown. She crafts for us an excellent experience. USA Today From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier, a riveting drama of a pioneer family on the American frontier 1838: James and Sadie Goodenough have settled where their wagon got stuck in the muddy, stagnant swamps of northwest Ohio. They and their five children work relentlessly to tame their patch of land, buying saplings from a local tree man known as John Appleseed so they can cultivate the fifty apple trees required to stake their claim on the property. But the orchard they plant sows the seeds of a long battle. James loves the apples, reminders of an easier life back in Connecticut; while Sadie prefers the applejack they make, an alcoholic refuge from brutal frontier life. 1853: Their youngest child Robert is wandering through Gold Rush California. Restless and haunted by the broken family he left behind, he has made his way alone across the country. In the redwood and giant sequoia groves he finds some solace, collecting seeds for a naturalist who sells plants from the new world to the gardeners of England. But you can run only so far, even in America, and when Robert s past makes an unexpected appearance he must decide whether to strike out again or stake his own claim to a home at last. Chevalier tells a fierce, beautifully crafted story in At the Edge of the Orchard, her most graceful and richly imagined work yet. From the Hardcover edition."

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorAt the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. At age twenty-eight, a successful interior designer in Manhattan, Liza (now Celia) marries a childless sixty-year-old widower, Laurence Foster, and they have a son. Before their marriage, she reveals to him her true identity. Two years later, after Laurence's death, Celia is happily remarried, but her happiness is shattered when her new husband, Alex Nolan, surprises her with a gift - the house in Mendham, New Jersey, where she killed her mother. More and more, there are signs that someone in the community knows Celia's true identity. When Georgette Grove, the real estate agent who sold the house to Alex, is brutally murdered and Celia is the first on the crime scene, she becomes a suspect. As Celia fights to prove her innocence, she is not aware that she and her son, Jack, are now the targets of a killer.Mary Higgins Clark is America's undisputed "Queen of Suspense." Clark's first book was a biographical novel about the life of George Washington, Aspire to the Heavens. It was remaindered as it came off the press. Her second book was a suspense novel, Where Are the Children?, which became a bestseller. Mary Higgins Clark lives in Saddle River, New Jersey; but also has an apartment in Manhattan and summer homes in Spring Lake, New Jersey and Dennis, Massachusetts.

The murder of a notorious public figure places Paradise, Massachusetts, police chief Jesse Stone in the harsh glare of the media spotlight. When the body of controversial talk-show host Walton Weeks is discovered hanging from a tree on the outskirts of Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone finds himself at the center of a highly public case, forcing him to deal with small-minded local officials and national media scrutiny. When another dead body-that of a young woman-is discovered just a few days later, the pressure becomes almost unbearable. Two victims in less than a week should provide a host of clues, but all Jesse runs into are dead ends. But what may be the most disturbing aspect of these murders is the fact that no one seems to care-not a single one of Weeks's ex-wives, not the family of the girl. And when the medical examiner reveals a heartbreaking link between the two departed souls, the mystery only deepens. Despite Weeks's reputation and the girl's tender age, Jesse is hard-pressed to find legitimate suspects. Though the crimes are perhaps the most gruesome Jesse has ever witnessed, it is the malevolence behind them that makes them all the more frightening. Forced to delve into a world of stormy relationships, Jesse soon comes to realize that knowing whom he can trust is indeed a matter of life and death.

New York Times bestsellerNew York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns to the haunting Southern landscape he knows so well with this magnificent psychological thriller rich in forensic detail and penetrating insight into the nature of evil. Catherine "Cat" Ferry is a forensic odontologist, a specialist in bite marks and the clues they provide. A world-class scientist, she secretly attempts to manage her fragile psyche with alcohol, delving into the minds of rapists and murderers yet never allowing her own frightening past to creep into the foreground. Then one morning she's paralyzed by a panic attack at a grisly murder scene in New Orleans. When she retreats to her family's secluded antebellum estate in Mississippi, Cat is shocked to accidentally discover clues to the murder of her father decades ago. Soon, both she and the FBI realize that the murders occurring now in New Orleans are bound up with Cat's family and her past. Greg Iles lives in Natchez, Mississippi Iles is the award-winning author of many New York Times bestsellers, including The Footprints of God, The Quiet Game, Mortal Fear, Sleep No More, and 24 Hours (released as the major motion picture TRAPPED)

The celebrated series continues as a troubled teenager accused of a horrific crime draws Spenser into one of the most desperate cases of his career. Lily Ellsworth - erect, firm, white-haired, and stylish - is the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts, and possesses an iron will and a bottomless purse. When she hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting, Spenser is led into an inquiry that grows more harrowing at every turn. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared's being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence. Jared's parents are resigned to his fate, and the boy himself doesn't seem to care whether he goes to prison for a crime he might not have committed. Robert B. Parker, the author of more than forty novels, has long been acknowledged as the dean of American crime fiction and has been named Grand Master of the 2002 Edgar awards by the Mystery Writers of America, an honor shared with earlier masters such as Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen. Parker's fictional Spenser inspired the ABC-TV series "Spenser: For Hire." More recently, the Spenser novels Small Vices and Thin Air have been made into television films for the A&E network. Robert B. Parker lives in Boston.