Dr. Avi Wolff is a geologist, with a specialty in hydrology. The World Bank has requested his assistance in mediating a recent dispute over the 1960Indus Water Treaty, an agreement between India and Pakistan that involves the water rights of six rivers. This is a powerful issue. And in the past it has brought India and Pakistan to the verge of nuclear war. Each of these rivers runs through India before they go into Pakistan. And whoever controls the water controls the lives of a co...

Thirteen years have passed since Reverend Dutch Harnell’s lifelong battle with depression took a darker plunge. Following the deaths of his wife and seven-year-old son in a school shooting, Dutch retreated from everyone. Now his twenty-six-year-old daughter Nettie is missing – his only child, the one who’d been spared. A friend of his daughter’s says he saw two men take her on the steps of her town house and shove her into the back of an old green and brown station wagon. Time for Dutch to...

  Lili (Leelee) Mack and Isaac Stalin are in their forties now and hiking The Way of St. James, from France into Northwest Spain and the Camino de Santiago. Lili knows that somewhere along the way the assassin her father hired to kill Isaac will do the job. Teens when they first meet, Stalin is responsible for an accident that caused Lili to lose part of her hearing. Thirty-one years later she rediscovered Isaac Stalin on an online dating service. Believing that Stalin had damaged his...

Twelve-year-old Franz lives in Prague, not far from the one-time home of the great literary figure, Kafka. Franz was even named for him. His mother, a GP who works at the university medical school, is worried about the rash on the boy’s hand. Something strange is going around. The boy’s father is an entomologist, who prefers painting to studying bugs. Franz has noticed he is being followed by a hirsute figure he calls the Wolf Lady. What does she want? Then following a tragedy, Franz is se...

Three intertwining stories: 1)Ann Silva has gone to Madrid to work at the conservation studio in the Museo del Prado. She is restoring a Flemish painting called Meeting on the Steps to Hades. The painter is Luc Grendel, a 16th-century Flemish painter and one of the three protégées of Hieronymus Bosh. 2)Taylor Bane is considering a run for the senate from California, but he has to rid himself of some bad baggage. In his college days, Taylor and a couple of his fraternity brothers brutally r...

It’s 1974 and Anthropologist Liora Womack has gone to Morocco to take back her life. A prison camp is a lot more than barbwire and guards. The Nazi Colonel who had imprisoned her so long ago was living in Tangier, an old man but not too old. She was ready to face him now, to say what needed to be said for so many, many years.

Rhea Waye always thought the marriage to her childhood sweetheart would last forever but it didn’t work out that way and the loss threw her into a depression, though not the sort one would have expected. She found herself weeping for a father who had left her mother two months before Rhea was born. And it’s this absence of a father that has now come back to haunt her, that empty part of her childhood. Her new therapist, Dr. Allison, said it best, “A new loss allows us to mourn all the othe...

Few images evoke a more powerful or frightening reaction than that of the assassin.Silently creeping into your room while you sleep, they plunge a pick deep inside your brain, or fill your snoring nostrils with poisonous vapour. Or perhaps skilled fingers from the shadows strike a vital point during mid-step; the coroners say it was a heart attack.Assassins are people to be feared, no doubt. But what do they fear? What do they dream of? What life, what world, are they longi...

Grab your honey, those wacky, wise-cracking guys are back in town! Yes, you gotta loveem The Sax Brothers! Whoa, mama, keep your daughters home tonight! Coco, Plato, and Bruno, the kings of cut up, the merry men of mayhem. Watch your favorite psychos do their infamous side-splitting, killer routine, Hotel of Horrors. Better skip room service!

Howard Fast's 1987 New York Times bestseller, a tight political drama that remains just as relevant today as when it was first writtenFast's 1987 novel The Dinner Party confronts issues including American intervention in Latin America and the AIDS epidemic. Often compared to a play, The Dinner Party takes place during a single day, culminating in a party hosted by Richard Cromwell, a US Senator whose wealthy entrepreneur father-in-law is ...

New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan brings us her latest novel: a sweeping, evocative epic of two women’s intertwined fates and their search for identity—from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese villageShanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the privileged daughter of the American madam of the city’s most exclusive courtesan house. But when the Ching dynasty is overturned, Violet is separ...