Part-time PhD oceanography student Cal McGill uses his interest in floating corpses to investigate the death of a girl fished out of the sea off the Argyll coast three years ago and the origin of severed feet now washing ashore on Scotland's beaches.

Father Brennan Burke's patience is tested to the limit when a young woman announces to the world that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her in his churchyard, and hordes of pilgrims, souvenir hawkers, and reporters converge on the scene. Events take a darker turn when a body is found at the apparition site, and a talk show host is picked up for the murder.

"PI and restaurateur Jane Lawless must track down two missing teenagers. Although Eric and Andrew have been trying to keep up a semblance of normal life, they know their thirteen-year-old son Jack has been having a tough time of it since they separated.They've been concerned, but now they're terrified--Jack has run away from home. It happened once before, just after the separation, but then it was only a matter of hours before Eric found him. This...

After publicly apprehending a pair of snipers, Sicilian Inspector Montalbano begins to receive mysterious messages in the form of amusing riddles that encourage him to go on a treasure hunt.

"Longtime bookseller and single mother, Claire Malloy has recently married her long term beau and moved out of her less than opulent apartment into a sprawling, newly remodeled house. Her daughter, Caron, is making plans for college. All of which leaves Claire with something she hasn't had in quite a while: spare time. When her attempts to learn French cooking start getting "mixed" reviews, she agrees to help Caron and her best friend Inez in fluffing...

Martin Cruz Smith's most ambitious novel since "Gorky Park," the melancholy hero finds himself on the trail of a mystery as complex and dangerous as modern Russia herself. Arkady delves into Tatiana's past and a surreal world of wandering dunes and amber mines. His only link is a notebook written in the personal code of a translator whose body is found in the dunes. Arkady's only hope of decoding the symbols lies in Zhenya, a teenage chess hustler....