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  Sullivan's Law

  Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

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  Monday mornings are hell. 
   
  That's what Carolyn Sullivan is thinking as she arrives at her office at the Ventura County Probation Department. One of her probationers has just been arrested for rape.  
   
  Just when Carolyn should be lying low, instead she's assigned a sensitive case that's sure to have everyone breathing down her neck—supervising convicted killer and paranoid schizophrenic Daniel Metroix. 
   
  Twenty-three years ago, the son of the police chief was pushed into the path of an oncoming car, and Metroix went to prison for the boy's murder. Everything in Metroix's file indicates that he's unpredictable and dangerous. But what's more unsettling is his claim that he's innocent—a claim that crawls under Carolyn's skin and stays there, especially when a routine meeting erupts into an inferno that nearly kills them both. Protecting him is Carolyn's only chance to defend herself and her family—and to right a wrong that may have sent an innocent man to prison, while letting a killer go free. 
   
  "A gutsy heroine, a fast-moving plot, an insider's look at the justice system—Sullivan's Law is everything a legal thriller fan could hope for. As always, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg delivers the goods. This will be another bestseller." —Nelson DeMille

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  The Mystery of the Grave-Yard

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is an American writer, poet and journalist. He wrote horrors, mysterious and fantastic stories and also created the famous Cthulhu Mythos. Along with Robert Ervin Howard he is considered to be a founder of a fantasy genre in literature. Here is a detective story "The Mystery of the Grave-Yard" or “A Dead Man’s Revenge”. On a funeral of some Joseph Burns a strange thing happened. Mr. Dobson went into the tomb to put a golden ball there as the late wished. But Mr. Dobson disappeared in the tomb. After that a strange man came to his daughter and offered his help for money. Who is that man? What has happened to Mr. Dobson? Was he kidnapped or fell into some secret basement? That's what the main characters of the story have to figure out.A SmartTouch Media production.

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  Nathaniel

  John Saul

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  From the blood of the past, evil rises to seek undying vengeance... Prairie Bend. 
   
  Brilliant summers amid golden fields. Killing winters of razorlike cold. A peaceful, neighborly village, darkened by legends of death? Who is Nathaniel? For a hundred years, the people of Prairie Bend have whispered the name in wonder and fear. Some say he is simply a folk tale - a legend created to frighten children on cold winter nights. Some swear he is a terrifying spirit returned to avenge the past. And soon...very soon...some will come to believe that Nathaniel lives still - darkly, horrifyingly real. Nathaniel. 
   
  For young Michael Hall, newly arrived in isolated Prairie Bend after having lost his father to a sudden tragic accident, Nathaniel is the voice that calls him across the prairie night...the voice that draws him into the shadowy depths of the old, crumbling barn where he has been forbidden to go...the voice - chanting, compelling - he will follow faithfully beyond the edge of terror...Nathaniel.

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  Death in Paris

  Emilia Bernhard

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  When French financier Edgar Bowen drowns in a bowl of soup, his former girlfriend, American Rachel Levis, is alarmed by the unnatural death. Who dies eating a nice vichyssoise? But when she overhears a mourner at his funeral describing the circumstances of his death, something sounds even stranger: a bottle of rosé was on the dining table when he died. The only problem: Edgar loathed rosé. If he wasn’t drinking it, who was? After the police rule the death accidental, Rachel knows it’s up to her and her best friend Magda to investigate. As the two Americans immerse themselves in Edgar’s upper-class world, the list of suspects grows: Could it have been his son, who inherited his money and lavish apartment? His icy ex-wife? His greedy new girlfriend? His impoverished personal assistant? But when the suspects start dropping like flies, Rachel and Magda realize the murderer is tying up loose ends. It’ll be up to two amateur sleuths to solve their first case before the murderer decides they’re next...

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  The Case of the Discontented...

  Agatha Christie

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  When civilian life proves too dull for Major Wilbrahams, he contacts Parker Pyne to escape his boredom. Pyne's assistant arranges a chance meeting with the beautiful Freda Clegg and the two join forces, but on leaving for Africa they encounter more than they had bargained for.

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  Interlibrary Loan

  Gene Wolfe

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  Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene Wolfe 
  Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots. 
  And there are clones. 
  E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human. 
  As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches. Which he is. Along with two fellow reclones, a cookbook and romance writer, they are shipped to Polly's Cove, where Smithe meets a little girl who wants to save her mother, a father who is dead but perhaps not. 
  And another E.A. Smithe… who definitely is.

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