Jack Castelar, a wealthy midwestern banker, lies dead in the snow a few feet from Nebraska, the sharp-witted detective who begins with this first piece of a very strange puzzle to put together a solution and pin down the real killer
It is the best such effort I have seen. . . . No one who reads this book could fail to emerge much better informed regarding current U.S. nuclear strategy, and why the strategy has developed along the lines it has taken.
Christina Diaz Gonzalez has created a fast-paced thrill-ride of a book, rich with riddles and myth, that young readers will not want to put down.
... are in the centres , and in Canada there was a generation of woman poets just before MacEwen's who hadn't heard yet that they were supposed to just be : Phyllis Webb , Anne Wilkinson , Jay Macpherson , P. K. Page , Margaret Avison .
This pioneering collection of essays looks at our fascination with women who murder. The authors explore how women both fictional and real are represented, as well as the way society responds to these women.
The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before.
This book begins with a review of basic results in optimal search for a stationary target.
As Operation Homeward Bound, a dedicated fraternity within the KGB plots to restore communism to its homeland, U.S. agents must stop them before they destroy America. Reprint.
This book charts the take-up of IT in Britain, as seen through the eyes of one company.
When the death of her beloved Uncle Loy draws Helen Black back to Mississippi, she finds herself in the midst of another mystery -- and this one involves her own...
Praise for the Novels of Lynette Eason "A thrill ride from the first page until the last."--RT Book Reviews, 4½ stars, Top Pick "Tightly written prose moves the story forward at breakneck speed.