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It is the early nineteenth century, when European traders and adventurers first began to penetrate the forbidding Chinese mainland.

The remains of Eleanor Gray are found on a Scottish mountainside, and her mother, the Lady Maude Gray, requires delicate treatment.

When reclusive war poet Olivia Marlowe and her half brother Nicholas Cheney die together in their ancestral home on the Cornish coast, it looks like suicide.

The sixth book in James Clavell's epic Asian Saga tells the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979-three weeks of passion, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak.

A top journalist crosses the yellow tape to investigate a shocking high-society crime.

The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House; the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun, battling to usher his country into the modern age; a beautiful young French

Charles Todd brings his classic mystery series to a new level of intensity and intrigue.

As school psychologist Skye Denison-Boyd returns to work from maternity leave, an elderly woman disappears and a disgruntled parent threatens to sue the school, but is later found dead.

Foul play is afoot again in Scumble River, and Skye can't help but do a bit of her own sleuthing. But the clues come fast and furious, and this may be the puzzle that stumps her for good.

In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead, his body stuffed in a wheelbarrow on the East Side Estate.

Learning of a horrifying family crime from his grandfather, journalist Ezra Stevenson tries to verify the story by tracking down four brothers and sisters, alleged victims of abuse.

In this poignant, beautifully written novel, a faithful young Amish widow is reunited with her wayward first love ...

Rachel, the mother of the aging professor Thomas Vanderlinden, shared her life with two men. Both went by the name of Rowland Vanderlinden. The first husband went abroad and never returned.

Jeff Nichols ' a man strong of conviction but weak of character ' is fresh out of the Don Jail, looking for work ' any kind of work ' and a way back into Ann Ryan's good graces.

Eric McCormack was born in a small village in Scotland. He moved to Canada in 1966 and attended the University of Manitoba. He taught English for more than thirty years at St.