Set against a backdrop of true crime in the early 1960s, Lilac City shows how crimes were solved in the days before DNA, computers, cell phones, and many other conveniences that facilitate present-day law enforcement.In the spring of 1960, residents of Spokane, in eastern Washington state, were trying to understand what was happening to their city. Just a year earlier, a nine-year-old girl selling Campfire mints was abducted, raped, and murdered. The case remained unsolved. Then, o...

A century of political, military, and social history come together in a devastating confluence of evil in this panoramic tale woven out of seemingly unconnected people and events. The fictional plot is intricately interwoven with little-known historical facts that make the incredible story frighteningly believable.A treasure hunter in Key West in the 1950s, a helicopter pilot in Vietnam in the 1960s, anti-war activists in the 1970s, eco-warriors in the 1980s, post-cold war subversi...

By the time he was 77 years old, David Adelman knew that his body was failing.When he read about a seminar that would explore the medical possibilities for getting a fresh chance at being young, David's curiosity was more than just academic.Despite his skepticism, he buys a $25,000 membership in the Human Transmigration Project; and ten years later, barely clinging to life, he learns that he holds the winning ticket in mankind's greatest lottery. And this isn't a simple game of cha...

A car collector looking for a place to store his vintage Studebakers stumbles across a name carved in a wooden beam from a century-old building. Just a quarter mile away, the skeletal remains of a young woman are found outside a homeless camp. The investigation that Corrigan starts as a favor to his old friend quickly becomes a nightmare beyond anything he could have imagined. As the body count rises, the mystery spirals ever deeper until it takes on a life of its own. For decades, childre...

Get on the case with Kathryn Dance.Three novels featuring California Bureau of Investigations body language expert Agent Kathryn Dance from internationally bestselling suspense master and seven-time Edgar Award nominee Jeffery Deaver, plus an excerpt from the next Kathryn Dance novel, XO (publishing June 2012).The Cold MoonOn a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering over New York City, two peopl...

**"An exciting first novel that echoes the best writing of Pete Hamill and George Pelecanos, mixed with bits of The Wire and True Detective."—The Miami HeraldThe electrifying first novel in a new crime series from a veteran Washington, D.C., reporter**Sarah Reese, the teenage daughter of a powerful Washington, D.C. judge, is dead, her body discovered in a slum in the shadow of the Capitol. Though the police promptly arrest three local black...

A coming-of-age romantic mystery -- that takes place, in part, along historic Route 66 -- written by *USA Today* bestselling author Marilyn Brant!~Sometimes the only road to the truth...is one you've never taken.~"Until I found Gideon's journal in the tool shed -- locked in the cedar box where I'd once hidden my old diary -- I'd been led to believe my brother was dead. But the contents of his journal changed all that."The Road to Discovery...Two years ago, Au...

This collection of laugh-out-loud jokes, one-liners, and other lighthearted glimpses of life-drawn from Reader's Digest magazine's most popular humor columns-is sure to tickle the funny bone. Packed with more than 1,000 jokes, anecdotes, cartoons, quotes, and stories contributed by professional comedians, joke writers, and readers of the magazine, this side-splitting compilation pokes fun at the facts and foibles of daily routines, illustrating that life is often funnier than fict...

"A truly great writer" returns to the Midwest characters and setting of his landmark debut novel, The End of Vandalism ( Esquire).When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother who abandoned him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. He does new drugs with new people, falls in love with an enchanting but troubled equestrienne named Charlotte, and gets thrown out of ...

Detroit Police Detective Russ Baker is in charge of Cold Cases and with his partner, Mary, and their ghostly friend and partner, Wes Loomis, they have to solve murders to be able to send the victim’s spirits to the hereafter. Their Captain came to them with a problem, it seems that the old Michigan Central Train Station has ghosts haunting the workers who are trying to clean out the station for renovation. They find seven ghosts who all have cases of murder forcing them to haunt the statio...

With hundreds of funky vehicles, awe-inspiring landscapes, and cleverly designed interiors in tiny spaces, Van Life is perfect for anyone who dreams about living on the open road.More and more people of all generations--from millennials to baby boomers--are taking a break from conventional life for the freedom, tranquility, and adventure of being on the road and living in a converted vintage truck, camper, or van. One of these van-dwellers, Foster Huntingt...

Dexter Nash was a killer. He murdered for money and it was a business to him. He came out of a bad marriage and decided with all the money he earned murdering people, that he had hidden away, he would retire. A visit to a bar he used to frequent to get his hits from the man who procured other hitmen was his first mistake. His misfortune was to meet the woman who would turn his world around and not in a good way. He then met a man who was looking for the woman and wanted something back that...