

Summary: Forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining



A funny, suspenseful novel, a quirky detective story about righting the wrongs of the past and the present, and a touching story of friendship, football and the power of the Internet.


Notorious Washington powerbroker Joel Backman receives a surprise pardon on his twenty year sentence from the President. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy.

Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton,…





Investigator Isaac Bell is on the trail of a ruthless espionage agent . . .On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agency's intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again - and this time one of the scientists dies. What a…

Summary: Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate the smoldering hulk of a NUMA research vessel in the Indian Ocean and soon uncover an audacious scheme to permanently alter the weather on a global scale, killing millions.(Publisher

Summary: It's 1910. Air travel is still in its infancy, and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first aviator to cross America in less than 50 days. He is even sponsoring one of the prime candidates - a heroic woman named Josephine Frost - and that's where Isaac, chief investigator for the Van Dorn Detective Agency, comes in. Josephine's husband, Harry, has just mur…

Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her father's best friend, who has gone missing.

Callum Challenger is a boy with a mission: to track down supposedly mythological creatures and capture their DNA. But while Callum and his friends want to save these beings, an aggressive pharmaceutical company wants to wipe them out. In a fast-paced, high-tech story, Callum and a group of misfit mates -- a computer hacker, a freerunner, an ex-marine and a pathological liar, criss-cross the glo…

The teacher is a six foot green bug set out to put the town under it's evil spell ... one child at a time.





Pip and Bets' housemaid receives a spiteful letter in the post. Then Mrs Moon receives one too. Who would want to make them so miserable? By piecing together the clues, the Find-Outers are determined to find the culprit.

Pip and Bets' housemaid receives a spiteful letter in the post. Then Mrs Moon receives one too. Who would want to make them so miserable? By piecing together the clues, the Find-Outers are determined to find the culprit.

Who could be burgling the village's jewels? There is a gang of thieves using Peterswood as their headquarters! Luckily, Fatty's disguises are better than ever - no one recognises him as a balloon seller or the old man in the village. He is just the person to get the Five Find-Outers to the bottom of this mystery .

The theatre safe has been robbed and Boysie, the pantomime cat, is top of the list of suspects. But could his best friend and fellow actress, Zoe, be the real thief?


Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.