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A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues.

One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears.

For Harriet Delvaney, the great house of Menfreya, standing like a fortress on the Cornish coast, had always been a citadel of happiness and high spirits.

Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into seventeenth-century garden design.

Is this the new Sherlock Holmes? Not only did Sherlock Holmes survive the Reichenbach Falls, but he has a son, Sebastian, itching to prove himself his father's equal.

Roly Carradine has found refuge in Cornwall, in the mellow stone house of his childhood.

When Felinski, a British agent, is parachuted into Germany three months before the end of World War II, his brief is to reorganize a small group of Russian agents abandoned by Moscow.

It's a new school year, and Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving.

In 1799, the American captain Amasa Delano anchored in the bay of a Chilean coastal desert island. The next morning at the site appeared a mysterious ship, the Santo Domingo.

"The wild folk in Pleasant Valley were whispering strange stories to one another. If the stories were true, they were most amazing.

With U.S. intelligence agencies wracked by internal power struggles and paralyzed by bureaucracy, the president has been forced to establish his own clandestine group, Covert-One.

Everything changed on the day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.

Life is close to perfect for Charlotte and Curtis Black, except that their son Matthew's girlfriend, Racquel, is eight months pregnant, and Racquel's mother, Vanessa, and Charlotte can't stand each

When the wealthy Ludovic Degroof's jewelry store is broken into, nothing is stolen, but the jewels have been dissolved in jars of aqua regia, and a strange note is left in the safe.