The Competition is a new kind of novel -- a fast-paced, sophisticated architectural thriller. The books dry humor and intriguing characters, along with its intricate, suspenseful plot, provide all of the necessary ingredients for a brilliant new genre.When washed-up architect William Lightstone Travers enters a design competition for the new Governors Mansion in Indianapolis, he discovers graft and murder are part of the process. Can Travers save his troubled career and wi...

The treasures of Mississippi brought to board book form for the youngest book lovers. Toddlers will delight in this book filled with rhyming riddles framed by brightly painted clues, introducing the elements that make Mississippi so special.

Did you know that natives of the Northwest used dried sharkskin to sand totem poles? Or that horses were called medicine dogs, because dogs had been used to aid in hunting before horses were introduced by Europeans? In "D is for Drum: A Native America Alphabet," readers will get an A-Z introduction to the many customs and cultures of the first people of this beautiful land. Bison, teepees, Kachinas and dugout canoes will all help to paint a fascinating picture of the more than 500 indigeno...

Construction equipment has long been a favorite of little readers and D is for Dump Truck takes children on an A to Z exploration of a fun backyard construction site. With bouncy poems for each letter and a glossary in the back, this book brings the thrill of construction up close and personal.

**FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND CREATOR OF THE NETFLIX MEGA-HIT I WILL FIND YOU!**'THE MASTER OF MULTIPLE TWISTS' THE TIMES'THE KING OF THE THRILLER' JACK EDWARDS'MY FAVOURITE THRILLER WRITER EVER' REESE WITHERSPOOON'SIMPLY ONE OF THE ALL TIME GREATS' GILLIAN FLYNNA life built on lies.A love that could kill....

It started with a haunting image: a Ford Explorer, iridescent in the moonlight and alone on a desolate stretch of beach. Its owner, Melissa Gibbons, has gone missing. Her husband says she flew the coop. But Los Angeles Deputy DA Rachel Knight is convinced otherwise: Melissa Gibbons has been murdered.So begins the confounding case that Rachel must present before a disbelieving jury. A dissatisfied heiress and her philandering husband -- what really happened? The husband has a fiendis...

Frank Burrows is a two-bit, small-town lawyer in anybody's book, including his own, and now he finds himself center stage in a case involving murder, arson, and computer crimes. This time, however, he isn't representing an accused, he is the accused. A state fire marshal investigator wants him for arson. A Georgia state police investigator wants him for murder, and someone wants him out of the way bad enough to kill, and all for a reason Frank can't fathom. Everywhere Frank turns for answe...

A fast-paced, fashionable, and "intriguing novel [that] may not be as far-fetched as you think" from the author of Spy in a Little Black Dress (Kitty Kelley, New York Times bestselling author of Jackie Oh!).Young Jacqueline Bouvier's first CIA assignment was supposed to be simple: Meet with a high-ranking Russian while he's in Paris and help him defect. But when the Comrade ends up dead, and Jackie-in her black satin peep-toe stiletto hee...

Tulsa Torrent, America's biggest lumber company, is stunned and horrified when two of its key scientists are brutally murdered. It seems the deceased were part of a team developing an oil-producing tree, and a lot of interested parties were looking to grease their palms.Before anyone else is pulped, top-secret government agents Remo and Chiun are sent in to observe the project. But danger lies at every turn, and when an environmentalist group enters the picture, determined to kick ...

A police detective is accused of murder in this novel that "delivers on all levels: action, courtroom drama . . . and a show-stopping climax" ( The Hamilton Spectator).Until recently, Steve Nastos was a respected Toronto detective, part of the sexual assault unit. Now he's in custody—accused of killing his young daughter's dentist after learning of the man's unspeakable crimes against children.Freed on bail, he has one hope: to track down the actua...

Clifford Montgomery has been separated from the love of his life since she was kidnapped years ago. Her location was discovered shortly after her abduction, but in order to keep her safe from those who want her dead, she has remained far away. Meanwhile, Cliff’s love for her has only intensified.The only problem is that she can’t remember him. Cliff must wrestle with the anticipation of reuniting with his lost love and the fact that she doesn’t know he exists. Will she remember him...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Angel Down, Whalefall, The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, Scowler, and more, comes Rotters.Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-o...