Books in Thorndike Large Print Crime Scene series

In the bestselling tradition of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta, M. R. Hall's Jenny Cooper makes her debut as a coroner with a detective's eye and a woman with a home life as complicated as her cases.Jenny investigates the case of two young Muslim students who vanished seven years ago -- sufficient time for her to declare them legally dead. The police had concluded that they had fled to Pakistan to traffic in the atrocities of Islamic fanaticism. But as her official inquest progresses, Jenny detects the unmistakable stench of corruption.

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorArt restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to discover the truth behind a bombing which killed an old friend, but while there he encounters something that turns his world upside down. It is a face - a face that feels hauntingly familiar, yet chills him to the bone and sends him on an urgent hunt for a name, a history, a connection. This uncommonly intelligent thriller is filled with sharply etched characters and prose, and a plot of astonishing intricacy and resonance.

A New York Times BestsellerA Book-of-the-Month Club Main Selection When we meet Susie Salmon, she's already in heaven. She tells us, in the voice of a fourteen-year-old, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. Susie watches life after her disappearance: her loved ones hoping she'll be found, her killer covering his tracks. She sees her family face the worst -- then, in time, pass through grief and begin to mend. Included in Basic 5 and 6.

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA notorious treasure hunter and tomb robber, Maxwell Broadbent accumulated over a half billion dollars' worth of priceless art, gems, and artifacts before vanishing - along with his entire collection. At first, robbery is suspected, but the truth proves far stranger: As a final challenge to his three sons, Broadbent has buried himself and his treasure somewhere in the world, hidden away like an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.

A New York Times Bestseller In 2002 Lynne Truss presented a well-received BBC Radio 4 series about punctuation which led to the writing of Eats, Shoots & Leaves. The book became a runaway success in the UK, hitting number one on the bestseller lists and prompting extraordinary headlines such as "Grammar Book Tops Bestseller List" (BBC News). With over a half million copies in print in England, Truss is ready to rally the troops on this side of the pond with her rousing cry, "Sticklers unite!" Available only in Core 7.

A New York Times Bestselling AuthorArtist, computer whiz, and professional thief Kidd returns with his sometime partner/sometime lover LuEllen in an electrifying novel of murder and Machiavellian intrigue. When Kidd's superhacker friend, Bobby, disappears from cyberspace, Kidd goes to his house and finds him dead and his laptop missing. The secrets on that laptop are potent enough to hang Kidd and everybody else in Bobby's circle, just for starters.