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A young widow, orphan and mother, Wilhelmina Anne Brown is just beginning to find some stability in her new home in Prince Edward Island when she is forced to deal with the death of her beloved uncle, Bill Darby. Darby, a Charlottetown private investigator, leaves Anne and her fourteen-year-old daughter a small savings account and his business, where Anne has worked as office manager for six years. What follows is Anne's struggle to protect her family, find justice for her clients, and forge a new life for herself.

Critically acclaimed for his international bestseller, A Case of Curiosities, Allen Kurzweil has been called one of today's most gifted new voices in fiction. Now he returns with The Grand Complication -- a modern-day tale of literary intrigue, deviant passions, and delicious secrets. Behind the majestic walls of a Manhattan town house, a stylish young reference librarian of arcane interests unravels an 18th-century mystery -- who stole Marie Antoinette's watch. The book is a grand and complicated "timepiece," told with a devilish sense of fun.

Daphne sees her teacher plummet from the belfry at the top of her school and is plunged into a spine-tingling mystery in which she and her friends are all that stand in the way of a truly horrible crime.

Lincoln Rhyme, ex-head of NYPD forensics, was the nation's foremost criminologist until a job accident left him a quadriplegic who can move just one finger. He no longer wants to live until he sees the crime-scene report of a buried corpse.

The daughter of a detective, Philipa Lowe finds herself thrown into a mystery that would have challenged even her father.

Having sold up her employment agency in New York, Lowe is returning home to England on the QE2.

A wealthy woman, she need never work again, but already she is finding herself bored.

Then she meets Bella Fields, better known as the TV star Roma Felucci.

Bella’s infectious personality and intrusive behaviour leaves Philipa wondering what lies beneath this challenging woman.

Hired to find a missing child, Stephanie soon wonders if she's working on the right side of the law. And complications have arisen in her relationship with Morelli.

"It's that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king's daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges the Duke's handsome, brave, and rather stupid son (known to all as Blotto) to drive off to the rescue. Luckily, he's aided by his brilliant sister, Twinks. Plus, he's got a really swell car."--Back cover.

When Theophilos, jester and agent for the Fools' Guild, travels to Toulouse in 1204 to pressure the local bishop to resign, he becomes involved in a murder.

One summer evening in 1942, Flossie Rubrick, goes to her husband's wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech - and disappears. Three weeks later she turns up at an auction, packed inside one of her own bales of wool and very, very dead.

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. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead.

As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must race to find the arsonists responsible and get to the bottom of Michael Campion's disappearance. But suddenly the fires are raging too close to home.