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Phoebe Summerville scandalised her father's football team, a nd the media, by wearing an ivory jacket and thigh-high split skirt teame...

Anna used to be a college student, but after three years at the bottom of a Chicagoan werewolf pack that life seems very far away. The alpha...

Academic Paul Calloway was a little concerned about moving from the security of Boston to a quiet mid-western town, but it's a career op...

The news that scientist Arthur Marshak is on the verge of being able to create replacement organs is met with both acclamation and condemnat...

When reporter Ellen Gleeson encountered an abandoned baby while writing a story of neonatal intensive care she fell in love with the infant ...

Bill Brockton, head of the world famous Bone Farm, is participating in a terrorism safety drill when he’s called to a death in nearby Oak Ri...

When Elena Alvarez fights with Dimitri, her sometimes lover and head chef at Vancouver's Blue Turtle, it's the last straw. When the ...

Forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver is mostly enjoying his conference in France, which is more than can be said for his friend FBI agent J...

Jane Whitefield gave away helping people escape their pursuers when she married her New York surgeon husband, and she embraced her new life ...

Bob Howard is a desk jockey keen to move into field work. He works for Britain's ultra-secret intelligence agency known as the Laundry, ...

Bella Swan has returned to her childhood home in the small town of Forks, Washington, and the father her mother left when she was an infant....

From the dustjacket: Here is the Bible's story as it has never been told before. The Bible as an epic novel, with all its sweeping actio...

When she discovers, on watching the evening news, that her cousin's daughter is missing barrister Trish Maguire is shicked and feels com...

Eight years after the Change that removed technology and much of civilisation from the face of the earth, life is slowly achieving some norm...

When a fuel oil fire destroys Drift Ice Station Zebra, a UK meteorological research facility in the Arctic, killing many of the crew and str...

Rather than accept the status of poor relation in her brother’s house and tolerate the whims of his shrewish wife, a young woman decides to ...

Love in a Cold Climate returns to the decade between the First and Second World Wars. Like its forerunner, The Pursuit of Love , it is narr...

Baker and amateur sleuth, Corinna Chapman is under a lot of pressure. Her livelihood is threatened by a franchise bakery opening at the end ...

Fanny is the daughter of feckless parents - her father was never interested and her mother abandoned her shortly after her birth, in pursuit...

A new exhibition at Oregon's Natural History Museum coincides with an anniversary of the Western Association of Forensic Anthropologists...

When police are called in to investigate a robbery they discover something completely out of their experience - not only in the theft signif...

From the back of the book: Between 1450 and 1750, more than 100,000 people-mainly women-in Europe and colonial America were prosecuted for p...

Cora Felton, the tippling front for America's real Puzzle Lady, neice Sherry Carter is back in another mystery revolving around word puz...

Barrister Trish Maguire has been asked by Sir Henry Buxford to discretely investigate the Gregory Bequest, his art trust that manages a Fren...

Though some couples would have drifted apart under the strain, Karen and Joe Eastman's bond has deepened since learning that their young...

Dallas shoots feral pigs for a living - she has to send a specimen from each one to the biotech company that employs her as proof of death, ...

Burned out by only a year of teaching science to middle school students, Moxie Brecker has moved to Boston and works in the less demanding c...

Herald Tribute columnist Lily Waters rose above the distress of being abandoned, days after giving birth, by her professor husband. Abandon...

After a couple of quotes, Calvin opens his book, subtitled Evolving Intelligence, Now and Then, paraphrasing Piaget - "intelligence is...

Part autobiography (though focusing almost solely on his work), part art history study, Frank Stella explores a decade of work by one of the...