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When a circus-performer-turned-PI is drawn into the occult underworld, the result is "beautifully plotted and assured" (#1 New York Times-bestselling author Peter Straub).

When Anna Rasini sees a painting of a Mediterranean street scene in the window of an Oxford art gallery her curiosity is aroused, for her mother owns a very similar work, bearing the initials N.K.&

A former circus performer and criminology professor becomes a PI in "one of the best detective novels of the year" (TheNew York Times Book Review).

A circus-performer-turned-PI and his ex-cop brother rescue a girl from a doomsday cult in this novel of "terrific suspense" and "unlimited imagination" (Publishers Weekly).

A detective takes on mad scientists when a D&D fantasy world turns deadly in this " thrilling combination" of "not-quite-science-fiction and suspense" (Playboy).

Sonia knows nothing of Granada's shocking past, but ordering a simple cup of coffee in a quiet cafe will lead her into the extraordinary tale of a family's fight to survive the horror of

A circus-performer-turned-PI takes on "murder and intrigue from New York to Iran" in this "well done, suspenseful" unconventional mystery (Newsday).

A detective's search for a missing friend "careens ahead with the speed and promise of danger of the Indy 500" (The Washington Post Book World).

When Grace married the handsome and worldly Captain Leo Waterhouse in Australia during the middle of the Second World War, she never doubted that she had married a hero and he would come back to he

Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull.

A young Catholic priest, Father Maitland raises eyebrows among the brothers of St. Peter's the moment his young cousin and new bride spend the night in his room.

Artem Samsurov, an ardent follower of Lenin and a hero of the rebellion, flees his Siberian labor camp for the sanctuary of Brisbane, Australia in 1911.

Jehannette, an illiterate peasant girl of seventeen, hears voices that tell her she must help the Dauphin become king.

The third volume of Thomas Keneally's history of the Australian people, Australians: Flappers to Vietnam chronicles the lives and deeds of Australians, both known and unknown, during the 20th

On the eve of the World War I, ex-soldier turned professional hunter Leon Courtney is recruited by his uncle Penrod Ballantyne, commander of the British forces in East Africa, to gather information